Chapter 26: Robbers, Bear's Paws and Anger
"Kill the men, keep the women!" a man smirked, and threw his arms out at the orc girl, while an archer next to him bent his bow and aimed an arrow at Lu Xihua.
In the course of a month, in addition to teaching the orc girl An Wu principles and helping her to boil her body, Lu Xihua explored the pineal gland in his brain. Although there is no meaning of loosening the star power, but the thunder qi in the body does not know what stimulation it is, but it is completely transformed into his own internal strength, between words and deeds, the wind and thunder are vivid, and even the girl An has said several times that Lu is becoming more and more like a high king.
The so-called king is the lord of a country and the king of hundreds of millions of people, and his every move naturally has the majesty of the country and the demeanor of the nation. Lu Xihua is not in control of the people of Limin, what he commands is the thunder and lightning in his body, and it seems that the invisible thunder power has gradually turned into a tangible thing in his body, and it is no longer unpredictable.
Lu Xihua's eyes stared at the girl, and he didn't look at the sharp arrows that were shot, but he just opened his mouth and spit out, and a snow-white gas rushed out of Lu Xihua's mouth, wrapping around the incoming sharp arrows, mixed with blue light, and the sharp arrows were dissipated in the blue light, and there was nothing left.
The orc girl here faced the attacking man, her eyes were horizontal, and her slender body actually emitted a bit of murderous aura, and when her feet moved, the bones of her whole body made a hollow sound, and the spine on the back of her body was like a rapidly writhing python, pulling the muscles of her back, and her left hand was thrown out with a punch. When the force reached his wrist, he shook violently, and the air exploded, and the smiling man was punched in the face on the spot, and flew backwards, hitting his back against the tree, and his face was already in tatters. The eye sockets are gone, one eyeball is exploded, the other is drooping, the nose and mouth are turned into a mass of minced meat, which cannot be distinguished, and there is no longer life.
The archer was still surprised just now that Lu Xihua didn't know how to turn the sharp arrow he shot into invisible, if he hadn't seen it clearly, he would have thought that the head was not good, and in the heavy snow, the sharp arrow was blown away by the wind. It is estimated that the person who came may be a mage, and was about to draw the second arrow and shoot again, when he saw that his strong companion was killed by the girl's punch, and his whole body trembled, and a sharp whistle came out of his mouth. I didn't have time to use the bow, so I casually threw away the bow and arrow in my hand, pulled out the short knife tied to my thigh, and stabbed the girl in the waist.
It has to be said that in Lu Xihua's opinion, although this archer is not a warrior with outstanding combat skills, he must be an experienced spy. Seeing that the opportunity was wrong, he immediately notified his companions in the fortress behind him, and at the same time took a risk, took out the short blade on his leg and attacked closely, wanting to bully the girl's lack of experience in personal combat, and his movements were extremely agile and skillful, it seems that he often does this, and he has become accustomed to it, and the lives under his hands are estimated to be a lot. It's a pity that he miscalculated, Lu Xihua taught the most this month is the kung fu of close combat.
The fist that Ann struck with his left hand was not retracted, but the entire forearm was like a pendulum, running downward, separating the momentum, and blocking the short blade with his arm. At the same time, the five fingers of the left hand are forked, like a hook, especially the tiger's mouth, which looks smooth and rounded on the surface, and at this moment the big tendon muscles at the tiger's mouth are tensed, like an iron tong, and the lightning and flint will grab the opponent's wrist holding the blade, and at the same time the body will retreat sharply, as if dragging the tail of the ox, and pull the arm holding the blade behind him.
With a click, the archer's arm was distinctly bone-breaking, and his body was pulled to the ground, and he knelt on his knees in the snow, opening his mouth to scream.
The maiden Ann tapped her legs on the ground, blocked her retreating posture, and jumped forward again, like a bird beating on a branch, her body was unexpectedly light, and she came to the archer in one step, and the five fingers of her right hand were closed, turning into the shape of a bird's beak, and pointing towards the archer's Adam's apple.
The archer's eyes erupted with terrification, and his mouth opened wide to make a sound, but unfortunately the light in his eyes dissipated, and his neck was crooked, and he died.
