Wooden Spear for Training

"Looks like you guys are ready to be trained, so who wants to be taught the real method of spearing first?"

"Maybe uncle can teach Wu Liang the basic fundamentals first, he's a complete novice right now"

"ohh, looks like you're a pretty caring brother"

"If not me, who else will help him?"

"Well said, come on Wu Liang, we're a bit far away from here"

"Okay"

Ao Nan was left alone under the big humpback tree, leaving him alone to practice his personal moves.

Uncle Ge Wuan and Wu Liang moved five dozen steps away from Ao Nan's place, then Uncle Ge Wuan took a look at the standing position and assessed the overall initial training he had to give Wu Liang.

"Alright, show uncle the position of your feet"

"Okay"

Wu Liang straightened his body, his tightly packed legs then began to separate, his left leg came forward slightly, followed by his body leaning to the right, while pointing the spear in front of him.

"Hold it for a moment, maintain this position"

Uncle Ge Wuan immediately found fault with Wu Liang's ready position.

"Your body should not be too upright, your legs should also try to be reinforced and locked to keep it firm"

"Okay uncle!"

"Your left leg is too forward, pull it slightly inward, then the direction of your spear thrust is too low, raise it again in the direction of your chest"

As directed by his uncle, Wu Liang improved his overall stance.

"Alright, it's already better than before"

Uncle Ge Wuan held Wu Liang's right shoulder hard.

"Uncle, what..."

Uncle Ge Wuan suddenly pressed Wu Liang down hard with just one hand, easily knocking Wu Liang to the ground, Wu Liang fell down and dropped his spear.

"Hmm, your strength is too much focused on your spear and arms, did you not catch what we learned, uncle taught you to make your lower body strong?"

"Ahh, then I should do physical training first?"

"It should be like that, but it's okay, you can just learn the basic techniques first"

"Alright uncle"

"Now you stand up straight, then lean your body slightly while trying to find a position so that your legs are strong and sturdy, without a strong foundation, the above will easily collapse"

said uncle Ge Wuan while explaining and directing every part of Wu Liang's body to match what he practiced.

Wu Liang practiced and repeated the initial movements of his ready position while being watched by uncle Ge Wuan beside him.

"Good, this is even better, you're quite a fast learner"

Uncle Ge Wuan said praising Wu Liang's results from several attempts.

"Thank you uncle, but I think this is still not enough"

"Yes, who said it was enough?"

"uhh, forget what I said"

"heh, you're good for a beginner, you're like an empty water barrel"

"Uncle praises too much, I'll become unfocused"

"That's a test of your determination, remember a prepared position is incomplete without a strong heart, even if the physical body is invincible, a weak heart will only be the biggest hole of weakness for him"

Uncle Ge Wuan said clearly.

"Now you train it again, and make your body feel the sensation of familiarity with the movements you practiced"

Uncle Ge Wuan watched every part of the movements Wu Liang performed carefully, and now in his heart he felt a sense of pleasure in teaching people.

("Good kid and a fast learner, he's already learned most of what I've taught him")

Uncle Ge Wuan praised in his heart, then turned to Ao Nan who was not far away.

Ao Nan was still focused on practicing his personal movements, the transition of each position was important, the adjustment of breath and movement tempo, creating a great chain of attacks.

"Ao Nan, you need to get rid of the wasted moves, your wasted moves hinder the start of every other move, and make your moves inefficient and drain your energy more than it should be you use"

Ge Wuan shouted.

"Thank you uncle for the instruction"

Ao Nan then tried to follow his uncle's words just now, and it was difficult for him, because cutting down the movements meant having to eliminate the transition movements that were easy for him, but this was also actually the most important part for him, with the new difficulties faced, there would be tremendous self-development.

Uncle Zhou, who was older than most, but younger than the four hall elders, on this bright and cold morning, his clothes already looked dirty early with some dried wheat grass stuck everywhere all over his clothes.

He saw Wu Liang, Ao Nan and uncle Ge Wuan from his part of the wheat field, now he was continuing to take care of his field that he did not have time to finish yesterday.

Wu Zhou Huan's wheat field is very large, larger than the village and farm combined, in this much larger grassland, Wu Zhou Huan's wheat field takes up 3/7 of the grassland, then it is filled by 2/7 of the farm, then the other 2/7 is just an empty field.

