Author: Prince Meow

The setting sun is like fire, and the microwave scales on the lake reflect little red lights.

By the lake, a shirtless young man tied the boat rope tightly and walked towards a brightly lit house not far away, carrying half a bucket of fish and shrimp.

Chen Yi's lean upper body was tanned bronze from years of fishing. He looked malnourished, but he had tight muscle lines.

Carrying a bucket of occasionally tumbling fish and shrimp, he came to a thatched house and pushed open a simple door hung with wooden boards:

"Mom, I'm back." Chen Yi handed the bucket to a middle-aged woman with white hair.

The woman took the bucket, picked up the dead fish and shrimp inside, threw it into the burning pot, and said:

"Go and wash your hands and take a rest. Let's wait for dinner."

After a while, three people were sitting around the pit in the inner room of the hut: Chen, Chen Yi, and his 12-year-old sister Chen Ran.

The middle-aged woman Chen took out three old bowls, scooped out a bowl of fish soup respectively, then scooped up the soup base several times with a spoon, and put the broken fish and shrimp meat into Chen Yi's bowl.

Finally, he took out the only yellow noodle cake and handed it to Chen Yi, saying: "Eat it quickly."

Chen Yi couldn't bear to look at the two bowls of fish soup that his mother and sister had given them, and the way his sister swallowed her saliva to prevent herself from looking at the pancakes and fish.

He broke off half a piece of cake and handed it to his sister, but Chen slapped her back with chopsticks:

"You can eat the pancake by yourself. Since your father is gone, you are the backbone of our family. You need to be strong enough to do heavy work. Ranran and I don't work at night. We just drink some soup to warm our stomachs."

The little girl on the side, Chen Ran, said quickly and sensibly: "Brother, you eat, I'm not hungry." After saying that, she took a big sip of fish soup with the bowl in her arms, and then smiled at Chen Yi with her teeth turned into crescent moons.

Couldn't hide the bitterness very well.

She is only 12 years old. How can she not be hungry when she is still growing?

Chen Yi silently took a bite of the pancake, which was made with sorghum noodles and made his throat ache. He had never eaten such an unpleasant pancake in his previous life for more than 30 years, but in the 16 years since he came to this world, he had long been used to it, and he cherished what he ate tonight.

"Xiao Yi, how many copper coins have you saved from selling fish?" Mrs. Chen asked after finishing the meal.

"There are 21, mother."

The next moment, Ms. Chen took a deep breath, as if she had made some important decision, and pulled Chen Yi: "Ranran, stay at home and don't move. Come with me."

It was getting dark outside. Mrs. Chen took Chen Yi to the lake. Regardless of the cold water, she lay down and groped for something next to a reed.

Not long after, the sound of rushing water sounded, and she pulled up a rope twisted from red cloth, with an oilcloth bag the size of her fists hanging underneath.

After seeing that there was no one around, Mrs. Chen took Chen Yi into the thatched house. Taking advantage of the dim oil light, she solemnly handed the oilcloth bag to Chen Yi:

"Xiao Yi, the 180 copper coins your father left here are enough for 200 coins including yours.

Tomorrow you go to the martial arts gym in town to pay tuition and learn martial arts for a month.

Remember, don’t be afraid of hardship. Be more attentive. Even if you can’t learn it in a while, write down more and come back and practice slowly.

Now that your father is gone and you are the only male in our family, you have to take the lead!

In addition, your sister is already 12 years old. Liu, the maniac in the village, has been passing by our door recently when he has nothing to do, and he glances inside.

You should know what this means. I'll give you a year. If there is no improvement, I will have to marry your sister to another family."

"Scabby Liu?" Chen Yi's eyes turned cold.

Scary Liu, a 30-year-old bachelor, I heard that he learned boxing for a few days when he was young. He has been stealing fish and bullying the orphans and widows in the village for many years, but no one has dared to take care of him.

Now after Chen's father died, he actually targeted his twelve-year-old sister.

It's a pity that my thin body may not be able to compete with that scabby Liu.

Chen Yi put aside his unrealistic thoughts of assassinating him and knew that the only way to change the fate of his family was to learn martial arts as soon as possible.

Of course, you have to think of other ways before doing this:

"Mom, starting from tomorrow, I will put some disguise on my little sister's body and face, right?"

Mrs. Chen wiped her face and asked, "Like me? With a fake look on your face? That's okay, but I'm just wronging that girl."

"Mom, don't worry, my little sister is sensible and she will understand. In addition, I will learn martial arts as soon as possible, so that you can live an honest life and eat meat every day with peace of mind!"

Chen Yi took the heavy copper coin bag from Mrs. Chen's hand and made a dinging sound.

