Chapter 79 Divestment
"The nemesis of all kinds of hard or soft qigong? That's good, but...does anyone still practice qigong these days? Even the military has cancelled the practice of hard qigong, so who in the civilian world would still practice this? I just don't know what this bronze man technique will be like when it's upgraded again."
Du Ruo had complicated feelings about the Bronze Man Art. On the one hand, he liked the knowledge in it very much, as it broadened his horizons. On the other hand, he felt that the Bronze Man Art might be useless after practicing it. Du Ruo sighed and could only look forward to whether this technique could reveal more after being upgraded.
"Good harvest, back home."
Du Ruo had acquired two skills today and gained a lot of knowledge about acupoint pressing. He was already very satisfied. He looked at the sky and saw that the sun was already high in the sky. Du Ruo did not stay at the edge of the cliff but walked down along the valley.
The place where he climbed was only the edge of Huangshan Mountain, and it was still a long way away from the real Huangshan Mountain, or the famous mountains inside Huangshan Mountain.
He can only explore slowly. After all, the future is still long, so Du Ruo is not in a hurry.
……
"The sun is really hot. It's only about nine o'clock now. I don't want to go out anymore."
When Du Ruo returned to the yard, the sun was already high in the sky. Standing in the yard, feeling the scorching sun, Du Ruo originally wanted to practice Bajiquan in the yard, but after thinking about it, he gave up.
On that day, Du Ruo just wanted to lie on the sofa in the living room with the air conditioner on and play with his phone. He really had no interest in going to the yard to bask in the sun, practice boxing or basic skills.
When Du Ruo came back just now, he went to the front desk to weigh himself. He weighed 176 kilograms and was 178 cm tall. This weight would be considered overweight for a normal person, at least slightly overweight.
But there is no sign of fatness on Du Ruo's part. Only when Du Ruo lifts up her clothes, a circle of fat around her waist and abdomen makes her look a little meatier.
But this is not enough. Du Ruo can feel that his bone and muscle density is far beyond that of ordinary people, and his weight is still a lot to be improved. At least when Du Ruo looks obviously fatter and more fleshy, it means that he has started to make up for the deficit and accumulate fat. Only then will Du Ruo slow down the pace of tonic.
However, Du Ruo was still a little uncomfortable with gaining so much weight in such a short period of time. His strength increased a lot, but his control over his strength decreased. Moreover, his movements were obviously not as flexible as before. Relatively speaking, his movements were a little slower, and he hated hot weather even more.
Although the changes are huge, the benefits outweigh the disadvantages. After all, health is the foundation of everything.
"Boss Du, you just came back."
Du Ruo was about to go into the house to turn on the air conditioner when his girlfriend Yuanyuan stopped him.
"Yes, you just came back from sending Ah Qi? Come in and sit down."
Du Ruo opened the gate of the yard and invited Xiang Yuanyuan to come in.
"I won't go in. I just came back from town. This is some dried fish for you. It's not the dried fish in my store. It's sent by my family. They are all sea fish, and they are dried at home. There are no additives except a little bit of seasoning, and there are no extra fish bones. This is a snack I gave to Yaya."
Xiang Yuanyuan was still wearing a sun-protection jacket and was chewing something in her mouth. It looked like a long dried herb rhizome. The part exposed outside occasionally swayed as she bit it. She was holding a courier box in her hand, which she had already stuffed into Du Ruo's hand while she was talking.
"Hey, thanks, what are you biting?"
Du Ruo didn't expect the other party to be so thoughtful. After knowing that Yaya loved to eat fish, he even asked someone to send dried fish over. The other party said that it was a gift for Yaya, so he didn't want to ask for more money. He curiously asked about what Xiang Yuanyuan was chewing in her mouth.
"This is licorice."
Xiang Yuanyuan's hands were free, so she grabbed the remaining licorice at her mouth and took out the chewed part. Du Ruo was able to recognize the yellow-brown chewed licorice. Seeing that Du Ruo seemed a little curious, Xiang Yuanyuan took out another one from her pocket and handed it to Du Ruo:
"Here, this is for you. My family has been dealing with medicinal liquor for generations, and we drink it almost every day. Herbs are poisonous to the point of being poisonous. Drinking them every day will inevitably accumulate their medicinal properties in the body. Over time, it is easy to be poisoned by all the herbs.
Licorice is neutral in nature and can detoxify hundreds of herbs, so occasionally our family would soak licorice in water or chew dry licorice. "I'm going back now, I'm going to die in the sun." Xiang Yuanyuan waved her hand, pulled the collar of her sun protection jacket, and then walked under the eaves and returned to the pub along the shade.
"Tsk... I can only say that they are worthy of being a family of medicinal wine."
Du Ruo held the express package containing dried fish in one hand and put the brown licorice strip that Xiang Yuanyuan had just given him into his mouth with the other hand, and started chewing it just like Xiang Yuanyuan had done.
“But it still tastes like childhood.”
When chewing licorice, the unique sweetness of licorice fills your mouth. The taste is the same as when I was a child and secretly took licorice out of my grandfather’s Chinese medicine bag to eat.
Du Ruo was lying on the sofa, enjoying the air conditioning, scrolling through his cell phone in one hand and constantly grasping the edge of the wooden coffee table with the other hand. He didn't use much strength, but just kept grasping and loosening it. He was practicing the basic skills of the Bronze Man Art, exercising the strength and flexibility of his fingers at any time.
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"I'm fine, thank you for your concern, boss."
Li Yu was wearing yoga pants and walking slowly on the treadmill, talking on the phone with Bluetooth headphones on.
"What about...the baby?"
A male voice came from the other end of the phone, and when he mentioned the baby, his voice was obviously much softer.
"My mom is with him. My baby is fine. If there's nothing important, I'll hang up."
Li Yu lowered her head, looked at the wet spot on her clothes on her chest, frowned, and said something impatiently.
"I am also concerned about the baby. Do you want to do a paternity test secretly? If it is really me..."
The man wanted to say something but was interrupted by Li Yu.
"I told you, that's my baby. It's inappropriate for you to ask me about these private matters. Besides, I don't want to know who the father of the baby is, and I won't do any identification. It's not important.
The baby will have a new father in a few days. I have been going on blind dates continuously these days and have already made an appointment with someone.
In a few days I will go to get the certificate and register my baby. In half a month I will be able to go back to work. If you don’t have anything important to do, we can talk when I get to work.”
Li Yu got off the treadmill, took a towel and put it under his clothes, then opened a bottle of water and drank it in big gulps.
"Well... let's get down to business. The thing is, your old client, Mr. Yang from Guangdong Province, called the company today and said he wanted to withdraw all the investment."
The person on the other end of the phone sighed and then started talking about business.
"What's going on? He has invested that money for five years, and it has been profitable all these years. Why is he suddenly withdrawing it?"
Li Yu frowned. That was an investment amount of tens of millions. She could make a lot of money from it every year. If it was withdrawn suddenly, it would be a big loss for her.
"I found out that his only son was kidnapped in the Philippines, and the man was killed after receiving money. Now he has gone a little crazy and is spending a lot of money to seek revenge."
(End of this chapter)
