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Chapter 17 Tai Chi

As soon as the sky turned white, Chen's mother asked Xiaoxi to get up. But when she called Chen Yubin, she couldn't afford to call her. Thinking about what her father-in-law had promised yesterday, she couldn't help but say anxiously: "Binbin, get up quickly, do you still need to practice martial arts?"

When practicing martial arts, Chen Yubin got up from the bed when he heard this, but his eyes were dull and he sat on the bed blankly.

When Xiaoxi saw that his younger brother was obviously not awake yet and was still lacking in sleep and growing, he said to his mother: "Mom, don't worry, let me sleep for a while. I will teach you how to practice Tai Chi with grandpa and the others first, and then call him up later. Let's practice martial arts."

I guess Tai Chi was what Xiaoxi said yesterday and asked in confusion: "Where did you learn this Tai Chi?"

Xiaoxi shook, and Chaos's brain suddenly woke up, and hesitated and said: "Well, I saw it from my grandfather's box. I helped me when I was rummaging through the box last year. Mom, go quickly, Grandpa and the others must have all gotten up."

"Well, yes, let's go quickly." After that, he asked Binbin to continue sleeping, and called him later, and pulled Xiaoxi to the yard of my father's house. Because I said yesterday, I didn't want others to know about my martial arts practice.

After leaving the back door, I saw my grandparents waiting in the yard.

Seeing that only Xiaoxi and Chen's mother came over, Grandpa Chen said seriously: "Did you call Binbin so hard that I can't get up? I'll call him?" After that, he walked towards the back door.

Xiaoxi hurried forward and grabbed him and explained, "No, grandpa, I want to say, I will teach you Tai Chi first, it's nothing. Let him sleep for a while and wake him up later."

Grandpa thought about it, so he stopped asking Chen Yubin to get up and said, "Then let him sleep a little longer." Then he said, "Xiaoxi, this Tai Chi is what you want to teach us today."

"Well, I saw this when I was helping you with the sunscreen last year. It's such a big book." While saying that, he winked at Grandpa Chen, and even gestured the size of the book in his hand.

Grandpa couldn't help but feel a little funny, thinking, maybe it was from that space again, so he said happily: "Oh, no wonder you were spinning next to my box (meaning of circling). It turned out to be for this."

After saying that, everyone burst into laughter.

Xiaoxi smiled and continued to explain: "This Tai Chi is a fist suitable for both men, women, and young and old. It has slow speed and soft movements."

"Then I can practice too!" My mother-in-law was so happy that she thought that everyone was practicing yesterday to coax people, but she didn't expect it to be true.

Xiaoxi nodded seriously and said, "Yes, you can practice everything. Mother-in-law can, grandpa can, mother-in-law can, mother can, and even younger brother can, but he wants to practice martial arts with me. I want to say that he is still young now, and it will not be too late to talk about it when he practices martial arts well."

Seeing everyone's excited expression, Xiaoxi continued: "There are twenty-four styles in Tai Chi. I plan to review two styles every day and three days. How about it?"

"No, you have to take your time." Grandpa nodded in agreement.

"By the way." Chen's mother said with a puzzled look, "Xiaoxi, you haven't read yet, how do you understand books?"

The mother-in-law also said in surprise: "Yes, no one asked you to read, how could Xiaoxi do it?"

"Yeah, um..." It's over, what can I do if I recognize words? Damn it, why did I forget this?

Looking at Xiaoxi who looked at the at a loss, Grandpa Chen quickly said, "It's me, Xiaoxi doesn't know the words, I read them for her. I thought it was the words on the illustrations. Xiaoxi asked about it fun, and what martial arts secrets are on TV, but I didn't expect it to be figured out by Xiaoxi." It seems that Xiaoxi has many secrets, Huiji will definitely hurt. This child is too smart, not a good thing.

When she heard my grandfather helping me to defend herself, Xiaoxi hurriedly said, "Yes, yes, I compared the paintings in the book. The contents in the book were told to me." After that, she looked at her grandfather with a flattering look on her face.

"Oh." Chen's mother and mother-in-law stopped asking questions after being answered, and Xiaoxi became even more nervous.

Xiaoxi learned Chen's Tai Chi, a total of twenty-four styles. Tai Chi not only moves the limbs and bones, exercises muscles, joints, muscles and bones, but also enhances the functions of the central nervous system, maintains a good balance between excitement and inhibition of the cerebral cortex, improves people's emotions, and thus makes various physiological functions active.

If you practice Tai Chi frequently, the strong will become stronger and the weak will become stronger.

Seeing that it was getting late, grandpa said, "Okay, let's start quickly, it's almost dawn."

Only then did everyone calm down their emotions and stood in a row, with the stream standing alone in front of them.

"Tai Chi emphasizes one word, slowness. The first stance is that the body is naturally upright, the feet are separated, shoulder-width, the toes are facing forward, the arms are naturally drooping, the hands are placed on the outside of the thighs, and the eyes are flat in front..." Xiaoxi said while gesturing, and the few people behind him also gesturing.

Because Mother Chen and her mother-in-law were still a little unwilling to let go, and their movements were a little hesitant.

Xiaoxi turned around and guided her, lifted Chen's mother's arm, "Mom, your arms should be stretched out as high as your shoulders, and your elbows should be slightly bent..."

