Chapter 54 Talent 1
◎Rotten wood is particularly easy to carve? ◎
Yan Yue was carried back to the inn by Bai Chen, and immediately excitedly told Chu Zhi and Nan Qing what had just happened.
When she came back from urinating, she heard someone selling candied haws and went to buy a few.
As a result, a crazy woman jumped out from nowhere, howling and snatched a purse from a passing man, crying and scolding the man for being an ungrateful man. The man also had a bad temper. When he failed to get the wallet back, he started beating people.
She wanted to speak out to stop them, but was pulled away by several women nearby.
They said that the crazy woman was the wife of a wealthy family. At her son's first birthday party, another woman came to her house with her child in her arms. She was so angry that she beat the man. The rich man then accused her of being arrogant and jealous and shouted in public that he wanted to divorce her.
She fainted from anger, and when she woke up and learned that she was divorced, she went crazy.
The people were all laughing at the joke, because the crazy woman had committed adultery with the rich man and spread the news that they were a perfect match, and thus squeezed out the rich man's original wife.
At the beginning she said that she didn't care about her status. Even if the original wife didn't allow her to be a concubine, she would rather be a concubine and stay with the rich man for the rest of her life. Now, only seven years have passed, and the rich man has become a married woman.
What's even worse is that although the original wife was driven away by her, she divorced the rich man. With her dowry and the assets compensated by the rich family, she had already married a son-in-law and was living a prosperous life.
She worked hard as a stepmother for so many years and gave birth to two children for a rich family, but in the end she was divorced and kicked out of the house.
Although her family was an ordinary people's family, they looked down on her for being shameless and doing immoral things, and severed ties with her early on. Now she has been divorced and no one from her parents' family wants to take her home.
She would wander around the streets like this all day long, acting crazy. Whenever she saw a man wearing a purse embroidered by a woman, she would rush up to grab it.
Yan Yue sighed, "How pitiful and hateful! There are so many good men, why does she have to be attached to a married man? She is so infatuated that she is deserted by her friends and relatives. Tell me, has she ever regretted it?"
Chu Zhi laughed at her: "Boss, how do you know that she is so infatuated and in love with one person?"
Yan Yue was puzzled: "If not, why would she go crazy?"
Chu Zhi said: "She may be crazy because she risked everything and planned for many years, but ended up with nothing! That rich man is about the same age as her father, how can she be sincere? She is just thinking about his family background and wants to live a rich life!"
Yan Yue asked in confusion: "Why can't it be true love if there is a big age difference?"
Chu Zhi chuckled at her: "Who doesn't like a young and handsome boy? Why do you have to fall in love with an old man? Do you like to serve your father? I have been running around with my grandfather since I was a child, how come I have never seen a young and beautiful girl fall in love with an old man from a poor family?"
"They are just like flies targeting shit!"
She said it simply and crudely, but Yan Yue suddenly realized: "So that's it!"
"You are two years older than me, how come you don't know anything?" Chu Zhi laughed at Yan Yue, and then warned her seriously: "I tell you, old men who like young girls are all bad!"
Yan Yue couldn't help but ask: "How old is considered an old man?"
Chu Zhi thought for a moment and said, "Eight years old. A man cannot be more than eight years older than a woman, otherwise he must be a pervert!"
“Cough cough cough…”
Bai Chen choked for no reason and felt a little guilty for some reason.
He wiped the corner of his mouth and pretended to be calm and said, "Have you finished eating? After you finish eating, I will take you to choose some weapons that are suitable for you."
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If you talk about practicing martial arts in a dry way, it will make people sleepy, but once you touch the weapons, the feeling will come immediately.
Yan Yue rarely felt sleepy after lunch. She looked at the long whip, short sword, dagger, and Emei spear in front of her, touching them and couldn't let go.
Bai Chen performed a simple set of sword moves and explained, "The short sword is of moderate length and weight, easy to carry, and does not require much strength. It can bring out the characteristics of speed and agility in battle, and is very suitable for women."
Yan Yue's eyes sparkled as she asked, "But I heard that if a weapon is one inch longer, it is one point stronger, and if it is one inch shorter, it is one point more dangerous?"
Bai Chen said, "That's for soldiers on the battlefield or warriors traveling the world. Monsters don't need to be used to using weapons. You're just using it to deal with monsters. As long as you use this short sword flexibly and strike quickly and accurately, you can definitely inflict heavy damage on the opponent."
Yan Yue nodded and said excitedly: "Then show me another whip."
"Uh...wait a minute."
Bai Chen only knew how to use a sword, so he picked up a few booklets that he had bought with him, flipped through a few pages, and asked, "How about we try the Emei Thorn first?"
Yan Yue was very skeptical and couldn't help asking, "You don't know how to use it at all? Are you learning it by reading a book?"
"Who said that? Do we need to learn this?"
Bai Chen, not willing to be outdone, picked up the Emei Spear and swung it around.
He was tall and the two Emei spears in his hands looked like little toys for children. The more Yan Yue looked at it, the more familiar it looked. She couldn't help but ask, "Isn't this the same set of moves you used with the dagger just now? Are these two weapons used in the same way?"
Bai Chen touched his nose guiltily: Can you see that? But he said firmly: "As for weapons, no matter how they change, they still remain essentially the same! As long as they can hurt people, that's enough!"
Yan Yue thought he was talking nonsense, but she had no evidence.
Bai Chen evaded the question, "Just learn what I just taught you, and it will be enough for you to deal with most monsters! Come on, come on, give it a try!"
