From a freeloader to a world leader

Chapter 19 I have a dream

"Sun Shan, when did you learn martial arts? Why didn't I know about it?"

After entering Hengzhou City, Zhang Yuliang couldn't help but hold Sun Shan's hand and asked him curiously.

Now, he increasingly felt that he could not understand Sun Shan.

Before he passed the imperial examination and became a scholar, he was a quiet man who followed me around every day. Apart from his slightly better academic performance, everything else about him was quite ordinary.

He is like a completely different person now.

Not only is he eloquent and talented, but he also knows martial arts!

"This isn't martial arts, I just need to be a little more agile."

Sun Shan explained casually, and then said: "During this period of time at home, I have been exercising every day. A few days ago, I read the book "The Legend of the Great Sui Dynasty Rangers" and felt that kind of life was very interesting. Suddenly, I wanted to practice my skills."

As he spoke, Sun Shan laughed proudly: "Every man has a dream of being a knight. Didn't I tell you before that if one day I could carry a long sword on my shoulder, travel around the world, and help those who are in trouble when I see them, that would be a romantic life!"

"Did you say that?"

Zhang Yuliang tilted his head and thought about it, as if Sun Shan had said something similar before.

It was just that three or four years ago, when Sun Shan was bullied by Yin Zhiping in the school, he got excited and talked nonsense.

"Well, well, well--"

Zhang Yuliang looked at Sun Shan and suddenly felt a little strange. After saying that, he uttered, "You can't be so powerful all of a sudden. I feel like you've flown."

"Is it that powerful?"

Sun Shan stopped explaining and leaned close to Zhang Yuliang's ear and asked mysteriously, "Yuliang, do you want to learn? I'll teach you a method."

"Yes, of course I do!"

When Zhang Yuliang heard that Sun Shan had a way to become as powerful as him, he was so excited that he almost jumped up. He grabbed Sun Shan's arm impatiently and asked, "Sun Shan, tell me quickly, I want to practice too!"

"Just run more, jump more, and train your strength. In addition, we can sew a piece of clothing filled with sand and wear it every day, year after year. After a long time, we will become extremely strong and as light as a swallow."

"really?"

Zhang Yuliang's eyes widened in surprise and he asked in disbelief, "Is it that simple? I've never seen you practice it before."

"Why haven't I practiced it before? It's just that you don't know it."

As he spoke, Sun Shan spread his hands in front of Zhang Yuliang, asking him to look at his hands, which had become strong and calloused after practicing strength and agility for half a month. "Look, what is this?"

"Really? Are you really practicing martial arts at home?"

Zhang Yuliang touched the center of Sun Shan's palm and felt the raised area where calluses were beginning to form.

It feels a bit hard and powerful.

This made him even more confused. He looked left and right at Sun Shan. The more he looked, the more energetic he seemed. He looked much more sunny and handsome than before.

After hesitating for a while, Zhang Yuliang asked again in confusion: "Sun Shan, do you not plan to study anymore? Do you really want to travel the world?"

“How could that be?”

Sun Shan shook his head: "How is that possible? My mother would scold me to death. I dare not let her be sad and disappointed."

"Why are you still like this? I haven't seen you reading before. You used to hold a book in your hands every day."

"What's wrong with me? I just want to change myself now. I just think studying is not the only thing in life."

Sun Shan retorted, and then put his arm around Zhang Yuliang's neck: "Who says that scholars can only study? The Master said that a gentleman should master the six arts: rites, music, archery, charioteering, calligraphy, and mathematics. We are young and have plenty of time to learn various skills. I don't want to become a nerd who only knows how to study."

"Yo----"

Zhang Yuliang cried out in surprise at what Sun Shan said, and recalled how Sun Shan used to be: "You used to only know how to study, didn't you? I asked you to practice archery and horse riding, but you pushed back."

"hey-hey-----"

Sun Shan smiled mischievously: "That was in the past. At that time, I didn't pass the exam to become a scholar. At that time, I had to do my best. I had to pass the exam to become a scholar and fulfill my mother's most basic wish."

"What about you now? Are you not studying anymore? You promised my dad the day before yesterday that you would take at least two exams."

"I study. Who says I don't study?"

Sun Shan knocked Zhang Yuliang's head with some disdain and said, "Look at your brain, why can't you turn around? I want to read books, practice martial arts, and in the future, I will also learn music, chess, calligraphy and painting. My family is poor, and the more I learn, the more money I can make. If there is light in the east, there will be light in the west."

"Are you calling me stupid?"

Zhang Yuliang glared at Sun Shan with some anger in his heart, and struggled to break free from Sun Shan's arm that was around his shoulders.

He felt that the positions between him and Sun Shan had been reversed.

In the past, I could order him around and treat him like a younger brother.

Now he has become a beautiful scenery in his own eyes.

Apart from his still poor family background, it seems that I can't compare with him in any other aspect.

So, if in the future he succeeds in his studies, becomes rich and successful.

How do I get along with him?

"whee-----"

Sun Shan smiled playfully and walked forward to put his arm around Zhang Yuliang's shoulders.

As a classmate who had studied together since childhood and as the subject of his research, he understood Zhang Yuliang better than anyone else in the world.

Sun Shan knew that Zhang Yuliang did not accept his change for a while and his mentality was somewhat unbalanced.

However, sooner or later, one's own strengths will be exposed.

Moreover, as one of his future supports and one of his future brothers-in-law, he must be kept under tight control.

"How dare I say you're stupid? You said that yourself, didn't you? I figured out some things after I got sick, and I may have changed temporarily, making you feel that I'm different from before."

"Yuliang, you'll get used to it. As we grow older, or as our social status changes, we will no longer be who we used to be."

As he spoke, Sun Shan pointed proudly at the crowds of people coming and going on the street, at the most luxurious and grand Zidong Pavilion Restaurant in the city, and at the towering mountains in the distance outside the city wall.

She said affectionately: "Yuliang, we are still young, we have dreams, and we have countless possibilities in the future. I don't want to live a mediocre life like these ordinary people who live for nothing and only have three meals a day."

"I hope our future will be bright and glorious, I hope our tomorrow will be infinitely beautiful, and I hope that if I succeed one day, I can change something and contribute something to the world."

"I hope the world will become better and better, I hope there will be no more sorrow and separation, I hope all people will have fun when they grow old and have children well taken care of."

"If I can do this, even if it's just a tiny step forward, it will be worth my trip to this world."

As Sun Shan spoke passionately, Zhang Yuliang's mouth opened wider and wider. He turned his neck stiffly, looking at Sun Shan's passionate and enthusiastic appearance right in front of him, and his heart flew away.

Fly into a dreamland without sadness and pain.

Zhang Yushan, who was walking not far ahead and had been paying attention to the two people's conversation, also became dazed.

Is this a young scholar who passed the imperial examination at the age of sixteen?

This is what a student from a poor family should say?

Can the dream he talked about come true?

Is there really a world without sadness and pain?

Is it really possible for the elderly to enjoy themselves and the young to be well taken care of?