…

After lunch, the old man said to Ji Ruoxue who was washing dishes: "I have to go out for a trip, so I have to lend me your elk."

"Okay." Ji Ruoxue nodded and agreed.

"Come here." The old man called softly.

The elk, which was still lying in the corner basking in the sun, saw the old man waving his hand, got up and walked up to the old man and bowed his head.

Although Ji Ruoxue was already used to this scene, she still couldn't understand why Elk Xiaohua was so obedient to the old man? You must know that Elk Xiaohua would only treat her like this in the past, and would never allow others to get close to her, let alone

Let someone else ride her... This question has really troubled her for a long time, but she still has no answer.

…

After about an hour, the old man came back holding the elk. In fact, it was not really holding the elk, but the situation was like this. The old man was walking in front, and the elk was following behind. Moreover, the elk was dragging two bundles that had just been cut down behind him.

of bamboo.

"Old man, why are you cutting so much bamboo?" Ji Ruoxue asked confused.

"You'll find out later," the old man said mysteriously.

I saw the old man untying the bamboo from the elk and inserting it randomly in the courtyard. The soil in the courtyard was so hard that it was difficult to dig holes even with a hoe. However, when the old man inserted the bamboo, it was like inserting tofu into the soil.

The place is three feet deep.

This scene really surprised Ji Ruoxue. Ji Ruoxue took a piece of bamboo and tried it. She found that she couldn't insert it at all without using her true energy. After using her true energy, she finally managed to insert it, but the bamboo actually didn't work.

Unable to withstand the pressure on both ends, it burst from the middle, but every bamboo inserted by the old man was intact.

After the old man planted the bamboos, he tied several bamboos horizontally on the top of each bamboo, and then tied them full of hemp ropes, with a small iron ring hanging under each hemp rope.

"From tomorrow onwards, this will be your homework." The old man pointed to the newly planted bamboo and explained to Ji Ruoxue: "I said before that your personality is too out-of-the-box, so you are not allowed to practice those complicated sword moves.

You just need to practice the word "thorn" well."

"prick?"

"Yes, stabbing, my request is that you need to practice until your sword passes through the iron hoop without touching the iron hoop, and you can also touch every bamboo." The old man said calmly.

Ji Ruoxue walked to the bamboo and took a closer look. She took out her sword and gestured. She found that the distance between each bamboo was not big, and the iron ring was just big enough for the sword to pass through slowly. Ji Ruoxue was inside.

After an interview, I found that if she stood still and simply used the sword to pass through the hoop without touching it, she could barely do it, but once she started to move, it would not be so easy, because when she moved, the hoop would

Driven by her figure, it kept shaking.

"Old man, isn't this too difficult?" Ji Ruoxue said.

The old man smiled and said, "Of course it's difficult. If it wasn't difficult, why would you be asked to practice more frequently?"

"Old man, why are there seventy-two bamboos and seventy-two iron rings? Does this have any special significance?" Ji Ruoxue asked doubtfully.

"Really? I really haven't noticed this." The old man pretended to be confused and was very satisfied with Ji Ruoxue's attentiveness.

The reason why there are seventy-two bamboos and seventy-two iron rings is actually very simple, because the best sword formation in the world in Wudang, the "Nine Palaces and Bagua Sword Formation", is composed of seventy-two people holding swords together.

.

I just don’t know if the old man really did it by chance, or

Does it mean that he has really seen the Nine Palaces and Bagua Sword Formation in Wudang Mountain?

…

At dawn the next day, Ji Ruoxue started to get up and practice swordplay. However, just like what she tried yesterday, except that she could stab the first four or five iron rings according to the old man's standards, everything went wrong after that.

The clanking of the swords was very lively.

After practicing for an hour, Ji Ruoxue became a little upset. She felt that her eyes were filled with swaying iron rings, and her head was filled with the sound of colliding iron rings.

"Isn't this too difficult?" Ji Ruoxue thought to herself, and couldn't help but retreat.

…

"Let's have breakfast first!" The old man called Ji Ruoxue at the kitchen door.

When Ji Ruoxue came to the dinner table, she found that today's breakfast was exactly the golden steamed buns that the old man mentioned yesterday.

Looking at the golden steamed buns on the table, Ji Ruoxue couldn't help but think of her conversation with the old man yesterday, and felt a trace of shame in her heart... Since the old man kept his promise, how could he break his promise and get fat?

After eating breakfast and clearing away the dishes, Ji Ruoxue continued to walk to the hoop and continued practicing.

"Come here and have a rest! No need to practice anymore." The old man was lying on a bamboo chair under the eaves, holding a bottle of wine in his hand.

"Old man, I'd better practice more! This is too difficult." Ji Ruoxue said.

"Come here! It's just because it's too difficult that I won't let you practice more." The old man continued.

