I traveled through countless worlds and became stronger on my own

The only time Lin Mo had any contact with these wealthy girls in Dream of the Red Chamber was when all the members of the Jia family came to worship their ancestors, and he ran to a distant hill and secretly took a few glances at them.

There were many people offering ancestor worship, and each of them was wearing colorful silk, making Lin Mo look extremely unreal.

There were a few little boys and girls who followed these people, wearing their nice cotton-padded jackets and laughing and playing in the crowd.

As for who among them was Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu, Jia Yingchun and Jia Xichun, Lin Mo had no idea.

He only knew that the pastries in these children's hands must be delicious.

So Lin Mo secretly wanted to get closer to see if he could pick up one or two pieces of pastries thrown away by these rich young masters and young ladies to fill his stomach.

But before he got very close, a servant of the Jia family who had come here without him knowing, scolded him, "You bastard, you want to get close to the young master and young lady? Get out of here, get out of the way!" and drove him away.

With no other options, Lin Mo had to run. If he ran too slowly, he might get kicked!

On the other hand, these young masters and young ladies, who were of the same age as Lin Mo, had curious expressions as if they were looking at something new. They found it a little funny to see Lin Mo, who was wearing rags and linen clothes, being driven away by his servants.

But none of them said anything to stop the servant who was driving Lin Mo away.

Chapter 20: Alone

This was also the first time that Lin Mo directly felt the oppression of the so-called feudal ethics in ancient society.

Feudal ethics and strict hierarchy meant that a so-called tenant farmer's son like Lin Mo was not qualified to be compared with the children of wealthy families from big and powerful families.

A year or two later, Lin Mo's two younger brothers and sisters died one after another. Lin Mo, who was already seven or eight years old, asked his parents in the Dream of the Red Chamber world for permission to study.

Because as a time traveler, Lin Mo knew that the fastest way to change one's class in feudal society was to study and take the imperial examination.

However, when Lin Mo said these words, he was almost beaten with a stick by his cheap father.

Reading? What the hell kind of books are there? A tenant farmer's family simply can't afford to support a full-time scholar.

As a tenant farmer, Lin Mo's father's greatest wish was to save some money so that he could buy a few pieces of land of his own and become a small self-employed farmer. When he was old, he could pass the land to his son so that his life would not be in vain.

As for letting his son become a scholar, he didn't even dare to think about it, because it was simply impossible. Even if he saved money on food and drink, even if he worked harder and rented a few acres of land to farm, he still couldn't support a full-time scholar.

A family that can truly raise a scholar independently must at least be a small landlord with dozens of acres of land. As a tenant family, he simply does not have the ability to do so if he only relies on renting land and farming. He cannot do it even if he risks his life.

After that, Lin Mo never mentioned studying again, and started to find other ways to make money to change his living standard and class status.

With the information and knowledge from the 21st world, Lin Mo successfully made soaps, perfumes and the like, and presented them to the masters in the hope of exchanging them for rewards to supplement his family income.

It’s not that Lin Mo doesn’t want to make a profit from these rare goods and sell them at a high price, but he simply can’t do it.

In the feudal era, only the women of wealthy families could buy these luxury goods. But Lin Mo, a kid who had never even left the farm, didn't have the ability to contact them, let alone sell them.

It would be better to offer the Jia family in exchange for some rewards to improve one's life.

However, Lin Mo did not wait for the reward he hoped for. Instead, a group of officials came and searched his entire house on the charge of "theft". However, when they found that they could not find what they wanted, they arrested Lin Mo's tenant farmer father and took him to prison for interrogation.

Before leaving, this group of so-called "officials" pointed at Lin Mo's father and said to Lin Mo and his mother: "This guy stole our county magistrate's things. Now we don't know where he is hidden. If you are smart, quickly return the lost property to the government office. Only in this way can this guy be given a lighter sentence."

Lin Mo understood at this moment that it was the so-called county magistrate who had set his sights on the soap and perfume. Based on the principle of trying his best even if there were no results, he sent people to his house to search for more soap and perfume.