Yan Yue took the sword, and Bai Chen taught her in detail: "Hold the hilt with your thumb and index finger, and the other fingers will hold it naturally. Use your index finger to control the main direction."
"Thrust, chop, lift, and hang are the most basic sword techniques. To chop with the sword, you use your shoulder as the axis to drive your arm and sword downward..."
What Bai Chen didn't expect was that Yan Yue was extremely talented. He only needed to explain all the key points once and then demonstrate them to her, and she could replicate them almost exactly.
She has very stable arm, torso and lower body strength, great flexibility and good coordination. The sword chopping, sword lifting, sword stabbing, forward, side step, and backward step are all very standard.
Bai Chen couldn't help but mutter, "Strange! Could it be that rotten wood is particularly easy to carve?"
Yan Yue raised her eyebrows complacently: "It seems that you have a good eye! I am indeed a rare genius with extraordinary talent and wisdom! You must be nice to me in the future, otherwise I will find another rich man!"
Bai Chen snorted coldly and held up two fingers: "First, there is no master higher than mine in this world; second, are you sure you can live to see that day?"
"You still dare to threaten me?" Yan Yue threw the sword away angrily, crossed his arms over his chest, "I won't learn anymore!"
Bai Chen almost didn't react, and was so angry that he wanted to laugh, "You are learning this from me?"
"What else?"
"The reason I asked you to learn Kung Fu is naturally for self-defense! Next time you encounter thieves and villains, you will be able to protect yourself!"
"Shut up your crow mouth! How can a good person meet a bad guy when nothing happens? Are you cursing me? I have all five elements, good fortune, good health, and a long life!"
"Oh, this is the first time I've seen someone trying to be a joke! Shake your head and listen for the sound of water."
"Believe it or not, I will die in front of you. Then you will have no heirs and your family line will be extinct!"
"Do you think too highly of yourself, or do you think too lowly of me?"
"Then just treat me as dead!"
Yan Yue couldn't argue with him, so she turned around and went back to her room, slumped down on the recliner, closed her eyes and pretended to be dead.
"I……!!!"
Bai Chen clenched his fists and waved them in the air, then stomped his feet in anger and took several deep breaths, finally suppressing the rage that was rising up in his body.
He flipped through the booklet on whip techniques, then rubbed his face, adjusted his expression, and walked into the room to coax, "Little ancestor, if you don't like sword techniques, how about we try whip techniques?"
Yan Yue turned her head away and refused to answer.
Bai Chen leaned over and lowered his voice, coaxing her into her ear: "I'll come tomorrow and bring you your favorite sweet sauce duck!"
"real?"
Yan Yue turned her head suddenly, and her movement was so hasty that her cheek brushed against the white dust without any protection.
Time seemed to have stopped.
It has a smooth and warm touch with a special fragrance. Even if you just wipe it lightly, the fragrance will penetrate into the nasal cavity unscrupulously, making the brain dizzy.
Bai Chen's body froze, a barely perceptible panic flashed across his face, and a strange heat rose from under his neck, steaming his ears red.
The demon had extraordinary hearing ability. At this moment, there was no noise around him, only the sound of his rapidly accelerated heartbeat falling into his ears.
Not just his, but hers as well.
Yan Yue blinked her dark pupils and asked doubtfully, "Are you hot?"
Bai Chen's Adam's apple rolled, he retracted his gaze from her face, and stood up straight: "Yeah, a little bit."
He turned his back to Yan Yue, handed over the booklet on whip techniques in his hand, and said, "That's all for today! Take a look at this booklet first, and I'll explain it to you tomorrow."
He left immediately after he finished speaking. Yan Yue looked puzzled and asked, "Will you bring me sweet sauce duck tomorrow?"
Bai Chen slipped, but didn't answer, and walked out of the door in a slightly embarrassed manner.
Yan Yue lowered his head and looked at his chest. He patted his chest awkwardly and said softly as if to coax Xiao Bai: "Don't be afraid! Bai Chen is different from that rabbit demon. Don't be afraid of him."
Bai Chen's pounding heart didn't calm down until he walked two blocks away.
He was weird and funny. The thousand-year-old demon Bai Chen, the king of the demon clan, was actually frightened by a little girl and fled away? What a joke! Not to mention that humans and demons are different, how could he possibly be attracted to a mortal who only lives for a few decades?
When he thought of this, Bai Chen's restless heart calmed down.
His stern expression returned to normal, he raised his head to look at the shops on the street, and walked into one.
"I want to order a sweet sauce duck."
“It’s just brushing a layer of honey on the outside of the duck, and then baking the sweetness in.”
"If you don't have it, make it now! If I can't get it tomorrow, I'll tear down your shop!"
In the evening, Yan Yue was flipping through a booklet on whip techniques. He turned around and saw Xiaobai, then quickly walked over and held him down!
"Are you crazy? I can't control you anymore, so why don't you try? Do you really think I dare not hit you?"
She cursed harshly and raised her hand to slap him again and again, but she was reluctant to put her hand down.
In the end, he symbolically poked Xiao Bai on the forehead and scolded, "Go crazy outside every day!"
"What's out there? Huh?"
"You haven't been home all day! You don't have me in your heart, right? Then your sister doesn't have you in her heart either!"
"Tomorrow we'll have sweet sauce duck. I've never seen it sold in Linjiang City! If you go out and have fun again, don't blame me for not giving you any!"
"I won't leave you a single bone!"
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