Guo Song quickly stepped forward and saluted, "See Master!"
Mu Zhenren smiled slightly and said: "Take the basket and follow me into the forest to dig bamboo shoots!"
Only then did Guo Song notice that there were two bamboo baskets at the master's feet, with a hatchet in each.
He picked up the basket and followed Mu Zhenren into the bamboo forest.
The bamboo forest was covered with a thick layer of bamboo leaves, which were very soft when stepped on. Within a moment, they discovered more than a dozen young bamboo shoots.
"Can you dig bamboo shoots?" Mu Zhenren asked with a smile.
Guo Song nodded, "I know a little bit!"
"Then I won't teach you, you can dig it yourself!"
Digging bamboo shoots is actually very simple. You just need to loosen the soil around the spring bamboo shoots and pull out the whole bamboo shoots. But if the bamboo shoots are in mid-to-late April, you have to dig selectively and keep the strong ones.
To cultivate Hsinchu.
Not long after, Guo Song pulled up more than a dozen tender bamboo shoots, wiped off the soil, and put them into a basket.
At this time, Mu Zhenren came over. Seeing that Guo Song had gained a lot, he praised: "Not bad, very skilled!"
"Master, what is this?"
Guo Song was startled when he discovered that Master's basket was filled with a layer of white fat worms that looked like maggots and were squirming desperately.
"These are bamboo maggots. You eat them every day, don't you know?"
Guo Song suddenly felt sick in his heart. Are he eating this every day?
Mu Zhenren laughed and said, "This is a good thing. It is only available at this time. Otherwise, how could your body recover so quickly."
"But...but Taoist priests can't kill, right?" Guo Song finally found an excuse.
"Who said that Taoist priests can eat meat, but we have to trade prey for daily necessities, so we eat less. Like the first day you came, didn't you just eat snake soup?"
Guo Songbo was dumbfounded. There was actually a snake in the meal he ate on the first day. How could he not know it? Could that black thing be snake skin?
Seeing the astonishment on his face, Mu Zhenren laughed dumbly and said: "Cultivation is not about being a monk. There is not so much to pay attention to. How many ancient immortals are vegetarians?"
"Disciple understands."
Mu Zhenren nodded, "I heard from the Fourth Brother that you had a conflict with the Taoist priests from Xuanhu Palace yesterday?"
"It's the disciple's responsibility. I met the children from the former Yinyinyuan and was bullied by them. Thanks to the fourth senior brother for saving me in time."
Mu Zhenren said noncommittally: "Taoist priests from the Zixiao lineage are notoriously narrow-minded and will retaliate. Sooner or later, those old enemies of yours will develop strong martial arts. If you can't keep up, I'm afraid you won't be able to do it the next time we meet.
I was so lucky yesterday."
Guo Song understood what Mu Zhenren meant and immediately bowed and saluted, "This disciple is willing to learn martial arts from the master!"
"Have you figured it out?" Mu Zhenren asked with a smile while stroking his beard.
Guo Song nodded, "If you don't learn a little bit about how to settle down, how will you be able to gain a foothold in the Tang Dynasty in the future!"
Guo Song has indeed figured it out. He can no longer return to the later generations. If he wants to gain a foothold in the Tang Dynasty, he must have abilities that are beyond the reach of ordinary people. He has no background and is not a disciple of an aristocratic family. It is not his turn to become an official, so how can he learn martial arts?
, at least he still has a chance to get ahead.
Mu Zhenzhen took a deep look at him and said: "There are two kinds of martial arts. One is the martial arts of chivalrous people, which involves light skills, hidden weapons, fists and kicks, and sword skills. You can be a guard, an assassin, or you can walk around the world with a sword. You can do whatever you want.
, called Ranger;
The other is the martial arts of a general, with a long halberd and a horizontal sword. The moves are simple and practical, using strength to win, or practicing riding and archery, fighting hundreds of battles on the yellow sand, traveling across the battlefield, fighting against foreigners, and serving the country. Which one are you willing to learn?
Wu?"
Guo Song's dream in his previous life was to practice peerless martial arts and travel to the ends of the earth with a sword, but when Mu Zhenzhen talked about hundreds of battles on the yellow sand and crisscrossing the battlefield, his blood boiled.
He asked in a low voice: "Can you do both?"
Mu Zhenren smiled slightly and said, "You misunderstood me. What I asked about was not skills, but martial arts. Do you want to be a knight or a fierce general?"
Guo Song immediately understood what his master meant, and he said without hesitation: "If you are poor, you can benefit yourself; if you are rich, you can help the world!"
Mu Zhenren laughed loudly. This was the most interesting answer he had ever heard. This little slick guy actually wanted to learn. When he was happy, he would serve the country and become a strong general. When he was unhappy, he would hide in the world and become a knight-errant.
