Chapter 92: It Landed in His Hands

Wu Chengyu almost jumped two zhang high. How could that be fitting, how could that be fitting? As an elder, how could you be so arbitrary? You haven't had much to drink, yet it's all drunken talk.

Wu Chengyu subconsciously looked at A Ku. Such a sweet and cute Gangjin Barbie. Then he looked at himself: a wall-like burly figure, plus a white-toothed, red-lipped shota face still retaining childishness. It didn't matter before, but now Wu Chengyu himself felt they were a perfect match.

At least the shota of the Wu Family couldn't withstand A Ku's little fists, but he himself probably might not be punched into vomiting blood.

A Ku was actually very sensible. After Wu Chengyu rescued her from the hands of the Beggar Sect's scum, Wu Chengyu was the only one in her life.

Usually playing around Wu Family Slope, some said she was Wu Chengyu's Little Wife, Child Bride. Those who said it meant no harm, but A Ku kept it in her heart, remembered it firmly.

Wu Zhenghui and others discussed finding a marriage for Wu Chengyu. A Ku, listening in her heart, took the initiative to express her feelings for the first time.

As soon as she spoke, she looked blankly at Wu Chengyu. Her eyes held nervousness, anticipation, but more than anything, trust in Wu Chengyu.

A Ku had always felt Wu Chengyu would never leave her in this lifetime. As long as she thought that way, she could eat well and sleep soundly.

Wu Chengyu had originally wanted to refute, but when he looked at A Ku's eyes, he couldn't say a word.

As long as he expressed refusal, A Ku definitely wouldn't pester him. She was always so sensible, unwilling to cause trouble for others.

But Wu Chengyu knew how much harm refusal would cause A Ku. It would mean A Ku might think the most important person to her might one day not want her.

A Ku couldn't bear the feeling of possibly being abandoned for a moment, and Wu Chengyu asked himself he never wanted to make A Ku sad, because A Ku had truly entrusted her life to him early on.

Fine, wait a few more years. Maybe A Ku would change her mind later. Wu Chengyu could only comfort himself this way.

But Wu Chengyu's tacit agreement really made these uncles feel the two had long been betrothed. From then on, no one arranged a marriage for Wu Chengyu anymore, and the whole Wu Family Slope felt A Ku was the future mistress of Wu Chengyu's household.

So hasty. Wu Chengyu never expected that before he always worried A Ku couldn't marry, now he didn't need to worry. It had completely landed in his own hands.

Seeing Wu Chengyu not express refusal, in A Ku's heart it meant Wu Chengyu had already agreed to marry her as his wife. Content, she no longer paid attention to others' talk, and focused her attention on gnawing bones again.

A thigh-bone as thick as a child's arm. A Ku picked it up lightly with three fingers. Without exerting force, she just snapped it casually. The bone that originally needed a knife to cut broke with a sound. Then she greedily sucked the marrow, which almost made Wu Chengyu beside her skip a heartbeat.

Back to the main story. As Wu Chengyu recalled the cause and effect, smiling wryly and pushing open his own door, the dazed A Ku immediately jumped up from the stool.

"Brother, why are you only back now? I'm almost starving to death. Just now I really couldn't help it and gnawed on a Pig Trotter."

"Wait for you. The dishes are kept warm in the pot. I'll go get them for you now."

That day, A Ku, who considered herself Wu Chengyu's future wife, consciously learned from the adult women of Wu Family Slope, always wanting to take care of Wu Chengyu's daily life. Somewhat clumsy, but clumsily cute, making Wu Chengyu feel very thoughtful.

Gluttons always like to tinker with cooking themselves. Now A Ku's home cooking was not bad, vaguely having the style of that fat cook lady in Gushan County back then.

In a short while, A Ku brought a large pile of things.

Ten flatbreads, each about one catty. A large basin of braised sheep trotters, the braising spices prepared by Wu Chengyu. A Ku braised them for at least two hours. The tendons on every sheep trotter were already soft and rotten, the aroma assailing the nose. Also a large basin of scrambled eggs with fragrant scallions and at least five sliced raw radishes.

Their family meal was just so simple and unadorned, not even using plates.

The two didn't talk much. Both were big eaters, munching and crunching, far more appetizing than those mukbang streamers.

After dinner, A Ku washed the dishes by herself. Wu Chengyu held a cup of tea, watching A Ku's sturdy back.

"The restaurant closes for a day tomorrow. I don't need to go to Gusu City anymore. I can stay at home."

"Do you have anything to do tomorrow?"

Wumei Tower, after today's events, although not affected, Wu Zhengliang still decided to temporarily close business. The runners in the restaurant were not all from Wu Family Slope; there were also those hired from Gusu City. They had to be thoroughly investigated.

