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Zhang Tieguai still doted on Lu Yuan too much. After saying that Lu Yuan's aptitude was not good, he added a word of comfort.

Lu Yuan thought about it carefully. In his second year of high school, he participated in the class basketball tournament. After playing several games in a row, his foot was indeed a little strange. It was slightly sore, and he felt that if he played any harder, he would get a cramp.

But Lu Yuan had no intention of giving up, after all, this was real martial arts.

I still want to learn.

"Master Zhang, then I'll just learn a little bit, without going into too much depth, just to improve my health."

"That won't work."

Zhang Tieguai waved his hand, "If you want to improve your health, running and doing gymnastics every day will be more effective. Little boss, it's not that I, Zhang Tieguai, don't want to teach you. You know, I'm willing to give you anything good. It's just that your physical condition really can't handle real martial arts. Forget it."

Lu Yuan wanted to try again, but Zhang Tieguai had already turned to Ye Yixian beside him, his gaze lingering on her for a moment before he suddenly said, "In comparison, the boss's girlfriend has quite a talent for martial arts."

"I?"

Ye Yixian was stunned, pointing to his own nose with an incredulous expression.

Lu Yuan was also very surprised.

Zhang Tieguai nodded: "Yes, young lady, you've definitely trained your muscles and bones. If I'm not mistaken, you must have suffered quite a few injuries before, right?"

Ye Yixian thought for a moment and nodded: "Yes, I used to fight with those thugs all the time, and getting injured was a common occurrence."

Besides fighting, Ye Yixian has also done a lot of heavy work. Although she looks no different from other girls, her physical fitness is definitely stronger than that of the average girl.

Lu Yuan can testify to this.

Because Ye Yixian is excessively energetic when he's in bed.

If I weren't young and strong, I probably wouldn't have been able to withstand it.

"That's right." Zhang Tieguai squeezed Ye Yixian's arm and asked, "Has the bone in your arm ever been dislocated?"

"Yeah, when I was in junior high, the satellite dish at home stopped receiving a signal, so I climbed onto the roof to fix it. I fell down when I came down, and my arm hurt a lot; I think I dislocated a bone."

When Ye Yixian talked about this, his tone was nonchalant, as if he were telling someone else's story.

But Lu Yuan felt incredibly distressed upon hearing this: "Why didn't you tell me about this?"

Ye Yixian smiled and said, "I don't think it's a big deal. I would have almost forgotten about it if Master Zhang hadn't asked."

Lu Yuan just wanted to give Ye Yixian a thumbs up.

If she can laugh off something as serious as a broken bone, one can only imagine how difficult and unhappy her childhood must have been.

Zhang Tieguai then asked, "So how did you recover?"

"I broke it back myself."

Ye Yixian spoke very seriously.

Lu Yuan was stunned: "You bent it back yourself? Doesn't it hurt?"

"It hurts, it hurts a lot." Ye Yixian nodded. "But there was nothing I could do. Back then, there were no options to see a doctor. I basically just had to tough it out on my own when I got injured. I fell and my arm was completely immobile. I felt that if I could just bend it back into place, I could regain my mobility, so I endured the pain and bent it back into place."

"And then what happened?" Lu Yuan was shocked by what he heard and asked anxiously, fearing that Ye Yixian might have suffered some aftereffects if she hadn't handled the situation well.

Ye Yixian said calmly, "I was fine after that, and it didn't hurt for long."

After saying that, she rubbed her arm and moved it around a couple of times to indicate that she had fully recovered.

Zhang Tieguai smiled with satisfaction, then turned to Lu Yuan: "Can you see the difference, young boss? If your girlfriend were in the old days, she would be a martial arts prodigy, one in a hundred years. Let me ask you, even if you were to break a bone now, could you straighten it yourself? And even if you could, could you recover to your original state in a short time?"

Lu Yuan fell silent. Although he hadn't experienced it himself, just thinking about it made him realize that he definitely didn't have that kind of ruthlessness.

Therefore, Lu Yuan's gaze towards Ye Yixian became complicated.

