Chapter 2 Knife
Two dilapidated wooden doors that were obviously old were bolted from the inside. Chen Mu knocked on the door and said, ‘I’m back.’ Only then did he hear movement and joyful sounds coming from the house.
Gudong, gudong.
There was a sound like trotting barefoot, approaching, and then the door bolt was pulled open.
“elder brother!”
A little girl wearing a coarse flowered coat, only as tall as Chen Mu’s chest, appeared in the door. She stepped on the ground with her bare feet, looked up at Chen Mu, and showed a charming smile.
Chen Yue is fourteen years old this year. For ordinary girls, she should have reached the age of budding. However, she has been a little malnourished since she was a child, and she still looks thin now. Unlike a fourteen-year-old girl, her complexion is also thin. A little yellowish.
In this kind of world, it is obviously impossible for ordinary civilians to raise any peerless beauty. However, Chen Yue’s foundation is not bad in Chen Mu’s opinion. If he can be richer and raise better in the future, he will probably be able to She turned into a clean hibiscus, but now she can only live a miserable life with him.
“Why are you running around barefoot again?”
Chen Mu rubbed the girl’s little head dotingly. He didn’t have a sister in his previous life, but here he has a sweet and obedient sister, which is the only thing he can have in this chaotic and cold city. comfort.
Chen Yue raised her head and said with a smile: “Wear it when you go out. It would be a pity if it wears out if you wear it too much at home.”
Chen Mu picked up Chen Yue and put her on the kang in the back room. He stretched out his hand to touch her little feet. He felt that the tentacles were cold. He couldn’t help but reproached: “It’s going to be winter soon. What should I do if I get frostbite? Replace it if it’s worn out.” that is.”
He did know the reason why Chen Yue was reluctant to wear them. The previous pair was completely broken. In addition, her feet had grown a bit and Xiu couldn’t wear them anymore, so Chen Mu bought her a new pair. The little girl was delighted. I am not convinced, I regard it as a treasure, so I don’t want to wear it every day, and I don’t go out at home anyway.
“Okay, okay.”
Chen Yue answered somewhat tangledly.
It is true that if you have frostbite on your feet and you have to buy medicine, you will have to spend money in vain.
Chen Mu handed the steamed bun to her and asked her to wash her hands before eating with a straight face, but the little girl wanted to run barefoot to wash her hands again, so Chen Mu simply brought the wooden basin over.
Chen Yue washed her hands and feet, took the steamed bun with a blushing face and started eating it. She looked at Chen Mu with eyes full of love. Chen Mu was not so kind to her in the past, but since he got seriously ill, he has been treating her so much. She suddenly became better and better. Although he was her only brother no matter what he did to her, of course she still liked her current life, even if she stayed at home every day and couldn’t go out, eating the most ordinary white rice buns. , but I am still happy in my heart.
“It’s been a long time since I took you out to play.”
Chen Mu looked at Chen Yue’s appearance, thought for a while and said.
Since he came to this world and discovered the chaos and danger outside, he has strictly ordered Chen Yue not to run out, and even threatened that if she dared to run out, he would not let her go. He was so scared that the little girl cried for a long time, and finally managed to coax her. .
“Four months already.”
Chen Yue was eating steamed buns and gesturing with her fingers.
Chen Mu smiled slightly and said, “Okay, I will take you out to play in a while.”
He couldn’t bear to keep a little girl of this age at home. It wasn’t completely impossible to take her out. He would have to make his face confused, his hair messed up, and his clothes more shabby, and then he would carry her on his own. Now, it would be best to go with a few familiar colleagues such as Liu San and Li Liu. This was how I took her for a ride last time.
Although there is still a bit of risk, being locked up at home all the time is no different from being in jail.
“OK.”
When Chen Yue listened to Chen Mu’s words, she looked surprised.
But after the surprise, he looked at Chen Mu carefully and said hesitantly: “I…if you let me go out to play, will it bring trouble to my brother?”
