80, Pi Gua Quan

Seeing Bai Gui really kneel down and pay his respects, Master Ma, a burly man, was stunned. It took him a long time to recover. Reading

МThere were people who learned swordsmanship from him before, but they were all poor and had little money at home. He had never met someone like Bai Gui who paid such a great respect.

The head of the prefecture, the head of the provincial capital, was a scholar husband, not a student of the imperial academy!

And he was also a disciple of Guanxue...

Master Ma rubbed his hands, a little at a loss. It was Master Zhang who reminded him. He quickly patted the dust on Bai Gui's robe, "Okay, okay, the gift is put aside for now, and you can give it to him when you have time."

Kneeling down to pay respects to a master, this face is the most important for a person with a reputation.

There will be no shortage of money for paying respects to a master.

Master Ma then told Bai Gui where he lived recently in the provincial capital. After exchanging addresses, he hurriedly left with Hai Ge. It seemed that there was something urgent.

"He is a swordsman, and also a brother of Pao..."

After Master Ma walked away, Taoist Zhang sighed, glanced at Bai Gui, and said this.

Brother of Pao, also known as Gelaohui, is one of the three major gang organizations coexisting with Hongmen and Qingbang, and split from Tiandihui. There are two theories about the origin of the name. One is the "How can I say I have no clothes? I share the same robe with you" in the Book of Songs Qinfeng, and the other is that when Guan Yu was staying at Cao Cao's place in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, he never took off the old brocade robe given by Liu Bei, so the name of Brother of Pao means that the brothers have deep feelings.

In Guanzhong, there are many people who have the same identity as swordsmen and brothers of Pao.

"Didn't Taoist leave Master Ma here?"

Bai Gui smiled, his tone relaxed.

Although the Brother of Pao was repeatedly attacked by the Qing court, the current situation is not as severe as before. There are many people in the folk who have relationships with people in these gangs, and the investigation is not so close. Besides, he did not record his name and worship the hall.

He also understood what Taoist Zhang meant. He originally wanted Master Ma to teach Bai Gui casually. The two of them were not deeply involved. However, now that they were really apprentices, the relationship was unclear.

But... if you want to learn real skills, you have to pay a price.

Besides, as long as you are cautious, with the current ruling power of the Qing court in the provincial capital, there will not be so many things. At least, in the Normal School, he has hardly seen students reading the imperial edicts on the first and fifteenth days...

Taoist Zhang smiled when he heard this, and didn't care.

Indeed, when Mr. Zhu joined the Juren and Xiucai to report on the day, he was not afraid of anything. Especially Bai Gui's current identity, if someone says that he is a Pao brother, wouldn't it be slandering his innocence out of thin air?

Who would believe that he gave up a bright future and became a Pao brother!

At least the county magistrate Gu, who appointed Bai Gui as the county head, didn't believe it, and the prefect Yin, who appointed Bai Gui as the prefecture head, didn't believe it!

This is a good omen for our Qing Dynasty!

It has been reported to the capital, who is willing to expose this lie? !

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After returning from the Wanshou Baxian Temple, Bai Gui was a little disappointed. He learned from Taoist Zhang that there is no such thing as immortality in the world. He practiced only in the hope that he could ascend to heaven after a hundred years.

However, Taoist Zhang taught him the "Vajra Longevity Exercise".

Vajra Longevity Exercise, also known as the Eight-Part Vajra Exercise, originated from the Quanzhen Longmen School and is a dynamic exercise. It applies the natural law of the unity of man and nature and the theory of yin and yang and the five elements of traditional Chinese medicine. Through eight sets of movements, the rigid internal energy is used to dredge the meridians of the whole body, thereby coordinating the internal organs, allowing the bones, joints, and body to be connected and unobstructed, so as to achieve the balance of yin and yang, eliminate diseases, and prolong life.

It's quite simple, nothing mysterious.

It looks a bit similar to Hua Tuo's Five Animals Play.

