After eating the steamed buns, she lay on the ground for a while and watched Xi Xie walk forward. Tang Ning knew that it was time to rest, so she quickly got up and followed him.

The two of them came to a yard one after another. The yard was very large and had dozens of large water tanks.

Xi Tie pointed to the two buckets in the corner: "These two are yours. There is a river in the south. You go there to get water. Just choose an empty jar here and fill it up."

Tangning nodded, picked up the two buckets, walked out the door and ran towards the south.

Not far away, I saw a man walking towards me carrying two buckets of water. Upon closer inspection, I saw it was Gu Chengqian.

"Are you still doing this homework?" Tang Ning asked, thinking that they had finished this homework a long time ago. After all, it took him so long to run in the mountains. Now he saw that they were still doing this homework, and he felt quite happy.

"Do you think it's easy to fill that big tank?" Gu Chengqian stopped and said

"How much have you filled now? How many trips will it take to fill it up?"

"I've filled half of it, and you're almost done with two buckets full of water."

"Is the river close to this?"

"You keep walking along this road. You'll know when you get there. I won't tell you anymore. I have to hurry up."

Tang Ning walked forward carrying the empty bucket. Along the way, she saw many people approaching her. Some were walking fast, some were walking slowly, and many people were walking and resting.

After walking for a long time, he finally reached the river. He filled two buckets with water and carried them back. Halfway through, he stopped and stopped to rest. He went up the mountain to chop firewood and carried the firewood and water back home. This kind of

Nothing less to do.

But I have never walked such a long way with two buckets of water so heavy. It was at least two miles from the river to the yard.

And it was carried rather than carried. He used to carry it on his shoulders when he chopped firewood and went home, which saved a lot of effort.

After resting for a while, he picked up the bucket and continued walking forward. On his way back for the third time with the bucket, he met Gu Chengqian. Gu Chengqian had already filled the water tank with water and completed the task.

Fortunately, there are still many people who have not finished it.

As time went by, there were fewer and fewer people on the road, and more and more people completed their homework. Gradually, he was the only one left. When he was on his way back for the sixth time carrying a bucket, Xi Tiao came over:

"Let's go eat! The time is up. Take an hour's rest after eating and continue in the afternoon."

He put down the bucket, and his arms felt like they were filled with molten iron, making it impossible to lift them up.

When they walked to the dining hall, there was no one there. It seemed that the others had already finished eating. I wonder if Liu Ruhan had eaten, so Tang Ning returned to the room.

It was discovered that Liu Ruhan was not in the room.

Hey, where have she been? She shouldn't be running around alone when she's not here.

Just as she was about to go out to look for her, Tang Ning remembered that Qin Luo seemed to have said yesterday that he would arrange for her to do something today, so she should have been taken away by Qin Luo or wait until she came back on her own.

He fell on the bed, his body was very tired, and fell asleep immediately.

In a daze, I felt a warm and soft body squeeze in, and a familiar fragrance came from the tip of my nose.

He had a dream. He dreamed that he was riding a tall horse, galloping in the blood-red world. When he looked down, he saw that the horse was actually a skeleton horse, and the horse's feet were covered with dead bones.

Tang Ning suddenly opened her eyes and realized that it was a dream. Liu Ruhan was lying in his arms, looking at him with big watery eyes.

Seeing that he woke up, Liu Ruhan squeezed into his arms again, kissed his cheek with her small mouth, and rubbed her cheek against his gently.

"Ruru, where were you this morning?" Tangning asked.

Liu Ruhan raised her head and gestured for a while, but Tang Ning didn't quite understand, so Liu Ruhan repeated it again.

"You mean, you go out with others to buy vegetables in the morning and wash the vegetables after you come back?"

Liu Ruhan nodded.

"Ruru, were those people nice to you? Did they scold you?" Tangning was very worried. She couldn't speak. She was afraid that others would look down on her and bully her.

Liu Ruhan gestured for a while, to the effect that she didn't know how to buy things, so she just followed others to pick up things and wash vegetables.

"Ruru, I'll learn from them. When we go out, you stay at home and don't go outside to work."

Liu Ruhan pressed her face against his and nodded.

"Tang Ning, Tang Ning." There was a knock on the door outside.

Tangning got out of bed and opened the door, and Gu Chengqian walked in: "I woke up and came to your place to play because I was bored. What are you doing! Why are you locking the door during the day?"

Tangning didn't lock the door when she came in. Liu Ruhan must have locked it.

"I'm sleeping!"

"Then did I wake you up?"

