Mist Fairy

Chapter 14

Thirty miles outside Zijin City.The urban-rural junction is dusty, and there are many small shops on both sides of the road for "refilling water", "tire repair", "dining" and "staying". There is an endless stream of carts coming and going, and people with various accents gather here.

Zhang Cundao was looking around while holding the piece of paper with the address written on it.He scratched his head, thinking that with this address and house number, he could easily find the destination, but now it seems that he was careless.

But the way is on the tongue, if you don't understand, just ask.He came to Yitang Tobacco Shop on the side of the street, and said to the boss inside: "Boss, is there any Hongta Mountain?"

The owner of the sugar and tobacco shop is an old man, he walked over and said, "Yes!"

"Then give me one. How much?" Zhang Cundao said.

"Okay!" said the old man with a smile.

This Hongtashan pack is ten yuan, which is a proper high-end product. In this kind of urban-rural fringe area, people only buy it during the New Year and holidays. Usually, a pack cannot be sold for several days!
"Buy a pack of cigarettes, get a free bottle of water." The uncle laughed, and took another bottle of water from the shelf.

Zhang Cundao nodded, then took out a note and asked the uncle: "Sir, please help me find out, where is this place?"

The uncle hurriedly picked it up and took a look, and then said, "Oh! This place is heading towards the village, and the entrance is the second left turn at the front intersection. You are going to Master Xu's house."

"Yes, I'm looking for Master Xu, you know him too?" Zhang Cundao asked.

"Damn! Who doesn't know Master Xu in the ten miles and eight villages around here? He is really good at it!" Then, the uncle gave a thumbs up and continued: "A few years ago, the Shangnan Village and Xianan Village The fight for water was a big one. It was also Master Xu who came forward to act as a peacemaker."

"Oh!" Zhang Cundao suddenly realized, and he looked forward to Master Xu even more in his heart.

Ask the road clearly and say goodbye to the enthusiastic uncle.Zhang Cundao continued to move forward, turned at the intersection that the uncle said, and walked into a country road.

Not long after walking, a small courtyard with red walls and black tiles appeared in front of him, and there were faint shouts from the small courtyard.

When he got closer, he saw that in the courtyard surrounded by red bricks, a dozen people of different ages were standing and practicing boxing.Zhang Cundao stopped to watch for a while, and immediately a young man came over.

"Hey! Are you okay?"

The young man was wearing a red vest with a few large characters 'Red Star Machinery Factory' printed on the vest.

Zhang Cundao quickly said: "I'm here to find Master Xu, is this Master Xu's house?"

"Looking for Master Xu?" The young man looked Zhang Cundao up and down, and saw that he was tall and straight, with strong muscles, as if he had been trained.He said: "This is Master Xu's house, who are you?"

Zhang Cundao quickly said: "I am a student of Zijin University. I was introduced to visit Master Xu."

As soon as the words 'Zijin University' came out, the young man's tone softened.

"So you are a college student, please come in!" After finishing speaking, the young man opened the courtyard door for Zhang Cundao, and then led Zhang Cundao towards the room.

These days, college students are still quite respected.

Not long after, Zhang Cundao saw Master Xu.Master Xu's name is Xu Chunda, and he also taught boxing at the Physical Education University in the early years, and it was at that time that he met Zhang Cundao's coach.

Today's master Xu has gray hair and is slightly fatter.He looked at the letter of introduction in his hand, then nodded and said to Zhang Cundao: "It turns out that he is a student of an old friend. What do you want me to do? You definitely don't want me to practice boxing."

Zhang Cundao quickly said: "I really want to ask Master Xu for something. I heard that you can understand the sword scriptures, and I happen to have a sword scripture here, so I want you to explain it to me."

After finishing speaking, he handed over the "Changqing Sword Classic".

"Sword Sutra? Do you still have this thing?" Master Xu smiled, took the paper from Zhang Cundao, and read it.Seeing this, his brows furrowed.I don't speak for a long time.

When Master Xu was reading the scriptures, Zhang Cundao also looked at Master Xu's home.

Facing the gate of the house, there is a mahogany plaque on which there are several large characters of "Book and Sword Heirloom", and under this plaque is a picture of longevity of pine and crane.

There are some potted plants in the corner of the house.After the potted plants, there are all kinds of weapons and sandbags.

It may be that there are guests, and the boxing practitioners stopped practicing early, otherwise the sound of shouting and drinking would be too affecting to speak.

Zhang Cundao also took advantage of this time to step forward, took out Hongtashan and scattered them.As a sports student, he does not smoke because it affects lung function.But this doesn't affect his relationship with smoking.

These people are all nearby villagers. They practice boxing and kicking with Master Xu when they have nothing to do. They are regarded as registered disciples.Today, everyone got a pack of good cigarettes, and Zhang Cundao became more and more kind to him because he was a student of Zijin University.

After chatting with them, Zhang Cundao was called back to the room.Master Xu put down the sword scripture and said to Zhang Cundao: "This kind of ancient sword scripture is very rare now, that is, when I was young, I followed the master to an old master's house and saw it."

He paused, looked at Zhang Cundao and said, "You don't want to practice swords according to this sword scripture, do you?"

Zhang Cundao hesitated, but nodded.

At this time, Master Xu smiled and said: "That's unnecessary. This kind of ancient sword scriptures are often exaggerated, and many things are fake. For example, your sword scriptures pay attention to cultivating the 'Changqing Jianguang' ’, this is nonsense. Jianguang is a technique, how can it be so magical.”

Zhang Cundao nodded in cooperation after hearing this, but he didn't take it seriously in his heart.He said: "This thing is useful for my research. You know, our kind of special sports recruits can only graduate by relying on this kind of thing."

What he said was half-truth and half-false, Master Xu thought for a while, then nodded and said: "In that case, then I will explain it to you, so that you can learn a lot."

Anyway, these absurd and unruly things can't be practiced, and it doesn't matter if I tell this young man, just like the master told me back then. These are myths and legends, and they can't be taken as true.

When Zhang Cundao heard this, he immediately sat beside him and listened attentively.

Master Xu also began to say: "This sword scripture is to record the sword manual in words. There are many moves in the sword manual. It is difficult to record the moves in words. But the ancients had their own methods. Now I will Let me explain to you..."

This kind of sword manual without pictures pays more attention to 'meaning' rather than 'shape'.As long as there is a big difference in the moves, some even don't pay attention to the moves at all, just a few "stabs", "ticks", "slashes" and "cuts" to describe them.

In Master Xu's opinion, it is impossible to practice any real kung fu through this kind of thing, and those 'minds' are all mysterious and mysterious things, basically they cannot be cultivated.It is a joke to use the sword scriptures as inheritance!
(End of this chapter)