Chapter 96 Skipping Work
After chatting with his college roommate, Chen Jue packed his luggage and set off again.
Of course, this trip was not entirely on a whim, nor was it purely for those wild medicines that I didn't know whether they were effective or not.
Having practiced the art of inner alchemy, Chen Jue wanted to learn from the ancient Taoists and experience the feeling of practicing in a hut deep in the mountains and forests.
Ancient Taoists often liked to find a secluded place in the mountains to build a hut to practice. In addition to being able to use local materials and seek medicine from the mountains, they could also get closer to nature, maintain inner peace, and comprehend the ethereal, impermanent, and elusive methods and ways of alchemy.
Although there are many mountains in Wenzhou, they are basically low mountains and hills, which are very different from the environment for Taoists to practice, and I have never heard of any well-known medicinal herbs produced there. Because the hills in Wenzhou are all red and yellow soil, which is very acidic and cannot grow very good things.
The land near the coast is alkaline. In such a saline-alkali area, apart from sweet and sour fruits such as bayberry and loquat, there are basically no particularly delicious crops.
There is a famous classic saying: "Oranges grown in the south of the Huai River are oranges, while those grown in the north of the Huai River are tangerines."
Most people think that oranges taste sweet and sour, but after being transplanted to Vancouver, they became bitter oranges because of the acidic soil. (You may have never eaten bitter oranges, but they are said to have the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying.)
Otherwise, Chen Jue would not have gone all the way to visit his college roommate’s hometown.
In addition, Chen Jue didn't want to delay his own practice time because of frequent teaching in XX Group.
To put it in fashionable terms, he was just getting a subsidy and getting impatient after working just once, so he started planning to slack off and do his own thing.
I had taught Zhou Gang the method of stealing the secrets for one night. With his martial arts foundation and comprehension ability, he would definitely get a good result in the competition in half a month.
For a soldier, this is a very prestigious and honorable thing.
At worst, Chen Jue would go to the competition and win a place, which would allow the XX Group to show off in front of everyone, and most of the credit would go to Chen Jue.
Thinking of this, Chen Jue began to feel at ease receiving the 6,000 yuan monthly allowance.
Chen Jue: "Political Commissar Yao, I plan to go to the mountains of Yun Province to practice martial arts in seclusion for a while. I have already bought a plane ticket and will leave tonight. I will not teach next. I will come out before the big competition starts, and I will definitely come back with a good ranking, don't worry."
Political Commissar Yao: “…Okay!”
Last night I heard a report from two instructors saying that after Zhou Gang received some pointers from Chen Jue, his martial arts skills improved greatly overnight, just like in martial arts novels where a master teaches him martial arts for several years.
He didn't believe it at first, but after Zhou Gang sparred with the two instructors this morning, he indeed showed a more ferocious fighting ability than before.
This made Political Commissar Yao look forward to it, and he planned to ask Chen Jue to come more often when he had time, preferably every day, since Chen Village was close anyway.
Who would have thought that before this idea was edited and sent out, it was blocked by Chen Jue's words of going into the mountains to practice in seclusion.
"Ah! I really don't understand the train of thought of these folk masters!"
"Practicing martial arts in seclusion? There is no place where you can't practice martial arts these days! Why go to the mountains of Yunnan Province?" Political Commissar Yao complained helplessly. He didn't expect that Chen Jue would quit after teaching him once. He could only tell Zhou Gang, who was intensively training, this "unfortunate" accidental news.
Zhou Gang was a little disappointed after learning this, but he soon started to recite the boxing theory that Chen Jue had taught him: "Strongs and bones should be loose, skin and fur should be attacked, joints should be penetrated, and the spirit should be empty in the middle... The master can lead you to the door, but the practice is up to you. Coach, just wait! I will definitely surprise you in half a month!"
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When setting out again, this time Chen Jue did not bring the big dumbbells. Firstly, they were too heavy to get on the plane, and secondly, as he had practiced more, Chen Jue found that he had limited energy and could no longer insert fitness exercises.
