Chapter 110

Rainwater washed over the blue-gray tiles, gathered in the tile ridges, rushed to the eaves corners, and dripped down.

"After the Awakening of Insects, the weather warms up and the rain increases. It is best to use oil smoke for grinding, not pine smoke."

"The air is humid when it rains, and so is the paper. Beginners use pine smoke, which is easy to dry the ink or difficult to control the water. Using oil smoke is much easier to control."

There was a faint scent of ink in the room, mixed with the rainwater air outside the window, as if the rainwater was not washing the dusty roof tiles, but people's internal organs.

Liang Qu took a deep breath, picked up the brush and dipped it in ink, scraped the ink three times, and the fragrance bloomed on the rice paper.

Si Hengyi stood still behind Liang Qu.

Compared to the dog crawling two months ago, the progress is very fast.

Liang Qu didn't expect that the doubling of martial arts talent would also help him practice calligraphy. His finger and wrist strength control was extremely precise. Although he had no personal style, he made rapid progress in imitating calligraphy.

Non-calligraphy connoisseurs would think that Liang Qu can write good calligraphy.

After writing a copybook, Si Hengyi said: "I thought you wouldn't come today."

"Why does Mr. Si say that?"

Si Hengyi chuckled: "The whole Pingyang County is making a lot of noise, and there is no one who doesn't know. It seems that you are confident. Can I wait for the good news tomorrow?"

Liang Qu immediately understood that Si Hengyi was talking about the martial arts gym competition, and said modestly: "It's not as exaggerated as being confident, just having a certain degree of confidence."

"Then I have to rush over to see it tomorrow."

"Waiting for Mr. Si."

Si Hengyi nodded and paced to check on other students.

Liang Qu twisted the wolf hair and wondered.

Has the news spread so widely in one day? Do the people in the academy know?

The guy who submitted the visiting card is really sparing no effort to promote it, wishing to tell everyone in the county that he is here and wants to challenge the most powerful martial arts gym in the local area.

Is he sure he will win?

Liang Qu is looking forward to it.

The rain stopped, he packed his things and came to the stable. A group of students were circling Chishan and clicking their tongues in wonder. They were all young people of sixteen, seventeen or eighteen, and they were most curious about handsome horses.

Some people really wanted to touch it, but they were all forced back by Chishan's fierce eyes, and their hands were itchy.

Undoubtedly, whoever dares to touch it will definitely be kicked hard.

With Chishan's foot strength, people won't fly, but there will be an extra big hole in their body.

"This is a dragon-blood horse, this must be a dragon-blood horse? The year before last, I went to Huaiyin Prefecture with my father, and I saw such a dragon-blood horse on the road, but that one was black, and it disappeared in the blink of an eye. Now look, the red one is better, majestic, how attractive."

A young man in brocade opened his folding fan, and the spring chill seemed to have no effect on him: "No, no, if you want to ride a horse, you should ride a white horse, white clothes, white horse, three-foot silver sword, that is elegant and enough to attract girls' attention."

"You are really vain, you have hung several sachets on your body, choking me to pick my nose, isn't it disgusting?"

"Bullshit, I only hung one today, okay, you are just jealous of me."

"Such a big horse must cost a thousand taels of silver?"

"A thousand taels? Come, come, where did you buy it? I'll let my father pay two thousand taels, double it! I can eat as much as I can!"

"Eh, eh, eh, don't argue, people are coming."

Liang Qu is five feet five inches tall, half a head taller than the scholars, and his temperament is completely different.

The core strength of martial arts practitioners is extremely developed, and there is a significant difference between walking and standing and ordinary people, naturally revealing confidence, high-spirited momentum, and full of masculinity.

Everyone is not in the same class and doesn't know each other, but they subconsciously feel that Liang Qu is the owner of the dragon-blood horse, their temperaments match, and they all give way.

Being so polite, Liang Qu also arched his hands, turned on his horse, and was about to pull the rope to leave, but was stopped by a young man in green.

"Brother, stay!" The young man in green stepped forward and blocked the horse, arched his hands and saluted, "Dare to ask brother, is this horse a dragon-blood horse?"

"Well, the imperial fifth-rank dragon-blood horse."

Hiss!

Everyone present took a breath.

Fifth rank!

Imperial gift!

Liang Qu is about the same age as everyone else. Normally, either studying or practicing martial arts, generally at the level of not yet a licentiate, not yet a martial arts master, how can you get an imperial dragon-blood horse?

Are outsiders so powerful?

Is it not that the ancestors inherited the title?

Everyone looked up at him. Most of them had not seen Liang Qu much, and thought he was a fierce dragon from other counties.

The young man in green continued to ask: "Dare to ask brother's name?"

"Liang Qu from Yixing Town, the ninth disciple of Master Yang. If you have any thoughts of practicing martial arts, just come and join! Yang's Martial Arts Gym welcomes every student. I still have things to do, so I won't stay much, go!"

Liang Qu pulled the reins, Chishan changed direction and jumped out, leaving only the crowd staring at the horse's butt.

"So it's a martial artist, no wonder it feels different."

"Yang's Martial Arts Gym? I heard this morning that they seem to be having a competition today?"

"It's tomorrow at noon, just in time for lunch break, why not go and see the fun?"

"Go together, go together!"

Liang Qu rode through the street, walked about half a mile, loosened the reins with one hand, and slowly touched Fubo hanging on one side.

His right leg leaned lightly on the horse's belly, and Chishan turned into the alley with understanding, and the horse's tail disappeared behind the wall.

