I practiced my spirituality alone in Hong Kong.

Li Changning attends a private boarding school and usually only comes home once a month. It's a rare occasion for him to come back during a holiday to see Li Chang'an.

Although Ruan Xiaotang always acted coquettishly and cutely in front of Li Chang'an, she reservedly acted like a girl next door in front of Li Changning.

She no longer argues with Li Chang'an about watching TV; instead, she goes straight home with her little backpack, leaving Li Chang'an and her younger brother alone.

After Ruan Xiaotang left, Li Chang'an finally spoke:

"What happened to the bruise below your collarbone? Did you get into a fight at school?"

"Someone made sarcastic remarks about you, so I beat him up," Li Changning said confidently.

Su Xingning used to play the violin or classical guitar at Chongming Middle School, and she and Wen Zhilan, who played the piano, were known as the "Twin Pearls of Chongming".

Not only at Chongming Middle School, but also at several other key private middle schools in the vicinity, the two have a very high reputation.

This is precisely why, when one of the pearls clung to Li Chang'an all day long, he became the target of jealousy and resentment among the admirers of the Chongming Twin Pearls.

Especially after the list of Chongming alumni admitted to Hong Kong University this year was released, no one could find Li Chang'an's name on it, so there was no shortage of sarcastic remarks on campus.

Although Li Chang'an wouldn't care about such a trivial matter.

But he didn't expect that Li Changning would stand up for him in this kind of matter.

As the saying goes, the eldest brother is like a father, and after their parents passed away, Li Chang'an should naturally take on the responsibility of educating Li Changning.

But now, he didn't know how to start a conversation to educate Li Changning about his impulsive behavior.

After all, when a younger brother stands up for his older brother and fights for him, it actually feels pretty good to the older brother.

Li Changning chuckled and nudged Li Chang'an twice with his elbow.

"Alright, bro, stop thinking about this. I didn't lose anything. Think about your own things instead."

"Guess who I ran into at school the other day?"

"Su Xingning".

How did you know?

"They've already come to our house, how could I not know?"

"..."

Li Changning, having been exposed for "colluding with the enemy," gave an awkward laugh and then waved his hand.

"Oh, that's not important. What's important is, guess what Sister Xingning told me?"

"She's subtly trying to find out how you're doing these days, brother!"

Li Changning's lips curled into a teasing smile. "Looks like Sister Xingning still can't forget you."

"Brother, if you ask me, Sister Xingning is already in Hong Kong University, but she still can't forget you. You should forgive her."

After all, her father is a scoundrel, and she is herself. In this matter concerning our family, she hasn't done anything wrong.

"If you really want to get revenge on that old bastard of a father, why don't you just get together with Sister Xingning, sleep with his daughter, and take his family fortune? Wouldn't that be more satisfying?"

Li Chang'an glanced at him indifferently.

Li Changning immediately covered her mouth: "Brother, I was just kidding. Of course I know you wouldn't use her like that..."

"But she gave away TVs, refrigerators, and washing machines. Where can you find another sister-in-law as rich and generous as her?"

"I bought the TV, refrigerator, and washing machine myself," Li Chang'an said calmly.

"You bought it yourself...what? You bought it yourself!"

Ignoring his surprised younger brother, Li Chang'an took out a clay pot and put in ingredients such as dried scallops, lean meat, and ham, and began to simmer the shark fin over low heat.

But Li Changning kept asking him questions.

"Bro, this set of appliances must have cost close to ten thousand Hong Kong dollars, right? Where did you get the money? You didn't go and get involved with gangs or loan sharks, did you?"

He said with a pained expression, "Our Li family can't get involved in the underworld!"

Li Chang'an raised his hand and tapped him on the forehead:

"What nonsense are you thinking? How could I possibly join a gang? I earned this money cleanly."

"Bro, what do you do that makes so much money? Take me with you!"

"If I don't make money, how can I compare to Su Xingning's wealth? Why don't you go and follow her around?"

