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Chapter 2 Apprenticeship to Ye Wen

A figure flashed, and a middle-aged man wearing a black Republican coat quickly walked out of the warehouse. Seeing Zuo Xiaoyou wearing a dress (a casual outfit in 2015), he had a hint of surprise and expectation in his eyes and asked, "I am I Yi Wen, are you here to learn boxing?"

Zuo Xiaoyou was a little excited when he saw this middle-aged man who was shorter than him and his face exactly like Mako Dan. Brother Zidan! This is the living Brother Zidan!

For the young actor who has been a supporting actor for more than ten years, Brother Zidan is definitely the legendary superstar. If he hadn't known that the person in front of him was just a role played by Brother Zidan, he would have really wanted to get an autograph.

"Master Ye." Zuo Xiaoyou looked respectful and bowed his fists: "I have long admired Daming. My disciple Zuo Xiaoyou, begs Master Ye to accept me as his disciple."

"Okay, no problem." Ip Man smiled, but smiled a little shyly, and rubbed his hands: "Pay the tuition first, pay the tuition."

“…”

Nowadays, Ip Man is indeed poor and has a lot of apprentices to teach them for the sake of tuition, and the tuition fee is cheap, which only costs five yuan a month.

In Xiangjiang in 1950, if you only eat steamed buns, five yuan would allow an ordinary person to eat for half a month. However, Ip Man's family of three is still pregnant, and five yuan is enough for the family's three days of food, which is completely not enough for life.

"Master, your Wing Chun Fist is so powerful, you only charge five yuan a month for tuition?" Zuo Xiaoyou wanted to help Ye Wen raise the price: "It's too cheap! How can you do it without fifty a month?"

"No, five yuan is enough, enough." Ip Man is a honest person: "Fifty is too expensive, no one will spend so much money to learn martial arts."

“…”

He couldn't speak politely to the honest man, so Zuo Xiaoyou could only take out all 100 yuan from his pocket. After thinking about it, he silently recited twenty yuan and collected a total of 120 yuan and handed it to Ip Man.

"Is this?" Seeing so much money, Ip Man was shocked and didn't understand what Zuo Xiaoyou meant.

"Master, this is the tuition fee for two years." Zuo Xiaoyou bowed his knees and kowtowed: "I beg Master to pass on the essence of Wing Chun to his disciples."

Zuo Xiaoyou's "sincerity" (money) touched Ip Man, and he quickly helped Zuo Xiaoyou up and said happily: "Okay, if you want to learn, I will teach you with all my heart. Come on, I will pass on your Wing Chun Fist now."

"Thank you, Master!"

"Complete the main task 1: Apprentice to Ip Man."

Zuo Xiaoyou breathed a sigh of relief, remembered something, and said, "Master, can you teach me tomorrow? I have something to do today."

"Okay, go and do it! Come early tomorrow." With 120 yuan, Ip Man was in a good mood. The money was enough for his family's food, clothing and expenses for two months. He had no choice but to ask Zuo Xiaoyou.

"Thank you, Master."

After saying goodbye to Ip Man, Zuo Xiaoyou went to the nearby police station. He first had to solve his identity problem in this world. Now Xiangjiang is very relaxed in household registration management. No matter where you come from, just go to the local police station to register and you can get your local household registration immediately. With a household registration, you can buy your own property in the local area.

Judging from the time pattern of the entire movie, it should be only a few months from beginning to end. Because when Zhang Yongcheng first appeared, his belly looked like five or six months, and when the movie ended, she had just given birth to a few days ago, so the whole process was only three or four months at most. In such a short time, renting a house is the best choice, but Zuo Xiaoyou had his own considerations and decided to buy a property.

The household registration process was very easy. After finding the local police station, it took only half an hour to get the legal household registration. Then Zuo Xiaoyou went to see the house without stopping.

During this period, Xiangjiang Real Estate was not as nervous as in later generations. There were also newly built properties waiting for sale. Zuo Xiaoyou soon found a newly built, quite prestigious property, a thousand-foot luxury house on the second floor.

Many people don’t know much about the so-called thousand-foot mansions in Xiangjiang. Most people may think that a thousand-foot mansion is a thousand-square-meter mansion, or three-foot mansions are one meter, and naturally imagine it as a three-hundred-square-meter mansion. In fact, it is not.

The so-called thousand-foot mansion is actually only 91 square meters in size.

You heard it right. In Xiangjiang, a place where every inch of land is valuable, a 91-square-meter house can indeed be called a luxury house. Unlike the mainland, there is no double-storey villa of more than 300 square meters. You are embarrassed to say that you live in a luxury house. The royal palace courtyard in the ancient city is even more like a park, and no one can lead it to get lost.

Zuo Xiaoyou's house was the latest building layout in 1950, but it was very simple in Zuo Xiaoyou's eyes, especially the toilet, which was not a toilet, but a squat.

Just squat! It’s better than others who go to the pit.

The new house has been simply decorated, the floors are laid, the walls are painted, and the water and electricity are complete. I will probably clean it up and buy some furniture to move in.

