Quick Transmigration: The main focus is on speed.

"Wah, wah, wah~" The crying was deafening. Qi Yuan cried out just before the slap landed on her bottom. The slap turned and landed on the other little bottom, followed by a deafening cry.

"Congratulations, Sister Qi, on the birth of twins, a boy and a girl! This is an extremely auspicious sign!" The midwife rushed to offer her congratulations after checking the genders of the two children.

"Aunt Li! How is my wife?" Qi Dashan, who was standing outside the door, could no longer stand still and had the urge to rush into the delivery room at any moment.

You see, Qi Dashan lost his mother at a young age and was raised by his father. Just as he was about twenty, his father died in a hunting accident. This period of mourning lasted for three years, and because there was no one to take care of these matters, Qi Dashan was unable to get married for a long time.

Finally, at the age of twenty-five, he found a wife. Now that he finally felt the warmth of a family and had someone who cared for him, how could Qi Dashan ever want to go back to his old life?

"Dashan, your wife is doing very well, she's in good health, don't disturb their rest!" Aunt Li lifted the curtain and came out. Although she spoke sternly, the smile on her face never left.

"Alright, alright, thank you so much, Aunt Li. This is a thank-you gift my wife prepared for you. Please accept it." Qi Dashan stuffed a purse into Aunt Li's arms. Seeing that she had accepted it, he breathed a sigh of relief and then pulled her aside to ask what it contained.

"I thought you didn't care about this. I haven't seen you ask a single question all this time." Aunt Li squeezed the purse, and after feeling the loose silver coins inside, she smiled even more happily.

In this village, only the Qi family's wife is sensible. Although half a tael of silver is not as good as delivering a baby for a wealthy family, it is still better than those villagers who try to get rid of her with just a few coins.

"Aunt Li, I didn't mean to..." Qi Dashan scratched his head, his already dark face turning even darker.

"Alright, you've had a girl and a boy, are you happy now? Look how good your family is! Your eldest son is hardworking, filial, and good-looking; your second son is good-looking and academically gifted; and now you have a son and a daughter. Your family's life is going to be wonderful from now on!"

"Then I'll take Aunt Li's good wishes." Qi Dashan was overjoyed and his whole body was radiant. But things didn't go as planned. In the end, only Qi Shou, the second son of the Qi family, was left in the entire Qi family.

Qi Shou was the second son in the Qi family. He had an older brother, Qi Zhi, who was two years older than him. It took him six years before he had a younger brother and sister.

Qi Shou was in poor health, otherwise he wouldn't have been given such a name.

When Qi Shou was born, it was predicted that he wouldn't survive, and even if he did, he probably wouldn't be able to do any heavy work. Thanks to the meticulous care of Qi Dashan and his wife, Qi Shou overcame that hurdle, and if he continues to be well cared for, living to be several decades old shouldn't be a problem.

So the question arose: how would Qi Shou support himself if he couldn't do farm work, and couldn't lift heavy loads? After discussing it, Qi Dashan and his wife sent Qi Shou to a private school when he was five years old.

We don't expect Qi Shou to achieve any official rank, as long as he can at least read and write, and can support himself even after Qi Dashan and his wife are gone.

Qi Shou did not disappoint them. He cherished his opportunity to study and passed the imperial examination at the age of eleven, instantly becoming a child prodigy in the surrounding area.

Perhaps he was carried away by the praise from those around him, and Qi Shou gradually became immersed in the illusion of being called a genius. He gradually became less attentive to his studies. It wasn't that he wasn't serious, but every time he read, he would think about the scenes of being praised, so he couldn't concentrate.

After that, Qi Shou kept taking the exams, but he could never pass the lowest level of the imperial examinations. After failing the exams for the fourth time, the Qi family's wealth gradually dried up, and without money, they could not afford to continue his studies.

So, Qi Shou set his sights on his younger sister, Qi Nian. At only eleven years old, Qi Nian was sent to a wealthy family to work as a cleaning maid. For the sake of his future imperial examinations, she was not given a permanent contract, but instead signed a five-year contract.

