"Come, follow me and do it together." Zhang Xiaozu made a straight horse step in front of the queue to demonstrate.
These thirty-six children had some basic knowledge of physical fitness, so it was not difficult for them to do the Zama Steps, and they quickly followed Zhang Xiaopou's instructions and performed them well.
Zhang Xiaozu glanced around and nodded with satisfaction.
"Place your fists at your waist."
"The center of gravity falls between the legs."
"Your feet should be steady, like an old tree with its roots firmly rooted in the earth."
"The head should be upright, the neck should be straight, the chest should be held, the abdomen should be tightened, and the back should be straight -"
Zhang Xiaozu taught seriously and carefully.
As he said, either don't teach, or if you want to teach, you must teach seriously, and you don't understand what nonsense teaching is.
But the more seriously and carefully he taught, the more nervous the children became. Listening to each of the essentials he explained, they suddenly felt that something was wrong with their originally straight horse stance.
If the body and mind are not in harmony, the spirit and form are not in harmony, the horse's steps will naturally become unstable.
"Ouch!" The little fat man Tai Wenyan was impatient for a moment, his center of gravity was unstable, and he fell down.
Then it seemed to be contagious, and people fell down one after another.
"Stop!" Zhang Xiaozu quickly stopped and said:
"The horse stance is good, but your mind is not calm, your breath is not harmonious, you are nervous and impatient, which makes your body and movements stiff, and your center of gravity is unstable, so you fall. You should relax your body and mind, let your breath flow freely throughout your body, and your strength will be strong but not stiff.
, be gentle but not lazy, so that you can feel relaxed and happy and not feel tired, otherwise you will be exhausted and paralyzed in just a short while."
As he spoke, Zhang Xiaopou suddenly made seals with his hands, and a round of golden talisman appeared between his palms, and then he patted it in the air above the queue.
The golden talisman grew in the wind and turned into a huge golden talisman, covering the heads of the thirty-six children.
The children felt a comfortable coolness falling from the sky, penetrating their consciousness and hearts, instantly driving away the tension and impatience in their hearts, making them feel relaxed and comfortable as never before.
The children all looked at Zhang Xiaozu with stars in their eyes and worshiped him even more.
Du Tianlu was even more wary of Zhang Xiaopou.
Looking back on the battle with Zhang Xiaopou that day, I never saw Zhang Xiaopou using Taoist combat skills, which meant that Zhang Xiaopou had not used his full strength that day.
This made him even more unable to see through Zhang Xiaopou's true combat power.
Thinking back to the news that yesterday in the southern suburbs of the city, Zhang Xiaopou defeated a large number of people and killed a powerful man with half a step, and he suddenly felt a strong sense of crisis.
Zhang Xiaozu frowned and glanced at Du Tianlu. He suddenly felt a murderous aura coming from Du Tianlu. Although the murderous aura was fleeting, he still captured it accurately.
Under the eaves in front of the school, Zhou Jianlai, who was sleeping soundly, suddenly turned sideways, opened his lazy eyelids, and glanced into the yard. Seeing that there was no movement, he closed his eyes and went back to sleep.
Zhang Xiaozhu ignored Du Tianlu, looked back at the child, and shouted: "Come, let's try again. Don't be nervous, don't be impatient, relax your body, and let it sink in naturally."
"You might as well close your eyes and imagine that you are the green pines standing on the cliff."
"Your feet are firmly grasped into the hard rock, your backs are firmly leaning against the cliff, and you have become one with the towering mountains."
"No matter how violent the storm is, it will not be able to shake you in the slightest."
"good, very good!"
Zhang Xiaozu was pleasantly surprised to find that these children seemed to have a lot of experience in harmonizing their own auras. Just after listening to his description, they gradually became integrated with the surrounding environment.
Little did they know that this was the foundation Su Jin had laid for them.
Although Su Jin did not often give them martial arts lessons, he often taught them how to sit quietly and enter concentration, either in the school, in the yard, or in the bamboo forest, often standing or sitting for half a day.
