Building a long-lasting family lineage starting with genealogy

Chapter 16, Five Years Later (Please Read on Tuesdays!)

As the sun rises in the east, the first rays of dawn appear.

Xu Family Compound.

The Xu brothers, Xu Mingwei and Xu Mingyuan, are practicing their skills against each other.

Xu Chuan, Li Er, Zhao Dalong, and others watched from the sidelines.

Xu Mingyuan stood with his feet planted on the eight trigrams, his arms wrapped around a pillar like a dragon.

This is the starting stance of "Jiaolong Fist" - Dragon Sleeping in the Abyss.

"Big brother, be careful."

"Go all out."

Xu Mingwei remained calm and composed.

Cold comes and summer comes.

Five springs and winters have passed since Xu Mingyuan began practicing martial arts.

Xu Mingwei is fifteen years old this year.

He's already about the same height as Xu Chuan, and he'll definitely surpass him in a couple of years.

Xu Mingyuan is a head shorter, but he has trained hard in the sweltering summer and freezing winter of the past few years, which has tempered his impetuous nature.

His eyes, now concealing their inner light, revealed him to be a martial artist.

I never gave up reading and practicing calligraphy, but I didn't spend as much time on it as I did practicing martial arts.

As for doing business, he would only go out with Chen Ergou after the annual fruit and vegetable harvest.

Nowadays, they transport fruits and vegetables to Qingjiang County for sale, and gradually the reputation of Xu Family Fruits and Vegetables in Dongxi Village has been established.

Both families' land holdings increased significantly over the course of five years.

The Xu family buys everything directly; they currently own 120 mu of paddy fields, 60 mu of farmland, and 80 mu of forest.

Eighty acres of forest encompass a pool called Bihan Pool, which is cold but never freezes.

After sinking 100 meters into the water, it gradually warms up as you continue downwards, which is quite peculiar.

Even a martial artist would freeze to death if they jumped into this pool and waited for the time it takes to drink a cup of tea.

As for diving deep into the ocean, it is extremely difficult.

Because of its peculiarities, Xu Chuan devised a way to subdue it.

Xu Chuan went down to Bihan Pool, but came back up quickly.

As his martial arts skills continued to improve, and with the blessing of his destiny talent, his blood and energy became more and more surging.

Although he was only a second-rate martial artist, his vitality was more terrifying than that of many first-rate martial artists.

Xu Mingwei was also a second-rate martial artist, with as many as 286 acupoints opened, more than 20 more than Xu Chuan.

He is not far from becoming a first-class martial artist.

A genius who can reach the level of a first-class martial artist before the age of sixteen is probably only something that a family with a grandmaster in the county town could cultivate.

Xu Mingwei possesses a destiny gift of "innate superhuman strength," and being young with his body not yet fully developed, it is easier for him to open his acupoints.

In addition, he worked diligently day and night, never slacking off.

Furthermore, he has been taking daily medicinal diets for the past five years.

That's how this progress came about.

Since obtaining the "Innate Five Elements Creation Technique", Xu Mingyuan decided to have each martial artist take medicinal food every day for cultivation.

People with a blessed destiny and natural talent can do without the aid of medicinal cuisine.

However, ordinary people who practice martial arts must have medicinal diets or corresponding medicinal materials to replenish their qi and blood, otherwise it will cause signs of qi and blood depletion.

Whether it's medicinal cuisine or herbs for regulating qi and blood, it all costs a lot of money.

Fortunately, the Xu family is currently quite capable of making money.

Several years ago, he received a windfall of 12,000 taels of silver from Boss Xiong.

The income from Qingyu pears is a stable three thousand taels a year, and the income from fruits and vegetables has increased from seven or eight hundred taels a year at the beginning to more than two thousand taels a year after expansion.

The income from forest and fruit trees is about the same.

The Xu family is now the wealthiest family in Dongxi Village, second only to the Xu family.

In fact, in terms of annual surplus after deducting all expenses, the Xu family is definitely number one in Dongxi Village.

However, apart from Xu Chuan, Bai Jing, and Zhou Ming, no one else knew.

Even Xu Mingwei and his brothers only knew the general outline.

The Xu family keeps a very low profile in Dongxi Village.

The direct descendants of the family are all humble and never domineering.

Even Zhou Ming, Zhao Dalong, Sun Fugui, and others were the same.

Five years have passed.

They both got married and were quite prolific in having children.

Each family had one or two children.

With wives and children, these people finally settled down in Dongxi Village and gained a sense of belonging.

The future is no longer just about striving for themselves, but also for their descendants.

Xu Mingyuan and Xu Mingwei practice together.

With his palms crossed in a claw-like shape and his waist twisting explosively, it resembled a dragon reaching out with its claws, or an angry dragon parting the water, displaying extremely fierce power.

