Mang Shusheng's Ink Painting Practice

Chapter 21 Small Zhoutian

Zhao Yifu was feeding the cat in the west wing of the backyard, and soon his loyal servant came back.

Wu Zhong said generously, "Don't worry, Second Young Master, everything has been cleaned up."

"I've reset all their joints. Even if they ask a doctor to examine them, they won't find any injuries."

Zhao Yifu said, "That's fine. They're all government officials. Beating them won't be a big deal, but it's better to have less trouble."

Wu Zhong nodded and said, "I forgot that the Second Young Master is now an accomplished man. Those detectives actually want to touch the Young Master. It's simply wishful thinking."

"but……"

He hesitated.

Zhao Yifu asked, "Do you want to know what happened?"

Wu Zhong quickly said, "No, I'm just a little worried about what's going to happen next. After all, that captain is related to the prefect."

Zhao Yifu asked curiously, "No way? How could our Lord Xu from Mozhou marry a constable?"

In those days, the status of constables was actually very low, even lower than that of ordinary people in the court hierarchy.

Don’t think that it’s great for constables to catch criminals. In fact, their wages are extremely low and it is difficult to make a living. They rely entirely on gray income to survive.

Moreover, once you become a constable, the imperial court stipulates that you cannot take the imperial examinations within three generations!

So how could such a person be related to Xu Zhizhou, who was a fifth-rank official?

Wu Zhong said with a smile, "Second Young Master, please don't disbelieve me. This Xu Zhizhou really has some indirect relationship with this person."

"The prefect has a brother-in-law, who in turn has a brother-in-law, whose concubine is the sister of this captain."

Zhao Yifu lowered his head and thought about it. In other words, the concubine of Xu Zhizhou's brother-in-law's brother-in-law is the sister of the captain of the police?

Good guy!
He barely made it around the corner.

"That's right. Why would Magistrate Xu assign a position like Captain to someone who is truly close to him?"

Then he briefly told his loyal servant what had happened during the day.

After hearing this, Wu Zhong angrily said, "You thief, how dare you rob my young master!"

"Don't panic, Second Young Master. If the prefect really dares to protect and cause trouble, we will wipe out the entire Xu family without hesitation."

Zhao Yifu: "..."

He felt that the servant was loyal, but his way of solving the problem seemed a bit extreme.

He said, "It seems a bit wrong to just kill an official appointed by the imperial court."

Wu Zhong suddenly lowered his voice and said, "Don't worry, Second Young Master. We are no strangers to this kind of thing at Shenhe Villa. We just need to be more covert when the time comes."

Zhao Yifu: "..."

What kind of family was he reborn into?

As if he could see Zhao Yifu's confusion, Wu Zhongcai said, "Master, you haven't seen the Second Master for a long time, right?"

Zhao Yifu nodded and said, "It's indeed been a long time since I last saw my second uncle. I remember he left Shenhe Villa when I was five years old. It's been... sixteen years now, right?"

Wu Zhong nodded and said, "Second Master's whereabouts are not a secret in the villa. He went into the water that year..."

Zhao Yifu stopped talking at that point, but suddenly he thought of a group of water bandits in the Fairy Lake. Da Xu had repeatedly sent people to strangle them but had never succeeded, so now he was willing to let them go.

Goodness, no wonder two county magistrates died in Hegui County, where Shenhe Villa is located, a while ago. They all said they were killed by water bandits and the matter was left unresolved...

Zhao Yifu suddenly felt that his family background was a little out of the ordinary.

However, he quickly found a suspicious point and asked, "But there are no fools in this world, right?" Wu Zhong nodded and said, "Yes, there are no fools, but isn't this the case everywhere in the world?"

"The court only cares about the stability of the local area. At least our Shenhe Villa is in Hegui County, and the entire area around Xianren Lake can maintain superficial stability. So naturally, we can just muddle along."

After hearing this, Zhao Yifu probably realized that he really didn't need to worry about his family.

However, he hadn't expected his family members to be so dangerous. He felt that he had a lot of responsibility, and at least he should do his best to persuade his family members to be more kind...

After chatting with Wu Zhong for a while, Zhao Yifu became a little restless.

I thought a lot that night and wasn't very focused on my practice, so this night's practice was considered a failure.

It wasn't until the next morning, when Yiyi jumped onto his shoulder and yawned, that he realized there was no need for him to think so much.

It's good to go out on your own.

In fact, Zhao Yifu was another possibility for Shenhe Villa.

This could be any situation, it just depends on how he decides his life.

In that case, what else does he have to worry about?
Zhao Yifu put down the burden in his heart and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

All the anxiety from the night before disappeared, but instead I became more determined to continue practicing.

Because no matter fame or the powerful family in the martial arts world, they are just external fame and fortune to him, and only the true energy in his body belongs to him.

This realization came to Zhao Yifu when he was troubled by thoughts, and it made him feel like he had suddenly realized something.

The depression in my heart was swept away, and I let out a long sigh, as if I had exhaled all the bad air in my body.

It happened that at this moment the first ray of sunlight shone down from the horizon, and he proudly faced the rising sun and took a long breath.

The air was slightly cool in the early morning, but he inexplicably felt a warmth in the air he inhaled.

This warm current, along with his suddenly enlightened mood, flowed along his Ren Meridian into his Dantian, making the originally obedient true energy in his body active.

Zhao Yifu realized belatedly that this might be what the instructors on the mountain called "innate yang energy".

Indeed, the amount was not much, but it mobilized all the true energy in his dantian from point to surface, making him feel ready to move.

No, it’s not so much that the true energy is stirring, but rather that Zhao Yifu’s heart is moved.

So he simply followed the flow, and the Qi in his Dantian immediately escaped from it, and then continued to flow upwards through the Du Channel...

The obstacle that had troubled him for many days was now easily overcome, and even the next and the next obstacle were passed without any hindrance.

The originally stagnant Du channel suddenly seemed to be unblocked at this moment. Could it be just because he inhaled a breath of innate Yang energy?

No, that little bit of innate Yang energy could only purify his true energy slightly. The real reason was that his heart was moved. He finally had a true heart for the Tao!
This desire wasn't the yearning he'd felt when he'd learned of the existence of Danqing Sect. It was simply a desire for cultivation, tinged with a strong sense of self-interest and full of deliberateness.

But now, it has become Zhao Yifu's own simple pursuit.

Therefore, his mind is focused and in harmony with his Qi. At this moment, his Qi becomes an extension of his will. What does it matter if there are many obstructions in the body?

If you do this in one go, the Du channel on your back will be completely connected, and the true energy will flow into the Ren channel, returning to the Dantian as majestically as a river flowing into the sea.

Small Zhoutian, it’s done!

And when the small Zhoutian was successful, Zhao Yifu felt that the true energy in his body had more vitality than before.

Originally it was just a pool of stagnant water with occasional ripples, but now it is a stream, flowing clearly.

He thought that one day he would be able to achieve the Small Zhoutian, but he never expected that he would succeed so inadvertently.

He just couldn't sleep at night, and took a deep breath in the sunshine in the morning...

(End of this chapter)