Super Homeowner System

Chapter 21: Chapter 21 Winter is Coming



On November 8, leaves were falling outside Guang County, and winter was getting closer.

Hua Kai felt the temperature drop sharply when he woke up early in the morning. After morning exercise and breakfast, he asked the housekeeper to distribute all the remaining 200 kilograms of bear meat in the house, and each family of all the masters above the Kaiyuan realm in the village could get about 5 kilograms. The host family gave benefits to the powerful warriors in the village. This is common in many villages, which can encourage everyone to exercise diligently and set an example in winter training.

Hua Kai and his grandfather went out early in the morning. The last time he went to the big market in Ju State, Lie Yan was exhausted, mainly because the lunch break was too short. Today, Hua Kai and his grandfather went out early in the morning, so that Lie Yan could rest more at the big market at noon and eat some grass to replenish his physical strength.

Today, when going to Ju State, Hua Kai felt that there were many more wild beasts on the road than the day before. Lie Yan was also very smart when he walked this road. He tried to get out of the way when he encountered a dense area of ​​wild beasts. Hua Xing also tried to drive away wild beasts when he encountered them to avoid conflicts. In this way, they soon came to the place where they killed the black bear last time.

Along the way, this is the area with the most wild beasts, probably because there is a river opposite. When the ice season comes, these wild beasts will all go to the border of Beihai, and then the wild beasts will spread to all the lands of Qingzhou.

After passing the border river last time, the probability of wild beasts appearing has greatly decreased, and Lieyan has slowed down.

This time Lieyan's performance is obviously much stronger than last time. After entering Beihai, the two people and the horse did not stop to rest. In less than an hour, Hua Kai saw the Buju Kingdom Market in the distance.

When we arrived at the Ju Kingdom Market, it was still prosperous. In about ten days, the entire Qingzhou will enter the ice period. The river will gradually freeze and wild beasts will run rampant. This market will also be closed, so everyone will hurry up to purchase what they need.

Hua Kai had money from selling black bear meat last time, so he bought more special tea today. These teas are usually only bought by aristocratic families, and one tael costs several taels of silver. Hua Kai spent 30 gold to buy 100 kilograms. This tea has very strict requirements for storage conditions, and the price of transporting it to the grassland is beyond the imagination of ordinary people. Because the tariff is too high and it is difficult to preserve, most small aristocratic families dare not touch the high-end tea business.

Hua Kai also bought some high-quality silk, hundreds of kilograms of sugar and one kilogram of spiritual rice. After spending more than ten gold, he had less than 30 gold left. He planned to take these things to the grassland next year to try the price. If possible, this will become a major source of income for the family. There is no concept of time in the portable space, and things will not deteriorate no matter how long they are kept in it.

Hua Kai actually planned to plant spiritual rice himself next year. There are spiritual rice seeds in the system main task rewards. If you can summarize the experience of spiritual rice planting early, planting spiritual rice in the future will also be a good livelihood for the family.

When returning home in the afternoon, Lieyan ran from Buqi County to Guang County in one breath. Hua Kai felt that the speed had increased a little. They set out from the big market at three o'clock in the afternoon, and they had returned to Huajiabao before six o'clock.

In the next two days, Hua Kai and his grandfather went to the big market of Ju State twice. The flow of people in the market has become less and less as winter approaches. Some merchant ships from the southern country are ready to return. On the last day, Hua Kai couldn't help but spend more than 20 gold to buy a lot of things, just because the caravan price was too cheap at this time.

On November 16, Hua Kai woke up early in the morning and heard the familiar sound of morning exercises in the village. In the past few days, the number of people participating in morning and evening training in the martial arts training ground has begun to increase. Uncle San had to temporarily expand the area of ​​the martial arts training ground. Now the new martial arts training ground is given to the newly joined outsiders. Hua Xing and Hua Zihuan often go to the new martial arts training ground when they have nothing to do. If they meet someone with good qualifications, they will be admitted to the Hua family and given the practice of the mind method.

In fact, in this world, you can practice without the mind method by yourself, but the speed is much slower. In this world, the mind method is actually a symbol of family strength. Without a high-level mind method, the family will become more and more decadent, and there will be fewer and fewer masters. The essence of the mind method will gradually be lost, and finally the level of the mind method will slowly decline until it drops to the low level of the yellow level.

On the contrary, if the family is becoming more and more prosperous, and there are more and more masters above the Qi training realm, they may summarize the shortcomings of the mind method and make corrections by themselves, so that the family mind method can be continuously improved.

