For the newcomer apprentices of the gang, the theory of the three major dantian is still a little more profound, and it does not have much significance to their current cultivation.

In the compound, under the guidance of Pharmacist Li Kui, the teenagers gathered their minds and began to practice the introductory cultivation of the dantian.

Under the old locust tree, Pharmacist Li put his hands behind his back and said with a serious expression: "The introduction to martial arts is to start practicing from Zamabu, and the legs, waist, and back are one. This is tempering your muscles, muscles, bones, qi and blood, and only when your blood is vigorous can you give birth to strength. ”

All the teenagers marched in the courtyard one after another, their backs tense as bows, and their legs bent.

After only insisting on a small half-pillar of incense, Su Chen felt that his legs, waist, and back were all congested and swollen, especially in his thighs, which were like a thousand ants devouring, sour and swollen, as if his flesh and blood were beginning to burn.

According to Master Li Kui, this is precisely the phenomenon that the thighs are tempered and the muscles and blood qi are strengthened.

After a while, the teenagers in the courtyard couldn't stand it anymore, and their legs trembled and couldn't hold on.

Even though it is only the simplest Zama step, it is difficult for martial arts apprentices to stick to it. After just a stick of incense, their legs and backs hurt, and their teeth were almost crushed.

"This is the first form of the lower dantian quenching body and the introduction to martial arts. Even the most basic horse steps are unstable, your back is weak, your legs and feet are weak, even if you hold a peerless sword in your hand, it is just a toddler waving it indiscriminately, and it is not lethal. This kind of strength that does not enter the stream, in front of a third-rate martial artist, cannot resist a single move. ”

Pharmacist Li Kui snorted coldly.

Only then did Su Chen and the others understand that Pharmacist Li was right.

Even if it is the introductory cultivation of the lower dantian, it is by no means easy for them, and it will take at least half a year to achieve a small success.

For these new disciples, the higher-level middle dantian qi refining was already a very distant thing, let alone the ethereal upper dantian.

The boys and girls practiced the Zama step for a morning, and when they were tired, they rested and practiced again. The muscles and bones of the whole body are sore, the walking is weak, and the legs tremble.

During the lunch break, Su Chen, Zhang Tieniu and other disciples devoured several large bowls of rice and three or five coarse grain steamed buns in the dining room, and when they returned to the hut, they fell asleep on the kang head.

Even the noisiest and poorest teenager on weekdays didn't want to say a word at this time, the house was full of snoring, thunder didn't wake up, and he took a lunch break for an hour before he eased up a little.

In the afternoon, Pharmacist Li began to teach the new disciples to read and break words, and to identify many medicinal materials.

Only by learning to read and write can you learn the entry-level pharmaceutical technique of "identifying medicinal materials", and identify up to thousands of commonly used medicinal material names and patterns.

As for the low-level medicine, it includes many aspects such as "sorting, drying, cutting, dispensing" and so on, which will not be taught until a year later.

The intermediate pharmacy includes "seeing a doctor and dispensing prescriptions", which is something that only the disciples of the Internal Affairs Hall will learn.

Advanced Medicinal Techniques involve "refining pills", which is a field that can only be set foot in by inner disciples after they have reached the level of three years.

Wang Fugui and Li Jiao both went to Mengxue, so naturally they didn't need to learn literacy, so they skipped this link directly, and began to read the medicine books given to them by Pharmacist Li Kui and identify thousands of medicinal materials.

And Su Chen, Zhang Tieniu, Yang Dezhi and other five outer disciples are all from civilian backgrounds, and they have never been to the county seat of Mengxue, so they have to start from one word at a time, and it is not easy to learn three or four thousand big characters.

Fortunately, Pharmacist Li Kui did not force them to learn all the words, but only taught them to recognize the names of the herbs in the medicine book first, and to understand the herbal atlas as soon as possible.

After all, there are too many things to learn, and in the first half of the year, I only learned entry-level pharmaceutical knowledge, and the time was still very tight.

...

Before you know it, the wax moon has passed, and it is Chinese New Year's Eve.

The Medicine King Gang gave the disciples a day off, and many newcomer disciples from their families in Gusu County went home for the New Year.

However, there were still a few rookie disciples left, because they were far away from home and were afraid of delaying their cultivation, so they spent a New Year on the mountain.

During the Chinese New Year, the remaining teenagers gathered in the fire room in Yaowang Villa to knead noodles, cut vegetables, and make dumplings, which was also quite lively and atmospheric.

