Chapter 884 Times have changed
Chapter 884 Times have changed
The fat catfish's small fins fanned out a huge stream of water.
Yang's Martial Arts School.
Dry, yellow, and crisp fallen leaves swept across the stone pavement, making the ground rustle.
Click.
He crushed the fallen leaves with his foot, and fine dust floated out from the debris. Liang Qu picked up the black cloth bag full of porcupine spines, turned over and got off the horse. He did not see the apprentice who usually stood guard at the door of the martial arts hall.
"Strange, what about people?"
Walking through the door into the courtyard, I felt a desolate scene.
The common training equipment such as wooden dummies and stone pillars were nowhere to be seen. Neither Hu Qi nor Xiang Changsong were present in the martial arts arena, and the area was thick with yellow dust.
The entire martial arts hall was filled with emptiness.
A cold breeze blew.
Weird.
"Senior Brother Hu? Senior Brother Xiang?"
Liang Qu shouted, but no one answered, and he was about to let go of his perception.
"Master Jiu?"
An old man walked out from the backyard carrying a large iron pot.
"Uncle Liu? Today is a holiday? Why is there no one in the martial arts hall?"
The villagers in Yixing Town called him Uncle Liang, his peers like Li Libo called him Brother Shui, and his neighbor Uncle Chen called him Ah Shui.
But Master Jiu, only the old friends in the Yang Mansion and the martial arts gym would call him that.
Liu Yan is an old friend who has been cooking in the martial arts hall for more than 20 years. He is very good at stewing meat. The meat is tender and tasty, and the taste is delicious. He can eat two more bowls of rice on the table. Before the Liangqu War, he often came here to eat when he was not rich.
"Master Jiu, the Yang family martial arts school has moved away for two months, didn't you know?" Liu Yan dusted himself off and put a few large pots on the ground. "If I hadn't brought people to clean up the kitchen in the past two days, the doors would be closed today and you might not be able to get in."
The martial arts school moved away?
Liang Qu was stunned and looked around.
"Wait a minute, it's such a big deal, how come I don't know about it?"
Liu Yan counted with his fingers: "The relocation was decided by the eldest master himself at the end of last year. I heard from others that you, Master Jiu, were in seclusion in the imperial capital at that time. You mentioned it once, but you missed it. When you came back from seclusion, everything was settled, and I guess no one remembered to inform you."
Liang Qu hit his forehead.
He was in seclusion for a little over a year, and the martial arts school was moving. It wasn't a big deal, but it wasn't a small deal either. It wasn't very important. I'm afraid everyone was so happy that they didn't really think of mentioning it to him.
If I hadn't picked up a few sharp spines from the thorny porpoise monster today and planned to give them to my senior brothers to make weapons, he probably wouldn't have come before the end of the year.
"Where did you move to?"
"Up the Long River, there is a small lake with a radius of half a mile. We moved there."
"Sturgeon Cave?"
"Yes! It's the lake where Master Yang caught the big fish a few years ago."
"Thank you, Uncle Liu."
Liu Yan grinned: "Master Jiu has grown from a young master to a senior master, but he is still as polite as before."
"Hahaha, so what if I'm the master? Sturgeon Cave is far away. Can I still eat Uncle Liu's stew when I go to the martial arts hall in the future?"
"Yes! Of course not. Master Yang knows the distance is long, so he has specially sent a cart driver to go west along the river. There will be three trips in the morning, afternoon and evening to pick you up at the appointed time..."
"call!"
White walls, black tiles, and staggered horse-head walls and stairs.
Liang Qu rode up Chishan Mountain, looked up at the plaque of Yang's Martial Arts School at the door for a long time, exhaled a breath, and a thousand thoughts came to his mind.
It's hard to describe the feeling.
It is the most difficult to appreciate the fun of life. There is a mystery beyond the snow, moon, wind and flowers. The most coincidental encounters in life are there is a special spirit in the combination of things.
What an unexpected world and unexpected encounter.
The Yang family martial arts school had been expanded once, but now it seems that expansion cannot solve the problem.
Shout with your face up.
"Uncle Liu!"
"what?"
"Master, did you say what will happen to the old martial arts school in the future? Sell it or something?"
"I definitely won't sell it." Liu Yan shouted back from behind the white wall, "My wife said we should keep it as a keepsake, but I haven't figured out what to do with it yet."
Be quiet.
"Master Jiu?"
