After dinner, Wu Ma cleaned up the dishes and Zhou Tiezhu returned to the blacksmith workshop to look at the stove and tools. Zhou Tiezhu lived on weekdays. Yan Dechang said he wanted to go out and changed his clothes. He went straight to the backyard to pull out the Xilong Horse, put on a saddle, and rode out the door without saying what to do. Only Yan Liqiang was left at home, and Yan Liqiang suddenly became idle at home.

In the past, he had no time to rest. From the time he finished supper to bed, except for the time to digest food, he basically practiced in his backyard. Yan Dechang would stay by and personally urge Yan Liqiang, and never relaxed in one day.

Yan Liqiang's little reputation among the boys in Liuhe Town was all obtained by him with his sweat bit by bit over the years, without any luck.

The front yard of Yan Liqiang's house is on the edge of Liuhe River. There is also a water hammer machine tool powered by water in the blacksmith workshop. The back yard of Yan Liqiang's house is opposite to the front yard. Outside the back yard is a bamboo forest, which is very quiet here.

The stable and the forage room are just under the two tiled houses on the backyard. There is a peach tree in the backyard. Under the peach tree, there is a weapon stand. On the weapon stand is the four weapons of swords, guns, swords and sticks - sticks are the ancestors of hundreds of soldiers, swords and swords are the kings of hundreds of soldiers, and guns are the kings of hundreds of soldiers. These are the four most common weapons, and they are also the four most used and most capable of killing people. For more than 90% of martial arts practitioners, the weapons they major in are basically one of these four. To put it more carefully, because the sticks are not very lethal, and not many people use sticks. Most people major in weapons are three types of swords, guns and swords.

The so-called moon stick, annual sword, a gun for a lifetime. The gun is the most difficult one among these four weapons to practice, so relatively speaking, fewer people practice gun skills than those who practice swords.

But Yan Liqiang's weapon is a gun.

This was not chosen by Yan Liqiang himself, but Yan Dechang had already chosen it for him when he started practicing martial arts. Yan Liqiang didn't know why Yan Dechang, who didn't understand martial arts, chose such a difficult path for him. Over the years, Yan Liqiang has been practicing guns and the basic skills of guns.

Not far from that weapon stand, there is a shelf. Under one of the shelfs, a row of egg-sized iron beads were tied with ropes. This is Yan Liqiang's prop to practice guns. The row of iron beads is coated with phosphor powder, so it can not only be seen during the day, but at night, the row of iron beads is green and lush in the moonlight, very eye-catching, and can also be trained.

The basic skills of marksmanship are only three words: stop, take, and stab - stop the gun, hold the gun, stab the gun, stop is defense, hold the force, and stab is attack!

Yan Liqiang has practiced three simple words and three basic movements for eight years, but he is still not even a beginner.

Because Yan Liqiang has not yet built a foundation and is not a real warrior, practicing these things can only be considered practicing a posture and appearance. In this era, a person has not built a foundation and has not become a real warrior. No matter how hard he works, it is not considered to be truly mastering a skill.

Like today, he was hit by Hong Tao with iron sand palms. To be honest, Yan Liqiang really didn't expect Hong Tao to practice iron sand palms at this time, because Hong Tao, like him, has not yet built a foundation and is not a warrior. Iron sand palms need a lot of time to practice. It is very unwise to spend a lot of time on these external skills at this time. As the saying goes, practice martial arts first, then practice boxing, practice martial arts first, practice martial arts without practicing, and end up empty. Fist is outside and skill is inside. To practice qigong, you have to build a foundation. If you don't build a foundation, although these external skills seem powerful now, they are just a temporary ability. In the end, they are a mirror and water moon. They are rare for a long time, and it is even more impossible to enter the hall.

The time for a person to build a foundation is limited, and God has not given you too much time to squander. Basically, if a person has not built a foundation before the age of 25, the hope of building a foundation in this life will be very slim, that is, there is no hope of advancing a warrior in his entire life. Just like Yan Dechang's apprentice Zhou Tiezhu, he was still far away from building a foundation after the age of 25, and completely lost the possibility of building a foundation, so he came to learn a survival craft with Yan Dechang.

In my previous life, on Earth, there seemed to be warriors everywhere. Many people just practiced for a few years of fighting, were stronger and stronger, and hang a knife on their body, and dared to kill people, and called themselves warriors. Such warriors, by the standards of this world, are completely nonsense.

The standard for becoming a samurai in this world is to build a foundation, but to build a foundation, you have to pass three levels. These three levels are more difficult than one level. Each level has very objective and testable standards. Only those who pass these three levels and complete the foundation building are qualified to call themselves warriors. Only samurai can truly cultivate various kung fu and combat skills to a profound level.

Yan Liqiang has been practicing martial arts since he was a child and has been sweating profusely in this yard every day, but he has not even passed the first level of these three levels.