In fact, scientific fitness training is sometimes more effective in improving attributes than practicing traditional martial arts.
As long as you don't over-exercise, and combine it with nutritional supplements and injury prevention, it is more direct and effective than many martial arts that are not very successful, and is suitable for the general public.
Unfortunately, Chen Jue has a better way to improve his attributes, so he can only put weight lifting and fitness aside for the time being.
Carrying a large bag of newly bought nutritional supplements and tonics, as well as a travel bag filled with a few sets of clothes, Chen Jue, with a big bag in each hand, booked a ride on his mobile phone.
It took two hours to drive to Longjiang International Airport in Vancouver. After passing security check, I waited for more than an hour before boarding the plane.
I bought an economy class ticket and didn't plan to spend money on a business class ticket. It's only for 2 hours anyway, so there's no need to make too much of a fuss.
Fortunately, when he was using the self-service machine to stamp his ticket, he was lucky enough to choose a window seat, so Chen Jue could enjoy the night view outside the window while flying in the sky.
Perhaps because of his successful practice, his figure, appearance, and temperament began to stand out. After boarding the plane, several flight attendants, including one who was almost as tall as him, couldn't help but look at Chen Jue a few more times.
Of course, there wasn't any bloody plot like slipping a note asking for number. We just glanced at each other a few more times when passing by, pouring water, and eating on the plane, and talked about each other a few words behind each other's back.
Chen Jue was sitting in the back, and with his greatly improved hearing, he naturally heard what the flight attendants were chatting about in the back cabin.
They simply praised him for his good looks and that he looked like a celebrity, and said that even the most handsome guy in the flight attendant class at school might not have as good a temperament as Chen Jue.
As for the unpalatable airplane fast food, Chen Jue didn't even eat a single bite. The principle of "the better the food, the better" has permeated into his daily practice.
Chen Jue will never eat this kind of tasteless airplane meal again.
Unless he was the hard-working office worker Chen Ajue who, in order to save money, would accept any food and could swallow anything that tasted good.
Just endure the hunger for two hours. With Chen Jue's current physical fitness and cultivation level, it is still easy and simple.
When the plane took off into the sky, flew through the clouds, and finally cruised at an altitude of more than 10,000 meters, Chen Jue turned his head and looked through the window of the plane, admiring the scene of the clouds under the moonlight, and then looked up at the bright moon.
As a young flower grower, who has not dreamed of flying up to the sky and going to the moon to see whether Chang'e, Jade Rabbit and the woodcutter Wu Gang really exist?
Even if we know that there is no living thing on the moon, we still need to have fantasy and romance!
Of course, most people here are influenced by legends, historical classics, and costume dramas.
Chen Jue grew up watching "Sunny Days", and his impression of the characters Chang'e flying to the moon and Wu Gang chopping wood was deeply deepened.
In addition, now that I have made great progress in my practice, I am fantasizing that when my attributes reach 999+ in the future, I will be able to walk on the clouds or the moon. This is why I started to have such wild thoughts.
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Two hours later, the plane landed steadily at the Kunming airport. When flying in the sky just now, Chen Jue had an extremely strange feeling for some reason, just like when he had a CT scan in the emergency room of the hospital before, his whole body felt as if facing a great enemy.
Although it is not as strong as a direct CT scan, there is indeed a vague feeling of discomfort.
After landing, I opened my phone and searched, and found out that there is similar radiation at high altitudes on airplanes, but the radiation dose is much weaker than that of a CT scan, so that ordinary people can't detect it and it doesn't attract much attention.
Only veteran pilots and older flight attendants know that once they have been in service for a long time, most of them will develop minor ailments that ordinary people do not have.
This is an industry that appears to have high salaries, but also has hidden risks.
It was because Chen Jue had reached a certain level in his practice that his body, inside and out, became extremely sensitive to this kind of radiation, so he was able to sense this subtle discomfort.