"No, I woke up early. By the way, I saw you walked very fast when carrying the bucket today. You were the first one among us to finish your homework. You are very impressive!"

"Haha." Gu Chengqian looked quite proud: "Of course, I have practiced martial arts with my father since I was a child."

"Have you all been practicing martial arts since childhood? I feel like you are all pretty good."

"Of course not. Most of them are just like you. When I first came here, many of them were not as good as you! In fact, I was quite tired on the first day. I'll get used to it after a while."

"Really? Were they like this when they first came here?"

"Yes! Otherwise, what do you think? Hey, what is your sister doing here?"

"She helps buy and wash vegetables."

"What's her name?"

"Liu Ruhan, she can't speak."

"oh."

The two chatted for a while. In the afternoon, everyone gathered at the foot of the mountain. Xi Tiao gave an order and everyone went to do their homework.

Tangning returned to the roadside and picked up his bucket. He was the only one who had not completed this task.

About an hour later, when he poured two buckets of water into the water tank one by one, the water tank was finally full and overflowed a lot.

Tangning was lying on the ground, breathing heavily.

After resting for a while, he walked towards the next homework location, which was a plum blossom farm. The content of the homework was to stand on the farm and do horse steps for half an hour.

Of course he couldn't squat for that long. Every time he squatted until his legs and feet became numb, he would fall down and rest for a while before continuing.

After doing this for half an hour, start the next exercise and kick your legs high a thousand times.

When he kicked 200 times, Xi Tiao told him to eat and that was the end of the day.

The new disciples had five homework assignments every day, including mountain running, bucket carrying, squatting, high kicking and punching, but Tang Ning only completed three of them.

When he returned to the room after dinner in the evening, he walked straight to the bed and lay down on it.

Liu Ruhan climbed up on the bed and sat behind him, gently squeezing his shoulders and hitting his back.

"Ruru, have you eaten?" Tangning was lying on the bed, Liu Ruhan's soft little hand fell on his back.

Liu Ruhan nodded.

The door opened and Gu Chengqian walked in. He saw Tang Ning lying on the bed and Liu Ruhan kneeling there, squeezing his shoulders and beating his back.

He was stunned for a moment, then realized what he was doing, his eyes were full of envy, he took a stool and sat next to Tang Ning: "It's better for you, I brought my sister here, and there will be someone to take care of her when she's tired. If I had known, I would have asked my father to buy a maid.

alright."

Tang Ning lay on the bed without looking back. He was too lazy to move. Liu Ruhan's little hand behind him fell on his back, which was very comfortable: "When did you finish your homework today? I think you seemed to be very early."

It’s done, keep playing there.”

"No! It's not very early, maybe half an hour before dinner! It's mainly because I'm a little tired from the homework in the morning, but my homework in the afternoon is okay. It only took me an hour and a half to finish it."

"You said last time that there will be an assessment every year. Do you know when the assessment is?"

"I don't know about this. It should be after we have been practicing for a year!"

Tangning sat up and said, "Have you ever practiced martial arts? Can you fight here for me to see?"

"I practice external Kung Fu, but I have never practiced internal Kung Fu."

"Inner strength and mental method? What is it?" Tangning heard about this for the first time and asked curiously.

"The inner strength method is to practice internal strength. The deeper the internal strength, the more powerful the moves will be. If a person does not have deep internal strength, no matter how powerful the moves are, they will not be too powerful."

"Then, can you show me your foreign martial arts first?"

"Okay, okay, it's just that this place is too small. Let me do a set of our Gu family's boxing techniques!" Gu Chengqian stood up, got into a good posture, and punched out one after another. Each punch was vigorous and full of momentum.

After finishing a set of punches, Gu Chengqian closed his fists, took a long breath and sat down.

"Can you teach me how to do this boxing set of yours?"

"Okay." Gu Chengqian said cheerfully.

"Then teach me now! Come on, let's find an open place." Tangning jumped out of bed and said.

"Now?" Gu Chengqian looked confused: "Let's do it tomorrow! I have to do laundry for a while. I haven't washed my clothes for many days."

"Okay, you can teach me tomorrow."

The two chatted for a while, and then Gu Chengqian left. After Tangning fetched water and washed herself, she lay down on the bed. Liu Ruhan closed the door, blew out the light and got into his arms.

In the dead of night, the room was silent except for the faint sound of Tang Ning's even breathing. Liu Ruhan hugged him tightly, looking at him with her big eyes motionless. After a while, she leaned over and kissed him on the cheek, and then kissed him again.
To be continued...