Chen Yi felt heavy in his heart, knowing that in troubled times, an ordinary family had saved more than 100 copper coins by frugality for more than ten years and avoided both black and white taxes and protection fees.

Letting him practice martial arts is the only hope for the Chen family of three to live a good life.

It has been 16 years since he came to this world. Chen Yi has lived in poverty for 16 years. Apart from making a living by fishing and developing good water skills, he has not found any way to improve his life.

Poverty and hunger are his mainstream memories.

Although he has various ways to make a fortune in his mind, in troubled times, without force, money is a talisman. He does not dare to show any special abnormalities. At most, he uses some small doors from his previous life in his daily life to barely keep his family.

life can go on.

This is also the reason why Mrs. Chen is willing to hand over her family fortune to 16-year-old Chen Yi.

This kid, Chen Yi, is smart and mature.

The world is in chaos. After Chen Yi inquired carefully, he found that Dazehu County where they were located belonged to the Yue State, but it was very far away from the capital.

Over the past ten years or so, several groups of rebel thieves have appeared in nearby counties. Although they have all been suppressed, the thieves will not be exterminated because they are close to the lake.

Therefore, the government's control in this area is extremely weak, and the nearby towns are actually controlled by the Yulong Gang.

Even in a county further away, there is a county magistrate on the surface, but the ones who really hold the power and speak are a few major surnames.

These major surnames have one thing in common, that is, they all have high-level warriors.

In this world, force is respected!

And if Chen Yi can go to a martial arts school to study, even if he only pays one month's tuition and only learns three moves and two moves, he will still have a small status in this fishing village.

At least you can work as a caretaker for a wealthy family in the town, or if you are lucky, you can join a gang and become the bottom.

This is enough to keep the Chen family, mother and daughter, safe for half their lives.

Mrs. Chen married into the Chen family and gave birth to a son and a daughter. After Chen's father died unexpectedly, her only wish was to send Chen Yixuewu to her.

"Take it, these are all the belongings of our family, be sure to look carefully. At dawn tomorrow, you will go to the martial arts hall in the town. Don't go anywhere in the middle. You must not be discovered by the gangster monkey. Do you know?

?" Ms. Chen said sincerely.

Chen Yi nodded heavily.

He lay on the kang with his money bag as his pillow and couldn't fall asleep for a long time. He thought about a fan-shaped jade plaque in the back of his mind that was almost 99% lit up, and said silently in his heart:

"It's been 16 years. You've been lighting up one point every day. Finally, you've finally lit up all of yourself. I don't know what power your little jade card has. You should show it quickly!"

The next day, the sun just appeared on the lake.

Chen Yi had walked more than ten miles around the lake and arrived in front of the martial arts gym in the lakeside town on the other side.

At this time, there was already a group of people inside who were saying "hey, ha" and practicing boxing.

After knocking on the door, a tall, muscular man opened the door and looked at Chen Yi: "What do you do?"

"I'm here to practice martial arts." Chen Yi replied holding the oilcloth bag.

The man looked Chen Yi up and down several times, shook his head inconspicuously, and then said:

"You can study for a month with 2 taels of silver. Do you have the money?"

"Here you go, here are 200 copper coins."

"Come in with me."

"Master, this kid is here to learn martial arts."

Under the eaves directly behind the martial arts training ground, a man with frosty sideburns lying on a rocking chair opened his eyes. His eyes flashed, and he stared at Chen Yimeng twice, then closed his eyes again and said casually:

"Take the money, teach him the rules, and then let Yunhu teach him how to stand."

"Yes! Come with me."

Chen Yi followed the sturdy young man who opened the door again. He didn't say a word to the martial arts master from the beginning to the end.

"Boy, our martial arts school is called Iron Fist Sect. We practice Iron Wire Fist. If you pay money to practice martial arts here, you will be registered as a disciple. The rules are that you cannot bully your master and destroy your ancestors, and you cannot teach martial arts to others. You will understand the rest after a long time.

Already.

This is Junior Brother Yunhu, you should learn Zhanzhuang from him first."

As the sturdy young man spoke, he threw Chen Yi to a young man who looked about the same age as Chen Yi.

The young man's beard was still green, but some yellow calluses had grown on his fists, and he seemed to have a charm about him when he stood.

Yunhu saw Chen Yi and asked casually:

"Master, have you touched your bones?"

Chen Yi shook his head: "No."

"How many nourishing decoctions did you buy from Third Senior Brother?"

Chen Yi still shook his head: "I never bought it."

The young man understood, and then casually pointed to a few young men standing in the corner and said:
To be continued...