Yamazaki stretched out and sat down on the bamboo chair again to fall asleep, flashing through the past events in his mind.
I don’t remember anything before the age of three. I just remember that my adoptive mother seemed to be pretty good to him and Shandai at that time.
It is said that you look old at the age of three. He was wise early and could read at the age of three. Then his adoptive mother found a teacher to enlighten him.
But ever since the castle owner and others determined that he had mediocre bones, his adoptive mother had become much colder towards him.
Later I figured out that she gave up on them at that time and turned her attention to her nephew.
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Although Shanjiabao's martial arts is not advanced in the martial arts world, the teaching mode is similar to that outside, and there is a clear distinction between close and distant students.
He was supposed to be a disciple, but he was mediocre and just like an ordinary kid in the castle. He only taught the bad breath-taking and breathing techniques.
It's rotten, it's universal.
At the age of six, he began to practice Hunyuan Zhuang with Baoding, and at the same time strengthened his muscles and bones with the soldier's military fist.
At the age of ten, he taught the sword and shield technique, which is widely spread in the southwest, using a short-handled mountain sword and a vine shield as weapons.
Even Shanjiabao, which trades iron ore privately, does not dare to build a large-scale iron shield. It is a strictly forbidden item and only the powerful people of the imperial court dare to play with it.
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Now I understand the intentions of the castle master and the others. Jianghu is an unreasonable place. If you don't have decent martial arts, you will die early.
So just don't teach it, so no one will notice it, and you will naturally live longer.
Fortunately, he didn't understand this back then and never thought about these convoluted things.
Fortunately, he likes to be quiet and doesn't like martial arts. Apart from practicing Qi, he just deals with it casually.
He likes to read books and can read stories by himself at the age of four. He reads and tells stories to his sister Shandai, so that she no longer climbs trees and beams and lifts roof tiles from houses.
No adult likes a girl who is wilder than a boy.
This incident has indeed affected her life. She is such a wild girl.
The castle did not allow her to practice martial arts, so as not to worsen her situation in the future and cause chaos in her family after she got married.
Shanjiabao will be the ugly one at that time, so I just let her go as long as she doesn't do bad things. Anyway, it is virtue for a woman to have no talent.
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So, Xiao Shandai secretly learned martial arts. She knew it immediately and showed off in front of Yamazaki.
Xiao Yamazaki was scared to death because secretly learning martial arts was a taboo in the martial arts world and could lead to death.
So I could only teach my sister personally, while teaching literature. I didn't seek to be knowledgeable and rational, but just wanted to know various taboos and not make mistakes.
While racking her brains, she satisfied her pursuit of strength.
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He loved reading, and by the time he was nine years old, he had read through all the non-martial arts books in the fort.
When I was eleven years old, I was so troubled by Shandai that I had no choice but to combine medical skills and miscellaneous studies to explore and practice Qigong on my own.
The Hunyuan Zhuang was upgraded to the Five Elements Hunyuan Zhuang, and the inner energy became the Five Elements Hunyuan Gong.
I don’t know how good it is, but it’s better than breathing.
He took his sister Shandai with him to practice in a place where the Qi of water and wood was strong in the back mountain. The Qi of water and wood was collected to derive the Qi of the Five Elements, which nourished the internal organs, thereby stimulating the whole body and making the body stronger.
Later, the more I practiced, the more afraid I became, because my strength improved quickly, and I was worried that I would be discovered, and if I couldn't explain it clearly, I would be considered to have stolen lessons.
When I was twelve years old, I gritted my teeth and moved to the back mountain out of anger.
As a result, no one cared about them, so they stayed there for a long time.
Except during major festivals, neither of them went to the castle.
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He successively built teahouses, forges, studies, medicine fields, carpentry workshops, etc. on this mountain.
It is small in scale and sufficient for self-use, and gradually the Guanhong Pavilion was formed.
As for martial arts, it seems that because of the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, his internal strength has been improving by leaps and bounds, and he has reached a first-class level at the age of thirteen.
In terms of strength, it's probably possible. It seems to be more than that of the castle owner who is more than strong but not very agile.