Lu Xihua was very surprised, the orc girl looked soft and weak, but her talent for fighting was exceptionally good, not to mention the toughness of her body, but also her flexibility, she was simply a natural warrior, I don't know if it has anything to do with her orc race, that kind of beast-like sensitivity is unmatched by ordinary people, maybe because of this, she was able to spend a year alone through the northern forests of the empire, avoiding the war and coming to the sky, how much suffering she endured, which is impossible for outsiders to know.
The practice of one person against one person, no matter how good the fight is, does not show the change of man's wit, only the complex form of multi-person fighting, in the moment of lightning and fire, complex and troublesome, quickly choose the best way to play, to remove the false and retain the true, can not only hit the enemy, but also do not hurt themselves.
True martial arts can only be realized between life and death. In the last few battles, I fought with the enemy with bayonets, as long as I didn't die or flee in the rain of bullets, after a few battles, even a person who didn't know martial arts could become a fighting master. A person who has not gone through life and death fighting, even if he has practiced for ten or twenty years, cannot truly comprehend the meaning of martial arts. Heroes come out of troubled times, this sentence is not said casually.
After killing the two, the girl looked back at Lu with pride on her face. Lu Xihua did not hesitate to praise himself, gave a thumbs up, and at the same time pointed to the three-story stone castle behind the corpse, indicating that there were still remaining enemies inside. Ann smiled, like a lily in the cold wind, confidence filled the girl's whole body at this moment, and her body shook, and immediately disappeared behind the gate of the stone castle.
Lu Xihua was not worried, because he still had a hundred medicine talismans on his body, and as long as the girl did not die on the spot, he could find a way to save her back. In the past month, while Lu Xihua trained the girl, she also made her look for a lot of herbs, these alchemy materials, all of which were absorbed by the hundred medicine talismans, and now the medicinal power in them is sufficient, and ordinary knife wounds must be healed in a moment.
Despite this, Lu Xihua did not stay outside the stone castle alone, and followed the girl's steps into the stone castle.
"Give me your name, and I'll cut off your head as my ornament!" A rough male voice came from upstairs, with a long breath in the heavy snow, obviously a man with an exceptionally strong body.
"If you don't speak, then leave your life!" Suddenly there was a sound of fighting from the stone castle tower, Lu Xihua closed his eyes, and a scene appeared in his mind, a strong warrior wearing steel armor and holding a shield and sharp weapon rushed towards the orc girl like a bison. The small space limited the girl's dodge, so she could only jump and fly over the warrior's head, looking for an opportunity to attack in the slightest.
The battle didn't last long, but in a few minutes, the girl's figure appeared on the stone steps, a bloody wound dragged from the left shoulder to the waist, the flesh turned outward with the tough fur could not stop the cutting of the sharp weapon, but the girl's face was smiling, "Lu, I won!"
To win is to live, and to lose is to die, this is the simplest rule of survival in the savage world of The Elder Scrolls. Lu Xihua nodded, took out the hundred medicine talisman and threw it to the girl, "Take care of your injuries, let's rest here for two days before entering the ancient tomb." ”
"Well," the girl nodded happily, the more she liked the days with Lu, "I'll go clean up my room, and I'll sleep in bed again tonight." Lu, I'm going to eat roast bear meat. The hundred medicine talisman emitted a little light on the girl's chest, and the medicinal power contained in it had stopped the bleeding from the wound on her chest, and it had gradually healed, and after a while, the wound would disappear, and as for the lost qi and blood, it would naturally be replenished in the recipe.
"No problem, clean up all the traces. Lu Xihua pointed to the bloodstains and corpses inside and out, he himself loved cleanliness, naturally he didn't want to sleep with dead corpses, turned around and disappeared into the heavy snow.
This stone fort sits on the mountainside of the cold falling peak, although it is a mountainside, because of the northern land of the sky, the mountainside here is already covered with snow. The Stone Fort is a transit point for wild bandits to hoard supplies, because there is a shortcut to the peak of Hanluo Mountain to travel back and forth with the mountains and the Snowman's Wasteland, so that you can avoid the checkpoint that the Snowman's official set up on the side of Ximu Town to go out of the mountain, and you can also avoid Snowman's City.
