Hearing this, James Carter understood in his heart that Coach William Clark was probably only teaching some methods for strength training, and how to actually use them was something they had to figure out on their own.

Thinking about it, it made sense. All the students present were in a short-term martial arts training class, so there was no way to learn anything truly advanced.

“It’s not useless, though. On the contrary, this digging and turning of the soil is actually very useful. If you just practice like this for two months, your strength will increase a lot.” James Carter thought to himself, “Maybe the coach will teach us something more advanced in the future?”

The day’s training was already over.

All the students followed William Clark and ran several kilometers back to the school, exhausted and panting like dogs. After resting for a while in the dormitory, they started to eat. The food in the school cafeteria was actually quite good, and the prices were reasonable, with plenty of meat.

Of course, there were also various nourishing medicinal meal sets, but those had to be reserved in advance and were quite expensive.

James Carter subconsciously calculated the balance on his bank card and quietly ordered some regular dishes. His family’s financial situation was neither good nor bad. His mother was a university professor, and he had an older sister, Emily Carter, who worked as a research specialist in a large company, studying artificial intelligence. Her salary was quite high, and she would occasionally give him some pocket money. His father was the head of security at a company, and his salary was much lower than his mother’s.

His mother was a university professor, and his father was a security guard—two very different social classes. Many people wondered why the two of them got married and had children.

Actually, after James Carter became sensible, he also had this question. But when he once asked his father, he got a beating and never dared to ask again.

This time, he didn’t ask his parents for money. Instead, he used the money he had saved up from tutoring students.

He was still in high school, but because his grades were excellent, some parents would ask him to tutor their children. Over the years, he had saved up quite a bit of pocket money.

He was very frugal. Unlike other students, he didn’t play games, didn’t like toys, and wasn’t interested in chasing celebrities or buying anime figurines. He saved every bit of money.

But signing up for this training class was very expensive. The two-month summer program actually cost thirty thousand yuan, which was outrageous. It used up more than half of the money he had saved since he was a child.

“Where’s my ginseng milk chicken?”

Scott Miller also arrived at the VIP restaurant in the cafeteria and called James Carter to come eat with him.

The chef in the VIP restaurant brought out a pot of soup with a milky aroma. There were a few pieces of ginseng on top, along with various mushrooms and free-range chicken, as well as vegetables, fresh fruit, beef, and other rich foods.

“Oh, this ginseng milk stewed chicken—the ginseng in it is best if it’s wild, a hundred-year-old ginseng, or even a thousand-year-old ginseng would be ideal. It would greatly boost your strength! Especially the milk—if it were human milk, that would be perfect.” Scott Miller shook his head, seeming not very satisfied.

“I didn’t expect you, a foreigner, to actually know Chinese recipes?” The chef became interested and asked in Chinese, “But this dish is only a thousand yuan. The ginseng is cultivated, but it’s still quite old—six years. As for human milk, do you think this is the Qing Dynasty and you’re a royal noble?”

The royal nobles of the Qing Dynasty liked to drink breast milk. They actually kept a group of wet nurses, and the milk they expressed would be heated and mixed with rock sugar and other things.

As the saying goes, ‘the strength of a child who drinks milk.’ It means that the longer a child is breastfed, the stronger he will be.

“Scott Miller, you’re a foreigner and you actually believe this stuff? There’s not much difference between cultivated and wild ginseng. Six-year-old ginseng is the strongest, with the highest saponin content. A hundred-year-old ginseng has already turned woody, almost like wood, and has no medicinal effect at all. But breast milk really is much better than cow’s milk. It contains all sorts of substances that cow’s milk doesn’t have. Babies raised on breast milk are indeed smarter and stronger than those raised on cow’s milk.” At this moment, it was James Carter’s turn as the top student to put his knowledge from biology and history class to use.

Besides what he learned from textbooks, he also studied a lot of extracurricular knowledge.

He was also decent in PE class—running, high jump, long jump, jump rope, shot put, javelin, horizontal bar, parallel bars—he could meet the standards in all of them. Of course, he couldn’t compare to the sports students, but he was much better than those who played games and slept all day.

Of course, the school didn’t teach combat skills, so he knew very little about martial arts and fighting. Now he was cramming as much as he could.

“All right, all right. Let’s eat. I specifically ordered two servings today. It’s more fun to eat together—I can’t finish it all by myself.” Scott Miller called James Carter over.

“Scott Miller, you’re treating me to dinner—do you want me to do you a favor?” James Carter half-joked, half-serious.

“Of course, I want you to be my punching bag. I still have to train tonight!” Scott Miller ate quickly, his words muffled: “But I’m not taking advantage of you. This is good for you, too. Don’t you want to become a master in two months? This kind of training might not make you a master, but it’ll at least let you handle ordinary fights.”

“Why do you want me to be your punching bag? I’m not your match. You should find someone about as strong as you.” James Carter asked curiously.