The investigation didn't need Wu Chengyu to worry about. Recently reading Taoist scriptures had made his heart feel stifled. His martial arts seemed to have stagnated, no longer in the state of constantly improving as before. Wu Chengyu suddenly felt staying with A Ku for a day was also a good choice.

"Really? That's great, Brother. Let's go boating on Taihu tomorrow. I want to catch some silver fish and white shrimp."

"No, no. In the morning we have to go to the Wutraining Field. Brother, you haven't gone to the Wutraining Field to teach them martial arts for a long time."

After Wu Chengyu achieved Great Accomplishment in the Ox-Horse Stake last year, he felt his martial arts were enough for self-defense and identified more with the clan. He put the plan to strengthen the family's strength on the agenda.

Yan Qing Fist could be considered the best basic moves. Fists, palms, leg techniques, footwork, wrestling, and weapons like knives, spears, and swords were all touched upon, but the upper limit was really not high.

After deep consideration, Wu Chengyu found Wu Zhengliang and took out several martial arts skills.

The Wu Clan wanted to rise from a local powerful family to a martial arts world family. A good Internal Energy Heart Technique was indispensable. For this, Wu Chengyu had considered for a long time.

Divine Skill Grade ones, like the nameless heart method Wu Chengyu was cultivating himself, were limited by Wu Chengyu's understanding of Taoism and had not been successfully remodeled yet.

This technique was too difficult to get started. Either like Wu Chengyu, who could inner-visualize, plus bamboo slips guiding at any time, or like A Ku, who possessed top-tier talent. Ordinary people simply couldn't get started. And A Ku was not interested in Taoist School heart methods.

Most importantly, this technique was Wu Chengyu's foundation for establishing his life. He wasn't yet generous enough to teach it to the whole family. People always had a bit of selfishness.

Below Divine Skill Grade, there were two top-tier Internal Energy Heart Techniques: Heart-Intent Qi Mixed Yuan Art and Longcheng Heart Method.

Both these techniques were enough to create a top-tier martial arts world family, on the premise of not arousing others' covetousness. Before the Wu Family completely grew up, or before Wu Chengyu reached Five Absolutes Level, these two techniques were temporarily not suitable to be passed down.

There was also the Biling Heart Method remodeled by Wu Chengyu before. It could be considered the best basic heart method: solid foundation, high upper limit, and on the surface not reaching the level of advanced heart methods. Long-term cultivation, even if not changing techniques later, could make one a master-level expert.

Such a technique was originally most suitable for the Wu Clan. Unfortunately, the Biling Heart Method ultimately had traces of Peach Blossom Island Martial Arts. One or two people practicing it was fine, but if the whole clan practiced it, if one day it attracted Huang Yaoshi, it would truly bring disaster to the family.

Could it be that at that time Wu Chengyu would rely on his good Lightness Skill to escape alone, leaving A Ku and the family to Huang Yaoshi?

After thinking it over thousands of times, the Internal Energy Heart Techniques Wu Chengyu took out were three intermediate techniques from the Murong Family's collection: Guiyuan Heart Sutra, Songhe Changsheng Fa, and Mangniu Dalili Jue.

The origin of Guiyuan Heart Sutra could no longer be examined. It had annotations by some generation of the Murong Family. It should be from a Taoist sect in the late Tang Dynasty.

It possessed the consistent characteristics of Taoism: upright and peaceful, extremely hard to go into qi deviation. Inner Force was refined, and it had the function of treating one's own hidden injuries. Most suitable for laying foundations. The only drawback was that the cultivation speed was slightly slow.

Songhe Changsheng Fa was for the middle-aged and elderly of the Wu Family. This Internal Energy technique could best prolong life. As a martial art, its power was mediocre.

But now there were many old people in the Wu Family, and many middle-aged people like Wu Zhengliang. They had long passed the time for cultivating Inner Force. Destined to have limited achievements. For people like them, there was no need to force it. Living long and having a healthy body was the most realistic.

Mangniu Dalili Jue was a bit like a super bankrupt version of the Ox-Horse Stake. It was also a heart method that cultivated both Qi and strength from outside to inside. It didn't have such exaggerated effects as the Ox-Horse Stake, but the cultivation difficulty was not high, and the resources consumed were not high. Most suitable for the whole clan to cultivate.

The drawback was a low upper limit. At most it could increase two or three hundred catties of strength.

The first five layers of Dragon Elephant Prajna Art took too much time. The cost-performance ratio was not high. It could only be listed by Wu Chengyu as an alternative.

(Chapter End)【1】 Wu Chengyu almost jumped two zhang high. How could that be fitting, how could that be fitting? As an elder, how could you be so arbitrary? You haven't had much to drink, yet it's all drunken talk.

