Chapter 100: Flying over eaves and walking on walls
This domestic SUV drove for an hour and a half. After leaving Baoshan City, it continued along the highway beside the Nujiang River until it got off the highway. The vehicle turned into a country road, went around the mountain, and finally drove for another half an hour to a place with high terrain. The entire village was located halfway up the mountain.
This place is called Wazhai, the hometown of Wang Biao's mother. There are only a few families living in the village now, and most of the houses are earthen-walled, which is a common house style among the Lisu people.
"Old Cat, do you really want to play here alone for a few days?"
"Nothing's going to happen to you, is it?"
"If you have any problems, just tell me. I will definitely help you if I can." Wang Biao felt a little strange. It seemed that this college roommate whom he hadn't seen for a long time seemed like a different person.
She has an outstanding temperament and is full of mystery.
Taking Chen Jue with him and the key, he opened the door of the old house that he hadn't seen for a long time.
When he pushed the door open, he smelled a cloud of smoke and dust, just like when Chen Jue first returned to his hometown of Chencun.
Nowadays, most people like to gather in cities, where there is a glamorous world and a better material life. Few young people can endure the hardship of living in remote mountain villages.
Countless old rural houses like this one are beginning to be forgotten. Perhaps in a few decades they will collapse because no one repairs them, and eventually even the entire house will slowly disappear over time.
"What can I do?"
"I just come here to have fun and relax for a few days."
"It's only half an hour's walk to the town. Are you still worried that something might happen to me alone?" Chen Jue said with a smile, and followed Wang Biao into the house and took a look around.
The house also has complete water and electricity, but no internet. The 4G signal in the village is very strong, so I don't have to worry about that. I just use my data to access the internet. The house doesn't smell very musty, and it's a little cleaner than when Chen Jue returned to his hometown.
Wang Biao said that his mother came to clean the house every six months because she missed the deceased old man. After tidying up, people can continue to live there.
"There's not even a decent blanket here! You can just stay in a small hotel in town."
Wang Biao took Chen Jue to rummage through the drawers, but in the end he couldn't persuade Chen Jue anymore, so he could only help carry out a few beddings and hang them on a clothesline in the yard to dry.
Since Biao's mother had stuffed a lot of mothballs into the cabinet before, the musty smell of the bedding was not too strong and they could be slept on after a little drying.
The two of them packed up the house simply, and Chen Jue took Wang Biao's car to the town below to buy some daily necessities.
As for meals, Chen Jue had no intention of making a fire and cooking by himself.
The town was not far away, and he could reach it in about 10 minutes at a brisk walk. There were many tourists visiting there, and there were many restaurants, all of which served local dishes with good flavors, which saved Chen Jue a lot of trouble.
The most we can do is to boil some tonic medicine or something. This area is already considered a plateau, with an altitude of more than 2,000 meters. Ceramic casseroles are useless, and boiling water only reaches about 90 degrees Celsius, so we can only use a pressure cooker.
Fortunately, most of the tonic foods and medicines we brought can be swallowed directly by simply mixing them with hot water. Some are oral liquids that can be drunk directly with a straw. Only the Ten-Ingredient Tonic Soup requires slow simmering, which is a bit troublesome.
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The two of them worked until almost 5 o'clock in the afternoon before they managed to clean up the room where Wang Biao lived in his childhood.
When Wang Biao got married before, Chen Jue also came here to play with a few friends in the dormitory.
However, we were there to pick up the bride and celebrate the wedding, so we did not stay here overnight. We only knew that the mountain behind Wa Village was the Gongshan Nature Reserve, and we only took a quick look at the area outside where there was a road.
This time, he planned to explore the deep mountains and forests to look for medicine, so Chen Jue made some more preparations.
When he was shopping in the town before, he also bought a set of camouflage clothes for entering the mountains, hiking boots, rain boots, raincoat, flashlight, as well as a compass, toilet water, mosquito repellent, compressed biscuits, energy bars, functional drinks, etc.
This time they went out again for dinner. They got Wang Biao, who was curious and thought Chen Jue was going to be a traveler, into the SUV and asked him to go home early to be with his family. Chen Jue then found a local restaurant and had a few bites by himself.