Zhang Xiaozu walked to the middle of the queue, stood with his hands down, and closed his eyes. His chest was rising and falling, his nose was opening and closing, and his breathing was slightly heavy.
The courtyard was very quiet, and his slightly heavy breathing clearly reached the ears of every child, and then the children involuntarily followed his rhythm and started breathing and breathing.
Zhang Xiaozhu was teaching them the breathing and breathing method of boxing, but he didn't know how to explain it, so he came up with such a simple and quick way to use his own Qi to influence the surrounding environment to guide the children to follow his breathing rhythm.
Du Tianlu was very surprised. He never thought that Zhang Xiaozu would even teach the breathing method in public.
Thinking of the power of Zhang Xiaozu's boxing skills, he unconsciously began to breathe and exhale according to Zhang Xiaozu's rhythm, and at the same time, he began to practice the basic set of boxing skills that Zhang Xiaozu had just performed in his mind.
But in the middle of the punch, his expression suddenly changed and he hurriedly stopped. He felt that the energy around his body was in chaos, the true energy in the sea of qi was surging, and there was a hidden tendency of qi and blood to flow backwards.
His eyelids couldn't help but twitch, because this was a sign that he had become obsessed with practicing martial arts.
"Damn bastard!" Du Tianlu stared at Zhang Xiaopou with lingering fear and cursed fiercely in his heart.
He felt that Zhang Xiaopou must have kept something secret. He even suspected that this was a trap deliberately dug by Zhang Xiaopou. He had expected that he would secretly learn from it, so he took the opportunity to play tricks on him.
The more Du Tianlu thought about it, the more he felt that this was the case, so he became angrier.
"Shh!"
"Be gentle, be gentle, don't disturb the junior brothers in their cultivation."
Another group of guests came to the entrance of the small courtyard. It was Nan Fengtian, the director of the courtyard, who brought sixteen students with outstanding training qualifications to learn boxing from Zhang Xiaozu.
The students following behind heard Nan Fengtian's instructions, immediately silenced their voices and walked softly.
Each of them was full of curiosity and expectation, because Nan Fengtian said that he would take them to learn a set of powerful boxing techniques.
What also made them curious was Yunzhu Courtyard.
Because Yunzhu Courtyard has been a restricted area in the college for the past few years, they only know that there is a small courtyard deep in the bamboo forest. In the small courtyard, a disgraced princess is placed under house arrest. No one can approach it except the students studying in the small courtyard.
, otherwise you will be severely punished.
However, they soon lost their curiosity about Yunzhu Courtyard, because it was a very ordinary courtyard, with nothing worthy of their attention.
So their eyes quickly focused on the thirty-six juniors who were learning boxing in the yard, as well as Zhang Xiaopeng standing in the middle of the queue.
However, Zhang Xiaozu was only a few years older than them, and the basic stance skills he was teaching could not keep their attention. After only a brief pause, their eyes shifted to Du Tianlu.
Du Tianlu's image and temperament made their eyes light up, and they immediately thought that this was the person who was about to teach them powerful boxing skills.
"Master Zhang, what are you doing?" Du Tianlu saw Nan Fengtian arriving with a dozen students, and he quickly greeted him respectfully.
Nan Fengtian nodded in greeting and responded: "I brought these students here to find an opportunity. I wonder why the commander is here?"
Du Tianlu replied: "My marriage to Jin'er is approaching. I will send her a wedding dress and some jewelry items."
He spoke with certainty and naturalness, as if his marriage to Su Jin had become a fact and no one could change it or stop it.
Nan Fengtian stroked his beard and smiled, and advised: "Commander, marriage is destined by fate. You can't force it, but if you ask for it, it will become a bad fate. Why bother?"
Du Tianlu frowned slightly and did not answer Nan Fengtian's words. Instead, he changed the subject and asked, "I wonder what kind of opportunity Master Zhangyuan brings his junior brothers and sisters here to seek? Are they here to learn boxing?"
"Haha, exactly, exactly." Nan Fengtian nodded and smiled.
