Uchiha Hoken continued to introduce the just-practiced taijutsu to Chen Yue, saying, “By learning the basic 24 moves of the Konoha-style taijutsu, you can train your body, enhance your physique, and improve your coordination. Once you have mastered these, you can then learn more advanced techniques like kunai throwing, shuriken combat, swordsmanship, and ninjutsu-based taijutsu. You’ll be able to achieve twice the results with half the effort.”
After speaking, looking at the little boy whose body was starting to tremble, and then at the maid Yuzi waiting outside the training ground, Uchiha Hoken took out a stick of incense from somewhere.
He waved his hand to light it, then inserted it into a tripod-shaped incense burner next to the training ground, and said to Chen Yue, “Alright, you can rest for two quarters of an hour now. After you finish your breakfast, we’ll officially start practicing taijutsu.”
As his words fell, the old man took a step forward, disappearing before Chen Yue’s eyes.
“Seriously, was there a need to use Body Flicker Technique for that?”
Chen Yue supported his legs, which were starting to feel numb, slowly straightening his body, and secretly criticizing his great-grandfather for leaving using the Body Flicker Technique.
But, it was kinda cool, he thought. Once he learned the Body Flicker Technique, he would definitely do that too.
“The training was hard, Young Master Chen Yue.”
After Uchiha Hoken left, Yuzi, the maid waiting outside the training ground, came to Chen Yue’s side carrying a food box.
She spread out the prepared tablecloth on the ground, opened the food box, and placed one dish after another on top.
“Wow, it’s so delicious, I’m going to eat!”
Chen Yue sat down casually on the ground and picked up his chopsticks, ready to eat his fill.
However, Yuzi, who was kneeling beside him, stopped him, “You can’t do that, Young Master Chen Yue, posture, posture.”
Just sitting on the ground so casually, obviously didn’t fit the usual etiquette teachings.
“Eh, but Yuzi-san, my legs are so numb after standing in the horse stance, it’s uncomfortable sitting like that, can I just sit like this?”
Hearing this, Chen Yue pretended to look pitifully at the girl.
Yuzi, as his assigned personal maid, was responsible for taking care of his basic daily life, as well as supervising and correcting his daily behavior and etiquette.
His current posture was an example of this. Under normal circumstances, Chen Yue should be sitting upright in a kneeling position.
However, after running twenty laps and standing in the horse stance for about a quarter of an hour, his legs didn’t want to be ‘uncomfortable’ at all now.
Speaking of time, we have to mention the special situation of this world.
As mentioned before, this is an ancient version of the Naruto world, so at this time there were no advanced timekeeping tools like clocks, nor modern timekeeping terms. Instead, there was a very ancient-style timekeeping term - hours and quarters.
Similar to the timekeeping methods of ancient times in the previous world, a day was divided into twelve hours, using the twelve earthly branches: ‘Zi Chou Yin Mao Chen Si Wu Wei Shen You Xu Hai’ to represent them.
Of course, in the Naruto world, or perhaps it should be said, using the twelve basic hand gestures used in forming hand seals to represent them.
The twelve hours correspond to the twenty-four hours of the previous world, with one hour corresponding to two hours.
Each hour is divided into eight quarters, with one quarter corresponding to fifteen minutes in the modern world.
For example, Chen Yue was woken up by Yuzi at Chen time, three quarters (7:45), washed up, and arrived at the training ground at Chen time, four quarters (8:00). It took about a quarter of an hour to get there, then he spent another quarter of an hour standing in the horse stance while listening to Uchiha Hoken’s instructions.
That means that Chen Yue should be eating breakfast at Chen time, six quarters (8:30), and after resting for two quarters, he will enter the next hour, Si time (9:00 to 11:00).
Just like the old-fashioned timekeeping terms, the Naruto world is equally old-fashioned when it comes to timekeeping tools.
Similarly to the ancient world of the previous world, the primary timekeeping tools are sundials, water clocks, and so on.
However, whether it is a sundial or a water clock, these tools are not simple, and they are also quite large, so they are generally used as public facilities.
Some large organizations will also build bell towers and drum towers, ringing bells or beating drums at regular intervals to inform people of the time. For example, there are quite a few in Konoha Village, and a bell or drum will sound every half hour.
However, bell towers and drum towers only tell the time every half hour, so how do people determine the time in between?
Incense burning to tell time, using specially made incense to determine and calculate time.
There are different types of incense for different lengths of time, such as a quarter-hour incense, a two-quarter incense, and so on.
While this method of timekeeping is not very precise, it is a widely used method among the general public.
The incense Uchiha Hoken placed before leaving was a two-quarter incense, and when it burns out, it indicates that two quarters of an hour have passed.
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“Hmm… alright.”
Over here, Yuzi pondered for a while, possibly unable to bear Chen Yue’s pitiful pleas, finally decided to show mercy and no longer insisted on his posture.
In fact, although the Uchiha clan is a large clan and family, with a long history, they do have certain requirements for the etiquette of their clan members, and even stricter for Chen Yue, who is from the main line of the family.
But after all, they are all ninjas, people who lick blood from the blade and face death at any time, so there are etiquette, but mainly in daily life. When ninjas carry out missions or fight, naturally they don’t need to care about these formalities.
Although Chen Yue is not yet a ninja and is still undergoing ninja training, he actually also belongs to the category where he doesn’t need to care about formalities.
Yuzi knew this, which is why she was so easily persuaded, otherwise she wouldn’t have agreed. It would have been a betrayal of Uchiha Aya’s trust in her.
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