The first level of these three levels is horse stance, which is a basic skill that any martial artist must pass.

Horse stance seems simple, everyone can do it, but in fact, there may not be one out of a hundred people who can pass this level.

What is a horse stance considered passing? You must be able to combine the waist and horse, and have all your strength out of your feet. Only by being able to prick a horse under your body can you pass. As long as you pass this level and really use fist and foot skills to fight, a person can get away from most people with one level of ten.

In order to get Yan Liqiang to pass this level, Yan Dechang spent a lot of money to buy a rhino dragon horse. The rhino dragon horse was kept at home. It was not only to allow Yan Liqiang to learn riding, but also to let Yan Liqiang experience and feel the great power of the unity of the man and horse when he learned riding when the rhino dragon horse gallops.

When a person who truly passes the horse stance, he is like riding a horse under his body. The strength under his feet, the strength on his thighs, the strength on his waist and the back can all be transmitted to his fist. Such a fist can easily crush ordinary people. There is a saying that an arm cannot twist the thigh. Think about the comparison between the muscle strength of a person's arms and the muscles on his thighs, and you can know how big the difference in strength between the two is.

Ordinary people use the strength on their arms when punching people. Further, they can use the strength on their chest muscles and back muscles. Professional boxers on the earth can use the strength of some waists, while the sign of success in horse stance can allow you to even use the strength of your toes. This is why all martial artists regard horse stance as basic skills. If the horse stance is pierced, they will be more horse-powered. Even if people stand on the ground, they will move without moving.

Yan Liqiang did not understand these principles on earth before, but in this world, everyone knew them.

But knowing does not mean that you can do it. Just like on Earth, almost every high school student knows that the atomic bomb comes from Einstein's mass-energy equation, but even if you know the mass-energy equation, no one can create an atomic bomb.

If you want to think about horse stance, in addition to will, mind and sweat, there may be some unknown tricks. As an ordinary blacksmith, Yan Dechang can only do his best to help Yan Liqiang pass this level. When he does not know the mystery and cannot ask a famous teacher to teach Yan Liqiang, like most parents who hope that their son will become successful, Yan Dechang can only buy Yan Liqiang a rhino dragon horse based on the passed down experience, so that Yan Liqiang can understand the mystery of horse stance after learning riding.

In this world, those real abilities, the mysterious secret techniques and knowledge related to kung fu and martial arts, are very expensive. Those knowledge and abilities, like the high-value patents of commercial society on earth, are not something that ordinary people can have. They are exclusive to a few people. Only real wealthy families have the confidence and wealth to invite famous teachers. Not to mention anything else, with the strength of the Hong family in Liuhe Town, the Hong family does not have the confidence and wealth to invite famous teachers.

True famous teachers are at least the cultivation level of warriors, and they still have the ability and secrets to teach people.

Yan Liqiang knew that there were almost no such people in Qinghe County. There were two people in Pingxi County. One of them lived in the county town of Pingxi County. The surname was Song, and he taught people and horse stance. After ten years of hard practice, almost one-third of the people could pass the basic horse stance level.

Yan Liqiang's father naturally wanted to send Yan Liqiang to study, but he couldn't afford to be a disciple Xie Yi. He wanted to worship the man named Song as his master, and he would at least cost 100 taels of gold and never bargain. The entire Yan family's property, including the blacksmith's workshop, was worth at most twenty taels of gold.

Without gold and silver covering the ground, how can you learn real skills?

The kind of thing that you can learn from a master with a basket of eggs, cut a little pork, and take two bottles of wine. As for the kind of thing that you can learn from a master and learn from a master on Earth, you can teach you the secrets of martial arts skills for free, so that you can eat and drink for free at your master's house. You are responsible for practicing martial arts skills. The master and his master's wife also gave birth to a beautiful junior sister for you, which is even more impossible to dream of. Yue Buqun in Jin Yong's novel was born in the Silver Continent, and he could become a first-level figure of Lei Feng who was worshipped.

The reason why this National Martial Arts County Examination is so important is that the best candidates in the county exam have the opportunity to enter the county-level national martial arts museum to learn skills. The apprenticeship qualification of the county-level national martial arts museum is almost the only way for ordinary people to have the hope of learning some real skills and thus advance to samurai. The value of its value is naturally self-evident.

The reason why everyone in this world wants to build a foundation and become a samurai is because samurai is not only a title, but also a privileged class that can completely surpass the ordinary class. Becoming a samurai means that you have become a member of the gentry, and with the hope and ladder to rise to prosper, you will be the best people wherever you go.

