NOVEL WEB Chapter 3: Martial Arts
Opening a martial arts gym is very profitable.
At the martial arts gyms in the outer city of Baisha County, the cheapest monthly tuition is six taels, while the most expensive one is ten taels.
But it’s not that easy for a martial arts gym to keep operating.
In addition to money, practicing martial arts also requires certain basic qualifications if you want to be successful. Even if most people enter a martial arts gym, it is difficult to get started.
Especially people from outer cities, all they have accumulated is their hard-earned money, so they can only send their children to a martial arts school for a month. If they can't do anything good after practicing for a month, they will naturally stop learning.
If many people can't learn anything good in a martial arts gym, then naturally no one will sign up for this martial arts gym.
Therefore, there are many small martial arts schools in the county that basically only open for a few months or a year, and then they can no longer accept apprentices and have to close their doors. And even if they can continue to open, they will be affected by other people in the city from time to time. Martial arts challenge.
There is also competition between martial arts schools.
After all, there are only so many people who can practice martial arts. If there is one more martial arts gym, other martial arts gyms will have less business. Therefore, different martial arts gyms often fight with each other. Some small martial arts gyms either cannot recruit apprentices or are unable to recruit apprentices. Even if the signboard is smashed, it has to be closed.
As far as Zhou Shan knows, there are only two martial arts schools in the outer city that have been open for more than ten years. The other martial arts schools have only been open for one or two years, and some have only been open for a few months. They can be opened at any time. It may not be able to sustain and close down.
"Does your brother's grandfather know that he sells secret books?" Zhou Shan said: "I don't want to offend a warrior because of this."
In this world, people who practice martial arts have extraordinary power.
Therefore, for some forces, martial arts is a unique skill that is needed to make a living and should not be taught lightly. The martial arts gym in the outer city only requires six taels of silver for entry-level apprenticeship, and what is taught is only inferior martial arts.
If martial arts disciples secretly teach martial arts to others without the permission of the martial arts school, once they are discovered, all martial arts will be abolished and thrown into the Baisha River to feed the fish.
Zhou Shan wants to practice martial arts, but he must ask some questions clearly to avoid getting into trouble.
"Don't worry, his grandfather passed away not long ago, and his father was beaten to death a few years ago because of a martial arts competition. He is the only one in the family, and no one will care about it, otherwise he wouldn't dare to Take the family secret book and sell it." Huang Yan whispered: "Besides, this secret book is absolutely true. If you don't believe it after buying it, you can ask someone who has learned martial arts in the martial arts school before. If you find it false, you will pay ten points. I’m told that there are already several literate guys in the shop asking him to buy secret books.”
"How much?"
Zhou Shan asked.
"Five hundred coins!" Huang Yan said: "This is much cheaper than joining a martial arts school."
"How do I find him?"
Five hundred articles, if the secret book is true, Zhou Shan thinks he can give it a try.
In the past three months, although he had not saved enough to attend the martial arts school, he still had five hundred coins.
As for learning how to read in the school, he would bring two fish with him every time he went there, and the master of the school let him listen to the lessons.
"hey-hey!"
Huang Yan smiled but said nothing.
Zhou Shan naturally understood the meaning of this. The other party was asking for benefits.
"You don't have to pay back the hundreds of coins you owe me."
Zhou Shandao.
Anyway, if you want to make the gambler pay back your money, you might as well believe that the sow climbs the tree.
He directly waived the money Huang Yan owed him.
"These are two different things. I will definitely repay the money I owe you. You have to give me some substantial benefits."
Huang Yan shook his head and said.
"How much do you want?"
Zhou Shan frowned slightly.
"One hundred coins, give me one hundred coins and I will tell you."
"No, fifty coins." Zhou Shan said: "I want five hundred coins to buy the secret book. I don't have much money, so I will give you fifty coins at most. If you don't want it, forget it.
To be honest, even if you buy the secret book, you may not be able to achieve anything great in practice. "
"Okay, okay, fifty coins is fifty coins."
Huang Yan was afraid that Zhou Shan would regret it, so he immediately said.
"Give!"
Zhou Shan counted out fifty coins and handed it to Huang Yan, who also told him an address.
After getting the address, Zhou Shan didn't go there immediately. He didn't have that much money on him now and had to go home. Moreover, he hadn't eaten lunch yet and his stomach was already growling.
After leaving the fish market, Zhou Shan came to a densely scattered shanty town.
The houses in the shanty town are all small bungalows, one after another. There are connected ditches outside these houses, and the unpleasant smell of feces and urine can be heard in the ditches.
The roads are also muddy and littered.
The outer cities are all shanty towns with dense crowds of tourists, and most of the people living near the fish market are fishermen. During the day, all the men in the family go out to fish, leaving only a few women, children, and rarely adults. Figure of man.
As for the elderly, less so.
In this shanty town, very few people live to be fifty.
Whenever there is typhoid or wind-cold, if you don't have money to get medicine, you can only rely on your body to hold on. If you can't hold on, you will die.
Zhou Shan's home is in a small alley.
Crunch.
Zhou Shan took out the key and unlocked the door, then reached out and pushed open the wooden door.
There is a bed in the house, and the rest of the area is equipped with tables, chairs, cabinets, and chamber pots. There is also an area on the right separated by a wall made of loess. Inside is a simple kitchen with stoves, firewood and other things.
Coming to the kitchen, Zhou Shan started to work.
He fished out more than a pound of river shrimp and a crucian carp. After cleaning them, he washed three porcelain pots, one for cooking rice, one for cooking shrimp, and the other for cooking fish.
Zhou Shan started to make a fire and cook.
In a corner of the kitchen, there was a bundle of firewood and a few branches and firewood.
Firewood is a kind of weed that is easy to ignite, but it burns very quickly. It is generally used to help the fire at the beginning, while branches and firewood can burn longer.
"There is not much firewood left, and sesame oil, salt, rice, etc. must also be purchased."
After making the meal, Zhou Shan ate while calculating what he needed to buy.
When people are alive, they spend money on firewood, rice, oil, and salt as soon as they open their eyes in the morning. There is no day without spending money.
These things cost hundreds of coins.
After filling his stomach, Zhou Shan crawled under the bed, moved a wooden brick away, took out a purse from it, and then went to the kitchen, moved all the firewood away, and also picked up a wooden brick, hiding a purse.
As the saying goes, a cunning rabbit has three burrows!
Zhou Shan naturally would not hide the money in the same place, but hid it in four places.
Each money bag has 500 coins.
Four money bags, a total of 2,000 coins, which is all Zhou Shan's savings in three months.
This time, he needs to buy martial arts secrets, as well as firewood, rice, oil and salt, which costs a lot, and there are only 500 coins in one money bag, which is not enough, so he can only take out the second money bag.