The next day, Yan Liqiang also got up early...
After getting up, Yan Liqiang did not start his morning class right away. Instead, he stood in front of the bronze mirror in the room, looking at his face from left to right, up to down, and tilted his head up to check his nostrils. He found nothing unusual inside his nostrils...
"That Nian Snake doesn't seem to be a problem. How come I don't feel anything at all?" Yan Liqiang muttered to himself.
After returning last night, the first thing he did was to twist out the Mind Snake from the "Gachapon Machine" in the Tiandao Divine Realm, and then merge the Mind Snake with himself.
Until now, the scene that happened last night is still vivid in Yan Liqiang's mind, as if it had just happened.
Just as Fu Guang said, the Nian Snake was so small that it was completely beyond Yan Liqiang's expectation.
The entire Mind Snake was only as long as a finger, like a thin earthworm, transparent throughout, emitting a strange glow, like a strange crystal artwork, not something from the mortal world at all. Just looking at this thing, you would never have thought that it would have the abilities that Fu Guang said. The so-called fusion was also very simple. After the Mind Snake was generated, Yan Liqiang held the Mind Snake in his hand and put it to his nose. The little Mind Snake could understand Yan Liqiang's intentions, and then it drilled into Yan Liqiang's nostrils all at once...
When he just merged with the Mind Snake, Yan Liqiang was as nervous as if he was taking drugs for the first time, but the process was smoother than he expected. At the beginning, he just felt an itch in his nasal cavity, and then his scalp felt slightly numb as if it had been electrocuted. For less than half a minute, everything was over. It was easier than squeezing a pimple.
After waking up from a good sleep, he felt no discomfort in his body or head. Everything was the same as usual, and Yan Liqiang finally felt relieved.
Just like usual, after finishing morning lessons and washing up, the guy from Luyuan who brought breakfast was already standing outside the door of Yan Liqiang's courtyard on time. He knocked on the door and shouted, "Captain Yan, I'm here to bring you breakfast..."
Yan Liqiang opened the door and took the breakfast box, "Thank you..."
“You’re welcome, you’re welcome, this is what I should do…” The guy who delivered breakfast immediately smiled and bowed to Yan Liqiang outside the door.
Yan Liqiang was about to turn around with the food box in his hand, but suddenly, he thought of the mind snake that he had just merged with last night, and an idea popped up in his mind. He wondered what was going on in this person's head at this moment
Almost as soon as this thought came out and Yan Liqiang focused his attention on the guy, a picture suddenly appeared in Yan Liqiang's mind, almost scaring Yan Liqiang...
The image that appeared in Yan Liqiang's mind was an ordinary little boy of eight or nine years old, wearing ordinary clothes, with a red face, and his eyebrows and eyes were somewhat similar to the guy who delivered meals to Yan Liqiang every day...
As this scene appeared, thoughts appeared in Yan Liqiang's mind one by one, just like bubbles, one appeared, burst, and then another appeared...
— Tiezhu must learn martial arts well, so that he can become a superior person in the future, just like Captain Yan, who can let others serve him at a young age...
—The tuition at Mingcheng Martial Arts School is too expensive. It costs more than ten taels of silver per year, and that’s just for the beginner class…
—Perhaps I should get closer to Manager Zhu, give him some money, and ask him to help me find a more lucrative position in Luyuan, so that I can make money more easily in the future. My current position is really meaningless except for bringing some delicious food back to Tiezhu...
—However, if he wants to build a relationship with Manager Zhu and give him money, he will definitely not be able to pay the tuition for Mingcheng Martial Arts School, and Tiezhu will not be able to enter. He might even be delayed...
…
"Um... Captain Yan, do you have any instructions?" Seeing that Yan Liqiang did not go in with the food box, but stood at the door looking at him, the waiter thought that Yan Liqiang was dissatisfied with something and asked hurriedly in fear and trepidation.
"Uh, nothing, nothing..." With pity for the love of parents, Yan Liqiang sighed slightly in his heart, and immediately shifted his attention from this person, cutting off those thoughts that he had sensed. "I just wanted to see the weather outside the yard today..." Yan Liqiang raised his head and looked at the sky while speaking, "It seems that the weather may not be sunny today..."
The guy who delivered the food heaved a sigh of relief. "Yes, yes, yes, there will always be a few days like this in June and July in the Imperial Capital, but it won't last long, at least two or three days, and at most four or five days. It will probably be sunny today..."
"Well, it seems to be true..." Yan Liqiang smiled and walked in with the food box. The delivery boy waited outside the door in an orderly manner.
Yan Liqiang was eating breakfast. Although he looked calm on the surface, he was extremely shocked in his heart. Thinking of the experience just now, he was slightly absent-minded twice. The power brought by this Mind Snake was really too terrifying. It turned out that the resources he invested in the Heavenly Dao Divine Realm to generate this Mind Snake were not in vain...
After finishing breakfast, Yan Liqiang delivered the lunch box to the door as usual. The waiter took the lunch box and was about to leave when Yan Liqiang suddenly stopped him.
"By the way, do you have any children at home?" Yan Liqiang suddenly asked.
"Yes... there is one!" the guy said awkwardly, not knowing why Yan Liqiang suddenly asked this.
