Chapter 52 Teaching Tribal Girls to Jump Rope

Pingyao, the strongman of the former Julu tribe, was knocked to the ground by Hagang, the strongman of the former Heishi tribe, which was an expected result.

Ha Gang was the leader of the Four Vajras a long time ago, and his strength should not be underestimated. With the addition of the armor given to him by Xu Que, he is now unmatched in terms of strength! The fact that he easily knocked Pingyao over is a testament to Ha Gang's consistent strength! If he were to perform at his peak, he could probably defeat more than five Pingyaos.

Hou pulled Xu Que to a big tree and took out a leather rope from her animal skin food bag and put it on her hand.

Before she could even call Xu Que over to play open rope skipping, Xu Que spoke first, saying, "Want to play open rope skipping again?"

"Hmm! Very clever! You guessed right! Come on, let's play the rope game!" Hou walked up to Xu Que with a smile and stretched out his hands, which were wrapped in cowhide rope, in front of him.

Xu Que swallowed impatiently a couple of times: "Games are for killing time when you're bored! You're going to take them out and play them all the time!"

"What's wrong? Can't you play? I'm going to play all night tonight, so don't even think about sleeping! Get back to the game!" Hou Na bumped Xu Que's head and said.

Helpless, Xu Que stretched out his fingers to untie the rope while thinking of a way to deal with the roar, which meant he would have to stay up all night again.

"Actually, there are a few games that are even more fun than rope skipping!" Xu Que shouted.

Hou replied nonchalantly, "What?"

"Jumping rope and kicking shuttlecock! Jumping rope is so much fun! Much more fun than rope skipping! It can make you smarter and prettier, and it can also exercise your body and improve your immunity! It can make jumpers very slim! If you can stick to it every day for more than a month, the effect is really obvious!" Xu Que introduced confidently.

The deputy leader of the Black Deer tribe vaguely heard Xu Que say that he had a way to make people slimmer, which piqued her interest.

Always strong and healthy, she longed to have a curvaceous figure like hers, with a prominent bust and hips in a large S-shape.

"Can playing jump rope really give you a figure like hers?" The deputy chief of the Black Deer tribe pointed at Hou and said to Xu Que.

“Yes! Jumping rope can indeed help with weight loss! It can make excess fat disappear! But you have very little excess fat on your body, it’s all muscle to me! Although you look strong, you’re not obese! You’re in a very healthy state! There’s no need to try to look like a roar! Besides, a roar is naturally small-framed, and if he has a little bit of flesh on his body, he looks curvy! You’re naturally large-framed, so in terms of your bone structure, it’s extremely difficult for you to become like a roar!” Xu Que explained to the deputy chief of the Black Deer tribe.

When the other female members of the Black Deer tribe heard Xu Que say that playing jump rope could make one's figure more graceful, they all gathered around to find out more.

When Hou heard Xu Que's eloquent description of hopscotch, he put the leather rope wrapped around his hand into the animal skin food bag he carried with him and listened carefully to his boasting.

Xu Que's purpose was simple: to make Hou enjoy jump rope and forget about the rope skipping game, because Hou is currently obsessed with it. She stays up all night, dragging Xu Que to play with her until dawn—this can't go on!

If you were to get her to love jump rope, there's no way she'd jump until dawn! Jump rope is very physically demanding! Besides, you can't jump rope in bed at night!

Xu Que saw that a large crowd had gathered around, ready to watch.

He randomly selected two onlookers and asked them to help him hold up the rubber bands that were connected by the cowhide ropes.

"Let me demonstrate first! If you like it, I'll teach you!" Xu Que said, then stretched out one leg, pressed down on the rubber band with the instep, hooked his ankle around it, and began to jump while chanting: "Little ball, banana pear, iris blossoms twenty-one, two five six, two five seven, two eight two nine thirty-one. Three five six, three five seven, three eight three nine forty-one. Four five six, four five seven, four eight four nine fifty-one. Five five six, five five seven, five eight five nine sixty-one. Six five six, six five seven, six eight six nine seventy-one. Done jumping!"

Xu Que finished his task in a gesture of completion, and stepped off the rubber band.

"So? Anyone want to dance? Raise your hand so I can see!"

"I!"

"I like!"

"I like it too!"

...

"Any other incantations? I don't like the one you just did!" Hou pouted at Xu Que.

"Yes! What do you think of this? A little panda goes to school, the teacher is lecturing and it's sleeping, it hears in its left ear and it doesn't hear in its right ear, isn't that funny?" Xu Que skillfully hooked the rubber band with his right foot and jumped while chanting the rhyme.

"Little ball, round and round, Auntie takes me to kindergarten, I don't cry, I don't fuss, Auntie praises me as a good baby. One two three four, Auntie's house, I know it, No. 108 Zhongshan Avenue."

"The sun shines brightly, the flowers smile at me, the birds say good morning, why are you carrying a bomb? I'm going to bomb the school, the teachers don't know, I pulled the fuse and ran, and with a bang, the school was blown up!" Xu Que recited the incantation and jumped around while panting.

"I love this when the sun is shining brightly! I want to learn it! I want to learn it!" Hou pouted and shook Xu Que's arm vigorously.

“I want to learn from that little panda! What about you?” The deputy chief of the Black Deer tribe said, glancing at Hua.

"I actually prefer the little ball!" Hua said, glancing at Xu Que.

Xu Que shrugged at the group of cavemen watching the jump rope game and chattering amongst themselves: "Actually, with so many rhymes, the footwork is basically the same! The biggest difference is in the rhymes! As for the footwork and steps, once you learn one, the others are easy to learn!"

"The sun shines brightly! One word, one movement! Hook your feet on the leather rope like this! Start jumping with me!" Xu Que first demonstrated the five movements for the five words "The sun shines brightly," then lifted her legs and placed them on the rubber band, hooking her ankles on the leather rope, explaining the movements.

Xu Que demonstrated each movement to Hou three or five times, and Hou finally learned it!

"Now, try to connect all the movements and dance them together, so that you can master them perfectly!"

"Shout and jump at the same time?" Hou cleared his throat and said to Xu Que.

"If you find it too tiring to shout, or don't want to shout, then I'll shout for you, you just need to jump!" Xu Que cleared his throat with an "Hmm..." and prepared to shout out the jump rope incantation.

"Ready! Jump! The sun shines brightly, the flowers smile at me, the birds chirp 'Good morning!' Why are you carrying a bomb? I'm going to bomb the school, the teachers don't know, I pull the fuse and run, BOOM! The school is blown to bits!"

"Wow! Not bad! Not bad! You learned so fast! You jumped so well!" Xu Que said, and immediately started clapping. All the primitive people present also clapped along with Xu Que.