After giving the sales staff ten yuan to the benefit, the staff enthusiastically helped Zuo Xiaoyou find a cleaner and helped contact the furniture factory. Before dark, they finally cleaned up a little.

Zuo Xiaoyou didn't buy kitchen supplies.

First, there are no range hoods in this era;

Second, there were no gas stoves in this era. People cooked firewood or coal, and the more advanced one was honeycomb coal stove. For modern people, using those things was too painful and unhealthy.

I didn't buy kitchen utensils, but I bought some teapots and bowls. The house has three bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen and a balcony.

Zuo Xiaoyou put a wooden bed, a large wardrobe, and two sets of quilts for each room.

There is no sofa in the living room, only one Eight Immortals Table, four wooden chairs, and many empty places. But I just checked in and didn’t have enough time, so I’ll just buy it later.

In addition, Zuo Xiaoyou also bought two new clothes for later use.

In 1950, Xiangjiang could still buy good-quality clothes. As long as you are willing to spend money, some places sell dresses and can be customized.

These two sets of clothes were put into the watch space by Zuo Xiaoyou, so that he could change his clothes at any time.

I ate the beef noodle for supper at the food stall downstairs. The beef is very large and the noodles are strong, the soup is better, and the food is satisfactory. At the last checkout, two yuan... This is because the beef is large, otherwise the beef noodle without meat is only 50 cents a bowl, which can make people cry cheaply.

This era is so beautiful... as long as you have a million.

...

"What's going on?"

Before going to bed, Zuo Xiaoyou went to the bathroom to brush his teeth, but saw an amazing picture in the mirror.

The skin of watery eyes and tender skin is smooth and tender, and the iron-green stubble caused by frequent shaving is gone. It really corresponds to the sentence - the green boy, with a full spirit.

Zuo Xiaoyou touched his face, his eyes were quite uneasy, this was exactly what he looked like when he was 20 years old.

"Xiao Hei, what's going on?"

Xiao Hei is the smart name given by Zuo Xiaoyou. Because the watch is black, this name is also vivid.

"The user performed a time and space baptism while traveling through time and space, resulting in reverse growth of the body."

"Reverse growth?" Zuo Xiaoyou's face changed and he thought of a very terrible consequence: "Does it be ten years younger if you shuttle once? Then I shuttle three times..."

"Please rest assured that the time and space baptism will only be once, and will not be overlapped repeatedly."

Xiao Hei's answer made Zuo Xiaoyou feel relieved, but he was still a little worried: "What should I do if I return to the real world?"

In reality, he is a thirty-year-old uncle, so going back like this will definitely make people suspicious.

"Users can find a remote mountainous area to settle down." Xiao Hei came up with a bad idea.

“…”

It is still beneficial to being ten years younger. This means that you have gained ten years of youth in vain. Zuo Xiaoyou is in a good mood and throws himself on the bed and turns off the lights. After being tired for a day, he quickly falls asleep comfortably.

In the early morning, Zuo Xiaoyou got up from the bed with full energy, got into the bathroom and got into a large size. By the way, brushed his teeth, washed his face, and wiped his body with a wet towel.

In the 1950s, Xiangjiang did not have a water heater. Zuo Xiaoyou was lucky. There was a bathtub in this newly built building. There was a faucet at one end of the bathtub to release water, but there was only cold water. If you wanted to take a hot bath, you had to burn it yourself.

Zuo Xiaoyou did not buy a coal stove, he did not have hot water, nor did he have the hobby of taking a cold bath, so he wiped his body with a wet towel.

The wet towel was rubbed on his body, and he had goose bumps in a cool way. Soaked the towel in water, Zuo Xiaoyou patted his face in the mirror: "When I go back to modern times, I must take a good hot bath."

After packing up, Zuo Xiaoyou left the house and went to the snack stall downstairs to have breakfast.

Before and after the Anti-Japanese War, many mainland refugees went to Xiangjiang for refuge, and delicacies from all over the world also poured into this place, so Xiangjiang has a very rich diet.

There are also many breakfasts, such as shrimp dumplings, fried noodles, fried bread, and fried beef, which generally tend to be southern-style flavors.

Zuo Xiaoyou is from Beihe. He likes pasta. He bought ten fried buns from the breakfast stall and a bowl of tofu. It was simple and delicious. At the end, he checked out two yuan and two... There was no room for reason for the cheap ones.

I looked at my watch and it was now 7:30 in the morning. It was not far from the place to practice martial arts, and it only took ten minutes to take a walk.

Liudada was eating, but when he arrived at the rooftop, he found that the door was locked and no one was seen.

"Why haven't the master come yet?"

Zuo Xiaoyou is a little bored. He doesn’t know where Ip Man lives. In this era, he can’t use Xiaomi to call Apple, so he can only sit on the rooftop patiently and wait.

Sitting on the edge of the rooftop and looking into the distance, the ancient buildings and pedestrians with the Republic of China style proved to him that this was an era full of darkness but in ruins, full of unknown wonders.

"Ip Man's world..." Zuo Xiaoyou murmured.
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