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"Xianggong Bai returned from studying in Japan and came to a humble home for the first time. I should try my best to be a landlord..."

Guo Juren said.

The martial arts examination not only tests bravery, but also military strategy.

When it comes to learning, he is not good at it, but he has read poetry and books and can be considered a scholar.

"This time the roads are blocked due to heavy snowfall. When I come to your mansion, there will be a lot of disturbance."

"Please don't blame Guo Juren."

Bai Gui cupped his hands and smiled.

The two talked for a while.

The sounds of sheep and pigs being slaughtered could be heard in the backyard.

From time to time, several long-term workers came in carrying a large iron stove.

Freshly slaughtered lamb chops were stewed in a casserole.

Steaming and gurgling,

The bottom was lined with red-hot charcoal.

Hospitality is thoughtful!

"This is just an appetizer..."

"Xiangong Bai and all the brothers in the caravan encountered wind and snow, and it was inevitable that the cold would invade the body. This is the best goat meat. It can nourish the spleen and kidneys, warm the heart and dispel cold, and nourish blood and nourish qi."

"The cook in the courtyard is cooking. Let's eat the mutton first to fill our bellies."

Guo Juren pointed to the large pieces of lamb chops in the casserole and said generously.

You also have to pay attention to what you eat. Generally, when you come in this kind of snowy and cold weather, the first meal is usually mutton stew. If you don't have the conditions, you will cook a bowl of ginger soup, which is considered a dietary therapy. It removes cold from the body to prevent colds and diseases.

Several people followed the situation and gathered around the stove with Guo Juren, eating and drinking.

Guanzhong has been an imperial state since ancient times, and eating mutton has a history of thousands of years from the pre-Qin Dynasty to the present. Anyone who knows how to cook can remove the mutton smell. In Guanzhong, there are many ways to eat mutton.

Finished eating the lamb chops.

The long-term worker brought a few more large porcelain bowls. The soup was fragrant with rotten meat, similar to mutton soup, except that the soup was not whitish and clearer. There was no mutton smell when drinking, and it was similar to ramen soup.

Next to everyone's tray, there were a few freshly baked white buns that exuded the aroma of wheat.

"This is Pucheng's mutton water basin."

"But in our provincial capital, vermicelli is always added to the soup..."

Guo Juren took a sip of the mutton soup and said with a smile.

There are no vermicelli in the authentic water basin mutton, only soup and meat, and some small side dishes of fungus and day lily. The more extreme version is just soup and mutton.

Bai Gui also echoed a few words. He was from Qin Province and knew this very well. He took the Bai Ji bun, separated the two halves from the middle, added a little pickled shredded cabbage, and then fished out a few pieces from the basin. Slices of lamb.

Take a bite of the steamed bun and sip the soup.

From time to time a cold wind mixed with snowflakes blew in outside the house.

It feels really good!

"Xianggong Bai has also practiced martial arts? What an appetite!"

Guo Juren's eyes were slightly bright. Just now Bai Gui was wearing a coat, which could not reveal his body and bones. It could only make outsiders think that he was in good spirits. But now that he was able to eat, Bai Gui ate lamb chops and a basin of water. The mutton was not enough, and the understatement made Guo Juren, a martial arts practitioner, immediately suspicious.

"When I was young, I could eat three to five kilograms of meat in one meal, with a lot of wheat cakes."

"I'm older now, but my appetite is stronger than that of ordinary people. Even ordinary young men can't eat as well as I can."

he said.

After practicing martial arts, you will consume a lot of energy. It is essential to eat meat for every meal. Not only eat meat, but also eat it. Otherwise, there would be no such thing as a poor person who learns literature and a rich person learns martial arts.

Ordinary families really cannot provide embryos for the martial arts examination.

"Have practiced some martial arts."

"Under the Phi hanging door, the master is one of the Three Heroes of Yannan, his surname is Huang Tao and Lin Biao..."

Bai Gui put down the sheep and scorpion meat he was holding and said casually.

There's nothing to hide about this.

Although mentioning his martial arts background seems to be a bit of a show off, in fact it is common sense. What is the Guangmen sect? This is it. Otherwise, why would these masters pass down martial arts? Part of the reason is that they will not lose their reputation even if they die...

This is a respected teacher!

Now that I'm famous, I can promote my sect's reputation by the way.

"Although I'm old, my skills are still there. If Mr. Bai doesn't mind it, you can go out with me later to help me eat."

When Guo Juren heard that Bai Guiguo had martial arts, he looked happy and said.

He had heard of Huang Linbiao, the Three Heroes of Yannan, when he was young, and he was from the same generation as him. Huang Linbiao was born as a scholar. After practicing martial arts, he became the chief instructor of Yanjing Green Camp. He was quite famous among their martial arts practitioners.

"Can."

Bai Gui nodded, he also wanted to try Guo Juren's martial arts skills.

Learned martial arts and brought goods to the emperor's family.

A person who comes from a martial arts background, will never become a reckless hero, fight boxing matches, play on the battlefield, and take the exam to be a martial arts examiner and the number one scholar in martial arts. This is a serious background and path...

