Chapter 121 New Year's Eve Big Brother Chen Xin

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Chen Ku couldn't help but let out a long howl in the forest with excitement.

With such speed, speed is power. He rushed over, holding a thousand-jin iron rod, and smashed at the enemy. What's the difference between riding a thousand-mile horse to charge into battle?

Not to mention, with such speed, if he encounters an opponent he can't defeat, he can easily pull away fifty feet in an instant and escape far away.

But,

Chen Ku could also feel his chest burning at this time.

"After all, the sound-piercing step is a method of speed burst. The key is to burst out an amazing speed in an instant, so that before others can react, they are meat to be slaughtered... But bursting often means not lasting, and it is necessary to condense the energy in an instant and burst it out... It requires a high demand on the body."

Chen Ku panted a few times:

"What I am doing now... the speed far exceeds the physical cultivation, and the body can't keep up with the price of bursting at a high speed..."

There is a key problem in this.

The Piercing Sound Step is a footwork that matches the Black Tiger Slaughter Blade, the ultimate skill of the Five Realms.

Its entry, minor success, and major success are often closely related to the improvement of cultivation.

Obviously, neither the predecessors of the Medicine King Hall who created the Piercing Sound Step nor Shang Yunfang could have imagined that Chen Ku could achieve minor success in the Piercing Sound Step and leap fifty feet away at the Inner Qi Realm.

In the history of the Medicine King Hall, even the most talented people who practiced the Piercing Sound Step could only achieve this achievement after the Xuanguan Realm.

Chen Ku tried it several more times in the same place.

Finally, he felt that his internal organs were unable to bear the load and estimated his own limit.

"With my current internal energy cultivation, I can only do this kind of "minor success" level of sound penetration step at the peak of my strength, which is 150 feet, the limit of what my body can bear. If I do it for the fourth time, the blood will flow too fast and my blood vessels will burst." Chen Ku's eyes flickered: "Unless I break through to the Xuanguan realm, and my physical and life levels go one level higher, or... there are other ways to make up for this defect." Chen Ku pondered. He returned to his home. Tomorrow is the New Year's Eve. The whole Yaowang Hall will have a day off, and everyone will go home to celebrate the New Year. It's the New Year's Eve. Today is the New Year. The whole Baojiao County is filled with a festive atmosphere. During the New Year, every household, rich or poor, is doing their best to celebrate the New Year, just like the saying "Who doesn't eat dumplings during the New Year's Eve?" On this day, even the poorest families will try their best to prepare the best meal, pray for a good omen, and strive to eat such meals every day in the coming year.

This is also the most simple wish of ordinary people.

At Chen Ku's home.

As early as yesterday, my mother and sister-in-law took the maids and farmhands to decorate the house inside and out, cleaned the house and yard, pasted fresh red window paper-cuts, hung red lanterns, and bought the Spring Festival couplets long ago, waiting to paste the Spring Festival couplets early in the morning of the first day of the New Year tomorrow.

Hu Zi was in the yard, wearing festive red clothes and a tiger-head hat, like a New Year painting doll, holding a burning incense in one hand and a firecracker in the other hand, squatting on the ground and failing to light the firecracker several times,

Finally lit it.

He shouted, covered his ears with both hands with the incense and firecrackers, and ran towards his mother with his two short legs.

Bang!

Chen Ku sat cross-legged in his room, listening to the sound of firecrackers in the yard and Hu Zi's excited shouts, feeling the atmosphere of the New Year.

Opposite him, Zhao Chuanzu sat cross-legged, deducing the possibility of integrating the [Nine Dragons Combination Heart Method] and the [Mountain Support Palm Method].

After all, it's an incarnation, so it doesn't matter if it's broken. Just turn it into evil spirit, take back the transformation diagram and use your energy to warm it up.

Half a cup of tea passed.

The incarnation of 'Zhao Chuanzu' sitting cross-legged opposite him suddenly groaned, and then blood spurted out of his mouth and nose. The next moment, it dispersed into a white gas and returned to Chen Ku's eyebrows.

Chen Ku took back the transformation and saw the "Zhao Chuanzu incarnation" testing the exercise in his body.

"This meridian is not good, there is a conflict, next time try another meridian, anyway, as long as the incarnation is immortal, there will be unlimited opportunities for trial and error, and sooner or later you can try out the correct route to use the Nine Dragons Combination to hit the Mountain Support Palm."

Chen Ku exhaled.

On New Year's Day, he sighed.

"Three pictures are really not enough. With more and more things I have to do now, it's like a grown-up child still wearing last year's pants, with a part of the ankle exposed, which is really inadequate."

Three pictures of changes in his mind.

On the first picture, there is a change of the flowered marten, which can be released to brush away evil spirits and swallow monsters to find treasures. It can't be removed.

On the second picture, there is a fire mouth pot, which is used to make elixirs at home for 24 hours, and it can't be removed.

Only the third picture is more flexible, but it also has a cooling time.

Originally, he often changed this one, but now there is the matter of "deducing" the supporting mountain palm and the nine dragons, which requires Zhao Chuanzu to deduce. If the deduction is wrong, it must be taken back to the body for warming...