Anyway, Lin Mo's family is just a tenant farmer. Although they are under the name of Jia's family, they can be arrested. What else can Lin Mo's family do? Can Jia's family still stand up for a tenant farmer?

If it was a servant or something like that, then it would be possible, after all, beating a dog depends on the owner. But if it was a tenant farmer, even if he died and you couldn't beat him, you could just rent the property to another tenant farmer.

Since ancient times, the people have never fought against the officials!

Lin Mo, who had read "Jin Ping Mei" and "The Art of Thick Black" in his previous life, had a good understanding of this. In desperation, in order to rescue his father who was imprisoned in this life, Lin Mo handed over all the remaining soaps and perfumes in the hope of saving his father's life.

Of course, Lin Mo did not hand over the formula of the soap perfume.

It’s not that Lin Mo was reluctant to do so, but after this incident, Lin Mo clearly understood that if he gave the formula to others, he might not be able to save his father, and both mother and son would probably die tragically.

Formulas like soap and perfume, which are worth a fortune, must be kept strictly confidential, so only the dead can prevent them from being leaked again.

If you really hand it over, you’ll be dead!

Anyway, the county magistrate didn't know the specific situation. He just wanted to find out the source of these things from Lin Mo's home, a small tenant, out of greed.

Although no one knew where he got the information about the soap and perfume, Lin Mo could only say that he rescued a little monkey in the mountains and that the soap and perfume were the monkey's way of repaying a favor, as an excuse for the origin of the soap and perfume.

This kind of feudal superstition about spirits repaying favors was often used to fool people in ancient times.

So those greedy officials did not have any suspicions. After all, in their opinion, how could a lowly peasant come up with the recipes for these good things?

It's probably just some lucky bastard that I picked up these treasures from somewhere.

So he sent all the remaining soaps and perfumes to the yamen, and borrowed some silver from a loan shark to use to run the yamen. After a few weeks, Lin Mo's father was finally "vindicated" and released from prison.

However, what returned home was the body of Lin Mo's father...

The county magistrate who ruined the family and the prefect who wiped out the entire clan.

Lin Mo once again personally realized the cruelty of this proverb that has been passed down since ancient times.

The death of his father, the breadwinner of the family, meant that Lin Mo's small tenant family completely lost the guarantee of survival.

Lin Mo's mother couldn't bear such bad news and wanted to seek justice for her father, but she couldn't even enter the door of the yamen and was kicked out by the officials.

"You slut, hasn't your husband been released by you? If you dare to make trouble again, believe it or not, I will arrest you and throw you into jail to make you experience the life of your husband?" The officers threatened viciously.

Lin Mo's mother could only return helplessly because her thin arms could not twist her thighs. She fell ill a few days later and passed away along with Lin Mo's father.

From then on, Lin Mo in the world of Dream of Red Mansions was alone.

Lin Mo had to pawn and sell all the valuable things in the house to raise enough money for his parents' funeral. However, before he could use the money to buy land for the burial, the money was snatched away by loan sharks to pay off debts.

Fortunately, Lin Mo was smart and ran fast, otherwise he would have been captured and sold to human traffickers to make up the interest.

It was not until late at night that Lin Mo dared to sneak back. He collected the bodies of his parents and placed them on firewood picked up from the mountains. Then he started a big fire that burned down the entire small earthen house, as a way to cremate them.

Chapter 21: Lin Mo in the Wuhun World

Lin Mo stood not far from his burning house. In the deep darkness, he stared at the blazing flames, his eyes filled with endless confusion and unwilling helplessness.

Why is this different from the Dream of the Red Chamber that I read?

A Dream of Red Mansions, a dream of Red Mansions, but I can’t dream of princes and nobles in my dream.

Taiping Book, the book of Taiping, the book is full of talented men and beautiful women.

Since then, Lin Mo has lost all his spirit and no longer has any of the pride and complacency that belongs to a time traveler.

Until the dawn, some little souls who were sitting cross-legged and sleeping appeared in his consciousness space...

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Lin Mo in the Wuhun world is a 33-year-old who still maintains the super high status of a great magician. Taking advantage of the company's finally-released annual leave, he chose to go camping in the deep mountains and forests to breathe some fresh air and relax his exhausted body and mind due to the 996 work schedule every day.