In ancient China, there was a saying that all things are inferior to those who are superior to those who are superior to those who are superior to those who are superior to those who are superior to those who are superior to those who are superior to those who are superior to those who are superior to those who are superior to those who are superior to those who are superior to those who are superior to those who are superior to those who are superior to those who are superior to those who are superior to those who are superior to those who are superior to those who are superior to those who are inferior to those who are superior to those who are superior to those who are superior to those who are superior to those who are superior to those who are superior to those who are superior to those who are superior to those who are superior to those who are superior to those who are superior to those who are superior to those who are superior to those who are superior to those who are superior to those who are superior to those who are superior to those who are superior to those who are superior to those who are superior to those who are superior to those who are superior to those who are superior to those who are superior to those who are superior to those who are superior to those who are superior to those

The only reason why the Hong family in Liuhe Town is that Hong Tao's great-grandfather, that is, Hong Tao's father's grandfather, was the only warrior in Liuhe Town back then. With this, Hong Tao's great-grandfather earned a huge family property for the Hong family in Liuhe Town - dozens of shops in Liuhe Town, seven or eight oil rice workshops, and thousands of acres of fertile land in the town, are all the industries of the Hong family. Their contributions are one person, and their descendants are blessed with three generations...

Thinking of this, Yan Liqiang's head flashed with inspiration, and suddenly he understood and fully realized the situation of the Hong family.

The Hong family has not produced warriors for three generations. The ancient saying of the Silver Continent says - The Warrior's Sawa is killed in the third generation. The Hong family seems to be glorious now, but the head of the Hong family, that is, Grandpa Hong Tao, is probably already full of a sense of crisis. Hong Tao is the only candidate among the younger generation of the Hong family who still has hope of advanced samurai. So this time, the Hong family spared no effort in the county exam and was anxious to get angry.

Hong Tao's becoming a samurai is naturally the ideal result for the Hong family, but even if Hong Tao cannot become a samurai, as long as Liuhe Town is in Hong Tao's generation, no one can become a samurai. The Hong family's status in Liuhe Town is still unbreakable and no one can challenge it. The Hong family can still continue to survive and pin their hopes on the future.

Therefore, making Hong Tao a warrior is the main goal of the Hong family now, and making himself unable to become a warrior is the guaranteed goal of the Hong family.

Thinking of everything he encountered on the ring today, thinking of the ice ant, and thinking of Qi Donglai's nervous look when he saw him, Yan Liqiang immediately figured out everything.

Qi Donglai's family is also an ordinary family in Liuhe Town.

It's really despicable!

The experience of the previous life made Yan Liqiang understand a truth very early. When facing a problem, you have no possibility of escaping. Those problems that come for you are destined to face. If you escape and retreat, the problems that come for you will not disappear. It will only change the face and continue to target you, but in the end you will find that your space will become smaller and narrower and narrower until you can't retreat.

When facing a problem, either you defeat it or you are defeated by it, there is never a third way.

Well, since God has made me a person for two lives, I have arranged for myself to be born in such a magical world and choose such a path for myself, then I will live a passionate life and follow this path firmly, see what the scenery along the road is different, and see where I can go in the end.

He suddenly understood the Hong family's plan. Thinking of the injuries on his body, Yan Liqiang suddenly felt endless fighting spirit in his heart, and he completely integrated into his current role.

"If you don't struggle, what's the difference between it and salted fish..."

Under the moonlight, looking at the quiet backyard, Yan Liqiang said to himself, with a smile on his face...

...

Yan Dechang rode a rhino dragon horse out and returned home almost in the early morning.

Hearing the noise in the backyard, Yan Liqiang hurriedly came out of the house. What he saw was Yan Dechang, who had a tired face, and the rhinoceros dragon horse with sweat constantly sniffing. Yan Liqiang quickly stepped forward and removed the rhinoceros dragon horse's saddle lantern, moved the rhinoceros dragon horse to the stable, and added the essence of the wine lees to the stable, and then returned to the room to see Yan Dechang.

"You will leave Liuhe Town tomorrow and leave Qinghe County!" Yan Dechang sat upright on the wooden chair, wiping his face with the basin and wet towel brought by Wu Ma, and said seriously to Yan Liqiang.

Yan Liqiang was a little surprised, "Ah, I don't know where my father wants me to go?"

"Go to Huanglong County, I have a friend in Huanglong County. If you go to Huanglong County, he will take care of you. Don't worry. There, you can recover from your injuries with peace of mind. Let's talk about everything when your injuries heal..."

After Yan Dechang said this, Yan Liqiang understood that his father Yan Dechang also saw the threat from the Hong family to him, especially when he was severely injured by Hong Tao on the ring today. He was worried that the Hong family would do something to him. In case of precautions, he did not want to stay in Liuhe Town. Liuhe Town is almost the territory of the Hong family. He wanted to go out and leave Liuhe Town temporarily, which was called recuperating the wound, but in fact it was to avoid disaster.

Yan Liqiang was silent for a moment and nodded, "It's up to your father to arrange everything!"

"Well, it's getting late. Let's go and rest after raising incense to your mother's spiritual seat..."
Chapter completed!