Some teenagers are homesick, crying and fussing.

Su Chen ate a bowl of hot dumplings that had just come out of the oven, and when he thought of the embarrassment at home, his heart couldn't help but feel sour.

I don't know how my father and mother are doing, whether they have paid the county government's boat donation and the giant whale gang's weighing fee, and whether my younger brothers and sisters have new clothes to wear this year. Although he is no longer a burden to the family, the family is still short of two taels of silver this year, and this year is afraid that it will be very difficult.

At night, there was a lot of noise inside and outside Yaowang Villa, and some teenagers had nothing to do, so they used bamboo to make tubes, which were filled with saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal, and made powerful blasting rods.

In the distance, every household in Gusu County hangs lanterns and hangs couplets, which is full of the festive atmosphere of the New Year.

Su Chen was alone on the kang head of the hut, listening to the "crackling" sound of the rod outside, his heart was heavy, and he couldn't sleep all night.

...

The New Year passed quickly, and many of the new disciples who had left the villa returned and began their intense cultivation again. In addition to Zama Steps, they began to practice entry-level martial arts, such as Introductory Punches, Introductory Legs, Introductory Footwork, and so on.

Su Chen and the other five outer disciples made a surprising discovery.

Under the guidance of Pharmacist Li Kui, Wang Fugui and Li Jiao used some low-level body quenching formulas and herbs to assist in cultivation and stimulate the blood qi of the body's bone marrow.

I heard from Pharmacist Li Kui that there are many benefits to using herbs to assist in quenching the body, one is to accelerate the stimulation of qi and blood and improve the progress of cultivation. Second, it can also heal the wear and tear wounds caused by martial arts training, and can be practiced for a longer time.

Because when practicing martial arts, he often beats the hardwood stakes with his fists and feet, repeatedly refining his muscles, bones, skin and flesh, so that his blood and qi are strengthened.

Boiling the body like this will bring some small bruises and hidden dangers to the body, so practice for a maximum of two hours a day, not too often, otherwise it will exceed the limit of the body's flesh and blood.

Quenching herbs can heal these injuries better without leaving hidden dangers.

If you don't use medicinal materials to assist in quenching the body, it will take about two or three years for a novice to complete the tempering of the tendons, bone marrow, skin and flesh of the whole body, so that the dantian will be slightly successful when the qi and blood are full, and he will be promoted to a third-rate martial artist from the stream.

And if you use the quenching herbs, you can save at least half of the time, and your cultivation will improve by leaps and bounds, and you will soon surpass the cultivation of your fellow disciples.

Only then did Su Chen know that there was such a magical method of quenching the body, which made the cultivation of the body twice the result with half the effort.

But this method is too costly, and it is simply burning money. Even the cheapest pair of quenching herbs cost more than one or two pieces of silver.

Only Wang Fugui and Li Jiao, two inner disciples, whose families are rich and have a lot of silver support, can afford to consume them.

Su Chen, Zhang Tieniu, and the five outer disciples were all in poor conditions at home, but they couldn't afford expensive herbs, so they only had envy.

Outside the villa, the sun and the moon were like a shuttle, and the apprentices did not listen to the things outside the window, and they were dedicated to practicing martial arts, reading and hyphenation, and learning medicine.

And so on, for two or three months.

The new beginner disciples, whether it is Zama step or entry-level fist footwork, all have some decent looks.

Su Chen beat the wooden stake with his fist, his fist was full of power, and he took a breath of incense, his legs were as steady as a wooden stake, and he did not tremble at all.

Zhang Tieniu has the best physique, and he can even lift a stone with both arms, and lift a hundred-pound boulder in one go, which makes Su Chen and Yang Dezhi and other fellow disciples envious.

However, in general, their five rookie disciples are still sparse in martial arts, and they still do not enter the realm of streams, and they are still far from the realm of third-rate martial artists.

And Wang Fugui and Li Jiao, the two inner disciples, with the assistance of quenching herbs, naturally rode into the dust, leaving their outer disciples behind, and they were very close to the realm of third-rate martial artists.

After a long time, Su Chen and the others gradually forgot the semi-annual elimination rule, and completely immersed themselves in learning medicinal arts and martial arts cultivation in the lower dantian.

...

Early that morning, because he was going out to run errands, Pharmacist Li Kui gave the disciples a day off and a day off, and allowed them to go to the county seat for a walk, but they had to come back before the evening.

All the disciples immediately cheered, and after two or three months of suffocating in the Medicine King Villa, they studied medicine and quenching their bodies hard, and finally were able to take a good rest.

