fairy family

Chapter 44: New Year's Eve, Refining Treasures
“My family background is clean, I was born in a poor family of the ninth rank, I am a child of a different surname, and my parents are loyal and righteous people.

Yes, heels are not among the silverfish."

Teacher Zhu looked at the information on the roster, and his eyes became more and more satisfied.

She casually ticked a box on the book and told the maid beside her: "After this boy is admitted to the county school, take him back and don't let others snatch him away."

The maid immediately bowed her head and said, "Yes, sir!"

Yu Que didn't know that although he had visited Teacher Zhu twice without success and had not even seen him, he had already entered Teacher Zhu's sight and aroused his interest.

the other side.

After Yu Que returned home, he developed a fairly regular schedule.

He mostly meditated at home, honing his newly born Yin Spirit, and occasionally went to the Alchemist's Guild to observe the skills of others and to enhance his relationship with Huang Guishan, Qian Huazhen and others.

This regular life is exactly how he prepares for the county examination that will be held at the beginning of the year.

He did not intend to be like other candidates, who would become more and more crazy as they approached the county exam, consuming their energy and honing their martial arts. He had already passed this stage.

On the contrary, his qi and blood are now strong on the outside but weak on the inside, so he needs to take good care of himself and rest quietly. Only in this way can he make up for the previous deficiency and restore his physical condition to its original state.

Therefore, apart from one thing, Yu Que did not plan to perform any more refinement or rituals before the county examination.

Time passed quickly.

The New Year is approaching soon. People in this life have the same New Year customs as Yu Que did in his previous life, and all the rules and etiquette are similar to those in his previous life.

It is like offering sacrifices to the Kitchen God.

Although Yu Que's family lived in a tube-shaped building and they usually did not use a big pot stove but a coal stove with black charcoal, but that day the whole family worked together to clean the kitchen thoroughly.

The doors and windows outside the house were also pasted with festive red paper, as well as the peach charms that Yu Que brought back from the Alchemist Guild.

That night, everything is new.

Yu Que, along with his uncle's family, sat in the small living room. It was very cold outside the window, but the room was warm and everyone had a happy smile on their face.

As the head of the family, the uncle took the initiative to say, "New Year, new beginning! What are your wishes for the coming year, you three little ones?"

Before Yu Que and the others could speak, his cousin Fu Yuan spoke first:
"I have it, I have it! I want to live in a single room and sleep on my own bed. I don't want to squeeze in with my sister. Let Yu Que squeeze in with her."

The girl's words immediately made everyone at the table laugh, and the eldest cousin Fu Yun blushed. She quickly picked up the chopsticks and hit the girl's hand hard:

"Who wants to sleep in the same room with you?"

The aunt quickly blew on the little cousin's hand and coaxed her not to cry on the spot.

The uncle looked at the scene at the dining table, smiled, sighed, then took out a red envelope from his sleeve, intending to coax his little daughter into not being angry.

But before she could open her mouth, Yu Que, who was sitting next to the little cousin, took the red envelope for the girl and then thrust it behind her neck, making the little cousin scream with cold.

Yu Que pressed down the guy's head, rubbed it vigorously, and laughed:
"Don't worry, I have the red envelope, and you will also have your own room when the time comes."

When the uncle heard Yu Que coaxing his daughter so indulgently, he was about to stop him, but then he suddenly remembered that Yu Que is no longer the same person he was before. If he can pass the county school entrance examination in the beginning of the year, their family will be completely rich by then, and it will be easy to ask the clan for a bigger house.

Thinking of this, my uncle stopped talking. His face turned red and he handed the other two red envelopes to Yu Que and Fu Yun.

Yu Que accepted his red envelope and easily suppressed Fu Yuan who wanted to snatch his red envelope.

Suddenly, he heard his uncle say, "Que'er, let's go."

Yu Que raised his eyes and saw his uncle's eyes were bright. He was smiling at him and took the initiative to raise his glass to him.

He was slightly stunned, then subconsciously looked around and found that although his aunt and cousin Fu Yun did not look at him, they all had smiles on their faces and looked at him from time to time, their eyes were bright and full of hope for life.