Li Er smiled and nodded, "Young Master's Dragon Fist is already no less impressive than mine. I'm afraid it won't be long before he surpasses me." Zhao Dalong glanced at the smug Li Er and said sarcastically, "You have the nerve to compare yourself to Young Master."

"How old are you? How old is he?"

"By the time the Second Young Master reaches your age, he will probably have become a first-rate martial artist."

Li Er looked sullen.

His martial arts talent was only average to begin with, and there was no way to refute that.

However, he was born into a prominent family, and his vision was far beyond that of Zhao Dalong and the others.

Xu Mingyuan was personally taught by him, so even with the support of daily medicinal meals, his cultivation speed was definitely not slow.

The medicinal diets he used to take were much more precious than those provided by the Xu family, but he was already seventeen or eighteen years old when he reached Xu Mingyuan's level.

However, it is also related to his own laxity.

After they got married, he paid even less attention to her.

That's why he's only just become a third-rate martial artist.

Li Er felt that with his family backing him, he could at least live a very smooth life.

Who would have thought that fate could be so unpredictable?

Li Er could see through Xu Mingyuan, but he couldn't see through Xu Mingwei.

The boy, only fifteen years old, seemed unfathomable to him, already possessing the demeanor of a martial arts master.

"Could it be that the eldest young master has quietly become a second-rate martial artist? A second-rate martial artist of this age is very rare in families in the county."

"Back in the Li family, there were only one or two people in each generation who became second-rate martial artists before the age of fifteen."

"The eldest son is so outstanding, and the second son is not bad either. Could it be that the Xu family has a martial arts bloodline inheritance?!"

Li Er pondered silently.

He had heard that some of the powerful families in the county town possessed bloodlines that made it easier for martial arts experts to emerge.

Facing Xu Mingyuan's attack, Xu Mingwei remained calm, crossed his arms to protect his chest, and directly blocked the attack.

Immediately following, a powerful outward-spinning palm strike.

With a burst of force, Xu Mingyuan was sent flying backward.

After a somersault, he knelt on one knee and slid for two or three meters before stopping.

"Surfing Against the Grain!"

Xu Mingyuan crouched down and slid along the ground, then thrust his right fist upwards in a spiral motion.

This move is specifically designed to target the lower body.

Xu Mingwei smiled, lifted a corner of his long robe, and kept raising his legs as he retreated.

After taking a few steps, he saw the opponent's moves clearly, stood firmly on one leg as if rooted to the ground, and remained unmoved.

His right leg swung like an elephant's trunk, directly colliding with Xu Mingyuan's right fist.

Xu Mingyuan tumbled several times, looking rather disheveled, while Xu Mingwei, despite being subjected to the reverse force, remained as steady as a mountain and slowly lowered his legs.

"it is good!"

Zhao Dalong, Sun Fugui, and Qian Youcai all cheered loudly.

Seeing Xu Mingyuan's grimacing expression, Xu Chuan chuckled and said, "Ah Yuan, with your amateurish skills, don't embarrass yourself in front of the stone."

"Zhao Dalong, when you fight Shi Tou, don't hold back."

"Yes, Patriarch." Zhao Dalong stepped forward, clasped his hands in greeting to Xu Chuan, then turned to Xu Mingwei and said, "Young Master, please enlighten me."

Zhao Dalong had been an apprentice at a martial arts school and often sparred with others.

His combat experience was far superior to Xu Mingyuan's; he no longer adhered rigidly to the moves in the manuals, but instead adapted flexibly.

Every move was aimed at the vital points, ruthless and decisive.

However, even so, he was completely unable to harm Xu Mingwei in the slightest.

Xu Mingwei always used the strength of a third-rate martial artist in public, but his eyesight and fighting skills were far superior to those of Zhao Dalong and others.

In the past two years, he has gone deep into the mountains and forests every two or three days to fight wild beasts.

Every now and then they would bring back the carcasses of wild beasts.

The wolf pelts, fox pelts, and other skins alone are worth a lot of money.

On one occasion, they even brought back a whole white fox.

The white fox is as swift as the wind, and even top-notch martial artists would find it difficult to catch in the mountains and forests.

A complete white fox pelt is worth thousands of taels of silver in Qingjiang County.

Xu Chuan let Xu Mingwei make the decision himself, and without thinking, he made it into a fur coat and gave it to Bai Jing.

Bai Jing was very moved and couldn't bear to wear it.

After a while.

Zhao Dalong was completely overwhelmed.

Xu Chuan then said, "Sun Fugui, Qian Youcai, you two join Zhao Dalong in attacking together."

"Yes, master."

The two were itching to join in, and now that the patriarch had given the order, they quickly rushed into the battlefield.

The three attackers, each a martial artist with over twenty acupoints open, finally put pressure on Xu Mingwei.

Slightly increase the power of internal energy.

(End of this chapter)