Chapter 34 New Year's Day
With the intervention of the Liu family, Fang Laoqi and his wife came to beg for mercy.
The rumors in the village disappeared as soon as they started to appear.
Even the truth about this matter, the Zhou family’s ‘sky-high price’ betrothal gift, has spread in Daliushu Village.
Of course, this was not spread by the Fang Yue family, the news came from Zhoujia Village.
After such a commotion, Zhou Xiaohua will become famous in several surrounding villages, and it will not be easy to get married in the future.
However, these have nothing to do with the Fang Yue family.
Before winter, Zhang Shu was also sent back to Xiahe City by Fang Hu.
Fang Yue no longer has to go to Widow Yu’s house to deliver food to them, and life has returned to normal.
And because Fang Yue’s progress in White Tiger Fist exceeded Fang Hu’s expectations, he also asked Fang Yue to start skin grinding in advance.
However, microdermabrasion is a water grinding technique. It relies on daily practice of boxing to let the force act on the epidermis.
Then the secret medicine applied on the epidermis is absorbed to make the skin tough. After the skin is polished, the skin will be like gold and iron, which is difficult to be damaged by ordinary swords.
Time passes day by day, and it is the second year in a blink of an eye.
This day is New Year's Day.
Early in the morning.
After Fang Yue finished washing, he put on new clothes, carried a gift and a newly made fishing rod, and came to Fang Hu's house.
Entering the courtyard, Fang Ergou was maintaining bows, arrows and weapons in the yard.
Originally Fang Ergou was half a head taller than him, but now after more than half a year of martial arts training, Fang Yue came from behind and caught up with Fang Ergou in stature.
And his current strength has reached 1,500 kilograms, which is almost twice as strong as Fang Ergou. Fang Ergou is now only 800 kilograms strong.
This is the gap between the two people's qualifications. Fang Yue's qualifications can still increase every day, but Fang Ergou has reached the limit.
Even if Fang Ergou could join the White Tiger Boxing Gym, he simply wouldn't be able to afford it with his current resources.
After all, the worse your qualifications, the more secret body-refining medicine you need.
If you offer two dogs to one person, you can support three more dogs.
This also made Fang Hu often lament that he did not accept the wrong disciple.
"Brother She." Fang Ergou saw Fang Yue, took two steps forward, touched his head, and said with a smile.
"Ergou, Happy New Year, this is for you."
Fang Yue smiled slightly and handed the fishing rod to Fang Ergou.
After he got better at home, he specially found a blacksmith in the village to make a fishhook, and then selected a suitable bamboo to make a fishing rod.
This fishing rod is much easier to use than the one he used before.
It just so happens that Fang Ergou still likes fishing. Now that winter is turning to spring, the water level of Xiahe River is still rising, which is just the right time to give Fang Ergou as a New Year gift.
"Thank you, Brother She."
Fang Ergou took the fishing rod, thanked Fang Yue quickly, and then looked at the fishing rod carefully, appearing to love it.
Soon,
Fang Yue pushed open the door, entered the room, saw Fang Hu, and then kowtowed.
"Yue'er, you're here, why don't you get a gift? I have everything here, and I don't lack anything."
Fang Hu quickly helped Fang Yue up and said when he saw the gift in his hand.
"My etiquette must not be in Master's house." Fang Yue said with a smile when he heard this.
"Oh, then I want to see what it is?"
Fang Hu was a little surprised. The situation of Fang Yue's family was similar to that of most farmers' families in Daliushu Village. He knew exactly what Fang Yue had at home.
Now Fang Yue swore that he had never seen this ritual before, but it aroused his curiosity.
"This is the tea I roasted. Master tastes and appreciates it."
Fang Yue didn't show off any more, unwrapped the package and revealed several bamboo tubes.
Open the lid of the bamboo tube and pour out some needle-shaped leaves.
This is the tea he made and fried.
At the end of the year, he realized that he couldn't come up with anything good to give Fang Hu a gift.
Remembering that Fang Hu loved to drink tea, he immediately noticed that there were no fried tea leaves in this world, so he collected some new tea and tried to fry some.
From the memories of his previous life, he knew that there was no fried tea in this world, or at least there was no fried tea in Fang Hu’s house.
What Fang Hu drinks is raw tea, and raw tea itself has a lot of raw and astringent taste, and the taste is far inferior to fried tea.
So I tried to make some. Unexpectedly, it was pretty good. Some of the fried tea leaves had a sweet aftertaste and a strong aroma, and the quality was actually very good.
"Fried tea? Can tea be fried?"
Fang Hu didn't believe it, so he brewed a cup on the spot.
After soaking and frying the tea leaves in boiling water, Chao Ye immediately saw that these needle-like tea leaves stood upright, with clear top and bottom, and full of green.
And a strong scent of tea spreads out.
“Huh?”
Fang Hu drinks tea all the time on weekdays and thinks he has some tea tasting skills, but today's fried tea really surprised him.
Although I haven’t drunk it yet, I know that this tea is good just by the appearance and aroma after brewing.
"Yueer is very thoughtful." Fang Hu praised Fang Yue. He did not have this kind of tea at home, and he had never seen or heard of it.
Immediately, I asked carefully.
Fang Yue also talked about the process of tea frying in detail. Although tea drinking is as popular in this world as in the previous life, tea frying can definitely be used as a means of making a living.
But in reality, it’s just like that, and you can’t make a lot of money as a career.
This kind of thing does not have much technical content, and others can tell it at a glance.
Besides, Fang Hu treated him very well, so there was no need to hide his secrets in front of Fang Hu.
"That's it. It's really a wonderful idea. Not bad, not bad." Fang Hu smiled slightly and praised a few words.
Then he continued: "Yue'er, you are very talented, but you must persevere in martial arts. Focus more on practicing martial arts, and strive to be able to achieve perfection within three years. Once you reach the level of bone forging, you can Try martial arts.”
"Master, don't worry, Yue'er understands." Fang Yue replied respectfully.
After staying at Fang Hu's house for a while, the other party checked Fang Yue's martial arts training progress and felt relieved after finding that he had not fallen behind.
"Your martial arts progress is good. After the New Year, you can follow me into the mountains." Fang Hu said.
In fact, Fang Yue's strength had already met the requirements, but because he didn't want to delay Fang Yue's martial arts training progress, he let him concentrate on practicing White Tiger Fist in the past few months.
Now, Fang Yue is already proficient in White Tiger Fist, and there is no need for him to teach him anything.
Smoothing is a hard work that takes many years, so I prepared to take Fang Yue into the mountains for hunting.
In this way, Fang Yue can hone his kung fu, increase his combat experience, and also practice his shooting skills, so that he will not have stage fright when participating in martial arts competitions in the future.
After all, during the martial arts examinations, there were many disciples who had been pampered since childhood. They were good at martial arts and could easily pass the test in weightlifting and archery.
But when it came to actual combat, I was in a hurry, and my results were very poor.
(End of this chapter)