The system was set three years in advance, but the universal deities still hadn't arrived.

Chapter 55 I, Hu Hansan, have returned!
As Zeng Shen was figuring out how to use the wormhole orbital card, a notification sound rang in his ears.

[Congratulations, host, for accumulating 100 gacha pulls. A new side quest has been triggered.]

[Task Requirements: Accumulate 100,000 unused survival points.]

[Reward: Activate the Purple Card Lottery Roulette (each draw grants 100,000 Survival Points, allowing for a 10-draw with a guaranteed minimum of four Purple Cards.)]

"A new side quest that unlocks a purple card lottery wheel with just 100,000 survival points?"

"And in a ten-pull, there are four purple cards?"

"That doesn't seem like a bad deal. After all, with a normal lottery wheel, you need 50,000 survival points to guarantee at least one purple card."

Zeng Shen muttered to himself, feeling that it wasn't a bad deal, and decided to accumulate 100,000 survival points to activate the purple card lottery wheel first.

As he made this decision, he heard twice more the notification that he had earned 2000 survival points for his first run when the No. 1 Divine Energy Chariot reached the west gate of Tonghai City.

"Great, another two thousand survival points have been credited to my account."

"When we go back, we have to drive around the Tonghai city area before returning to Jinhai."

Zeng Shen muttered to himself, then lay back down in the driver's seat. With a focused mind, he appeared above the Divine Realm and quickly threw down the resource cards, building cards, and item cards he had just obtained.

As he entered the divine realm, the No. 1 divine energy chariot left the west gate of Tonghai City and headed straight towards Xiayang Town on an old road.

Xiayang Town consists of twelve natural villages.

These villages are relatively concentrated, resulting in a dense population of nearly 100,000 people, making it one of the major towns near Tonghai.

The town's roads are all made of cement, and three- or five-story self-built buildings can be seen everywhere.

However, most of these self-built houses are unoccupied by young people, who have mostly moved to first-tier cities like Shenzhen or Guangzhou, or even second-tier cities like Dongwan, Fomen, and Huizhou.

Generally, people only take leave from work to come back during festivals, or for major local customs such as welcoming the gods, worshipping Mazu, or offering sacrifices to ancestors and clans.

When the No. 1 Divine Power Chariot transformed into a Wuling RV and drove to the town gate of Xiayang Town.

The sky had completely darkened.

On the dimly lit road, streetlights gradually came on.

Many pedestrians who went out for a stroll after dinner looked curiously at this behemoth-like 'Wuling RV'.

Xiayang Town is developing well, and most families own a car as a means of transportation, so they have seen all kinds of cars.

But almost none of them had ever seen a motorhome this big before, so some of them started talking about it.

"Whose car is this? It's comparable to a large truck."

"Yes, that car is heading towards Huayang Village Road. Could it be that one of the Yan family's descendants bought it after making a fortune? I heard the Yan family is holding an ancestral worship ceremony the day after tomorrow."

"Why don't they say it was a descendant of the Zeng family who got rich and bought the car? The Zeng family also holds a ancestral worship ceremony the day after tomorrow."

"Tch, everyone knows what kind of family the Zeng family has. Nobody knows which generation the Zeng family started using to worship their ancestors on the same day as the Yan family every year. And nobody knows which generation the two families started using to compete with each other to see who can make a bigger show of their ancestral worship and clan announcements."

Along the way, Zeng Shen sat on the No. 1 Divine Energy Chariot, listening to the discussions of the townspeople around him. He smiled slightly and looked eagerly at a village plaque at the corner that read the three big characters "Huayang Village".

He's almost home.

Zeng Shen's home is located at the southernmost part of Huayang Village in Xiayang Town, near agricultural land, which is also the area farthest from the town center and village center.

However, there are quite a few self-built manor houses and luxury villas around here.

However, his house was not a manor house.

His family was able to live here thanks to the fact that ten years ago, when the government released land, his family met the requirements for purchasing land. His mother gritted her teeth and borrowed money from her family to buy this piece of land, a construction site of 200 square meters, from the government at a low price.

Afterwards, her mother borrowed money from her family to build a two-story house here.

We simply ran out of money.

The exterior walls are still just cement walls, without any tiled roofs, and the courtyard walls are just made of leftover mud bricks from other people's house construction, simply stacked into a circle.

It stood out starkly against the backdrop of the manor houses of seven or eight wealthy families in the surrounding area.

