Chapter 7: Butcher's Chopping Knife

The hammer head broke through the wind and moved around the body.

Qin Xiong narrowed his eyes slightly.

The thin young man was using the cloak hammer style 1, 2, and 3. His moves were not standard and his strength was small, but he danced with the hammer, which was more fluent than the other apprentices beside him.

Although it was still pitifully immature for him, the fact that an apprentice who had just learned the hammer technique could do so well showed his talent.

This kid...

"He, he..."

In the huge open space, a group of apprentices danced with hammers, only Lu Zhong stood there in a daze, not even noticing when the hammer in his hand fell.

Other apprentices could not see the difference, so how could he not see it?

This apprentice in the middle courtyard, who was as thin as a chicken, danced with the hammer for the first time, and was actually much more fluent than when he first learned it?

"Oh, you are a good blacksmith!"

Qin Xiong looked subtle. After staring at them for a few times, he glanced at the other apprentices and turned away.

Lu Zhong felt a chill on his back, and when he turned around, he saw his master. He couldn't help but feel a little cold in his heart. He immediately lost the intention to give instructions and hurriedly followed.

Bang!

The hammer fell to the ground, splashing dust.

"Huh!"

Li Yuan panted heavily, and sweated profusely in the slightly cold night, but he didn't feel tired, but felt that he was still unsatisfied.

With the blessing of the master-level hammer method, he had the urge to dance with the hammer happily, but he had to restrain himself.

The place and the timing were not right.

"Sure enough, the blessing of the training hammer is more in the hammer method, and the first test has surpassed other apprentices!"

Glancing at Lu Zhong's departing back, Li Yuan felt that he had a good grasp of it, better than other apprentices, but not much better.

"Still be cautious!"

Breathing slowly, Li Yuan let go of the hammer, and the apprentices on the martial arts field also dispersed one after another, only a few people were still gritting their teeth and persisting.

Niu Gui was among them.

"Too much is as bad as too little. Although I am in high spirits, I am still a little thin. I overworked last night, so it is not suitable for extra training today."

Li Yuan returned to the middle courtyard and did some stretching exercises first, then took a basin of water to wash his body. It was already dark.

At this time, Niu Gui returned to the middle courtyard, but he was still standing still, and occasionally dancing with a hammer, which made several apprentices who had already lain down get up again with gritted teeth.

"Too hard..."

Li Yuan had no experience in martial arts, but he had experience in fitness. Hard training hurts the body, and muscle dissolution is no joke.

He wanted to persuade him, but gave up after thinking about it.

It's not that they are just friends, but these apprentices are fighting for the opportunity to change their lives, and no one can make them give up.

"I really want a glass of watermelon juice!"

Li Yuan lay down with his clothes on, and recalled his previous life, and fell asleep with nostalgia.

The next day, Li Yuan woke up to the groaning of the apprentices in the same bunk, and he also felt sore all over. In fact, there were few people in the middle courtyard who were in worse health than him.

This has nothing to do with the root bones, it is purely long-term malnutrition.

"I want to eat meat!"

Li Yuan heard his stomach growling.

Fifteen or sixteen is the age when the appetite is the largest, plus the amount of exercise has increased greatly, it would be strange if you are not hungry.

Despite the hunger, Li Yuan and several apprentices have been busy, making fire, transporting charcoal, cleaning the yard...

"Liu Qing, I will chop wood."

Li Yuan opened his mouth and exchanged jobs with Liu Qing, who was naturally happy to do so.

"It's dark under the lamp, I actually forgot about this axe!"

Stretching out his hand to grab the axe with many cracks, Li Yuan's eyes were gray again, but the light was much weaker than the training hammer.

[Broken Axe (Not Entering the Level)]

[Control Requirements: None]

[Control Effect: Introduction to Chopping Axe Technique]

"... The lowest grade among those who are not entering the level!"

Li Yuan shook his head in his heart, but he didn't mean to ask Liu Qing to change his job back. With a casual chop, the vertical firewood was split in half by him.

"Although it's not a hammer, the force-generating technique is the same!"

Familiar with the force-generating technique, Li Yuan chopped the knife quickly and soon finished chopping the firewood for today. After that, he did not rest and continued to do other things.

In the past month, he felt a dark spot in front of his eyes every time at this time, but now, although there are many miscellaneous tasks, he enjoys it and keeps familiarizing himself with the force-generating technique.

At the same time, his eyes also looked at the kitchen.