Chen Mu rubbed her little head and said without answering, “After you finish eating, stay in the house. I’ll go to the woodshed.”
“OK.”
Chen Yue nodded obediently.
……
The woodshed is spacious.
Because there is not much dry firewood, only a few are piled here and there. Firewood has gradually become more expensive these days. I heard that a group of woodcutter who cut firewood disappeared in the mountains to the west of the city. As a result, others were frightened. Many woodcutters did not dare to go.
Nowadays, only the brave ones, who want to take risks and make more money while the price of firewood has increased, go out of the city to cut firewood and carry firewood, so the sources of firewood have become less, and ordinary people save as much as they can.
Chen Mu carefully took out the booklet he had touched before from his pocket.
The cover of the booklet is a bit tattered, and only the three words “…wind sword technique” can be clearly seen. Chen Mu at the front carefully identified it for a while, and felt that it should be the word “crazy”. Together, it should be called “Guangfeng Saber Technique”.
“A sword technique…”
Chen Mu looked at the sword technique in his hand and fell into deep thought.
In fact, the story of getting a secret book of moves and practicing hard behind closed doors and becoming a master does not exist in this world. Even such a worn-out secret book is not very valuable when taken out.
The reason is also very simple. If you want to practice kung fu, whether it is fists, palms, legs, fingers, or swords, guns and sticks, you must have a real practitioner to guide you. If you just get a secret book and want to practice it by yourself, it will hurt your muscles and bones. No one is responsible.
As a police officer.
Chen Mu actually also practiced swordsmanship in the City Guards Department.
But the leader of the City Guards only taught some basic Sanshou skills of horizontal and vertical slashing, and did not teach advanced sword skills. Therefore, Chen Mu practiced for two and a half years after coming to this world, but at most he could only deal with some incompetent swordsmen. ordinary people.
Chen Mu once asked Liu Song, Li Tie and others, and the answers he got were the same. It is not difficult or expensive to get a secret book on sword skills. You can usually buy it for more than ten taels of silver in a pawn shop. You can get it, but if you want to master it just by relying on a cheat book and the few fixed moves on it, that’s a fool’s errand.
You have to go to the martial arts hall in the inner city, and get guidance from the martial arts masters, and use all kinds of tricks. This is the right way.
But the problem is…
It costs dozens to hundreds of taels of silver, and you have to pay for various medicines and powders for bruises and injuries at your own expense.
The so-called poor in culture and rich in martial arts, even Liu Song and Li Tie, who were relatively well-off, could not afford to spend money to practice martial arts in the inner city, let alone him, who could not afford even two taels of silver for every piece of his body.
“Go to a pawn shop and sell it. I guess you can get two or three taels of silver. It’s a windfall.”
Chen Mu pondered in his heart.
But he was somewhat unwilling to do so.
In this chaotic world, any intelligence is meaningless. Playing smart may cost one’s life. Only by being cautious can he live. But he has no money and no power. If he wants to get out of the bottom, it is almost impossible. No hope.
If you can practice a swordsmanship and have the power of force, it will be completely different. Not to mention those squires and powerful people who are willing to hire as guardians, you can also have a high status in the gangs. Just in the City Guards Department, there are also Opportunity to be appreciated by the superiors and promoted from a low-level servant to a bad job.
A chatou is different from a chaotou. Strictly speaking, a chaotou is not an official at all. He is just hired by the government to be responsible for daily patrols. But a chatou is a different concept.
The chaotou who are promoted by the city guard bureaus in various places are real “officials” and can even be regarded as minor officials of the “ninth grade”. They are very different from ordinary civilians and have a completely different status from the police officers. , some weaker gang forces saw the difference, and even offered some money to manage the relationship to prevent the difference from getting in trouble with them.
“Let’s give it a try.”
After Chen Mu thought for a while, he opened the booklet in front of him.
Anyway, if you don’t practice this kind of external sword skill well, you will at most end up with sprained muscles. You can recover after a few days of rest. There won’t be any big problems. If it doesn’t work, just write down the content and then sell it to a pawn shop for money.