"Yesterday I took inventory of the archery range's warehouse. There was a 30-jin bow at the archery range that was damp and worn, and the bowstring was loose. It had been in the warehouse for many years. According to the rules, it can be scrapped, but I think the bow should still be usable. Just replace the bowstring. It would be a pity to scrap it directly. If you have children at home, you can take it back and let your children learn Kyudo. If he has any questions during the process of learning Kyudo, you can come and ask me. I'll tell you, and you can go back and teach him!"
The guy who delivered the food stared at Yan Liqiang blankly, tears welling up in his wide eyes. Without even a second thought, he knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Yan Liqiang, "Thank you, Captain Yan. I kowtow to you on behalf of my son. This is a great blessing and good fortune that Captain Yan has given him..."
In the past few days, Yan Liqiang's reputation has quietly spread in the Deer Park. Everyone in the Deer Park knows that Yan Liqiang is a master of archery, which is why he is valued by Eunuch Liu. The royal archery range stationed in the Deer Park has someone like Yan Liqiang teaching archery, which is ten times better than learning archery in those martial arts schools outside. Such treatment is completely hard to come by, and no wonder the guy was excited...
The bows at the Luyuan Archery Range are all high-quality. Bows are not cheap to begin with. Even if Yan Liqiang says they can be scrapped, as long as the handle is still there, it is no problem to sell a bow for 10 to 20 taels of silver. The guy has been at Luyuan for many years, so he naturally understands many of the tricks...
“Get up, get up, don’t do this…” Yan Liqiang hurriedly pulled the waiter up from the ground, but just as he did so, the waiter knelt down again and kowtowed to Yan Liqiang three times before wiping his tears and standing up again. The look in Yan Liqiang’s eyes was completely different from before. He almost had the impulse to die for his friend.
"I'll bring the bow to you in the evening. Just take it back after you deliver my meal. If anyone asks, just say I gave it to you. If anyone doesn't agree, let them come find me!"
"I understand..."
"Well, go ahead..."
After watching the fellow leave, Yan Liqiang tidied himself up and went to the waterfall behind the archery field to continue practicing with his spear...
The sky was still gloomy and it was drizzling, but the rain had no effect on Yan Liqiang who was practicing under the waterfall.
Because of yesterday's heavy rain, the amount of water in the waterfall suddenly increased several times. In addition to the increased water, Yan Liqiang also discovered that from time to time there would be a strange little thing rushing down from the mountain with the flow of the waterfall...
At first Yan Liqiang didn't pay attention to it. It was only when a little thing rushed down from the waterfall and happened to land on Yan Liqiang's gun that was shaking like a tuning fork that the little thing caught Yan Liqiang's attention.
The water rushing down from the waterfall was instantly turned into water mist when it fell on Yan Liqiang's high-frequency vibrating gun. However, the little thing was suddenly unharmed by Yan Liqiang's gun. When it felt the vibrating force from the gun, its body bounced and slid in the air and fell into the pool below.
The first time, Yan Liqiang didn't pay attention to it, but the second time, Yan Liqiang finally found the problem, and suddenly he said "Huh", and stopped practicing...
Yan Liqiang was very aware of how strong the force of the spear in his hand was when it shook. It was no exaggeration to say that if a stone was thrown at him, it would be shattered instantly by the spear made of dragon spine steel. How could that little thing be unscathed
Yan Liqiang held the spear in one hand, raised his head, and stared intently at the water rushing down the waterfall with wide eyes. A few minutes later, he saw a small thing hidden in the water falling down. Without thinking, he reached out and grabbed it...
Just when his hand touched the little thing, Yan Liqiang felt the little thing slip in his hand, then slipped away and fell into the pool again.
"Impossible..." Yan Liqiang suddenly shouted.
With my ability and skills, I can't catch such a small thing? What a joke...
Yan Liqiang was really surprised. That little thing looked a bit like a loach, but how could he not catch it? You know, when he was only five or six years old, he caught loaches in the ditch in Liuhe Town. Now his skills are more than a thousand times better than they were then. There is no reason why he couldn't catch it...
Yan Liqiang suddenly became unconvinced and continued to guard under the waterfall, determined to catch that little creature...
Another one fell down, and it slipped through Yan Liqiang's hand again. This happened three times in a row. Yan Liqiang simply dropped the spear in his hand and tried to grab it with both hands...
…
Half an hour later, Yan Liqiang stared at his empty hands and the water rushing down in disbelief...
"That's the iron-skinned mountain loach, the most slippery thing in the world. It would be a miracle if you can catch it with your hands now!" Li Hongtu had stood by the pond at some point, raised his eyebrows, and looked at Yan Liqiang with a strange look that seemed to be a smile but not a smile.
"Ah, Master..."
“Use this to catch…” Li Hongtu said, and he stretched out his hand and threw a big bamboo basket over.
"Master, what are you doing..." Yan Liqiang took the big bamboo basket thrown by Li Hongtu, with a completely helpless expression...
Li Hongtu said seriously, "You know what? This iron-skinned mountain loach is a tonic. I wait for these few days every year to have a good meal. Don't practice this morning. Catch this iron-skinned mountain loach for me and stew it in a pot..."
(End of this chapter)