Story of Drahuafeawing Chap 8: Morning Exercise

After dinner, Hero showed Drahuafeawing and Draflyindekong’s room and went to rest.
Drahuafeawing’s room was next to Draflyindekong’s room in the new corners area near the master’s room.
The VIP lounges were more on the side of the forest near the barrel, easy access of water to shower.
In each room, there were barrel for showering, mirror, towel, a bowl for hand washing and carrying water, a bed and a mosquito net above it.
Knock——-knock——-
“Who’s that?”  Draflyindekong asked.
“Me, Hero.” the person replied.
Draflyindekong put her luggage down near her bed, and went to open the door.
“What’s up?” Drahuafeawing asked.
“THE MASTER SAID YOU CAN JOIN ME FOR MORNING EXERCISE” Hero said.
“Didn’t we need to want for a month to do that?” Drahuafeawing asked with curiosity. She thought the rules are rules, and she was willing to obey the rules.
“YOU TWO SAVED ME FROM KONG” Hero explained.
“That was nothing, but I am glad to join the morning exercise. And I’ll go and tell Draflyindekong that Drahuafeawing said with an excited tone. She did not know that doing good things meant learning more.
“ALRIGHT, GOOD NIGHT.” HERO smiled and started to walk away as Drahuafeawing stopped out from her room and closed the door behind her.
“Draflyindekong!” Drahuafeawing yelled and knocked his door.
Draflyindekong opened the door and saw Drahuafeawing in front of her.
“Guess what?” Drahuafeawing delightfully asked.
“What?” Draflyindekong replied placidly.
“We are invited to join HERO for morning exercise tomorrow!” Drahuafeawing told the good news to Draflyindekong.
Draflyindekong’s eye shone.
“I know. It’s so exciting.” Drahuafeawing said and grabbed Draflyindekong’s hands, and started jumping. Draflyindekong jumped with her.
“You better grab some sleep before down.” Drahuafeawing said, released Draflyindekong’s hand, and started leaving.
“Have a nice dream.”
Drahuafeawing said caringly.
“You, too.” Drahuafeawing replied.
Drahuafeawing was too excited to sleep. She finally dozed for a while and was up when she heard the rooster call. She stretched her arms to the sky.
She took out her special cup and said, “I’m thirsty.” the cup was filled up with pinkish clean water with sparkles.
Drahuafeawing gulped up the water and her body filled up with energy.
Her tub on a chair was already filled up with water for her to wash her face and hands. A bar of soap lay next to the tub. An exercise suit was folded neatly on a chain next to the tub.
Drahuafeawing quickly washed her face and dried with a towel. She picked up the exercise suit and examined it closely. It was a white silk suit with red fringe on the sleeve and the neck.
Drahuafeawing tried it n and it fit like it was exactly her size. She was so happy, so she danced around and hummed. Then she was ready to go to do the morning exercise.
Drahuafeawing opened the door at the same time Draflyindekong opened his. She saw HERO already waiting by her door.
“Good morning, HERO. Good morning Draflyindekong.” Drahuafeawing said with a happy face. ‘A new day brings more opportunities. Let’s go and do morning exercise!’
HERO led the way to a large open square. Two person were already there waiting for them. One person was twice tall as Drahuafeawing. The other one looked normal, was about the same size as Drahuafeawing.
‘Good morning!’ The tall one yelled as HERO, Drahuafeawing and Draflyindekong walked closer.
‘GOOD MORNING!’ HERO said.
‘THIS IS YUNG.’ HERO pointed to the tall one. ‘AND THIS IS OUR LEADER FENG.’ HERO pointed to the other one.
‘Hi! Hi!’ Drahuafeawing said. ‘I’m Drahuafeawing and this is Draflyindekong.’
‘Alright, let’s start.’ Feng said.
‘First, warm up stretches.’ Feng introduced. ‘Follow me.’
Feng spread his legs apart, and leaned to the right. After a few moments, he leaned to the left.
‘Everything we do to one side, do it to the other side as well.’ Feng explained.
He then extended his arm upward, and did a warrior pose. And HERO, Yung, Drahuafeawing and Dralyindekong followed him.
After warm up, then it was real game, real kung Fu.
‘Because we have new students, we are going to review the Tai chi eight poses. It is the most basic poses of Kung Fu. The first pose is Gorilla going down a mountain. You relax your shoulders, palms to the side close to your sheen. Relax your tongue, and smile but also not smile.  We’ll walk in a circle for eight steps, turn and walk for another eight steps. Legs half crouching down. Straighten it when stepping forward. Chin up, eyes focus to the middle of the circle, as if someone is there.’ Feng instructed. And Yung, HERO, lead the way, while Drahuafeawing and Draflyindekong followed.
” The second pose is Monkey giving a peach. This one you put your hands under your chin. Like holding a peach. The legs are the same as previous one and also walk clockwise and counterclockwise for eight steps each.’ Feng said. And they did it.
‘Now let’s practice these two poses and I’ll teach you more tomorrow.’ Feng said.
‘How many poses are there?’ Drahuafeawing asked.
‘For this one Taichi eight poses, there are eight poses but there are also Tai chi thirteen poses. Tai chi twenty- four poses, and Tai chi one hundred and eight poses.
‘Wow. That’s a lot. How long are we going to learn them for?’ Drahuafeawing asked while stupefied by the numbers.
‘The thirteen poses and twenty four poses are included in the one hundred and eight poses, plus eight poses is one hundred and sixteen poses. You’ll learn two poses each day, so you’ll spend fifty six days to learn all of them which is about two months.’ Feng explained.
‘That’s not bad. I want to learn flying skills. Where can I learn that?’ Drahuafeawing asked curiously.
‘You don’t learn that until you become a VIP.’ Feng said, and leaned closer to Drahuafeawing and spoke into her ear. ‘I’ll tell you a tip, to fly you need good running skills. The faster you run, the easier you fly.’
Drahuafeawing smiled when she heard this. Run is her favorite exercise. She decided that she would run whenever she had a chance to.
‘BREAKFAST TIME.’ HERO said.
Feng, Yung, HERO, Drahuafeawing andDraflyindekong went to eat breakfast.

 

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