Chapter 189 [It’s done]

Our ancestors have a bad tradition: if they have any unique skills, they like to keep the broom for themselves, for fear that it will spread and teach the apprentices to starve to death.

This practice is often criticized by modern people.

But in fact, in ancient times, it was understandable because there was no protection of intellectual property rights and patents in ancient times.

Therefore, in martial arts, this approach has been carried forward to the extreme.

Traditional masters who have mastered some real skills are often extremely cautious about choosing successors.

For example, passing on a son but not a daughter, passing on a son but not a daughter-in-law...

Even the disciples must be divided into outer disciples and inner disciples.

Further divided, there are different classifications and expressions such as closed disciples, retired disciples, head disciples, etc.

As a result, the ancient martial arts gradually declined.

The good-looking fights that are circulating today are all routines used in martial arts performances, which are essentially no different from dance or gymnastics.

Martial arts, to put it bluntly, is a fighting technique used to beat people in combat.

The training of fighting skills that can be used in combat often differs from person to person.

A person's physique, physical ability, even nerve reaction speed, body coordination, comprehension ability, and even psychological quality during on-the-spot combat, and many other reasons, will limit the achievements that a person can achieve when learning a martial art.

However, traditional martial arts sects are often limited to their own small circles and small sects. During the inheritance, they cherish their own things and refuse to spread them to outsiders. As a result, there are very few bases to choose from when inheriting.

If a certain skill is passed on to a certain generation, it will be unfortunate that the successor of this generation is a stick...

That would be bad food.

Of course, there are many other situations that can happen, such as the head of a certain generation suddenly dying due to an accident, before he can spread his secret skills...

Facts have proved that most of the skills in this world are destined to decline if they are only inherited in a small circle.

Over the course of history, many of these traditional skills have been eliminated.

In the martial arts industry, there are also many kung fu skills that have been lost.

Those who can spread it to this day are the lucky ones.

The Song family is one of them.

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Chiang Kai-shek's wife is Song Qiaoyun. Song Qiaoyun's father is Song Ajin.

Song Ajin was born in the Song family.

A traditional ancient martial arts family, the origin of the southern school's boxing techniques and internal strength cannot be verified. Anyway, they are skills passed down from family.

Most of the ancestors were prominent for a while.

However, the so-called martial arts legends are not actually like those written in martial arts novels.

What are the major sects of the righteous way, what are the evil demon sects, what are the gangs of beggars, what are the Five Sacred Sword Sects... what are the Nangong family, the Murong family...

They were all compiled by novelists!

The inheritance of traditional martial arts is more like the inheritance of small gangs and small families. The so-called poor martial arts and rich martial arts refer to the kung fu passed down by famous and surnamed people. The sect or family from which it originated usually has some assets.

The Song family was not big, and when it was handed down from the Qing dynasty, it was considered a wealthy family.

By the time it reached Song Ajin's great-grandfather's generation, foreigners had already invaded the capital twice.

Song Anjin's great-grandfather worked as a guard in the palace, and he made some contributions when he protected the old lady Queen Mother of the West from escaping to the west for the second time.

The ladies were very open-minded that time and handed out many yellow jackets as rewards. Song Ajin's great-grandfather was lucky enough to receive one as well.

Yellow mandarin jackets were very rare in the early Qing Dynasty, but by the end of the Qing Dynasty they had basically dropped in price.

But it was worth something. Later, bad luck came to pass. Because of the fight between the old ladies and Guangxu, there was a purge in the palace, and Song Ajin's great-grandfather was expelled.

Song Ajin's great-great-grandfather, I heard that his kung fu was very high, but I don't know how high he was.

But he died early. After leaving his job, he could have been a rich man at home, but unfortunately he contracted an illness.

The two sons didn't get along, so they separated.

Mainly because of the kung fu inherited from the family, no one can be convinced by anyone, and no one can defeat anyone.

At that time, apart from some remaining properties, the Song family had basically no official background.

Song Ajin's grandfather was the winner at that time. He defeated his younger brother, but he failed to defeat him.

The loser got angry and went back to his hometown in the south.

Unexpectedly, it turned out to be a blessing in disguise.

