The two dilapidated wooden doors, which were obviously old, were bolted from the inside, Chen Mu knocked on the door and said, 'I'm back', only then did he hear the sound of movement and joy coming from the house.

Knock knock knock.

It was like the sound of a bare foot trot on the ground, all the way closer, and then the deadbolt was pulled open.

"Brother!"

A little girl wearing a coarse cloth jacket and only reaching Chen Mu's chest was revealed in the door, she stepped on the ground barefoot, looked up at Chen Mu, and showed a coquettish smile.

Chen Yue is fourteen years old this year, and she should have reached the age of budding for ordinary girls, but she has been a little malnourished since she was a child, and she is still thin, unlike a fourteen-year-old girl, her complexion is also a little yellow.

In this kind of world, it is obviously impossible for ordinary civilians to raise any peerless beauties, but Chen Yue's foundation is not bad in Chen Mu's opinion, if he can be richer and better in the future, most of them can also become a clean water hibiscus, but now he can only live a hard life with him.

"Why are you running around barefoot?"

Chen Mu rubbed the girl's little head a little dotingly, he didn't have a sister in his previous life, and when he came here, he had a sister with a delicate and obedient temperament, which could be regarded as the only comfort for him in this chaotic and cold city.

Chen Yue raised his head and said with a smile: "If you wear it when you go out, it will wear out if you wear it too much at home, which is a pity." ”

Chen Mu picked up Chen Yue, put it on the kang in the back room, reached out and touched her little feet, felt the tentacles cold, and couldn't help but blame: "This is about to enter winter, what should I do if I get frostbitten, and then make up for it if it is worn out." ”

He knew that the reason why Chen Yue was reluctant to wear it was that the previous pair was completely broken, and her feet had grown a little longer, and she couldn't wear it anymore, so Chen Mu bought her a new pair.

"Okay, okay."

Chen Yue replied with some confusion.

Indeed, if you have frostbite on your foot, you have to buy medicine, and you have to spend money in vain.

Chen Mu handed her the steamed bun and asked her to wash her hands before eating it with a straight face, but the little girl wanted to run barefoot to wash her hands again, so Chen Mu simply brought the wooden basin over.

Chen Yue washed her hands and feet, took the steamed bun and ate it with a little blushing, looking at Chen Mu's eyes full of love, Chen Mu was not so good to her before, since she was seriously ill, she has suddenly become better and better, although no matter how she treats her, she is her only brother, but of course she still likes her current life, even if she stays at home every day and can't go out, eating the most ordinary white rice steamed buns, but she is still happy in her heart.

"It's been a long time since I've taken you out to play."

Chen Mu looked at Chen Yue's appearance, thought about it and said.

Since he came to this world and discovered the chaos and danger outside, he strictly ordered Chen Yue not to run out, and even threatened her to dare to run out and not want her, so scared that the little girl cried for a long time, and finally coaxed it.

"It's been four months."

Chen Yue ate steamed buns and gestured with his fingers and said.

Chen Mu smiled slightly and said, "Okay, after a while, I'll take you out to play again." ”

He couldn't bear to keep the little girl at this age at home all the time, and it wasn't completely impossible to take her out, but he always made his face muddy, his hair messed up a little, and his body was worn out again, and then he carried it on his back, and it was best to be with Liu San, Li Liu and a few other familiar colleagues, and I took her to play around like this last time.

Although there is still a little risk, what is the difference between staying at home and going to jail all the time?

"Okay."

Chen Yue listened to Chen Mu's words, and really showed a look of surprise.

But after the surprise, he looked at Chen Mu cautiously and said hesitantly: "I...... If I go out to play, won't it cause trouble for my brother? ”

Chen Mu rubbed her little head, didn't answer, and said, "After eating, stay in the house, and I'll go to the firewood room." ”

"Okay."

Chen Yue nodded obediently.

……

The firewood room was spacious.

Because there was hardly much dry firewood, only a little scattered piles, firewood has gradually become more expensive in recent years, and I heard that a group of woodcutters who cut wood have disappeared in the mountains west of the city, and as a result, many other woodcutters are afraid to go.

Now only some bold people who want to take risks and make more money while the firewood is rising will go out of the city to chop firewood and carry firewood, so the source has become less, and ordinary people can save it.

Chen Mu carefully took out the booklet he had touched before from his pocket.

The cover of the booklet is already a little tattered, and I can only see it clearly'...... The three words 'Wind Knife Method', the one at the front, Chen Mu carefully identified it for a while, and felt that it should be a 'mad' word, which should be called the Wind Knife Method.

"A knife technique ......"

Chen Mu looked at the knife technique in his hand and fell into deep thought.

In fact, the kind of story that you can get a trick cheat book, you can practice hard behind closed doors and then become a master, there is no such thing in this world, and even this kind of shabby cheats is not very valuable to take out.

The reason is also very simple, if you want to practice kung fu, whether it is fists, palms, legs, fingers, or knives, guns and sticks, it is necessary to have the guidance of a real practitioner.

As a poor person.

Chen Mu actually practiced knives in the City Guards.

But the head of the City Guard Division only teaches a little bit of basic slashing and vertical chopping, and does not teach advanced knife skills, so Chen Mu practiced for two and a half years after coming to this world, but at most he was dealing with some ordinary people who couldn't take it seriously.

Chen Mu once asked Liu Song, Li Tie and others, and the answer was the same, it is not difficult to get a book of sword cheats, and it is not expensive, in the pawn shop, you can generally buy it for a dozen taels of silver, but if you want to rely on only one cheatbook, you want to practice it by relying on the fixed move patterns on it, which is a fool's dream.

