Chapter 8: Apprenticeship

Tan Guohua had a night of chaotic dreams, one life for a while, one life for another life, a life for a while, and a death for a while, until he was woken up at noon the next day.

The lunch was very rich, Chen's mother had never eaten such a good meal in her life for half her life, she ate two meals from other people's houses, and stayed overnight at someone's house, and she felt a little unhappy, "Thank you for your hospitality, if you are free, you can go to Chenjia Village as a guest!"

Cui Cheng smiled and said: "Sister-in-law of the Chen family, don't be polite, don't rush home first, the county magistrate still wants to see Brother Hua'er, and I will let Cui Si take you back when you go back!"

The county order could not refuse, and after a few words of advice to Tan Guohua, he waited for his son to return at home.

In the back hall of the county ya, Wang Xianling and Cui Cheng sat down as guests, and someone brought tea, but Tan Guohua only stood up.

"This is what Mr. Cui called a genius boy?"

"Exactly, the earth-shattering thunder is what he came up with!"

"Yes, very good boy, what reward do you want?"

Tan Guohua really wanted to say that he would give a hundred yuan of money, presumably this Wang County Commander would satisfy him by gritting his teeth, but in the future, I am afraid that it will be difficult to mix in Huangchi County, but if it is less, he will lose, so he said: "Everything is up to Mr."

"Haha, what a smart little guy, Mr. Cui has accepted a good disciple!"

Cui Cheng did not deny the relationship between the two, and said with a smile: "Brother Hua'er's family is poor, his father and brother sacrificed their lives for the country, his mother has a leg disease, and the eldest sister is about to be married, so Lord Wang should give some benefits~"

"It turned out to be after the martyrs~" Wang Xianling pondered for a moment, "Since there is a lack of labor at home, how about giving you a healthy cow, five yuan of money, and two horses of silk cloth?"

"Thank you, sir!"

Tan Guohua hurriedly saluted, the reward given by Wang County's order was not small from what he thought, but now it is the autumn harvest season, and a cow can solve many problems.

"Well, if you have any other requirements, you might as well tell me!"

"The kid is weak and wants to learn some ways to strengthen his body!"

"Haha, I originally wanted to learn martial arts, this is easy to do, this county is born in martial arts, and the mountain-shaking boxing practiced is an internal kung fu, which has the effect of tempering muscles and bones, and practicing to Dacheng is fierce and incomparable, can destroy trees and crack stones, are you willing to learn?"

"Is there any other choice?" Tan Guohua said tentatively, he had heard of this boxing technique, and his father and brother who had never met had died before he had practiced, so he was not interested in this set of martial arts.

"If there is, it won't be your turn, but your small body is too weak, and practicing Shaking Mountain Fist needs to be supplemented with medicinal food, or maybe, for the sake of Shaking Thunder, I will give you a copy of the recipe of the Zhongzheng Yiqi Soup of the former dynasty Sun Zhenren!"

The Shaking Mountain Boxing Book is a booklet of this printed matter, with pictures and words on it, although there is no defect, but it is very old, and the owner of the book should read it from time to time, but since it is a printed matter, the value of this martial art will not be too high.

Zhongzheng Yiqi soup is composed of more than a dozen medicinal materials, the most important of which are the four flavors: ginseng, poria cocos, licorice, atractylodes, not to mention anything else, ginseng alone makes Tan Guohua scratch his head, take this as a meal, but it is not something that a family like the Chen family can bear.

In any case, today's harvest is also very huge, and he once again expressed his gratitude.

Cui Cheng's contribution to the battle of defending the city is also not small, but the two sides did not mention it, obviously there was a tacit understanding.

After chatting for a while, he got up and said goodbye.

On the way back to Cui's mansion, Cui Cheng put down his body and said bluntly: "Are you willing to worship me as a teacher?"

"The disciple is naturally willing, but my mother is unable to move, and my sister is afraid that she will marry soon..."

"You don't need to worry about these, you will go to Bianliang as an official next month, and only keep you for more than a month, as for your family's affairs, Cui Si will help you take care of it!"

"Thank you, teacher!"

Returning home to Cui's Mansion, Chen's mother and Erya were overjoyed to hear that Tan Guohua had been rewarded with a cow and five guan money, for a family like them, five guan money was undoubtedly a huge amount of money, and Jian Niu alleviated the embarrassment of having no labor at home.

Tan Guohua told Chen's mother about the apprenticeship again, her son has a backer, and he doesn't have to leave him for a long time, of course she will not obstruct it, and then officially held the apprenticeship ceremony.

was delayed for another day, and the next day, Cui Si drove the carriage and led the ox to return to Chenjia Village with the mother and daughter, while Tan Guohua stayed to study with Cui Cheng.

If you don't teach it, you don't know it, and you'll be shocked if you teach it!

