Madandan has been having some bad luck lately.
Yesterday, I was complained by Grandma Gao for no apparent reason, and today I sprained my ankle.
She didn't understand what was going on between Granny Gao and Zi Tong, but didn't Zi Tong give her the balance? Why was she still targeting her
Zi Tong is right. If some old ladies fall down, you cannot just help them up, otherwise you will be the one who is in trouble.
She limped back to the tea restaurant from the bank, and her parents were worried to death.
"Let me take you to the martial arts gym next door." Liu Huiqi looked at her daughter's ankle, which was as swollen as a pig's trotter, with a worried look on her face.
Should I take my sprained foot to the martial arts gym
It may sound weird, but it was like this in martial arts schools in the past.
He does bone-setting business during the day and practices martial arts on the rooftop at night.
They also perform dragon and lion dances during the Spring Festival and the birthday of the Queen of Heaven.
Otherwise, the martial arts school would have closed down long ago if it had only relied on the income from teaching children how to box.
In the 1950s and 1960s, many martial arts schools moved from Foshan to Yau Ma Tei.
Liu Huiqi took Ma Dandan across the busy street and walked up the stairs into a secluded house.
"Ding Dong..."
The two rang the doorbell and Ye Shaohua opened the door.
The moment Ma Dandan saw Ye Wenhua, there were stars in her eyes.
"Master Ye, my daughter sprained her foot. Can you help take a look?" Liu Huiqi helped Ma Dandan sit on the massage bed.
Ye Shaohua took out the family medicinal wine to massage Ma Dandan's ankles.
The moment he touched her ankle, Ma Dandan's face turned red.
She had no choice but to lower her head and look around, only to see ointment boiling on the stove nearby.
In the more than 20-square-meter bone-setting hall, various weapons are neatly arranged, including single and double flying stones, mother-and-child swords, etc. that appeared in the movie "Huang Feihong".
In the bone-setting hall on the first floor, there is a door leading to a large open-air platform, on which are rows of wooden stakes used for Wing Chun practice.
From the living room on the first floor to the rooftop, there are many lion heads and dragon heads of various shapes. During the Spring Festival and the birthday of the Queen of Heaven, Master Ye will go out to do some work to make a living.
"Master Ye, is my daughter's foot injury serious?" Liu Huiqi looked distressed.
"It's not serious. Just come and apply the medicine every other day."
"Then I feel relieved. The neighbors all praise your bonesetter skills. Your reputation is well-deserved." Liu Huiqi praised sincerely while looking at the banners hanging on the wall.
Before the return to China in 1997, anyone with good skills could open a medical clinic in Hong Kong, and martial arts clinics and bone-setting clinics were usually opened together.
After 1997, it was required to obtain a registered Chinese medicine practitioner's license if one wanted to run a bone-setting clinic.
Ye Shaohua is young, only 25 years old this year, but he has been running this martial arts school alone for 8 years.
On the wall next to the massage bed, there is a black-and-white photo of a man. This man is Ye Shaohua’s direct master and biological father, a well-known Wing Chun master in Foshan.
Ye Shaohua didn't seem to recognize Ma Dandan at all, which made her feel a little disappointed.
As for why she felt disappointed, Ma Dandan didn’t understand, and Ye Shaohua wasn’t handsome at all.
I am a huge face control freak and it is impossible for me to be attracted to a guy who is not very handsome.
But it is undeniable that I love watching Hong Kong Kung Fu movies and am particularly fascinated by Kung Fu stars.
A secret relationship began on one side, while a seven-year relationship on the other side began to have a crisis of trust.
A crisis caused by a gossip magazine cover.
The cover shows Huo Yunyan, who is wearing a light pink dress, arm in arm with Li Ninghao, who is wearing a high-end custom-made suit.
The title is "Ms. Huo falls in love with the architect's assistant."
The architectural circle in Hong Kong is very small, and the architectural circle in Central is even smaller. The Department of Architecture of the University of Hong Kong in Central is a mini circle within the small circle.
There are several people from the Department of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong in Yu Wenyin's company. When they saw the gossip magazine, the female colleagues started to discuss it in the tea room:
"Wow... Miss Huo is in love with our senior from the Department of Architecture at HKU!"
"Shh, keep your voice down. Don't you know that Yu Wenyin and Senior Brother Li from our firm are a couple?"
"So what if they're a couple? So what if they're seven years? Before, you were envious of the love that lasted from middle school to college and even after graduation, but what happened?"
"See? No matter how long-lasting or pure one's love is, it can't resist the temptation of material things!"
"That's true. Seven years is a long time, but there is also the seven-year itch!"
"Haha, boys nowadays are much more realistic than girls. In this materialistic society, if you can climb up the big tree of the Huo family, you can save twenty years of hard work!"
Yu Wenyin, standing outside the tea room, had a pale face and pursed her lips tightly. The magazine in her hand was particularly hot.
With such a big headline, she couldn't ignore it.
Yu Wenyin felt embarrassed and wanted to turn around and leave, but she heard a colleague who was usually on good terms with her say:
"Don't talk nonsense. Gossip magazines just like to write nonsense. I saw Wen Yin and Senior Brother Ning Hao having dinner at the tea restaurant downstairs yesterday."
Yu Wenyin didn't expect that at this time someone would be willing to believe in her seven-year love with Li Ninghao.
Mutual respect, mutual trust, and mutual understanding were the rules that she and Li Ninghao agreed to follow in their relationship, but now she seems to have not done any of them.
No woman would be able to remain calm seeing a cover like that.
But just based on the cover of a gossip magazine, Yu Wenyin was asked to question Li Ninghao. She asked herself if she would do such a stupid thing.
Several female colleagues came out of the tea room and looked up to see Yu Wenyin holding a cup of water. The people who were gossiping about her behind her back were of course very embarrassed.
Several female colleagues had no choice but to leave in a hurry with their heads down, leaving the female colleague who had just spoken for them to lower her head and whispered to her:
"Wen Yin, I believe your Lao Li would not do such a thing to let you down, but there is no smoke without fire, and you still have to give him a lesson."
A colleague who is quite close to Yu Wenyin is called Wang Lili. She and Yu Wenyin were from the same class of the Department of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong, and they even lived in the same dormitory in college.
After graduation, I interned in the same architectural firm, so I naturally knew more about Yu Wenyin and Li Ninghao's situation.
"You are the only couple around me, my first love since middle school. If you break up, I will never believe in this bullshit love again!"
Wang Lili teased Yu Wenyin in a slightly exaggerated manner.
Yu Wenyin really couldn't do anything with Wang Lili. She was always so boastful and often said to herself:
"I don't have to be sweet, but the couple I support must be sweet!"
Yu Wenyin didn’t know what to do now. She couldn’t ask Li Ninghao directly, nor could she ask his friends and colleagues.
She also felt that couples should trust each other, although she couldn't understand why the gossip magazine suddenly wrote like this, and she couldn't figure out when her boyfriend went to the cocktail party with Huo Yunyan.