All of a sudden, the positions of the three pictures are all occupied.

He can't even hang up the newly acquired "stepping on the swallow horse", which also means that if he wants to perform the small success of the sound-piercing step, he has to remove one of the other three changes before he can use it.

"The 20,000 kilograms of iron mother from Chaitiepu has not been delivered, so I have been unable to open the fourth picture."

Chen Ku analyzed:

"Xie Qingfeng can even bring out 80,000 taels without blinking an eye. The iron mother is worth 20,000 taels, so he is not stingy. It seems... well, this iron mother is indeed difficult to get."

He sighed.

I can only wait silently.

Walked out of the house.

Seeing the family members in the yard, the sister-in-law, the cook and the maid, all busy in the kitchen, Chen Ku walked out and shouted softly:

"Brother, are you going to make eight cold, eight hot and sixteen dishes tonight?"

"That's enough. After Master Li finishes cooking these dishes in the afternoon, he will go back to celebrate the New Year. The maids and long-term workers will also go back. We are the only family of four at home."

Chen smiled bitterly and said:

"Besides, I guess when my eldest sister and brother-in-law come over in the evening, they will also bring a few boxes of vegetables."

"Aren't you afraid that both you and your brother-in-law are martial arts practitioners, so you won't have enough to eat?"

Sister-in-law Xu Lan combed her hair and said seriously:

"By the way, I've also prepared two jars of wine for you and your brother-in-law. Since it's Chinese New Year, you two heads should drink a little. I'd better add a few more dishes."

"Enough is enough."

Chen Ku said:

"This is what will definitely remain."

"It's good to have leftovers. Who doesn't have any leftovers during the Chinese New Year?"

The voice of my mother came from the kang in the house, and she was filled with joy in her old age:

"There is more than enough every year."

"Okay, you guys just watch and do it, I'll go out to meet my friends."

Yaowangtang had a day off, but Chen Ku couldn't stay at home. He had a habit of subconsciously going out for a walk during the Spring Festival holiday in his previous life.

At the same time, I also remembered a little thing.

He turned around and went to Chai Xiaoguan's house first, and presented him with ten thousand taels of silver notes.

Chai Tiangui originally led a group of maids and servants to greet him, but when he saw that Chen Ku came to pay the money, he immediately looked unhappy:

"Brother Chen, what are you doing? It's Chinese New Year."

"It's just because of the Chinese New Year."

Chen said with a bitter smile:

"As the old saying goes, you don't collect debts in the first year of junior high school, but you have to pay back the money at the age of thirty. This is an old rule. Besides, when it comes to paying back the money, I am still taking advantage of the little official. I originally wanted to get you to buy shares. I want you to make some money, but you won’t take any part in it anyway, and I will just pay you back the capital when the time comes. Now that the iron bank has recovered its capital and started to make a profit, of course, I have to return the ten thousand taels to the little official first.”

Chai Tiangui smiled helplessly after what Chen Ku said.

But he also knew that Chen Ku had received the 80,000 taels that Xie Qingfeng had lost before, so he was no longer short of money, and said:

"Okay then, I'll accept it."

This ten thousand taels of silver is nothing to him.

When Chen Ku opened his iron shop, he would give away three thousand taels as a gift, but that was different from this...

Chen Ku could tell the difference even more clearly.

What is borrowed is what is borrowed.

"Although the money has been repaid, the friendship that the junior official has for Mr. Chen will not be lost. I will keep it in my heart and will continue to repay it if I have the opportunity in the future."

After Chen Ku finished speaking, he drank a glass of water and wine at Chai Tiangui's house.

I declined lunch several times and finally left.

Finally, I went to Jiang Shaoyou's shop. I didn't have any intention of coming there. I just wanted to chat, eat melon seeds, and see if there were any interesting books I could take back.

He has a spiritual pigeon transformation. After hanging it up, he has a photographic memory. He reads more books and learns about various strange events in this world, or strange stories, or the court's legal system, local people's customs, and always has questions about survival in this world. All benefit and no harm.

Jiang Shaoyou was very happy to see him coming. He was similar to Chen Ku. On this New Year's day, every household was busy, restaurants and entertainment places in the county were all closed, and he was feeling bored...

Then I found some books for Chen Ku.

One "Baojiao County Chronicle", one "Historical Records of the Previous Dynasties", one "Ghost Fox's Night Talk", one "Weapon Atlas", and one "Jianghu Grudges"...

Chen Ku was looking through these books out of boredom, waiting for tonight's New Year's Eve dinner. Unexpectedly, Jiang Shaoyou asked with a smile.

"Junior Brother Chen, do you want to keep a vigil after the New Year's Eve dinner tonight?"

"No, what's wrong?"

Chen Ku asked while flipping through the book:

"What do you mean, Senior Brother Jiang?"

The elders in the family may keep vigil, but he didn't have this habit in his previous life. After the New Year's Eve dinner, he still had the habit of meditating and practicing.

"There's something interesting."