For caravans that want to pass through the territory of Snow Man but do not want to pay taxes to the Lord of Snow Man, this is an important way to make a fortune, as long as they hand over a little money to the robbers who guard here. Of course, most of the tourists or traders who pass by here alone are still killed by the robbers who occasionally come out to patrol.
There is a kind of white bear living in the cold falling mountain peak, the bear has the habit of hibernating, when hibernating, it lives by licking the palm, and the saliva gum in the mouth penetrates into the palm, which is one of the reasons why the bear's paw is rich in nutrients, it is the best to replenish qi and blood, and its front right palm is particularly fat because it is often licked, and it is called "jade palm".
Lu Xihua was deaf and clear-sighted, so he quickly found a male bear in the mountains and killed it, cut it on the spot, and discarded the useless things and came back.
The bear's paw skin is thick and hairy, which is not easy to modulate, but under the impact of Lu Xihua's internal strength, it becomes fluffy and soft and easy to handle. Soak in boiling water, scrape the skin and remove the hair, cover the bear's paw with ginger, shallots and fruit wine, put it in a large pot and start to simmer on the fire.
Originally, this dish had to be stewed for a long time, mainly because the temperature was not enough, the heat was uneven, and the fat and meat of the bear's paw would not be crispy. However, Lu Xihua has been a gluttonous for many years, and with the thunder energy infusion, even if you don't use a bonfire, you can boil the cauldron with just internal strength. At this moment, from time to time into the bonfire into the internal energy, suddenly the color of the flame from red to white, become blue and faint, the temperature is unusually high, only half an hour, the bear's paw is stewed soft.
Lu Xihua didn't dare to stew for a long time, the temperature of the flame was too high, and the ordinary iron pot couldn't stand such a high temperature, this was still a steel pot specially customized by Lu Xihua, and several sets of pure steel cooking utensils were placed in his own space charm, and they were taken out when needed. The orc girl Ann has become accustomed to Lu Xihua often taking out things from his body that are impossible to put down, all of this, the girl is attributed to the magic of the East in Lu Xihua's mouth, and thinks that it is a magical place in her heart to cultivate a magical person like Lu.
Taking out the bear's paw to remove the bones, Lu Xihua slapped his hands down, his strength was like a needle, and he suddenly stabbed countless invisible holes on the bear's paw, making the bear's paw accessible inside and out. Lu Xihua also deliberately caught a sturgeon in the mountain stream, boiled out a pot of soup with 20 catties of sturgeon, put the bear's paw into the sturgeon soup to boil, and forced the hot soup into the bear's paw with internal strength, so that the deliciousness of the fish soup and the gelatinous texture of the bear's paw fused together.
Finally, the collected snow berries and sturgeon roe are stirred into a sauce to make the sourness of the snow berries and the freshness of the sturgeon roe match. Remove the bear's paw from the soup, put it in ice cubes and freeze it, sprinkle a thick layer of freshly mixed caviar jam on the bear's paw, and finally drip some honey on it, and an authentic Chinese delicacy is born.
The orc girl squatted in front of the bonfire, her eyes staring at Lu Xihua's hands motionless, watching every step carefully.
"Lu, do you think I will be able to make such delicious food in the future. Ann asked with a frown, after eating the food made by Lu Xihua, she felt that her previous life was really hard.
Lu Xihua nodded, "A martial artist, who can perfectly control any organ of the body, can naturally master the most exquisite various techniques." So every true warrior is a qualified gourmet. This dish is called treading snow and looking for plum blossoms in my hometown, so you can try it. ”
"Lu, what is treading snow to find plums?" An sometimes couldn't understand what Lu Xihua was saying, but it didn't delay her heart to taste the food.
"Snow and plum, do you mean this white bear's paw and sturgeon roe? From a distance, it really looks like a berry hidden in the snow. Ann couldn't wait to pick up the spoon and dig it on the bear's paw, the soft bear's paw was made as soft as tofu at the moment, and the wooden spoon could scoop up a spoonful as soon as she dug it. The ice cubes quickly cooled the bear's paws, and finally they were placed on top of the crushed ice, which was frozen on the outside and maintained the shape of the bear's paws, but the inside was soft and glutinous, like soup.