Tan Guohua's intelligence is still above Cui Cheng's expectations, what does it mean to be transparent at one point and to be able to touch the analogy? What does it mean to be unforgettable and have excellent understanding? As a teacher, how can you not be happy to meet such a student!

In a month's time, not only did he teach all the subtle words and meanings contained in the Analects, but he also gave a general overview of the content of the Book of Songs, but he was limited to time, so he could only teach these.

After the autumn harvest, Cui Si returned, and Cui Cheng also arrived at the day of departure, "Chen Guohua, I will set off the day after tomorrow, your homework must not be wasted, this set of four books and five classics has the annotations of the teacher, you can study carefully, Huangchi is not far from Bianliang, I will send someone to pick you up to study for a month every year in the future, and your homework will be checked at that time!"

"If the disciple obeys the order, he will definitely live up to the teacher's teachings!"

"Well, clean up and let Cui Si send you back!"

After getting along for a month, Tan Guohua's heart was already full of respect for this teacher's selfless teaching, and he kowtowed respectfully and goodbye.

Before going out of the city, he went to the pharmacy again, Chen's mother left him the same money, plus the two pieces of money given by Cui Cheng, he planned to change it to medicinal materials, three times the money does not sound like much, but it is an ordinary person's income for a year or two, except for five hundred yuan to buy a few medicines for Chen's mother to treat leg diseases, the rest are all used in the prescription of the configuration of Zhongzheng Yiqi Soup, and the result is only enough for half a month's supply.

"Alas... Poor and rich in martial arts, the ancients did not deceive me!"

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Back home, Chen's mother and Erya were very happy, "Hua'er, it's been a good month for more than a month!"

"Mother, the master takes care of me very much, the family is busy with farming, and the children are not filial, but they are outside..."

"With the help of Cui Siye and the villagers, the autumn harvest and autumn planting are very smooth, you don't have to put it on the harvest!"

Sent away the housekeeper Cui Si, paid the autumn tax, and then returned the granules to the warehouse, for the farmer, even if he was busy for most of the year.

Tan Guohua's busyness has just begun, in addition to fishing to supplement his family, he also has to study and practice martial arts.

With the insight of his previous life and his mysterious talent, it is not difficult for him to study, but the real difficulty is to practice martial arts.

Although he longed for the heroic life of the rivers and lakes in his last life, he really did not have a foundation in martial arts, and the Shaking Mountain Boxing Spectrum was not about stretching his fists and moving his legs, it was divided into three parts: the first part was about how to raise qi, luck, and exert force, and the method used was a bit like the qigong in Tan Guohua's memory, not only did he need to take the qi every morning and evening, but also to practice the qi upside down.

The second part is the footwork pile, the pile is the plum blossom pile, including moving left and right, following the fast step, leaping and sliding and so on.

The third part is the moves of shaking the mountain boxing, which are: rhinoceros hitting the mountain, Mount Tai pressing the top, wearing butterflies at the bottom of the leaves, double dragons out of the water, drunk people guessing boxing, sweeping thousands of armies, overlord unloading armor, carp spitting beads, and breathing through Changhong.

The footwork is good, according to the atlas more exercises, the key is how to luck the problem, the dantian, first of all, we must know where the dantian is, luck to reach less yin and less yang, where is less yin and less yang.

In order to figure out this, he had to ask Wang Xianling with a shy face, and Wang Xianling instructed him for the sake of Cui Cheng being a colleague.

Fishing is a very good job, you can accompany reading, you can also stand on the horse, think about the luck of the skills, and the other is to think about how to get rich, so as to provide better conditions for martial arts.

As a person who came from the era of information explosion, even if he does not have a high level of knowledge, it is not difficult to find some ways to get rich, such as making gunpowder with simple technology, brewing wine, burning cement, etc., for Tan Guohua, there are no technical barriers, because he has done all of them.

The problem is that it is now in troubled times, and it will take several years for the Zhao family to establish, and the industry that was finally created may be robbed in an instant, and even a small life is not guaranteed, so this time period is not suitable for entrepreneurship.

He once worked as a chef and knew that some things were well replenished, such as the old turtle, the nutritional value of this thing was enough to replace the Zhongzheng Yiqi soup, so he often used to catch the fish in exchange, the people in the village did not know the value of the turtle, and the legend said that the turtle is very spiritual, so the old turtle will be released when he catches it, since he knows that he likes to eat the turtle, he is willing to exchange it for fish.

Practicing martial arts and nourishing has made Tan Guohua's body a lot stronger, and even with Chen's mother and Erya's complexion is much better, at least there is no such thing as before, but what makes him depressed is that the progress of Shaking Mountain Boxing has been very slow, the reason is that he wants to gather qi in the dantian, but he always feels that there is an obstacle, and the so-called qi will dissipate if he can't reach the dantian at all.

Autumn goes to winter, this winter is especially cold, the river has frozen early, and it is not suitable for fishing, so Tan Guohua plans to go hunting with Uncle Chen Liu.