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Chapter 22 Now I'm starting from scratch 20

Early the next morning, my uncle began to teach Li Qinglin's martial arts.

Last night, my uncle proudly introduced the origin of the Liu family’s kung fu to Li Qinglin. It turned out that the Liu family’s martial arts came from the army, to be precise, from the Ming Dynasty’s army.

In 1368 AD, the Zhuming Dynasty was established, which was the last feudal dynasty established by the Han people in Chinese history. In the seventh year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court implemented military camps and civil camps here. During the Ming Dynasty, the people in this place were farmed and the food they obtained was military rations; during the war, civilians turned into troops and took up weapons to fight invasion. The military and civilians here often used "tun, camp" as place names. Although they had experienced so many dynasties, there are now Dongzhuangying, Taipingying, Mianmintun, Jifengtun and other place names, which were left at that time.

The ancestors of the Liu family were originally farmers. When they were young, they followed Emperor Hongwu to unify China. They have been brave in fighting and have repeatedly accumulated military merits. In order to prevent the problem of having more officials and fewer soldiers, the Ming Dynasty adopted the method of rewarding more and promoting military personnel. Although the ancestors of the Liu family made great achievements, their final official positions were only a small leader of the Ming infantry Army - Baihu, and later stayed in the Liu family camp because of their military camp.

Li Qinglin thought that he would first have to make a ritual such as burning incense to tell his ancestors, kneeling three times and knocking six times, but his uncle's official scholar just kicked him and started.

After finding a flat place, my uncle asked Li Qinglin to stance first, then walked behind him by himself, and suddenly kicked him in the bend of his leg when Li Qinglin was not paying attention. Li Qinglin shook his body and stopped.

The uncle nodded with satisfaction and said, "Your mother must have let you stance when you were a child, and you have a good basic skill!"

Li Qinglin didn't know if his body had practiced martial arts before, so he had to laugh.

My uncle pinched his joints and body with his hands and said, "You are a little late to practice martial arts at your age, and you will definitely not be able to become a master, but you can still learn the skills of defending the enemy and defending yourself."

The most proud thing about the Liu family's kung fu is the marksmanship. The ancestors of the Liu family held a long spear and fought in the east and west, and rarely had any rivals in the past twenty years. As the Liu family's mastery of the Liu family, the descendants of the Liu family naturally practiced diligently. In the late Qing Dynasty, the descendants of the Liu family formed an escort agency to travel around the world with this set of marksmanship to support their families.

Li Qinglin started learning martial arts with standing stances, followed by boxing, and finally his uncle taught him a set of stick techniques.

Li Qinglin admired the famous Liu family's gun technique very much. He once begged his uncle to teach it, but his uncle shook his head and said, "It's not that I don't teach you, this gun technique is really hard to learn. Month stick, annual knife, a lifelong gun! You don't want to learn these three movements just by moving, buckle and pricking. You don't want to learn them well in three months. I have been in your house for a short time during this period, and I think it's good to teach you the Liu family stick technique. My Liu family stick tip is a gun, and I'll remove the gun tip is a stick. The Liu family stick technique and gun technique are in harmony, including poking, picking, picking, picking, sliding, etc. If you learn the stick technique well, it will be easier to learn the gun technique in the future."

Li Qinglin learned very quickly. He recorded the moves and formulas taught by his uncle orally in words, and practiced them repeatedly. In just twenty days, he practiced the boxing and bauble techniques taught by his uncle to be proficient.

During this period, my aunt also told him about his real crop-bench flower style.

In the old countryside, few farmhouses had chairs, and most of them only had long benches. Even in ordinary hotel restaurants, there were long benches around the big table.

Chinese martial arts have a long history. It can be said that as long as everything you can use at hand can be used as weapons. Like a farmer's rake, hoe, and shoulder pole can be turned into weapons. Moreover, these unique weapons have tricks and routines. For example, this set of bench flowers can have various tricks such as smashing, seizing, blocking, poking, swinging, swinging, slamming, sealing, closing, and stumbling. Because the bench is not like the rules of weapons such as knives and guns, especially the clever use of four stool legs, it can often lead to a surprise victory.

This bench flower can be practiced, but it really requires some hard work. The bench is irregular in shape and the center of gravity is difficult to master, so people who are just practicing are often thankless. If they don’t practice the routines well, they will easily hurt themselves.

My uncle can only stay for about twenty days at most. During these twenty days, Li Qinglin seized all the time to study hard. When Li Qinglin could practice all the routines skillfully, he was already bruised and swollen and covered with scars.

Liu Xiuzhen felt a little distressed when she saw her son's embarrassing appearance. While covering Li Qinglin's bruises with a hot towel, she angrily said to her brother: "Do you think he is a slap in iron? Don't let him take it easy when practicing. Look, his face is so green!"

My uncle looked indifferent and said, "Practice muscles, bones, skin, and breathe inside! What is it that he suffers from some skin and flesh? Only by suffering can he become the best!"

Liu Xiuzhen applied the bruises and asked her brother with concern: "How is Qinglin practicing?"

My uncle nodded and said, "I have all the routines I teach, but I have poor kung fu foundation. Now I am just a little erotic. I teach eight methods of martial arts, and I have to kick and hit the boxing! He also has to practice diligently."

