As it turns out, TV dramas are just TV dramas.
Sheng Qingyang's apprenticeship process was extremely simple: choose a knife, wear the inheritance jade pendant, and offer a bottle of nutrient solution to the photo of the ancestral master. That was it.
Moreover, in order not to waste food, Sheng Qingyang drank the entire nutrient solution offered in one gulp.
With the process completed, training officially began.
Sheng Qingyang took out her tablet, pulled out a power strip from Zhao Gang's house, and sat at the front door to charge the tablet while asking Zhao Xiaoxiu to demonstrate her current physical condition so she could get a basic understanding of her abilities.
Then record all this data and, based on Zhao Xiaoxiu's data, develop a targeted and scientific training plan.
Sheng Qingyang said with a smile, "That's how my grandmother helped me develop my training plan back then. At that time, the old men and women in my neighborhood couldn't even figure out how to use a TV remote, but my grandmother was already proficient in using computer software."
"They are all very capable people. They never complain about their environment, but only silently improve themselves and keep up with the times."
Looking back, that person is gone. The environment then is vastly different from the environment now.
But she always kept in mind her grandmother's and mother's spirit of not complaining about their circumstances and striving for progress.
I also hope to pass this on to the next generation, giving them the strength to keep moving forward even in adversity.
Zhao Xiaoxiu, who had already jumped around the mutated dwarf frog fifteen times, was panting heavily and covered in sweat. She looked pitifully at her master, who was 'remembering the past', but did not receive any order to stop.
"Keep it up." Sheng Qingyang spoke in the gentlest tone, yet with the most ruthless edge: "Sweetie, two more laps, you can do it!"
For a fleeting moment, Zhao Xiaoxiu felt as if the beautiful world had been pulled away from her.
But the biting cold wind told her that she had to crawl into the hole she had dug herself, no matter what.
"Okay." Zhao Xiaoxiu took a deep breath and continued!
To her own disbelief, she not only completed two more laps, but also jumped an extra one and a half laps before her legs truly began to tremble and she could no longer jump.
Sheng Qingyang was surprised and filled in the words "extraordinary physical strength" on the tablet form, and noted down the exact data of eighteen and a half laps.
Only then did he put down the tablet and come to Zhao Xiaoxiu, who was slumped over next to the jade flower, gently pick her up and place her on his lap, and use his hands to help relax her leg muscles.
To Sheng Qingyang's surprise, after jumping so many times, his two chubby little legs didn't have any muscle tension at all.
Looking down at the little girl who was panting heavily, he seemed to be calming down faster than others.
"Hahaha..." Zhao Xiaoxiu couldn't help but laugh out loud because it was so itchy.
Sheng Qingyang asked in a low voice, "Doesn't it hurt?" He could even laugh.
Zhao Xiaoxiu shook her head, not feeling any pain at all. "Hahaha, it's so itchy!"
She couldn't take it anymore and tried to struggle off Sheng Qingyang. Sheng Qingyang didn't stop her, so this little girl, who had just done eighteen and a half frog jumps, ran back into the house as if nothing had happened, shouting, "Daddy, I want to drink yogurt! I'm so thirsty and hungry!"
Sheng Qingyang was dumbfounded. Could such rapid recovery really exist?
Although the mutated dwarf pine is not very big, it is still forty meters long in a lap, and eighteen and a half laps is equivalent to a distance of seven hundred and forty meters.
Based on a standard 400-meter track, it's only 60 meters short of two laps.
If a three-and-a-half-year-old child, assuming proper form, jumps this far on their first frog jump, they won't recover well without resting for a day or two.
In less than half a minute, it was bouncing around again?
Sheng Qingyang watched as her little apprentice walked back with a yogurt in her mouth and a big smile, and decided to give her another try to see just how far she could go.
"Have you finished drinking?" Sheng Qingyang asked with a gentle smile.
Zhao Xiaoxiu finished the last sip of yogurt, put down the empty bottle, nodded, and said, "Okay, all done."
Sheng Qingyang led her to a large truck parked near the house. There were some unused awning materials on the ground next to the truck.
Sheng Qingyang told her to pick up the materials, as many as she could, until she couldn't carry any more.
Since the sunroom was too large to carry, Zhao Xiaoxiu opted to use the steel frame.
She first picked a two-meter-long steel frame that she felt she could lift, and finding that she could still lift it, she stacked the two together and hugged them.
Thinking they could still take some, they took three more.
"Is this alright, Master?" Zhao Xiaoxiu wrapped her arms around the three steel bars, dragged them to Sheng Qingyang, and looked up to ask tentatively.
Sheng Qingyang frowned, waved her hand to let her put the steel back, and then told her to pick the biggest stone she could lift.
Zhao Xiaoxiu didn't know her master's intention, but she just did as she was told; it was much more fun than frog jumps.
The wasteland was full of stones, and Zhao Xiaoxiu easily found a stone the size of a basketball, which she picked up with both hands and lifted up with ease.
Sheng Qingyang hissed and simply let Zhao Xiaoxiu push him.
Zhao Xiaoxiu was a little hesitant, "What if Master gets pushed down and injured?"
"Don't worry, you won't get hurt. Just use all your strength to rush over and push me." Sheng Qingyang assumed a horse stance, signaling the little girl to go all out.
Zhao Xiaoxiu didn't hold back either, letting out a loud "Ah!" and charging forward.
She obediently used all her strength, kicking up the snow on the ground and hurtling towards Sheng Qingyang like a cannonball.
With a muffled thud, the master and apprentice fell to the ground together. Sheng Qingyang even groaned in pain, looking at the little girl lying on top of him with disbelief in his eyes.
"Did you use your full strength?" she asked in shock, touching her sore thigh.
Zhao Xiaoxiu nodded and asked, "I used all my strength, is Master alright?"
“…It’s nothing.” Sheng Qingyang said hesitantly.
Zhao Xiaoxiu asked worriedly, "Are you really alright?"
To prove he was really alright, Sheng Qingyang nimbly rolled over and stood up from the snow, holding Zhao Xiaoxiu in his arms with one hand.
Even with the effort of his thighs, he couldn't help but hiss and gasp.
"Master?" Zhao Xiaoxiu's eyes were full of worry and a little surprise. "Am I that strong?"
Sheng Qingyang nodded heavily: "Great."
So much so that she immediately decided to skip the basic physical training and get straight to the point.
Sheng Qingyang put the child down, enduring the soreness in his thighs, and solemnly put his hands behind his back, lowering his eyes slightly, and announced to the little guy in front of him who had no idea of his strength:
"You don't need to practice physical fitness anymore, let's go straight to practicing moves."
Zhao Xiaoxiu was overjoyed: "Really?"
"Okay." Sheng Qingyang nodded and said, "Go and get the Butterfly Double Blades. We'll start practicing slashing today."
Sheng Qingyang took the thick wooden stump that Sister Monkey used for chopping firewood and placed it on the open ground by the door. He then used a red paintbrush to draw a very small circle in the center.
"Split the red heart one hundred times on each side, but don't actually split the wooden stake. Once you've finished for today, you can rest."
Upon hearing the first sentence, Zhao Xiaoxiu almost burst out laughing; it was far too easy for her.
But then she heard the second sentence, "You can't really split the stake," and her face immediately scrunched up.
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