That was Fatty Sun's place. Anyone who moved around or looked around would be beaten. Although Li Yuan was very curious about the effect of those kitchen knives, he would not ask for trouble.

In the busyness, the sun soon rose to the zenith.

The food at the forging shop was not bad at noon. The apprentices in the middle courtyard also had three steamed buns, two bowls of porridge, and half a plate of pickled radish to eat.

"No oil and water!"

It didn't matter whether the steamed buns were delicious or not. Li Yuan finished it in a short while. Although his stomach was full, he still felt hungry.

"The food in the middle courtyard is only enough to fill your stomach. If you want to practice martial arts, you need to eat something else. Otherwise, you will die sooner or later!"

The feeling of hunger even overwhelmed Li Yuan's desire to explore the military scroll. With the change given by his second brother, Li Yuan went straight to the cooked meat shop and bought half a pound of the cheapest pork offal. Only then did he feel full.

"Hey, can you let me see your meat cleaver?"

Li Yuan, who had finished eating the minced meat in the corner, came to the cooked meat shop again. The clerk greeted him with a smile. Hearing this, he looked back at the busy shopkeeper and stretched out his hand:

"Let's see it."

[Butcher's meat cleaver (not in the rank)]

[The bone-cutting knife that Hu the butcher has used for many years to chop meat is seriously worn...]

[Control effect: entry into knife skills]

[Control conditions: none]

"Entry into knife skills!"

Li Yuan was slightly happy, took a look at the severely worn bone-cutting knife, and called the shopkeeper with a face full of flesh over.

After some bargaining, he bought the knife with one coin of silver.

"Control!"

Finding an empty alley corner, Li Yuan half-closed his eyes. On the small gray table, the butcher's bone-cutting knife was clearly on it.

However, the weapon-controlling talisman could not control it.

"Although this table is small, it can still accommodate a few weapons. But if you want to control more weapons, you have to be promoted to the weapon-controlling talisman..."

Just thinking about the harsh conditions, Li Yuan felt a headache.

Dayun Dynasty collects taxes every autumn, and only collects silver. Silver is expensive. One thousand two hundred copper coins can only be exchanged for one tael of silver, and gold...

It is not circulated on the market at all...

Li Yuan turned his mind around and kept trying other uses of the weapon-controlling talisman. He tried to change the weapon he controlled.

Buzz~

When the butcher's bone-cutting knife replaced the training hammer and entered the weapon-controlling talisman, Li Yuan was a little uncomfortable, as if someone had taken away a piece of clothing.

"The pile training and hammering techniques I memorized are still there, but once the mastery-level hammering techniques are gone, the familiar feeling of practicing hammering for decades is gone..."

Li Yuan leaned against the earth wall and felt:

"But it feels like chopping meat for many years... It seems that the replacement of the controlled weapon has little impact on me, but it seems that I can't change it at any time..."

"Can I only change the controlled weapon once every two days?"

Li Yuan understood.

...

...

In the next few days, Li Yuan changed back to the controlled weapon. With the blessing of the mastery-level hammering techniques, the pile training gradually improved, but his appetite also increased. He had to buy half a pound of minced meat almost every day.

The silver coins given by the second brother will soon run out. Li Yuan has always firmly believed that the best place to spend money is to spend it on himself.

Qin Xiong did not come to teach the cloak hammer again. It seems that he had an escort mission. Lu Zhong taught it on his behalf. After a few days, the eighteen hammer techniques were also taught.

Li Yuan did not reveal more, but just happened to be a little faster than the other apprentices, which attracted attention but was not too eye-catching.

…

"Li Yuan, come here and clean up!"

That day, Li Yuan, who had just finished standing on the stakes, had not had time to wipe his body when he heard the voice of Fatty Sun from afar.

Several apprentices who had not entered the house heard the voice and immediately sped up their movements and went back to the house. Li Yuan rubbed his wrist, responded, and came to Fatty Sun's courtyard.

As the chef in charge of most of the food and drink in the forging shop, Fatty Sun's treatment is needless to say. He has an independent courtyard, meat for every meal, and a hot bath.

At this moment, Fatty Sun, who was full of wine and food, was taking a bath in the house. He did not avoid Li Yuan, leaning in the bathtub, smoking his pipe from time to time.

"I heard you're pretty good at hammering?"

Looking at Li Yuan cleaning up the leftovers, Fatty Sun in the inner room blew out a smoke ring:

"What a pity, what a pity."

This fat guy...

