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Chapter 8 Apprenticeship, Standing

The long spear brand tap water was the most rare and novel thing in Xi'an City in the first year of Xuantong, and it was also one of the topics of talk that Xi'an elders liked.

The Qinzhong Official News sponsored by the Shaanxi Provincial Administration Department also reported on the long-spike water and the National Savior Association in the "Qin Affairs Compilation" column. Half a month ago in the Xuantong period, the long-spike water and the National Savior Association also became the focus of Shaanxi government officials.

On the 21st day of the twelfth lunar month, after more than ten days of busyness, the new publicity plan was improved and the water purification equipment was made, so Gao Tai had time to rest.

There was just a heavy snowfall two days ago. The entire Xi'an Prefecture City was covered with snow and covered with silver, as if it was back to the era of the prosperous Tang Dynasty and Han Dynasty.

Walking on the street, Gao Tai was amazed at the snow scene in the ancient city. He was wearing a new cotton coat, a felt hat, cotton boots, and a hot sheep that had just been peeled and opened on his shoulders. It weighed about 30 pounds, but Gao Tai, who was tall and burly, didn't feel heavy, and walked towards the Nancheng Inn as fast as he could.

When he approached the inn, Sha Mingyuan was calculating the accounts at the counter. When he saw Gao Tai from long distance, he called two friends out to help take over the whole sheep.

"Brother is here?"

Gao Tai picked up the towel on his shoulder and hit the floating soil on his body, saying, "Teacher Sha, please be at home."

"Yes, here." Sha Mingyuan agreed first, then looked up and down at Gao Tai, winked and said, "What? I heard that the second uncle intends to accept you as his disciple? You are so good!"

"Hehe, Teacher Sha is still merciful. I can't stand my good seedlings being abandoned." Gao Tai said proudly and walked towards the backyard.

"You're welcome." Sha Mingyuan muttered and told the man to move the whole sheep to the backyard, and then returned to the counter to collect the bill.

Since the Long Gun Brand Water was launched, Gao Tai has been busy every day and is busy practicing martial arts at some time, so he will not waste his martial arts skills. Therefore, this is the first time in more than a month to visit Shazilong.

His visit was quite particular. It turned out that Sha Zilong stayed silent since he heard what Gao Tai said. He was practicing guns in the backyard as if he was nervous, and he kept muttering "big guns" and "foreign guns" from time to time.

It was not until a few days ago that Sha Zilong slowly returned to normal and sent Xiao Zhengzi to send Gao Tai a message saying that he wanted him to come to become a disciple. Gao Tai was very excited. He thought that perhaps his words and various behaviors had ignited Teacher Sha's confidence in martial arts, so he wanted to accept himself as his disciple.

Gao Tai was originally planning to visit Sha Zilong before the New Year. At this time, he knew that the old man was willing to accept him as his disciple and waited no matter how much. On the third day, he pushed all the matter and came to visit him in a new dress.

Sha Zilong, who was clear-headed and clear-eyed, had already heard the movement. He raised the thick curtain and walked out slowly. His eyes flashed, and he looked at Gao Tai and smiled and said, "San Sheng is here."

"New Year's Eve is approaching, and I will come here to visit the teacher."

Gao Tai said as he helped the two guys take off the sheep and hang it on the jujube tree branch in the yard with a few ropes. Then he held the hat and walked to Sha Zilong to kneel down and said loudly: "Disciple Wang Sansheng, pay homage to Master."

Sha Zilong smiled and said earnestly: "Okay, let's win three times. I originally thought of not teaching martial arts anymore and bringing all my skills to the coffin, but you were right that day. Foreign guns are nothing more than weapons, so why can't they be absorbed into our martial arts?

You have been devoted to martial arts for more than ten years. I used to think that you were not strong-willed and did not value it very much. I didn’t expect that you have grown a lot in the past one or two years. Well, you were originally a big friend of my Sha family, and I used to urge you to have a lot of guns and sticks in my early years. From now on, you will be my Shazilong’s eldest disciple. I will slowly teach you all my martial arts. I hope you can find a way out for our Chinese martial arts!"