"Why is this?" Ji Ruoxue walked up to the old man and asked puzzledly.

"It's nothing, haste makes waste. You are already impatient now, and it won't make any sense if you continue to practice..." the old man said.

"Then old man, do you have any good methods to teach me?" Ji Ruoxue asked.

The old man smiled and said: "There is no other way except what makes perfect."

Looking at Ji Ruoxue's disappointed eyes, the old man continued: "I just want you to practice until your sword passes through the iron hoop and you can't touch the iron hoop with your sword, and you can still touch every bamboo... But I

I didn’t tell you to meet this requirement from the beginning, and practice like this from the beginning?”

Seeing that Ji Ruoxue was deep in thought, the old man stopped talking and began to taste the wine.

"Old man, I seem to understand what you mean." Ji Ruoxue raised her head, her eyes brightened, and said happily: "The last time you made dumplings, you made two full plates. If the number of dumplings in those two plates was seventy-two,

Of course you can't make seventy-two dumplings at the same time, because you don't have so many hands, you wrap them one by one. Before this, you must have been very slow when you first learned to make dumplings and you couldn't make them well, right?

?But after you know how to wrap the first one, no matter how many you wrap next? No matter what kind of stuffing you wrap? You can wrap it quickly. This is what you say can make perfect, right?...That is to say, I can't do it now.

I just want to achieve the requirements you mentioned. I can't just think about stabbing seventy-two at the same time at the beginning. I have to take my time one by one. After I stab the same hoop hundreds of times,

Thousands of times, tens of thousands of times... When I can stab it with one sword whether it is in a stationary state or in a swinging state, then I can go back and stab these seventy-two, and it will be easy, right?"

Seeing Ji Ruoxue looking at him excitedly, the old man couldn't help but smile bitterly and said: "That's the truth, but why do you use dumplings as an example?"

"Old man, you understand Xue'er's thoughts best." Ji Ruoxue said with a smile.

"I don't understand." The old man also said with a smile.

"The dumplings you made last time were so delicious."

"It's been so many days, do you still remember?"

"Yes! We haven't eaten dumplings in so many days."

…

After a conversation like this lasted for a cup of tea, the old man said helplessly: "I'm afraid of you, I'll eat dumplings tonight."

"Old man, you are so kind."

"What kind of stuffing?"

"Just the one I had last time will be fine."

…

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After eating the dumplings, Ji Ruoxue once again took the sword to practice stabbing the iron ring. This time the old man did not say anything to stop her, but watched with interest.

I saw that Ji Ruoxue did not enter the bamboo directly this time, but stood outside the bamboo and picked an iron ring, and only focused on stabbing that iron ring. She unsheathed the sword and pierced the iron ring, took it back and then

Continue to thrust out, then pull back and thrust out again... Repeatedly, once, twice, three times... Three hundred and sixteen, three hundred and seventeen, three hundred and eighteen, with a "dang" sound, the third

The sword still hit the iron ring a hundred and nineteen times.

"No more practice." Ji Ruoxue said calmly, sheathing her sword.

"That's right, that's right...the little girl's temperament is much stronger than during the day." The old man lying under the eaves praised her.

"Old man, why are you different from others?" Ji Ruoxue approached the old man and said.

"Really? What's different?" the old man said with a smile.

"It's different everywhere, just take Xue'er's sword practice in the morning as an example! This is the first time that Xue'er has seen a teacher take the initiative to ask students to rest. The teacher who taught Xue'er to read had never done this before..." Ji Ruoxue

He spoke.

"Is that why?"

"Isn't this enough?"

"Haha... Then let me ask you, will you obey the requirements of those gentlemen who force you to study?"

"Of course not. The more they force Xue'er, the more tired Xue'er will become. Even if she does it because she is afraid of being punished by her father, she does it perfunctorily..." Ji Ruoxue said truthfully.

"Look...this is the reason. When they forced you to do it, you were unwilling to do it. Even if you did it, you were perfunctory. But I didn't force you to do it. Instead, you did it consciously after eating.

And he did it very seriously...isn’t this incredible?”

The old man took a sip of wine and continued: "Learning is something you must learn for yourself after all, so you must really want to learn it to learn it, learn it quickly, and learn it well... If you are forced to learn it,

Even if people are there to act, but if the heart is not there, how can they really learn it?"

"Old man, what you said is so right." Ji Ruoxue praised: "If all gentlemen in the world were like you..."

"It would be a mess if they were like me." The old man smiled and took over the words and continued: "Only a strict teacher can produce a good disciple. My method is only effective when facing students like you. If it were someone else,

It might be misleading."

"is that so?"

Ji Ruoxue was thoughtful, and after a while she continued to ask: "Old man, why do you want me to focus on stabbing the iron ring?"
Chapter completed!