Chapter 60 There’s a fire in the backyard
Ran Qiuye has been in Hong Kong for more than a month and has some understanding of the prices here.

Knowing how much help He Yuzhu has given to his family.

Ran Qiuye is not the kind of woman who would not repay a favor.

But no matter how much he thought about it, Ran Qiuye still couldn't think of any way to repay the favor.

It wasn't until one day when she heard gossip about herself in the office that she made the decision.

the next day.

He Yuzhu did not go to work, but stayed in Ran Qiuye's dormitory and accompanied her for the whole day.

Ran Qiuye was just trying to repay his gratitude, not caring about his own health at all.

He Yuzhu couldn't help himself and tortured her badly.

This weekend, He Yuzhu and Huo Huan made an appointment to visit the martial arts gym.

In the Jingwu Hall, as soon as He Yuzhu entered the door, he was pulled by Huo Min and insisted on practicing with her.

Because they were on the Jingwu Gym's territory, He Yuzhu didn't dare to take advantage, so he just fought with Huo Min honestly for a few moves and defeated her.

Huo Min suddenly became angry: "Cousin, can't you just let me go?"

"Amin, stop messing around."

Huo Huan walked over, scolded his daughter, and then greeted He Yuzhu.

"Zhu Zi, I see that you have become more restrained, and it seems that you have made progress again."

"I have gained some new insights into Tai Chi."

He Yuzhu smiled and practiced the Tai Chi that he had just broken through to Level 5.

Huo Huan saw it and immediately applauded and praised it, but after praising it, he said with some regret:

"Hey, Zhuzi, your martial arts talent was rare in the past, but it's a pity that martial arts are declining now. Otherwise, if I gave you a real internal martial arts technique, you might have opened the bridge between heaven and earth and returned to your innate state."

"Thank you for the compliment, uncle."

He Yuzhu listened to Huo Huan talking about the past and couldn't help asking, "Uncle, my father once told me that in the late Qing Dynasty, there were sword immortals in Wudang, Longhu Mountain and other blessed places. Is it true?"

Huo Huan waved his hands, his face looking somewhat grim:

"That's true. My grandfather once met a Taoist master who could control a flying sword. Unfortunately, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, all the sects and schools suffered disasters, and only half of all the martial arts were passed down."

"For example, our Huo family's Mysterious Fist only has the first half. And your family's Bagua Palm only has the Bagua Palm Technique, but lacks the Bagua Wandering Dragon Step that goes with it. The same is true for other schools and sects."

After hearing this, He Yuzhu looked gloomy.

Later generations often said that it was after the founding of the country that all things were not allowed to become spirits, which led to the disappearance of spiritual energy and the decline of martial arts.

But the truth is, the decline of martial arts began in the late Qing Dynasty.

Before the end of the Qing Dynasty, the blessed places of caves and cemeteries in various places continued to be passed down.

Like in the novel "The Return of the Condor Heroes", Guo Jing used the Golden Goose Kung Fu to climb the city wall. Before the late Qing Dynasty, in fact, many internal martial arts masters could do it by using the Gecko Kung Fu and the Dragon Step.

And for someone like Yang Guo, using a heavy iron sword weighing more than 60 kilograms as a weapon, it is not considered a great skill.

Before the end of the Qing Dynasty, many sons of military families wielded swords weighing fifty or sixty kilograms, and they were equally impenetrable and powerful.

Unfortunately, these traditions were suddenly cut off in the late Qing Dynasty.

Just as Huo Huan said, half of the martial arts of all sects disappeared, and it was the most important half.

Without the Bagua Dragon Step, Bagua Palm is just an ordinary palm technique. When fighting with ordinary people, this Bagua Palm looks quite good.

But in fact, without the Bagua Youlongbu, Baguazhang has long lost its subtlety and can only be used for close combat, losing the ability to advance and retreat calmly.

Huo Huan was older, so he told He Yuzhu about some past stories in the martial arts world.

If He Yuzhu has any questions, he will ask slowly.

I just have some doubts, and the more I ask, the more confused I become.

After dinner, He Yuzhu said goodbye and left. On the way back, he had another thought in his mind:
"Baguazhang loses its soul without Baguayoulongbu. I don't know if I can make up for it with Baguayoulongbu."

