Pig Killer

Chapter 151

"Learning martial arts is very hard." Shen Hui'e looked at Da Chong and the others with her deep and clear eyes and said, "It's harder than farming! We train in the coldest days of winter and the hottest days of summer. We train regardless of wind or rain."

"No, no." The big tiger looked at her with sparkling eyes and said, "As long as you teach me how to fight and kick, I am not afraid of the hard work."

"Do you know how to write the word 'Wu'?" Shen Hui'e said as she looked at them with eyes as gentle as jade.

"I know!" Da Chong wrote the word "Wu" vaguely on the wooden table.

"Weapons are separated, and the purpose of war is to stop the war!" Shen Hui'e looked at them with clear and bright eyes and said, "Do you know why I set up rules?"

"I don't know." Cheng Donglai shook his head slightly when he heard that.

"You think that martial arts is meant to encourage you to fight." Shen Hui'e said to them with her glassy eyes.

"Isn't it?" Da Chong looked at her with his eyes wide open.

"To stop the war, we must use martial arts. Martial arts means to stop the fighting." Shen Hui'e raised her index finger and looked at them seriously, saying, "To stop the fighting, we must have strength."

"Strength?" The big tiger blinked his black eyes and looked at her and said, "Just like when my mother attacked the Xiong family, they dare not come again."

"Hmm!" Shen Hui'e smiled and nodded slightly, "Having the ability to fight, but not fighting, that's it..." She gave a thumbs up, "That is to say, people who learn martial arts should learn to put down their weapons before picking them up."

"After all, mother, you still have the strength. It's up to us to decide whether to fight or not." The big tiger said, waving his little fist.

"That's right." Shen Hui'e looked at them with her shiny black eyes and said, "Why should we learn morality before practicing martial arts? Morality is centered on benevolence and righteousness, and takes benevolence and righteousness as its criteria. The words and deeds of people who practice boxing and kicking are the codes of conduct." Her deep eyes swept over them and said, "Martial morality is the root of martial arts! The predecessors said: Before learning art, you must first learn etiquette, and before learning martial arts, you must first learn morality. Those who lack morality cannot be taught; those who mourn for etiquette cannot be taught martial arts. Practitioners should not seek profit but uphold justice, and not fear the strong but sacrifice themselves. When speaking, you should be humble and cautious; when doing things, you must be good from beginning to end." She looked at them calmly and said slowly, "In normal times, you should be humble, polite and trustworthy, and learn art to strive for excellence. Persevere and establish noble martial virtues. Strengthen your body with martial arts and cultivate your character with morality."

The big bug scratched his head and said, "Mother, can you speak slower? I can't remember it."

"Don't panic, you will learn it slowly and even be able to put it into practice." Shen Hui'e looked at them with clear eyes and said.

"Put your knowledge into practice?" Li Nu asked, looking at her with his big black eyes.

"We learn skills to use them. If we don't use them now, we are preparing for them in the future." Shen Hui'e looked at them with her warm eyes and said, "It's just like animals storing food for the winter."

"There's a lot of food in their caves." The big insect looked at her with wide eyes and said, "We took out a lot from the field mouse holes, and piled it up like a small mountain."

"Mother, we won't complain about the hardship or tiredness." The black grape-like eyes of the cat slave looked at her firmly as if falling into stars.

"Okay! I will remember this clearly!" Shen Hui'e said as she looked at them with eyes as gentle as jade.

Originally, she wanted to slowly teach her children some self-defense skills.

Now the old emperor is suddenly gone. We don’t know what’s going on in the upper echelons. Who knows if the fight among these princes and grandchildren for the throne will affect innocent people? As ordinary people, we should protect ourselves.

"Mother, why do we have to run for half a year before we can practice martial arts?" Da Chong asked her with his innocent eyes, looking at her in confusion.

"Those who practice martial arts train their muscles, bones and skin on the outside, and their breath on the inside." Shen Hui'e clasped her fists and said, "The essence of boxing and kicking is: moving on the outside and being quiet on the inside, seeking quietness in movement, combining movement and quietness, having both hardness and softness, combining hardness and softness, training the inside and the outside, and training both inside and outside."

"I don't understand?" Da Chong said honestly.

"The difference in physical strength between men and women is an objective fact." Shen Hui'e looked at them with deep and bright black eyes shining, and said, "Internal training can make up for it! If you meet an adult who is taller and stronger than you, if you want to gain an advantage, then you must be flexible and win with skills." She pointed her index finger at her head and said, "Fighting also relies on brains, not brute force. That's reckless." She smiled and said, "Of course, if you are born with supernatural strength, you can lift a thousand pounds." Clap... clapped her hands, "Then we will admit defeat."

"Hmm!" Da Chong looked at her with bright eyes and said, "Mother, please talk more. I love to hear it."

"Boxing and kicking require the unity of inside and outside, both form and spirit, and the cultivation of body and mind." Shen Hui'e raised the corners of her lips and smiled slightly, "Use the mind to move the qi, and use the qi to move the body. The three internal and external combinations require the cultivation of essence, strength, qi, and bones, and the cultivation of spirit, inside and outside." She continued slowly, "In boxing and kicking routines, the inner essence, qi, and spirit must be closely combined with the external movements to achieve a complete and unified state, so that the heart moves and the form follows, the form is broken but the intention is connected, and the momentum is broken but the qi is connected. Use the changes in hand, eye, body, method, and step, as well as spirit, qi, and strength to train the mind and body."

