Chapter 0009: First Glimpse of the Doorway
The two talked all night, and the next morning, Wang Bodang said goodbye to Zhang Xuan and went to Chang'an with his wife and children.
Zhang Xuan was the only one left in the huge house, but in the war when Yang Xuangan attacked Luoyang two months ago, Wang Bodang hoarded a large amount of food and pickles at home, enough for Zhang Xuan to eat for a few months, and Wang Bodang left Zhang Xuan another 20 yuan of money, at least for three months, Zhang Xuan did not have to worry about life problems.
He likes this kind of life very much, there is a place to live, there is something to eat, it is quiet, no one disturbs him, although he may be called to give evidence to Yu Wenshu, but Zhang Xuan does not think about it for the time being.
Before dawn the next day, Zhang Xuan ran out of the alley and ran hard along the wall, which was a habit he had developed since childhood, running five kilometers a day, and being a soldier was the same as being a cadet, but he ran longer, ten kilometers a day.
The morning style was cool, blowing on his blue-black scalp, and his hair was less than half an inch, which was originally a trouble, and he didn't want to attract attention, but Wang Bodang gave him a muddy fur hat to solve the problem.
In the distance, by the pond, several women who had risen early to do laundry were beating their clothes with mallets, and from time to time they looked up in surprise at this strange young man, and then smiled, a young monk who had just returned to his customs.
In fact, women will also be a problem that Zhang Xuan will face after coming to Dasui, but now he doesn't have the heart to think too much, maybe one day in the future, Wang Bodang will introduce his sister to him.
It has been more than ten days since he came to Dasui, Zhang Xuan still lives in a narrow circle, and the only person he knows is Wang Bodang's family except for Li Mi.
Of course, there is Yuwen Chengdu, Zhang Xuan can't forget Yuwen Chengdu's outstanding martial arts, as well as the big phoenix wings gilded hammer, which deeply stimulated him and forced him to constantly challenge his limits.
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The so-called foundation building is actually a kind of martial arts introductory exercise, which adjusts the body's organs and tendons to prepare for the next high-intensity training.
The foundation building is as long as one year, as short as half a year, depending on each person's talent, about six or seven years old children start training, almost every child will have a great change after the foundation is built, the body becomes stronger, the endurance is more durable, and the flexibility of the body is greatly enhanced.
Some gifted children can even achieve the initial effects of easy tendons after the foundation is built, such as stronger eyesight, sharper hearing, and a great increase in strength.
Zhang Xuan entered the junior martial arts class at the age of seven, and also carried out a certain degree of foundation building, his physique and flexibility have laid a solid foundation, but the lack of internal mechanism adjustment, but this is the most critical part of the ancient martial arts foundation, which is related to whether he can achieve a breakthrough in Yijin.
Wang Bodang's foundation building technique is assisted by knife techniques, after taking foundation building medicine, the entire body organs are shaken, and the knife must be used to vent the heat in the body, and at the same time carry out an extreme training to fatigue the body to the limit, and then break through again and again.
Children are often unable to cope with this kind of intense pressure and either reduce their medication or combine it with another medicine, which will prolong the time.
And Zhang Xuan didn't need it, he gradually adapted to high-intensity foundation building, and he broke through the limit again and again, from the initial one hour of knife practice to slowly extended to three hours.
Three months later, he clearly felt the changes in his body, his body became lighter and more agile, the speed of the knife was faster and faster, and his endurance was more durable, far surpassing the most famous endurance king in the whole army, he was able to run two marathons a day with ease, and he did not feel tired.
Although he had conducted more than two years of brutal special forces training, such results were unimaginable.
But only the strength didn't seem to have changed much, which made him unhappy but also a little frustrated.
However, Zhang Xuan found that his appetite began to increase, and he had to eat three bowls of rice at each meal, seeing that the rice bowl in charge of Uncle Wang was about to bottom out.
As the time gradually approached in late December, the New Year was approaching, and every family was preparing for the arrival of the New Year, cleaning the house, removing the filth of the year, buying meat and pickles, preparing the sacrificial objects, and the bamboo poles for blessing were also erected high, and the children were also very happy with the new clothes and New Year's money they were about to get.
But for Zhang Xuan, all this seems to have nothing to do with him, but he has also changed a lot, his hair has grown, he can barely wear a flat scarf, and hard stubble has grown on his lips and under his chin, and the neighbors around him have gradually become familiar with him, and they all think he is Wang Bodang's younger brother.
Sometimes he would go to the vegetable market and the bazaar outside the city to buy some fresh mountain fruits and vegetables, and he began to get acquainted with the times.
But he spends most of his day in his room, pushing his body's limits again and again.
He had even forgotten the terms of his exchange with Wang Bodang, and from beginning to end, no one came to him to prove Yuwenshu.
That night, Zhang Xuan sat cross-legged under the eaves, the cold silver moonlight sprinkled on him, there were more than a dozen long and short icicles hanging under the eaves, the snow on the ground had frozen into ice slag, he only wore a thin cloth coat, but he didn't feel the cold.
He had taken a pill and was quietly waiting for the heat in his chest and abdomen to rise, and he loved the feeling of the heat rushing up, and it made him flutter for a moment.
But the strange thing is that he waited for almost a quarter of an hour, and his body still did not change, and he had already exceeded the time, and he secretly wondered in his heart, could it be that he had taken an ineffective medicine?
He finally couldn't help it, took out another pill and chewed it and took it, and waited for another quarter of an hour, but there was still no change.
Zhang Xuan hesitated for a moment, slowly took out the third pill, he stared at the vermilion pill, hesitated to put the pill into his mouth, and the third pill was chewed and swallowed by him.
