Chapter 8: Training to Be Like an Ape

How much money did the second brother give?

Li Yuan was shocked, and his worry overwhelmed his joy. The Li family had been in decline for many years, so how could they have any money to give to this fat guy Sun?

I'm afraid it was all borrowed...

Taking a deep breath, Li Yuan concentrated, not wanting to waste this hard-won opportunity to learn martial arts.

These days, it's so difficult to learn a blacksmithing skill, let alone martial arts?

"Don't be dissatisfied. Who else would be willing to teach you such a precious martial art as the White Ape Cloak Hammer except me?"

Fatty Sun snorted and said:

"Hold the hammer and stand in a stance!"

As he spoke, he raised his foot and kicked a prepared iron hammer over.

Li Yuan shuddered, holding the hammer, subconsciously glanced at the gray light on the hammer, and then stood in the White Ape Stance.

"The 18 Hammer Techniques and the Standing Technique you learned are not fake, but they lack something..."

Li Yuan just heard the voice, and Fatty Sun came in front of him, leaning forward with a strong pressure:

"White Ape Breathing Technique!"

A big hand like a palm leaf fan pressed on his shoulder, and Li Yuan felt his shoulder and arm heat up:

"Watch and remember, I will only demonstrate it once!"

Li Yuan was busy concentrating.

Fatty Sun took a deep breath, and when he exhaled, his breathing rhythm had changed.

It was a very unreasonable breathing method, and Li Yuan almost fainted when he tried it subconsciously.

But at this time, he naturally did not dare to be distracted at all, and concentrated on memorizing all the six breathing methods that Sun Hao changed.

"Lift and inhale, drop and exhale, three short and six long, one inhale and nine exhales..."

...

"When you can maintain the Ape Six Breathing Method while standing and practicing the Cloak Hammer, you will be considered to have entered the door!"

Just like before, after teaching, Fatty Sun kept his word and only taught once before turning back to the house, but soon turned out again and threw a booklet over:

"In addition to the breathing method, the origin of the White Ape Cloak Hammer, the standing practice, and the hammer method are all in the booklet. I remember that you can recognize the words? Then read it yourself. By the way, you can only read it here, and you are not allowed to take it out!"

"Thank you, Chef Sun!"

Li Yuan hurriedly took the booklet and immediately reacted:

"What about the fighting method?"

"Do you still want to learn the fighting method?"

Fatty Sun sneered and turned back to the house:

"Take another ten taels of silver and I will teach you the fighting method!"

"Take more? My second brother actually gave him ten taels of silver?"

Li Yuan took a breath of cold air.

The apprenticeship in the middle courtyard is thirty copper coins a month, less than one penny for three months. Ten taels of silver to send someone in, if it is not for learning martial arts, it is simply a blood loss!

Even if his second brother lives in the two-story building now, renting the whole thing, it is only four taels of silver a year...

"Six breathing methods of the ape!"

Li Yuan's heart was bleeding, and he dared not be distracted at all. He memorized the six breathing methods of Sun Pangzi.

If he forgot one or half of them, he would really vomit blood.

Under the moonlight, Li Yuan was sweating profusely, familiarizing himself with and recalling Sun Pangzi's breathing method over and over again.

After more than half an hour, he just let out a sigh of relief, and the chill of late autumn instantly came over him.

"I have memorized this breathing method, and I will try it slowly later."

Without the idea of ​​entering the house, taking advantage of the moonlight, Li Yuan found a corner in the corner of the yard that was sheltered from the wind, and consolidated the breathing method several times before squatting down and taking out the booklet given by Sun Pangzi.

"Sure enough, being the chef in the middle courtyard is not as simple as those apprentices said..."

Rubbing his cold palms, Li Yuan felt a little cold in his heart.

After what happened tonight, he dared not underestimate this fat guy Sun.

His second brother gave him ten taels of silver, and he didn't feel any preferential treatment in the past month.

He even suspected that if he hadn't shown some talent these days, this fat guy might not even pass on this breathing method to him!

"White Ape Cloak Hammer!"

Letting out a breath and suppressing his distracting thoughts, Li Yuan carefully opened the booklet.

Thanks to Li Lin's persistence, his predecessor could read.

"Inside is the pile, outside is the hammer, and breathing is the core! Using the breathing method to penetrate the pile and hammer method is the entry!"

Li Yuan recited word by word in his heart.

In the booklet, there are the pile and hammer methods he learned these days, without missing a single move, but more detailed.

For example, the internal and external three combinations mentioned by Qin Xiong, and the origin of this ape-shaped cloak hammer.

The external three combinations emphasize the combination of hands and feet, elbows and knees, shoulders and hips, while the internal three combinations are the combination of heart and mind, mind and qi, and qi and strength.

The qi in the internal three combinations refers to the breathing method. Without the breathing method, it is difficult to practice even if you get this booklet.

Not to mention the great success realm of the six combinations, even the internal three combinations are impossible to practice.

"Entry, mastery, minor success, major success! The four realms of the white ape cloak hammer, I wonder what realm Qin Xiong and Fatty Sun are in?"

Li Yuan was a little fascinated, and suddenly, he was shocked and saw something very interesting:

"Only by practicing to be like a white ape can you accumulate blood into internal strength!"

Internal strength!

Li Yuan turned the page again, and there was only one page left. There was no mention of fighting methods or internal strength, which made him quite regretful.

