Rebirth 1958: My Home is in Nanluoguxiang

Facing his sister's tears, Chang Zhengyang was both moved and amused. He raised his hand and patted Chang Wanyue's head, saying helplessly, "Why are you crying? I asked you to learn martial arts from me, but you refused. If you were good at martial arts, running 200 miles in one night would be a piece of cake, not to mention 60 or 70 kilometers. As for your brother, let alone 200 miles, if I really run at full speed, running a thousand miles in one night is not a problem."

Chang Wanyue chuckled and said, "You're just bragging. A thousand miles in one night, five hundred kilometers, isn't that a thousand-mile horse? You don't have four legs, how can you outrun a thousand-mile horse?"

She smiled, wiped away her tears, and kicked Chang Zhengyang's calf, saying, "Besides, if I listened to you, I would be like you, with muscles all over my body, which would be so ugly."

Chang Zhengyang held his forehead in silence and said, "Who told you that martial arts practitioners must be muscular? Do you know that Wang Qianwen is a hidden master? If she gets ruthless, a dozen trained soldiers will not be her opponents."

"Is this true? Is my sister-in-law so powerful?"

Chang Wanyue's eyes were wide open and her mouth was wide open, her mind full of Wang Qianwen, who usually had a well-proportioned figure and looked weak and powerless. She didn't believe that she was the kind of martial arts master who could fight ten people at once.

Chang Zhengyang said, "What's the big deal? She practices internal martial arts. Never mind. Next time you see her, go ask her yourself. By the way, ask her to teach you some self-defense skills. Okay, you wait here. I'll go kill a wild boar and come back."

After saying that, he went into the old forest, while Chang Wanyue wandered around curiously.

However, she remembered Chang Zhengyang's instructions and only wandered around the cave and did not run far away.

A quarter of an hour later, Chang Zhengyang came back carrying a wild boar weighing more than 200 kilograms.

The reason why we caught such a big one is that we will bring it to my grandpa, uncle and others to eat when we get down the mountain.

In the following time, Chang Wanyue sat on the big rock at the entrance of the cave with her knees hugged, watching Chang Zhengyang busying around quietly.

They slaughtered the pig, lit a fire and boiled water, and before they knew it, they could smell a fragrance coming from the cave.

Time passed by minute by minute, and it was already past 2:12, the time when Chang Wanyue was born. Chang Zhengyang waited for another ten minutes and finally confirmed that Xiaoyue would not awaken the Qilin bloodline.

"Xiaoyue, it seems that you will not awaken the Qilin bloodline."

Chang Zhengyang walked over to Chang Wanyue and patted her shoulder. She raised her head blankly and wanted to stand up, but found that she had been sitting in the same position for a long time and her legs were numb. She wanted to stand up but couldn't.

"Ouch, my legs are numb and it hurts so much!"

Chang Zhengyang helped her massage her calves for a while before she came to her senses. She stood up and was dazed for a while before she said to Chang Zhengyang, "Brother, I can't accompany you anymore."

Chang Zhengyang smiled and said, "It's okay, Xiaoyue, aren't you disappointed?"

Chang Wanyue lowered her head and pondered for a while, then finally raised her head and smiled: "If I get it, it's my fate. If I lose it, it's my luck. I don't care too much about whether I live forever or not. I'm sorry, brother. The future path..."

Chang Zhengyang raised his hand to interrupt him and said without question: "We are a family, there is no need to say sorry."

Chang Wanyue bit her lip, resisted the urge to cry, leaned over and gently hugged Chang Zhengyang before separating.

"Don't act like a child. The future is long and no one knows what changes will happen. Come on, try the wild boar stew I made for you. It has a lot of mountain products in it. It's delicious. I guarantee you'll want to eat more after you've had it."

Chang Wanyue had walked up the mountain for half an hour and was already hungry, so she went into the cave with Chang Zhengyang.

"Here's a big bone for you. Be careful not to burn your hands."

Chang Zhengyang took out a large bone and handed it to Chang Wanyue. There was more than a pound of meat on it, enough for her to eat by herself.

The brother and sister squatted at the entrance of the cave and feasted on the food. Chang Wanyue ate a large bone and couldn't eat any more. Then she sat aside and watched Chang Zhengyang eat up all the stewed meat in the big iron pot, including the soup, meat, and even the bones.

This pot, including the soup and meat, must weigh at least thirty kilograms!

Chang Wanyue touched Chang Zhengyang's slightly bulging belly and said in amazement: "Brother, now I believe you, you can really travel a thousand miles in one night. This pot of meat was eaten by ten people, and you actually finished it by yourself. According to the law of conservation of energy, you must have much more endurance than ordinary people after eating so much food."

Chang Zhengyang was too lazy to explain to her, a layman, that eating a lot does not necessarily mean longer endurance.

This involves factors such as force techniques and breathing rhythm control. To put it bluntly, it is about the level of energy utilization and whether it is possible to achieve maximum power output with minimal energy consumption.

Comparing a person to a machine, the life of the machine depends on its daily maintenance and the degree of wear and tear.

The guiding methods and meditation methods of Buddhism and Taoism are not essentially used for fighting. These methods were created with the goal of reducing the wear and tear of the human body, which is an incredibly sophisticated machine.

Boxing, swordsmanship, footwork, and even hard qigong are nothing more than methods of protecting the Tao.

This is the biggest difference between Buddhist and Taoist practitioners and the people of the martial arts world. The former pursue immortality and transcendence, while the latter pursue the use of force. The goals are different, so the means are naturally different.

Chang Zhengyang cleaned the big pot, wrapped it with oil paper, and hung it on the top of the cave. Then he sealed the cave with large stones. Finally, he carried the remaining wild boar meat and went down the mountain with Chang Wanyue.

I don’t know whether he will come back to this cave in the future. Maybe he will bring his descendants here, or maybe he will never come back again.

It is easy to go up the mountain but difficult to go down. In addition, Chang Wanyue was in a good mood along the way and picked a lot of wild fruits. When the brother and sister returned to their grandfather's house, it was almost five o'clock.

As soon as he entered the yard, Chang Zhengyang could see his father Chang Baichuan and his mother Ms. Guo both breathed a sigh of relief.

Guo Huiying walked over quickly and pulled Chang Wan to a corner to inquire about the details. Compared to the mother and daughter who were gesticulating and jumpy, the situation on the father and son's side was simple.

Chang Zhengyang just shook his head, and Chang Baichuan knew what was going on.

Afterwards, Chang Zhengyang washed the remaining 100 pounds of wild boar meat, removed the bones, and used them to stew bone soup in the evening. As for the meat, his grandmother took it to make bacon.

It's still early August, and if the meat is not processed quickly, it will go bad overnight.

It is so troublesome without a refrigerator, but this bacon is very delicious when used for stir-frying, making soup, or cooking rice.

Sometimes I have to admire the wisdom of our ancestors for coming up with such a good way to preserve food.

After dinner at night, the three younger brothers, including the third brother, stayed behind, while Chang Zhengyang and his friends rushed back to the city under the cover of darkness.