Now that the sun has just come out, we can go to the county seat to play all day and come back at sunset. ”

"Go to the county town and go home by the way. ”

Zhang Tieniu and Yang Dezhi made an appointment to go to the county seat to play.

"I'm not going... Let's read medicine books in the villa. ”

Su Chen sat under the old locust tree, holding a thick book of herbal medicine and looking at it, hesitated for a moment, and shook his head.

He is not familiar with Gusu County, and he has no relatives and friends in the city, so he doesn't know what to visit, so it is better to stay in the villa and learn more about a few herbs.

"Senior Brother Su, if you continue to read it, you will become a nerd. After a few months of holding back in the villa, I finally took a day off, and I didn't take the opportunity to play. ”

Qin Huihui smiled and pulled Su Chen up and left.

Su Chen couldn't bear it, so he had to leave Yaowang Villa with all the brothers and sisters and go to Gusu County to play.

Yaowang Villa is only four or five miles away from the county seat, and they walk fast, and they can arrive with a stick of incense.

Wang Fugui and Li Jiao have never played with their five outer disciples, and the two went home separately after leaving the villa, leaving only the five outer disciples to visit the county together.

Entering the county seat of Gusu, the streets were full of bustling people, and it was obviously lively and noisy. Farmers carrying vegetables, woodcutters carrying firewood, merchants in a hurry and hurried Jianghu customers, there is an endless stream of horse-drawn carriages in and out of the city gates.

Su Chen obviously felt that the pedestrians on the road, looking at the different eyes of the five new disciples of the Medicine King Gang in their group, seemed to have a trace of awe, consciously alienated, and did not dare to approach.

They were all wearing brand-new Medicine King Gang disciple clothes, which were very conspicuous. The status of the Medicine King Gang in Gusu County is very high, even if it is the lowest-level outer disciple in the gang, it is beyond the reach of ordinary ordinary people.

Su Chen couldn't help but think to himself, his identity was different after all, as a disciple of the Medicine King Gang, he had become a disciple of the rivers and lakes, although there was a big gap between him and those big high-rollers riding high-headed horses, but he was no longer a flat-headed ordinary person in the county.

Zhang Tieniu, Yang Dezhi and others also obviously noticed the strangeness in the eyes of passers-by, and they couldn't help but dance with their eyebrows, feeling that they were full of the pride of Jianghu disciples.

The five of them wandered around the county town of Gusu, probably because they had not come to the county seat for too long, walking the streets and alleys, eating a few bowls of hot stinky tofu on the street, the famous crab shell yellow on the street, the plum blossom cake and fish-scented spring rolls of the sellers, everything was full of fresh fun.

It was the first time for Su Chen to really play in Gusu County, and after listening to Yang Dezhi's introduction, he figured out the layout of Gusu City.

The central district of the city is the place where the county yamen is located, and the mansions of the county lord and many dignitaries and nobles, the officials are all on errands here, and the atmosphere is solemn.

To the west of the city is the shopping district, and the streets are lined with shops on both sides, most of which are the property of wealthy families in the city. Everywhere you can see warehouses, rice cloth tea and salt trading houses, restaurants, teahouses, and a variety of shops. Because there is the convenience of river transportation outside the west gate, the west of the city is the most prosperous and lively, gathering merchants from all walks of life.

To the south of the city is a civilian residential area, inhabited by tens of thousands of civilians, all of them are cramped and aggrieved mud houses and wooden houses, low streets are crowded, and there are foul-smelling stinking ditches everywhere.

Despite this, it is still expensive to own a mud house of your own in the southern part of the city, and it is not something that the small people in the township can hope for.

The north of the city is the mansion of the wealthy households, big businessmen, and squires and tyrants of various towns, and there are many martial arts halls, academies, mansions, and forest gardens, which stand side by side. The streets are wide and quiet, and horse-drawn carriages and sedan chairs enter and leave the north of the city on weekdays.

At the entrance of the west street of the city, there is also a well-known green building "Yanyu Building" in Gusu City, in which the warblers sing and dance, the flowers and branches are spreading, and the sound of the piano is ethereal.

The old bustard took a group of girls to swagger outside the door of the building to attract rich sons and high-rollers to enter the building to enjoy themselves.

When passing by the entrance of the west street in the city, Zhang Tie looked at the Yanyu Building with bull's eyes, quite envious, but unfortunately he was shy in his pocket, and he didn't dare to make a mistake because of the precepts of Li Kui.