Although his laughter was loud, it did not disturb the children who were learning boxing because he had blocked the sound so that the conversation between him and Du Tianlu could not reach the children's ears.
"Then I'm afraid I will disappoint the Master," Du Tianlu said.
"how you said that?"
"This kid is very bad. There are vicious methods hidden in the breathing method. If you follow his qi movement and breathe out, soon the whole body's qi movement will be disordered, the qi sea will be turbulent, and the qi and blood will flow backwards, causing people to become possessed."
"It seems that all the commanders have learned the lesson."
"——" Du Tianlu was suddenly speechless. Only then did he realize that his words revealed that he had secretly learned Zhang Xiaopou's boxing skills, and was criticized by Nan Fengtian in public. He was extremely embarrassed for a moment.
He glanced at Zhang Xiaozu from the corner of his eye and saw that Zhang Xiaozu seemed to be immersed in breathing and did not hear the conversation between him and Nan Fengtian. The embarrassment in his heart suddenly eased a lot.
"But the children are learning well." Nan Fengtian's eyes fell on the children who were breathing and breathing along with Zhang Xiaozu.
"This -" Du Tianlu suddenly stopped speaking, stunned.
He only focused on cursing and hating Zhang Xiaopeng, but ignored this point.
yes.
If there is something fishy hidden in Zhang Xiaozhu's breathing technique, then why are the children who are pulled by his Qi and breathing with him safe and sound?
Du Tianlu couldn't explain it for a while.
It can’t be said that this breathing and breathing method is not suitable for him to learn, right?
But he didn't think that Zhang Xiaozu had such a clever method and could create a breathing and breathing method in a short period of time that would not harm others but only target him.
"Weird, weird." Nan Fengtian twirled his beard and said with a stunned expression.
He tried to follow Zhang Xiaozu's qi movement to breathe and exhale, and rehearsed in his mind the basic boxing skills Zhang Xiaozu had seen on the top floor of Wusheng Tower. He soon felt the problems that Du Tianlu encountered.
Obviously, Zhang Xiaozhu's breathing method is not just for Du Tianlu.
This is also the reason why Zhang Xiaopou is not afraid of Du Tianlu secretly learning it, because no one with good cultivation can learn this breathing and breathing method.
Otherwise, he would have shared this boxing technique with Zhou Jianlai and others.
"Interesting, interesting." Nan Fengtian took a closer look at the state of the children and found that not only did they have no problems, but their breathing was smooth, and they faintly entered a state of selflessness. He couldn't help but be surprised.
He couldn't figure it out for a while, so he could only say helplessly: "It's better to wait for Teacher Zhang to ask him for advice after class. Don't try to figure out and practice in vain."
He was not embarrassed at all, and naturally labeled Zhang Xiaopou as a "teacher".
This hat can enhance the relationship with Zhang Xiaozu, making it less abrupt when he asks for Zhang Xiaozu's boxing skills later.
"Master in charge, are you going to let us learn standing postures together with these junior brothers and sisters?" A student asked, dumbfounded.
Most of the other students had the same facial expressions.
Each of them is an outstanding person with outstanding talents. They originally came with the beautiful dream of learning peerless boxing skills, but suddenly they learned that they had to learn the most basic stance with a group of children. The huge gap made it difficult for them to accept it.
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"Oh, it's hard to say whether you will get this opportunity or not. On the contrary, each one of them started to dislike it." Nan Fengtian looked at the resistant expressions of the students and couldn't help but sneered.
"What a waste of opportunity, I wish I couldn't ask for it." A boy muttered in a low voice with emotion.
Nan Fengtian was very unhappy when he heard this. He immediately waved his hands impatiently and said: "If you don't want to learn, get out of here and stop being an eyesore in front of me."
After that, he put his hands behind his hands and walked towards the front of the school, leaving a group of students standing there with embarrassed expressions.
