Modern longevity: starting from Baduanjin

Zhou Shen took Yu Yating's Bentley all the way to the Tianhe Building in Causeway Bay.

This building was given to Yu Yating by his father, Yu Geng, as the meeting place of Huaguo Wushu Association.

The entire building is 24 floors high, with a total construction area of ​​47770 square feet. The first to 1th floors have been rented out as office buildings.

On the way, Yu Yating also told him about some recent events at home. Her father is still recuperating for the time being, but his health has recovered a lot, and he is gradually taking back the control of the group company.

She has already become the executive vice president of Yu's Group Company, and she is mainly responsible for making decisions on all major business operations of the company, including the increase or decrease of finance, business direction, business scope, etc. She now travels around the world every day .

The Yu Group has projects all over the world.

The reason why the two met at the airport was because she had just returned from Papua, and the plane landed almost at the same time, except that Zhou Shen was on a civil airliner, while Yu Yating was on a private jet.

"My dad has always wanted to invite you to dinner, but he just knows that you are very busy, so he dare not disturb you."

"It's not that I'm busy, it's mainly because of my personality, I don't like those meaningless entertainment."

After all, Yu Yating's father gave him a building, so Zhou Shen chatted with her a few more words.

Yu Yating nodded again and again, "Yeah, I understand, it's okay."

After experiencing the fact that her father was bewitched, she now really understands that those people who greet you all day long may stab you in the back, and those who ignore you at critical moments say Might not save your life.

So superficial politeness really doesn't matter at all.

After saying goodbye to Zhou Shen, Yu Yating drove away in a hurry.

Zhou Shen looked at the freshly painted building in front of him, and walked slowly forward.

The first floor of this building is a 711 convenience store with an area of ​​about 50 square meters. The business in the store is booming. Zhou Shen walked in to have a look.

Unsurprisingly, the price is very expensive.

A bottle of mineral water costs 10 Hong Kong dollars, a bottle of Perrier water costs 19 Hong Kong dollars, and a bottle of functional drinks is also around 15 Hong Kong dollars.

In addition, the prices of most commodities are basically about twice that of domestic ones.

However, considering the location and rent here, it is understandable.

It's so cheap that you can't even earn back the rent.

He bought a bottle of energy drink, paid for it, and went upstairs from the elevator next to him.

Seeing Zhou Shen coming, Xiao Xingyu, Duan Hu and Dai Qian were all very excited.

"Brother Dayu and Xiaoyue just returned to Jingzhou yesterday, and they will go to Kyoto to participate in the International Sanda Invitational Tournament in a few days."

"Oh oh..."

Now the Huaguo Wushu Association has nearly 5000 registered members.

In today's era of martial arts carving zero, it is really not easy for registered members of martial arts to reach such a number in a short period of time.

And all this is due to the fact that Yang Xingyu, Xiao Xingyu, Duan Hu, Dai Qian and others conduct martial arts combat exercises from time to time, and at the same time accept challenges from martial arts professionals in Southeast Asia and even around the world.

Whether it's boxing, muay thai, taekwondo, karate, kickboxing, or sambo, all comers are welcome.

By virtue of their strength, they have gained a firm foothold in the Xiangjiang martial arts world.

"Unfortunately, it's not what it used to be. Ordinary people don't have a strong internal drive to practice martial arts. If it was changed to 30 years ago, no, even 20 years ago, this number would at least be tenfold."

In the meditation room, Duan Hu said with some emotion.

After this period of precipitation, Duan Hu's whole person has undergone an earth-shaking transformation. From the sharp edge before to the calm and restrained one now, it seems that he has changed completely.

And the reason for this is also very simple, every day with Xiao Xingyu and Dai Qian, two "Qi Practitioners", watching their martial arts attainments increase visible to the naked eye, while he, as an ordinary martial arts practitioner, progressed slowly, That mood was really shattered.

If it were someone else, I would have given up on myself long ago, but Duan Hu was not discouraged by this, and instead trained harder.

He and Yang Xingyu, brothers and sisters in need, encouraged each other, and finally kept their hearts unchanged.

Xiao Xingyu smiled and said: "There is no way, now is a society ruled by law, unlike in the past, it is not necessary to protect one's own rights and interests by embracing associations."

"Secondly, practicing martial arts is too hard, and if you practice well, you can only strengthen your body. There is no practical benefit. Instead, you need to invest a lot of time and money. The input-output ratio is too low. It is normal not to want to learn martial arts... "

Listening to what everyone said, Zhou Shen was also listening silently.

After Xiao Xingyu finished speaking, Dai Qian, who was sitting cross-legged on Zhou Shen's left, asked, "Teacher, what do you think of this matter?"

Zhou Shen said: "I have been thinking about these issues these days, and I happened to have some ideas."

Hearing Zhou Shen speak, more than a dozen people in the meditation room immediately sat up straight and listened.

"I think it is difficult to maintain anything for a long time purely by interest, so it needs to be commercialized. After all, people who practice martial arts also need to eat and dress, buy houses and cars, and face pain. Certainly not."

"And with high rewards, those who are already interested in martial arts training will naturally become more involved."