Li Daoye's heart moved slightly, and he slowed down his cleaning movements, and raised his head in confusion:

"What's a pity for the chef?"

"There's something I just found out."

Knocking his pipe outside the bathtub, Fatty Sun lowered his voice with a smile on his face:

"That Qin Xiong is good at martial arts, wine and meat, but the best thing is women!"

"Ah?"

Li Yuan's heart moved.

"It is said that he has one in Chaiyufang. It is said that her surname is Niu, she is slim and pretty..."

Fatty Sun joked slightly:

"I heard that her surname is Niu?"

"Surname Niu?"

Li Yuan's mind turned, and he remembered someone:

"Niu Gui?!"

After a slight surprise, Li Yuan came back to his senses.

He was a little disappointed that the quota was pre-selected, but he didn't take it too seriously. If there was no way to get promoted, the old brand with more than 200 years of inheritance would have collapsed long ago.

If not this time, there will be the next time.

At the very least, he learned martial arts a year or two earlier, which is not a loss...

"Our forging shop is an old brand with a history of more than 200 years. We have our own process for training apprentices, but Qin Xiong will not teach you martial arts according to the rules..."

Putting down the pipe, Fatty Sun stood up from the bathtub with a big belly, wiped it a few times, put on his clothes and walked out.

"I see..."

Li Yuan was a little absent-minded.

He was a little curious about what Fatty Sun wanted to do.

Did he catch the fat man's eye by accident?

Or...

"Each courtyard has only one quota to join the inner courtyard this time, so Niu Gui joined the middle courtyard more than a month ago. Do you understand?"

Fatty Sun smiled, wanting to see the boy's expression of unwillingness to lose.

Li Yuan lowered his head: "Thank you, Chef Sun, for your advice."

"Aren't you disappointed?"

Fatty Sun was a little disappointed: "You are obviously the best performer, but you can't go to the inner courtyard. Don't you have any resentment in your heart?"

"I feel a little disappointed, but not much. As for resentment..."

Li Yuan's heart trembled, and he lowered his head and answered honestly:

"This opportunity was not originally mine, why should I resent it? At least I learned martial arts..."

Fatty Sun restrained his smile, stared at Li Yuan for a while, and then smiled: "It's quite interesting..."

"This fat guy..."

Li Yuan felt uneasy when he was stared at. This Fatty Sun must be good at martial arts, right?

"Unfortunately, you are still wrong."

Fatty Sun knocked on his pipe and said lightly:

"Although the White Ape Cloak Hammer is not the best martial arts in the shop, how can it be easily passed on to you?"

"Incomplete?"

Li Yuan reacted.

"Of course, the moves are complete, but only the moves and the pile work, even if you have the best bones, don't think about getting started without three to five years!"

While Fatty Sun was speaking, his fat palm had already landed on Li Yuan's shoulder.

Li Yuan wanted to hide, but there was no way to hide. The severe pain and coldness almost rushed into his heart at the same time.

"Your bones are okay, barely average, and considered below average, right? Unfortunately, your body is a little weak..."

Li Yuan felt a little cold on his back, and his clothes were soaked with cold sweat.

The moment the big hand pressed on his shoulder, he felt like a lamb in the mouth of a tiger, and his life and death were not up to him.

At this moment, he couldn't help but breathe heavily, and his heart was pounding.

This fat guy who was fawning and smiling beside Qin Xiong is so powerful? !

"Why, are you surprised that I know martial arts?"

Fatty Sun enjoyed the shock and astonishment of others:

"Why do you think I can get such a lucrative job as the head chef of the middle courtyard? My martial arts, hum hum..."

Isn't it because your brother-in-law is the second shopkeeper?

Li Yuan complained in his heart, but he could only pretend to listen attentively.

"The White Ape Cloak Hammer has internal and external divisions, and the theory of large and small three combinations. It is also divided into training methods, fighting methods, and breathing methods."

Under the moonlight, Fatty Sun, who no longer smiled, said lightly:

"Now, I will teach you the 'Ape Six Breathing Method'!"

So complicated?

Li Yuan was a little stunned:

"Why are you teaching me?!"

"Let me teach you a lesson. In this world, if you want to be looked at differently by others, you must either have a good talent or have a purpose...

With your average and low-level bones, can it be because of your extraordinary talent?"

Fatty Sun paced a few steps, turned around with his hands behind his back, and in the night, the sneer on his fat face could still be seen:

"Of course it's because your second brother gave me money!"