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Chapter 42
Above Shaoshi Mountain, the night sky is clear, the star Han hangs upside down in the sky, and there are many stars.

At this moment, it was the dead of night, no one was around, and in the courtyard, the grass and trees were sending fragrance.

Gradually when the moon was at its zenith, the lights in the room exploded lightly. At this time, Li Chongjiu slowly opened his closed eyes, his breathing became heavier, and he calmed down after breathing out more than ten times.

Li Chongjiu flicked the wick with a straw light stick to make the dim light in the room brighter, then picked up the four volumes of the Lenga Sutra presented by Jueyuan on his lap, and read it again skillfully.

After closing the scroll, Li Chongjiu thought about it for a while, then slowly got up from the mattress, moved his fists and feet a little, and tied the corner of his clothes into his belt.

Li Chongjiu walked out the door, the courtyard was full of stars, and the stars above his head were ancient and far away.

Li Chongjiu picked up the eyebrow-leveling stick by the door in his hand, and with the stick whistling in the wind, he set up a door, and then danced a set of stick techniques in the courtyard.

The health-preserving skills taught by Jueyuan are actually the authentic guidance technique of Taoism at its root. Breathing and exhaling are combined with body movements, that is, the posture of bears and birds stretching, which is considered to maintain health and strengthen the body.

For example, the ancient Chinese health-preserving exercises such as Wuqinxi and Baduanjin are all like this.

After dancing with the stick for half an hour, Li Chongjiu was sweating like mud and panting like a cow. He threw the stick and walked to the back of the house.

Behind the house is a small courtyard, with a big brass jar standing on it, the firewood burning extremely well underneath, and the bottom is covered with a thick layer of charcoal.

This big stove was originally used by Xiangji Kitchen to cook for hundreds of monks in He Temple, but at this time he borrowed it for use.

Walking to the big vat, the hot water in the vat was boiling, and Li Chongjiu scooped all the hot water in the vat into a large wooden barrel half the height of a person.

This big wooden bucket was used by monks for daily bathing, and it was also borrowed by Li Chongjiu, and it was washed and dried early and placed here.Inside the wooden barrel, the water was steaming, and Li Chongjiu was sweating profusely from the steam.

Li Chongjiu quickly threw more than a dozen doses of Chinese herbal medicine into the wooden barrel, but after a while, a strange medicinal smell began to permeate from the barrel, and the color of the water turned red.

"I don't know whether Master Yuan, the body training method mentioned in the scriptures, is really useful?"

The water in the bucket was boiling hot, making Li Chongjiu mutter something to himself.

Although winter is over at this time, it is still cold in spring, and it is on the mountain again.Therefore, Li Chongjiu didn't dare to wait for the water to become warm, so he pulled out his clothes and pants, and after a little hesitation, he jumped into the tank.

The water splashed slightly, and Li Chongjiu opened his mouth and bared. The rolling fruit was extremely hot. If it wasn't for worrying about the silence of the night and disturbing the surroundings, Li Chongjiu would have yelled a long time ago.

Even so, he continued to drink low, trying his best to resist the heat of the boiling water mixed with herbs, and he felt his whole body burn at the moment.

If it weren't for the scriptures saying that the hotter the water, the easier it is for the medicine to take effect, Li Chongjiu would have escaped from the bucket long ago.

All these medicinal materials were purchased by Li Chongjiu from someone down the mountain according to the Jueyuan Sutra. As mentioned in the book, it takes ninety-nine and eighty-one times for such immersion to be successful.

As the so-called poor culture and rich martial arts said, this kind of martial arts practice is really not something that the children of the Han family can do. This time, the money for the medicinal materials is exchanged in the county town, which is enough for a family of five to live comfortably for a year.

What Li Chongjiu learned from Jueyuan's book is that breathing before is righteousness, and dancing with sticks is divergence. After the blood circulation of the human body reaches a peak, both mentally and physically are in an optimal state, and finally enter the medicine. Soak in the bath, so that it can be absorbed to the maximum, strengthen the muscles and bones, and increase the effect of qi and blood.

Soaked in the wooden barrel, Li Chongjiu wanted to get up several times, but finally couldn't help wasting the extremely expensive medicinal materials collected, and finally endured it.

Persisting for half a stick of incense, the soup was getting colder, but Li Chongjiu was getting more and more uncomfortable. The reason was that the power of the medicinal materials began to take effect on his body.

After a long time, a breeze came, and Li Chongjiu woke up suddenly. The soup was already warm, and the medicine's power had dissipated, and the water in the wooden barrel had lost as much as one-third.

The medicine soup has floated from under the forehead to the position of his chest.

There was a thick layer of medicine dregs floating on the surface of the soup. When Li Chongjiu looked down, he saw that the skin on the shoulders and arms was faintly rosy, but this was not from being burned by the boiling water.