Liang Qu counted three breaths silently, reached out and picked up Fubo.

The wind stopped abruptly, the long spear swept across the semicircle, the birds on the wall flew up in shock, the black-gold edge pierced the afternoon sun, the air was broken into two halves by the spear blade, and the spear tip pointed directly at the comer's chest.

The whistling sound brought by the hundred-jin big spear shocked the other party.

"Look up!"

The spear tip lifted, forcing the comer to raise his head in the gap of astonishment.

The medicine bag fell, Lan Tai raised his hands in surrender, the astonishment remaining on his face had not yet dissipated. He didn't expect that he would be discovered so easily.

Liang Qu leaned against the wall, shrouded in shadows, said nothing, just stared coldly.

Lan Tai couldn't hold back and begged for mercy first: "Sorry, sorry, I really couldn't help it. I saw you yesterday afternoon, riding this red horse, very envious.

Today I went to buy medicine and found out that you are the ninth disciple of Master Yang, the competition object of my junior brother. I couldn't help but follow you, forgive me, forgive me."

Lan Tai went to the medical center to get medicine, passed by the academy, and happened to hear Liang Qu say that he was the ninth disciple of Master Yang.

When people came out, he realized that the one riding the jujube-red horse yesterday afternoon was the one his junior brother wanted to challenge.

Liang Qu raised his eyebrows: "You were the one who submitted the visiting card yesterday?"

"My master wrote the visiting card, and I was the one who delivered it. My name is Lan Tai." Lan Tai smirked, he twisted, showing a small cloth bag, "I did this improperly. There are more than ten taels of silver in this bag, all given to the little gentleman, as an apology."

It was all his own obsession, too curious.

If it spreads out, people who don't know will think he is scouting enemy intelligence for his junior brother, and it won't be glorious even if he wins.

Why can't he control his legs?

Lan Tai wished he could slap himself.

Liang Qu examined him up and down.

The person is like a skinny monkey, his behavior is strange, just like the person who came to submit the visiting card described by the apprentices in the morning.

Looking at the dozen or so large medicine bags Lan Tai dropped on the ground, with the word "Changchun" written on them, he barely believed what the other party said and took back Fubo.

Lan Tai breathed a sigh of relief, not afraid of Liang Qu, just didn't want the other party to misunderstand.

He hurriedly took off his purse and offered it: "These ten taels of silver..."

"You keep it yourself."

Master Yang's ninth disciple wants even this kind of small money, it's shameful to say it.

Liang Qu pulled the reins, turned direction, and left without looking back.

"That's good." Lan Tai happily put away the purse, picked up the medicine bag from the ground, patted the dust, and looked at Liang Qu's back with emotion, "After all, it's taught by a master, the temperament is different, and the horse he rides is handsome."

Arrived at Changchun Medical Center.

Liang Qu led the horse into the backyard, found Manager Chen, raised his hand and gestured: "Just now, did a person who is so tall, wearing gray clothes, like a skinny monkey come to buy medicine, in large quantities."

Manager Chen recalled slightly and nodded: "There is one, most of what he bought are for strengthening the body, there are more than ten bags, it should be a martial arts practitioner."

Liang Qu nodded, that's right.

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing, met something on the road, came to ask, Manager Chen don't worry." Liang Qu rolled up his sleeves, "Where is Dr. Zhang, is it learning from him today?"

"Yes, just happened to have a small arm fracture, Dr. Zhang said to let you try it."

"Okay, I'll go first."

The martial arts gym competition did not disrupt Liang Qu's study plan.

Go to the river in the morning to practice, look for treasure with the four beasts, and refine bones once.

Return to the martial arts gym at noon to find Cao Shixiong Hu, Cao Shixiong Xu to spar, improve martial arts, and refine bones once.

Go to the academy in the afternoon, literacy has been basically completed, mainly reading books and allusions. Many techniques are accustomed to using allusions, and it is difficult to understand without a little cultural knowledge.

Go to the medical center in the evening, Liang Qu can easily handle simple fracture injuries alone, and is now gnawing on some simple medical books.

Before going to sleep at night, refine bones for the third time, and never leave blood energy to the next day.

Yang Dongxiong saw it and said that Liang Qu was diligent and serious.

Early the next morning.

Liang Qu did some simple warm-ups, then waited in the martial arts gym, not even refining bones, ensuring he was in peak condition.

The atmosphere of the entire martial arts gym was uncontrollably excited.

Challenging the gym, this kind of thing is rare.

After Pingyang Town became Pingyang County, the population gathered more and more, and accordingly, there were more and more new apprentices in the martial arts gym.

Now there are nearly a hundred people, the whole backyard can't live, and a dozen craftsmen have been hired to expand.

When Yang Dongxiong established the martial arts gym, the whole Pingyang County was still a township, and it was already built on a large scale. I didn't expect that twenty years later, it would still not be enough.

Yang Dongxiong plans to make the martial arts field bigger, preferably divided into two pieces.

One piece for apprentices to use, communicate with each other, and the second piece for martial arts practitioners to use.

Noon.

Villagers gathered near Yang's Martial Arts Gym, lying on the wall to watch the fun, and the crooked-neck tree next to it was crowded with people.

Even some people grabbed a good position and sold it to others for three copper coins.

"So expensive, don't you want your face?"

"Love to buy or not!"

"Hey, my violent temper, I'll cut your tree!"

"Don't argue, people are coming, people are coming!"