My uncle then said to Li Qinglin: "Qinglin needs to practice more! You are still a little floating under your feet now, and you are just a fancy way of punching. If you really fight with others now, you will suffer a great loss. As the saying goes, "The airs are all day long, and the skills are deeper every day." There is no master in this world who does not practice martial arts!"

My uncle has never been to school. He knows nothing but farming crops and martial arts. When it comes to teaching martial arts, my uncle can't say any theory. Apart from correcting Li Qinglin's mistakes in his movements, he doesn't say much in the rest of the time. But he often can tell martial arts formulas casually, and these formulas are definitely at the forefront.

Li Qinglin in his previous life was deeply poisoned by martial arts novels. He once believed that there were martial arts secrets in the world, and there might even be magic medicines that could add to his skills by just taking them. Now after practicing for a while, Li Qinglin realized that the so-called secrets are to study hard and practice and scientific training, and these scientific principles exist in these simple martial arts formulas.

Li Qinglin recorded all these formulas and savored them carefully when he was fine. The more he felt the more he appreciated these formulas. For example, my uncle taught boxing. The first four sentences were: "Punch the horse with his feet and fall a thousand pounds, and hit the door and cut the roots; the fist was like a meteor's eyes, and the thunder kick hurt the enemy's body with one foot." Li Qinglin carefully compared the process of his mother's defeat of Nokawa. Didn't his mother consciously use these martial arts rules?

After the first month of the year, the land on the Mantou Slope was leveled, and the ponds under the slope were dug, and the temperature was getting higher and higher day by day. Spring is coming!

The snow on the mountain has melted, and the water in the small pond under the steamed bun slope is full; new buds have emerged from the branches without realizing it, and the earth has gradually spread green.

This year's Spring Festival is the second day of the first lunar month, and it is a sunny day. "A day of spring is sunny, and farming is not necessary." Li Wanquan, who has been planting land for a lifetime, often talks about this sentence. He has bought ten acres of land this year and is ready to do a big fight this year.

"A mule has half the house" is indeed reasonable. Horses and mules eat about 30 kilograms of grass and feed a day. In the past few months, the compost accumulated by the Li family is like a small hill.

"A single flower of crops depends on fertilizer as the head of the family." Li Wanquan now only planted one season of corn a year, mainly because there was not enough fertilizer in the field. If wheat was planted in autumn and winter, if the ground strength was not enough, both of them would be low-yield and the loss would be not worth the cost.

During the Republic of China, there was no chemical fertilizer, and the crops were planted with farm fertilizer. The main thing for farm fertilizer was to be made of human and animal manure mixed with leaves, weeds, straw, peat, and garbage.

The compost is huge, so it is really not easy to transport it to the field. Generally, farmers use two manure baskets to fill it with compost and transport it to the fields by unicycle. The wheel axles of the wheels are made of wooden, and with heavy fertilizer, it is difficult for a person to transport the fertilizer smoothly. Therefore, when the spring season is to send fertilizer, men, women, young and old at home are working together, women and children pulling them with ropes in front, and men behind hold the handlebar and pushing them forward. It is very hard.

The green mule of Li Qinglin's family was very useful at this time. Although the green mule can only do light work now, this light work has saved the Li family a lot of effort. Li Wanquan repaired the worn-out cart and asked the green mule to pull fertilizer into the ground. Although the green mule can't do all its strength now and can only pull five or six hundred kilograms in one trip, compared with the previous manpower to transport fertilizer, it is now both fast and labor-saving.

My uncle's family was not equipped enough, so after finishing the work at home, Li Qinglin drove a mule cart to help my uncle's house. On the way, when he passed the big locust tree, Li Qinglin inexplicably remembered the girl standing under the tree in the first month of the year. He subconsciously searched around him, and saw the working farmers busy in the fields. Where could he see the young and lively figure?

When Li Qinglin arrived at his uncle's house, his uncle was pushing the wheelbarrow to the field with difficulty, and his aunt and cousin pulled hard in front of the car with ropes.

Seeing Li Qinglin coming in a mule cart, his fourteen-year-old cousin cheered. Who would have a child who was a half-year-old to do such dirty and tiring work?

The uncle cursed: "You are a spendthrift thing, you are so happy if you don't have to work? You can use your strength and money! You can't be exhausted when you work. If you don't work, you're just a waste of money?"

No matter how much I scolded, my uncle naturally asked my aunt and cousin to go home to do other work when he had a mule cart.

After a few trips of compost, his cousin Liu Zhengsheng came back. Liu Zhengsheng officially became a friend of Wantong Business this year. Because he is honest and capable, it is said that the boss is planning to let him be the second shopkeeper next year. The boss was also a farmer. Generally, during such busy farming seasons, the guys will be given a few days off. Liu Zhengsheng also asked for leave today, but he didn't expect that he would only go home now.

The nephew has come to help, and the son has just returned home now. The uncle is unhappy and has a dark face and doesn't speak.

The cousin carefully greeted his father and cousin and explained: "Dad, it's not that I came back late on purpose, but that Pan Ke asked someone to come and return the ocean, so he was delayed by saying such a good word."
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