The longed-for village system

Chapter 1 Rebirth
In 2020, in Manyuan Village, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, a young man was jogging on a path, occasionally greeting the villagers next to him.

Good morning, everyone! Have you all eaten?

"Little Chen! Working out again! Come over to your aunt's for dinner sometime!"

"That's right, don't be shy with us!"

The man responded politely to the villagers' enthusiasm, and after running around, he returned to a somewhat dilapidated courtyard.

The young man's name is Chen Qing. He is a native of Manyuan Village. He was an orphan who grew up on the charity of many families. He also completed his university studies with funds raised by the entire village. After finishing his studies, he returned to his hometown to work in order to give back to the villagers.

However, Chen Qing has another secret: he is no longer the original Chen Qing. He died on the night his fellow villagers celebrated his return home and he got drunk. He has been reborn in another world.

Although he was also named Chen Qing, he was a native of Jiangsu and Zhejiang in his previous life and had never traveled far from home. Even his studies were all within Jiangsu and Zhejiang province. He wondered how he ended up in Yunnan province, thousands of miles away, after taking a nap, and even became an orphan.

At first, Chen Qing thought he had been kidnapped, but after checking, he immediately ruled it out because he was completely free and there wasn't even a rope on him except for a blanket. Then a voice dispelled his thoughts of going home.

He actually has a system that's a must-have for protagonists in novels, and it even has a very impressive name: "The Strongest Homebody System." As the name suggests, it means you'll become stronger while staying at home. Fortunately, the scope of this "homebody" is pretty good—it covers the entire Manyuan Village.

Moreover, the system informed him that although he was still on Earth, this Earth was vastly different from the Earth he had lived on in his previous life, and many people and things were different. He had come to understand this after a month of getting to know it.

"System, today is the first day of the month, where's my reward?"

"Ding, congratulations host for staying at home for 30 days. You are hereby rewarded with a designated skill."

"I choose a musical instrument."

"Successfully claimed. Next check-in period: 40 days."

Upon hearing the system's voice, Chen Qing immediately made a choice, a choice he had already planned.

On the first day, the system randomly gave him a lyric writing skill. On the seventh day, he gained the composition skill. After receiving the woodworking skill for 15 days and knowing that he could choose a skill on the 30th day, he decided which skill he wanted to choose.

It would be strange if a lyricist and composer didn't know how to play musical instruments, especially since Chen Qing thought it was a very cool thing to know how to play musical instruments.

Chen Qing calmly accepted the sudden influx of knowledge into his mind, walked to the warehouse, took out the materials, and began to make it.

His spiritual world was satisfied, but he couldn't let his stomach go hungry. He earned his living expenses for the past month by making some woodworking products. Of course, he also worked on many other things next to his house, including a wooden house that was about to be completed.

After all, the house was sold to him cheaply by the villagers after it was discarded, so it's easy to imagine that the house wasn't very good. On rainy days, several places inside the house would leak. Although he has repaired it and it is now in good condition, why should he make do with a bad house when he can live in a better one?

So the day after he acquired the carpentry skills, he planned to build a new house, and after a period of hard work, the new house was about to be completed.

At this moment, a group of people came down from the entrance of Manyun Village. Among them was the village chief of Manyun Village and several other officials. After exchanging greetings, they began to walk into the village. The village chief and officials introduced the group to the people from time to time. If Chen Qing were here, he would definitely recognize two of them: one was He Jiong, the top host of Hunan TV, and the other was Huang Shi, a teacher at Beijing Film Academy.

Their purpose in coming here was to scout out filming locations for the show and determine the location for the Mushroom House.

"Does the village chief have any other houses?" He Jiong asked after looking around.

The location of the Mushroom House is extremely important to their show, as 70-80% of their filming takes place inside the mushroom house, so they have specific standards for choosing the location.

First: The mushroom house cannot be too old, because if it is too old, the effect will be affected, and there may also be risks.

Second: The mushroom house should not be located in a cluster of villagers' houses. It is best to be in a separate place so that their filming at night will not disturb the villagers' rest.

After looking around, they found no houses that met their criteria. Either the houses were dilapidated and uninhabited, or the villagers' houses were clustered together, which obviously did not meet their site selection requirements.

"Does the village chief have a separate small courtyard house next to the farmland? It would be best if there were no other houses nearby, otherwise we are afraid that our filming will disturb the villagers' rest."

As the program's chief director, Mr. Wang also spoke up, directly stating their site selection criteria.

The village chief knew He Jiong and his group's concerns, but their village only had a few hundred people, and they had already looked at all the houses they could find. Just as the village chief was in a dilemma, a middle-aged woman next to him spoke up, "Village chief, I know a place that is definitely suitable."

"Are you referring to the Chen family? I think it's a good match, wow, they're beautiful!"

"Yes, yes, I stopped by the fields last time and it was really beautiful. I didn't expect Xiao Chen to have such skills. I think he's good at this, village chief."

The village chief hesitated after being reminded by several villagers. As the village chief, he knew Chen Qing's new house situation, but he was even more aware of Chen Qing's family situation.

As a host with exceptionally high IQ and EQ, He Jiong immediately noticed the village chief's predicament. Normally, he wouldn't force someone to do something against their will, but this time the filming schedule was too tight, so they had to do everything they could to catch up, otherwise they would miss the prime summer broadcast time.

"Village chief, who is this Xiao Chen you're talking about? Can you take us to see him?"

Hearing He Jiong's question, the village chief sighed and said, "Hey! It's not that I don't want to take you to see it, but the Chen family is different from the other villagers. His parents left when he was young, and he grew up eating food from many families. He finally got a house of his own, and I feel bad taking it over before he even moved in!"

Hearing the village chief say this, He Jiong and Huang Shi were taken aback. Then Huang Shi replied, "Then you should take us there, village chief. We came here mainly to help you get rich. We will do our best to help anyone in need. If we think it's appropriate, we will also give them a considerable amount of rent, which will help Xiao Chen's life more or less in the future."

After thinking about it, the village agreed. These people were big stars, so the rent for Xiao Chen's house shouldn't be too low. If they could get 100,000 to 200,000 yuan, that would be enough for Xiao Chen to live on for three or four years, and maybe he could even find a wife.

"Alright, then I'll take you to see Xiao Chen's house. I'm not exaggerating, it's really beautiful, even more beautiful than the houses in your big cities."

(End of this chapter)