The Legend of Baguazhang Tong Lin 009

On this day, Tong Lin was about to twist the rice in the early morning, and Master silver Beard said to him: “Tong Lin, I think you are hard to twist the rice. I will teach further to you how to practice the method of palms.” The two masteres, standing up, Tong Lin followed them to the hall outside. Coming under the stepped stone, Tong Lin cleaned the stepped stone, The masteres ordered him to remove the small rafters from the hall, and rolled it across the stepped stone. Fate took the rough rice and poured it on the step stone. Silver Beard master standing under the step stone, standing in a squat-horse stance style, holding the cuffs up, and the step is not high, just rub the rice with both palms. The master’s two arms pressed hard on the thick rice with both palms and yell: “Hey ” he pushs forward and raise his hand. Calling” Tonglin come and see “Tong Lin looked closely: the shell of the thick rice fell completely The rice grains come out. The master said: “Look, it’s easy to rub rice, it saves you a lot of time. Tong Lin looked at it, and it was easier to rub out rice grains than twisting rice. So according to the method of master, he stood in a horse stance style with two arms, pushing the rice with his hands, pushing his palms forward, and his palms were burning like fire. In general, the pain is very hard. Not many rice grains come out. Tong Lin had to answer: “The disciple’s palm is painful, and rubbing the rice is not as good as twisting the rice. ” Silver master said:” You have to do what I order.” Tong Lin replied: “How is let disciples to feel palm pain little?” The master nodded, and then took out a small gourd from his arms. ( who knows what kind of medicine.) He takes the small gourd stopper, take it out, and pour out a pill of medicine, about the size of soy beans, put it in his mouth, use The spittle chewed, the order Tong Lin stretched out his palms, and then he spit on the palm of Tong Lin, ordered Tong Lin to wipe evenly. Tong Lin was dying want to rub the rice at this time, because hist palms was very itchy. Tong Lin need to rub this Rice, it feels refreshing. This medicine can be used for seven days. After the seventh day, the power of the medicine is over. Tong Lin ’s palm is accustomed to it. Rubbing the rice every day, it will be more than three months. Tong Lin Rubbing rice is easy.
In the early morning of this day, silver beard master said: “Tong Lin, I think you work hard to rub the rice. It is better to pound the rice.”

Tong Lin replied: “I don’t know how to do it?” Master said: “You come with me.” He got up and walked outside the hall, fingering the white incense burner on the road. Then he said: “Tonglin, you clean it up.” Tong Lin agreed and to clean up the incense burner. The master order Tong Lin took out the rough rice bag, opened its pockets, and poured them into the incense burner. Still ordered Tong Lin to stand in a horse stance style, save his fist with both hands, first punch with his right hand, straight punch into the incense burner. It doesn’t matter if this is pounding, Tong Lin’s hand is so painful and unbearable hurts, so he said to master: “Master, the disciple has pain in the back of his hand, and please Master will give the pill a pill to avoid pain.” The master took out the small gourd in his arms, and still took out a pill. He ordered Tonglin to extend the back of his hand, chewed the pill in his mouth, and spit it on Tong Lin’ back of hand. Tong Lin wiped evenly, the back of the hand was feel pain better. Tong Lin do it each day and it was really painful to do the same. There are also many rice grains. So the rice is pounded day by day, as the day is long, the fist is punch and the rice grains come out. Tong Lin does it about has been a hundred days. The master ordered Tong Lin to twist rice out ,and about a hundred days. Changed to does rub rice again, rubbed rice more than three months, changed to pound rice again. Such a time flies, the sun and the moon flow, and Tong Lin doesn’t feel three years. Tong Lin already feels that the method of manipulation is quite experienced, and the skill of sitting has been accomplished, but martial arts has not yet learned.

On this day, at night, they meditated and rested, and the two masters fell asleep. Tong Lin was supposed to meditate and go to sleep, but he thought that he hadn’t learned any martial arts, but just got the rice out of the rice shell every day, what use of doing it every day. I just still want to ask the master to teach me martial arts. He thought and got up and came to the knees in front of the two masters. He looked at the two masters who were falling sleep and did not dare to awake them, and had to kneel on the ground. From the time of, he knelt until the east turned white. The two masters woke up and saw Tong Lin kneeling straight in front of them. In fact, they already knew that he had been kneeling all night, deliberately pretending to sleep, pretending not to know. Asked: “Why do you kneel here, if you don’t want to learn a martial art, you should be going down the mountain.”