This situation and scene are very different from the cramped and even poor New Year’s Eve dinners in previous years!
Of course, that damn girl Fu Yuan was an exception. She continued to act as heartlessly and aggressively as she did in previous years.

Being stared at like this by his family, Yu Que felt a surge of warmth in his heart. He immediately raised his glass and toasted with his uncle.

"Hahaha!" My uncle laughed, held the cup and drank it happily.

Just at this moment, the window in the house shook.

Bang bang, there were firecrackers outside the house. Yellow, green, bright, and shining, fireworks exploded in the night sky outside the building, turning the window into a canvas, extremely bright, glittering, and extremely lively. At Yu Que's home, he drank and ate to his heart's content while enjoying the new fireworks.

The days passed day by day.

After the New Year, the county examination will be closer.

After the Lantern Festival, the time was completely determined, just like in previous years, it was set on the second day of February, the day when the dragon raises its head.

When Yu Que learned the news, he no longer just rested at home, but started to prepare for the exam.

His uncle and others helped him prepare the writing brushes, ink, paper, inkstone, incense, candles, and yellow paper, so he didn't need to worry about them.

What he really had to do was to refine the eighth-grade inheritance in his hand.

This was the life-saving puppet he had bargained for when he bought the bookworm.

Over the past few days, Yu Que had already woven this thing and carried it with him day and night, just like an old hen incubating eggs, so that the puppet was always connected to his breath and body temperature.

He had already refined a century-old ghost into the puppet a long time ago. Now he only had one last step left to completely combine the two and refine them into this thing.

This day.

Yu Que was unusually generous and rented a quiet room in the Alchemist Guild for one night.

In the quiet room, paper lanterns, paper bowls, straw clothes, straw sandals, ox tongues and pig crutches, all in bright colors, were placed around a pitch-black hair puppet.

Yu Que was not wearing a Dharma robe, but a white linen robe with a white belt on his head, like he was in mourning. In his hand he was holding a soul flag, which was shaking unsteadily.

"Sacrifice yourself to protect the body and protect the host. Yin does not go empty, and Yang does not follow."

His eyes were slightly closed, he kept muttering to himself, and his movements were even more bizarre, with twisted steps called "Returning Soul and Walking Corpse Steps", which were used during sacrifices to blood relatives.

Poof!

Yu Que suddenly opened his eyes, only to see his eyes rolled back and a mouthful of blood spurted out from the tip of his tongue, hitting the puppet on the altar.

"When encountering enemies during disasters, you have evil magic, but I have magical powers!"

He suddenly shouted: "Fa Kui, wake up quickly, hurry up and obey the order!"

With a creaking sound, the puppet on the altar bent over as expected after absorbing the blood from his tongue.

Half of its body rose from the altar, then it looked around the quiet room strangely for a long time and let out a strange laugh.

"Hahahaha!"

As soon as the laughter stopped, the object disappeared from the altar, and flashed to appear behind Yu Que, lying back to back with him, as if it was going to embed itself into his flesh.

Yu Que felt pain, and the linen clothes on his body seemed to be corroded immediately, leaving a big hole.

This woke him up from his state of practice, and he subconsciously reached out and scratched his back hard.

After scratching out bloody marks, he touched the rough puppet, and then his face showed joy instead of worry, and he immediately said:

"Save your life and send a puppet. It's done!"

In this situation, it turned out that he had completely refined the old ghost in the puppet into it, and used the method of "ghost leaning on the back" to put the puppet on his back.

In this way, this thing was integrated with his blood and qi, and even if they searched his body during the county examination, they could not take it away.

When he needs it to save his life, Yu Que can dig it out, stick it in the same place, replace himself, and escape.

In addition, if any evil magic flew towards him, Fa Kui would also take the initiative to take his place, thus preventing him from being assassinated during the county examination.

In the quiet room, Yu Que took off his white linen clothes. He touched his back repeatedly with a happy look on his face.

He said to himself: "Now everything is ready, just waiting for the county exam."

With a life-saving item on him, even if the county examination is really held in the wild, his life is guaranteed. He can use his martial arts to his heart's content and fight for a chance to succeed.

(End of this chapter)