When he was in Jingwu Sect, he heard Huo Yuanjia mention that in the first year of Xuantong, he had a martial arts competition with Zhang Sanjia, the top martial arts champion in the 24th year of Guangxu, but Zhang Sanjia hit his horse and he kicked him three times. Zhang Sanjia didn't move at all. After a few moves, he felt ashamed and gave up.

This doesn't mean that Huo Yuanjia is much worse than Zhang Sanjia, but it just means that he knows that he can't beat him, so there is not much point in fighting again. Both of them are very old, and a fight is not worth it if it breaks the bones and muscles, and loses life span. .

Although Qin Province is not as famous as Ji Province in the martial arts world, as a border area, wars have never stopped all year round. If we talk about the civil war, the southern provinces are seriously involved in involution, but in the martial arts competition, the northern provinces are not much worse off.

If he can pass the martial arts examination in Qin Province, Guo Juren's quality will not be too bad!

After eating the mutton, wash your hands.

The two left the living room and went to the backyard. There was a martial arts training ground in the backyard, which was clean. Under the eaves, there was a weapon rack with eighteen kinds of weapons, including knives, guns, swords, halberds, hooks, hammers, etc. .

The weapons were not rusty.

It can be seen that long practice.

There are also several stone locks placed in the courtyard, of different sizes, but the places where they fall are all covered with paste and shiny.

The Guo family's waiters, long-term workers, chefs, and their wives and concubines all came out.

It was a snowy day and I had been playing at home for a long time. When I saw the excitement, I just wanted to join in. Besides, word spread throughout the courtyard that the distinguished guest was received at home, and he was a scholar who had returned from studying abroad.

Studying abroad is still a new thing, and everyone wants to see what happens.

"Come on, let's compare our strength first."

Guo Juren raised his arms, moved his body bones, took a step forward with his right foot, bent his knees and squatted slightly, and held the stone lock under his crotch.

Holding his breath, he threw the stone lock upward with his right hand, above his head, and flipped it over his head. Then he bent his elbow with his left arm to meet the stone lock. At the same time, he bent his knees and squatted down into a horse stance.

With a loud sound, the stone lock fell on the bluestone slab, and the ground trembled slightly.

Only then did Guo Juren exhale, and fine beads of sweat immediately seeped out from his forehead and temples. The wife on the side, Guo Pan, walked over and wiped Guo Juren's sweat with a sweat towel. She was very used to it. look.

A boxing proverb goes: "If the two lips are united, the sealing force will be strong."

Bai Gui took off his jacket and put on a long gown. He walked closer and took a look.

This stone lock carved from bluestone weighs fifty kilograms.

Not bad.

This is just an appetizer.

In the martial arts examination, the first horse-step arrow is shot at a target 150 steps away. Nine arrows are shot, and three arrows are qualified. The walking arrow uses a walking bow with a force of fifty kilograms.

To shoot an arrow with a bow, you must be precise and fast, and you cannot draw the bow slowly.

Therefore, the average strength of a martial artist is much greater than fifty pounds.

In the martial arts examination, there is also the second test of "skill and bravery" by lifting large rocks. It is divided into three levels. Those with more than 300 kilograms are called "No. 1", and those with 250 kilograms are called "No. 2" ", two hundred pounds is "No. 3". The test requirement is that the examinee is required to lift the stone to the stomach, and then turn the left, right and bottom sides of the stone once. This action is called "presenting the seal".

"Guo Juren, you are looking down on me."

Bai Gui smiled and shook his head. He lowered his elbows, crouched slightly, and reached down with one hand. The fifty-jin stone lock fell on him easily, like a lion dancing with a hydrangea. The fifty-jin stone lock fell on his body with ease.

One throw, two twists, three throws.

Relaxed and casual, not even a drop of sweat.

"Xianggong Bai is not only good at academics, but he is also good at martial arts. If the Qing Dynasty had not disappeared, with Bai Xianggong's skills, it would have been feasible for Xiong Tingbi, who had learned a lot from Qianqing, to take the martial arts exam..."

(Xiong Tingbi was both a Wen Jieyuan and a Wu Jieyuan. People at the time praised him: "Three Yuans exist in the world, but there are no two Jieyuans in the world.")

Guo Juren praised.

He then walked to the 100-jin stone lock, thought for a moment, and moved to the 200-jin stone lock.

"Master, this is not allowed. You are old now. You don't dare to dance with this two hundred kilogram stone lock, or you may hurt your waist." Guo Pan persuaded after seeing this.

"Isn't this just taking advantage of the mood? You are a mother-in-law, what do you know?"

Guo Juren reprimanded in a low voice. He walked to the 200-jin stone lock and smoothly completed the same movement as before. However, after falling into the stone lock, he gasped for breath and sucked in the cold air for a moment.

"Two hundred pounds..."

Bai Gui shook his head. Two hundred kilograms was nothing for him. He had the courage to carry the cauldron in exchange for the strength to carry the cauldron. After years of hard training, the two hundred kilograms of stone locks were easy for him.

