Fang Huwei had thick eyebrows and big eyes, and his bald head was shining. His eyes were like knives aimed at his grandson, as if he would pierce this kid with thousands of holes if he was not satisfied with him.
Let the spit splash on my face, let me block the knife with my body - only the closest person who loves you to the core will say such words to you.
When meeting someone, only say half of what you want to say, and don't reveal your whole heart. This sentence has been quoted for thousands of years as good advice. Everyone wears layers of masks, looking left and right, scanning front and back, being 100% alert and extremely careful.
Everyone is so tired that they want to find a place where no one is around and cry.
But it’s not like that at home.
Warmth, comfort, taking care of each other, and caring about each other.
If you are sick, your father will rush out to buy medicine for you no matter how late it is. If you are hungry, your mother will put down her work and make you a bowl of wonton or a bowl of noodles with plenty of soup, then think about it and put two fried eggs on it.
This kind of love is pure and without any water.
Fang Yan's eyes were red and his heart was filled with sorrow.
He lowered his head and vigorously massaged the acupoints on his grandfather's feet. Due to long-term bed rest, the skin and flesh on his legs were skinny and shriveled, like a piece of old wood that had long lost its vitality and had rotted away.
Grandpa is old!
Fang Yixing didn't care about family affairs, he wrote poems and painted, more like a free and easy scholar. Therefore, the pressure on the young Fang Yan and the old Fang Huwei was even heavier.
At his grandfather's age and in such good health, he should have been enjoying his retirement, but he still had to work hard for the Fang family and for his descendants - Fang Yan felt guilty.
As if sensing Fang Yan's emotions, Fang Huwei patted the back of Fang Yan's hand and said, "Don't feel guilty, don't blame yourself, and don't have any psychological pressure. What do we old guys want? Isn't it for the safety of our descendants? The old fisherman has never been submissive. When we were young, we had a lot of fights. As a result, he called me a few days ago to praise me for having a good grandson. You see, I have both face and dignity here. Even if I close my eyes and go to the underworld to meet our Fang family's ancestors, I can stand in front of them with my back straight. I can say loudly that I have not brought shame to our old Fang family."
"Grandpa, I was too naughty in the past few years and often made you angry." Fang Yan said with a smile. "I experienced a lot of things this time and learned a lot of truths. I won't do that again in the future. I want to be a good person and do things well. You don't have to think about anything or ask anything in the future. Just read some books and practice boxing. When you have nothing to do, I will push you to bask in the sun - try to live to be three to five hundred years old."
Fang Huwei laughed loudly, his voice shaking the night sky.
He patted the back of his grandson's hand vigorously and said, "With a grandson like this, what else can I ask for in life? What else can I ask for in life?"
"We still have to ask for it. Let's just ask him for three to five hundred years." Fang Yan said with a smile.
Fang Huwei stopped smiling, looked at his grandson lovingly, and said, "Fang Yan, do you know? You have been sensible since you were young-----"
"You didn't say that before-----" Fang Yan said with a smile. He used to fight with people outside, and he was always the target of all kinds of trouble. It's not an exaggeration to say that he was ignored by everyone. Parents of children often came to the door, and then the Fang family would lock him up in the house and punish him in various ways. He was often whipped and made to stand on the punishment stake when he was a child.
The so-called penalty stake was to hold a bowl of water on tiptoes while standing upside down. Fang Yan was very young at that time, and his face was covered in sweat after five minutes. After ten minutes, his whole body was shaking. After half an hour, he was half dead.
Although Fang Yixing was strict with his son, he was reluctant to punish him like this. But Fang Huwei was not polite to Fang Yan. When he heard that his grandson was causing trouble, he glared at him and shouted: Stand on the penalty post for half an hour to wake up your brain.
Therefore, after standing on the penalty post for half an hour, Fang Yan often felt fuzzy and collapsed on the ground like a ball of mud.
"Why are you fighting with others? It's because some people are bullying us too much. Grandpa's leg disease relapsed and he is paralyzed. Your father - your father gave up martial arts halfway. In their eyes, he is almost a useless person. He underestimates the enemy and is trapped in the devil's miasma - others see that our Fang family is in decline, so they want to bully us."
"These hundreds of households in Yanziwu are all warlike in nature. If they curse you, you have to curse back. If you dare to turn around and leave, they will kick you and slap you next time they meet - I am not good at it, your father can't fight, I underestimate the enemy and I sleep more often than I am awake - you have seen all of this. So, you stood up at such a young age."
"If someone calls me an old cripple, will you beat him up?"
"Fight." Fang Yan said.
"If someone calls your dad a loser, will you fight him back?"
"Fight." Fang Yan said again.
