172 Promise Made After Three Cups of Tea (1/2)
Chapter 172: Promise Made After Three Cups of Tea
Translator: Nyoi-Bo StudioEditor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
It was late autumn, and insects seemed to have disappeared. If someone walked into this green field in summer, their head would be full of mosquito bites.
Zhang Zian confirmed once again that there was no one else in the green field, so he pulled out his cellphone, aimed at a path, and released Galaxy, Fina and Old Time Tea.
”So dirty!” Fina jumped onto a slightly cleaner stone alongside the path, and looked at this green field despitefully.
As Zhang Zian had observed, trandhis place was quite dirty, so it was normal for picky Fina to complain. He held up his phone and asked: ”Do you want to go back in the game temporarily?”
”No!” Fina stared at him, ”I can finally take a walk now.”
”OK, OK, then stop whining.” Zhang Zian sighed, and wondered why it was so hard to make it happy.
”Meow!” Several stray cats of different colors shot out from the grass suddenly and ran away, terrified as soon as they saw Fina.
”Hide and seek! Hide and seek!” Galaxy thought they were playing hide and seek with it, so it quickly assumed the ”ghost” role and chased after the wildcats.
”Galaxy, don't go too far!” Zhang Zian reminded it loudly.
”Meow! Got it!” Galaxy responded from afar.
Even in this completely strange place, Old Time Tea was still so calm and collected that even if the Taishan Mountain was collapsing above its head, it wouldn't even blink. Without running, it simply jumped, placing one hind leg against the wall to generate force. It flipped in the midair, and landed gracefully and lightly on top of the wall. Its yellow eyes looked around under the bamboo hat.
Zhang Zian may be missing some details, but Old Time Tea would never make such a mistake.
Old Time Tea observed the whole greenfield by walking a full circle on the top of the wall, and returned back to the starting point.
Old Time Tea was satisfied with this site. Almost no residue of human urine were seen on the side of the wall, indicating that people rarely visited this place; even if they did, it was just because their bladders could not hold up anymore. Because of the large number of stray cats, mice urine also wasn't found.
Old Time Tea jumped down from the top of wall, and landed in front of Zhang Zian.
Zhang Zian was waiting anxiously, not because he wanted to learn a few new tricks, but because he worried that if Old Time Tea was not happy about this place, he had to find another one.
”Zian, this is a nice place. Let's go with this one.” said Old Time Tea.
”Good. Good. ”Zhang Zian was relieved.
He hadn't noticed yet, but Old Time Tea started to call him ”Zian” instead of ”my new friend”. From that moment, Old Time Tea would not treat him as a friend anymore, but it deemed itself as his teacher. Though Old Time Tea and Galaxy both called him ”Zian”, the meaning implied within was different.
He asked curiously: ”Grandpa Tea, do I need to pay for my tuition?”
Last night, he had nothing better to do and searched on the Internet. As it turned out, when Ye Wen wanted to learn Wing Chun Kung Fu from Chen Huashun, he paid 32 pieces of gold for tuition!
The ancient Chinese had a saying: ”The only way out for the poor is study, and martial arts is for the rich.” Only rich people could afford to learn martial arts without worrying for their future. People chose the academic way to obtain fame and money, while the investment in martial arts was not in proportion to the rewards.
Old Time Tea obviously was knowledgeable about traditional Chinese culture, and if it demanded Zhang Zian to pay 12 pieces of gold as tuition, then Zhang Zian would have to rob the Dragon and Phoenix jewelry stores...
Old Time Tea smiled. ”No need for tuition.”
Zhang Zian was unwilling to see Old Time Tea break its own principles because of him, and he insisted: ”Grandpa Tea, please, let me pay...”