On April 17, Deer Park…
The sun was shining brightly, even a little dazzling. The chirping of birds and the buzzing of insects in the deer park made it seem even more tranquil. Under the lush pear tree in Eunuch Liu's yard, it naturally became a cool and shady world...
After lunch at noon, Eunuch Liu lay down on a recliner under the pear tree in the yard for a nap. Two young eunuchs served by his side, fanning him. Eunuch Liu slept for almost an hour as usual, and only woke up at nearly five quarters past three in the afternoon.
Seeing that Eunuch Liu had woken up, the two eunuchs beside him immediately handed him a towel, hot tea, and warmed bird's nest soup...
Eunuch Liu wiped his hands and face with a towel, rinsed his mouth with cold tea, and finally picked up the white jade porcelain bowl and slowly drank the bird's nest soup in it.
"Well, today's bird's nest soup is well made. It is a little different from the winter melon bird's nest soup that our family is used to drinking. The soup here is more fresh, and the bird's nest looks crystal clear. Not bad, not bad. How did the kitchen prepare this soup..." Eunuch Liu commented in a shrill voice while drinking the bird's nest soup.
"It's made by the kitchen using tender chicken, good ham, and fresh mushrooms. If my father-in-law likes it, I'll ask the kitchen to make it this way next time..." Xiao Chunzi next to him immediately bowed and replied.
"Just once every three days. If you eat too much of this good thing, it will become boring. Once every three days, we can still leave something for this tongue to remember..."
"My father-in-law is right!"
After drinking two spoonfuls, Eunuch Liu suddenly remembered something and slowed down his movements. "Oh, by the way, what day is today..."
"The 17th, April 17th..." Leo quickly interjected.
"I haven't seen the new Captain Yan for quite some time, almost a month..."
"Well, Captain Yan came on the 20th of last month. In three days, it will be a month since Captain Yan came to Luyuan..."
"What has Captain Yan been doing these days? Why haven't we heard from him or seen him?" Eunuch Liu asked casually while drinking.
"I heard that Captain Yan has been leaving early and returning late these days, staying in the forest of the archery range every day. You can only see him in the morning and evening where he lives..."
"Oh!" Eunuch Liu stopped what he was doing and showed an interested look, "Has he never left the Deer Garden these days?"
"I asked the guards yesterday. Captain Yan has never left the Deer Park in the past month. The servants who deliver meals to him can see him every day..."
"anything else?"
"Also, I heard that Captain Yan ordered two batches of things from the blacksmith workshop in Luyuan. They were all very heavy ironware. The blacksmith workshop said that those things were used by Guard Yan to repair..."
"Captain Yan's shoes have been wearing out very quickly these days. It is said that he wears out a pair of shoes almost every day. A few days ago, Guard Yan had someone send him 20 pairs of shoes at once..."
"By the way, Captain Yan received a ten-stone bow from the warehouse a few days ago..."
"The servant who delivered meals to Captain Yan said that once when he was delivering meals, he saw a flash of red light in Captain Yan's yard. He thought it was on fire, but later found out that it was not on fire..."
"Also, Captain Yan's appetite seems to have doubled in the past month since he came to Luyuan..."
Little Lizi and Little Chunzi complemented each other with one sentence each. In just a few words, they reported to Eunuch Liu all the big and small things that Yan Liqiang had done in the Deer Garden in the past month. Little Lizi and Little Chunzi were basically the eyes and ears of Eunuch Liu in the Deer Garden. There were very few things that happened in the Deer Garden that could be hidden from them.
"I wear out a pair of warrior shoes in one day, and I also need a ten-stone bow. My appetite has doubled in a month..." Eunuch Liu muttered, his snow-white eyebrows raised suddenly, his eyes flashed, and he gently put down the half-drunk bird's nest soup in his hand, then stood up, "Today's weather is good, and we haven't walked around in the deer park for a long time. I'm going to walk around, and you two don't have to follow..."
Xiao Chunzi and Xiao Lizi looked at each other and lowered their heads at the same time, "Yes!"
After saying this, Eunuch Liu left the yard leisurely...
…
When Eunuch Liu left the yard, in the forest of the Luyuan Archery Range, drops of hot sweat were dripping from Yan Liqiang's forehead and falling into the mud at his feet...
