Chapter Fifty-Five: Passing on the Spear

  It's like someone who is already dead, and now someone tells me: as long as you can get him to take the first step, I can make him run faster than Liu Xiang.

  I saw Jin Dajian was not joking, so I calmed down and listened carefully. The wind chime was very brittle, so after it shattered, it was all small pieces, no powder - but almost. I picked up a piece the size of a hemp seed and examined it for half a day, still couldn't help asking: "Is this from the bottom or the mouth?"

  "It's obviously just talk."

  I picked up another piece of similar size and asked: "What about this one?"

  "...at the bottom..."

  I picked up another one...

  Jin Dajian put all the fragments I picked out back into the box: "I figured it out, if I were to count on you to piece it together, I'd have nothing else to do for the rest of the year - do you have paper?"

  I smiled and handed him a large roll of toilet paper, Jin Dajian said: "Too soft!"

  I rummaged through the messy papers in my pocket, and Jin Dajian took out a receipt for paying phone bills, fiddling with it in his hand while shouting: "Hey, someone... go get me an egg."

  A young man who was just passing by us suddenly said: "Call me?"

  Jin Dajian smiled and said: "You promised, now hurry up and go find me a raw egg."

  The young man didn't seem to care, and just walked away after a grunt. I casually asked: "Who was that?"

  "Tie Shanzi Song Qing."

  I thought for half a day before I remembered that this guy is probably Song Jiang's brother, the most inexplicable person on Mount Liang, who suddenly appeared out of nowhere. Although he was mentioned many times in the book, Song Jiang would often "ask Song Qing to arrange a banquet", and this party leader should receive a "Best Harmony" award. Throughout the entire book, I haven't seen him fight with anyone or get angry, probably because he's just not capable of it.

  I couldn't help but feel a sense of superiority: it seemed that even the people on Liangshan had their own shortcomings. I asked Jin Dajian, "What's this person like?" I thought for sure Jin Dajian would scoff at him, but instead he said, "The young fellow is quite capable and down-to-earth."

  At this time, Jin Dajian had already folded the receipt into a cylindrical shape, and after pinching both ends, it roughly became a wind bottle. Song Qing also brought over the eggs, and he even smiled at me in a friendly manner, which made me feel great. I always thought that such young masters were arrogant, but unexpectedly, he was polite to people. Now it seems that Song Jiang's decision to bring him up the mountain was indeed well-planned.

  Jin Dajian cracked open an egg and used his index finger to apply a small amount of egg white to a piece of broken glass, which he then pressed onto the paper model. He repeated this process, each shard finding its place after only a brief examination. As the number of shards decreased, the paper model gradually became covered, but the time spent deliberating over each piece increased. The last few dozen pieces were the most difficult, as they were mostly from the flat surface of the bottle and lacked any curvature to guide placement. I was about to offer some advice when Jin Dajian almost turned on me, so I shut up. Actually, I had learned this technique from Baozi, who had once bought a puzzle consisting of over a thousand pieces. It depicted a young girl holding a jar and smiling foolishly in the fading light of day. Baozi liked to work on it while watching TV, and would occasionally rush over to make some progress. Just working on the sunset portion alone had caused my eyesight to deteriorate by several points.

  Jin Dajian wouldn't let me interrupt, so I had no choice but to lie down on the grass, propping my head up with my arm, and stretching out my legs into Andaoquan's embrace. I found that life was still quite beautiful. I saw Lin Chong and a big guy with a green patch on his face holding two sticks and practicing spear fighting on the grass. The big guy should be Yang Zhi, the Green Faced Beast. Indeed, he was using one hand to wield the stick like a knife. Because I was lying down, both of them were upside-down from my perspective, making me feel drowsy. Suddenly, Lin Chong stood up straight and said to me: "Xiaoqiang, get up! Aren't you wanting to learn Lin Family Spear? I'll teach you."

  I propped myself up with my arm and sat up, excitedly saying: "Is it good to learn?" After receiving the transcending customer for so long, it's finally time to reap the rewards. Although it may be less than falling off a cliff and meeting an old man with a white beard, in front of me is still the instructor of 800,000 forbidden troops, which should be stronger than the instructor of the Navy SEALs, right?

  Yang Zhi handed me the stick in his hand and patted my shoulder, laughing: "Lin Jiaozhu never accepts apprentices, today is your good fortune, learn well."

  I nodded repeatedly: "Thank you, Brother Yang. When I have time, I'll take you to do a laser beauty treatment, and turn your dark complexion into a fair one like Tang Guoqiang..."

  I stood in front of Lin Chong, he nodded at me and said: "You stab me first."

  Here comes the test, I've made my move. Usually after I make this shot, it's decided who will succeed. I retreat dozens of steps, then suddenly charge towards Lin Chong, and when I get close to him, I stop abruptly, lean forward with my upper body, shake my arms holding the stick, and stab forward while shouting: "Hai!"

  This is what I learned from the devils.

  Lin Chong grasped the head of my staff with his hand, then used his own staff to press against my chest and pushed me over, causing everyone around us to burst out laughing.

  I sat on the ground, full of expectation, waiting for Lin Chong to praise me. Even if he followed the routine, he should have said that this move of mine "looks weak but has great potential"!

  Lin Chong burst out laughing and said: "So you don't have any foundation at all?"

  Nonsense, with a foundation like mine, why would I need to learn from you?

  Lin Chong tapped the wooden staff in his hand on a stone on the ground, and with a "pa" sound, the stone splashed into several fragments. He said: "When you reach this level, I will pass on the Lin family spear to you."

  I figured it out, he's treating me like a Sunday stroll. To reach this level in this era is already being half a godly gun, what's the point of learning anymore?

  I handed the stick to Yang Zhi and said, "You guys play, I'm not really interested in fighting." Lin Chong crushed the gravel into powder and said, "Actually, this is easy. Just think of them as rotten apples, imagine what they'll look like after you've smashed them before making a move."

  Actually, Linji's gun was originally the earliest idealism. I won't learn anymore!

  I'm 27 now, not like those naive and arrogant young people in their teens or early twenties who still have plenty of time to pretend to be stupid. I can't afford to hug a tree trunk and practice qigong under it, nor can I follow the example of Tong Ling and circle around a big tree for three years - that's not environmentally friendly either. It seems that hard work is not suitable for me, so I'll just wait for the heavenly court to pay my salary.

  An Daoquan sat down again, stroking his beard and said: "I showed you just now, your kidneys are fine, but overall you're a bit weak, not suitable for martial arts practice. Also... you have athlete's foot."

  At this time, Jin Dajian had already pasted all the fragments on the model. The paper tube now looked like a sesame sugar ball. He said: "Now it's just left to bond, after bonding well, pour water to soak the paper and then brush it away, it will be as good as new. However, I need to spend time preparing special tools, probably in a few days."

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  Today was late due to something, sorry about that. Let's just consider it a small setback. Starting from tomorrow, if there is one update, the word count will be guaranteed to be above 4000+.

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