Therefore, a family mind method is crucial. People who have been influenced by the family mind method since childhood will practice the mind method much faster when they grow up. Hua Kai was able to practice the [Quiet Heart Sutra] to great success at the age of 12 because he knew the family mind method since birth. If he were asked to change the mind method now, he might not be able to get started for several years.

After practicing gun skills for 3 hours in the martial arts training field, most people in the village would increase the intensity of practice when they have nothing to do in winter. Hua Kai meditated for a while and felt that his true qi had been fully restored, so he had the idea of ​​quickly upgrading the family mind method.

The mind method is promoted so that everyone's true qi recovery is accelerated, so there is more time to polish the body, and the mind method of a family is related to the improvement of the combat power of the entire family. It is much more effective than Hua Kai upgrading his space to make more money.

Thinking of this, Hua Kai went to the stable to upgrade the last strong horse. Seeing that the family's luck value had reached 149 points, he went home and entered the [Family Secret Space] and [Wu Jing Zhai]. Now there is only a set of mental methods in [Wu Jing Zhai], [Jing Xin Jue]. Hua Kai clicked to confirm the upgrade, and saw that more than half of the luck value on the crystal column in the center of the space entered [Wu Jing Zhai]. Hua Kai sat in meditation and operated his mental method. The [Jing Xin Jue], which had only more than 200 words before, was modified by the system by more than 30 words, but it looked like the effect had changed a lot. He operated his true qi according to the new [Jing Xin Jue] formula, and only felt that his body absorbed the true qi about 30% faster, and his understanding of the true qi was more profound!

Hua Kai opened his eyes and a smile appeared on his face. He participated in the promotion of [Jing Xin Jue] and had a better understanding of the family's mental method.

These insights cannot be clearly expressed in the few hundred words in the mental formula. With these feelings, he is confident that he can help important family members improve their mental level in a short period of time.

Hua Kai: Tempering Body Level 4

Qualification: D-

Constitution: 14

Strength: 15

Will: 19

Mental method: Meditation Formula (Yellow-level intermediate mental method) Great success

Spear method: Sky-breaking Spear (Yellow-level advanced spear method) Minor success

Special mental method: Big Dream Visualization Method (God-level) Entry

Special skill: Eye of Truth (cannot be upgraded)

[Meditation Formula] prompts that it is already a yellow-level intermediate mental method, and his strength value has increased by 1 point. There is no other change. With his current training speed, it should not be a problem to reach the 5th level of the Tempering Body Level by the end of winter. At that time, it will be safer to go to Linhu Grassland.

The improvement of the mental method made Hua Kai review the practice during the day at night and experience a lot more. He finally understood why there were so many masters in the family. The faster the speed of absorbing true qi is a comprehensive improvement for a person's strength. He could clearly feel what could be improved when he used [Sky Spear] again.

The next day, Hua Kai found his grandfather and told Hua Xing about his new understanding of [Calming Jue].

Hua Xing was shocked after hearing his grandson's words. Generally, only masters who have entered the Qi training realm can make changes to the mental method they are familiar with. No matter what the reason is, his grandson can find out the shortcomings of the mental method and improve it. He is a genius, and he is only in the body tempering realm now.

Hua Xing followed the modified formula of [Calming Jue] and just circulated the true qi once, and he knew that the quality of this new mental method was much better than the previous one. The speed of his whole body's true qi circulation was faster, and the speed of absorbing true qi was also much faster.

Seeing that his grandfather had entered the understanding of the new mental method, Hua Kai checked his grandfather's attributes.

Hua Xing: Qi Training Level 1

Qualification: B

Constitution: 39 (43)

Strength: 40

Will: 46

Mental Skill: Meditation Technique (Yellow-level Intermediate Mental Skill) Great Success

Spear Skill: Sky-Splitting Spear (Yellow-level Advanced Spear Skill) Great Perfection

Loyalty: 100

Grandpa's mental skill was downgraded from Perfection to Great Success, probably because he was not familiar with the new mental skill. Physical strength of 39 points is already infinitely close to the real physical strength of Qi Training Level, plus the Great Perfection of [Sky-Splitting Spear], it should not be a problem to deal with ordinary Qi Training Level beginners.

Hua Kai has always been worried about whether the reduction of the family's luck value will bring some bad things to the family. At noon, his third uncle told him that someone accidentally fell from a height when building a new house in the east of the village, but fortunately the fall was not serious. There were more small wild beasts looking from a distance outside the village in the afternoon, which should be the result of the low family luck value.

In the following days, the number of people who broke through the Huajiabao suddenly became scarce, which made Hua Kai realize the importance of the family's luck value. If the family's luck value was only a few points, he was afraid that the village would be surrounded by wild beasts this year. This was not a joke.

