Chapter 18 The small courtyard in the early morning
"Hey, hey, hey~!"
The early morning sun has not yet shined. In this early morning with slight signs of spring famine, the temperature is abnormally cold and hot.
"Hey, hey, hey~!"
Liu Cang breathed out misty breaths, and little Cai Yan beside him had a slightly painful expression, his thin clothes were a little messy, and fine sweat slid down his cheeks.
"Hey, hey, hey~!"
In the courtyard, the heavy stone lock in Liu Cang's hand was flying up and down, while little Cai Yan was doing bodyweight pull-ups through gritted teeth in front of a horizontal bar-style wooden frame.
Little Cai Yan has long been accustomed to this kind of training action learned from Liu Cang. Although he doesn't feel it has any magical effect, compared with the sword dance taught by his father, this kind of action does not require much effort.
"Tum! Tum!" The stone lock fell to the ground.
Liu Cang's arms were sore, but he paid more attention when exercising, and the strength of his waist, shoulders, and legs was not great. Wipe the sweat with a coarse cloth, and it was time for him to finish his day's work.
Well, Liu Cang's simple physical training on weekdays is not that much, and the heavy workload has worn out his body even more.
"Huh~" Little Cai Yan also jumped off the bar, exhaled, and looked at Liu Cang.
"Brother Haoxuan, my father told me not to do pull-ups like this. Calluses on my hands can easily affect my playing." Cai Yan said to Liu Cang after wiping the sweat from his head.
"Well, then you can do some push-ups when you have time." Liu Cang nodded. Although Cai Yan can also sharpen his hands in sword dancing, he is really good at pulling up calluses.
"Okay, I can stand on my head and bend my arms." Cai Yan nodded, turned around and went to the courtyard to fetch water for a bath.
Cai Yan
Age:6/32
Physique:37/86
Karma:302
Qualification: Talented woman
Special Skill: Generating
After Cai Yan was six years old, he was taught sword dance by Cai Yong, but Cai Yong didn't pay much attention to Cai Yan's practice, as if he only needed to know and understand.
Originally, Liu Cang was very concerned about Cai Yan's fate in history. When they first met, he coaxed Cai Yan into taking sword dance as a regular training, and also coaxed her to do some strength training.
Liu Cang's thoughts were quite simple. Earlier, he didn't know when Cai Yong would kiss his ass and leave. Wouldn't Cai Yan be kidnapped by the Huns?
You have been trained since childhood that if someone kidnaps you, even if you cannot kill the person, you will probably be more likely to escape, right?
Of course, these trainings don't have to worry about turning Cai Yan into a lumpy King Kong Barbie. Although the physiques of people in this world are somewhat different from those in previous lives, physical gender differences still exist.
Some women say they don’t dare to practice strength training because they are afraid of getting lumpy all over their bodies?
Stop dreaming. Without taking medicine and injections, it is basically impossible for a woman to become a King Kong Barbie.
Well, unless you are a woman who is born with a thick voice, a bad body, a long beard, some resistance training may only plump up your legs and buttocks.
Combined with himself and through many years of observation, Liu Cang discovered that the cell density and bone density of people in this world are very different and plasticity from those in previous lives.
Just like Liu Cang can barely swing an eighty-pound weight with one hand now, if he had been in his previous life, his body would have almost turned into a ball.
And his current body shape is only solid, and even some meat seems to be able to increase cell density. Proper training can also optimize body lines.
Cai Yan's karma exceeds three hundred, but due to Cai Yong's prohibition, she has not mobilized her own karma so far.
Originally, Liu Cang was a little strange about her karma for crushing his eldest cousin. They were all born divine, and it was impossible for a talented woman to be able to live up to the future emperor of Shu.
However, when Liu Cang gained more than 200 karma due to Cai Yong earlier, he finally understood the reason why Cai Yan had such high karma early on.
The talented woman must be too young. Judging from Cai Yong's label as a famous person in the world, Liu Cang estimates that she will probably not be able to escape as a talented woman in the world in the future.
