Lin Hui's idea of practicing martial arts is very simple. He only intends to use this as an introduction to lay a premise for when he suddenly starts wielding swords and guns in the future.
In addition, I also want to experience the basic martial arts system of this world.
So after getting his approval, Lin Xiangnan and Fu Yunxin immediately packed their things and took him to sign up the next day. The weather was dry, and on the way to the sword hall after leaving the house, Lin Xiangnan and Lin Hui walked along the road one after another.
This city named Xidong has poor infrastructure, and the roads are just ordinary yellow mud roads. When horse-drawn carriages, ox-carts or slow cars pass by, they will bring up a foggy yellow gray.
There are sparsely opened small shops everywhere on both sides of the road.
In addition, there were some thin men and women kneeling on the ground with a piece of gray cloth around their necks.
Their clothes were very shabby, ragged, and dirty. Their clothes were full of patches and holes, and the original color could not be seen at all. Their hair was mostly stuck together and looked like it had not been washed for a long time. When passing by, you could smell a strong smell of sweat and earthy smell.
When Lin Xiangnan led Lin Hui past these people, she tried her best to protect him with her body and block Lin Hui's sight of these people.
"Who are they?" Lin Hui asked.
"Lin Xiangnan was silent for a moment, "They are all those who sell themselves."
"Selling oneself?" Lin Hui has been living in a community with a good environment for a few years since he came to this world. He rarely goes out and pays most attention to weird and strange news. Now when he suddenly heard the familiar and unfamiliar word "selling oneself", he was slightly startled.
"Hmm. It's been too early recently, there's no water in the fields, and most of the crops have died. Many farmers can't survive, so they have no choice but to sell themselves." Lin Xiangnan sighed and said in a low voice, "There's no food left at all?" Lin Hui remembers that the weather has become hotter and the rain has become less, which only started this year. How come these farmers have to sell themselves out in one year?
"We have to pay 70% to 80% of the land rent, so how can we save food?" Lin Xiangnan said helplessly.
Seventy to eighty percent!?
Lin Hui frowned, with such high land rent, no wonder these people are forced to sell themselves. If they really can't survive, who would be willing to throw away all dignity and kneel on the street?
"Also in recent years, several commanders have been at odds with each other officially. They are secretly arresting people from the countryside, exterminating their families, and going to each other's territory to arrest people and use them as soldiers. Only the big cities have great influence and have the background, so they dare not do this. It is relatively safer." Lin Xiangnan Seeing that his son could understand and pick up the conversation, he spoke a little more.
He is a college student and can be considered the best intellectual in this era and this country. But the more he knows, the more miserable he sees the world, and the more powerless he feels.
The only thing he could do was to try to cover his son's eyes so that he wouldn't have trouble sleeping at night after seeing too much.
The two of them lost their mood to talk for a while. Following the address recorded on the flyer, they soon arrived at the Pine Breeze Sword Hall.
The sword hall is a bit dilapidated and is located in the suburbs. It is a large loess school ground. There is a small earthen house next to the school ground with a big word "Shou" on the wall, indicating that it is a resting place for the guards.
The two of them entered the half-open school gate and saw a dozen and a half-year-old children standing sparsely inside. Most of them were boys, and only a few were girls.
Everyone was standing together in a circle, watching someone perform martial arts inside.
Everyone wore simple shorts and trousers made of coarse cloth, with cloth strips tied around their waists, and their hair was tied up individually.
Lin Xiangnan finally breathed a sigh of relief when he came here, and went to find another middle-aged man who was sitting on a chair to rest on the side of the school field. The two chatted for a while, and soon paid the money, confirming that Lin Hui would officially join the sword hall and become a member of everyone.
The middle-aged man stood up and came over to look at Lin Hui.
He just glanced casually, nodded, and after a few more words with Lin Xiangnan, they determined the specific timetable for coming to class. Then came the introduction. The middle-aged man was the owner of the sword hall, Xiao Dayong.
All the disciples here are divided into two types, one is rough martial arts and the other is fine martial arts.
Rough martial arts disciples don't have to pay, and they have to do odd jobs and run errands in exchange for continuing to learn here. Jingwu disciples need to pay a lot of money, but they don't need to work for daily sword practice and can often get personal guidance from the gym owner himself. The treatment is completely two levels.
Lin Hui is naturally the disciple of Jingwu, and is led by the gym leader Xiao Dayong himself.
But Lin Hui glanced at this person, and his own standards were obviously extremely poor.
He has no internal strength, let alone real strength. He is just an ordinary person who exercises regularly.
This made his idea of seeing local martial arts come to nothing, and he felt somewhat disappointed.
But he soon adjusted back.
It doesn't matter if you are disappointed, there is still time and opportunity in the follow-up. Now that you have a starting point, this Pine Breeze Sword Hall can be used as the starting point of your own shell in the future.
When the time comes, you can create some simple sword skills at will, and you can develop into a small force of your own.
Power is still very useful for collecting intelligence and resources. Otherwise, he would have to run errands and collect things by himself, which would be very time-consuming and labor-intensive.
Soon, the introduction was completed and the time was set. The owner didn't even check Lin Hui's qualifications, so he waved the two of them back and come back tomorrow. Lin Xiangnan was very happy to take Lin Hui home. Early the next morning, he also wrapped five large meat pies in oil paper as meals for practicing martial arts. A corner of the school grounds.