But just as he swallowed, an unprecedented boiling heat poured out from his dantian, quickly spreading all over his limbs, and his entire body seemed to be engulfed in flames, burning him screaming, jumping up from under the eaves, rolling in the yard, desperately tearing his clothes.
The stimulus of the ice slag on the ground cleared his mind a little, and he was immediately engulfed by the fiery heat, and he grabbed his knife and slashed wildly in the courtyard.
At this time, the sky was falling with goose feathers and snow, but he didn't know all this, he just chopped and screamed, and all the pores of his body were venting heat outward, but it was still far from enough.
He could no longer bear the heat in his body, and he took a few steps and jumped headlong into the well in the corner of the courtyard......
As the sky gradually brightened, Jang Hyun, who was covered in blue from the cold, slowly crawled out of the well, and if anyone walked into the courtyard without knowing it, they had to be frightened crazy by this scene: a naked man crawled out of the well like a ghost.
Jaang-hyun was so tired that he didn't even know where his hands were, so he couldn't stand up, so he slowly crawled back into the room and wrapped himself tightly in the quilt.
It took a long time for his body to gradually regain a little warmth, and he began to scold himself for being stupid, and he dared to take three pills in a row, and in the midst of the curses, he fell asleep in a drowsy manner.
In his deep sleep, his body began to undergo some kind of change, and a thin stream of heat flowed out of his dantian and flowed to his limbs and five remains.
He slept until the afternoon before waking up, feeling full of energy and strength up and down.
He stretched out, jumped up naked, and took out an old garment left for him by Wang Bodang from the box and put it on.
Next to the box is a thirty-pound stone pier, every day when he wakes up from sleep, he has to lift the stone pier twice to see if his strength has increased, but there is no change, and lifting the stone pier has become a ritual.
Zhang Xuan tied his belt and grabbed the stone pier with his hand, he was suddenly stunned, slowly put down the stone pier, and lifted it up with one arm, put it down and lifted it again, tried more than a dozen times in a row, he suddenly screamed, threw away the stone pier and ran to the back house barefoot.
The ecstasy in his heart made him forget everything, and he found the silver spear that Wang Bodang hid here from under the stone slab in the back hall, which was the silver spear he had seen on the first day, weighing fifty catties.
He had tried to swing it with great difficulty, only a few swings at most, but now, he could easily swing his spear, the tip of which flew all over the courtyard, accompanied by Jang Hyun's heartfelt laughter.
In three months, his foundation building was completed, not only his physique had changed greatly, but his strength had doubled, he was the kind of person who had a very high talent for martial arts, and even building the foundation could achieve the initial effect of Yi Jin.
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Jang Hyun stayed at home for the next three days, and it wasn't until he confirmed that his strength was not a temporary increase, but a real lasting increase, that he completely stopped taking the pills.
In the room, he arranged his belongings in a row, this is Wang Bodang's house, there are not many things that belong to him, a knife, a fur hat, two robes that Wang Bodang gave him, ten yuan of money, and half a bag of flour.
Zhang Xuan began to think about what he should do next, he couldn't live in Wang Bodang's house all the time, it was obvious that Wang Bodang would not come again, he and Li Jiancheng should go to Wagangzhai, and they were warmly welcomed by Zhai Rang.
Li Jiancheng's difficulties are not now, but in a year or two, but his Zhang Xuan's difficulties are in front of him, where should he go?
At this moment, he suddenly heard someone knocking on the door outside, this was the first time someone knocked on the door in three months, and Zhang Xuan's first reaction was that Wang Bodang was back.
He hurriedly packed up his things and ran to the courtyard, "It's here!" Here it comes! ”
Zhang Xuan opened the door, but was stunned, it was not Wang Bodang outside, but two old women.
"Yes.... Aunt Kang! ”
He recognized one of them, it was the aunt next door, she was kind, and when he came back from a run in the morning, he would often meet Aunt Kang going grocery shopping, and he would smile at him.
"Erlang, this is also our neighbor, Aunt Ma."
Aunt Kang always thought that Zhang Xuan was Wang Bodang's younger brother, so she called him Erlang, Zhang Xuan hurriedly nodded to the other woman and smiled: "Aunt Ma is good!" ”
It's just that everyone doesn't usually interact with each other, what do they do with themselves? Zhang Xuan's eyes fell on their hands, and he saw that each of them was carrying a bamboo basket.
Aunt Kang smiled and said, "Today is Chinese New Year's Eve, and we estimate that you haven't prepared any meals, so we will send you some food." ”
"Ahh Zhang Xuan exclaimed in surprise and touched the back of his head, it turned out that today was Chinese New Year's Eve, and he didn't know anything.
"You're welcome, come on!"
The two aunts stuffed the bamboo basket to him, and Zhang Xuan was grateful and hurriedly thanked him.
"Everyone is a neighbor, it's not easy for you to live alone, if you have any difficulties, just say it, and we will try our best to help."
"Thank you, two aunts, thank you!"
The two aunts left with a smile, Zhang Xuan returned to the room with a bamboo basket, opened the lid, and there was a bowl of meat, a bowl of fish, and a bottle of freshly scalded wine.
Zhang Xuan felt a warmth in his heart, and the corners of his eyes were a little sour, these kind aunts knew that they had nothing.
He opened the wine bottle and took a sip, the warm rice wine flowed down the esophagus into the chest and abdomen, and an indescribable loneliness and loss suddenly surged in his heart, today is actually Chinese New Year's Eve, but he is alone in the Sui Dynasty, without relatives and no reason, and no one misses him.
He slowly walked to the window, stared at the starry sky in the night sky for a long time, I don't know how long, his eyes were a little moist, slowly lowered his head, and sighed.
That night, Zhang Xuan spent his first Chinese New Year's Eve alone after coming to the Sui Dynasty.
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