Bai Gui practiced it several times, but he didn't have the so-called sense of qi, but Taoist Zhang said that this dynamic exercise depends on persistent practice every day.

The next day.

He prepared the apprenticeship gift and asked someone to send it to the address where Master Ma and Brother Hai lived.

It was a private house.

The gifts given to Master Ma and Brother Hai were different from those given to Xu Xiucai, Mr. Zhu, and General Zhang. Martial artists didn't have so many rules and regulations, and the gifts they gave were not expensive. They gave a few pieces of foreign cloth, a piece of silk, some meat, seasonal fruits, dried goods, snacks, etc.

Finally, he gave ten taels of silver.

This was already a lot, and the total cost was at least thirty taels.

It was rare to see such a generous disciple in martial arts.

"Kneel!"

A high-pitched voice broke the silence.

In the simple room, there were three or four people standing sparsely. A young man in a long robe was kneeling in front of the altar. Three incense sticks were burning, and an ebony tablet was on it. The handwriting was a little unclear.

"There are two major martial arts towns in the world, Foshan in the south and Cangzhou in the north. Our school is from Cangzhou. Your master was the chief instructor of the Green Camp in Yanjing. His surname was Huang Linbiao. He was also a failed scholar. So you are also destined to be with him..."

Master Ma talked about the origin of the school, which was also famous.

During the Guangxu period, Huang Linbiao, Li Yunbiao and Xiao Hecheng were known as the Three Heroes of Yannan.

"Brothers, please bear witness. From now on, Bai Gui is my disciple. But for his future, I will not let him worship the hall. I will make up for it after he returns from studying in Japan..."

Master Ma bowed to the people in the room and said.

These people are Pao brothers.

"No, no, your apprentice is capable. It's good to study abroad. He is capable..."

Several people didn't care. Most Pao brothers would not let their own nephews join the Pao Brothers Association. The so-called making up is also an excuse.

After leaving the stage, Master Ma taught martial arts.

"To practice swordsmanship, you must first practice boxing. Once you practice boxing, you will become better at swordsmanship. Our sect practices Piguaquan..."

In the yard, on the loess, Bai Gui bares his upper body, straddles his horse, and is dripping with sweat.

No matter what kind of martial arts he learns, the horse stance is the most important. It not only exercises his back but also his endurance. However, thanks to the equestrian class at the Normal School, he has been riding a horse for a while, so the horse stance is also particularly stable.

After he returned from apprenticeship, he exchanged two hundred Taoist skills for a Taoist talent "Strong Muscles and Bones" in the mirror.

This Taoist talent cannot directly improve his physical fitness, but with increasing exercise, his muscles and bones are stronger than those of ordinary people, and they improve faster and more rapidly.

Take an hour every day to come to this private house to find a horse master to teach you martial arts.

Five days later, the horse step was completed.

Although Master Ma was a little surprised by this, he was also relieved. Bai Gui had a background in horseback riding and came from a poor background. His physical fitness was not much different, so it was natural for his horse's strides to improve by leaps and bounds.

So he started teaching Pigua Quan.

"Piguaquan is also called Piguazhang. It has twelve major moves, including single split palm, open-door cannon, and iron broom..."

Master Ma taught patiently.

During the teaching process, he discovered that Bai Gui was far superior to ordinary people in terms of intelligence and physical talent, so he took it into consideration, thinking that Bai Gui was the true successor of the sect, and he was particularly attentive in teaching.

A person like his son Haige, who has a pure mind and an innocent heart, can achieve great success in martial arts, but he cannot inherit the past and become a master of martial arts...

He is the same, and at best he can use it very well.

Far inferior to his junior brother.

Because his junior brother is also a failed scholar.

After teaching martial arts for nearly a month, Master Ma said goodbye. A few days before leaving, he said: "Your Piguaquan is almost done, and now I can teach you sword skills..."

He paused and said again: "Breaking Blade Technique!"