As luck would have it, he encountered a big tiger. Lin Mo was so scared that he wanted to run away, but the tiger kept chasing him relentlessly.

Finally, with no other choice, Lin Mo turned around, thinking of the moves he had seen on the Internet, and immediately slid over.

Then Lin Mo traveled through time and space to a world where everyone has a martial spirit.

When Lin Mo first traveled to the Wuhun World, he was a little panicked because he found that he had no cheats.

In a world like the Wuhun Continent where everything is determined by the martial soul, the absence of cheats means that unless Lin Mo awakens an awesome martial soul during his martial soul awakening, he will never have any chance to turn things around.

However, this martial spirit mainly relies on innate inheritance and has nothing to do with acquired efforts.

This means that if you want to awaken a powerful martial soul, you must have a pair of powerful soul master parents.

But unfortunately, Lin Mo's parents in the martial arts world were not soul masters, but just two ordinary people without soul power. Their martial souls were a blank book that could be used for writing and calculations, and a white candle that could be used for lighting.

There is no hope in terms of genetics, so we can only rely on mutation.

But the problem is that 99% of the mutations are malignant, and very few are benign, so we can't expect anything at all.

This is very difficult to deal with!

Although this Wuhun world is a fantasy sewer, no matter how sewer it is, it is still fantasy after all. Lin Mo is an ordinary person without any special abilities, and even if he is familiar with the plot, he cannot change his fate!

For an ordinary person who is not even a soul master, there is no chance of obtaining opportunities such as magical herbs and elixirs in the martial soul, trials and examinations, etc.!

This made Lin Mo consciously train himself from a very young age, hoping that when his martial soul awakens, he will be able to awaken a very powerful martial soul and the highest possible soul power.

However, the reality was that he not only slapped Lin Mo hard, but also kicked him.

On the day when his martial soul awakened, Lin Mo did not awaken any amazing god-level or immortal-level martial soul, nor did he have any special twin martial souls. Instead, he only had a book-like martial soul with blank content, just like his father's.

If the book martial spirit undergoes a benign mutation, it may be able to possess good auxiliary abilities.

As for soul power, it was only at the inaccessible level of 0.5. This was because the Soul Awakening Deacon took into account the tiny bit of light emitted from the soul power test ball, which was almost invisible to the naked eye, and only gave Lin Mo a level of 0.5.

If he was not a soul master with eyesight unmatched by ordinary people, he would not have been able to detect this subtle light of soul power test.

In fact, with Lin Mo's awakened innate soul power, it is not even at level 0.5, which is far from enough.

The reason why this martial soul awakening deacon was willing to give this kind of soul power light to level 0.5 was not to say that this deacon was kind-hearted, but because he had traveled to more than a dozen villages and had never met a martial soul awakener with innate soul power.

In order to make it easier to report back, he chose to raise Lin Mo's soul power to level 0.5. After all, this was the only martial soul awakener with soul power he had met so far in this awakening.

Even if one has little soul power, one still has soul power. At least if one works hard, one has the chance to become a soul master.

As expected, the martial soul that Lin Mo awakened was also evaluated as a useless martial soul.

Generally speaking, the quality of the martial soul is related to the innate soul power of the soul master when it awakens. The better the quality of the martial soul awakening, the higher the innate soul power will be; the higher the awakening of the innate soul power, it also means that the quality of the awakened martial soul is higher.

Even though the protagonist of the Martial Soul World, Tang Shan, awakened a useless martial soul, the Blue Silver Grass, but the fact that he was able to have full innate soul power proved that Tang Shan's Blue Silver Grass martial soul was not weak at all.

Wasn't it later confirmed that his so-called Blue Silver Grass was actually a top-level martial spirit like the Blue Silver Emperor, but its bloodline was not obvious at the beginning.

It was also because the impression left by the useless martial spirit Blue Silver Grass was too deep in people's minds, so the deacon Su Yuntao who helped Tang Shan awaken did not think about it carefully, which led Su Yuntao to ignore it.