"So you can start from this aspect and find a professional operation team to handle it."

"As for the money, it can be paid from the rent of this building in the early stage, and some sponsors can also be found. In short, we will get it done first. If you do a good job later, I will increase the investment."

The handover of the gambling cards of Haojiang Casino has already begun. If everything goes well, Lin Yutang will be able to get the right to operate the casino by June.

We are currently negotiating the rental price of the casino, and we expect to get the first dividend in July and August.

And the money is used to develop martial arts, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

But still the same sentence, the plan cannot keep up with the changes, no matter how good the plan is, it may become a different look when it is implemented.

"By the way, there are more than a dozen boxes of gold and jewelry under the big lake at Staley. They can be brought up and brought back as a development fund. It's a pity to throw them in the lake."

"However, the vicinity is a military control area. Although the Great Lakes are not included, it must be difficult for ordinary salvage ships to operate near there."

"It's okay to find someone to carry out secret salvage in the name of scientific research, but it's easy to leak the news, and the money is touching. Maybe something wrong will happen and all previous efforts will be wasted."

"Or cooperate with Leopold, let him salvage it directly, and then give him [-]%?"

Zhou Shen leaned on Shen Bao at the bottom of the lake in his mind and said at the same time: "I have already asked the Academy of Sciences for the test reagents you want, and they will be delivered in about three days. Test them all."

"Okay, thank you, Brother Shen."

"You're welcome..."

Zhou Shen chatted with more than a dozen management members of Xiangjiang Wushu Association for about an hour, and then a student came in and said respectfully to Duan Hu: "President, everyone has arrived, when do you think it will start? "

Duan Hu turned his head to look at Zhou Shen, grinning and explained: "Brother Shen, many members admire you very much and want to admire your demeanor. When you came over just now, some students asked me, do you want to invite you to talk about martial arts? In terms of experience, I agree."

Zhou Shen smiled and said, "Then hurry up! I'll be leaving in an hour."

"Walk around..."

Everyone got up and went from the meditation room to the practice room.

The practice room is on the 21st floor, with an area of ​​150 meters. This area is already very luxurious in Causeway Bay, where every inch of land is expensive.

At this moment, inside the 150-square-meter practice room, there were people's heads in the dark, at least thousands of people by visual inspection.

……

At eleven o'clock in the morning, Xiangjiang Kwai Chung Pier.

At this time, a young man with a height of 1.9 meters [-] and a muscular body was carrying two heavy bags on top of a large truck.

This young man with muscular muscles like a bullfrog and a dark complexion, who looks five points like Liu Qingyun is called Su Qiang. He specializes in moving goods on the Xiangjiang Wharf. Because of his strength, he was nicknamed "Qiang Coolie".

99% of the goods on the wharf are handled mechanically, but there are also a very small number of divided goods that need to be unloaded manually, and the wharf stipulates that the stevedores here must be hired instead of outsiders.

Coolie Qiang dropped out of school at the age of 15 and came to the wharf to do odd jobs to subsidize his family. He has been working here since he was an adult.

He is 35 years old this year and has worked on the pier for 20 years.

Although it was very hard to carry the goods, he earned quite a lot, so Su Qiang was also very satisfied.

Su Qiang has no culture, and he didn't know what to do after leaving the dock.

After loading and unloading a truckload of goods soon, it was almost time to eat. Su Qiang and a group of workers came to the smoking area to smoke.

A group of people chatted about women while puffing.

At this moment, one of the four-eyed porters looked at the phone and sneered: "These crazy people, what age are they, and they still go to practice martial arts."

Another fat stevedore with short hair asked, "What's the matter?"

The four-eyed boy said mockingly: "A group of mainland boys, they won a martial arts competition at Xiangjiang University last time, and they won the Xiangjiang Boxer, and then they started to create momentum, saying that Huaguo martial arts are very powerful, even better than boxing, muay thai, and karate. I heard that They also rented a building in Causeway Bay and established some kind of Chinese Wushu Society."

"Currently, the members of this martial arts academy feel as if they have been beaten every day, challenging this one and that one."

Another skinny stevedore with a stature like a hemp pole said: "Oh, oh, I know about this, I heard that one person was killed, and then Xiangjiang University refused to allow them to set up a society in the school, so I ran to Causeway Bay over there."

The short-haired fat man asked strangely, "Hey, why don't I know?"

A very sloppy stevedore with a beard and beard grinned and said, "Hua Liujie, why the hell do you go to have sex every day after get off work, how do you know?"

"Hahaha……"

A group of stevedores burst into laughter, and then began to laugh at martial arts and kung fu.

"It's all a scam. It's nothing more than collecting money from membership fees."

"That's right, that's for sure, those mainlanders are the best at deceiving people."

"I heard that those martial arts videos are all acting..."

But Su Qiang asked a close worker beside him, "Old Cai, do you know the Chinese Martial Arts Association?"

Because he is called coolie strong, Su Qiang also brought himself into the role of "coolie strong" in the movie when watching kung fu, so he also developed some interest in kung fu, and once fantasized that he would become a peerless master of martial arts .