——The violent wind sword technique belongs to the Xun wind branch among the eight branches of Qian Tian Kun and Earth. Its shape is chaotic and its mind is not chaotic. After thousands of winds have passed, it can wrap around the muscles and scrape the bones. If you can practice it to perfection, you can practice a “strong wind” ‘Sword power.
There are no pictures on the first page of the secret book, only this text description.
Chen Mu thoughtfully turned to the next page and saw a standing figure holding a knife leaping on the yellow paper. The knife in his hand was guided by a dotted line, seemingly crooked from bottom to top. The small characters at the bottom described it as ‘ The first style of Luanfeng’.
Chen Mu looked at it carefully for a moment, then stood up, drew out his sword, and swung the sword according to the picture.
He had been practicing the horizontal and vertical slashing Sanshou for two years, and this sword swing looked decent, but he felt it was very strange, and the force it exerted was not even as good as his usual pure horizontal and vertical slashing.
“Sure enough, what Li Tie and others said is true. With just one classic book, you can only practice postures at most. But how to use force and how to transform it. Without the guidance of martial arts masters of the same lineage, it is too difficult to figure out. Too big.”
Chen Mu sighed secretly in his heart.
Although it was very difficult, since he decided to give it a try, he would not give up right away. Chen Mu continued to flip through it and saw three pages in a row, which were all subsequent changes of Luan Feng’s first style. There were three types in total. According to Depending on the opponent’s response, different variations such as diagonal slashes, horizontal slashes, and cleaves are performed.
After memorizing several changes one by one, Chen Mu began to practice accordingly. After practicing for a while, he had initially completed these movements. He could only figure out how to exert force specifically, and he was not clear about it. Is it contrary to the orthodox path?
In this way, he practiced the first move and the three changes in a daze for a long time. Afterwards, he vaguely felt that it was not as good as the horizontal and vertical slashing Sanshou that he usually practiced. Using these tricks, you might not only not be able to gain any advantage, but you might also have to suffer big losses from others.
“It should still be a matter of exerting force and the direction of exertion. There really isn’t much information in just one page of the booklet.”
Chen Mu pondered in his heart.
After this training, he also confirmed that he himself is obviously not the kind of martial arts genius who knows everything. He can directly understand all the key points of a set of moves with just a few diagrams and practice them out of thin air.
If the following moves are all half-assed, even if you are barely proficient in them, the execution will not be much different from the ordinary horizontal and vertical slashes. This sword technique may just be used to buy meat for two taels of silver. have eaten.
“Brother, drink water.”
Just when Chen Mu stopped practicing and sighed, a voice came from the side.
Chen Yue was seen tiptoeing over wearing a pair of clean floral shoes, holding a rough clay pot in his hand, which contained some water.
She raised her cute little face and looked over: “It’s boiling.”
Chen Mu smiled gently and reached out to take the pottery pot. He had warned Chen Yue several times that water should not be drunk indiscriminately. It had to be boiled before boiling. In this backward world, the length of life is basically related to eating and drinking indiscriminately. There is a direct correlation.
He held the clay pot and drank a few sips, then handed it back and touched the little girl’s head.
“Is my brother practicing Kung Fu?”
Chen Yue asked curiously when she saw the booklet Chen Mu placed on the stove and the move patterns on it.
“Um.”
Chen Mu nodded.
I thought it might be an opportunity to change my destiny, but now I seem a bit optimistic. If I want to truly practice martial arts, I may have to save money little by little, collect more, and then go to a martial arts school in the inner city to learn from a master.
However.
Just when Chen Mu was about to put the booklet away, he was suddenly stunned.
In his sight, several words floating in mid-air appeared at some point. He blinked blankly, but the words did not disappear, just floating in front of his eyes.
[Martial Arts: Wild Wind Sword Technique (Not Beginner)]
[Experience: 2 points]
After confirming that this was not his hallucination, Chen Mu finally showed a smile on his face.
(End of chapter)