Unexpectedly, just as he was about to return home, Qi Nian was carried out by a tattered straw mat.

Qi Dashan went to cause trouble and had his leg broken. In the end, Qi Dashan's leg and Qi Nian's life were exchanged for fifty taels of silver. All fifty taels of silver were used for Qi Shou's imperial examination.

Three years passed, and Qi Shou still failed to pass the imperial examination. The entire Qi family supported him like oxen, but first Qi Nian passed away, and then the original owner of this body also died of exhaustion on his way to work.

Then came Qi Zhixiang, Qi Dashan, and Qi's mother. Every time Qi Shou was about to run out of money, a member of the Qi family would die in various ways and earn a sum of money to continue supporting Qi Shou until there were no more living people in the Qi family. Finally, Qi Shou passed the imperial examinations and became a Xiucai, Juren, Jinshi, and even Tanhualang.

Without the Qi family, Qi Shou's career progressed smoothly, and he eventually stood in the main hall, becoming a second-rank official.

The Qi family became known as a burden to Qi Shou in the eyes of the world.

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"I'm so angry! I'm so angry!" Tangyuan shouted in the space, bouncing up and down in the air, looking like the sesame filling could be thrown out at any moment, which scared the eight little animals so much that they trembled and wished they could bury themselves underground.

“MDZZ!%￥…” Tangyuan was still angry, so she ran to Qiyuan’s bedside and started cursing, pointing her finger at Qiyuan’s nose, which made Qiyuan feel refreshed.

Qi Yuan: Well said, keep cursing, it would be even better if you could curse your brain out.

"Sweetheart, go to sleep." Hearing her mother's gentle voice, Qi Nian stopped crying and gradually fell asleep, leaving only Qi Yuan and her mother staring at each other.

"Don't you want to sleep?" Mother Qi yawned, looking at Qi Yuan's wide eyes, she felt that something was wrong, but she couldn't quite put her finger on it.

As soon as he finished speaking, Qi Yuan remembered that he was just a baby and couldn't possibly have so much energy. He immediately closed his eyes and began to breathe evenly.

"Give me a system." Qi Yuan spread his hands and directly asked Tangyuan for one.

Tangyuan's eyes darted around, and she knew what that bastard Qi Yuan was up to again. She rummaged through her mustard seed space and pulled out a system, placing it in Qi Yuan's hand.

"A promotion system? Ha." Qi Yuan fiddled with the system in his hand, disassembling and reassembling it. After confirming that there were no problems, he left the space with the system.

Tangyuan glanced at it just now and saw the system settings that had been changed, and she immediately became excited.

Eight Animal Systems: No? This glutinous rice ball jumps when it's angry, but why does it still jump when it's happy? Is it Tigger?

[Binding successful. Congratulations, host, on binding with the strongest promotion system.]

Qi Shou is six years old now and has just been sent to a private school. He is at an age where he is eager to learn, knows gratitude, and is sensible. Since there is no pen and ink at home, he took a small wooden stick and wrote and drew on the ground. Suddenly, he heard a strange sound and stopped what he was doing.

Just as he was about to ask, Qi Shou's eyes changed. His eyes were not like those of a six-year-old child.

"I'm back? Hahaha, I'm back! Liu Ruyan, you just wait! In this life, I'll make sure you suffer a terrible death!" Qi Shou looked at his fair and tender hands, excitedly. Recalling his experience of being poisoned to death, Qi Shou hated Liu Ruyan, who had cheated on him.

After a while, Qi Shou, who had finally calmed down, realized that this life was different from the previous one.

"What is a system? What kind of monster are you?" Qi Shou found a secluded spot and began asking questions to thin air.

[Host, the system is the system. The system can help you quickly pass the imperial examinations, become an official, and prevent you from being harmed in the future. As long as you do as the system says, not only will you be able to take revenge, but the system can also make you a person second only to the emperor...]

Oh, by the way, if the host wants to talk to me, you don't need to speak, you can just think of it.

Listening to the promises of this self-proclaimed strongest promotion system, Qi Shou, who had experienced promotion and wealth before, believed the system's nonsense without a second thought. However, there were still some questions he needed to clarify.