"Young man, can you make room for the old man?" Nan Fengtian walked to Zhou Jianlai who was basking in the sun. Seeing that Zhou Jianlai was enjoying the sun, he immediately wanted to lie down and bask in the sun, so he asked tentatively.
Zhou Jianlai didn't even open his eyes and responded lazily: "Old man, I am disabled and I can't give in."
"——" Nan Fengtian glanced at Zhou Jianlai's broken arm and smiled in shock: "That's such a pity."
After saying that, he raised his hand and grabbed a pair of fine rattan recliners from the void space, put it aside, and lay down on it.
I don’t know why he asked more about what he just said. Is it possible that someone else’s recliner sounds better to sleep on?
Tap tap tap——
There were footsteps again outside the courtyard gate.
Du Tianlu looked at it for the first time, and his eyes fell on the person who came. He was disappointed and surprised. He was disappointed that the person who came was not Su Jin, but he was surprised that it was his father-in-law Feng Yuxiu.
He quickly stepped forward again and greeted him with a salute: "Eunuch."
"Commander of the capital." Feng Yuxiu returned the gift.
"Why are you here, father-in-law?" Du Tianlu asked curiously.
He couldn't help but have some expectations in his heart, guessing that Feng Yuxiu was ordered by Su Hanlin to deliver a verbal message to Su Jin and tell her about the marriage.
"Come and pass on the Holy Sage's oral instructions." Feng Yuxiu replied.
Du Tianlu's eyes suddenly lit up when he heard this, and he secretly said with joy: "I really guessed it."
At the same time, he said with a smile: "What a coincidence, Jin'er is not here, so I have to ask my father-in-law to wait a moment."
"Oh, the oral instruction from the leader of the Zajia family is not for Princess Jin, but for Mr. Zhang, but it seems that the Zajia family will have to wait for a while." Feng Yuxiu said.
His eyes fell on Zhang Xiaozu, and he saw that Zhang Xiaozu was teaching, so he did not dare to step forward and disturb him.
This is the rule of Taiping College. Unless there is an urgent matter, you are not allowed to disturb your teacher's teaching.
Although Zhang Xiaozu is not a teacher at Taiping College, he is currently preaching and receiving his vocation, so he is a teacher at this moment.
No one can be disturbed unless necessary.
"Give it to him?" Du Tianlu was stunned for a moment, and the joy in his heart suddenly disappeared.
Feng Yuxiu did not respond to his words, moved aside, closed his eyes and fell asleep.
"Damn it!" Du Tianlu couldn't help cursing in his heart. The huge loss made him feel irritable.
While he was irritated and cursing, he suddenly heard footsteps coming from the direction of the courtyard door. He quickly turned his head and looked, but was disappointed again. It was still not Su Jin, but the prince Su Hui.
Su Hui came to see Zhang Xiaozu, Zhou Jianlai and Niu Dawa.
He has already captured six of the nine thieves who smashed up Wufu Restaurant, leaving only three people, Zhang Xiaopeng, behind.
He plans to return to the palace tomorrow.
Du Tianlu greeted him again, acting like a doorman welcoming guests.
The two parties greeted each other and exchanged greetings. Su Hui went to meet Feng Yuxiu and Nan Fengtian one by one, and then waited quietly aside without disturbing Zhang Xiaopou's class.
Knowing that Su Hui came to "invite" Zhang Xiaopou, Du Tianlu's pricked heart finally got some comfort.
After a while, Du Tianlu heard footsteps again and thought that Su Jin must be back this time, but he was disappointed again.
This time, the prince Su Zheng and the princess Suning came, as well as more than a dozen young ladies of the same age. It was a large and lively group.
Su Zheng was walking at the front of the team, chatting and laughing as he walked into the small courtyard. Then he glanced around the small courtyard, his expression suddenly changed, and he turned around and left as if he had seen a ghost in the daytime.
Especially when I saw Feng Yuxiu's old wrinkled face, yesterday's tragedy suddenly came to my mind, and there was a dull pain in my crotch.
The people behind him didn't know why, but when they glanced at the small courtyard, they all looked like Su Zheng and ran away as if they were running away.
