Gao Wu: My martial arts training relies solely on hard work

Chapter 2 Definition of Effort

"Bang bang."

The two dogs hit the rabbit on the head twice, killing it first to prevent it from running away.

He picked up the rabbit's ears and weighed it, then grinned and said, "At least twenty kilograms. This rabbit alone will make our trip worthwhile."

Unexpectedly, the words came true, and the two of them worked hard until the sun was shining, and they dug through seven or eight rabbit nests, but they didn't catch a second one.

Tired and exhausted, the two decided to end the hunting trip and go down the mountain to go home.

The game allocation scheme is also uncontroversial.

The turtle dove belongs to Zhao Xuan, and the rabbit belongs to half.

Rabbits have to be sold for money, and it's not easy to sell them if you split them in half.

Since Ergou's father knew many people, he suggested that he take the rabbit away first, ask his father to help sell it, and then share half of the money with Zhao Xuan.

Zhao Xuan, who was facing the risk of running out of food, found it troublesome and proposed that Ergou's family pay for his share of the food at market prices.

Twenty pounds of rabbit counts as ten pounds of meat, and his share is worth fifty pounds of coarse grains.

In fact, it is impossible for a twenty-pound fat rabbit to have only ten pounds of meat after removing its internal organs and fur.

Just after the autumn harvest, grain prices will drop appropriately, and one pound of meat will cost more than ten pounds of coarse grains.

In general, Ergou only makes money but does not lose money.

But for Zhao Xuan, it saves the time of selling rabbits and then buying food.

Secondly, the two of them have a good relationship. Ergou helps clean up the old house and takes him hunting, so why not let him earn some money?
He left behind the turtle dove.

He hadn't smelled meat after traveling for three days, so he really couldn't bear to exchange it for food, and it didn't weigh much.

Before parting, Zhao Xuan invited Ergou to his home to drink turtle dove porridge.

Ergou agreed wholeheartedly, but Zhao Xuan disappeared after cooking the porridge.

Zhao Xuan was so hungry that he didn't wait for him. He left half of the food for him and started eating first.

After eating bran for two days and then drinking meat porridge, I felt that the food in the world couldn't be more delicious than this.

After two bowls, Zhao Xuanyi was still not finished, so he reluctantly put down the bowl.

"You have eaten two bowls of nutritious porridge. Your physical condition has improved and your archery skills have improved."

"Basic Archery: 4/100."

A sudden reminder made Zhao Xuan realize again.

All actions that help achieve goals are considered efforts?
No evidence is given in isolation.

In order to verify this conclusion, Zhao Xuan did not rush to practice archery, but went to the back mountain to cut a bamboo.

He planned to stock up on more consumable bamboo arrows.

A thick bamboo pole can polish ten bamboo arrows.

Zhao Xuan concentrated on whittling the first bamboo arrow, and sure enough he saw the prompt again.

"You carefully polished a sharp bamboo arrow, and your archery skills have improved."

"Basic Archery: 4/100."

The progress has not increased, but it can prove that his guess is right.

As long as the behavior is helpful to achieve the goal, it will be counted as effort and receive positive feedback.

Zhao Xuan simply concentrated on producing bamboo arrows.

It took two hours to cut the entire bamboo into bamboo arrows. 65 of them were scrapped and 118 were finished.

When the finished product reaches 1 pieces, the progress of basic archery has increased by 5 to [-].

But the two dogs were still missing.

Zhao Xuan had a bad guess in his mind, but he didn't want to think about it.

It's just a rabbit, really not that big of a deal.

Furthermore, even if it happens, so what?
Fighting to the death with a childhood friend?
Don't be stupid, you have talent and improving yourself is more important than anything else.

Zhao Xuan made a simple human-shaped archery target out of withered grass and branches and began to practice archery.

With his previous experience, every time he shoots an arrow, he will fully draw the bow, aim carefully, and then shoot.

Every time you shoot an arrow, there will be a prompt that "Archery skills have improved", but the progress has not changed.