You have to go to the martial arts hall in the inner city, guided by the martial artist, and all kinds of power shelfs are the right way.

But here's the problem......

The money collected by the martial arts hall is not ordinarily expensive.

It costs tens of hundreds of taels of silver, and all kinds of bruises, medicines, etc., have to be paid for by themselves.

The so-called poor and rich martial arts, even if it is Liu Song and Li Tie, who have a good family background, they can't afford to spend money to practice martial arts in the inner city, let alone him, and now he can't take out two taels of silver.

"Did you go to the pawnshop and sell it, it is estimated that you can exchange it for two or three taels of silver, which is considered a windfall."

Chen Mu groaned in his heart.

But he was a little unwilling.

In this chaotic world, there is no point in any ingenuity, playing smart may cost his own life, only being cautious can live, but he has no money, and second, he has no power, and if he wants to get out of the bottom, there is almost no hope.

If you can practice a sword technique, with force in your body, it will be completely different, not to mention that those squires are willing to hire them to be nurses, and they can also have a status in the gang, just in the city guard, they also have the opportunity to be appreciated by the top, and they will be promoted from the bottom of the errand to do the errand.

Strictly speaking, an errand is not an official at all, but is just hired by an official to patrol on weekdays, but a bad head is another concept.

The poor head promoted by the city guard division in various places, that belongs to the real 'official', and can even be regarded as a 'from the nine grades' of petty officials, which is very different from ordinary people, and is also a completely different status from the errand officer.

"Let's give it a try."

After thinking about it, Chen Mu still opened the pamphlet in front of him.

Anyway, this kind of knife technique, if you don't practice well, you can sprain your muscles at most, and you can recover after a few days of rest, and you can't make too many mistakes, so you can't write down the content, and then sell it to a pawn shop for silver.

——Wind knife technique, belonging to the eight branches of the Qiantiankun earth in the Xunfeng vein, the shape is chaotic, the thousand winds are exhausted, the tendons and bones are scraped, if you can cultivate to perfection, you can practice a wisp of 'wind' knife momentum.

There are no pictures on the first page of the cheats, only such a text description.

Chen Mu thoughtfully turned to the next page, only to see a figure holding a knife jumping on the yellow paper, the knife in his hand was guided by a dotted line, as if it was crooked and oblique from bottom to top, and the small print at the bottom was described as 'the first style of turbulent wind'.

Chen Mu looked at it carefully for a moment, then got up, took out his poor knife, and swung it according to the picture.

He has practiced horizontal and vertical slashing for two years, and this knife is also decent, but he feels very strange, and the force is not even as good as his usual pure horizontal and vertical slashing.

"Sure enough, what Li Tie said is right, just with a classic, at most you can only practice posture, but how to make the force exert force, and how to change and transform, there is no martial artist in the same vein to point his fingers, and it is too difficult to find out."

Chen Mu sighed in his heart.

Although it is very difficult, since he decided to try, he will not give up at the start, Chen Mu continued to turn back, and saw that there were three pages in a row, which were all follow-up changes of the first type of turbulent wind, a total of three, according to the different ways of dealing with the opponent and different changes such as oblique, horizontal slash and slash.

After memorizing several changes one by one, Chen Mu began to practice according to them, and after practicing for a while, he also completed these movements preliminarily, and only found out a little bit of how to exert his strength, and it was not clear whether it was contrary to the serious way.

In this way, I practiced the first style and the three changes for a long time all the way, but after that, I vaguely felt that it seemed that it was not as good as the horizontal and vertical slashing that he usually practiced.

"It should still be a question of force and direction, and there is really not much information in a single page of the booklet."

Chen Mu pondered in his heart.

After this exercise, he also confirmed that he himself was obviously not the kind of martial arts genius who could understand everything at a point, and he could directly understand all the keys to a set of moves with just a few maps, and practice directly out of thin air.

If the next few tricks are also this kind of half-hanging, even if they are barely practiced, they will not be much different from ordinary horizontal and vertical chopping, and this knife method may be to buy meat for two taels of silver.

"Brother, drink water."

Just as Chen Mu stopped practicing and sighed, a voice came from the side.

I saw Chen Yue tiptoeing over wearing a pair of clean flower shoes, holding a rough clay pot in his hand, and the clay pot contained some water.

She looked up at a cute little face: "It's boiling." ”

Chen Mu smiled gently, stretched out his hand and took the clay pot, he had warned Chen Yue several times, water should not be drunk indiscriminately, it must be boiled before it can be done, in this backward world, the length of life is basically directly related to indiscriminate eating and drinking.

Holding the clay pot and taking a few sips, he handed it back and touched the little girl's head.

"Is my brother practicing kung fu?"

Chen Yue asked with some curiosity when he saw the booklet that Chen Mu placed on the stove and the pattern of moves on it.

"Hmm."

Chen Mu nodded.

I thought it might be an opportunity to change my fate, but now it seems that I am still a little optimistic, if I want to really practice martial arts, I may still have to save a little bit of money, make up more, and then go to the martial arts hall in the inner city to learn art.

However.

Just as Chen Mu was about to put the booklet away, he was suddenly stunned.

In his sight, a few words floating in mid-air appeared at some point, he blinked suddenly, and the words did not disappear, just floating in front of his eyes.

[Martial Arts: Tempest Sword Technique (Not Started)]

[Experience: 2 points]

After confirming that this was not his hallucination, Chen Mu finally showed a smile on his face.