Chapter 16: A Trip to the Pigeon Market, Unexpected Joy!
Soon, Yáng Píng'ān found his first target.
On a stall, an old man was selling two hens, one rooster, and a basket of eggs.
"How much for the chickens and eggs?"
"The rooster is two and a half, the hens are three," he said.
"The eggs..."
"If you take the whole basket, it's only two yuan."
Hearing the price, Yáng Píng'ān couldn't help but nod. He had already looked at several stalls, and the prices were all similar. He had a general idea of the prices for these agricultural products.
Of course.
After some haggling, Yáng Píng'ān successfully bought the two hens, the rooster, and the old man's basket of eggs for ten yuan.
Even the bamboo basket holding the eggs was thrown in for free.
However, in the countryside, things like this are usually woven by people in their spare time when farming is slow, used for carrying things. They weren't worth much anyway.
After completing this transaction, Yáng Píng'ān left the Pigeon Market with his purchases and went to an alley. After making sure no one was watching him,
with a thought, the items in his hands entered his Portable Space.
Then,
he leisurely returned to the Pigeon Market.
After that,
Yáng Píng'ān did the same and bought two piglets.
Generally speaking,
there are rarely young livestock like this at the Pigeon Market. But this time, he was lucky to have stumbled upon someone selling pigs. After some bargaining, he managed to buy the two piglets, which happened to be a male and a female.
As for crop seeds,
finding none after searching, Yáng Píng'ān had to give up that idea.
He continued to search the Pigeon Market for what he needed.
"Hmm?"
This time, Yáng Píng'ān really found something interesting.
A copy of "Baji Quan" published by the Central Guoshu Hall.
Although it was just a printed edition, for others, martial arts and guoshu value authenticity. The saying goes: "True transmission is in a word, false transmission fills ten thousand books!" This means that even if you are given a secret manual and told to practice it yourself, you would most likely not learn it correctly. Instead of cultivating peerless martial arts, you would injure yourself!
But for Yáng Píng'ān, it was different. Let alone a guoshu book like "Baji Quan," even if he were given the legendary Nine Yang Divine Skill, or the Sunflower Manual...Ugh, it should be the Great Quality Celestial Elixir Skill. He might be able to learn something from it!
Therefore,
after paying one yuan and fifty cents, this copy of "Baji Quan" fell into Yáng Píng'ān's hands.
Of course,
seeing the stall owner's look as if he were a big spender, and the owner's mysterious parting words after the transaction, suggesting he had many ancient books, including hand-drawn copies of "Jin Ping Mei," etc., Yáng Píng'ān righteously refused!
Was this a joke? Yáng Dà Guānrén, standing eight feet tall, capable of picking up cartwheels, and leaping like a spring, needed such indecent books to amuse himself?
However,
curiosity got the better of him, and Yáng Píng'ān couldn't help but start flipping through the Jin... cough, "Baji Quan" he had just bought on his way.
As expected.
As Yáng Píng'ān opened "Baji Quan" and read two pages, he immediately received a prompt.
[You have read "Baji Quan." Combined with your knowledge from your previous life, you have understood the guoshu system. The realms are divided into: Ming Jin, An Jin, Hua Jin, Bao Dan (Grandmaster), Jian Shen Bu Huai...]
"This..."
At this moment, a large amount of knowledge related to guoshu flooded Yáng Píng'ān's mind. He showed surprise.
"You can actually practice guoshu in this world?"
This discovery
naturally made Yáng Píng'ān suppress his excitement and continue reading.
[You have read "Baji Quan." Your understanding of Baji Quan has increased. Your Baji Quan has reached Minor Accomplishment.]
[You have entered Early Ming Jin!]
As this voice sounded, Yáng Píng'ān felt a warm current surge through his body. Especially in his limbs. Although there wasn't much visible change, not becoming a Hercules overnight, his internal structure had undergone immense changes.
"Continue!"
This discovery naturally made Yáng Píng'ān keep reading.
[You have read "Baji Quan." Your understanding of Baji Quan has greatly improved. Your Baji Quan has reached Major Accomplishment!]
[You have entered the middle stage of Ming Jin!]
This time, Yáng Píng'ān felt the warm current in his body intensify. In addition to his limbs, his abdomen, back, and entire body's muscles became dense and powerful!
Originally...
Although Yáng Píng'ān's body was young, it wasn't particularly robust. This was partly related to the era he lived in and partly to the original owner's family situation.
But now,
after the influx of this warm current, Yáng Píng'ān felt that his abdominal muscles and other muscles had strengthened considerably, with clear definition.
In addition,
the improvements brought by guoshu Ming Jin were not just increased muscle strength, but also related techniques for generating force. For example, how to mobilize the power of the entire body and concentrate it in the fist to unleash a powerful burst!
This method of generating force has a nice name in guoshu!
Cun Jin!
If this technique were truly applied to a person, it could actually punch a bloody hole through them!
In addition,
there were some other moves from Baji Quan. Baji Quan is also a very powerful external martial art, known by the saying: "With Tai Chi, the world is at peace; with Baji, the universe is stabilized!" And as a young person, few could resist this kind of fists-and-flesh combat style, which best showcased a man's explosive power!
However,
perhaps because Yáng Píng'ān was too focused, lost in his thoughts, and not paying attention to the road ahead, he suddenly felt a soft body collide with him.
How to put it?
If it were before, it might not have been much. But now, after Yáng Píng'ān's body had been strengthened, when the other person bumped into him, it felt like hitting a solid brick!
Instantly,
she fell straight to the ground!
At this moment, Yáng Píng'ān, who hadn't fully recovered from the shock of Baji Quan, almost thought he was being sneak-attacked by someone acting without honor.
His body flickered as he prepared to deliver a "heart-crushing kick"!
Then...
he belatedly realized that he seemed to have bumped into a woman.
He naturally saw a young woman in a qipao, dressed in a somewhat stylish, foreign way, who looked no older than himself. She was sitting on the ground with her eyebrows raised, glaring at him annoyed!