“My dad’s home. You’re really something. I told you I could come out by myself, but you had to call me.” Mei Liang knew he was going to get scolded again when he got back.
"I didn't do it on purpose. I noticed you hadn't come out for a while. Hey! What's your sister doing in the yard?" Zhang Yuanchao scratched his head, deciding to change the subject.
"Put on your horse stance." Mei Liang turned and walked towards the assembly point while answering Zhang Yuanchao's question.
"Horse stance? Your sister knows martial arts? How good is she? Who taught her? Does she still take on apprentices?" Zhang Yuanchao's eyes lit up, and he immediately asked Mei Si's master.
"Is it powerful...? It's alright! Master... my sister said she's gone." Mei Liang would never tell Zhang Yuanchao how ruthless his sister was.
"Ah~? He's gone. What a pity. I was hoping to become his apprentice." Zhang Yuanchao was somewhat disappointed; he would never become a great hero.
"Tch! I didn't even get to pay my respects, how could it be your turn?" Mei Liang rolled his eyes, quickened his pace, and turned out of the alley to reach the meeting point.
"Mei Liang, you two are too slow!" Xu Aiguo, who had been waiting there, complained.
"Mei Liang, Mei Liang, you can ask your sister to teach you!" Zhang Yuanchao felt more and more uneasy. His master was gone, but Mei Liang's sister knew how to teach him. He could easily ask his sister to teach him!
Mei Liang could have thought about it, but he couldn't stand it after just ten minutes of horse stance that day. He didn't want to experience that feeling again for the time being. He would think about his dream of becoming a martial arts master in a few days!
"What's wrong? What are you going to teach? Isn't Mei Liang's sister still in daycare? What do you need a kid to teach her?" Xu Aiguo interjected.
"Practicing martial arts! Mei Liang's sister knows martial arts!" Zhang Yuanchao excitedly gestured the martial arts moves he had imagined.
"What? You know martial arts? Mei Liang! You're not being fair! If you know martial arts, why don't you teach me? Don't you even consider me your brother?" Xu Aiguo was unhappy, feeling that Mei Liang was disloyal.
"Are you shoving smoke from your ears? It's his sister who knows, not him," Zhang Yuanchao said, shoving Xu Aiguo.
"Your ears are burning! How can you be so reckless? Don't you think about it? He and his sister are family. His sister is so young but she knows martial arts. How could he not know?" Xu Aiguo looked at Zhang Yuanchao as if he were a fool.
“That seems to make sense.” Zhang Yuanchao nodded, agreeing with Xu Aiguo’s assessment.
"Are you two still going to climb the tree? If not, I'm going home for dinner," Mei Liang said, looking at the two of them with annoyance.
Mei Liang was upset about this. He couldn't understand why that martial arts master would take a liking to Mei Si, that chubby girl. Was it because there were no suitable people to learn martial arts in his maternal hometown?
Mei Liang regretted not spending his summer and winter vacations at his maternal grandparents' house. If he had been there, would that martial arts master have discovered him? He looked much more suited to martial arts than Mei Si.
"Why are you still climbing trees, Mei Liang? If you're a true brother, teach us martial arts." Xu Aiguo stared intently at Mei Liang and said.
"I already told you I don't know how! My sister learned it at my maternal grandparents' house. I don't go there except for a few days during the Chinese New Year. How could I possibly know it?" Mei Liang was a little angry. He turned around and left, not intending to pay any more attention to the two of them.
"Hey! Mei Liang, don't be angry! Why don't we all study together? Let's go find your sister right now." Zhang Yuanchao took a few quick steps and put his arm around Mei Liang's neck.
“Yes, yes, yes! Mei Liang, don’t be angry. We’ll practice martial arts together, we’re still good brothers.” Xu Aiguo walked to Mei Liang’s other side and put his arm around Mei Liang’s shoulder.
"...To tell you the truth, I did a horse stance with my sister for 10 minutes that day, and it was so tiring that I gave up right then and there. Otherwise, would I not have told you about this!"
“Learning martial arts is inherently about enduring hardship. It’s normal that you couldn’t persevere when you were learning alone with your sister. But this time, with the two of us by your side, we’re sure to become great heroes! Hoo hoo~!” Zhang Yuanchao jumped forward, striking what he considered a very heroic pose.
The three of them made a plan and headed straight for the Mei family. At this time, Mei Si was unaware that she would have three older apprentices.
"Sisi~!" Mei Liang led the two into the courtyard, and seeing his younger sister lying motionless in the yard, he was a little embarrassed to speak.
Mei Si, who was eavesdropping on the group chat, heard Mei Liang call her and immediately closed the group, intending to see what Mei Liang wanted.
"Say something!" Xu Aiguo urged, seeing that Mei Liang hadn't spoken for a long time.
"Why don't you say it for him?" Mei Si was also impatient with Mei Liang's hesitation and simply let Xu Aiguo say it for him.
"Let me explain. It's like this: the three of us want to learn martial arts from you." Seeing that his sister was getting impatient, Mei Liang quickly stated their request.
"Learn martial arts?" Mei Si looked the three of them up and down, not understanding what learning martial arts had to do with her.
Mei Si did know what learning martial arts meant. Gou Sheng had told her stories of chivalrous heroes in the martial arts world before. She felt that some of those moves were completely unnecessary, but Gou Sheng said that those moves looked good. Mei Si couldn't understand why killing someone had to look good.
“Yes, yes, yes! Sis, why don’t you teach the brothers?” Zhang Yuanchao nodded repeatedly and started trying to get closer to Mei Si.
"My... skills aren't very good." Mei Si felt that her skills were far inferior to those beautiful martial arts, and they probably wouldn't want to learn them.
"It doesn't have to be pretty, as long as it can defeat the bad guys." Xu Aiguo grinned, knowing that Mei Si had agreed.
"Then kneel down and become their disciple." Mei Si maintained her horse stance, raised her chin, and gestured for them to kneel down and kowtow.
Mei Si felt that she should abide by the rules here. If she wanted to learn martial arts from her, she should kowtow and become her disciple, just like in the story of Gou Sheng.
“…I…I am your brother!” Mei Liang stared wide-eyed at Mei Si, unable to believe that his sister would make him kneel down.
"Ah, I know who you are." Mei Si looked at Mei Liang with a puzzled expression, wondering why he was asking this.
"Hey, sis, can we talk this over? Can we not become disciples?" Zhang Yuanchao never expected that learning martial arts required becoming a disciple. If it were someone older than them, they would have knelt down, but Mei Liang's sister wasn't even half his age.
“I will not teach you if you do not worship me,” Mei Si said expressionlessly.
“This…” Zhang Yuanchao turned to look at Mei Liang and Xu Aiguo, unsure of what to do.
Xu Aiguo took a deep breath and knelt down with a thud.
Zhang Yuanchao glanced at Mei Liang and then knelt down as well.
Mei Liang was surprised that they were actually willing to kneel down to learn martial arts. He knew that if he didn't kneel down now, Xu Aiguo and Zhang Yuanchao would probably ignore him in the future.
"You'd better keep your word. We've become your apprentices, so you have to teach us properly." Mei Liang was afraid that his sister was just teasing them.
"Do you want to learn or not?" Mei Si felt that Mei Liang was talking too much nonsense and was somewhat reluctant to take him on.
"thump!"
"Master, please accept my bow!" the three said.
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