All realms have enabled me to achieve the Great Dao.

As for the ingredients, the large fish he caught from the fishpond are still stored in his storage space. He plans to take some back with him when he returns to the village.

For other meats, use giant beast meat. As for vegetables, buy some tomorrow morning. After making the plan, Zhou Yongcheng entered the unknown world to cultivate.

The next morning, Zhou Yongcheng went to the vegetable market to buy vegetables. He had only been to this vegetable market a few times in all the time he had been in the city.

There are many people buying groceries in the morning, mostly elderly people. The only young people are housewives; you rarely see young men.

Zhou Yongcheng bought several kinds of vegetables, all from the elderly women on the roadside. He noticed that many vendors were selling vegetables with advanced technology and high-tech methods. Although he wasn't afraid, he was concerned about Ding Ying and Lei Cheng's two children.

Only those roadside vendors selling their produce are mostly homegrown, without any heavy labor involved.

After buying groceries and returning home, the two arrived in their car a little after nine o'clock. Zhou Yongcheng told Hong Hou not to close the gate, and they drove straight into the yard as soon as they arrived.

They also brought some gifts, which Zhou Yongcheng took and led them into the house.

In the living room on the first floor, several men sat chatting and drinking tea.

The two women were playing outside with their child. They strolled along the corridor toward the bamboo forest behind the mountain, chatting as they did so.

“Brother Zhou, every time I come here I envy your life. It feels so comfortable here. Would you like me to come and keep you company?” Ding Ying said.

Zhou Yongcheng responded with a smile, "I have no problem with that, but I'm afraid your wife won't agree, Brother Lei, don't you think?"

"Yes, I suspect he'll only stay one night at most before obediently running back."

"I think so too."

"Brother Zhou, what kind of project is that over there? Judging from the scale, it's quite large. The construction company seems to be a state-owned enterprise," Ding Ying asked.

"I'm not really sure, I haven't paid attention to it," Zhou Yongcheng said, shaking his head.

"I wonder what they're building. There are probably hundreds of construction vehicles."

"Incredible."

After chatting for a while, Zhou Yongcheng asked the men to get to work and prepare a meal. The three men worked together, with one cooking, one picking vegetables, and one stir-frying the dishes. They were all very busy and happy.

Before long, a large table of dishes was prepared.

"Zhou Yongcheng, what kind of dishes are these? They smell so good," Lei Cheng's wife asked.

“Home-style dishes, come on over, come and eat. Want to have a couple of drinks?” Zhou Yongcheng asked.

"No problem, my wife will drive today," Ding Ying readily agreed.

Zhou Yongcheng looked at his wife and, seeing that they didn't say anything, took out a bottle of Maotai.

"Goodness, I told you Brother Zhou's place has good drinks."

Ding Ying took the thatch from Zhou Yongcheng's hand and kept looking through it.

"The Maotai from the 1970s is impossible to buy on the market, so we're lucky to have some today."

Ding Ying opened the bottle and poured a glass for everyone. He picked up the glass, smelled it, and said, "The smell of authentic Maotai."

Ding Ying took a small sip, savoring the taste of the wine, and said, "Good wine, no wonder it's Maotai from the 1970s, the taste is different."

Zhou Yongcheng chuckled to himself. The liquor was indeed from the 1970s, but it hadn't undergone the aging process. As for the taste, Zhou Yongcheng wasn't a sommelier and couldn't really explain it, but he felt it tasted a little better than ordinary Maotai.

"It is indeed a good wine, better than the Maotai available on the market." Lei Cheng also praised the wine as a fine wine.

"Zhou Yongcheng, what kind of meat is this? Why does it taste so good?" Ding Yingjia asked.

Zhou Yongcheng said with a smile, "I spent some money to buy them, and they taste pretty good, so I bought a lot to keep."

Ding Ying picked up her glass and drank with Zhou Yongcheng and the others without saying a word.

