"What did you say? Then I'll let you taste the feeling of a fist?"
Before the man could finish speaking, Ji Nianqin kicked him.
"Haha, you want me to feel it? I'll let you taste my stinky little feet first. In ancient times, rich people wore handmade cloth shoes with thousand-layer soles, while poor people like me wore straw sandals. So it would be strange if my feet didn't stink."
"Stop, stop, stop. I almost forgot. It was you who taught me the martial arts stone. You marked the stone with weight to train my arm strength, and carved an auspicious message on it. It said to beat women."
"What? Let me see."
Ji Nianqin stared at the stone for a long time and finally found that the word "no" was carved too shallowly, even she couldn't see it.
"What I said is, don't hit women."
"Okay, then I'll beat the man."
The man began to shout "Yiyi Yaya", raising his fist towards the Tai Chi man behind Ji Nianqin.
"Um?"
People were not afraid of him at all. They all took out their fans and made a few random gestures, which scared the man to death.
The "pa pa" sound of the fan was accompanied by the "da da" sound of the man running away.
Many spectators began to applaud Ji Nianqin.
"Very good, a girl knows some martial arts, which can be used at critical moments, especially against a bad guy like this, you should scare him, what a bully, what a bully."
"Really? Girl power? That's not a bad thing, is it?"
"Of course not. It's a great thing, because girls are naturally weak. Practicing martial arts can not only strengthen their bodies, but also help them fight against hooligans. Why not? I've decided that we can also bring you along for this Tai Chi performance."
"Take me? Great."
"But you're not allowed to actually hurt anyone with the hairpin. We're just practicing moves to scare people. Anyway, we're trying to improve and promote Tai Chi as a way to train the body and mind, so you can't use this."
"Don't take this? I still want to promote it with you guys."
"If I don't need it, then I won't go. The hairpin is me, and I am it. It has long been integrated into my life. Just like the stone-lifting game for the martial arts exam, my dead mantis used to play with the hairpin every day. And the first thing it lifted was actually the hairpin. With little by little practice, it finally became my assistant and lifted the martial arts stone. How could I possibly abandon it?"
After Ji Nianqin finished speaking, she walked away mumbling, with reporters chasing after her.
"Don't go, don't go!"
"What are you doing?"
When Ji Nianqin turned around, the reporter took a photo of her wearing the hairpin.
"You know the big stone in the Imperial Examination Plaque Museum?"
"Of course. It's hollowed out in the middle, with a few square and rectangular pieces, about half a meter high. I went to see it, and it's exactly what I lifted back then."
"But it was a weightlifting tool used to assess the arm strength of candidates in the Qing Dynasty's military imperial examinations. Could it be that you really are..."
"No, I'm from the Ming Dynasty. What I saw was that the hollowed-out part in the middle, or the shape of a cross or a half moon, was so that we, the examinees, could put our hands in and raise them."
"There's an inscription on the front, showing the weight of the stone and the year of the exam."
"There are also auspicious words to wish the candidates success in the exam. So when I teach modern men, I improve it so that they don't hit women."
"Ji Nianqin, I thought you were just reading a lot of historical books, so you just spoke freely. But now it seems that you are actually an ancient person. It's incredible. No, I must expose your story..."
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