He patted his mother-in-law's thighs again, "Mother-in-law, the distance between her legs should be shoulder-width as wide as she is. Move a little to the side, press her knees down, and aim her knees at her toes..."

He joked again: "Well, grandpa did a good job." He nodded, looking like a childish and sensible look.

For a moment, in this world, I heard the crisp voice of a little girl, and I gave some advice from time to time, and explained the boxing technique from time to time. I was walking around like a little bee, and I was so happy.

Half an hour later, the first and second styles of Tai Chi were handed over to three people. Seeing that it was dawn, Xiaoxi said, "Grandpa, you practice it a few more times. I'll go and ask my brother to get up. We should practice martial arts."

Grandpa Chen looked at the sky and it was getting late, so he urged: "It's getting late, go and ask Binbin to get up."

"Yeah." After agreeing, Xiaoxi ran back to the bedroom.

Seeing that it was dawn, Chen's mother said anxiously: "Dad, you see, it's dawn, I have to go to cook quickly."

"Well, you go." Seeing that the daughter-in-law turned to the kitchen and cooked, the grandfather said to her husband, "Old lady, come, let's do it twice."

"Where are you going, who will come with you twice?" said the mother-in-law disgusted. Seeing Xiaoxi bringing Chen Yubin out, she quickly said, "Binbin, get up, hurry up and start practicing martial arts with your sister. It's getting late."

"Mother-in-law, grandpa." After Chen Yubin said hello, he stood by Xiaoxi calmly, waiting for Xiaoxi to start.

Xiaoxi looked at grandpa, and Grandpa Chen took out the thread-bound book and was about to open it to tell Xiaoxi's siblings, but she didn't expect her mother-in-law to take it away.

"Let me take a look, Chen's boxing, the first move..." My mother-in-law curiously took the book and looked it through, and started reading it while reading it.

My mother-in-law's family was originally a rich family, so it was still a little different from ordinary rural women. My mother-in-law first studied in school for two years, and later my mother-in-law (my mother-in-law's parents) found her a husband to teach her studies at home. Later, my mother-in-law taught her a few years in kindergarten (I don't know if this is true, I just heard about it), so my mother-in-law still knows two words.

This old woman was robbing something, and looked at the two children who were laughing, which made her embarrassed.

Seeing that my grandfather was snatched from work by her mother-in-law, she was pretending to be generous and practicing Tai Chi, but her extended ears betrayed her curiosity.

Grandpa is several years older than her mother-in-law, so she loves her very much. Xiaoxi remembers that in her previous life, her mother-in-law was in poor health and she got sick every winter and had infusions.

Xiaoxi remembers that at that time, every winter, the family started to boil Chinese medicine. The mother-in-law basically lay on the bed. It was my grandfather's business for cooking medicine and rice. After it was done, it was brought to the bed.

So, if a man is good at cooking, no matter how talented he is and lacks experience, it will not work.

I remember that when I was a child, my mother-in-law would have to lie in bed for several months every year. Later, I went to the hospital several times, and my grandfather was taking care of her. Xiaoxi always felt that her grandfather was in good health. She was sick every year and must have to walk in front of her grandfather. Unexpectedly, her grandfather suddenly became sick and left quickly, which caught people off guard. After her grandfather went there, she basically had no illness every winter and her health was still strong. In the tenth year of her grandfather's death, she also died of esophageal problems.

My mother-in-law's children laughed and said that my mother-in-law was lazy and pretended. When my grandfather went, no one cooked for her, so she did it herself.

They all said that their grandfather spoiled her mother-in-law and became more and more lazy. She didn't want to cook, so she would go to her daughter's house for two days today and stay at her daughter's house for two days tomorrow.

Xiaoxi was very envious. Whether it was really or pretending, her mother-in-law had been loved by her grandfather for decades. As always, it was very difficult. Xiaoxi also hoped that her mother-in-law would meet such a person, love her for decades, and remained the same.

Mother Chen put the rice into the pot and stewed it on a big firewood. She came out to see how the people were practicing.

Seeing that his daughter-in-law came out, Grandpa Chen called out, "Come here quickly and practice with Xiaoxi and the others."

Mother Chen waved her hand hard and said hurriedly: "No, no, no, I still look at the pot."

Grandpa Chen's eyes bulged, and he felt very sorry for his irony, so he turned his head and stopped paying attention to her.

Mother Chen leaned against the edge of the back door, looking at the people in the yard with a smile on her face.

Grandma Chen held the thread-bound book to explain the meaning of the book to the children. Xiaoxi and Chen Yubin were gestured aside. Xiaoxi also came to the book to read the movements of the paintings on the book. Grandpa Chen was practicing Tai Chi that he had just learned, while also paying attention to the martial arts of the two children. Mother Chen leaned against the earthen wall and looked at the two children with a happy face, and went to see the pot from time to time.

What a peaceful and beautiful picture, happy and peaceful picture!

Mother Chen brought out a basin of water and shouted to several people in the yard: "The rice is cooked, everyone hurry up and wash their faces and have a good meal."

Grandpa Chen took the opportunity to collect the situation and said to the people in the yard: "Okay, let's get here today."
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