[System, will my family affect my imperial examination? In this life, I want to gain a foothold in the court as soon as possible, and my family...] They hadn't spent much time together to begin with, and with so many years having passed, Qi Shou really had no feelings for his family at all.

Moreover, having heard so many flattering words in his previous life that the Qi family had suppressed his fortune, how could Qi Shou not take them to heart? The more he heard them, the more he naturally believed them to be true.

[Cause and effect, reincarnation. In your past life, you absorbed the Qi family's fortune. In this life, you need to repay it. The faster you repay it, the higher your success rate in the imperial examinations will be. To put it simply, the better you treat your family, the higher their happiness index will be, and the faster you will rise to officialdom.]

"If you can gain the approval of everyone in the Qi family, and they all think it's great that the Qi family has you, you might even become the emperor." The system continued to deceive them.

"To be, to be the emperor? Hehe, hehehe..." Qi Shou was so happy he was like a fool, already fantasizing about what it would be like to be the emperor.

Isn't it just about being good to family? It's that simple. He was willing to do anything to become emperor.

Tangyuan sat on Qi Yuan's shoulder, swinging her legs, and looked at Qi Shou's spirited appearance, then pouted.

"With that level of intelligence, he deserved to be poisoned to death by Liu Ruyan," Tangyuan muttered to Qi Yuan.

Some people who have experienced life and death will naturally believe in these things, and Qi Yuan didn't find it strange.

[Task 1: During Qi's mother's postpartum confinement period, take on the cooking duties and receive praise from the family every day. Upon completion, you will be rewarded with one Health-Boosting Pill.]

[Body Strengthening Pill? To improve physical health? What would I need that for?] Qi Shou looked down on the Body Strengthening Pill. Although he was weak in his previous life, he had actually recovered long ago, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to support the imperial examination, right? It was just that Qi Shou had been pretending to be weak in order to be lazy.

[The Body Strengthening Pill can resist one poisoning attack. Are you sure you don't want it?] The system's tone was like, "Take it or leave it," which immediately struck a chord with Qi Shou.

【Yes! Of course I want it! But I can't cook, what should I do?】

[If you don't know how to do it, can't you learn? Just do as I say!]

At the system's command, Qi Shou headed straight for the kitchen.

"Ah, starting a fire is so hard, I can't do it." Qi Shou looked resistant, his face covered in soot.

[You find even starting a fire difficult, what else can you do! I think you shouldn't even bother with the imperial examinations, just drown and be reincarnated, so you won't be poisoned by Liu Ruyan again.]

【It's so hot! It's so hot! I'm not doing this anymore!】 Having finally learned how to start a fire, Qi Shou accidentally touched the pot and instantly got a big blister. It hurt so much that Qi Shou, who had never had a broken skin before, cried out in pain.

【Oh dear, a real man doesn't shed tears, he can't even endure this little bit of hardship, no wonder even a weak woman like Liu Ruyan could kill you so easily...】

Qi Shou, provoked by the system, managed to prepare two dishes, a soup, and a staple food, flatbread.

Qi Dashan had just finished working in the fields and called Qi Zhi, who was helping him, to go home together. Along the way, Qi Dashan kept sighing, which made Qi Zhi, who was usually so quiet, start to sigh and talk.

"Dad? What's wrong?"

Looking at Qi Zhi's innocent and naive appearance, Qi Dashan sighed even louder, "Hey, your mother is in confinement after giving birth. What are we going to eat tonight? I'm alright, but your mother is still in confinement. If she doesn't get enough to eat, your younger brother and sister will go hungry, and your second brother especially can't go hungry. But my cooking skills are..."

Thinking of his second son's health, Qi Dashan recalled how he had inadvertently brought the whole family to their knees. If he hadn't insisted on cooking for his son, his second son wouldn't be in this state.

"Hey, none of the village aunties are here yet, what are we going to do?" Qi Dashan muttered to himself, while Qi Zhi listened without offering any opinion.

"Dad, is that our house?" Qi Zhi asked, pointing to a house where smoke was rising.