Chapter 25: The Tiger's Mouth Stick and a Glue "This little fellow, all the fish was eaten by her for nothing." Du Ruo watched Yaya run away and finally laughed out loud, then picked up the peppers that had just fallen. The green peppers had grown quite big, just right for his mother to stir-fry some bacon. Putting the peppers on the stool, Du Ruo continued to practice boxing, still practicing Xingyiquan, but the style was completely different from the previous Five Elements Boxing. It did not have the natural feeling as before, but became more diverse. The previous move was the Three-Body Eagle Catch Style, and the next move was the Tiger Form. Du Ruo began to imagine that there was an enemy in front of him. He used various moves to fight against him, and his moves became erratic. Only after Du Ruo finished practicing today's lessons and added some extra points did he start to end his practice. In fact, Du Ruo's body is now able to withstand longer training hours. He is no longer limited to three hours in the morning and three hours in the evening. However, Du Ruo did not spend all his time practicing martial arts. Instead, he chose to combine work and rest. Moreover, life is not just about practicing martial arts. He also needs some time for himself. After Yaya went to complain, she never came back. She must have been forced by her grandmother to take a bath and go to bed. Du Ruo didn't pay any attention to it. He went to the living room to eat some food prepared by his mother, and then went upstairs to wash up. Du Ruo did not go to bed immediately tonight. His mind had absorbed too much knowledge today and he was still excited. Du Ruo found an A4 paper, picked up a pencil, and began to think about drawing the design of the Panlong silk weapon in his mind onto the drawing.
"Bah, everyone else gives real objects, but you give something imaginary. Why is this thing so difficult? I'm such a good painter, but I can only draw an 80% likeness." Du Ruo spent more than an hour lying on the table and finally drew a design sketch of the Panlong Silk. However, the drawing was a bit abstract. It could not be said to have been restored to 80%. It could only be said that it had nothing to do with the sophisticated Panlong Silk in his mind. The circular ring of the Panlong silk should have been drawn as a bracelet, but Du Ruo drew it as an oval. The Panlong on it was drawn separately, but the Panlong was drawn as a lizard. Perhaps the only thing that was somewhat similar to the blueprint was the silk thread. Du Ruo had drawn a curved line, and then wrote the material of the silk thread and the desired effect on the side. He wrote in great detail, and apart from the ugly handwriting, there were no other shortcomings. Du Ruo looked at the drawing. There was very little drawing but a lot of introduction. To be honest, he couldn't stand it. Du Ruo wanted to tear up the drawing several times, but then he thought that he probably wouldn't be able to draw better. If he tore it up, he would basically have to complete it by himself. In the end, he carefully folded the white paper and went to bed. "I'll search the Internet tomorrow to see if there's anyone who can make Panlong silk. Then I'll have to ask Xiaoling if there's any room available. I have to go up the mountain to practice. It's not convenient to stay at home and go up the mountain." Du Ruo was thinking about the next arrangements in his mind and slowly fell asleep. The next morning, Du Ruo practiced as usual, and after practice, he took Yaya to the river. "Uncle, why don't you bring a fishing rod?" Yaya walked in front, asking Du Ruo curiously as she walked. She had completely forgotten about the complaint she had made last night. When she saw Du Ruo going to the river, she subconsciously thought that her uncle was going to take her fishing again. “No fishing today.” Du Ruo walked slowly along the river, looking down at the stones on the river bank while answering Yaya's questions. "why?" Yaya grabbed Maomao's neck with one hand to prevent him from going into the river to play in the water. "Because my uncle was unhappy, someone went to complain to my grandmother yesterday." Du Ruo came to the river this time mainly to find some suitable stones to use as tools for the next practice. While teasing Yaya, Du Ruo lowered his head to look for suitable stones. He really didn't have time to fish today, and there were many things to do next, so Du Ruo couldn't sit down quietly to fish. But he had already told his father and asked him to ride his bike to the town to buy a sea fish. Sea fish have fewer bones, which can prevent Yaya from getting fish stuck when eating. "Humph……" Yaya wrinkled her nose, unwilling to talk to Du Ruo. She looked at the river with an unwilling face, then looked at Maomao, as if wondering if Maomao could go into the river to catch a fish for her.
"Ahem, uncle wants to find two kinds of stones. One is cylindrical and about the thickness of a beer bottle, and the other is round or oval, the size of a football. If we find it today, we'll have fish for lunch. If we don't find it... then we won't have any fish to eat." Du Ruo seemed not to notice Yaya's expression. He continued to search with his head down. As he searched, he muttered to himself. His voice was neither too loud nor too soft, just enough for Yaya to hear clearly. "Really~ Uncle, do you think this is okay?" After hearing this, Yaya's eyes lit up and scanned everywhere like a small radar. When she saw something suitable, she trotted over, picked it up and asked Du Ruo loudly. In fact, she had no idea how big a football was. "No, this one is too small." Du Ruo took a look and rejected it. "Oh, uncle, can I take this? Maomao, don't run around, help uncle find the stone..." "No, it has to be cylindrical..." "Uncle, is this okay?" "no…" …… There were indeed various large and small stones by the stream, which had been washed very round by the river water. Du Ruo and Yaya searched for nearly an hour and finally found a suitable stone. One piece looks a bit like a spindle, with two tight ends and a thick middle. This stone is very suitable for Du Ruo to practice the Natural Gate exercises and is called the Tiger's Mouth Stick. The other piece is larger in size, and is not the round shape the size of a football that Du Ruo wants to find. Instead, it is more like a cone, which is thicker at the bottom and thinner at the top, but very smooth. This is also a technique suitable for the Natural Gate, called "One Glue". The tiger's mouth stick and the one-step glue are both training methods that I have been using after upgrading my Natural Gate skills yesterday. As the name suggests, the tiger's mouth stick requires you to hold the spindle-shaped stick with both hands horizontally, and then take turns holding and rotating it with both hands. This is a special way to practice finger grip and wrist strength. Of course, the tiger's mouth stick is more for training grip strength. If you want to train wrist and arm strength, you can replace it with a rolling pin, and then tie a rope in the middle of the rolling pin, and hang a bottle of water on the rope. In this way, holding the rolling pin and rolling the rope, even professionals will find it difficult to persist for five minutes. The effect is remarkable. The first step is to put a cone or sphere-shaped stone on the ground, and then reach out to grab the smooth part, because the surface is smooth and pointed at the top and round at the bottom, with no fulcrum at all. This is also a way to practice finger strength and gripping strength. The reason why Du Ruo wanted to practice this was to prepare for practicing hidden weapons. It is not a strange thing to use the Natural Gate's training method to train fingers and wrists, and then use them to launch hidden weapons, because the founder of the Natural Gate, Du Xinwu, is very good at hidden weapons. He can use the locust stone in his hand to hit whatever he points at and never misses. (End of this chapter)