"Is it confusing to explain it to you?" Shen Hui'e said, smiling at them, "When we start practicing, you will understand it all at once."

"Oh!" The big tiger nodded obediently.

"Mother, mother, why don't you teach Brother Yuanji and the others to read?" Li Nu asked her with his innocent eyes.

"Well! It's not that I don't teach, but they feel there is no need to learn." Shen Hui'e looked at them frustratedly and said, nowadays there is no such concept that everything is inferior except reading.

The most notable feature of the small peasant economy, which is self-sufficient, is that farmers are attached to the land and make a living by farming. The land is their roots and the most important means of production for farmers. Long-term farming has given farmers a deep affection for the land.

The love for the land runs in our blood.

In agricultural civilization, land does not move and farmers are tightly attached to the land.

Due to practical needs, farmers gathered together and settled in the same place, gradually forming natural villages.

Farmers have lived in the village for generations, leading a self-sufficient life. They do not need to communicate or cooperate with strangers from outside, so the village has become an acquaintance society without strangers.

In this acquaintance society, people's behavior is not constrained by laws, but by etiquette and commonly accepted rules to maintain the operation of society.

In daily communication, words are not needed, just speaking is enough, because words represent a wider society, but farmers do not need them in their daily lives.

From the perspective of time, farmers have settled in the same place for generations, and their living routines have not changed much, so the experience of their parents is completely sufficient.

Work at sunrise, and rest at sunset.

Farmers only need to live in a social life composed of acquaintances. The village is so small and there is no entertainment except farm work.

Oh! That's why cockfighting is so popular.

"Weren't you unwilling to learn at the beginning? Didn't you say that there was no place for your skills?" Shen Hui'e said to them with gentle eyes.

"Uh..." The big bug scratched his head and said, "I don't think it's any use now."

"So! You will know when you suffer losses." Shen Hui'e said to them with clear eyes.

"What do you mean?" Da Chong looked at her in confusion and asked.

"Every failure makes you wiser. Once you realize the benefits of reading and recognizing words, you will take the initiative to learn to read." Shen Hui'e said to them with clear eyes.

"It's not a good deal if you're the one who's chasing after others." The raccoon slave said with a grin.

"That's right!" Shen Hui'e looked at her with gentle eyes and said, "Start tomorrow morning." She thought about setting up a rack in the yard, hanging palm-sized sandbags on it, and letting the children practice their eyesight and skills!

I have to ask Liu Ding for help with this matter.

Shen Hui'e rolled up her sleeves and said, "Let's go find your Uncle Liu after dinner."

"What are you doing? I just came back from Uncle Liu's house." Da Chong blinked his black eyes and looked at her and asked.

"Practice your body skills outside! Practice your hands, eyes, body and steps." Shen Hui'e said as she looked at them with warm eyes.

"How do you practice this?" Da Chong suddenly became interested and said to her.

"Let's cook first and then talk after we eat." Shen Hui'e stood up and looked at them and said.

"Mother, mother, keep it simple." The big tiger said behind her.

"Haha..." Shen Hui'e shook her head and laughed when she saw this, "Poor in literature but rich in martial arts. If you don't eat enough, you won't have the strength, let alone practice boxing."

"I'll help. I'll light the fire." Da Chong followed his mother into the kitchen and said enthusiastically.

"You like martial arts so much!" Shen Hui'e looked at him with her clear eyes, kicked the small stool, sat in front of the stove, and took a handful of hay.

The tiger handed over the fire stick and said, "I like it. I like it very much. I want to travel around the world like the knight in the bamboo slips written by my mother."

Shen Hui'e took a tinder, lit the hay, and put it into the stove.

The big tiger was quick-witted and broke off the dry bean stalks and stuffed them into the fire.

"It's good to stay at home for a thousand days, but it's hard to go out for just one day." Shen Hui'e said to him with a smile in her eyes.

"Didn't mother say that reading ten thousand books is not as good as traveling ten thousand miles?" Li Nu said as he squatted on the other side of her.

"Then have I ever said that traveling thousands of miles is not as good as meeting countless people?" Shen Hui'e said with a smile as she looked at the clever little boy.

"Met countless people?" The raccoon blinked his watery eyes and said, "Only by traveling thousands of miles can you meet many people!"

"If we just go from one place to another, it's all the same." Shen Hui'e looked at them with a raised eyebrow and said, "That's just a cursory glance and a superficial understanding."

"How can they be the same? As my mother said, every ten miles the wind is different, and every hundred miles the customs are different." The tiger looked at her and said with a smile.

"Okay! You're much more eloquent." Shen Hui'e laughed when she heard that. "Just look at the surface, you have to look at the essence." She looked at them with eyes like black jade and said, "It's better to have a famous teacher to guide you than to have countless people to know you. You have to see the essence through the phenomenon. It's better to understand it yourself than to have a famous teacher to guide you! The master can only lead you to the door, but the practice depends on yourself." She looked around and said with emotion, "It all depends on the individual. You have to walk your own way in life."

"Mother, don't you want us to travel around the world?" The tiger looked at her nervously and said.