He thought for a while and said: "I will teach you some common things. If you understand them thoroughly, then you will know them all. You follow me!"
Mu Zhenren took Guo Song to the open space in front of the bamboo forest. He made a move, standing on one foot, pointing at the bamboo forest, staring sharply at a certain place in the bamboo forest, holding the hatchet in his other hand and raising it above his head, like
Like a clay sculpture, it never moves again.
After a while, he stopped and said to Guo Song: "This move is called Zhong Kui catching ghosts. You practice it for three years first, and then I will teach you other martial arts."
Guo Song thought for a while and asked: "Master, what I mean is to stand still as long as you can, just like Master did just now, so as to lay the foundation for learning martial arts in three years."
"The boy is teachable!"
Mu Zhenren secretly praised Guo Song for his cleverness. He nodded, "This is my original martial arts training method. Don't underestimate it. It can train your waist strength, leg strength, concentration and arm strength, as well as your body strength."
Mind, but more importantly, practice your balance. Balance is the foundation of all martial arts. If your balance is strong, you will be good at anything you practice, you will get twice the result with half the effort, and you can reach the peak of anything you practice."
"Disciple understands!"
"Practice the method I taught you at night. You still have to chop firewood during the day. In addition, your second senior brother has gone down the mountain. From today on, you and your third senior brother will go foraging for food!"
...........
After returning from the bamboo forest, the third senior brother Gan Lei handed him a basket and a small hoe, "Come with me! Today we will go to the back mountain."
Gan Lei is young, about 20 years old. He is at least 1.8 meters tall and weighs no less than 200 kilograms. He has a thick face and fierce eyes. He looks like a very unfriendly fat man.
.
Guo Song's impression of Gan Lei was not very good, mainly due to Gan Lei's negative evaluation of him on the first night. In addition, Gan Lei himself did not like Guo Song, so the two rarely spoke in the past month. Now
But the master arranged for the two of them to be together.
I don’t know if Master will be worried, but Gan Yu watched the two of them go away with a worried face...
To go to the back mountain, you have to go down to the col first, and then walk along the col for seven or eight miles to get there.
There was no way down the mountain, so Gan Lei and Guo Song climbed up big trees and stumbled down the mountain. The 80-degree slope was very steep, the ground was covered with moss, wet and slippery, and they would roll down the mountain if they were not careful.
Gan Lei did not wait for Guo Song. He ran down the mountain on his own. Guo Song went down the mountain in a very thrilling way. Needless to say, he panicked and lost his footing several times. Fortunately, he hugged the big tree in time to avoid falling down the mountain.
go.
Guo Song looked at Gan Lei's back in the distance, bit his lip, but did not tell him to wait for him. Instead, he gritted his teeth and stared at the next tree, and suddenly ran down, just when his body was about to lose control.
, he hugged the big tree.
His eyes then turned to another big tree below...
Gan Lei rushed to the mountain col and didn't wait long before he saw Guo Song stumbling down from the woods on the hillside.
Guo Song was in a very embarrassed state, covered in mud and moss. He had fallen many times and his face was scratched.
But he didn't say anything. He stepped forward and said calmly to Gan Lei: "Brother, keep on going!"
A trace of surprise flashed in Gan Lei's eyes. This boy was quite stubborn, which was a bit beyond his expectation.
He nodded, "Let's go!"
The road up the mountain col was easier to walk. Gan Lei was walking in front with a long stride. Guo Song was a little lame in his legs, but he still followed Gan Lei closely and was not thrown away.
After walking about two miles, Gan Lei's speed finally slowed down.
"Take a break!"
He sat on a big rock, took out the water hyacinth, took a few sips, and threw the water hyacinth to Guo Song. Guo Song was not polite and drank a few big gulps before throwing the water hyacinth back to Gan Lei.
"Junior brother, do you think I'm so ungrateful that I won't help you when I go down the mountain?" Gan Lei finally spoke.
Guo Song shook his head, "I always rely on myself and don't count on others."
"That's true. On the first day I went to collect herbs with my master, I fell halfway down the mountain. Master didn't care about me. I climbed back to the Taoist temple by myself. But since then, I haven't fallen a second time."
"In Master's view, maybe this is also a kind of practice! A training of one's mind."
Gan Lei was slightly startled. He had never thought about this before. Guo Song's words suddenly made him realize something. Many things that had happened in the past ten years that he could not understand seemed to have been solved.
No wonder the master said that the younger brother has a high understanding, but he is still not convinced. Now it seems that it is indeed the case. He can explain things that he has not seen clearly for more than ten years in one sentence.
When Gan Lei looked at Guo Song again, his eyes finally became softer.
"Let's go!"
He slapped his butt and continued walking up the mountain with Guo Song.
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