Chinese martial arts! Grandmaster

Chapter 33: Live with your body and protect the way with your spirit

After a short rest after dinner, Chen Jie started the medicinal bath.

Lying in the wooden barrel, he finally calmed down.

Contemplate!
It can also be called concentration of the mind, or meditation, or visualization.

It means to store the idea, think about its form, and exert its power!
An old saying goes: "To exist means to exist my spirit, and to think means to think of my body."

God’s thoughts are omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipresent. God is present inside and outside the body!

To put it simply, this is a sublimation of Taoist thought: Heaven and earth establish their destiny through their bodies, and gods guard the Tao!

From the perspective of martial arts, ideological sublimation is more important than martial arts moves and strength.

Through meditation, quiet thinking, Zen sitting and other training, you can make your inner self stronger and your mind more focused.

This is also why in a sudden situation, when the mental state is excited to the extreme, the muscles can instantly burst out with more than ten times the strength.

There was once a report of a mother who saw her child being crushed by a car and lifted the car up with one hand.

This is the power of spiritual force!

When the mind is trained to a certain level, it is easy to enter a state of 'deep sleep'.

According to biological research, one hour of deep sleep is more effective than ten hours of light sleep.

Moreover, as long as you enter deep sleep, you can feel energetic and clear-headed throughout the day.

In the long run, the body will naturally become stronger and live longer.

Chen Jie was in the wooden barrel, completely relaxed.

Unconsciously, he quickly entered the state of 'contemplation'.

My mind became clear and I actually fell into a deep sleep while taking the medicinal bath!
The "tonic" soup taken at night had already stimulated the medicinal power.

And at this moment, in a state of deep sleep, his muscles, internal organs, blood vessels, etc. were all nourished.

Two hours later——!
Chen Jie opened his eyes, looked at the cold water, and quickly jumped out.

"Next time you need to bring an alarm clock in, and it would be best if you could get a constant temperature heated bucket!"

He thought to himself as he saw the wrinkled skin on his palms.

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After entering October, the early mornings and evenings in Beijing seem a bit cold.

However, Ximen Street is very lively.

Children were running around and playing in the streets, and from time to time rickshaws carrying people were seen shuttling back and forth on the streets.

The hawking sounds on both sides of the street came one after another, and the entire Ximen Street presented a scene of singing and dancing.

Who could have imagined that the Daqian Dynasty was in crisis at this time?
A naval battle completely destroyed the Beiyang Fleet of the Daqian Dynasty, which was known as the strongest in Asia, and the Western powers ceded land and concessions.

All kinds of materials in Daqian were controlled by Western powers and Japanese people.

Next to Ximen Street, there is a street that looks a bit remote.

Unlike the bustling main street, not many people come here.

There are all kinds of street stalls on both sides of the street. When the stall owners see people passing by on the street, they loudly attract customers to take a look.

Flea market!

This is the most famous flea market on Ximen Street.

Many families have run out of money, so they bring their valuables to this street and set up stalls to sell them.

You know what, there are very few people here in the early morning.

but,

After ten o'clock in the morning, more and more people started to come here.

Many people come to this street to stroll around and see if they can buy their favorite "treasures"!
Today is the seventh day that Chen Jie has been apprenticing to Chuojiaomen.

After finishing his morning exercise, he originally planned to go to his new house in the afternoon and go back in the evening.

I bought so much ginseng last time, I need to take it back and exchange it for some money.

The cost of practicing martial arts every day is indeed a bit high now.

The 'medicinal supplements' and 'medicinal baths' for four people would cost twenty-four silver dollars a day just for the medicinal materials.

One cycle is fourteen days.

In other words, one cycle requires 336 silver coins.

After the Daqian Dynasty's fleet was defeated in a battle with the Japanese in the East China Sea, prices soared.

Subsequent expenses will increase exponentially, and the two thousand silver dollars Chen Jie brought will not last long.
Chen Jie planned to go back and sell some wild ginseng to make some money.

However, Chen Jie hasn't gone out yet.

Early in the morning, Liu Bamei took him to Ximen Street for a stroll.

When Chen Jie bought a house a few days ago, he had heard about this flea market street on Ximen Street.

I heard that people here often bring out good things to sell, even treasures taken from the palace.

at this time,

Liu Bamei dragged Chen Jie to the street of the flea market, looking excited:
"Junior brother! There's a stall selling jade over there. It looks good. Let's go take a look!"

After strolling around for less than half an hour, Chen Jie no longer had any interest.

He hadn't thought that going shopping with a girl would test a person's patience and willpower so much.

There are all kinds of things on sale at the stalls in the flea market streets.

There are old furniture, old calligraphy and paintings, old antiques, old copper coins, and old jades——!
Chen Jie didn't understand these things. He already had a way to make money from wild ginseng, and he didn't think about selling these antiques.

There is a threshold to the antique industry.

If you don't know the business, it's easy to be cheated. Moreover, the history of the two worlds is misplaced and the antiques are not interchangeable.

Taking a painting from this world and sending it to that world does not exist in the history of that world at all. How could those rich people possibly collect it?

Any valuable antique can be traced back to its origin. If it cannot be traced, it has no value.

Although he knew that antiques were very valuable in that world.

But from beginning to end, Chen Jie had no intention of touching antiques.

"Junior brother, you may not know that Brother Qi and I used to set up a stall here to sell things!"

"I don't know what Brother Qi has been busy with these past few days. He disappears early in the morning and doesn't come back for lunch. He's mysterious every day and never takes me out."

"I'm really worried that he might be fighting someone else out there!"

Liu Bamei was talking to Chen Jie in a babble, like a little hot pepper.

On her neck was a pearl necklace that Chen Jie had just bought for five hundred coins.

I saw that she treated it like a treasure and couldn't let it go.

Although she didn't ask for the purchase, Chen Jie saw that she liked it and naturally would not let her down, so he bought it for her.

"Sir! What kind of jade do you need? Or - buy a jade pendant to play with?"

The owner of the jade stall saw Chen Jie and Liu Bamei coming to the stall and introduced them enthusiastically:

"Did you see it? This is a piece of jade that came from the palace. It's the only one of its kind on the entire street!"

"Look at this jade ring. It's a treasure that only a prince can wear. This jade pendant was also worn by a princess. Buy it and keep it. It will definitely be valuable after a few years!"

"And look at this bracelet. It's made of high-quality icy jadeite. Only the palace has such top-quality jadeite!"

The stall owner pointed at the jade articles and began to introduce them eloquently.

"Wow! This pendant is so beautiful!"

As Liu Bamei spoke, she wanted to take a jade pendant from the stall owner's hand.

but,

Chen Jie, however, grabbed her hand and said calmly, "Boss, just put it on the stall and we can just take a look."

The stall owner laughed when he heard this:
"Hey! It seems that this young man is an expert? He knows the rules of our business!"

"No problem, I'll put it on the stall and you can see for yourself!"

"Don't worry, little brother. We are honest businessmen and we won't cheat you."

Jade is a fragile item and is generally not handled.

Chen Jie had seen a video before, which showed a jade artifact in a tourist area. A customer didn't know the rules and touched it with his hands, and the jade suddenly broke into pieces. In the end, Chen Jie had to buy the jade.

The point is, jade has no fixed price.

Once it is broken, it will just be waiting to be slaughtered.

Although Chen Jie was not sure whether the same thing would happen in this world.

but,

It is better to have less trouble than more. It is always better to be careful.

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