Of course, that was a long, long time ago.

And although he is not well-educated, he also knows that movies are movies, and it is impossible to practice that kind of kung fu in reality.

The worker Lao Cai obviously knew a lot, and he said while smoking a cigarette, "Don't listen to their nonsense, my friend's children are studying there, and they don't charge at all, not even the registration fee, and they also give away martial arts books and teaching for free. CD."

"If you have the talent to practice martial arts, not only will you have professional teachers to teach you, but you can even provide free food and lodging."

Su Qiang didn't dare to believe it: "It's true, what is their purpose for doing this? Besides, where does the money come from?"

Worker Lao Cai said: "The purpose is to promote Huaguo martial arts. As for where the money comes from, I don't know. It may be a private donation, or it may be allocated by the Huaguo government. Anyway, they rented it in a building in the prosperous area of ​​Causeway Bay. Six floors."

"Not only that, but the people in the Huaguo Wushu Academy are also very powerful. They have real kung fu. Many boxers and muay thai masters have been beaten to the ground when they challenged in the past."

Su Qiang was very moved by what his coworker Lao Cai said, and the urge to practice martial arts arose in his heart.

The main reason is that he has no purpose in life.

He is not married, so he has no wife and children, and his relatives have passed away one after another over the years. Now he is a real person who feeds the whole family without hunger. He has worked on the dock for so many years, moving and unloading goods every day, eating and sleeping, spending hundreds of mosquitoes every now and then. Go buy an hour of love.

This is his whole life.

He decided to go and see for himself. Now that he has two hours to rest before going to work in the afternoon, one trip is enough.

"I just don't know if they accept students my age? It's fine if they don't, just treat it as something new..."

As soon as he thought of it, Su Qiang threw away the cigarette butt in his hand, left the pier and took the subway to Causeway Bay.

When Su Qiang arrived at Tianhe Building in Causeway Bay, what he didn't expect was that there were all kinds of vehicles parked near the building, including ordinary cars and luxury cars.

There are all free parking spaces around here. These free parking spaces were previously occupied by members of the Hey Gang from Ah San Guo. If you want to park, you need to pay them a parking fee.

But today, the members of the Hey Gang who are of Asian ethnicity dare not come out. There are some members of the Huaguo Martial Arts Association standing nearby, guiding the cars to park, and there are also patrolmen patrolling nearby.

Here I would like to introduce that the members of the Hey gang in Ah Sanguo have become popular after operating in Xiangjiang for many years. They act very arrogantly, and they are also very united. The local gangs will give them three points.

Most people still have the impression of the Asians in Xiangjiang: people of color wearing cheap T-shirts near the Chongqing Building, whispering in twos and threes, stuffing leaflets in the hands of tourists, or Xibo security guards wrapped in headscarves outside high-end hotels .

However, the actual ethnic group in Xiangjiang is quite different from the perception of ordinary people.

They are social elites who received British education, and they are the descendants of the first batch of Ah San who came to Hong Kong with the Eagles. They sit in a luxury house in the middle of the mountain and are fluent in both Chinese and English.

Because of the protection of the elites and the fear of causing international disputes, when it comes to illegal cases involving ethnic Asians, as long as the circumstances are not particularly bad, they can either be arrested or sentenced, which also leads to Xiangjiang The Ah San descendants are very arrogant.

Like the many free public parking spaces in Xiangjiang, most of them are occupied by members of the A-Third gang.

However, villains have their own way of doing evil. Years later, members of the Hey Gang from Ah Sanguo and members of the Huaguo Martial Arts Society clashed over parking fees, and they were given a severe lesson.

Afterwards, there was nothing wrong with the Huaguo Martial Arts Society. Instead, all the members of the Hey Gang who were of Asian descent were arrested and locked up in a small black room.

After this battle, the members of Ahsanguo's Hey gang became honest, and those who saw the Huaguo Wushu Society all made a detour.

Su Qiang was lucky, he was the last two to get on the elevator, and those who came later had to wait because the upstairs was already full.

When Su Qiang and others came upstairs, all they saw were black heads.

He saw a young man holding a microphone on the central stage in front of him and said, "Everyone sit down, don't squeeze."

Su Qiang sat down with the others, curiously asked a round-faced young man in his twenties next to him and said, "Hello, who is this person, he looks so imposing."

The round-faced young man said excitedly: "Don't you know him? He is Duan Hu, the president of the Xiangjiang Branch of the Huaguo Wushu Society."

Su Qiang said with some surprise: "Ah, I don't know you for the first time. This president is so young! By the way, why are there so many people today?"

Just as the round-faced young man was about to speak, Duan Hu smiled on the stage and said, "Let me introduce to you, the one standing next to me is Mr. Zhou Shenzhou, the vice president of the Huaguo Wushu Association and the honorary president of the Xiangjiang Wushu Association. Everyone applauds. welcome."

"Clap clap clap..."

There was deafening applause at the scene.

Su Qiang also clapped vigorously. He was very strong, so the clapping sound was very loud.

While applauding, he asked the round-faced young man next to him, "Is this Zhou Shen very good?"

(End of this chapter)