Chapter 20: How many times can one get drunk in life

Provincial Provincial Graduate Jiang is a big figure who walked out of Linhu Village.

He is also the most powerful figure recorded in the village annals of Linhu Village.

It is a pity that ten years ago, Provincial Provincial Graduate Jiang's whole family left Linhu Village and did not settle in Poyang City, but moved away directly.

Where they went, Lin Chen didn't know.

There is a rumor in the village that Provincial Provincial Graduate Jiang's whole family moved to Raozhou Prefecture.

Just now, the village chief told him a piece of news. When Provincial Provincial Graduate Jiang took his whole family to move back then, he left a sentence: if there are outstanding descendants in the village, be sure to inform him in Raozhou Prefecture.

Linhu Village is very far from Raozhou Prefecture. It is obviously impossible for people to go to report the news. The best way is to write a letter and hand it to the postman at the post station to send it to the Jiang Mansion.

The village chief asked him to write a letter to Provincial Provincial Graduate Jiang.

He is thinking about whether to write this letter now?

He is pondering Provincial Provincial Graduate Jiang's state of mind when he said this back then.

Was it a scene talk said casually when facing the farewell of the elders and villagers, or was he really concerned about Linhu Village.

Thinking that Provincial Provincial Graduate Jiang hadn't returned for ten years, and no one from the Jiang family had returned, Lin Chen judged in his heart that it was very likely that Provincial Provincial Graduate Jiang just said it casually.

But a person's attitude toward a thing will change with age, especially the emotion toward his hometown.

When he was young, Provincial Provincial Graduate Jiang scolded his hometown for being poor, and when he was old, he missed a touch of soil in his hometown.

The older a person is, the more he misses his hometown and hometown.

Provincial Provincial Graduate Jiang naturally doesn't count as old. According to Instructor Yu, Provincial Provincial Graduate Jiang should be in the prime of a ranked martial artist now, so it is even harder to grasp how this attitude changes.

"Provincial Provincial Graduate Jiang..."

Lin's father heard his son's words and pondered for a moment. Provincial Provincial Graduate Jiang was not a few years different from him. He also came into contact with Provincial Provincial Graduate Jiang when he was in the village back then.

"Provincial Provincial Graduate Jiang's ancestors fled to our village, and it was only the third generation to Provincial Provincial Graduate Jiang. The family was not prosperous, and they didn't move around much with the people in the village."

Hearing his father's words, Lin Chen was even more certain that Provincial Provincial Graduate Jiang's words back then were just said casually.

Could he not be clear about the situation in the countryside?

Although it wouldn't reach the point of exploitation and robbery, families with few men in the village would more or less be bullied.

Irrigation of farmland had to be queued behind families with many men.

Coupled with being an outsider, Provincial Provincial Graduate Jiang's impression of the people in the village would definitely not be good, and it was no wonder that people left immediately after they became prosperous.

As for the welfare of free martial arts practice in the Martial Hall that Provincial Provincial Graduate Jiang won for the villagers, it was just Provincial Provincial Graduate Jiang's decision to shape his image.

Analyzing it this way, if he wrote a letter to Provincial Provincial Graduate Jiang, Provincial Provincial Graduate Jiang would give him some help because of the scene talk back then, but it would only be once, and don't think about it later.

This letter must be kept for a critical moment, and it would be a waste to use it now.

Temporarily, I won't write a letter to Provincial Provincial Graduate Jiang.

The next day.

The sky was just getting light, and Lin Chen got up and started practicing punches in the courtyard.

Even though he had developed Essence Qi, he would not slack off in the Martial Way.

Developing Essence Qi is just the entry into the Martial Way, and there is still a long way to go in the future.

If he is complacent now and slacks off in the Martial Way, even with the blessing of fate, he will not go far on the path of the Martial Way.

Lin Mu saw her son get up so early and felt heartache: "Chen'er, you are wearing so little, will you catch a cold?"

"Mother, I have developed Essence Qi now, and my Qi and blood are very vigorous. This bit of cold is nothing to me."

Lin Chen smiled and comforted his mother. With his current Qi and blood, he didn't need to wrap himself in cotton-padded clothes even in the middle of winter, not to mention that he was practicing punches now.

After Lin Chen finished practicing punches, Lin's father and eldest brother also got up.