Wu Zhou Huan paused for a moment after cutting the tall wheat grass, which exceeded his own height, although it looked difficult and rough, but this wheat grass was very easy to harvest, and very fragile when given a little force to press the stems.

"Look at them Lin Wen, they both learned from that person."

"ohh why uncle are they, I thought uncle it won't do any wrong?"

"I never said wrong, I was wondering if he would be able to teach well when he himself never joined the hunting lodge"

"Well there's no wrong I think, he's old enough and lived long enough, he should know the basics too"

"hmm, you're right"

"Why do you seem to care so much about them, I thought you only cared about the Bei Zhang and Bei Zheng twins"

"I do care more, and care a lot, but what about when the two of them grow up, they will definitely exchange understanding with Wu Liang and Ao Nan, I don't want the twins to get bad knowledge"

"uhh uncle, never mind, aren't you too suspicious, we better continue, it's not good to talk about other family members from behind"

"It's like this because I'm too old, so my mind is messed up"

"Uncle Zhou, you are younger than the 4 elders of the meeting hall, whatever it is we have to finish it today, yesterday we only finished part of it, Huang Xie aunt will be unhappy if the supply of raw grain is not enough"

"Don't you bring her into this, I don't like her"

"Gosh, uncle Zhou, don't be like that, bad destiny always follows bad attitude, and that is the real consequence"

"Lin Wen, I Zhou Huan have lived tens of dozens of full moons, and have never received karma because of my bad behavior behind"

"Well, it looks like uncle won based on his personal experience."

"Does this mean I also get your share of bread?"

"Eh? Of course not, I got the loaf of bread to support my family, while uncle is alone, so what's the point?"

"hehehe, it's okay right?"

"Uncle, to be honest, you're a pretty bad person on the inside"

"Huh you've said that many times"

"Yes, and I'm surprised you never got angry at me for saying that"

"I'm old, why get angry in person?"

"Good, uncle better channel his anger to this wheat grass, tomorrow Wu Jin Fei will come and most of tomorrow will be used to welcome him"

"Hahaha, these dry grass grasses can't, they can't Lin Wen, it's obvious that this can't reduce my anger"

"Uncle is fine, I think this is just a symptom of old age."

"Huh, that's not certain, just because I'm old doesn't mean my mind is messed up."

"Huh? Uncle just now you admitted that your mind is messed up because of old age?"

"Really?, I don't think I said that"

"Uncle, for the sake of whatever if we just chat then this wheat grass can't be harvested by itself"

"You just don't want to go deeper with me, right?"

"Whatever it is I will go to the other side, uncle Zhou, please quickly finish this part"

"Huh, hurry up, I want to go back faster this time"

"Uncle, I helped you yesterday, do you want to make another excuse for me to help you today?"

"So what?, I came back to the village early not to see the women bathing in the afternoon"

"Uncle you are overthinking, please calm yourself down."

"You praise yourself too much Lin Wen, go away this time I will do my part"

"Uncle, I hope so too"

Uncle Lin Wen then left young grandfather Zhou Huan alone at the edge of this untidy cut wheat field.

After some time spent practicing hard, it was already noon.

"Well Wu Liang now that you have almost perfected the practice, now go meet Ao Nan and we will together practice the attacking moves properly"

The two of them walked up to Ao Nan who was resting and leaning under this big humpback tree, the slightly hilly ground made a great sense of comfort while lying fully under this tree.

"Are you done yet Ao Nan?"

"Soon."

"Alright, so Wu Liang, you see, when you attack, it's not just a stabbing motion, but you can swing right and left."

"I know that uncle, but I think it's underused"

"You'll know it when you duel with Ao Nan."

"Huh?" Wu Liang and Ao Nan were shocked to hear it.

"We did plan to duel, but that's for later after I'm fully prepared"

"ohh you don't believe in your own ability?"

"N-not distrust uncle"

"Well then let's go"

Moments later, the three of them took their respective positions in place, a few dozen steps away from each other.

"Alright, starting position, ready, and begin" As Uncle Ge Wuan said, the two of them advanced simultaneously while focusing on the attacking formation.

"Take this, my killer move."