Chapter 9 Determination
On the way home, Zheng Zinuo remained silent against the wall of the carriage. His little face was also drawn long. No matter what Zheng Zizhou said to comfort him, he did not say a word.
Seeing the reaction of his little brother, Zheng Zizhou was also started to worry. He vowed to himself that since his little brother couldn't learn martial arts, he would be a powerful martial fighter to protect his only little brother.
Zheng Zinuo didn't say anything to his mother but ran over to his room directly, locking himself up in this room.
Seeing the reaction of her little son, mother Zheng had ready guessed that Zinuo's martial talent was not good. She didn't go to comfort Zinuo right away but walked to Zheng Changfeng. They two whispered to each other. Mother Zheng was first shocked but then she took a deep sigh.
At lunchtime, mother Zheng came to Zheng Zinuo's room and found that little Zinuo had fallen asleep. For this younger son, she was always speechless sometimes. Every day he had no other hobbies but sleep. And every time he would sleep for a long time.
She touched Zinuo's lovely little face with care and didn't want to neglect him for his incompetence for martial training. "My kid, this is all destiny. Maybe it's a good thing that you can't learn martial arts. The martial world is not as fancy as you imagined. I hope this little incident doesn't affect your future life." Mother Zheng said to herself without waking Zinuo up.
Until the evening, when it was time for the family to have dinner together, Zheng Zinuo got up and had some food. But He had lost the usual laughter, though no one in the family mentioned about the martial talent test. Zheng Zinuo still felt that his father was not showing that much love to him from his eyes.
After dinner, Zheng Zinuo did not go back to his room for sleep, but he came to his brother's room.
"Brother, are you sleeping?" Zheng Zinuo didn't act as usual to slam open the door, but he knocked on the door before entering the room.
"Well, I haven't slept yet. Come on in." Zhneg Zizhou responded and watched his little brother walking in. "Why aren't you sleeping? Is there anything happening? "
"Nothing much." Zheng Zinuo looked depressed. His distress was noticed by Zheng Zizhou, who felt very sad for his little brother. It was obvious that the two brothers were very attached to each other.
"But brother, I have something to ask you." Zheng Zizhou grinned and seemed to be making a difficult decision.
"Yes? Please take a seat and tell me about it. How can I help you?" Zheng Zizhou replied.
"Okay, then I will say it." Zheng Zinuo said. "What do you learn in the martial school every day?"
"This..." Zheng Zizhou gave a slight glimpse and asked. "Do you want to practice martial arts?"
"Yes." Zheng Zinuo nodded firmly. But he did not dare to look into the eyes of Zheng Zizhou. He didn't want to see any discrimination. But his eyes did not dare to look at Zheng Zizhou.
"Sure my little brother. If you are not of afraid of the hardship, I will start teaching you martial art tomorrow. I will teach you everything that I learned from the martial school, ok?" Zheng Zizhou said.
For this only younger brother, although he did not have any talent for martial arts, he wasn't defeated by the destiny. On the contrary, Zizhou was really impressed by his determination to pursue martial arts.
"Really? That's great." Hearing his brother's promise, little Zinuo cheered up, with the haze from the day being swept away.
"Yes, I would not lie to you. " Seeing his little brother was no longer depressed, Zheng Zizhou became much happier and continued "I entered the martial Elementary school of the Riverside City at the age of eight and graduated from it at nine. I have been in the Intermediate martial school since then. The martial elementary school is for the education of martial fighters. When one becomes a martial Shi, he can enter the intermediate school and graduate from it at the level of martial master. For further education, one can enter the senior martial schools in big cities. I don't know much about senior martial schools. Let me first teach you what I learnt from elementary martial school, from level one martial fighter. Is that OK? "
"Well!" Zheng Zinuo nodded firmly and listened attentively.
"Well, since you have decided to learn martial arts, you can't sleep as much as you used to be, ok?" Zheng Zizhou said.
When you decide to cultivate the military, you can't sleep as you used to, can you do it?" Zheng Zizhou asked.
"Of course!" Zheng Zinuo answered without hesitation.
"Well, if you can't learn martial arts in the end, you can always give up. But don't hurt yourself." Zheng Zizhou said with a little concern. "From now on, I will give you a new task every day and check if you have complete it. After you pass the test every day, I will teach you new skills, ok? "
"Good!" Zheng Zinuo was very excited. "What is the first task?"
"The aim of the first task is to train your body up. From tomorrow morning onwards, you need to finish ten laps towards the little hills in front our house, after you get up. You need to finish the ten laps within the time of an hourglass. Then you have completed your mini task of your first major goal." Zheng Zizhou said so. The requirement for martial fighter's body training was to finish three thousand meters within the time of an hourglass. (The time of an hourglass was equivalent to ten minutes on earth. This meant that candidates only had a little more than three minutes to finish everyone thousand meters, which was a tough task for ordinary people. But since the candidates were all kids at around eight years old, this task was a quite a challenge to them.)
In view of this, Zheng Zizhou did not require Zheng Zinuo strictly according to the rule. After all, Zheng Zinuo was only a level zero kid without any martial strength. So he gave half of the task to Zinuo, asking him to finish one thoudand and five hundred meters in ten minutes time.
"Only this task? Is there anything else?" Zheng Zinuo asked with some eagerness.
"Yes, only this one. You can come back to me after you finish it. I will teach you the next task. After you complete all the tasks I give you, I will teach you the real martial skills." Zheng Zizhou promised.
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