I can gather experience beads

"You did a good job." Cao Rui praised.

Tang Yueming scratched his head and said, "Master, I still don't understand some things about the Crazy Wolf Sword Technique recently..."

"Perform it once for me to see."

"okay!"

Half an hour later, Tang Yueming left the backyard of Youquan Restaurant with satisfaction and a smile on his face.

It feels so comfortable to have a master with a high level of martial arts to teach me carefully!

......

Cao Rui's cultivation life changed again.

I would set aside some time every day to read ancient books carefully.

This is indeed useful for increasing the experience value of Mingyu Gong.

The speed at which experience points increase is at least twice as fast.

Cao Rui also became more convinced that he really had no talent for cultivating immortals.

Because during a certain time when he had a strong realization, Cao Rui even vaguely felt a certain special energy around him. If nothing unexpected happened, it was the spiritual energy of heaven and earth recorded in the Mingyu Gong.

However, the special energy that gathered due to the strong perception suddenly dissipated quickly after approaching his body.

Is it because I don’t have the talent to cultivate immortality that I can’t retain spiritual energy?

Cao Rui felt a little bitter. If he was a person with a talent for cultivating immortals, he would have probably already successfully entered the door with the sudden realization at this moment.

It seems that I can only wait until the experience beads have accumulated enough experience points to enter the door, and then use the experience beads to force my way into the door and embark on the immortal path.

Immerse yourself in cultivation.

In the blink of an eye, more than two months have passed.

New Year is coming.

After Cao Rui and Xiong Fangming notified.

Let’s leave Heishui Town for now and head towards Lianhua County.

It's another year since I last saw my family. It's time to go back and visit them.

This time, Cao Rui brought his confidant Tang Yueming with him.

Tang Yueming's parents died early, and he never married. Living alone, it's the same no matter where he spends the New Year.

Naturally, I am willing to go on a "travel" with Cao Rui.

Heishui Town is located in the middle area between Lianhua County and Luocheng. If you set out by water in the morning, you will arrive in Lianhua County at noon.

Then the two of them walked to Shijia Village.

"Master, I didn't expect your hometown to be so remote!" Tang Yueming said with some emotion on the way.

I admired Cao Rui even more in my heart.

After arriving at Shijia Village, Cao Rui found that he seemed to have arrived at the right time.

The village is decorated with lights and colorful decorations.

Especially his own home, not only was it built more spacious, but there were also wedding characters pasted all over the house inside and outside.

I guess my eldest brother is getting married.

Someone in the village with sharp eyes saw Cao Rui and recognized his identity: "Old Shi! Your Shiwa is back!"

The whole family was driven out of the house.

Among them was a round-faced bride in red, in her prime, looking quite gentle.

However, Cao Rui's appearance and figure have changed a lot now, and the dark and strong man following him is even more ferocious.

The whole family, including his parents, did not approach Cao Rui at the first time.

"Brother, sister-in-law, congratulations."

"Mom and Dad, I'm back." Cao Rui took the initiative to step forward and hugged his eldest brother who was wearing a groom's uniform.

"I'm glad you're back. How long will you stay this time?" The mother looked up at Cao Rui, who had become an adult, and her eyes became slightly moist.

"I won't stay at home this time. I've booked a room in the county town." Cao Rui said with a smile.

"How can you live outside? There's a room reserved for you in the new house!" said my father, trying to persuade him to stay.

Cao Rui pointed at Tang Yueming and said, "I have a friend here. I can't share a bed with him, right?"

Tang Yueming said: "Master Xiang, I'm actually fine!"

Under Cao Rui's murderous gaze, Tang Yueming shrank his neck: "Ahem, Xiangzhu, let's stay in the restaurant!"

"It's such a happy occasion, don't just stand here, take care of your brother and sister-in-law first." Cao Rui said.

When his father heard this, a smile appeared on his face: "Shiwa, you came back at the right time. Today is the wedding day of your eldest brother."

"You said you didn't leave any contact information, so I couldn't notify you even if I wanted to."

"Fortunately, I caught up..."

Happy events in the village are simple.

The villagers were invited to a banquet, and then firecrackers were set off to add to the lively atmosphere.

People from my sister-in-law's family also came over in the evening.

A large group of people, about twenty or so.

There are my sister-in-law’s uncles and aunts, as well as her brothers and sisters.

They came from another mountain village near Lianhua County.

Originally, he looked down upon the Shi family, whose financial situation was neither good nor bad.

But after seeing Cao Rui, their brother-in-law who looked very imposing, the people from their sister-in-law's family no longer had stern faces and frequently came to toast Cao Rui.

On his elder brother's wedding day, Cao Rui welcomed everyone who came.

With his profound internal strength, Cao Rui got all of his sister-in-law's family members drunk and fell to the ground, but he remained calm and stunned the onlookers.

It was already dark.

Cao Rui looked at his eldest brother who had fallen drunk on the ground and his sister-in-law who was standing by his side with a concerned look on her face, and smiled slightly.

My brother should be happy in the second half of his life.

Afterwards, Cao Rui found his father, took out ten taels of silver and gave them to his father.

"I may not have time to come back in the next two years, so you two should take care of yourselves."

The father held the silver in his hand, not knowing what to say. It was obvious that Shiwa's life was no longer something that a small mountain villager like him could control.

"Take good care of yourself. This will always be your home. Even if I die, your eldest brother will keep the house for you." This was all the father could say.

Cao Rui was slightly moved. He said goodbye to his parents and rushed to Lianhua County with Tang Yueming overnight and stayed in an inn with a nice environment.

"Master, shall we go back tomorrow?" In the double room, Tang Yueming noticed that Cao Rui was feeling a little melancholy, and took the initiative to ask.

"I'll visit a friend tomorrow and then go back." Cao Rui thought of Chen Fugui's fat face.

I don’t know if this guy has successfully inherited the family business after a year.

When they were on the island in the middle of the lake, Chen Fugui's super double food box helped Cao Rui a lot.

This is the best time for physical development, and it was the physical exercise with adequate nutrition during that period that improved Cao Rui's martial arts talent.

......

In the Chen family residence in Lianhua County.

The Chen family's father and son were worried about each other in silence in the study.

"Dad, the Wild Dog Gang has really gone too far this time. They actually asked for three hundred taels of silver as tribute!"

"Our restaurant's net profit for a year is only this much."

"Are you trying to force us into a dead end?" Chen Fugui was full of anger.

Father Chen sighed slightly. It was because the Wild Dog Gang had become so powerful in Lianhua County recently.

There were originally three gang forces in Lianhua County.

But a few months ago, the Wild Dog Gang and the Blood Knife Gang joined forces and directly wiped out another gang in the county.

Previously, the restaurant where Chen's father worked paid protection fees to the destroyed gang.

Now the restaurant's territory has been taken over by the Wild Dog Gang.

The Wild Dog Gang exploited the "clients" of the previous gang to death.

The intention was obvious, to force them out and let their own people take over the business.