After the three-day ceremony, a letter came from the prefectural government saying that the martial arts candidate recommended on the tenth day of the third month would arrive, so the Niu family prepared for the apprenticeship ceremony well in advance.
However, the two instructors they initially recruited did not come; instead, a dancer and a martial arts graduate in his thirties arrived.
At the beginning of the year, Shenyu's older sister and sister-in-law both said they wanted to send the child over.
“My name is Gu Yu. From today onwards, I am your master. Who is Xiao Heng?” Gu Yu asked.
Xiao Heng stepped forward and said, "I am."
Gu Yu's face remained expressionless; he simply nodded and said, "Understood."
Looking at Gu Yu, the "martial arts champion" in front of him, Xiao Heng muttered to himself: If his father and mother knew that the martial arts champion from ten years ago, the powerful and influential General of the State, was their child's teacher, their jaws would probably drop in astonishment.
Little Fu Bao seemed inexplicably resistant to the idea of taking on a master, and instead said:
"Father, Mother, I want to dance with my fourth sister. I don't want to become a martial arts master."
Gu Yu was teaching martial arts for the first time in his life, and he was even rejected...
“Little girl, not just anyone can learn martial arts from me. Are you sure you don’t want to learn?” Gu Yu said.
Little Fu Bao shook his head firmly:
"Not learning"
Gu Yu said, "If you don't want to learn, I won't force you. Just don't get beaten up by your cousins and cry later."
Shen Changzhu, Shen Changyi, Shen Lin's child, and Li Chenxi all arrived this morning.
The Niu family home became a haven for children.
The dancer they hired was surnamed Qin, and everyone called her Shiyi Niang. Qin Shiyi Niang was the best dancer in Jiangzhou Prefecture, and she only needed to teach dance for ten days a month.
Seeing Xiao Fubao's somewhat resistant expression, Xiao Heng felt inexplicably heartbroken. In her previous life, she knew kung fu, so she must have learned some martial arts from her master in that life.
Although she had no memories of her past life, she had an inexplicable sense of rejection towards her master deep down.
The news that the Niu family had hired a martial arts master quickly spread throughout Niushan Village. The master was said to be a martial arts graduate, which was quite remarkable.
Some people wanted to send their children who didn't want to study to learn martial arts, but when they inquired about the tuition fee, which was fifty taels a year, they all gave up the idea.
Gu Yu did not require Xiao Fubao to learn martial arts.
Little Fubao learns to dance from Niu Baolan.
Qin Shiyi Niang's dance instruction fee was ten strings of cash per month, since she only taught for ten days a month.
Gu Yu ranked his nine disciples according to seniority and age. Niu Yong was the oldest, and although he was the uncle or maternal uncle of several children in their secular families, they were only considered as fellow disciples.
Shen Changzhu, 16.
He was the second apprentice.
Shen Changyi was the third disciple.
Niu Cuihua is twelve years old and is the fourth apprentice.
Xiao Heng was also twelve, making him the fifth disciple.
Ji Ying was the sixth disciple.
Ji Duo was nine years old and was the seventh apprentice.
Meihua is also nine years old and is the eighth apprentice.
Niu Baozhu was six years old and was the ninth apprentice.
Because the family was still building a new house, the nine apprentices could only practice their basic skills in the backyard after class every day.
Since Xiao Fubao and Niu Baolan haven't started school yet, they practice dancing during the day and at night they lie on the back window, eating osmanthus chestnut cakes while drooling over them.
"Little brother, the osmanthus chestnut cake is so delicious! Stop practicing your kung fu and come eat some osmanthus chestnut cake! Come on, come on!"
Gu Yu felt that this little kid was really wicked. Not only did he not want to be his apprentice, but he also wanted to seduce his apprentice away!
That's terrible!
Xiao Heng suppressed a laugh.
In his previous life, he had no idea that his little darling had such a cunning and mischievous side.
"You must concentrate when practicing," Gu Yu said.
Xiao Heng immediately focused his mind.
"Your posture is wrong, your stance is unstable," Gu Yu said, tapping Niu Yong's leg twice with a ruler.
"No slacking off during practice!" He then walked around Xiao Heng and tapped Ji Duo's leg. "You've been practicing horse stance for half a month to solidify your lower body foundation." "Starting the next half month, you'll practice punching fruit trees until the knuckles of your fingers are flat when you clench your fists."
"Huh?" Ji Duo was the one who shouted the loudest.
Xiao Heng's master in his previous life was Gu Yu, so these things should not be difficult for him... He just didn't expect that at this time in his previous life, he hadn't practiced for a single day.
After his rebirth, he hasn't practiced for even a single day.
Xiao Fubao only watched them practice horse stance for a few days before losing interest. Instead, she enthusiastically explored "food" with Niu Baolan.
The two little brats were wholeheartedly learning to cook from Chen Yu. Little did she know that the delicious food she learned would later be used to win over Gu Yu and beg him to teach her kung fu.
Shen Yu goes to the shop before dawn every morning to make braised dishes and cold dishes, and usually comes back around noon to make pickled dishes.
I occasionally cook for the children.
Although it was tough, it was fulfilling.
A new house is under construction, so Chen Yu personally prepares all the children's meals, while Xiang Jinlan is in charge of preparing the meals for the migrant workers.
Meanwhile, Xiao Fubao is raising her pearl and grouper every day. The grouper fry have grown quite a bit after more than a month of raising them.
Pearl farming is a technical job. Xiao Fubao has to painstakingly clean out the diseased and dead oysters, as well as clean the water tank and disinfect the pearl oysters in the tank.
She discovered that if one pearl oyster gets sick, it will infect the other pearl oysters, and then the oysters will smell bad.
After disinfecting the pearl oyster, Xiao Fubao took out the gold leaf to feed Zhaocai. This time, she also brought Zhaocai osmanthus chestnut cake.
Last time she dreamed of wealth, she said she liked eating osmanthus chestnut cake.
The little guy is very busy.
After eating the golden leaves and osmanthus chestnut cake, Zhao Cai happily shook its leaves.
[Little Fu Bao, the osmanthus chestnut cake is so delicious! I wish there were osmanthus and chestnut trees growing all over the mountains!]
Little Lucky Baby seems to have understood the meaning of attracting wealth.
[Little Lucky Baby, next time the God of Cookery comes to see his little apprentice, I'll ask him for a recipe for Osmanthus Chestnut Cake. You can make it and sell it every day, then I can eat it every day.]
Little Fu Bao can't hear.
There's no point in talking about things that haven't happened yet in a dream, but... ah, planting osmanthus trees is a good idea.
Osmanthus trees are extremely valuable; currently, only the imperial merchant Murong family has planted several dozen hectares of them.
[Ah! There's a flower in Heaven that smells so good that even if you don't wash your hair for three years, it will still smell nice and not oily. Little Fu Bao, just you wait, I'll come to you in your dream tonight.]
Little Lucky Baby dreamed of attracting wealth last night.
"Zhao Cai, you've gotten fat!" Little Lucky Baby said.
Is this the important point? Is this the important point? The important point is the recipe I just told you, did you remember it?
The lucky little girl was so anxious she was jumping up and down.
Little Fu Bao nodded: "I've remembered it, but can you give me a recipe? I can't write!"
What if some medicinal herbs have the same name but different characters?
"Sigh, why are you making things so complicated?" Zhao Cai conjured up a prescription. "This prescription can't be seen by just anyone, not even your aunt or your maternal aunt."
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