Chapter 42 New Kung Fu

On the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, the weather was much better. It seemed that the snow had been much lighter since that night. Maybe God also had pity on the poor people.

According to later generations, Laba porridge must be drunk on Laba Day. Although Zhao was from the south, this custom was not lost.

Early in the morning, Laba porridge was simmering on the stove. In Zhao's opinion, as long as he ate it, he would be blessed with good luck in the coming year. As for when to eat it, he must give full play to his subjective initiative.

Cooking porridge is a technical job. If the heat is not enough, it will be half soft and half hard. Although it can't be harder than rice, it is soft on one side and hard on the other side, which makes it uncomfortable to eat. If the heat is too high, it will become rice soup. Although it can be considered porridge, it doesn't need to be chewed when eaten. It is a pity that you can't taste the taste of it in the end after being patient for several hours.

Only when it is cooked just right, the beans bloom, the air is filled with the mixed fragrance of bean plants, and the mixture in the pot is mixed and blended together, it is considered done. Sticky, warm, and happy, eat a big bowl of porridge, and the new year will be considered to have started.

The fire in the stove was not big, so I slowly boiled it, slowly grinded it, and finally boiled it at noon. I didn't have time to sigh that my stomach protested before my mouth, so I took a big bowl, filled it, sat in the yard, breathed, blew smoke, and ate porridge.

The next day was the twenty-ninth day of the lunar year.

I went to the street to buy couplets, lanterns and a table of delicious food. I received a pigeon a few days ago, and Liuzhi was coming to Liangzhou.

Three years ago, the two liked to have a meal and drink together on the night of the twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month. This year, both of them were not in Jiangnan, but they also had to eat and drink. Zhao Jue only knew how to cook simple meals. Naturally, he couldn't cook a pot of porridge to treat his only friend. Fortunately, Hengtong Restaurant was still open, so he simply ordered a table.

At the hour of Xu, Liuzhi arrived as promised. He was still alone, but he brought half a cart of meat and vegetables.

Zhao Jue was very upset, as if he had bought the goods himself. But it didn't matter. It was the New Year, and happiness was important.

The two of them sat opposite each other in the room and drank. Zhaocai lay under the table, wagging his tail. His food had improved a lot in the past few days.

After more than half a month, he finally felt fleshy all over, and his fur was shiny. He looked like he was no longer a stray dog.

After eating and drinking for more than an hour, they both drank almost everything, their cheeks were red, and their breath was full of alcohol. Zhaocai had eaten and drunk enough, and lay on the ground to sleep.

The two of them moved the recliners and half-lying in the yard to chat and drink tea. When the moonlight sprinkled down like snow, they were almost sober. Liuzhi carried the pot of wine, waved to Zhao Jue, and drove away in the carriage. Zhao Jue was left alone in the yard, half-lying and drinking tea, leisurely.

Thirty.

On the last day of this year, Zhao woke up after noon. He always felt particularly sweet after drinking wine. It was snowing in winter, but the house was warm and he didn't want to get up. He was dawdling until the end of the afternoon when he finished lunch.

He went out to buy a fish. Fish is indispensable for the New Year's Eve dinner. It is a good omen to have surplus every year!

At the hour of You, the couplets and lanterns were changed. The sound of children playing outside the door could be heard. Cooking rice and dishes. Although I am not good at cooking at other times, today is the New Year's Eve, and I have to cook the New Year's Eve dinner by myself. Of course, it is not because of a whim, but mainly because every household is celebrating the New Year. Even the Hengtong Restaurant is closed and it is really impossible to buy it.

Cooking rice, slaughtering and steaming fish, three meats, and two dishes are not very rich, but they are all I can do with all my efforts.

At the hour of Xu, the sound of firecrackers outside the door is one after another. The New Year atmosphere is very strong, unlike the later generations. Zhao found an incense burner, lit a few incense sticks, and kowtowed to the east to pay tribute to his parents who passed away early.

To stay up all night, you usually have to wait until after midnight, so after Zhao had eaten and drunk enough, he didn't care about the noise outside the door, and moved a recliner to sit in the yard to drink tea.

The custom of staying up all night is not only a recollection of the past years that have passed like water, but also a beautiful hope for the coming new year.