When the No. 1 Divine Energy Chariot stopped in front of his house, Zeng Shen looked out the window at the familiar low mud-brick wall of his home, as well as the flowers, plants and fruit trees planted in the courtyard, and a sense of warmth welled up inside.

He turned to Xiao Ai beside him and said, "Xiao Ai, this is the home where the owner has lived for ten years." Xiao Ai nodded, glanced at the courtyard and the not-yet-completed two-story self-built house, then looked at an old motorcycle parked in front of the house and said:

“Master, it seems you have guests. If the RV is parked here, the motorcycle won’t be able to get out.”

"That's right, so the owner didn't intend to park the car in front of their house and block the way."

As Zeng Shen spoke, he manually drove the No. 1 Divine Energy Chariot to the open space in front of the manor gate, which was twenty meters ahead, before stopping it.

Then, together with Xiao Ai, they got out of the car and walked to their doorstep, each carrying various delicacies and tonics.

The large iron gate to the courtyard was unlocked.

Zeng Shen pushed open the large iron gate, walked towards the main entrance of the house, and then stood at the entrance, looking inside through the mosquito-proof curtain on the door.

I could see my parents at a glance, sitting on the yellowish-brown oil-waxed wood bench in the living room, their brows furrowed.

Opposite them, on an oil-waxed wooden chair, sat a tall, thin old man with thick, white hair, smoking a cigarette.

Zeng Shen recognized the old man; he was Zeng's eldest uncle, the most senior member of the Zeng family. He couldn't remember the old man's real name, but he knew that there used to be an old man of his generation who called Zeng Tuidan (meaning "Bald Zeng").

"Then this motorcycle at the door belongs to him."

Zeng Shen thought to himself, and then became somewhat puzzled.

My family and this so-called great-uncle rarely have any good dealings.

Why would you suddenly come to visit my home?

And judging from the parents' furrowed brows, it couldn't be as simple as just visiting for a casual chat, could it?

Could it be that something else is wrong and he needs his parents' help?
Just as Zeng Shen was thinking this, Xiao Ai gently touched his arm.

It turned out that the uncle in the living room had stood up, reached out and took a wad of money from his mother's pocket, and was about to turn and leave.

Zeng Shen then came to his senses, pulled back the mosquito net and went inside. He playfully called out to his parents, who were about to get up to see their great-uncle off:

"Dad, Mom, it's me, Hu Hansan, back."

Zeng Shen's parents were Zeng Youcai and Wu Xian'e.

As soon as the two stood up, they heard Zeng Shen's voice at the gate. Thinking they had misheard, they quickly turned their heads to look.

When they saw Zeng Shen carrying large and small gift boxes and placing them on the dining table, their furrowed brows relaxed.

And she looked with some surprise at Xiao Ai behind Zeng Shen, who had long wavy hair, wore a casual dress, and was exceptionally fair-skinned and elegant, like a foreign mixed-race princess.

Instantly, the two of them started making connections.

After all, in their understanding, Zeng Shen never brought girls home, so this time he suddenly brought a girl home, so this girl is most likely...
While the two were making their guesses, the bald uncle quickly stuffed the money in his hand into his pocket.

Then, as he walked toward Zeng Shen, revealing his full set of yellow teeth, he said with a smile, "Shen, you haven't been back for several years to worship our ancestors. It's a rare treat to be back this year. Come to the ancestral hall with your parents tomorrow to help out, so we can worship our ancestors together the day after tomorrow."

"Go when you have time."

Zeng Shenwei frowned slightly and said indifferently.

If it weren't for his mother's sake, he wouldn't have bothered to even step into the ancestral hall and pay any attention to those relatives who had been so harsh on them in the past.

Hearing Zeng Shen's tone, Zeng the Bald knew that this kid had become unfamiliar with his own family since childhood because of his family members and his grandfather's attitude towards his family.

therefore.

He didn't say much, just glanced curiously at the foreign woman who had once been beside him, then turned and walked out the door, started his motorcycle and drove away.

After he drove his motorcycle out of the courtyard gate, he saw the behemoth 'Wuling RV' parked in front of the Li family manor next door.

He looked slightly shaken and said enviously, "If it were this car, and the Zeng family descendants drove it to the entrance of the ancestral hall, it would attract a lot of attention and speculation. It's a pity that the Li family is too stingy and would never lend it out."

talking.

Bald Zeng shook his head, drove away on his motorcycle, and didn't connect the car to Zeng Shen.

(End of this chapter)