It was already winter, and the fishing boats of every family were no longer going out to the lake to fish, and the villagers were all idle.

The whole winter is a good season for villagers with sufficient food at home. They can rest for a month after a busy year, and then start a new year's busyness after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Today is a big day for the Lin family. Although the village chief will arrange the banquet, Lin's father still decided to go to the town to buy a side of pork, and his eldest brother Lin Liang also followed.

When the sky began to brighten, the village chief organized the people in the village to move the tables and benches at home to the grain-drying ground in front of the village ancestral hall.

The winter sun was warm. When Lin Chen finished practicing punches and arrived at the ancestral hall, many old people were sitting and sunning themselves.

Lin Mu and the women in the village were busy washing and cutting vegetables. The two large earthen stoves in the ancestral hall were burning vigorously, and the pork oil in the large pot emitted an attractive fragrance. Many children sucked their fingers and stood by the stove without leaving.

"You little guys, go away quickly, be careful of being scalded."

Lin Mu thought for a moment, scooped up a large spoonful of the remaining meat oil residue from the meat oil just boiled in the pot, and distributed it to these children. The children got the meat oil residue and left happily.

"Mother, Second Aunt."

"Chen'er finished practicing punches. Today you are the biggest, go and entertain the guests."

Second Aunt said with a smile, seeing Lin Mu holding a basket of radishes, she hurriedly went to help: "Younger Sister-in-law, slow down, let me do it."

Lin Chen looked at the second aunt's diligent appearance and didn't feel any disgust. He had a good impression of the second aunt's family, otherwise he wouldn't have stood up for Lin Hui yesterday.

Where did the guests come from?

They were all people in the village, no outsiders.

His mother had two uncles on her side, but because they were not in Hehe Town, the journey alone would take five hours. In the middle of winter, holding a temporary banquet, and it was arranged by the village, Lin Mu didn't let his eldest brother notify them.

Grandfather and the eldest uncle's family didn't come. After what happened yesterday, they wouldn't come either.

What made Lin Chen a bit surprised was that Gu Fei was also not there. After asking Gu Fei's father, he knew that Gu Fei had followed his mother to his maternal grandfather's house two days ago and would be back in a few days.

The people in the village saw Lin Chen appear and praised him again.

At first, Lin Chen listened and was quite satisfied, but when he found that his every move was stared at by people, Lin Chen felt uncomfortable again.

He couldn't even pick his nose, he had to endure it.

Half an hour later, the arrival of the village chief saved him.

The village chief brought incense and candles, led Lin Chen into the village ancestral hall, first worshipped the ancestors, and then worshipped the Lake God. After a set of etiquette was completed, it was time to open the banquet.

As the protagonist Lin Chen, although he didn't have to go to every table to toast, he couldn't stand the villagers taking the initiative to find him to drink. After such a round, even if his Qi and blood were vigorous, he was finally drunk.

At the moment of falling, vaguely, Lin Chen found that it seemed that several young girls in the village were coming to help him, but they were stopped by the second aunt.

"Chen'er is a bit drunk, Younger Sister-in-law, you take Chen'er home to rest."

Second Aunt shouted at the top of her voice. Lin Chen only remembered vaguely hearing the second aunt mutter in a low voice: "Hmph, these girls are very smart. Our Chen'er has potential, but he can't be stained by them. Chen'er will marry a girl from the city in the future."

How many times can one get drunk in life!

Lin Chen, who woke up at night, pretended to be drunk and didn't go to the banquet again. He lay on his hard wooden bed, and his mother boiled him hangover soup and clear porridge.

He was not annoyed that he was drunk.

The Martial Way is his pursuit, but the scenery along the way is equally beautiful, and he is not a ruthless martial arts robot.

The driving force that supports him to move forward, besides the pursuit of the Martial Way and powerful strength beyond ordinary people, changing his own and his family's fate, and gaining a sense of achievement and vanity, is also the driving force on his martial arts path.

If he were left alone in the deep mountains and old forests, as long as he practiced martial arts, he could constantly break through the martial arts realm until he finally stood at the peak of the Martial Way, and then aged instantly.

He wouldn't choose such a path.

He is not that kind of pure martial arts fanatic, "hear the Dao in the morning, die in the evening."

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