"White Ape Cloak Hammer is easy to learn but difficult to master. For inferior physiques, standing still for three hours a day, practicing hammer techniques twelve times, you may be able to get started in two years, and may be proficient in seven years...

For medium physiques, you should be able to get started in half a year, and for superior physiques, you can get started in more than a month!"

Li Yuan closed the booklet.

It takes more than an hour to practice twelve times for eighteen styles of hammer techniques, and standing still for another three hours. The apprentices in the middle courtyard simply don't have so much free time.

"If you practice like this, your body won't be able to bear the food in the middle courtyard. You will be ruined before you can practice..."

Li Yuan sighed in his heart, and his desire to leave the middle courtyard became more urgent.

Knowing that the apprentices in the front courtyard practiced for four hours a day, which was equivalent to three days for him, he felt that he was wasting his time.

If you don't quit your job, you can't practice martial arts at all.

The three taels of silver given by the second brother can't withstand the consumption of practicing martial arts.

"It's too difficult to practice martial arts. A white ape cape hammer with no fighting method has to be taught in so many steps.

But this is just the basics.

Medicine supplements, not to mention medicine supplements, without enough meat, the progress will be too slow..."

Li Yuan muttered in his heart, but he looked at the small house with the lights still on. On the window paper, the huge figure of Fatty Sun could be vaguely seen.

"The entry-level sword skills should be enough, right?"

...

...

After sleeping for less than six hours, Li Yuan climbed up from the big bunk bed. He slept with his clothes on, and it was light when he got up, but as soon as he got up, a voice came from behind him.

"Do you get up so early every day?"

Niu Gui's low voice came.

"Occasionally."

Li Yuan didn't look back and pushed the door open.

The early morning of late autumn was getting colder day by day. Li Yuan first warmed up, stretched his muscles and bones, and then began to stand and consciously adjusted his breathing.

The Ape Six Breathing Technique is not complicated, but how can it be easy to adjust the breathing habits formed over the years, or even go against them?

Li Yuan tried many times, but he felt a tightness in his chest. He couldn't even stand for half an hour, and he couldn't hold on.

"How can a normal person breathe like this?"

Pressing his chest, Li Yuan took a long time to relax before continuing to try, fearing that he would get a stitch in the side.

After doing this several times, the sky was already bright, and the sound of other apprentices getting dressed and getting up came from the house.

"Where are you going?"

Seeing Li Yuan leave the courtyard, Niu Gui, who had not yet finished his practice, couldn't help asking.

"Ask for leave!"

Li Yuan replied, and came to the small courtyard of Fatty Sun with a hammer.

After the cock crowed three times, Fatty Sun yawned and pushed the door open. He was slightly startled when he saw Li Yuan:

"What are you doing here? You don't think that you don't have to work after I teach you the Ape Six Breathing Technique?"

"Chef Sun, I want to learn cooking from you."

Li Yuan bowed his head and said.

As an apprentice in the middle courtyard, if he wants to improve his food and treatment, he can't avoid Fatty Sun, the chef.

He had been preparing a few days ago, and bought the butcher's bone-cutting knife for this purpose.

Originally, he was still thinking about making friends first, but after what happened last night, he thought he could give it a try.

Even if it doesn't work, he will just be beaten and scolded. If it works, it will solve his urgent needs.

If his body is not well maintained and his nutrition is not up to par, even if he has a master-level hammer, he can't perform it.

"Want to be my apprentice? You're good at climbing up the ladder!"

Fatty Sun wanted to scold and laugh, but thinking about Li Lin's generosity, he still left some room:

"The money your second brother gave me is not enough to be my apprentice, that's another price..."

Li Yuan didn't say anything, but stretched his hand to his waist.

"Are you not leaving yet?"

Fatty Sun was full of impatience, waving his hand to drive him away, but suddenly he was stunned and his anger surged up:

"Good boy, dare to take my kitchen knife? You are too stubborn, right?"

Snort!

Pulling out Fatty Sun's big kitchen knife from his waist, Li Yuan raised his hand and made a knife flower before the latter's anger surged.

On the way here, he went to the kitchen to take Fatty Sun's knife, which was a weapon that was not inferior to the training hammer.

"Huh?"

Fatty Sun paused. He had been a cook for twenty years, so he had good eyesight:

"How many years have you practiced knife skills?"

Fatty Sun was a little surprised.

The cook in the middle courtyard was responsible for the meals of about 180 people, so the knives were naturally not small. His meat chopping knife was half a meter long and wide, so it was not something that ordinary people could use.

But the kid named Li Yuan, he made a knife flower with ease, so skillful that it seemed like he was waving his hand?

"I've practiced for a few years."

Li Yuan lowered his head and answered.

In his previous life, he served the old man, so he naturally knew some knife skills and cooking, but he could play so smoothly because he controlled the butcher's bone-cutting knife.

This was also the confidence for him to come here.

"Good boy, this technique must have taken at least three or four years of hard work, right?"

Looking up and down at Li Yuan, Fatty Sun's anger gradually subsided, and he narrowed his eyes:

"Did you remember what I said yesterday? With your knife skills, it's not impossible to hire you as an assistant, but..."

"Thank you, Chef Sun..."

Li Yuan knew what he wanted to say, and immediately handed over the meat cleaver with both hands:

"My disciple only wants to eat enough, and the rest is up to you, Chef!"