"Did you just see the liquor she was drinking? It was 66-proof aged Taomagant. She just sat there with that kind of high-proof Baijiu, drinking a jin of it with peanuts, and she could still walk upstairs as if nothing happened. It's the same every day."
Yang Chenguang pointed toward Xiang Yuanyuan and looked at Du Ruo with a playful expression after he finished speaking.
"Alright..."
After listening, Du Ruo also glanced at Xiang Yuanyuan's back. He watched her tilt her head back to drink; he had noticed earlier that she didn't sip her drink slowly, but rather downed half a bowl in one go.
Du Ruo found it hard to judge a woman like that. At the same time, some of the thoughts he had in his heart faded quite a bit. It wasn't that he had an opinion about women who drink, but a woman who could drink that much was truly enough to make anyone want to retreat.
Men usually like it when other people's women can drink, but they hope their own women can drink but choose not to. It's a bit contradictory, but that is reality.
Du Ruo and Yang Chenguang chatted, drank, and enjoyed the scenery. Without realizing it, the time reached nine o'clock. The Boss's wife, Xiang Yuanyuan, had finished her drink and turned to head upstairs.
Once Xiang Yuanyuan left, the patrons in the tavern began to pay their bills and leave one after another. Yang Chenguang also wanted to pay and leave, but Du Ruo held him back and told him to wait a little longer.
About ten minutes later, most of the people in the tavern had left. Xiang Yuanyuan walked slowly downstairs carrying a small package and headed straight to the table where Du Ruo and his friend were sitting.
"Here~ this is the liquor you wanted. Take it back and use it first. Apply it externally; if there is no allergic reaction, there is no problem with taking it internally later. If you have an allergic reaction, go to the hospital immediately, and you can return the liquor to me when you get back."
Xiang Yuanyuan spoke very clearly, showing no signs of being drunk at all. If it weren't for the flush on her cheeks and her slightly unfocused eyes, one really wouldn't be able to tell that she had just finished a jin of high-proof Baijiu.
"Sure, I'll transfer the money to you now. If it works well, I'll come find you again."
Du Ruo was also very straightforward. He opened the small package to take a look, then used his phone to transfer five thousand to Xiang Yuanyuan.
"Straightforward. If you need anything else in the future, as long as it's related to medicinal wine, feel free to come find me."
Xiang Yuanyuan took out her phone to confirm the payment, a smile blooming on her face. She became a bit more enthusiastic toward Du Ruo. After finishing with him, she called out to Xiao Juan at the counter:
"Xiao Juan, Secretary Yang and his friend's table is on the house."
"Then thank you very much. I'll come back to drink next time."
Du Ruo didn't stand on ceremony either. After thanking her along with Yang Chenguang, the two of them took the package and walked out of the tavern.
After parting ways with Yang Chenguang, Du Ruo walked home alone. He hadn't drunk much; two liang of medicinal wine wasn't enough to get him drunk. On the contrary, the bit of alcohol he had consumed made him feel quite relaxed.
"I thought a woman would exhaust all my passion..."
Humming a song while walking on the asphalt road, Du Ruo felt a long-lost sense of ease. He was very glad now that he had made the decision to return home.
He washed up when he got home and went straight to sleep. Having had a little alcohol, he slept exceptionally well that night.
It wasn't until the next day that his six o'clock alarm woke him up.
When the ringtone sounded, Du Ruo rolled out of bed, grabbed the medicinal wine he bought yesterday, and went to the backyard.
Standing in the backyard, Du Ruo first took off his clothes, wearing only a pair of shorts, and then carefully opened the cap of the liquor bottle.
Du Ruo first leaned in to smell it, finding it exceptionally pungent, or perhaps "fishy-pungent" would be more accurate.
Besides the smell of alcohol, it carried a fishy odor; it didn't smell very good.
Du Ruo took out a disposable bowl and poured half a bowl from the small bottle.
Du Ruo dipped his hands into the bowl to dampen them, then pressed his palms together and rubbed them vigorously.
"Hmm, that's good, I don't feel any discomfort."
After about thirty seconds, Du Ruo rubbed his palms until they were hot. He took a close look at his palms; the medicinal wine had been rubbed away, leaving his palms slightly red and hot, but otherwise, there was no other reaction.
Confirming there was no allergic reaction, Du Ruo did the same as before, getting his palms wet with the medicinal wine. However, this time he didn't just rub his hands together; he started from his wrists, elbows, shoulder blades, waist and hips, knees, and ankles, rubbing these joints with the medicinal wine from top to bottom.
The knees and ankles, in particular, received special attention. Now that Du Ruo's Single-Weight Three-Body Stance put immense pressure on one leg every time, strengthening the bones was secondary; what was more important was to promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis to avoid developing chronic ailments from long-term training.
This was also the reason why Du Ruo stopped whenever he felt he had reached his limit. When practicing martial arts, training is important, but recovery is even more important. If you blindly push your body to the limit, it is inevitable that you will develop chronic ailments.
It took Du Ruo about fifteen minutes to finish everything, and most of the small bowl of medicinal wine had been consumed.
After finishing, Du Ruo went to the open ground and began to practice Zhan Zhuang.
It was still the Single-Weight Three-Body Stance. After about forty seconds, Du Ruo began to feel a change in his body, but this time, he felt heat starting from his feet first, rather than the soreness in his joints and muscles as before.
Persisting to one minute, the heat in his lower body continued, but the left foot supporting his body became hotter and hotter, accompanied by numbness.
At one minute and ten seconds, the heat began to subside, and Du Ruo's whole body began to tremble. The sensation in his left leg began to fade; this wasn't because he was getting used to it, but because the soreness and numbness were intensifying, and he was starting to lose feeling.
His body continued to tremble, and beads of sweat appeared on Du Ruo's forehead, yet he kept persisting.
This kind of trembling is beneficial for Huan Jin. Previously, Du Ruo didn't dare to train for so long because he was afraid of hurting his body through forced exercise. Now that he had the medicinal wine, he naturally hoped that this trembling would last longer.
"Hoo~~"
Until Du Ruo counted to one minute and thirty-five seconds in his heart, the soreness, numbness, and itching in his body appeared again. Only then did Du Ruo stand up and stop.
"The medicinal wine is effective. I lasted at least twenty seconds longer in this stance."
He stood up and moved his hands and feet. Du Ruo was in a great mood, and while the effect of the medicinal wine was still there, he seized the time to switch legs and continue practicing.
After practicing for twenty minutes, Du Ruo noticed that his panel data had flickered.
Attribute Point: 0.01
Skill: Xing Yi Quan LV0（31/100）
"The effect is this good? Originally, it took thirty minutes to increase one point of attribute and experience, but now it increased in just twenty minutes."
Du Ruo's eyes grew brighter and brighter, and he couldn't suppress the smile on his lips.
Du Ruo didn't continue the stance. Even with the medicinal wine, he couldn't sustain such high-pressure stance training for too long.
He simply started to change things up; instead of the stance, he began to practice the Five Elements Fist.
Alternating between the stance and the Five Elements Fist allowed his body to relax better.
What made Du Ruo even happier was that the medicinal wine seemed to act like a buff that accelerated his cultivation. It actually had a bonus effect on the practice of the Five Elements Fist as well; practicing for twenty minutes also increased his experience points and attributes by one point.
Three hours of practice time passed quickly. After finishing, Du Ruo sat down again and rubbed the remaining medicinal wine in the small bowl onto his joints just as he had done at the beginning.
At the same time, he opened his attribute panel to check the results of his morning workout.
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