"It's okay, Uncle Liu, I'm leaving!"
Step in the stirrups.
Chishan snorted, took a leap, stepped into the cold wind and disappeared into the sky, leaving Liu Yan's words blurred in the wind.
Several leaps in the air. The winding Guolong River, sparkling and glittering, runs through Pingyang Prefecture. Villagers are constructing piers at the key nodes.
all the way up.
Pavilions and towers turned into small residential courtyards, the small residential courtyards turned into vast fields, the vast fields turned into hills and trees, a light mist filled the air, and as late autumn turned into winter, the sky and the earth turned white with frost, and three-tenths of the color faded.
The spacious martial arts hall was located among the woods, the training ground was filled with yellow dust and the wind was blowing fiercely.
Right in front of the martial arts hall.
The surface of the lake, which is about 50 mu in size, is sparkling. In the center of the lake, there are staggered heights of plum blossom piles, the tallest of which is more than ten feet high.
The apprentice moved around in the center of the lake, honing his skills and creating ripples.
At a height of more than 20 meters, two teenagers were fighting. One of them raised his foot and kicked the boy in front of him down, and he fell into the lake.
Pfft!
"Chen Pusbao, I'm going to fuck your ancestors!"
“Hahaha.” The young man on the pole laughed up to the sky. “Your backhand is weak, your forehand is not good, your steps are loose, and your reactions are slow! You still want to compete with me? Dream on!”
"Nonsense! You just broke through the skin barrier and thought you were invulnerable. Now you'll get internal injuries!"
"Brother Li!"
Li Libo stepped on the sampan, reached out and picked up the boy from the lake, asked a few questions about his condition, and pointed.
"Chen Yunze, get off the pile!"
The young man on the pole curled his lips, stepped down, and was grabbed by the ear just as he got to the front.
"Ah hey hey, Brother Li, it hurts!"
"You're a kid from Yixing Town, so you think you're great, right? I'm from Yixing Town too! I was in the same period as Brother Liang, and we stood together. How come Brother Liang, who usually takes two more doses of medicine than others, made you like this?"
"it is good!"
The duck-swimming teenagers laughed.
"Go, stand on the stake for two hours, you are not allowed to eat tonight, and you have to wash Cen Feng's clothes for a month."
"what?"
"Ah what? Don't you understand?"
"alright."
The boy swam ashore in a daze.
On the sampan, Cen Feng took off his clothes, wrung them out, and put them on his shoulders. It was late November, but he was not afraid of the cold. "Brother Li, my father sent me here because he heard what Master Liang said. I've been here for almost three terms, more than half a year, and I still haven't seen Master Liang."
"Yeah, didn't you say that Master Liang would come to instruct apprentices sometimes?"
As soon as these words were spoken, a group of young men leaned over the side of the boat and asked questions one after another.
If you ask who is the most legendary person in Pingyang Prefecture, everyone, young or old, has only one answer in their minds.
Liangqu!
Nine out of ten people present today took this into consideration when choosing a martial arts gym.
"Why don't you ask Xinglai about this?"
"He won't say anything, but his mouth is harder than iron."
"Brother Li, you and Brother Liang are from the same hometown, and you have a good relationship. You work in the same government office, so why don't you invite him over to us so that I can open my eyes!"
"Yes, Brother Li, please!"
Everyone suddenly made a noise.
Li Libo had a headache. These guys asked the question more than ten times a month and he was thinking about how to answer them.
"Hey, there's a red eagle in the sky!"
Teenager fingers.
Red Eagle?
"How can there be a Red Eagle? Is it the White Eagle that is bleeding?"
"Eagle, you are a horse, a horse!"
"horse?"
Li Libo looked up at the sky, grinned, and clapped his hands vigorously: "You are so lucky, no need to invite Brother Shui, he is here today! Hurry up, hurry up, those who need Brother Shui's guidance, there is no such thing as this opportunity, swim to the shore, swim to the shore!"
The young men's minds buzzed and they had no time to think about why the horse was flying. They dived down and shot towards the white fish on the shore.
"The upper part is empty and the lower part is solid, the body is empty and the stance is solid, the empty and the solid complement each other... Hold on and don't move, do your best... Ah Shui?"
In the martial arts arena, Hu Qi stopped talking, folded his arms and looked up at the sky, and sensed something from the flying red horse that others had not realized.
half an hour.
He was stunned.
"Epiphany?"
(End of this chapter)