After the meal, the three men chatted and laughed as they cleaned up the dishes. Zhou Yongcheng then led them to a pavilion in the bamboo forest behind the mountain for tea.

"Brother Zhou, are these books of yours genuine?" Lei Cheng asked, holding up an ancient book from the Sui Dynasty.

"It's half true and half false," Zhou Yongcheng replied.

"High-quality replica?" Ding Ying said.

"Correct."

After dinner, Ding Ying and the others played until after eight o'clock before leaving. Before they left, Zhou Yongcheng gave each of them a bottle of Maotai and also gave them more than twenty catties of fish from the fishpond.

On the way back, Ding Ying's wife said while driving, "Zhou Yongcheng is so generous! He gave us a bottle of Maotai and some delicious fish. I wonder how much it cost."

"Why do you care about that? Just keep going. I've been classmates with Brother Zhou for three years, and I know what kind of person he is. He won't care about these things. As long as we treat him sincerely and don't play tricks on him, that's fine."

"Yes, yes, you are right."

The next day, Zhou Yongcheng brought the giant beast meat home. When his second uncle saw the meat, he said to Zhou Yongcheng, "This meat of yours must be extraordinary. After we ate it, all our ailments were cured, and we seem to be getting younger and younger. We are also very strong. Your aunt can lift fifty pounds with one hand with ease. Even your grandparents said that it's like they've returned to their youth and are very strong."

“That’s great! Eating this kind of meat regularly is good for your health. You can eat it every day, don’t worry about not being able to finish it,” Zhou Yongcheng said with a smile.

"Don't waste your money. It's not easy for you to earn it."

“I already said it was all through connections, money is irrelevant. Let’s not talk about that. I saw Uncle Qiao has already started repairing the house. When did he get back?” Zhou Yongcheng changed the subject.

“He’s only been back for less than a week. He said he’d finished dealing with everything at the factory and then came back with Yang Laosan,” Uncle said.

Yang Laosan is Zhou Guoqiao's wife. She didn't come back for the Spring Festival; she was taking care of the factory in southern Fujian with her child.

"So, the whole family has come back?" Zhou Yongcheng asked.

"Zhou Lifang and Zhou Yongdong have not returned yet; they are still in Fujian Province."

Zhou Guoqiao's two children, Zhou Yongcheng, were only seen when they were young, and it has probably been more than ten years since then. He probably doesn't even recognize his own children anymore.

I chatted with my second uncle for a while and learned from him that the feed was very effective. As long as my second uncle fed the fish with the feed, all the fish would float to the surface.

The same applies to feeding cattle. My second uncle followed Zhou Yongcheng's advice and mixed feed and hay together. The cattle ate it with great relish.

My second uncle said that almost every family in the village that raises livestock will buy feed from the feed factory in town.

After chatting with his second uncle for a while, Zhou Yongcheng strolled around the floating bridge over the fishpond. There were very few people fishing today, only a handful.

Zhou Yongcheng asked why there were so few people, and they said the fish were hard to catch.

It's only strange how good the fishing is; the fish are fed every day, and they're fed special feed.

After leaving the fishpond, Zhou Yongcheng arrived at Zhou Guoqiao's house. Zhou Guoqiao and his wife were temporarily living with his mother, and their house was under construction.

"Ji Cheng, it's been over ten years since we last met. Do you still recognize me?" Aunt Guo Qiao sized up Zhou Yongcheng.

“I know you. You haven’t changed at all; you’re still so young,” Zhou Yongcheng said with a smile.

"You've changed quite a bit. Your words have become sweeter, and you've become more capable. But your hair is so long, don't you ever get it cut? It's going to be hot soon, you should probably get it trimmed."

"I used to cut my hair often, but it grows too fast, so I stopped and decided to just let it grow long."

Zhou Yongcheng and his wife Zhou Guoqiao chatted for a while, then went to other people's homes. There were hardly any people at the other homes; everyone was busy outside.