Shandai is more powerful than him, she seems to have no distractions, and her cultivation speed is more than ten times faster than him.
The Five Elements Hunyuan Gong has been practiced all over the body, and various miraculous skills have been developed.
If the wood is in the palm of the hand with dead wood, the wood energy in the liver will be abnormal, and the patient will die quickly without any help.
If water moves in the soft water palm, the water qi in the kidneys will be abnormal and the whole body will be swollen.
Fire Flame Palm, the fire energy in the heart of the person who is hit is abnormal. Whether he dies or not depends on the tolerance of each person.
If the earth element disrupts the energy, the earth energy in the spleen and stomach will be abnormal, the spleen and stomach will be imbalanced, and diarrhea will occur immediately.
If the metal element breaks the metal hand, the metal energy in the lungs of the affected person will be abnormal, causing difficulty in breathing and coughing.
The gold industry also has a horizontally trained golden body, which is like a golden bell cover or an iron cloth shirt, which is invulnerable to weapons and bullets.
There is also a Five Elements Forged Iron Hand, which is quite useful for making iron.
Today, Shandai's martial arts skills are superb.
As for whether he is top-notch, I don't know. Anyway, he is definitely not top-notch. His age and lack of internal energy are flaws.
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Yamazaki looked back on the past, picked up the teapot on the coffee table and blew it to his mouth. Then he realized that he didn't drink any water, and he suddenly woke up.
With a wry smile, I got up and packed my things, then went to the fields to pick vegetables and then went to the kitchen to wash them.
Then cut a piece of bacon, grab the rice that had been lying awake, and cook it together in a casserole.
The Five Elements Hunyuan Stake stood still and slowly breathed out towards the stove where the fire was burning.
Dry firewood has less smoke. If you stand a little farther away, you will only have the fire, instead of swallowing the smoke.
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When the rice is cooked, put out the fire.
Open the lid of the casserole and poke seventeen more holes in the rice with a tassel. Crack two eggs into it, beat one with the internal air, and let the juice pour everywhere, making the other whole.
Cover it again and take away the casserole to eat.
When I opened the lid again, I found that the eggs on top of the rice were already five or six layers cooked, and the egg juice in the rice seeped into every part.
Fragrant egg, bacon and vegetable rice, paired with crispy and sour vinegar-pickled sweet radish.
Yamazaki couldn't help but salivate and chewed slowly before eating.
As for his younger sister Shandai, she hangs out at the market at the foot of the mountain and has much better food than him, so there is no need to worry about it.
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After dinner, Yamazaki tidied up, changed out of his home clothes and put on a brocade robe for visiting guests.
This is the second time that my adoptive mother sent someone to send me a shop during the Chinese New Year, but it already feels a little small.
Yamazaki scratched his head and could only hope that he could get away with it, otherwise his adoptive mother would probably be in trouble.
Just as I was thinking about it, I heard another familiar footsteps, it was my stepmother's servant, Uncle An.
He is now in his fifties, and his martial arts skills are not good. His strengths are his strict tongue and thoughtfulness.
"Master, are you here?"
"Here you are."
"I have met the young master. Madam asked the old servant to ask you to go back. The castle master is coming back today."
"Okay, I'm ready, let's go."
"Master, please."
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At the foot of the mountain is Shanjia Fort. It was originally a military fortress hundreds of years ago. It was later abandoned and became a place where bandits were entrenched, causing harm to all directions.
The ancestors of the Shan family came to wipe out the bandits and replaced them. After several generations of business, the current population has exceeded a thousand households.
We can't say that we have strong soldiers and strong horses, but we have also practiced martial arts.
With Shanjiading in front, he could cope with the excessive taxes levied by the imperial court, everyone could have enough food and clothing, and there were free clinics and medicines, so he could live and work in peace and contentment.
Yamazaki saw clearly that the most important thing was that the Yama family lacked military force and financial resources, so they could only guard their business cautiously and were unable to expand externally.
Otherwise, there will be many casualties in the battle, and there will be no happy land.