From that day on, Chen Kan stood in horse stance every day. He seemed to have entered the same spirit as when he studied ancient history. He would read and recite books every day whenever he had time. Now he would stand in horse stance whenever he had time.
The Huo family is a famous family in the local area. It should be more appropriate to call it Huojiazhuang. There are many farmlands and shops. There is an old saying: "Poor in literature and rich in martial arts", which is not said in vain.
People who practice martial arts, let alone other things, have a very large appetite. After Chen Kan started practicing martial arts, his appetite increased at least twice. It was okay for internal boxing. According to Huo Yuanjia, if it was external boxing or hard qigong, a lot of medicinal materials would be needed.
It is used to recuperate the hidden injuries left by practicing martial arts. Internal boxing also needs it, but it is relatively much less.
The Huo family is a small family in Tianjin. The current owner of Huojiazhuang is Huo Yuanjia. In addition to those servants, Huojiazhuang also has some outer disciples. They also practice boxing, but unlike Chen Kan, they practice external kung fu. Of course, these people do not have medicinal materials to recuperate hidden injuries. They eat the rice of youth.
Chen Kan is not yet Huo Yuanjia's disciple. At most, he is a registered disciple. A real disciple is a bit like a doctor in Chen Kan's world.
At the doctoral level, the tutor is completely different from the tutor in the university. The tutor is basically equivalent to the combination of the student's teacher and the parent.
Only at this stage will the teacher do everything to help you, whether in academics or in connections, and sometimes even act as a matchmaker.
Now Chen Kan can be regarded as Huo Yuanjia's "master". Whether he can become a disciple in the end will be decided after Huo Yuanjia's inspection.
However, even so, Chen Kan's status in Huojiazhuang is very high. After all, he is the only registered disciple and he has an independent bedroom.
Since learning to stand in horse stance, Chen Kan has been completely fascinated. Basically, he has to practice it whenever he has time.
For example, when Chen Kan eats, his butt will deliberately leave the stool, just sitting on the chair, and his body rises and falls, which is standing in horse stance.
Since he started to do horse stance, Chen Kan felt that he was a completely different person. He was very energetic, ate more, and slept better.
Now Chen Kan basically got up after four in the morning because he was so energetic. But even so, every time Chen Kan arrived, Huo Yuanjia was practicing martial arts.
Huo Yuanjia didn't teach Chen Kan anything else these days. Chen Kan just stood in horse stance every morning.
It has been a week since Chen Kan became his disciple. Now Chen Kan can do horse stance for ninety minutes at a time, and he can stand in horse stance for more than ten hours a day.
However, Chen Kan didn't feel anything wrong, and even became addicted. Now Chen Kan's feet tightened and loosened when he walked, and his body rose and fell, which looked very strange.
But Chen Kan didn't care, but enjoyed it.
On the tenth morning, Chen Kan came to the martial arts training ground at four o'clock. It was still the same as before. Huo Yuanjia was already practicing martial arts here.
"Not bad!" Huo Yuanjia smiled as he watched Chen Kan approaching. Huo Yuanjia was very satisfied with Chen Kan's performance these days.
"Master!"
"Well, you don't blame me for not teaching you other things these days, do you?"
"A tall building is built from the ground, Master is doing this for my own good!" Chen Kan said respectfully.
"Well, it's good that you understand this truth. Remember, no matter what level you practice Kung Fu to, horse stance is the foundation of everything. You must never fall behind and stick to it every day!"
"Yes, Master!"
"Hand in horse stance, I will teach you other things today!"
"Yes, Master!"
Hearing that there is something new to learn, Chen Kan is inevitably a little excited. It's not that he is tired of horse stance, but he is just happy because there is something new to learn. Chen Kan quickly stood up.
"If you squat in horse stance well, you can strengthen your kidneys and waist, strengthen your tendons and replenish your qi, regulate your spirit, and stabilize your lower body, so you have good balance and are not easily knocked down. It can also improve your body's reaction ability!" Huo Yuanjia walked around Chen Kan and said as he walked: "As the saying goes, if you practice boxing without practicing kung fu, it will be nothing when you get old. Horse stance is kung fu, and you can't lose it for the rest of your life!" "Today I will teach you how to punch in horse stance. Doing horse stance can exercise the muscles of the lower limbs and make them strong, while punching can exercise the strength of the upper limbs and accelerate the circulation of qi and blood in the limbs." "Look Mine!" Huo Yuanjia stood in horse stance opposite Chen Kan, then demonstrated a few punches, and then explained in slow motion:
"Every punch must be strong, start slowly, and proceed step by step. Now you practice punching in the air, and I will teach you to pile in the future!"
"Yes!"
That morning, Chen Kan began to practice horse stance punching under Huo Yuanjia's instruction. At first, Chen Kan was a little uncomfortable because he had to stand in horse stance and punch, and the speed of punching was very slow, which was not in the same frequency as the ups and downs of horse stance.
Huo Yuanjia did not allow Chen Kan to adjust the ups and downs of horse stance, nor could he speed up the speed of punching. Chen Kan had no choice but to slowly get used to this incoordination. After a morning of practice, Chen Kan was barely able to get used to it.
After that day, Chen Kan had another task besides horse stance, which was punching. For the next month, Huo Yuanjia did not teach Chen Kan anything else.
It was not that Huo Yuanjia was unwilling to teach, nor that Chen Kan did not practice well, but that Huo Yuanjia wanted to lay a good foundation for Chen Kan. There is a saying: "Stand for three years before getting started", and the stance here is the horse stance or the Hunyuan stance.
Huo Yuanjia was a very good teacher, no wonder he was able to establish the Jingwu Club later. He attached great importance to the basics and supervised Chen Kan to stand in the horse stance and punch every day.
Chen Kan also used all his time to exercise. He didn't know how long he could stay in this world, and he had a mission.
Chen Kan did not dare to underestimate those foreign masters at all. It seemed that in the description of the novel, the national martial arts was very strong, and those foreign fighting techniques gave people a feeling of being inferior. In fact, this is absolutely misleading.
If that were really the case, those foreign masters would not be so arrogant in China. Chen Kan still remembered that he had read a historical material in Singapore.
During the Republic of China period, the Chinese in Southeast Asia were often bullied by the locals, so they spent a lot of money to find some domestic national martial arts masters, including several famous masters, to challenge the local warriors, but all those masters were defeated in the end.
So Chen Kan must not sit in the well and watch the world. Chen Kan now fetches water and chops firewood for the Huo family every day. On the one hand, this is to repay the favor. Compared with the food and accommodation in the Huo family, the money Chen Kan gives is not enough. However, Huo Yuanjia did not say it, and Chen Kan could not really treat it as nothing. Chen Kan has developed the habit of repaying favors since he was a child.
On the other hand, it is to practice martial arts. These physical work are actually a means of exercise.