"Someone called me a drunkard for underestimating the enemy. Will you fight me?"
"Fight or not?" Fang Yan said uncertainly. "He is indeed an old drunkard. I also call him an old drunkard."
Snapped!
Fang Yan received a slap on the head.
"Don't you know how painful it is to underestimate the enemy?" Fang Huwei cursed angrily. "How dare you bully our Fang family when you underestimate the enemy? Who dares to say a harsh word to an old cripple like me or your father, that old loser? If we hadn't underestimated the enemy, we don't know how hard it would have been for our Fang family."
"Grandpa, I know----" Fang Yan had a headache and said depressedly: "It's true that he likes to drink and is an old drunkard. But he is the only old drunkard that I respect, admire, and even worship. Hehe, even when he was drunk like that, he could still create the Drunken Crane Riding the Wind. This footwork helped me a lot when I fought the Oriental Sword God----"
"So, next time you talk to an enemy who underestimates you, be more polite and don't be disrespectful."
"If I really do that, I'm afraid I won't even be able to enter his courtyard in the future." Fang Yan said.
Fang Huwei thought about it and said irritably, "Whatever you want to do. You are a bunch of lunatics."
"Only when people are a little crazy will others be afraid of them." Fang Yan said with a smile.
"Yeah. So at that time you beat people up every now and then. When others called me an old cripple and your father an old loser who underestimated the enemy and was an old drunkard, you beat their sons and grandsons until they were bleeding and screaming----" Fang Huwei sighed softly and said, "We old guys are no longer good, but we still have our descendants. And our descendants are better than their descendants. Parents like to compete with their children's grades. You have brought honor to our Fang family. You won every fight----"
Fang Yan smiled bitterly and said, "You know everything in your heart, so why did you punish me so severely at that time?"
"That's not a punishment, it's training. Special training. Apart from my Fang Huwei, what grandfather would train his grandson like an animal?" Fang Huwei said proudly. "To make you stronger and more powerful. I'm afraid you'll lose the next fight. By then, our Fang family will really have no more fig leaves to hide----"
"You are really shrewd." Fang Yan said.
"There are times when I didn't calculate correctly," Fang Huwei said. "At that time, I wanted to see where your bottom line was and how far you could go. But you won all the way and even defeated the Baili family's genius, the crazy Baili. This became a big news in Yanziwu."
"At that time, I was thinking, it seems that you haven't reached the end, so I will suppress you a little more - find someone more powerful to suppress you, to see how deep your potential is." Fang Huwei looked at Fang Yan a little embarrassedly, and said: "Originally, I wanted to find Bai Xiu, but the Bai family refused. But after searching around in Yanziwu, only the girl from the Ye family is suitable - I shamelessly ran to the Ye family to challenge them. When the Ye family saw that someone dared to challenge them, they were naturally very angry - so the girl from the Ye family hit harder. The Ye family's attitude towards our Fang family became a little worse."
"I can't beat Ye Wenrou. I lost to Ye Wenrou the first time we sparred." Fang Yan said with a painful expression, feeling like he couldn't bear to look back on the past. At that time, Ye Wenrou's attack was really ruthless and merciless. She beat him up into the sky and stepped on his foot, breaking the door frame and sinking into the mud wall. Sometimes he even wondered if this girl was thinking of killing him to end it all? Otherwise, it was just a martial arts competition, why did she act like she had a deep hatred with someone? "Since I have already lost, it proves that my potential has reached this point. Why do we have to compete again and again year after year?"
"I was unwilling to accept this." Fang Huwei said. "I was thinking, my grandson lost this time, maybe he will win next time?"
"But I lost again the second time-----"
"I know. But what if you win the third time?" Fang Huwei said seriously. "You know, the girl from the Ye family is known as the best of the younger generation in the inner world. If you beat her, who would dare to look down on our Fang family? A genius is about to rise. Aren't they afraid of revenge from our Fang family? So, I shamelessly went to the Ye family to challenge them for the third time----"
"Wait-----" Fang Yan suddenly raised his head and looked at Fang Huwei with wide eyes, and said, "You mean--the third challenge? Didn't we agree in advance that we will fight once a year?"
"How could that be? Who wants to do the same thing for ten years?" Fang Huwei shook his head. "The girl from the Ye family beat you in the first year, but she didn't want to fight you again in the second year-----"
"How did you convince them?"
"I'll go to the Ye family and ask them if they are scared. Otherwise, why wouldn't they dare to compete? My grandson has been training hard for a year and he wants to take revenge this year. How can we not fight?"
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(PS: Thank you for the 10,000-yuan reward from my brother Xiaobing Yige. It’s been a long time since we last met, old friend!!!) (To be continued)