【2】 Wu Chengyu subconsciously looked at A Ku. Such a sweet and cute Gangjin Barbie. Then he looked at himself: a wall-like burly figure, plus a white-toothed, red-lipped shota face still retaining childishness. It didn't matter before, but now Wu Chengyu himself felt they were a perfect match.

【3】 At least the shota of the Wu Family couldn't withstand A Ku's little fists, but he himself probably might not be punched into vomiting blood.

【4】 A Ku was actually very sensible. After Wu Chengyu rescued her from the hands of the Beggar Sect's scum, Wu Chengyu was the only one in her life.

【5】 Usually playing around Wu Family Slope, some said she was Wu Chengyu's Little Wife, Child Bride. Those who said it meant no harm, but A Ku kept it in her heart, remembered it firmly.

【6】 Wu Zhenghui and others discussed finding a marriage for Wu Chengyu. A Ku, listening in her heart, took the initiative to express her feelings for the first time.

【7】 As soon as she spoke, she looked blankly at Wu Chengyu. Her eyes held nervousness, anticipation, but more than anything, trust in Wu Chengyu.

【8】 A Ku had always felt Wu Chengyu would never leave her in this lifetime. As long as she thought that way, she could eat well and sleep soundly.

【9】 Wu Chengyu had originally wanted to refute, but when he looked at A Ku's eyes, he couldn't say a word.

【10】 As long as he expressed refusal, A Ku definitely wouldn't pester him. She was always so sensible, unwilling to cause trouble for others.

【11】 But Wu Chengyu knew how much harm refusal would cause A Ku. It would mean A Ku might think the most important person to her might one day not want her.

【12】 A Ku couldn't bear the feeling of possibly being abandoned for a moment, and Wu Chengyu asked himself he never wanted to make A Ku sad, because A Ku had truly entrusted her life to him early on.

【13】 Fine, wait a few more years. Maybe A Ku would change her mind later. Wu Chengyu could only comfort himself this way.

【14】 But Wu Chengyu's tacit agreement really made these uncles feel the two had long been betrothed. From then on, no one arranged a marriage for Wu Chengyu anymore, and the whole Wu Family Slope felt A Ku was the future mistress of Wu Chengyu's household.

【15】 So hasty. Wu Chengyu never expected that before he always worried A Ku couldn't marry, now he didn't need to worry. It had completely landed in his own hands.

【16】 Seeing Wu Chengyu not express refusal, in A Ku's heart it meant Wu Chengyu had already agreed to marry her as his wife. Content, she no longer paid attention to others' talk, and focused her attention on gnawing bones again.

【17】 A thigh-bone as thick as a child's arm. A Ku picked it up lightly with three fingers. Without exerting force, she just snapped it casually. The bone that originally needed a knife to cut broke with a sound. Then she greedily sucked the marrow, which almost made Wu Chengyu beside her skip a heartbeat.

【18】 Back to the main story. As Wu Chengyu recalled the cause and effect, smiling wryly and pushing open his own door, the dazed A Ku immediately jumped up from the stool.

【19】 "Brother, why are you only back now? I'm almost starving to death. Just now I really couldn't help it and gnawed on a Pig Trotter."

【20】 "Wait for you. The dishes are kept warm in the pot. I'll go get them for you now."

【21】 That day, A Ku, who considered herself Wu Chengyu's future wife, consciously learned from the adult women of Wu Family Slope, always wanting to take care of Wu Chengyu's daily life. Somewhat clumsy, but clumsily cute, making Wu Chengyu feel very thoughtful.

【22】 Gluttons always like to tinker with cooking themselves. Now A Ku's home cooking was not bad, vaguely having the style of that fat cook lady in Gushan County back then.

【23】 In a short while, A Ku brought a large pile of things.

【24】 Ten flatbreads, each about one catty. A large basin of braised sheep trotters, the braising spices prepared by Wu Chengyu. A Ku braised them for at least two hours. The tendons on every sheep trotter were already soft and rotten, the aroma assailing the nose. Also a large basin of scrambled eggs with fragrant scallions and at least five sliced raw radishes.

【25】 Their family meal was just so simple and unadorned, not even using plates.

【26】 The two didn't talk much. Both were big eaters, munching and crunching, far more appetizing than those mukbang streamers.

【27】 After dinner, A Ku washed the dishes by herself. Wu Chengyu held a cup of tea, watching A Ku's sturdy back.

【28】 "The restaurant closes for a day tomorrow. I don't need to go to Gusu City anymore. I can stay at home."

【29】 "Do you have anything to do tomorrow?"

【30】 Wumei Tower, after today's events, although not affected, Wu Zhengliang still decided to temporarily close business. The runners in the restaurant were not all from Wu Family Slope; there were also those hired from Gusu City. They had to be thoroughly investigated.