Li Changning immediately begged for forgiveness: "I was wrong, brother, I'll never mention Sister Xingning again..."

Upon hearing this, Li Chang'an then recounted how he met Brother Chen and how Brother Chen had introduced him to Director Yuan on set.

"No way, bro, you've gone into martial arts and acted in kung fu movies... Hong Kong kung fu movies are declining now, it's not the era of Bruce Lee anymore."

Martial arts practitioners often suffer broken bones and injuries; is this a viable profession?

Li Chang'an remained silent for a moment, and the images of Brother Chen, Director Yuan, Master Huang, and others flashed through his mind.

Although he initially joined the stunt team just to trigger a narration mission, after spending many days with them, he developed genuine feelings for kung fu, the film set, and the stuntmen.

It is precisely this indomitable spirit and vigorous drive of the martial arts practitioners, led by Chen Yuanlong and Director Yuan, that makes this group so compelling.

This gradually convinced Li Chang'an that Bruce Lee would never be the swan song of Hong Kong kung fu films.

"Since the sun is setting in the west, it will surely rise again. Hong Kong kung fu movies will not end; there will be successors to usher in a new era."

……

……

After having dinner with Aunt Shen's family, I took Changning to eat.

Li Chang'an saw his younger brother pull him into the room with a joyful expression.

"Brother, didn't you ask me to make you a slingshot? I've finished it!"

Li Changning has had extraordinary talent in mechanical and other engineering fields since childhood, and he can easily make cameras and recorders by hand.

Therefore, after receiving the task of eliminating the rat demon, Li Chang'an asked the narrator to make a more powerful and easier-to-use slingshot to help him with his rat extermination mission.

Li Changning pulled a bunch of metal parts out of his backpack, then used a screwdriver to assemble the polished steel pipes and various small parts into something resembling a crossbow.

His skillful and ruthless assembly movements resembled those of a gangster assassin in a TV drama disassembling and assembling a Type 54 Black Star pistol.

"This is... a crossbow?" Li Chang'an asked in surprise.

"It's not a crossbow, it's a composite slingshot."

"Here, brother, let me help you try it on."

After assembling the composite slingshot, Li Changning couldn't wait to pick it up.

Unlike traditional handheld slingshots, this composite slingshot does indeed resemble a crossbow in appearance.

But in front of the crossbow are horizontally extended bow plates, while in front of this composite slingshot are multiple sets of powerful red springs arranged in a matrix.

A powerful spring replaces the rubber band in a traditional slingshot, resulting in a significant increase in both energy storage and explosive power.

To ensure accuracy is maintained even under such immense power,

Li Changning also designed a foldable, self-locking grip that can be strapped to the forearm like an arm guard, allowing one forearm to share the kinetic energy when the slingshot is launched.

Li Chang'an personally tried it out, using his fingers, honed on plum blossom stakes, to pull the spring to its fullest extent before feeling any resistance; the feel was excellent.

The composite slingshot built by Li Changning even has an infrared light for correcting the trajectory.

Li Chang'an turned on the infrared sensor and casually aimed at the cutting board on the counter.

boom--

With a crisp sound, the glass bead that shot out actually embedded itself in the board, causing a ring of fine cracks to appear on the surrounding surface of the cutting board.

"This power... it could probably break a person's thigh bone at close range!"

Li Chang'an was startled.

His initial request to Li Changning was to shoot rats, not tigers! Why are you making such a big deal out of it?!

"Brother, you can use what I make without worry."

Li Changning puffed out his chest, looking like he was waiting to be praised.

Looking at his smug expression, Li Chang'an felt both helpless and amused, so he ruffled his hair like he did when they were children:

"I really don't know why Xiao Ning, who looks so gentle, likes to make things that are so fierce. But you did a great job, I really like it."

Li Chang'an played with the composite slingshot before putting it into his schoolbag.

With new gear in hand, it's time to go out and test it out.

Li Chang'an decided to work hard to collect the remaining three hundred rat heads tonight, and then break through in one go to successfully cultivate the Eagle Claw Grappling Hand!