Nan Fengtian, the leader of the courtyard, Feng Yuxiu, the eunuch, Su Hui, the prince, and Du Tianlu, the commander-in-chief of the imperial army, none of them dared to provoke. If they plunged into the courtyard, it would definitely be more uncomfortable than going to jail.
"Su Zheng, didn't you say that no one came to Yunzhu Courtyard? It's almost time to catch up with Fengzhi. Lord in charge of the courtyard, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and even the old eunuch Feng Yuxiu are here. What's going on?
Yet?"
A group of people asked Su Zheng while escaping from the bamboo forest.
Su Zheng cursed and said: "What a fool, how do I know? But according to my guess, most of them are here for Zhang Xiaopou. This guy is too good at causing trouble."
"No, it is said that there was a conflict with the uncle's house this morning." Someone echoed.
"This guy is obviously a troublemaker. I think it would be best if we don't get too close to him unless necessary."
Su Zheng turned around and looked at the two people talking with disdain, and sneered mercilessly: "You two have the nerve to call others troublemakers? If the old men of your two families hadn't been following you around to wipe your butts every day, you would have caused this.
The trouble is enough to chop your heads off a hundred times."
"Hey, hey, we're all in the same boat." The man said happily to Su Zheng.
"Fuck you, I'm a very dignified and well-behaved girl." Suning scolded.
Her mouth is dirty, but she doesn't look like a princess at all.
"Ha ha--"
Everyone was amused by Suning's "dignified and well-behaved" sentence.
Suning even laughed after saying this.
After laughing, Su Zheng suddenly stopped.
The people behind him stopped and looked at him questioningly.
Su Zheng put away the smile on his face, his expression became more serious than ever before, and his eyes slowly swept over everyone's face.
Under Su Zheng's glance, the smiles on everyone's faces became unnatural and then disappeared.
The atmosphere suddenly became dull and depressing.
"We will be adults in one year. I wonder if you have ever thought about how we will deal with ourselves as adults?" Su Zheng broke the silence, looked at the group of people and asked.
Su Hanlin had just asked him and Suning this question last night.
He and Suning thought about it for a long time without an answer.
The two of them had been sick and sick since they were young, and they couldn't live without medicine all day long. They were like two medicine jars. Fortunately, they were favored by Su Hanlin, otherwise it would be hard to say whether they would be alive today.
Living with medicine all day long, full of cynicism, and a gloomy life with no hope, they gradually gave up the struggle for life, thinking that since it is a broken pot, then let it be broken.
On the surface, they are still living hard, full of vigor and ambition, knowledgeable, courteous, and obedient. On this side, they live for those who care about them.
Behind their backs, they eat, drink, have fun, indulge in extravagance, and cause trouble. The boss of Tian and the others just want to be happy day by day. This side of them lives for themselves.
However, deep down in their hearts, there is still a fragile side hidden. Only in the loneliness of the night will they secretly reveal it and silently lick their wounds.
Su Zheng and Suning originally joined a group to keep warm in the deep palace, but when they walked out of the palace walls and came to Taiping College to study, they successively met sixteen second-generation ancestors who were as decadent as them, and eventually formed the like-minded Imperial Capital Eighteen
ride.
Of course, the Eighteen Cavalry of the Imperial Capital is their self-proclaimed reputation.
People prefer to call them the Eighteen Wastes of the Imperial Capital, or the Eighteen Stinky Rats of the Imperial Capital.
The numerous crimes they have committed over the years have already made them like rats crossing the street, with everyone calling for beatings.
If they hadn't been of noble status and had someone to protect them, the evil deeds they had done would have caused them to disappear from the world long ago.
However, instead of being afraid, they enjoyed it endlessly.
Because when they look at those people who claim to be nobles and are superior, they are bullied to the ground and beg for mercy in all humility, or when those nobles who are arrogant and unwilling to look at them are ruined by them, they often
You can feel a strong sense of revenge and accomplishment.
To put it simply: metamorphosis.