The stunt attribute was the first time Liu Cang saw it. It only appeared after Cai Yan's fate-defying attribute disappeared.
There is no reference for this thing, the system has no explanation, and Liu Cang is not sure what it is, but looking at the words, it shouldn't be a bad thing.
"Xiao Yan, I'll sift some sandworms and feed them to the little turtles later. Leave the chickens alone and let the fighting chickens take them to forage. I'll come back after hunting pigweed to feed them."
After staring at Cai Yan's back and confirming Cai Yan's attributes again, Liu Cang hung a bamboo tube filled with water around his neck, held dried meat in his mouth, and a bundle of hemp rope on his back, and said to Cai Yan from a distance.
"Okay, the chicken has been cooked in the kitchen." Cai Yan responded, carrying a bucket of well water on his little arms and legs, and walked towards the wooden shed-style bath in the courtyard.
The small pool made of mud, stone, grass and bamboo is like a stove, with a fire underneath, which is the bathing place of Liu Cang's family.
Liu Cang was very particular about his life, including not caring about the water from deep and shallow wells, and only drinking boiled water at home.
And collecting firewood in his daily life was regarded as an activity to build up his strength.
Although Liu Cang's essential purpose is to strengthen his body, these little things he integrates into his life are also the reasons why people around him value him.
If he dances with guns and sticks all day long but does not produce, I am afraid that in the eyes of people around him, he will not be far away from the trumpet Liu Bei.
The sky was getting brighter and the villagers had gone to the fields. Cai Yong was still sleeping soundly. Liu Cang stepped out and little Cai Yan tidied himself up a little before starting to prepare some meat porridge and pasta for Cai Yong.
"Uncle Erniu, are there any burnt leaves in your fine vegetables?" Liu Cang greeted him loudly when he saw a hysterical middle-aged man carrying a hoe from a distance.
"No, no, the burnt leaves can be eaten by humans, so don't worry about wasting them." The middle-aged man looked up and waved his hands in the blink of an eye.
"Who cares about you? We don't need your vegetables. How are things in the East Village?" Liu Cang took two steps quickly and stood side by side with the man.
"There are rumors of drought in the countryside this year, and water diversion canals are necessary." The man shook his head, and for a moment his eyes, which were originally a little sleepy, turned clear.
"I said Da Hong, you are about to fly. Once you enter Cai's house, don't forget to take care of me from now on." The man said to Liu Cang.
"What do you mean by joining the Cai family? It's an engagement, not a visit." Liu Cang curled his lips, but after a flash of thought, Cai Yong completely regarded him as his son. He himself didn't care much about such rhetoric and was too lazy to argue with the man.
"You can even look at a few burnt leaves, so what care do you have to take care of me?" Liu Cang joked.
"Nonsense! What a treasure! You take your uncle too seriously!" Before Liu Cang could finish his words, the man immediately glared.
"If you want to eat vegetables, just pick them from the fields. I picked the yellow leaves the day before in two days, so as not to waste food for people. If you take them, you will feed them to chickens and pigs. What a waste." The man yelled.
"Yes, yes, I was just joking, you are still in a hurry." Liu Cang waved his hand, just as the road forked, Liu Cang and the man went their separate ways.
"Dahang, are you going to fight for water this year? Protect my second son then." When they parted ways, the man shouted to Liu Cang.
"Okay. Someone said hello." Liu Cang waved his hand carelessly.
Liu Cang was young and strong, but the villagers fought with weapons but it was not a life-and-death fight. The clan elders were afraid that he would not act lightly or harshly, so they never dared to let him participate.
But now that Cai Yong exists, he, the 'half-son of the Cai family', can no longer lie down when his fellow clan members are fighting with others.
Nowadays, the status of official warriors is lower, but bravery and staunchness are still a virtue highly respected by the Han people.
If Liu Cang did not participate in such village fights and was gossiped about, it would not only be a matter of his own face.
Chapter completed!