For dinner, we had a whole roasted chicken in a bamboo tube and ordered a large portion of Lisu pilaf. Chen Jue saw that the tourists at the next tables ordered almost the same thing, so he just had a delicious meal.
After dinner, Chen Jue wandered around the town for a while and appreciated the local customs and culture. Then he walked quickly along the mountain road back to Wang Biao's old house.
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When we returned to Wazhai, it was not completely dark yet. This place is geographically located in the southwest and the distance is far, so the sun sets much later than in Vancouver. It will not be really dark until almost 8 o'clock, unlike Vancouver where it gets dark before 7 o'clock.
After cleaning the room he would stay in at night and gathering the bedding that was drying in the yard, Chen Jue laid out the tonics and nutritional supplements he had brought with him one by one, unpacked them, and placed the books he had brought with him at the head of the bed, intending to read them before going to bed.
However, it was only a little after 7 o'clock and there was still a long time before going to bed, so he put on a sports jacket, went out, and walked quickly to the top of the highest hill behind Wazhai.
At this time, the setting sun just overlapped with the farthest peak, and the sunlight covered the mountains, snow-capped peaks, dense forests, and Nujiang River that Chen Jue could see with a layer of magnificent golden afterglow.
If the reservoir in Chencun is unique and the seaside in Dongdao County is magnificent, then the Gongshan Nature Reserve in front of us is vast and primitive, with sacred snow-capped peaks, just like the secret .
"It's a good place to practice martial arts!" Chen Jue took a deep breath and watched the sunset gradually sinking to the west, finally disappearing among the mountains in the distance.
I took a look at the Wa Village below and saw that there were only a few households in the village with dim lights on.
Before leaving, Wang Biao visited these households and said hello. They were all elderly people living here. There was not even a small store in the village, which was even less convenient than Chen Village.
While practicing Tai Chi, Tiger Roaring Golden Bell Cover and Wudang Golden Needle Finger Technique on the top of the mountain, he felt the temperature dropping rapidly. The thin coat on his body was no longer useful, so Chen Jue quickly ran back to Brother Biao's old house from the top of the hill.
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I went into the house and boiled some hot water to wipe my body. Since this was an old house that had been abandoned for a long time and no one lived in it, there was no water heater installed, so I had to boil some water myself for a bath.
But Chen Jue was happy to be self-sufficient. He felt that boiling water and pouring it into a wooden tub to take a bath was exactly the same as his childhood memories of growing up in the countryside.
After taking a shower and getting into bed, Chen Jue read the books he brought with him for a while. Then he turned on his mobile phone and found a book on light Kung Fu in the Kung Fu and boxing database.
Considering the plan to go on an adventure deep in the mountains and forests, Chen Jue specially downloaded all the information in the group files to his mobile phone, sorted them into categories, and backed up the network disk, for fear that one day these precious data would be lost because the group was accidentally disbanded.
As for the light Kung Fu techniques, there are several of them in the group files. Finally, considering that the status bonus can speed up the practice, I chose one called Fei Yan Zhi Wan Kung and started to study it.
This flying eaves and walking on walls skill is also one of the Wudang secret skills. It even has the same name as the flying eaves and walking on walls skill in the 72 unique skills of Shaolin Temple. No one knows who copied whom, and Chen Jue is too lazy to investigate.
Moreover, the information mentioned that if one could practice Wudang's Earth Dragon Technique and Earth Dragon Rolling Technique before practicing the Flying Eaves and Walking Walls Technique, and train the legs and feet in advance, the power of the Flying Eaves and Walking Walls Technique could be made stronger.
However, since Chen Jue's attributes exceeded the standards, he no longer needed to deliberately practice his leg skills and then his body movements. He could just start practicing directly.
This is what is called if one law is understood, all laws will be understood, and everything will be harmonious.
After trying it out in the room for a bit, [Wall-Climbing Skill Lv 0] appeared on the panel.
"After all, the Taoist practice is better! It can be enhanced by [Lü Zu's Enlightenment]."
"Tomorrow, we will practice and try going into the mountains."