They are using their sick psychology to take revenge on the society that despises them.
They never think about what tomorrow will bring.
They are too lazy to use their dull brains to think about such a profound question.
But last night, Su Hanlin threw two thick booklets on the faces of Su Zheng and Suning. The two booklets recorded in detail every bad thing they had done over the years.
Su Hanlin ordered the two of them to read it from the beginning without missing a word.
The two of them read it as ordered.
Then I was surprised to find that their achievements in the past few years were so brilliant. They destroyed five famous families alone, and they also ruined all kinds of people who were ruined by them, had a bad reputation, abandoned their positions, and lost their wealth.
They are all too numerous to count.
Just when the two of them were complacent about this glorious achievement, Su Hanlin poured cold water on them and asked them: "You two have offended all the nobles in the imperial capital, making them hate you so much that they want to peel you off."
, broken bones and ashes, then have you left a way out for yourself?"
The two of them were silent, but they didn't agree in their hearts. They never thought of leaving a way out for themselves.
Then Su Hanlin asked them, how will they deal with themselves as adults, or will they continue to cause trouble and challenge the bottom line of the nobles of the imperial capital?
The two of them remained silent.
They didn't even leave a way out for themselves, so how could they think about the problems in adulthood.
Su Hanlin asked three questions: "When I drive to the west and can no longer protect you two, who can protect you behind me and make you an enemy of the entire imperial capital?"
Su Hanlin did not let them answer, but told them the answer directly, saying: "When the prince succeeds to the throne, in order to stabilize the political power, he must win over the nobles in the imperial capital and form a solid interest group, and the most important thing is to win over the nobles.
The best way is to sacrifice the eighteen knights of your imperial capital.
As princes and princesses, you two may be able to die a decent death, but your gang of cuckold friends will be miserable.
You must know better than anyone else the shameless and cruel methods of our nobles, do you two dare to imagine their tragic end?"
After hearing what Su Hanlin said, the two of them turned pale with fright and broke out in cold sweat.
Eighteen of them joined the group for warmth, and they had already regarded each other as close family members. Thinking that they were going to be locked up in an iron cage like animals and humiliated and abused by the nobles, Su Zheng and Suning were so painful that they couldn't breathe.
"What should I do?" Su Zheng asked Su Hanlin in a hoarse voice with a cold sweat on his head.
Su Hanlin gave him two ways.
The first is to find strong support.
But the prince is unreliable, where else can he find strong support?
The second is to make yourself stronger.
As the saying goes, it is better to rely on yourself than to rely on heaven and earth.
Su Zheng felt like crying after hearing this, because there was neither one of these two roads he could take.
However, Su Hanlin immediately pointed out a clear path to him and told him that Zhang Xiaopou could make him stronger.
The basis is that a year ago Zhang Xiaozu was a useless person with a congenitally closed war sect, but in just one year he became powerful enough to be proud of the stars, so he must have a special cultivation method.
Su Zheng couldn't help but think so, and a raging fire ignited in his heart that he was expected to become stronger.
So today we gathered the Eighteen Cavalrymen of the Imperial Capital and came to Yunzhu Courtyard, intending to take Zhang Xiaozu as their master.
Because Su Hanlin said that Zhang Xiaozhu was a very emotional person, so Su Zheng felt that if he could become his teacher, he would definitely teach him everything he could.
It's a pity that he died before he left the army. As soon as he arrived at Yunzhu courtyard, he was frightened by the four big guys in the courtyard and fled.
"Let me ask you, do you want to become stronger?" Su Zheng glanced at everyone and asked word by word.
"think!"
"Think!" "Think"
The low and powerful answers expressed the voices that they suppressed deep in their hearts but never dared to ask for or touch.
In fact, they are all people who are unwilling to be lonely. Otherwise, they would have just laid down and enjoyed their glory and wealth in peace and quiet. How could they be looking for trouble?
"Then follow me back to Yunzhu Courtyard." Su Zheng got the answer he wanted and strode towards Yunzhu Courtyard.