After all, the newcomer apprentices were young, and they didn't dare to stay in front of the Qinglou and left in a hurry.

Walking down another street, I saw a large crowd of people gathered around to watch a juggling troupe perform tricks such as breathing fire, drilling fire rings, and breaking chest stones with hammers, which occasionally attracted the crowd to cheer and cheer.

Yang Dezhi's eyes were sharp, and he found that there was a splash in the crowd who was teasing a woman from a good family, and immediately shouted. "Hey, I know that ploppy, called Niu San, who often does bad things on this street! Brother Tie Niu, him quickly!"

"Brothers, him with me!"

Zhang Tieniu's brain suddenly became hot when he heard this, and he rushed to the front excitedly.

Su Chen, Yang Dezhi and others were afraid that he would suffer a loss, so they hurriedly rushed over, grabbed the splash skin is a beating, and the Niu San who beat him cried and called his mother.

The splashes in Gusu County have always only dared to pretend to be ruthless in front of the common people, and when they encountered these gang ruthless people wearing the uniforms of the disciples of the Medicine King Gang, how could they dare to resist, they were so frightened that they looked panicked and fled with their heads in their hands.

The brothers and sisters were fighting on the street, and they couldn't help but dance with their eyebrows, and finally felt that they were beginning to become real people in the rivers and lakes. At the moment, they beat a splash, but they are just trying their skills in the rivers and lakes of Gusu City.

At noon, after playing in the county all morning, everyone finally got a little tired from shopping.

Zhang Tieniu, Yang Dezhi and Qin Huihui are all from Gusu County, and Kong Xinqiao's family is also near the county seat, so the four of them went home for reunion and dinner.

In the end, Su Chen was left alone, alone on the lively street, with nowhere to go, and he was extremely depressed.

Zhouzhuang Water Town is too far away, and it will take at least a day to go back and forth, and it will definitely not be able to come back at night. Besides, he didn't want to go back.

I walked around the city until noon, but my stomach was a little hungry.

Su Chen touched the emptiness in his arms, but showed a wry smile.

Yaowang Villa provides food, clothing, and housing for all new apprentices, and the meals in the dining room do not cost money, but there is no money to earn.

Zhang Tieniu and other brothers and sisters, the family will give them a small amount of copper coins, and some odd copper coins can be used.

But he was penniless, and he couldn't even afford a steamed bun when he walked on the street, so he was very embarrassed. This is also the reason why he is reluctant to come out of Yaowang Villa and come to the county seat with everyone to hang out.

"Well, let's go hungry at noon, and then go back to the dining room of the villa in the evening to eat a full meal. ”

Su Chen sighed slightly.

He pondered for a moment what to do.

In the afternoon, when I was free, I went to find Ah Ugly to see how he was doing.

Before, the two made an appointment to enter the gangs in Gusu County, and in the future, they would go through the rivers and lakes together, and I don't know if Ah Chou entered the Tianying Gate and how he got along.

Su Chen went to the Sky Eagle Inn, met the fireman Lao Li Tou in the backyard, and inquired about the whereabouts of Ah Chou.

Lao Li Tou was a little stunned when he saw Su Chen appear in the costume of a disciple of the Medicine King Gang, and his expression quickly became a little more restrained and fearful.

Su Chen is no longer the fisherman boy in tattered linen clothes in the past, but a rookie disciple of the Medicine King Gang, wearing a capable green shirt, and practicing martial arts for several months, his body and bones are much stronger, adding to the heroic spirit that many children of the rivers and lakes have.

Lao Li Tou nagged and said that Ah Chou had not come back since he left that day. I heard that it seems that he entered the Heavenly Eagle Gate and became an outer disciple.

Su Chen couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately went to the Tianying Gate Main Hall to find Ah Chou.

But what disappointed him was that the main hall of the Heavenly Eagle Gate did not allow outsiders to enter.

And the newcomers to the gang are not very famous, and no one will go out of their way to remember their names. If they wanted to ask the swordsmen guarding the gate of the Aquila Gate to help find someone, there was no benefit, and they didn't bother to pay attention to it at all.

Su Chen couldn't find Ah Ugly, and he couldn't help but feel a little regretful in his heart, thinking that he could only find another opportunity in the future.

However, he still felt very relieved, Uncle Li said that Ah Chou had become a disciple of the Heavenly Eagle Gate and a person in the rivers and lakes. Sooner or later, the two brothers will be able to meet in Gusu County, and they are not in a hurry.