Although he didn't feel the pain relieved much, the pain and fatigue on Li Chongjiu's body was much weaker, and his skin was as red as a newborn baby.

Li Chongjiu was overjoyed, as expected, soaking in this decoction was very effective.

Right now Li Chongjiu was sitting cross-legged, his whole body was relaxed, and he was sitting cross-legged in the medicine bucket. He didn't dare to sleep low. Instead, he used the special technique taught in the scriptures, sometimes patting and sometimes massaging his whole body, taking care of every part of the body, so as to Diffuse qi and blood, and prevent blood circulation from slowing down.

Snapped!Snapped!Snapped!
A crisp sound resounded in the courtyard.

Li Chongjiu woke up slowly when the quiet and distant bell sounded.

Morning bells and evening drums, another new day begins. The monks and nuns from all over the temple are lining up to the main hall for morning classes.

In the wooden barrel, Li Chongjiu, who had soaked overnight, woke up from the barrel, the water was already cold.Li Chongjiu looked down and saw that there was only half a bucket of soup left in the bucket, and the color had changed from dark and dark red to a lot lighter, even a touch of medicine dregs on his lips was tasteless.

Li Chongjiu got up from the bucket, and immediately rushed to the hut outside the house. After a while, Li Chongjiu finished his ceremony, and he felt refreshed.

Between one in and one out, it is already a big cycle.

Breathing the morning breeze in the temple, Li Chongjiu walked forward, feeling as if his body was half light. When he walked, he didn't need any effort at all. He could walk a long distance with one step, and his limbs contained infinite energy. It seems that you can jump high with one jump.

Suddenly there was a long growl in his stomach, and he felt hungry. At that moment, Li Chongjiu hurried to the dining hall.

The monks in the Xiangji kitchen in the temple, the fire workers, are busy, preparing the breakfast for the monks in the temple.

Li Chongjiu saw that the porridge was still in the pot, but he couldn't wait any longer. He saw a basket full of big white steamed cakes that had just been steamed (Note [-]).

At that moment, Li Chongjiu grabbed a big steamed pancake with one hand, put it in his mouth from left to right and chewed it. The chef supervisor of Xiangji Kitchen saw Li Chongjiu's appearance, and couldn't help but shook his head with a smile.

If other monks acted like this, they would definitely be reprimanded, but Li Chongjiu is a great benefactor of Shaolin Temple, and even the abbot treats him generously, let alone other monks.

Therefore, seeing Li Chongjiu's move, the chef supervisor smiled and shook his head, but then his expression turned into astonishment.

The steamed cakes are so big that monks with average appetites in the temple would usually be full after a meal of two, but Li Chongjiu actually finished a steamed cake in two or three bites, and then grabbed it into the basket, eating it while holding it in his hand. Stop, it looks like it has not eaten for many days.

This amount of food is too amazing.

After filling his stomach, Li Chongjiufang came out from the Xiangji Kitchen, and borrowed the power of this medicinal material and health-preserving exercises, so his appetite increased several times.

In the past, warriors on the battlefield have always eaten a lot. For example, the famous general Lian Po, who is over [-] years old, can still eat rice and eat ten catties of meat. Increasing food intake is also part of changing his physique.

After eating a full stomach, Li Chongjiu still felt radiant.

Li Chongjiu knew that all of this was due to the power of medicinal materials to stimulate his own potential, and he was at the age of fifteen or sixteen.

From a modern point of view, it is also the period of a man's physical development, and his ability to stimulate his potential this time is exactly getting twice the result with half the effort, making the whole person look brand new.

However, if you continue to promote it, it is best to soak in a medicated bath every ten days, coupled with a lot of exercise, and breathing guidance.If you delay for a long time, although it is not bad, but the progress of practice will be slow, especially in the golden period like mine.

That's why Li Chongjiu tried it this time. If the effect is good, he has to find a way to make money.

Now that the bag is empty, where will the money for the next purchase of medicinal materials come from?

Shaolin Temple is impossible, and it is even more impossible for him to write a letter and ask Li Hu for it. The life of the [-] people in Qiqianzhai is also very tight, especially at this time when the Escort is in its infancy, and money is needed everywhere. .

In the plan that Li Chongjiu told Li Hu at the beginning, within this year, the first bodyguard bureau must be opened in Taiyuan County, so as to better contact the business inside and outside the Great Wall and expand the bodyguard bureau.

How to withdraw money at this time is a problem.

Note [-]: Steamed cakes are now steamed buns.

PS: After all, this article is a serious historical article, not a martial arts novel. Such a long description is just a foreshadowing of the plot. As for the description of ancient martial arts, it is one of the aspects.

A peerless general will die if he is shot by random arrows, and he will die if he is besieged by hundreds of soldiers.

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