But in general, the quality of martial soul and innate soul power complement each other, without a doubt.

This also means that with this useless martial soul and this 0.5 level innate soul power, Lin Mo can at best become a barely-there great soul master. As for the higher levels of soul lord or soul ancestor, forget it.

There is no way. Now that things have come to this, I can only leave it to fate and take it one step at a time.

Afterwards, Lin Mo enrolled in the Notting City Junior Soul Master College and became a work-study student.

Here, Lin Mo met the so-called master.

Originally, Lin Mo wanted to go and become a disciple and curry favor with him.

There is no other way. Lin Mo has no cheats and his talent is average. If he doesn't rely on others, he will probably not make any progress in his life.

But in fact, if given a choice, Lin Mo would rather be a big shot rather than kneeling down and licking others.

Even if one really wants to curry favor with someone powerful, it would have to be someone like Bibi Dong, the leader of the Spirit Hall, or Qian Renxue. At worst, Ning Rongrong of the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect would also be fine.

It’s a pity that Lin Mo has no choice. He can neither make himself a big shot nor meet the rich women mentioned above.

The number of people who want to see Bibi Dong, Qian Renxue and Ning Rongrong every day can fill up the entire Tiandou City. How can a mere soul master like Lin Mo, who is not even a soul master, be qualified to see them?

So Lin Mo could only set his sights on the master.

As for the protagonists Tang Shan and Xiao Wu, Lin Mo has not seen them in the Junior Soul Master Academy yet. It will probably take another one or two years for them to enroll.

The reason why Lin Mo dared to make such a guess was because the master at this time had just accepted the invitation of the dean of Nottingham Junior College this year to come here as an instructor.

Although he is an instructor, Yu Xiaogang does not teach any courses. He is more like a guest invited by the dean.

Chapter 22: Hugging the thigh

However, before Lin Mo could even bring up the idea of ​​becoming a disciple, Yu Xiaogang completely eliminated the idea during a conversation with all the teachers and students in the academy.

Yu Xiaogang made it very clear to all the teachers and students in the academy that he had no intention of accepting any disciples for the time being.

Ostensibly, he was speaking to all the teachers and students in the academy, but actually, he was speaking to some of the noble children who went to become his disciples, so that they could reject the attempts to win him over from their families.

After all, Lin Mo is not the only one who has the same idea of ​​currying favor with others.

Even if Yu Xiaogang is a waste, he still has the title of a so-called "master". The connections and resources behind him, such as the Blue Lightning Tyrant Clan and the elders of the Spirit Hall, are enough to make the nobles in these small towns covet them.

Not to mention Lin Mo, a little soul master with mediocre talent and no future in sight.

Since Yu Xiaogang has announced this to the public, Lin Mo has given up the idea of ​​clinging to Yu Xiaogang. Others may not understand, but Lin Mo, as a time traveler who knows the plot, knows the reason very well.

It was nothing more than that this so-called "master" wanted to find a talented disciple to verify his martial soul theory, but there were no outstanding students in this academy that satisfied him. In order to prevent those ignorant nobles or other ignorant people from disturbing him, he made such a declaration.

After realizing this, Lin Mo did not shamelessly go to the master to explain his intention to become his disciple. If he was not a genius, it would be impossible for him to be accepted as Yu Xiaogang's disciple. But if Lin Mo was a genius, why would he become his disciple?

Aren’t the Spirit Hall, Seagod Island, and Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect attractive?

As for clinging to the protagonist Tang Shan, Lin Mo gave up after careful consideration.

It’s not that Lin Mo doesn’t have the audacity to cling to Tang Shan. He even wants to become the disciple of a useless master like Yu Xiaogang. No wonder he would give up clinging to the protagonist because of his pride as a time traveler.

This is because even if you kneel down and lick Tang Shan, you won’t get any benefits!

If he could become Yu Xiaogang's disciple, then even if Lin Mo did nothing, at the very least, even if a useless soul master like Lin Mo could not become a high-level soul master, he could eventually become a noble of the Tiandou Empire and own his own territory to enjoy life.