Until he shot a hundred arrows, his arms were sore, and the progress was as expected and increased by 1.

Studying hard and practicing hard is a type of hard work, there is no doubt about it.According to the methods he has tried so far, supplementing nutrition, making arrows, and practicing archery seriously can all increase progress.

Then he makes arrows every day and goes hunting. The prey he catches is used to cook meat porridge. Wouldn't the basic archery skills improve very quickly?

At this rate, he would be able to upgrade his basic archery skills to the full level in a month at most.

"Gulu" interrupted Zhao Xuan's reverie.

Making bamboo arrows is okay, but shooting arrows consumes a lot of energy.

After drinking two bowls of meat porridge, he became hungry again.

He took a look at the sky. The sun was setting in the west, about four or five o'clock in the afternoon.

In other words, it had been four or five hours since he and Ergou went down the mountain and went home respectively at noon.

"Wait until dark."

Zhao Xuan said.

He said this to the original owner.

Ergou is the original owner’s childhood friend and good brother.

He came through time travel, and although he never thought about breaking up with the original owner, he also didn't think about sacrificing himself to maintain a good relationship with the original owner.

People are mutual.

If others treat him well, he will treat others well.

When others are not good, no matter whether they are big brothers or good buddies, they are just passers-by.

Taking advantage of his free time, Zhao Xuan made two more bamboo bows for backup.

If a workman wants to be good, he must first sharpen his weapon.

Not surprisingly, making a bamboo bow is also a hard work.

It's just that Zhao Xuan lacks the materials for bow strings. Two pieces are the limit, and if you can't get them together, you can increase the scale of the progress.

In the evening, Zhao Xuan was preparing to heat up the remaining two bowls of meat porridge. Ergou came, empty-handed.

He looked at the other party calmly, waiting for the other party to give him an answer.

"Sorry, Zhao Er."

Ergou's answer did not surprise Zhao Xuan, but it was also unacceptable to him.

Seeing that Zhao Xuan was silent, Ergou smiled bitterly: "I went back to my father to ask for food, but he didn't give it to me."

"He said, he said..."

Ergou paused and said with difficulty: "He said you shot the turtle dove and I caught the rabbit. You shouldn't be given half of it."

"I didn't agree, so he locked me up and wouldn't let me go out."

"I just ran away..."

As he talked, there was no sound.

In Dishan Village, the surname Zhao is a minor surname.

Including Zhao Xuan's family, there are three families, about ten people, who are not relatives.

On the contrary, the surname Chen is a common surname, with more than 100 families and more than [-] people, and they are still related to each other.

So, what's the problem with the big surname bullying the little surname who has no support for fifty kilograms of coarse grain?
It wasn't that Zhao Xuan didn't understand, it was just that he didn't react for a while.

In the era of the feudal dynasty, the law of the jungle was the norm, and equality for all was heresy and should be burned to death.

He smiled slightly: "What uncle said is not unreasonable. Thank you for taking me to the mountains to hunt today. I gained a lot."

What more can he say?
Are you scolding Ergou and his father for being shameless and scolding Ergou for not keeping his word?
Or should Ergou break up with his biological father in the patriarchal era for the sake of his friend who grew up together?
The former is meaningless and the latter is unrealistic.

Ergou, however, seemed a little bit regretful and gritted his teeth and said, "I borrowed these fifty kilograms of coarse grains. I will return them to you when I get married and start a business."

Zhao Xuan smiled and said nothing.

He is almost starving to death, why are he still waiting for you to get married and start a family?
You took a bottle of water from me in the desert and said you would return it to me when you got back to the city, so that everyone would be clear.

But can a bottle of water in the desert mean the same thing as a bottle of water in the city?

If you are really serious, your family will have ten acres of paddy fields and more than ten acres of dry land, with an output of two to three hundred kilograms per mu, and thousands of kilograms of grain piled there.

Fifty pounds less, there shouldn't be any difference.

It is indeed difficult to expect vested interests to take a share out of their pockets.

(End of this chapter)