At this moment, Yan Liqiang, with his eyes closed and his upper body naked, stood still as a mountain. He was half-squatting under the swaying shadows of the trees in a strange posture that was similar to a horse stance but very different from it, like a statue. On Yan Liqiang's back, two heavy iron chains fixed eight thick iron rods to his body like a bundle of firewood. At the same time, his two hands, in the posture of training basic gunmanship, held an extra-long iron rod that was more than eight meters long and assembled and connected by four identical iron rods, without moving.
The weight of each of those iron rods was 350 kilograms, and the total weight of the iron rods on Yan Liqiang's back exceeded 2,800 kilograms.
The weight of the "spear" made up of four iron rods held by Yan Liqiang is 1,400 kilograms...
But at this time, the force that Yan Liqiang's hands had to bear was far greater than the weight he was carrying, because he was holding the root of the "long spear" and a distance of less than three feet outside the root in the same way as holding a gun. Under the principle of the pole, holding a 1,400-jin super-long thing in this position, the force that his hands had to bear was definitely far more than 1,400 jin...
Because of regular exercise, Yan Liqiang was already very strong. In the past month, Yan Liqiang's already strong body has become even stronger, like a sculpture of steel. The muscle lines on his body have become more obvious. Each bulging muscle is full of power like an explosion of dynamite. Sweat is like a stream flowing through the hills, dripping down the hard lines on his body, wetting the soil under his feet...
Yan Liqiang has maintained this posture for more than two hours.
This posture was slowly concluded by Yan Liqiang after days of exploration. In this posture, his legs, hands, every inch of his body, every muscle, every tendon, can achieve the best training effect...
His strange squatting posture enhanced the effect of the light-weight lifting technique "Ten Changes of Cloud Dragon"...
The super strong spear he assembled with his hands not only trained his hand strength, but also honed his basic spearmanship that he had been immersed in for more than ten years...
The weight on his back mobilized all the strength in his body...
This posture consumes the most energy and causes the fastest overdraft, but it also has the strongest effect.
Yan Liqiang closed his eyes...
Every cell in his body was roaring, like steel thrown into a steelmaking furnace, but Yan Liqiang's spiritual world could still remain tranquil in this state. In this tranquility, Yan Liqiang forgot about his physical fatigue and huge consumption, and the entire world around him was integrated into his perception.
Sudden…
Yan Liqiang, with his eyes closed, felt a fierce murderous aura approaching him rapidly from behind.
At the pull of the murderous aura, Yan Liqiang almost instinctively slid the eight-meter-long spear in his hand backwards, swapping the positions of the spear head and the spear tail. He exerted force with his feet, turned around, twisted his waist, stepped forward, and lunged forward. His body was like a mountain collapse and the ground cracked. The spear pierced towards the murderous aura like an arrow from a bow and collided with it...
Yan Liqiang only felt the spear in his hand tremble slightly, as if something hit the spear, but because the force was too small for him to feel and could not change the attack that shook him, he did not care...
With a loud bang, the figure that was rushing towards Yan Liqiang from behind rushed backwards at a faster speed than he had rushed towards him. After breaking a pine tree as thick as a thigh, he fell to the ground in a mess.
He was a man wearing a black hood and a black night suit in broad daylight, looking very sneaky.
Yan Liqiang didn't know how such a person got into the Deer Garden, but at this time, seeing the man fall to the ground, Yan Liqiang did not stop, but roared, and with just a sliding step, his whole body rushed out ten meters away like lightning, and then he jumped more than three meters high, and the eight-meter-long iron stick in his hand suddenly turned from a gun into a stick, and he swung it up in an instant, with a posture of Mount Tai pressing down on his head, with wind and thunder, and smashed it towards the man on the ground.
"It's me..." A shrill cry came out from the mouth of the man lying on the ground.
Upon hearing this sound, Yan Liqiang quickly changed the strength of his hands and moved the eight-meter-long iron rod three feet to the side...
With a bang, a large earth pit appeared on the ground. The surrounding ground seemed to tremble slightly. The figure on the ground, at the moment when the iron rod hit it, was like a frightened monkey. He didn't care about being pretty or not. He rolled away from the ground like a lazy donkey. Then, like a frightened monkey, he suddenly jumped up from the ground and rushed directly ten meters away...
"Eunuch Liu..." Yan Liqiang stopped and looked at the man in black.
The man in black took off his black hood, revealing an old face. It was none other than Eunuch Liu. However, when Eunuch Liu looked at Yan Liqiang, he looked as if he had seen a ghost. He was full of disbelief, and also a bit angry and ashamed...
Eunuch Liu was about to say something, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he felt the blood and qi in his chest and abdomen churning, and then he vomited a mouthful of blood...
(End of this chapter)