【31】 The investigation didn't need Wu Chengyu to worry about. Recently reading Taoist scriptures had made his heart feel stifled. His martial arts seemed to have stagnated, no longer in the state of constantly improving as before. Wu Chengyu suddenly felt staying with A Ku for a day was also a good choice.

【32】 "Really? That's great, Brother. Let's go boating on Taihu tomorrow. I want to catch some silver fish and white shrimp."

【33】 "No, no. In the morning we have to go to the Wutraining Field. Brother, you haven't gone to the Wutraining Field to teach them martial arts for a long time."

【34】 After Wu Chengyu achieved Great Accomplishment in the Ox-Horse Stake last year, he felt his martial arts were enough for self-defense and identified more with the clan. He put the plan to strengthen the family's strength on the agenda.

【35】 Yan Qing Fist could be considered the best basic moves. Fists, palms, leg techniques, footwork, wrestling, and weapons like knives, spears, and swords were all touched upon, but the upper limit was really not high.

【36】 After deep consideration, Wu Chengyu found Wu Zhengliang and took out several martial arts skills.

【37】 The Wu Clan wanted to rise from a local powerful family to a martial arts world family. A good Internal Energy Heart Technique was indispensable. For this, Wu Chengyu had considered for a long time.

【38】 Divine Skill Grade ones, like the nameless heart method Wu Chengyu was cultivating himself, were limited by Wu Chengyu's understanding of Taoism and had not been successfully remodeled yet.

【39】 This technique was too difficult to get started. Either like Wu Chengyu, who could inner-visualize, plus bamboo slips guiding at any time, or like A Ku, who possessed top-tier talent. Ordinary people simply couldn't get started. And A Ku was not interested in Taoist School heart methods.

【40】 Most importantly, this technique was Wu Chengyu's foundation for establishing his life. He wasn't yet generous enough to teach it to the whole family. People always had a bit of selfishness.

【41】 Below Divine Skill Grade, there were two top-tier Internal Energy Heart Techniques: Heart-Intent Qi Mixed Yuan Art and Longcheng Heart Method.

【42】 Both these techniques were enough to create a top-tier martial arts world family, on the premise of not arousing others' covetousness. Before the Wu Family completely grew up, or before Wu Chengyu reached Five Absolutes Level, these two techniques were temporarily not suitable to be passed down.

【43】 There was also the Biling Heart Method remodeled by Wu Chengyu before. It could be considered the best basic heart method: solid foundation, high upper limit, and on the surface not reaching the level of advanced heart methods. Long-term cultivation, even if not changing techniques later, could make one a master-level expert.

【44】 Such a technique was originally most suitable for the Wu Clan. Unfortunately, the Biling Heart Method ultimately had traces of Peach Blossom Island Martial Arts. One or two people practicing it was fine, but if the whole clan practiced it, if one day it attracted Huang Yaoshi, it would truly bring disaster to the family.

【45】 Could it be that at that time Wu Chengyu would rely on his good Lightness Skill to escape alone, leaving A Ku and the family to Huang Yaoshi?

【46】 After thinking it over thousands of times, the Internal Energy Heart Techniques Wu Chengyu took out were three intermediate techniques from the Murong Family's collection: Guiyuan Heart Sutra, Songhe Changsheng Fa, and Mangniu Dalili Jue.

【47】 The origin of Guiyuan Heart Sutra could no longer be examined. It had annotations by some generation of the Murong Family. It should be from a Taoist sect in the late Tang Dynasty.

【48】 It possessed the consistent characteristics of Taoism: upright and peaceful, extremely hard to go into qi deviation. Inner Force was refined, and it had the function of treating one's own hidden injuries. Most suitable for laying foundations. The only drawback was that the cultivation speed was slightly slow.

【49】 Songhe Changsheng Fa was for the middle-aged and elderly of the Wu Family. This Internal Energy technique could best prolong life. As a martial art, its power was mediocre.

【50】 But now there were many old people in the Wu Family, and many middle-aged people like Wu Zhengliang. They had long passed the time for cultivating Inner Force. Destined to have limited achievements. For people like them, there was no need to force it. Living long and having a healthy body was the most realistic.

【51】 Mangniu Dalili Jue was a bit like a super bankrupt version of the Ox-Horse Stake. It was also a heart method that cultivated both Qi and strength from outside to inside. It didn't have such exaggerated effects as the Ox-Horse Stake, but the cultivation difficulty was not high, and the resources consumed were not high. Most suitable for the whole clan to cultivate.

【52】 The drawback was a low upper limit. At most it could increase two or three hundred catties of strength.

【53】 The first five layers of Dragon Elephant Prajna Art took too much time. The cost-performance ratio was not high. It could only be listed by Wu Chengyu as an alternative.

【54】 (Chapter End)