Qingxian asked

Chapter 34 Shenfa
"Young man, do you want to pass on the fire?"

When Xu Qing heard the girl's words, this line was the first thing that popped into his mind.

Afterwards, Xu Qing responded to the girl in the same serious tone: "My life now is no longer ordinary."

Girl: "..."

She had a lot to say, but she couldn't say it anymore.

She was rejected.

So sad.

Then came surprise.

Xu Qing's hands felt like iron hoops.

As soon as the girl lost consciousness, she was firmly grasped, "It hurts."

As soon as she opened her mouth, Xu Qing let go.

The wrist was as white as frost and snow, but under the moonlight, bruises were visible to the naked eye.

"If I wanted to kill you just now, you would be dead." Xu Qing spoke slowly, and then added: "You don't like the ordinary life that follows the rules, but you have to accept that what I did just now was much gentler than the extraordinary life outside."

At the end, Xu Qing said apologetically: "I shouldn't have used such a preaching tone, but I really treat you as a friend."

He looked into the girl's eyes without hiding his emotions, openly and honestly.

Granted, the girl was dangerous and in trouble, but she had helped Xu Qing.

Therefore, Xu Qing rarely said to a woman things that she didn't want to hear.

If it was his former “drinking and eating” female friends, he would often say “Girls must be independent, I support you in everything you do.” He knew that people loved to hear this.

He's not getting married anyway.

"Friend?" The girl was a little dazed for a moment.

It seemed that a soft feeling unique to women was touched in her heart.

She was feeling pain and anger just now, but now she is suddenly very touched. What's going on?

"Hey, we are not the same kind of people. I will teach you one last thing and then we won't contact each other anymore." The girl said calmly.

"I don't know how to repay you."

"You didn't arrest me and report me to the police just now, which is already a reward." The girl's tone suddenly became much colder. She always felt that she and Xu Qing were closer.

Because they are “friends”.

But the relationship seems dangerous.

The instinct is to reject.

Xu Qing shook his head and smiled: "You forgot that the case of the stolen treasury silver has been closed. Even if you say now that you did it, Magistrate Wu will never re-judge the case."

Once a case in the Guo Dynasty is closed, it is extremely difficult to overturn it.

He had seen a case in his previous life.

There was a death row inmate who admitted that he was the murderer of another homicide case. He also gave details of the crime and various clues. In the end, it took a lot of effort and hard work from all parties to overturn the case.

The reason is that the murder case has been closed, and the person was wrongly killed.

The person who was wrongly accused only lost his life. However, overturning his verdict would implicate many living people.

So it is impossible to report to the police.

If he really reports it to the police, even his uncle and aunt will blame him.

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...

Next, enter the topic.

What the girl taught Xu Qing was actually Kung Fu.

She was the second person to teach Xu Qing Kung Fu.

"You are strong, go and move the water tank in the yard down from the tree." The girl ordered Xu Qing bluntly.

Xu Qing obediently moved the water tank over.

The water tank was very heavy. If he had not practiced "Crane's Cry", his spine would not be strong enough. Even if his limbs were strong and powerful, his waist would not be able to bear the weight to move the water tank.

There's nothing we can do about it, his body hasn't fully developed yet.

The girl saw Xu Qing carrying such a heavy water tank, only slightly panting, and couldn't help but envy: "You men have a higher talent for martial arts than us women. You are only fourteen years old, but you are so strong. And I didn't expect that your waist is in good shape."

"What else is there to do?"

"You have quite a complete set of equipment for martial arts training in your yard. Go and tie those sandbags to the branches."

Xu Qing immediately understood the girl's intention, "You want me to stand on the edge of the water tank and hit the sandbag?"

The girl took a look at the old tree and praised, "This sycamore tree is great, it's strong and sturdy, and its branches can bear hundreds of pounds of weight. It's a perfect place for me to practice my martial arts skills."

She then asked Xu Qing to fill the water tank with water and taught Xu Qing a set of body movements.

This body technique is centered on the principles of Bagua.

While Xu Qing was standing on the water tank and hitting the suspended sandbag, he also had to use the Bagua body skills taught by the girl to avoid the swinging sandbag.

Now there is only one water tank. Later on, water tanks will be added one by one, until there are as many as eight. At the same time, the number of sandbags will increase to hundreds. You should be able to hit the sandbags on the water tanks and avoid the sandbags at the same time, and the water in the water tanks should not move at all. Only then can this skill be considered fully accomplished.

This body movement technique just released Xu Qing's potential to master the Crane Form Technique.

He practiced the Crane Shape Technique, and his limbs became slender, flexible and strong. What he lacked was the body skills to bring out the advantages of the Crane Shape Technique.

For example, he had accumulated a lot of internal strength through the Crane Form Technique, but he didn't know how to use it. And the Eight Diagrams Body Technique was exactly what Xu Qing urgently needed.

Relying on the state of "absolute concentration" and his own accumulation of Crane Form Technique, Xu Qing was able to quickly master the Bagua Body Technique from scratch, skipping the "rough proficiency" stage and entering the entry level directly.

All in all, it took only an hour.

After practicing the Bagua body skills, Xu Qing realized that if the girl had been on guard before, he would not have been able to catch her in the first place.

How can a person who practices martial arts not be wary of someone?

