Chapter 9: Thoughts After the Age of Forty

Tossing and turning all night, Gu Fengyang forgot when he fell asleep.

The next day, when it was dawn, he woke up in a daze.

I got up, freshened up, and strode out.

Outside the courtyard, jujube trees sway slightly in the morning breeze. In just one day, the dates that fell to the ground were almost rotten, and of course, many of them were picked up by nearby neighbors.

In this regard, Gu Fengyang will not ask.

In Beiping, the poor will not embarrass the poor.

Rubbing his swollen temples with both hands, he staggered out the door, Gu Fengyang only felt that something was missing today than usual.

It took him a moment to react.

There's a lot of money!

This dead fat man is not there?

"It looks like it's in some kind of wild kiln. Gu Fengyang muttered, "This color embryo always has a few days every month." ”

Qian Dayou didn't come, and Gu Fengyang didn't wait, and went to Xinglong Bridge alone.

Walking to the road, turning through the familiar alleys, passing through the familiar alleys, walking through the familiar long streets, a bridge of people coming and going, quietly comes into view.

Qiao Guozhen is already on the bridge, today, he added an extra coat, the weather is cold, the old man gets up early, and his body can't bear it.

"After managing the foot business for so many years, with Uncle Qiao's age, it is long overdue to find someone to take over. Looking at the old man on the bridge, Gu Fengyang couldn't help but have an idea in his heart.

Getting closer, Qiao Guozhen looked over.

"Xiao Gu, you just have a job today. He shouted, gesturing to a man beside him, "This gentleman, I want you by name." ”

On Qiao Guozhen's left, there was a middle-aged man, wearing a brown robe, with his back to him, standing on the bridge, looking at the bridge.

Gu Fengyang only felt that this back was familiar.

Xu Daoqing!

He was thinking about it, the middle-aged man had already turned around, with two mustaches and a pair of starry eyes, which were particularly eye-catching.

"I've been here for a few days, and I haven't experienced the style of Beiping, and today, I want to take a good look. Xu Daoqing said as he walked off the bridge and sat in a foreign car by the bridge.

Gu Fengyang kept his face calm and stood still, he didn't want to take this job.

But the business that was sent to the door categorically has no reason to refuse.

Because it's called a rule.

So, after only a moment's hesitation, he strode forward, held the handlebar steadily, lifted the foreign car, and asked in a deep voice, "Where does the gentleman want to go?"

Xu Daoqing sat upright, put his hands on his knees, and said: "I am not familiar with Beiping, I want to go to some rich places, you can think about it yourself." ”

"There have always been only rich people, there are no rich places, and there are many alleys in old Beiping. If you really want to talk about the rich place, on the edge of the Forbidden City, you have already been there, or do you want to go to the happy forest to take a look?" asked Gu Fengyang.

"Warriors don't go to that kind of place!"

Xu Daoqing shook his head and refused, he thought for a while, and said: "Then let's go to the Old Summer Palace, it is said that this garden is known as the Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens, and it should be a fairyland on earth, but it was burned down." The treasures of the world collected by the emperor of the previous dynasty were all taken away by the foreigners, and even the garden was almost burned clean, leaving only half of the ruins......"

"I've always wanted to see it, but I have a wish. ”

The Old Summer Palace is located in the western suburbs, quite far away, but the hour is still early. Xu Daoqing let the ancient wind slower down, he wanted to see the scenery along the way.

"Take the train from Jiangnan to Beiping, and along the way, I love to watch the scenery by the window...... "Xu Daoqingdao.

Gu Fengyang was silent and trotted slowly.

When pulling the cart, he is used to not talking, because as soon as he opens his mouth, it is easy to diverge, and when the anger is forked, the rhythm of his steps will be chaotic.

Gu Fengyang didn't speak, but Xu Daoqing kept talking. But judging from his face, he should be a man of few words, but at this moment, he seems to be unable to stop talking.

"I didn't want to take you as a disciple on a whim. I competed with you last night for boxing and swords, and found that your qualifications are excellent, and it's a pity not to learn martial arts."

"I want to enter the martial arts, but the people from the south of the Yangtze River can't open the martial arts hall in Beiping, you are destined to become a martial arts person, follow you, there is no future. Gu Fengyang stopped and only said one word. He remembered the conversation with Qiao Guozhen yesterday in front of the Happy Forest, and now in martial arts, it is impossible for outsiders to share their own interests.

Listening to Gu Fengyang's words, Xu Daoqing was not angry, but smiled: "So I need an apprentice who was born and raised in Beiping, I will teach you boxing, and you will defeat them." As long as the boxing method is famous, and my ability to teach people is good, the martial arts hall can be opened, this is the rule that has always been passed down from the martial arts, and when the time comes, even if the people of the martial arts are not angry in their hearts, they will not dare to interfere!"

"After wandering in Beiping for a few days, the young generation I saw were all mediocre people, only you, who shocked me twice! You came to help me, after the martial arts hall opened, I was a martial artist, how about it?"

"I'm just a poor person who can't do my job. After Gu Fengyang finished speaking, he lowered his head and continued to run.

After a short period of time, the Old Summer Palace arrived.

As far as the eye can see, a ruin, still luxurious.

The foreign car stopped, Xu Daoqing walked down, and looked at the former Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens not far away in a daze.

"Why do you have to open a martial arts hall?" Gu Fengyang suddenly asked, along the way, he always had this doubt.

Xu Daoqing was stunned, he walked towards the Old Summer Palace, and sighed as he walked: "When I was young and learning boxing, my master once forced me to swear that if I accept apprentices in the future, I can only accept two people at most. ”

"I know something about the martial arts in Beiping, they don't teach real boxing, one reason is that they are blinded by money, and the other reason is that like me, almost all the martial artists of the older generation have sworn poison. ”

"I was originally very afraid of thunder and thunder, so naturally I wouldn't think about opening a martial arts gym. After the age of 40, if you want to do something, you will naturally have this idea, which lingers and cannot be suppressed! The world has become like this, and if people live and do not do some practical things, it is better to have a good time when the sky thunders!"

"Jiangnan can't open a martial arts hall, there are not enough people, and the heart is not aligned. Beiping is a good place, and it has been the case in all dynasties, so I came to Beiping to open a martial arts hall, and the only purpose is to teach the real boxing method, what our ancestors passed on to us, we can't lose it!"

"Once I teach the true boxing method and break the deadlock, there will naturally be successors, practice martial arts to strengthen the body, if you want to strengthen the country, first strengthen the body!"

Xu Daoqing kept talking, his words were higher than loud, he pointed to the dilapidated Old Summer Palace, and shouted: "If you are backward, you will be beaten, foreigners used to use three indiscriminate things to hollow out our bodies and bones, we have learned too many lessons, now, it's time for them to see how powerful!"

The words gradually fell, and Xu Daoqing looked back, his eyes blazing.

Behind him, Gu Fengyang let go of the handlebar of the foreign car, stepped aside, raised his head, knelt down, and kowtowed respectfully three times.

"Master!"