After Shen Jun left, Nangong Yu took off his coat with difficulty, and took off the stone chain mail again, and suddenly felt extremely relaxed, stretched his waist, moved his muscles and bones, and then went to bed. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

For the next three months, Nangong Yu wore stone chain mail every day to go to the woods on the western slope to 'practice'. Fortunately, it was the season of falling leaves in late autumn and early winter, and he could kick down the fallen leaves without much effort. He can't count more than a hundred pieces at most, but he has made a lot of progress. Every time I stood up, my back hurt, and I had to sit under the tree and rest for a while before I could continue.

In his spare time, he went to the Yaoguangzi house to serve, served tea and water to the master, grinded and read, and also exchanged experiences with Yaoguangzi, which benefited him a lot. He found that Yao Guangzi had learned a wide range of things, not only knew calligraphy and danqing, but also was proficient in civil engineering, astronomy and divination, geography and flowers, chess and tea ceremony, and could learn new things every day. Yao Guangzi let him practice two more basic skills, one is to run around the small lake twenty times a day, and the other is to swim ten times in the lake in stone chain mail. Although Nangong Yu had adapted to the weight of the stone chain mail, these two new basic skills still exhausted him half to death. After 20 laps, he was exhausted, and he had to swim with a negative armor, and he had to paddle hard to swim, and he would sink to the bottom of the water after a slight stop. The happiest moment of the day is to come back to the house at night, take off the stone chain mail and lie in bed. He was so tired that he didn't even have the strength to turn over, and he fell asleep.

He has great perseverance, either he doesn't do it, and he will stick to it to the end. He persevered in such hellish training for four months, without a day off, and finally got used to it. During this period, Pang Mingyang and Shen Jun each went out of the valley to carry out two commissions, all of which were successfully resolved, and more than 30 taels of silver were added to the valley, only Nangong Yu never left the valley.

Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, a few days ago, it snowed heavily, the valley was white, and the mountains in the distance were undulating and magnificent. The Bead Chain Water Pavilion is also covered with snow, like a Taoist fairyland. Yao Guangzi has been making a lot of money in the past few days, sitting in the warm pavilion with a small red clay stove while drinking tea and painting poems, and making many snow scene works, which is very comfortable. Pang Mingyang and Shen Jun were also busy preparing for the New Year, cutting a lot of red paper and asking Yao Guangzi to write couplets and draw New Year's paintings. Only Nangong Yu is still meticulously training, he is wearing only a single coat in the ice and snow, wearing a hundred and fifty pounds of stone chain mail, after running around the lake in the ice and snow for twenty laps, he plunged into the lake and swam hard in the lake water.

Pang Mingyang and Shen Jun took the wrapped sausage out of the kitchen and hung it on the wall, Shen Jun was surprised: "The third junior brother is really desperate, I haven't seen him rest for a day in the past few months." Pang Mingyang was pleased: "The third junior brother is commendable, and it is also a spur to you and me." ”

After Nangong Yu finished swimming, he dragged his heavy body and climbed ashore, and Shen Jun shouted: "Third junior brother, the ingredients have been prepared, just waiting for you to take charge of the spoon." Today, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, the master has to eat your fried dishes. Nangong Yu wiped the water droplets on his face and shouted, "Okay! I'll come after changing my clothes." "I went back to the house and changed my clothes and went to the kitchen to cook. Now his cooking skills have improved again, this time he made smoked local chicken, crispy roast goose, braised shrimp in sauce, stir-fried beans, stir-fried meat with shredded radish, pork ribs and winter melon soup, and a plate of cold dishes, which is extremely rich. Shen Jun gave him a hand, while Pang Mingyang took a pen and paper and wrote down every step of Nangong Yu's stir-frying. He said curiously: "I stir-fry according to the ingredients and methods of the third junior brother, how can I not make the same taste." Shen Jun, who was squatting in front of the stove and fanning the fire, said with a smile: "Cooking also depends on talent, even if you have the same method and ingredients, the heat is not right." Pang Mingyang nodded and said, "What I said is that you have to practice more in the future." ”

After cooking, the three of them brought the food into the main hall, but now the weather is too cold, so they can only eat in the house. Yao Guangzi walked out in new clothes, and the three apprentices knelt on the ground and kowtowed to celebrate the New Year. Yao Guangzi laughed and said: "Get up, see what Yu'er has made, well, yes, yes, I have a blessing for my teacher today." Shen Jun smiled and said, "Don't patronize the old people, what about the red envelopes of the apprentices?" Yao Guangzi glared at him and said, "You remember this matter clearly, one for each of the three red envelopes." As he spoke, he took out three red bags and handed them to the three of them, saying: "The number of red envelopes for the teacher is related to your performance in a year. Xiaojun loves to steal and play tricks, and for the sake of you going out to do some hard work, you will be given three taels of silver. Shen Jun grinned and said, "Thank you, Master for rewarding." Yao Guangzi turned to Nangong Yu and said: "Yu'er has not been in the house for a long time, and she has not accepted the commission yet, but she is diligent in practice and first-class in stir-frying, you two eat a fine light every time, this time I only give Yu'er one or two silver, if you are slack this year, Yu'er will have more red envelopes than you next time." Nangong Yu said: "The master teaches the disciple the skill, and the disciple should not give the master filial piety, how can he collect the master's money again." Shen Jun bumped him with his elbow and said in a low voice, "Don't hurt me." Yao Guangzi said with a smile: "The expenses of this sect are all earned by you from the commission, and the excess will be sent to you at the end of the year, what is the use of asking for money for the teacher, but you need to save some money to marry a daughter-in-law, don't spend it indiscriminately." The three of them bowed down to receive the order.

After everyone sat down, Yao Guangzi took the first chopsticks, and after tasting them all, he praised it: "Yu'er's craftsmanship is really getting better and better, even if it is a chef in a big restaurant." Nangong Yu said a few words modestly. There were also two bottles of ten-year-old flower carvings during the banquet, and the three of them took turns to toast Yao Guangzi, Yao Guangzi was in a good mood, stroked his hair and laughed, and ate everything.

After eating for a while, Yao Guangzi suddenly remembered: "Oh, I almost forgot to pay my respects to the teacher, I haven't gone to Yunni Nunnery to pay New Year's greetings this year, Yu'er, you can take a trip with a gift, and visit the girl by the way." After Nangong Yu received the order, he took the gift prepared by Yao Guangzi and was sent out of the valley by his master and apprentice. Pang Mingyang knew that he didn't have enough winter clothes, so he went back to the house and fetched a deerskin hat and bear fur, and explained the road to him. After Nangong Yu got dressed, he said goodbye to the three of them and went to Yunni Nunnery. This was the first time he had gone out of the valley since he entered the mountain, and he saw that the snow was falling, the valley was ethereal, the snow under his feet had no feet, and the cold wind had penetrated into his chest like a knife.