So in the future, you must be cautious when using the luck value. Hua Kai reminded himself secretly.

The upgrade of [Calm Heart Technique] was initially slowly carried out among the core members of the Hua family. If no one taught it personally, practicing the mental method casually might lead to obsession.

Hua Kai personally gave the new [Calm Heart Technique] formula to his second uncle, third uncle, fourth uncle, housekeeper, Er Zhuang and others, and guided them to practice. A week later, his grandfather and fourth uncle first used the new mental method skillfully, and the new [Calm Heart Technique] was gradually spread to the whole village.

What Hua Kai did not expect was that as the new [Calm Heart Technique] was used by more people, the family's luck value ushered in a wave of significant growth. The luck value, which was only 49 points in just one week, returned to 66 points. The loyalty of many important family members increased, and the number of people with loyalty exceeding 90 points has exceeded 50. The fifth uncle Hua Zichen, who had always worried Hua Kai, was finally kicked out of the crystal column list.

Grandpa had already spread the news to Linzi City. Huajiabao had suffered an accident this year. It was reasonable that Hua Zichen would rush home as soon as possible. Unfortunately, there is still no news about the fifth uncle Hua Zichen. Grandpa has begun to worry these days.

On November 23, the weather suddenly turned cold and the ground began to frost. Fortunately, more than half of the new houses in Huajiabao had been built, enough for all the new villagers to live in. The third uncle found Hua Kai at noon that day.

"Winter is a torment for the villages outside Guang County, especially the small villages, many of which do not have much savings and insufficient food. In the past few days, more and more people have come to me to find a short-term job in Huajiabao. I can only try my best to meet the needs of talented families according to your requirements, but many people will wait at my door every day. I wonder if I can find more work for them if my family has sufficient funds!"

Uncle San said so, and Hua Kai also understood in his heart that every family wants to have a person who can practice. For this, many families have to save food to buy some meat for the most qualified young people even if everyone only eats one meal a day. That is their family's hope for the future.

The trend of martial arts practice in Huajiabao is particularly obvious this year, which makes many families with poor conditions even more tight. As the first manager of the outer village, Uncle San knows these best.

"The city wall has been repaired, but the houses cannot be built due to frost. We cannot ignore the people seeking shelter in Huajiabao... How about this! You issue a notice to the whole village. As long as they train for more than 4 hours a day in the martial arts training ground, the family will provide them with a meal every afternoon. You should arrange for someone to cook in the afternoon now, so that there will be more positions." Hua Kai thought for a while and said.

In fact, whether it is Guang County City or the eight major villages, these people must be helped every year, otherwise they will not be able to get the support of the surrounding villages and fight for the status they deserve in the whole Guang County.

"Well... OK!" Hua Zijie wanted to object. The pressure of helping the family was too great. Even if Hua Kai went to Ju State to buy a large amount of food this time, it would only be enough for everyone to eat for two months at most.

"Also, I've noticed that the sanitation in the village has been getting worse these days! Arrange some villagers to be responsible for cleaning the village, and tell everyone that anyone who urinates and defecates in the village will be disqualified from having lunch in the afternoon... By the way, there is only one public toilet in the village, and it's not enough now that there are more people. You should build four more public toilets in each direction of the village, and one outside the main courtyard."

Speaking of toilets in this world, Hua Kai has a hard time describing them. Hua Kai has been carrying out toilet reforms in recent years, forcing everyone to develop good habits, and the environment in the village has changed slightly. Now, as the head of the Hua family, he plans to improve the sanitation in the village.

The news that "the main family practices martial arts and provides meals" soon spread throughout the Huajiabao. At first, all the idle men in the village came to practice in the martial arts training ground, and then some women and children who stayed at home and had nothing to do also came. The entire martial arts training ground began to be crowded with people. Hua Kai had no choice but to extract 20 people from the village guard team to be responsible for the training of these people, but the training place was placed on various roads in the village.

The reason why Hua Kai spent so much money to let nearly a thousand people in the village participate in the training was that one reason was to prevent everyone from organizing an effective resistance after the village was breached, and the other reason was to cultivate a training atmosphere for the whole village and cultivate more and better family youth.

Time passed slowly like this. Although the entire Huajiabao had entered winter, it was still very lively every day. The salt workshop had two shifts every day to purify the crude salt. In more than ten days, 2,000 kilograms of refined salt had been stored in the warehouse. The toilets in the village were also built one after another. The environment in the village was getting better step by step. The whole Huajiabao seemed to be in order. There were no more people passing by on the county road outside Huajiabao. Every night when Hua Kai could hear the roar of the beasts outside the village, some villagers were terrified when they heard this. The test of winter was coming!


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