Lin Hui was left alone. Lin Xiangnan had to go to teach and take classes. He would not come to pick him up until the afternoon.
So Lin Hui, who is now almost five years old, has to face the owner Xiao Dayong alone.
By the way, there is also his dark and fat five-year-old daughter Xiao Shishi.
"Come on, Lin Hui, right? I'll teach you a set of simple moves first, and you can follow them and continue after you master them." Xiao Dayong held the wooden sword in his hand and said casually to Lin Hui.
"Yeah." Lin Hui nodded. From the corner of his eye, he saw the fat girl Xiao Shishi secretly eating his own meatloaf.
He frowned and was about to stop him.
"Come here! Erhei!" Xiao Dayong suddenly shouted loudly, which made Xiao Shishi tremble all over and almost dropped the meat pie on the ground. But seeing her father getting angry, she could only come over obediently and stand in a row with Lin Hui.
"Practice together." Xiao Dayong said sternly. "Or I'll beat you!"
Xiao Shishi had no choice but to nod obediently.
This girl is dark, fat, and has buck teeth. It is obviously impossible for her face to win her father's love.
Then Xiao Dayong slowly practiced a basic simplified version of Pine Breeze Swordsmanship.
The sword path is very simple. For Lin Hui, it is natural to know it once you read it and think about it once.
There are a total of twelve moves, covering four focuses: attack, defense, dodge, and running.
"Come here." Xiao Dayong pointed at Lin Hui, "How much have you learned?"
Lin Hui was too lazy to talk nonsense. He directly took the wooden sword and practiced it easily. There were a few mistakes he made on purpose, which seemed normal. "Not bad." Xiao Dayong was slightly surprised. "You have the best memory among all my apprentices. Well, okay, watch me practice it again." He continued to practice it again, and then asked Lin Hui to follow suit.
This time, it's all right.
Xiao Dayong nodded with satisfaction, teaching students well is so easy and satisfying.
"Practice hard and practice at least three times a day after you go back. From now on, you will be healthy and free from all kinds of diseases. It won't be a problem," he warned.
"Yes." Lin Hui nodded in agreement, "Can I ask how powerful our Pine Breeze Sword Hall can be in West East City?"
"How powerful? This is the age of guns. How powerful do you want to be? There are more than a dozen big guns aimed at you. No matter how powerful it is, is it still the same?" Xiao Dayong laughed. "Don't listen to the story. Even if you practice swordsmanship and martial arts to the highest level, you will not be able to compete with those mages, guns and cannons. We are not practicing martial arts to be competitive, but to strengthen our bodies and reduce illness."
"That's it..." Lin Hui deliberately looked disappointed, "Are there no martial arts masters who can fly around without fear of muskets?" "I also want to know if there are any. Anyway, I have lived for so many years, most of my life, and I have never seen a master who can shoot muskets and cannons. Okay, why do you have so many problems, little brat? Let's go practice sword practice first!"
He was too lazy to explain and waved Lin Hui away.
He is just an ordinary swordsmanship instructor who runs interest classes. How can he have time to play quizzes with a kid of several years old?
Next, Lin Hui found an opportunity to chat with him every now and then, asking various questions about martial arts.
Unfortunately, it is obvious that even Xiao Dayong himself, Pine Breeze Swordsmanship, who has practiced swordsmanship for more than 20 years and has already mastered swordsmanship, does not think he is very capable.
According to him, even if you practice swordsmanship to the top, it's just like that. Someone can burp you with a musket, so don't think about using the Pine Breeze Swordsmanship he taught you to fight hard. It's useless!
Lin Hui also carefully studied this set of swordsmanship, and found that there was indeed nothing unusual about it. There were only superficial force-using skills and a slightly more sophisticated twelve sword moves, which were all based on pure power.
According to Xiao Dayong's oral account, this set of swordsmanship was taught to him by an old Daoist he met in a ruined temple in the mountains.
It is said that if you practice to a great extent, you can have a strong body, prolong your life, and be free from all kinds of diseases. And if you go further and practice to the extreme, you can still have a little power to protect yourself. Accurately puncture acupoints, come and go like the wind, and you will also have a certain fighting ability.
What made Lin Hui frown was that the other party had really never heard anything about internal strength.
Not only Pine Breeze Sword Hall, but also various other martial arts institutions, all of which follow the fitness route and have never heard of internal strength.
"Isn't this just aerobics?" Lin Hui concluded after asking for the last time.
"Haha, you are right, it is indeed a very popular aerobics introduced from abroad!" Xiao Dayong laughed out loud after hearing this. Pine Breeze Swordsmanship has basically no actual practice. Many of the moves are purely for stretching exercises, some are for beauty, and others are for connection and coherence.
Anyway, there are tricks with various effects, but there are none that can be used in actual combat.
At this point, Lin Hui has completely given up the idea of using this sword technique in actual combat, and it seems that he can only rely on himself.
Another three years have passed in the blink of an eye.
Lin Hui is also eight years old. He has been practicing swordplay at the Pine Breeze Sword Hall, and his body is indeed as the owner said, free from all diseases. This makes Lin Xiangnan and his wife very happy. They even gave Xiao Dayong a big red envelope during the Chinese New Year.
In the past three years, while Lin Hui continued to collect all kinds of weird information, he also created some good improved versions of Pine Breeze Swordsmanship. However, no matter how he practiced, none of these swordsmanship techniques could develop his internal strength.