Ye Yixian noticed his gaze, gently took Lu Yuan's hand, and smiled sweetly: "Lu Yuan, don't look at me like that. I've just suffered too much; if I weren't old enough, I would have died long ago. You're different. You have a very happy family, and loving parents who care about you. You should be grateful."

"I can accept your way of comforting me."

Lu Yuan initially wanted to learn martial arts simply because every man has a martial arts dream in his heart.

Scaling walls and leaping across rooftops, taking on a hundred enemies single-handedly—how cool is that?

Of course, Zhang Tieguai's abilities weren't that exaggerated. Even with both legs intact, he couldn't fly over rooftops and walk on walls; he was simply stronger and more ruthless.

Zhang Tieguai asked Ye Yixian if he wanted to learn some self-defense martial arts from him, that is, real martial arts.

Ye Yixian certainly wanted to, but she first looked at Lu Yuan and asked for his opinion.

Lu Yuan definitely had no objections. Judging from the current situation, things probably wouldn't be peaceful in the future; a ruthless character might appear any day now.

When that day comes, Lu Yuan doesn't expect Ye Yixian to be able to defeat the enemy, but at least he should have the ability to protect himself.

After Ye Yixian nodded in agreement, Zhang Tieguai returned to the guardhouse, pulled out a small booklet, and handed it to Ye Yixian. He said it was a martial arts manual, a very basic version, and that he should take it home and study it himself, and ask him anytime if he didn't understand something.

Ye Yixian had only turned two pages when Lu Yuan eagerly came over to take a look.

I thought that the so-called martial arts manuals were like those shown on TV, with a little figure drawn on each page, and you would practice each movement one by one, like learning calisthenics.

That's not actually the case, at least not the one Zhang Tieguai gave him.

The text is densely packed with words, which are a bit difficult to read, but the whole thing teaches people how to "practice Qi," which is to regulate the internal circulation.

Zhang Tieguai said that true martial arts training involves cultivating internal strength, and the methods are very complex, but martial arts prodigies grasp them instantly. If Ye Yixian learns it well, it will also greatly benefit her endocrine system, which is normal for a girl.

Lu Yuan looked at the manual with a blank expression, let alone learn it on his own.

I've realized it; I'm really not suited for martial arts.

It's better to just be a big boss, strategizing and setting traps for people from a high vantage point.

After reading it, Ye Yixian neither said he understood nor he didn't, only that he needed to study it further.

Zhang Tieguai didn't force it, saying he'd let the student understand as much as they could.

After all, it's not the old days anymore. Public security is getting better and better. Those talented people with extraordinary skills have either been recruited by the state or retired long ago.

For ordinary people, learning martial arts is practically useless. As the saying goes, even the best kung fu master is afraid of a kitchen knife. The new era is the era of firearms; even if you bring in the world's top martial artist, it's just a matter of one shot. If one shot doesn't take him down, then two shots will do.

A rifle has at least thirty bullets; how many of the world's best do you think it could take down?

……

Later that evening, the police arrived, and Mr. and Mrs. Lu also rushed to the scene.

Lu Yuan recounted the incident of the thief breaking into the factory, but omitted the details of Zhang Tieguai's fight with the man in black, only saying that Zhang Tieguai scared the man in black away.

The police reviewed the surveillance footage and confirmed that Lu Yuan's account was true.

The investigation went on until late at night. It was basically confirmed that the man in black had broken in by scaling the wall in the evening, but after checking, nothing was missing from the factory.

That's very strange. The men in black had been infiltrating for at least four or five hours. Didn't they plan to take something with them before leaving?

The police have opened a case and said they will review nearby surveillance footage to identify the suspect as soon as possible. As for when the results will be available, that depends on luck.

Lu Yuan felt that relying on reviewing surveillance footage and conducting door-to-door inquiries would be unlikely to find the man in black. Judging from his skills, he was definitely not an ordinary person. If someone like that wanted to hide, you could dig three feet into the ground and still not find him.

Lu Yuan was kicked, and his chest was bruised. His parents were very worried and insisted on taking him to the hospital for an X-ray.

But it was so late, the hospital probably couldn't take an X-ray, and since Lu Yuan himself didn't feel any discomfort, the matter was left unresolved.