To have such thoughts shows that He Yuzhu is ignorant of his own limitations and thinks he is on par with the masters.

Instead, He Yuzhu has the help of the system and can borrow the power of the system.

Back to the hilltop villa.

After He Yuzhu accompanied the old man to dinner, he took Chen Jiazhen back to Building No. 2 and asked Chen Jiazhen to take care of him. [Bagua Youlongbu] was thought by later generations to be just a set of steps that followed the directions of the Bagua.

In fact, this idea is totally wrong.

The real [Bagua Youlongbu] actually contains the secret formula of the mental method, which complements the [Baguazhang] mental method.

He Yuzhu wanted to deduce the [Eight Trigrams Dragon Step], which was extremely difficult.

Fortunately, He Yuzhu had already upgraded [Baguazhang] to L9, the realm of self-generated internal strength.

At this moment, it is not too difficult to reverse the [Eight Trigrams Dragon Step].

Of course, this difficulty is not difficult, relatively speaking.

After all, when it comes to deducing mental methods, a slight mistake can lead to a huge error.

All I can say is that He Yuzhu is not in a hurry about this matter and can take it slow.

In a blink of an eye, December passed.

The thirty-first year of the founding of the People’s Republic of China has arrived.

He Yuzhu has been in this world for exactly forty years.

In Hong Kong, He Yuzhu lived a leisurely life every day, but at this time a fire broke out in his backyard.

This story begins a few months ago.

Yu Li followed He Yuzhu's instructions, sold the house to the second uncle, and took her sister to Hong Kong.

After the second uncle bought Yu Li's two houses, he excitedly went to find his eldest son and asked his eldest son Liu Guangqi to move back to the courtyard.

Liu Guangqi is a man who forgets his principles when he sees profit.

After Liu Guangqi got married, he lived outside with his wife and children and never returned to the courtyard to visit his parents.

When Liu Haizhong and his wife went to look for their son, Liu Guangqi explained that he was busy with work and the courtyard was too noisy, among other reasons. But in fact, the deeper reason was that he couldn't stand Liu Haizhong beating Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu every day.

So, after Liu Haizhong bought two houses, Liu Guangqi no longer cared whether Liu Haizhong beat his two younger brothers or not, and happily moved back to the courtyard house with his wife and children.

When Liu Guangqi moved back, the situation of the three uncles who were in charge of the courtyard changed again.

The uncle and his wife are an old couple, and without anyone to take care of them in their old age, their daily life is becoming increasingly hopeless.

The third uncle does have four children, but none of them is worry-free.

Even the youngest daughter, Yan Jiedi, who is still in college, rarely goes home to visit her third uncle and his wife.

As for Mr. and Mrs. Yan Jiecheng, who lived next door to the third uncle, they opened a restaurant and made some money.

But the third uncle couldn’t get a penny of Yan Jiecheng’s food.

Yan Jiecheng was even more calculating about what the Third Uncle wanted.

Don’t even mention filial piety.

The reversal in the second uncle's family also stimulated the families of the first and third uncles.

The old man was better. He was becoming more and more friendly to his neighbors. He even often visited the He family to visit the children. This showed that he wanted to cast a wide net.

The third uncle thought about it. He only had Yan Jiecheng and his wife by his side. His eldest son was not filial to him, so he might as well bring the second son's family to live with him.

There were a few empty houses in the courtyard.

Yes, these are He Yuzhu’s three rooms.

The entire courtyard, which is the He family’s house, was empty and no one lived in it.

The third uncle couldn't help it and started to set his sights on these three houses.

That day, the third uncle rode his bicycle and brought the third aunt to the He family to discuss buying a house.

"Old man, do you think the He family will sell the house to us?"

The third aunt followed the third uncle to the He family. When they saw the three-story western-style building, they felt a little nervous: "Old man, the He family can afford such a big house, so they must look down on our humble house."

"That's not necessarily true," the third uncle was also hesitant, but he had a different idea: "The He family is rich, but they won't waste their house. I think the He family rarely comes back to the courtyard house throughout the year, so they probably don't like it anymore. If they sell it to us, they can get some money. Isn't it better than leaving the house empty?"

As the old couple was talking, they knocked on the He family's door.

(End of this chapter)