Rise from a Poor Family: My Martial Arts Counterattack

Chapter 9: Others' chicken ribs, my panacea

It’s the end of the ninth month of martial arts training in the martial arts hall.

Early in the morning, Yu Yongnian's three instructors appeared at the martial arts arena at the same time.

All the students who were practicing boxing in the martial arts arena stopped and looked at the three instructors.

Except for the first month after they entered the martial arts hall, the three instructors would appear at the training ground at the same time. In the following months, the times when the instructors appeared at the training ground were not fixed and they appeared in a certain order.

Now the three teachers appear at the same time. Is there something important to announce?

Instructor Liu in the middle glanced at all the students and said loudly: "The Wuzheng Institute has issued an announcement. In order to encourage everyone to learn martial arts, any student who has reached 400 kilograms of strength and can increase 50 kilograms of strength within the next month will be rewarded with 3 taels of silver. If they can increase 100 kilograms, they will be rewarded with 10 taels of silver."

Instructor Liu's words immediately aroused discussion among the students present.

Not excitement, but complaints.

"Are you kidding me? Gaining a hundred pounds of strength in a month?"

"After I reached 300 kilograms, I spent nearly two taels of silver every month, but I only gained less than 30 kilograms of strength. I need to maintain a 50-kilogram increase in strength to reach 400 kilograms. How much silver will it cost?"

"To gain 50 kilograms, you have to drink nourishing soup every day, and you have to add beef. It's impossible without ten taels of silver. As for gaining 100 kilograms, I don't even dare to think about it."

After more than nine months of learning martial arts in the martial arts hall, these students have come to deeply understand the value of the saying that the quicker you pursue success in learning martial arts, the higher the cost.

Before entering the martial arts hall, some students had learned about it from young men from the same village who had learned martial arts in the hall. However, since they had not experienced it themselves, they were always skeptical.

Or to be more precise, it is because of a fluke mentality that one feels different.

The young man is confident and has lofty ambitions!
But nine months of martial arts training had given them a clear understanding of themselves and they had given up the idea of quick success.

"I'm afraid this reward is prepared for people like Senior Brother Lu, and only they can get it."

"Senior Brother Lu and his friends can't get it either. Senior Brother Lu and his friends have already reached 500 kilograms. Maybe someone in the next class will be able to get it."

The three instructors were not surprised that the students did not appreciate it. When they saw the document, they could already guess the students' reactions.

This is not an incentive, it's just icing on the cake at best.

Students from ordinary families cannot use it, while students from wealthy families like Lu Yongfeng do not even consider this reward.

……

……

"Who is this noble man? He is so wise and brave. Isn't this reward tailor-made for me?"

In the crowd, Lin Chen's eyes lit up. Gaining fifty kilograms in a month and getting a reward of three taels of silver was like giving money to himself.

His strength reached 400 kilograms yesterday.

"panel."

Lin Chen whispered in his heart, and the panel appeared.

[Name: Lin Chen]

[Occupation: Warrior]

[Qi and blood: 2003/3000]

[Fate: [Successful outcome]: In the realm of martial arts, perseverance, gradual progress, unstoppable momentum, no bottlenecks.]

According to his current increase of 10 points of Qi and Blood every day, 300 points a month, which is 60 kilograms of strength, he can definitely get the reward of three taels of silver.

Even the reward of ten taels of silver is not impossible to try.

"Students with a strength of 400 kilograms can come up to test their strength and register."

While Lin Chen was thinking, Instructor Liu spoke again.

Instructor Liu didn't care what the students felt. This was an official document issued by the Military Affairs Office, so they had to follow it.

We must first count the number of people in the martial arts hall who have reached 400 kilograms of strength, and then report it to the martial arts administration office. A few breaths later, a student walked out of the queue, walked to the 440-kilogram stone pillar, and lifted the 440-kilogram stone pillar with relative ease.

"Yang Lin, 440 pounds."

Instructor Chen, who was in charge of registration, glanced at Yang Lin's condition and wrote down the number in the booklet.

Next, another student came out and lifted a 420-jin stone pillar.

"Li Dong, 420 pounds."

"Chu Dong, 410 pounds."

"Zheng Kai, 440 pounds."

Lin Chen paid attention to the weight reported by Instructor Chen, and when he saw Yang Lin and the other three lifting the stone pillar, he knew in his heart that the instructor was letting them off.

Take Yang Lin for example. He lifted a 440-jin stone block without looking particularly strenuous. His strength was definitely more than 450 jin but closer to jin. The instructor simply wiped out the decimal point.

The teachers are all good people.

But the instructors have a limit to how much they give, they just give zero.

Earlier, Zheng Kai obviously wanted to hide his strength. He lifted a 420-pound stone block and pretended to be struggling, which fooled him.

However, Instructor Liu directly asked Zheng Kai to change the stone block and try again. When Lin Chen saw Zheng Kai finally lifted the 440-jin stone block, he realized that Zheng Kai had such a big plan.

So the three instructors will let you down, but they won’t cheat.

The three instructors had reasons to explain why they removed the decimal points. The stone pillars in the martial arts hall were all in units of ten, so they would naturally round them up for registration, and the Wuzheng Office would not care about these.

"Yan Dexing, what are you doing up here? Your strength has already exceeded 500 kilograms. Get down."

Instructor Liu looked at the young man who was walking towards him and glared at him unhappily.

Yan Dexing walked back angrily. He came up to lift the stone pillar not for the reward, but just to show off.

"And Lu Yongfeng, Cheng Ying, Zhao Jingchuan, Xu Botao, you guys don't need to be tested either."

After hearing what Instructor Liu said, all the students at the scene looked at these five people with envy in their eyes. The strength of these five people was over 500 kilograms.

"No other students yet?"

Instructor Liu said this casually according to the rules. He did not expect any other students to step forward. In the martial arts hall, students with a strength of 400 kilograms are second only to Lu Yongfeng and others. As an instructor, he already knew how many students could reach that level.

Lin Chen pondered for a moment and walked out of the queue.

"Chenzi, what are you going to do?"

Gu Fei was stunned when he saw Lin Chen walking forward. By the time he reacted and reached out to pull him, Lin Chen had already walked out of the crowd.

Seeing Lin Chen walking towards the stone pier, all the students on the scene looked at him.

"What is he going to do?"

"Don't tell me he has a strength of 400 kilograms?"

"If Lin Chen had a strength of 400 kilograms, I would have already developed my energy by now."

There were doubts and ridicules among the students present, but no one could believe that Lin Chen's strength reached 400 kilograms.

Lu Yongfeng and several others who were deprived of the qualification to take the test were talking to each other. They didn't even glance over here at first, but when they heard the discussions, they all looked over here.

"What does Lin Chen want to do? Is he trying to say that his strength has increased by 200 pounds in three months?" Cheng Ying wondered?
"He can't even afford beef, and he gets his food paid for by working in the cafeteria. If he can gain 200 pounds of strength, then what are we?"

Yan Dexing curled his lips. It took more than three months for the five of them to increase their weight from 200 kilograms to 400 kilograms. Lu Yongfeng was the only one at the scene who managed to increase his strength by 200 kilograms within three months.

Each of them spent nearly twenty taels in these three months, and Lu Yongfeng definitely spent more than twenty taels.

If Lin Chen can catch up with them, wouldn’t their money be wasted?

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