Xu Qing knew that the girl really did treat him as a friend.

There was no other way. Xu Qing was the only girl who had a lot of contact with people of her own age since she was a child. And they got along well.

In life, it is not easy to find a few friends you can talk to, even if you live to be seventy or eighty years old.

It is even more precious to meet him when you are young.

"You have already learned it. As for the rest, you can practice it on your own." The girl felt a little melancholy. She didn't expect that Xu Qing was not only good at learning eight-legged essays, but also had an enviable talent in martial arts.

"Thank you very much." Xu Qing didn't know what to say. He didn't know how to repay this kindness.

Girl: "You really should thank me. You know, Zhou Tixue specializes in the Book of Changes."

The original eight-part essays in the imperial examinations were based on the Four Books and the Five Classics. Because the Five Classics were profound and even conflicting, when the provincial examinations began, candidates could choose one of the Five Classics as their main subject. The teachers who graded the papers were also divided into five classics rooms.

Even the top five candidates in the provincial examination were also called the Five Classics Champions.

The Book of Changes is relatively unpopular among the Five Classics.

Because it is profound and difficult to understand.

The most widely circulated version today is the Meng's Book of Changes mastered by the Yuan family of Runan.

This is a great family with thousands of years of heritage.

Even in this dynasty, high-ranking officials at the level of Shangshu have appeared for four consecutive generations.

Meng's Yijing was almost a private school of Yuan, and all other Confucian scholars who could understand Yijing were famous Confucian scholars of the time. Zhou Tixue was one of them.

Because there are too few people who specialize in the Book of Changes, if Xu Qing can use the knowledge of the Book of Changes to solve the questions in the college examination, it will undoubtedly attract the attention of Zhou Tixue and even eliminate the negative influence from He Zhifu.

Although today's scholars and officials are divided into many schools of thought, they are not actually real political parties.

Even though the reformists and conservatives fought fiercely in the court, the root cause was not the reform, but the struggle for interests and discourse power.

If Xu Qing could demonstrate his talent in the Book of Changes, Zhou Tixue might not be unattractive to this rising star.

Sometimes, people in the same faction may not necessarily share the same aspirations.

But after the Tongzhi period, people tend to be very close in political ideas and are naturally one of their own.

The Eight Trigrams are the foundation of the Book of Changes.

As Xu Qing practiced the Bagua body technique, he naturally gradually became proficient in the knowledge of the Book of Changes.

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...

After a long time, the girl's voice continued to echo in Xu Qing's ears:

"You owe me, and I don't want you to pay me back. I just like you to always owe me."

Xu Qing let out a long sigh.

What a damn world, to take the Tongsheng exam, one has to go through so many obstacles. Xu Qing was helpless, because the Tongsheng exam was not open to all, and he was short on time, so he had to resort to some unorthodox methods.

In fact, Xu Qing knew that it was extremely difficult for him to pass the imperial examination at the age of fourteen.

This has little to do with knowledge, but rather involves an unspoken rule under the imperial examination system - "a scholar in his teens will not be given out easily."

If he doesn't think of a way, he will have to endure it for a few years. By then, he will have learned enough and passed the age limit, and it will be a natural thing for him to become a scholar.

Why is there a default age threshold for selecting scholars through the Eight-Legged Essay?

The saying “At thirty, you are already a Mingjing, and at fifty, you are not a Jinshi” has been around for a long time, and it is not without reason.

In his previous life, Xu Qing studied ancient literature and history in depth, and actually came to a conclusion.

That was the era of imperial power, when the instinct required old people to be officials.

Because the older the successful candidates are, the less time they have to cultivate their own faction and pass on their political legacy to the next generation. This makes it less likely that they will create powerful ministers who pose a fatal threat to the imperial power.

On the contrary, the younger the person who passes the imperial examination is, the more likely he will be surrounded by a large number of confidants after decades, even if he has no subjective consciousness.

This is also the reason why most young Jinshi under the age of 30 in this dynasty can enter the cabinet.

The current Prime Minister passed the imperial examination at the age of 16 and became a second-class Jinshi at the age of 23. Now, he is only in his early 40s, but he has taken the position of Prime Minister.

If Xu Qing could also pass the imperial examination and become a Jinshi in his early twenties, he would be considered a prime minister in the eyes of scholars all over the world. As long as he did not make too big mistakes, he would rule the world sooner or later.

"Where are the generals and ministers of the past and present? Their graves are covered with grass."

"Others take the imperial examination to become officials, but they don't know that I take the examination to survive." Xu Qing shook his head.

Putting aside these thoughts, Xu Qing stepped on the edge of the water tank and hit the sandbag, causing the old sycamore tree to tremble. The moonlight gathered, and the cry of the crane in Xu Qing's soul matched the breathing of the old sycamore tree.

Gradually, the moonlight condensed by the old sycamore tree was projected onto the water tank, and Xu Qing's blood was surging, and his masculine energy also seeped into the water tank.

The moon's rays are yin, and qi and blood are yang.

A vortex shaped like Tai Chi appeared in the water tank under Xu Qing's feet.

He exerted his strength on the water tank, his body moved erratically, and he controlled his center of gravity so that he did not fall.

As it dances gracefully, it looks like a fairy crane from another world.

(End of this chapter)