The sweetness of honey first satisfies the taste buds, followed by the umami of fish roe and the just right sourness of snow berries, which are integrated into the jelly-like bear's paw gelatin, and then bring the deliciousness of mountain sturgeon soup, which brings great happiness to Ann's mouth.
"Delicious, delicious!" Ann brought the plate containing the bear's paw to herself, and carried the spoon like a fly, this dish is cold on the outside and hot on the inside, it is very easy to digest, and it is a good thing to replenish qi and blood, which is suitable for the girl after the injury.
Lu Xihua looked at the girl with a happy face, and said softly, "Treading the snow to find the plum plum has not opened, standing in the snow and waiting silently." I just don't know how long I'll have to wait~"
------I'm the lovely divider------
"Ah~" The girl Ann sat up from the bed, stretched her waist, and ate a beautiful meal at the latest, looking back, it seems that there is still the aftertaste of that food in her mouth, Lu Ke is really a good cook, well, other things are good. An couldn't help but pull the clothes on his chest, the wound was no longer visible, leaving only a shallow pink trace, which was distinguished from the light green skin around him, and it would be fine soon, that stone was really a good thing!
"Lu, are you awake? I'm up!" Ann screamed when she got out of bed, she slept on the top floor of the stone fort last night, where the robber leaders usually rested, Lu rested on the middle floor, and the lower floor was the storage room.
"I'm outside. Lu Xihua's voice came from outside the stone castle, An hurriedly ran to the window, poked his head out and looked out, today is a sunny day, there is no snow, between the flat land outside the stone castle, a piece of land has been swept away, revealing the grass below, a figure is slowly moving on the grass, it is Lu Xihua.
Lu Xihua was wearing his black clothes, stretching his muscles on the grass slowly, his boxing was not fast, and even compared with the slowness of the old ladies and grandfathers in the farm eating and dressing, but each of his shelves had a unique potential and charm.
If you are a person with a little better eyesight, or if you pay attention to him wholeheartedly, you will find that although his movements are slow, there seem to be countless strong pythons hiding in his body clothes, twisting and twisting.
It was his muscles and tendons, beating very violently in the slow fist path, like a living python, full of spirituality.
The body is slow, tendons, and the tendons beat violently. This movement is quiet, slow and fast, and it is manifested in the fist, showing a kind of yin and yang movement and subtlety.
The orc girl next to her, Ann, was holding a big bowl in her hand, drinking meat porridge with a snort, but her eyes looked at Lu Xihua's fist from time to time.
Lu Xihua's movements became slower and slower, but in the eyes of the girl An, every inch of skin on his whole body was jumping suddenly, and then the whole body was steaming and cloudy, as if every pore was spewing hot water like boiling water.
An was four or five steps away from Lu Xihua, and he also felt that his body was hot, and getting close to this young Lu was like approaching a big boiler that boiled water, and his whole body was exuding heat, as if he was about to steam people.
"Lu's movements are so slow, he can vaporize the qi in his body, turn the sweat in his body into clouds, surround himself, condense, it seems that he is still far from Lu, he has to work harder!"
The girl An thought for herself, and when she practiced Professor Lu's movements, she punched with all her strength and hit it out without reservation, and she could only release her physical strength by exercising vigorously, and at most she could only sweat like rain. As for the strength, directly turn the sweat into fog, transpire all over the body, like a fairy swallowing clouds and spitting fog, that is to train your own tendons to be strong and tough like a rattan steel cable, and to control the heart to the extent of precision. I can't do it now.
After a month of teaching, the orc girl has more or less a vague concept of martial arts, and her understanding of qi and strength has also deepened, she clearly remembers that Lu put his hand on herself, and she can attract a thing like a little mouse in her body to run around, and her whole body is hot and comfortable. "This is qi!" Lu said solemnly, "remember it! One day, you will have it yourself, and it will change your life." ”