The lineage of Song Ajin's grandfather who stayed in the capital experienced the abdication of the emperor, the coming of Beiyang, and then warlords entering the capital alternately one after another.

Every time there is a turmoil, the Song family remaining in the capital will become more dilapidated.

By Song Ajin's father's generation, he could no longer survive in the capital, and he also returned to his hometown in the south.

But there is no one in urban and rural areas, and the one in my hometown is not willing to accept it.

We are all sons and daughters of the martial arts world, and we are all martial arts practitioners. If what we talk about does not make sense, we have no choice but to show our superiority with our hands.

Song Ajin's father is a martial arts prodigy. It is said that his kung fu skills have far surpassed that of his grandfather who held a yellow jacket.

As a result, in a competition in his hometown, he beat the descendant of his hometown team until he vomited blood on the spot, and he was unable to recover. It is said that all his kung fu was ruined.

The loser was open-minded and accepted the defeat, handed over the jade tiger head inherited from his family, moved out of the ancestral home, gave up the place, and the people in the same room ran away in anger and went further south.

It's just that the conflict between the two houses has intensified.

Then the fight continued.

The heirs of each generation would make an appointment to have a fight, and whoever won would take the jade tiger head as the head of the family.

Later, the RB people came and their hometown fell.

Song Ajin's father led his tribe and fellow villagers to resist, and I heard there was a lot of commotion. But in the end, times have changed, and the RB people mobilized their troops and shot him to death indiscriminately.

At a young age, Song Ajin was taken by his mother to flee to Hui Province.

We stopped in the countryside where Senior Brother Wudao lived and took root.

Naturally, the family was defeated. The palace guards in yellow mantles from the clan, a family with property in the capital...

In Song Ajin's generation, he was just selling popsicles on a bicycle in the streets.

The other group fled to Hong Kong during the Anti-Japanese War and even opened a martial arts school. After the Anti-Japanese War, they have been rooted in Hong Kong and extended the business of martial arts schools to Nanyang.

In the 1960s and 1970s, Chinese martial arts were booming thanks to Bruce Lee! The Song family even opened their dojo to Country M for a time.

According to Song Qiaoyun, when she was young, the other group came to look for her.

At that time, Song Qiaoyun and Lao Jiang had just gotten married, and Song Ajin had not yet passed away and was in his prime.

In addition, when the other person came to the door, Song Ajin also received him politely and thoughtfully. He had experienced the destruction of mountains and rivers. In fact, in Song Ajin's view, the idea of ​​family hatred was nothing.

Thinking about a family that was divided into two houses during the war years, and now reunited, at best, it can be regarded as a reunion of flesh and blood.

But Song Ajin thinks so, others don’t think so.

Counting Song Ajin's father, that family has lost two generations in a row, and they have to fight for it no matter what.

So he proposed that according to the old rules of the family, Song Ajin would represent his own room and fight between the two sides.

Originally, if this win or loss was just a competition, Song Ajin felt that it would not matter even if he deliberately let the other party win.

But the request for the other room was unacceptable to Song Ajin:

If he loses, Song Ajin will be asked to go to the ancestral hall of that house and, on behalf of Song Ajin’s father, kowtow to the memorial tablet of the uncle in the second house of the Song family and apologize.

Because the clan uncle was injured in a martial arts competition with Song Ajin's father, and his kung fu was completely disabled. And after he moved, he couldn't bear the shock of losing his kung fu and died of illness soon after.

This won't happen!

The person Song Ajin respected the most in his life was his own father!

His father was shot to death indiscriminately after he led his tribe and fellow villagers to resist the RB in his hometown.

In Song Ajin's heart, his father is a hero!

If he wanted to admit defeat, apologize, admit his mistake, or apologize on behalf of his father, Song Ajin refused.

When I defeated you back then, I did it in an open and fair arena. I didn’t cheat or cheat. How can I apologize?

His own father was a hero who sacrificed his life in the Anti-Japanese War, and Song Ajin would never surrender on his father's behalf.

When the two sides reached a deadlock, they started fighting, in accordance with the tradition of warriors.

So...Song Ajin won again.

Counting Song Ajin's generation, the second generation of the Song family has lost three generations in a row.

How can I swallow this resentment?

In fact, I really don’t blame them for being resentful.
To be continued...