Have you ever been made to kneel by a teacher at the age of ten, until a few drops of pee came out?
Hu Bao'er has.
On the last day of final exams, he said, “The other classes are already on vacation,” and the teacher made him kneel on the platform and beat him with a shoe sole. A few drops came out, but he clenched his buttocks and didn't let his classmates see.
He thought it was the most humiliating thing that could happen.
He didn't know that summer still had plenty in store for him: getting stung by bees, nearly drowning, and being beaten up by kids from another village.
He also didn't know that the deaf Grandpa Aye from his village would snap a branch with one hand that summer and ask him, “Want to learn martial arts?”
And he had no idea that a true master hidden away from the world would become his teacher. From then on, his life would change.