He didn't know how much the tripod was lifted by Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu. However, Ying Dang, the king of Qin Dynasty, lifted the Yongzhou tripod, one of the nine tripods, to test its weight. I don’t know how much this Jiuding weighs, but the Simuwu Ding weighs more than 800 kilograms. I think the Jiuding will not be too bad, it will definitely weigh about a thousand kilograms.

He walked to the largest stone lock in the martial arts training ground, with five hundred kilograms engraved on it.

The "five hundred kilograms" of stone locks are much less coated with pulp. They are deliberately used to practice strength. Most people can't lift it, but they can use it to practice strength.

"Ms. Bai, please don't be brave. These five hundred kilograms...are what I could only lift for three breaths when I was young."

"If it takes longer, I won't be able to lift it."

Seeing this, Guo Juren was a little shocked and advised.

However, he didn't try to persuade him too much. He could move this stone lock at a young age. As long as he didn't imitate Ying Dang and resist hard, nothing would happen. Just be careful and you'd be fine.

"Just watch it, Guo Juren."

Bai Gui smiled faintly and walked to the "five hundred catties" stone lock without explaining much.

He lifted it with all his strength, and in the blink of an eye the stone lock passed shoulder height and reached the top of his head. Then he danced with it, and after ten breaths, it landed firmly on the ground.

However, lifting the five hundred kilogram stone lock was not as easy and casual as before, and there was also a trickle of sweat on the temples.

"I admit defeat in this game. Mr. Bai really hides his secrets."

Guo Juren laughed several times.

It's a test of strength. It's not a big deal if he loses. He's not really angry because he can't compete. What's the point of being angry with Xiangzi's junior? It's too late to make friends.

"Xiao'e, please wipe Mr. Bai's sweat."

Guo Juren said to the young woman next to Guo Pan.

Mrs. Guo Pan is a wife and will not work easily. And Tian Xiao'e is a concubine. The status of a wife and a concubine are one and the same. It is not an exaggeration to let a concubine wipe the sweat of an honored guest.

"Yes, sir."

Tian Xiao'e, a young woman, bowed and came forward.

The woman's scent mixed with the cold wind seeped into Bai Gui's nose.

She took out the pale pink silk scarf from her sleeves, raised her arms, and a section of her beautiful wrist was exposed from the cuffs. She wore a engraved silver bracelet to match it.

Seeing this, Bai Gui took a step back, waved his hand and said: "Guo Juren, no need, I can just wipe it myself."

On snowy days and cold days, if you sweat, you must wipe it off as soon as possible to avoid being infected with wind and cold. This is the experience of the older generation.

But what is unexpected is that Tian Xiao'e moved her arm, reached Bai Gui's face, wiped it with a white silk scarf a few times, and gave Bai Gui a wink. Before leaving, she said to Bai Gui where no one could see her. The arm scratched slightly.

"This is……"

"Unexpectedly, I, Bai Meihe, became a high official in Ximen?"

Bai Gui secretly imagined.

But he just thought about it. It would be really coquettish to offend a woman like Tian Xiao'e. Although it is said that you should marry a virtuous wife or a concubine with a lustful wife, if you really don't care about your character, there will be no room for regret.

As for Guo Juren, Bai Gui thinks he won't mind too much.

Concubine, not wife.

For example, Su Dongpo often gave his concubines to his friends. According to legend, Liang Shicheng, one of the six thieves during the Song Dynasty, was conceived and gave birth to the concubine given by Su Shi. He was the son of Su. Su Shi's own son Su Guo had a close relationship with him. , does not deny it.

Liang Shicheng once said to his accountant at home: "Whenever Xiaosu, a bachelor, spends less than 10,000 guan, there is no need to sue me, just pay it."

"The History of Love" written by Feng Menglong mentioned: "The Duke of Po also had a maid named Chun Niang. The Duke was banished to Huangzhou. Before leaving, there was an envoy from Chiang Kai-shek to greet him. The Duke's name was Chun Niang to persuade him to drink... Jiang asked: 'I Is it possible to use a white horse to change Chun Niang?' Gong Nuo said.

Jiang Wei wrote a poem: "I don't care about the frost, rain, snow, hoofs, I will pay for the redemption of my eyebrows at my leisure." Although there is no gold and bright moon, there is a beautiful woman holding a jade bow. ’

The duke replied: "Chun Niang left in a hurry and did not dare to cry in regret." Just because there are many dangers on the mountain journey, I exchanged the red powder for chasing the wind. ’”

Giving concubines as gifts... was a very common method in the old days.

But even though Bai Gui likes beauty, he also likes to tick the boxes.

However, he absolutely does not want to engage in this kind of bad habit. It cannot be said that he despises these people of the old era, because their thoughts are like this. It makes no sense to criticize them outside the background of the times...

But he himself must "keep himself as pure as jade."

"Since I can't match your strength, Mr. Bai, let's compare weapons."

Guo Juren laughed loudly and asked: "Mr. Bai, what weapon do you use and which hand do you prefer?"