Jiang Shaoyou chuckled and said:

"You should also know that on New Year's Eve, all the 'Nian beasts' in the world will run out from the rivers and the bottom of the sea. I remember when I was a child, every New Year, I would follow my elders in the family, bringing gunpowder and red cloth to catch up with them. The beast that kills the year is now older, but it rarely experiences the flavor of the year. "

"Nian beast?"

Chen Ku had actually been thinking about this demon with the ability to avoid water, so he raised his eyebrows and asked:

"Senior Brother Jiang knows where the Nian beast will come from?"

What he originally thought was that if a Nian beast really appeared by then, there would most likely be one in Yaowangtang's Slaughterhouse, but if he had the means to hunt it, he could save the effort, and the materials for the Nian beast would be It can still be yours.

"Although I don't know the specific location, every year along the Longjiang River in Baojiao County, there will be hunters from Shilin, preparing many traps and waiting for the Nian beast. I probably know some places where the Nian beast often appears."

Jiang Shaoyou said slightly excitedly:

"How about tonight, let's go to the river to look for it? If we really encounter a Nian beast, let's work together to catch one. The 'water-avoiding pill' made from a single horn on its head is worth thousands of gold."

"It's not impossible."

Chen Ku put down the book in his hand and said:

"Then let's meet up after dinner."

"Okay, I'll meet you at the ferry in Longjiang Xiaozhuang Town outside the city after dinner. This Chinese New Year is really boring..."

In this way, Chen Ku and Jiang Shaoyou made an appointment.

By the time he walked out of Tongwen Hall, the sky was already gray, and the streets were filled with the happy shouts of children and the sound of firecrackers.

On the last night of the 153rd year of this Epoch Dynasty, the fireworks in the inner city of Baojiao County were very splendid, while the outer city was much dimmer.

Chen Kucai returned home.

I saw my sister and brother-in-law already sitting at home. A large table in the hall was already filled with meals and candied fruits. Some were prepared by Chen Ku's family, and some were brought over by Li Yuancheng and his wife.

"Brother-in-law, you've spent a lot of money. This precious fish is not cheap." Chen Ku came in and first saw the fish brought by Li Yuancheng, and joked.

"It's not as big as the one you caught last time." Li Yuancheng said with a smile: "There are fish every year. This time your sister changed her approach."

"Second uncle, second uncle, I want to set off the cannon. Grandma said that after the cannon is set off, dinner can be served." Huzi shouted.

"You've been lying there all day, and your face is blackened, and you're still lying there." His mother said angrily.

"The one who celebrates the New Year is still a child, let him go." The eldest sister Chen Tian looked at Huzi with affection in her eyes.

She and Li Yuancheng have been together for six or seven years and have not yet had a child, so they feel very fond of Hu Zi.

Soon.

When the sister-in-law put all the dishes on the table, Chen Ku and the other children stood up and toasted their old mother with a glass of wine.

The old lady of the Chen family drank a glass of water and wine, her eyes were a little red again, and she said:

"I didn't expect that this is what our family is like. To have such a big yard in this county and to be able to eat such a big table of food during the Chinese New Year is like a dream."

Chen Tian looked at Chen Ku with red eyes and tears in his eyes: "It's all Erlang's credit."

Li Yuancheng nodded.

He is a deputy head catcher and earns twenty taels of salary a month.

Now he has a stake in the Railway Bank. The Railway Bank paid him a dividend two days ago. It only lasted two or three months, but he actually received 500 taels, which was more than his two-year salary.

These days, I am also thinking about changing to a bigger yard. All these are the changes that my brother-in-law has brought to their home.

Xu Lan saw the whole family enjoying themselves and wanted to say something, but when she saw her brother-in-law clinking glasses with Chen Ku happily, she felt ashamed and did not speak.

But she didn't speak, but the old mother couldn't help but wiped away her tears and said:

"This guy who celebrates the New Year doesn't even know that Dalang..."

Sure enough, Li Yuancheng's face darkened when he mentioned Chen Xin, the boss of the Chen family.

Chen Ku was about to say something.

Suddenly, I heard the sound of bricks and tiles on the wall outside.

He turned around and shouted loudly:

"Who?"

Immediately walked from the hall to the door.

As the deputy chief of police, Li Yuancheng had been a police officer for four or five years and had long been honed to be sensitive and alert. He rushed out almost as soon as Chen Ku opened his mouth.

Immediately, the two people arrived at the door.

Then he saw a figure on the roof outside the courtyard door. With a shout from inside the house, he flew towards the distance like lightning.

at this time.

The female relatives in the house also walked out of the door in panic.

Just when Chen Ku was about to use his fine dog's sense of smell to target that person.

Then I heard two screams from my sister-in-law and my mother behind me.

"ah!"

Xu Lan burst into tears and looked at the figure in the distance:

"Dalang!"

"What?" Chen Ku suddenly turned his head.

Then I heard my mother's voice coming from behind. She was sobbing, her eyes were already red, and she looked at the retreating figure:

"That seems to be your brother's figure. Yes, there is no mistake. A mother will never mistake her son's figure."