The ancients wrote in "Staying Up All Night": Invite Arong's house to stay up all night, and the candles are red towards the blue sky. Thirty-six years have passed, but I cherish the years from this night. Recalling the past, cherishing the years, and lamenting the fleeting youth are human nature, and it is inevitable from ancient times to the present!

"There will be no year next year, but I am afraid that I will waste my time. I will try my best tonight, and I can still boast of my youth." This is a poem by the famous poet Su Dongpo, which is very suitable for Zhao Jue's mood at this time. When he wrote this poem, Su Dongpo was also living in a foreign land, but this poem has a very positive meaning, which can be regarded as encouragement, self-comfort, and mutual encouragement, which is the positive meaning of staying up all night.

After half of the midnight, the firecrackers that had been silent rang again. Zhao Jue woke up in a daze, put his hands together, and exchanged the 2,700 taels of silver in the space for 27,000 points of God of Wealth.

The God of Wealth points in the system came to 41,600. The new year must start with purchasing!

Tongxuan Dan, six bottles, 3,000 points spent, not painful or itchy, now I have money, I must have enough momentum!

Baiyu Shengji Dan is still available, so don't buy it for the time being. The special mall has been refreshed, go to the special mall to have a look.

Go to the special offer mall, wow, it's New Year, the first one is a good thing: Yuqing Xuanxu Sutra, only 2000 God of Wealth points. It's a bargain price! Buy it, buy it, if not now, when?

Once you buy it, you have to upgrade, God of Wealth points flow like water, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200, 6400. Upgrade from the first floor directly to the seventh floor, 12700 God of Wealth points spent.

Suddenly, Zhao Jue sat cross-legged in meditation, and the positive energy of heaven and earth poured back, and Zhao Jue directly entered a mysterious state. It seemed that he felt the difference between heaven and earth at this time and at other times, and it seemed that he had a new understanding for a while.

The true qi in his body boiled and compressed, and the original full true qi disappeared instantly. Zhao Jue did not dare to delay, and took out Tongxuan Dan, one after another, and soon the true qi was filled again, and then compressed again, and disappeared again, until the power of a bottle of Tongxuan Dan was refined, the true qi no longer changed, and the body was like a bell and thunder.

He let out a breath of turbid air and felt his own changes. The true qi was like boiling water, rolling in his body. Between breathing, the true qi continued to temper his body, and it slowly stopped after a quarter of an hour.

Zhao Jue felt it carefully, and it seemed that Yuqing Xuanxu Sutra was not over yet. Taiqing Yuxu Sutra was given by the system for free that year. When I practiced it at the beginning, I always felt that it was incomplete. I originally thought that it would be continuously improved by upgrading the level, but there was still no improvement at the seventh level. Even if I bought the Yuqing Xuanxu Sutra and upgraded to the sixth level, the feeling of incompleteness still exists. That can only be a problem with the practice. Don’t I really need to collect the Three Purities to synthesize a complete practice?

Thinking of this, Zhao continued to look down at the special price mall. The second one: Seventy-two Transformations, hundreds of billions, I can’t afford it! The third one, Binding Immortal Rope, hundreds of billions, damn!

Zhao: Here it comes again, let alone buy it, my little money is not enough! I can only continue to look down.

The remaining two are one of the Yuqing Original Heavenly Venerable Taoist robes. I don’t know how many zeros are behind the number nine. Those who know it think it’s the price, and those who don’t know it think it’s a bank card number.

The other one is Lu Dongbin’s Pure Yang Sword, which is cheap, seven billion. Apart from anything else, Zhao is now better, seven billion is cheap.

Zhao didn’t hesitate and silently opened the panel.

Host: Zhao Jiu

Cultivation: Fifth Rank

Martial Arts:

Chasing Stars and Moons (Perfect)

Taiqing Yuxu Sutra (Seventh Level)/Yuqing Xuanxu Sutra (Seventh Level)

Tianyuan Sword Art (Minor Success)

Secret Technique:

Tangmen Xuanqi. Thousand Flowers and Ten Thousand Stamens/Erosion and Soul-Erosion

Change Your Appearance

Lending Breath Art

God of Wealth Points: 23900

Sure enough, it's just as I guessed! The skills have not been increased, but like Tangmen Xuanqi, a suffix has been added at the end. It seems that there should be a third part. Tao gives birth to one, one gives birth to three, and three gives birth to all things. There are still many God of Wealth points, just wait slowly.

Close the panel and go back to the room to sleep.