Gao Tai knelt down and listened to Sha Zilong's words, then got up after kowtowing, and said, "Don't worry, Master, I will definitely not let you down my high expectations!"

"Good apprentice!" Sha Zilong raised his hand and patted Gao Tai's arm, and turned around and said, "When you speak in the room, your equipment and boxing skills are quite weathered. I will tell you some essence changes. When you practice until you make a move, you will be a first-class master. If you work together with the dark force in internal martial arts, you will be able to learn from my "Five Tigers Soul-breaking Spear"..."

Gao Tai walked into the room with Sha Zilong, listened carefully to the old man's words, and waited for him to talk about many arrangements before he bowed and said, "Disciple, remember the master's teachings!"

Sha Zilong nodded and said, "It's good that you can understand my hard work."

"My martial arts of Sha family are based on guns and spears. The boxing technique is an evolution of the ancient battlefield methods. The boxing postures are all about killing changes. The internal martial arts are used to promote the bright and dark force. Although the name of our martial arts practice is different, the meaning is quite good..."

"You have a solid foundation and it's reasonable to say that the lower plate is still there, but your stance skills are a bit shallow. I have passed on you a mantra of the mind and the breathing method of forging the body stance. You remember it..."

"When standing in a stance, the spine is like a gun or a dragon, when straight, pierces the sky, when shaking, when sun and moon, and when breathing..."

Sha Zilong first taught Gao Tai his secret body-forging stake. Gao Tai first remembered the mental method and then tried to stand on horses under Sha Zilong's guidance.

As I breathed, Gao Tai's body was slightly up and down, and the soles of his feet were sometimes light and sometimes heavy. The vertebrae between the waist and the back of the neck were connected like a big gun. As he trembled and shook with his breath, this strange stud method made Gao Tai intoxicated for a while.

Half an hour later, Gao Tai's muscles began to tremble, and sweat beads on his cheeks and back continued to emerge, soaking his inner clothes and collar.

Sha Zilong said in a deep voice: "Today you have just started practicing body training. Don't be too greedy to avoid hurting your body. Just do the twelve breaths."

Gao Tai breathed twelve times before standing up straight and breathing a sigh of relief.

"Oh...his..."

As soon as he relaxed his strength, Gao Tai felt his whole body was sore and soft, but his body was comfortable all over, so he smiled and said, "Master, the stance method you taught me is really a treasure. If I practice it every day, I will probably be able to improve my martial arts in half a year."

Sha Zilong handed Gao Tai a hot towel with white smoke and ordered: "Wipe the sweat quickly to avoid getting cold."

Gao Tai thanked him and took the towel, wiped his face and neck first, then lifted up his clothes to wipe his back and forth, and then he let out a breath of comfort.

"Master, you are so smart to teach me the stake method!"

"That's natural." Sha Zilong snorted coldly and said in his heart: This method is the basis of the Five Tigers Soul-Breaking Spear. If it weren't for your great improvement in your mind and ability, I wouldn't have been willing to pass it on to you!

The master and apprentice sat back to their original position and ate a few cups of tea. Gao Tai felt the sourness and sighed happily, saying, "It's so comfortable! Master, do you have anything else to give me advice?"

"Your skill is already quite good. When you practice the stance until you keep walking, sitting and lying, you will be admitted to the room." Sha Zilong glanced at Gao Tai and instructed, "You don't need to mention practicing hard every day. You will come once every three days. I will check with you."

"Yes." Gao Tai nodded hurriedly.

An hour later, it was already dark. Gao Tai ate two bowls of soap buns at Shazilong's house, drank another bowl of wine and said goodbye.

Walking on the streets of the ancient city of Xi'an, looking at the kerosene lamps in the shops on both sides, Gao Tai suddenly remembered the bright lights and tourists in Xi'an a hundred years later, and couldn't help but say: "I don't know if there will be a Gao Tai in this world in a hundred years? It's the first year of Xuantong. I remember waiting for another two years to be the abdication of the Qing emperor, and then the warlords fought melee. The Chinese people don't know how much they will suffer. Although they know that this world is not the world before me, the people here are living people! I think I need to do something..."
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