Dongfang City is one of the three major families in Luoye Town, the Lin family's city.
Early in the morning, Fangshi became busy. Businessmen from other small towns were wandering around Fangshi early in the morning, looking for their favorite goods.
Fangshi is run internally by the Lin family, so every shop in Fangshi will be guarded by a Lin family disciple.
At this time, in a grocery store in Nantou, Fangshi, a teenager was lying on the counter to catch up on his sleep.
The boy's name is Lin Yan, he is fifteen years old and a disciple of the Lin family.
The grocery store is located at the south end of Fang City, and the goods sold are too miscellaneous, causing some discrepancies between this grocery store and other stores throughout Fang City.
A little bit deserted.
There were two clerks in the store, chatting in low voices while leisurely picking out the spoiled goods, and looking up from time to time at the young man lying on the counter.
In fact, the boy lying on the counter was not asleep, he was deep in thought.
Meditating on what happened three days ago...
Lin Yan was originally an ordinary office worker on a certain planet. He just masturbated at a roadside stall after work, and was transported to this world by a bolt of lightning.
In other words, he traveled through time.
He was reborn in this world, in the body of a young man also named Lin Yan.
Integrating some of the memories of "Lin Yan" in this world, Lin Yan also has a general understanding of this world.
This is an extraordinary world. Human beings can awaken when they reach the age of sixteen. After awakening, they can practice and become a monk.
In addition, there are many overlapping different spaces in this world, which are called "abyss".
The creatures in each "abyss" are different and very powerful. However, they rarely invade the outside world, and monks from the outside world often enter the "abyss" for crusade and experience.
Luoye Town is a coastal town. There is an entrance to the "abyss" on the rocks to the east of the town. Living inside is a group of people with dark green skin, scales on their backs, and double fins that have evolved into hands and feet. They are called by outside monks
"Murloc" creatures.
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"Hey! Give me five pounds of dried yellow croaker. I want the kind with more fat. The store in front said you have it here."
At this time, a stout middle-aged man came to the grocery store and shouted at the two clerks who were picking goods.
The clerk who was picking the goods saw someone coming to buy the goods. He immediately put down what he was holding, stood up and said, "Okay! Please wait a moment."
The two clerks quickly packed five kilograms of dried yellow croaker and charged the fat man three taels of silver. The grocery store finally sold the first item of the day.
The money was handed into Lin Yan's hands, which also interrupted his thoughts.
Putting the silver coins into the drawer on the counter, Lin Yan continued to hold his chin in his hands, eyes blankly in a daze.
He has been in this world for three days, and he has become somewhat accustomed to this kind of life. There is no "golden finger", no awesome "start", and no "background" that defies heaven.
He is just an ordinary disciple of the Lin family. He can only sit in this grocery store every day, collect money, sleep, instruct the clerks to work, and be an ordinary and leisurely little shopkeeper.
Typical of eating and waiting to die.
"well!"
Sighing, Lin Yan stood up, stretched his slightly numb arms, and couldn't help but have a sad look on his face.
Three days later will be the family awakening ceremony. If he cannot awaken, then he will really have to be a "leisurely little shopkeeper" for the rest of his life.
Awakening is to connect the "true" qi in the body with the true qi between heaven and earth, so that the human body can feel the qi between heaven and earth and practice cultivation.
If there is no "true" energy in the human body, it means that there is no way to awaken!
Failure to awaken means that you have no chance to become a monk and can only be an ordinary person for the rest of your life.
Although the Lin family will not expel the disciples who cannot awaken, they will still let them look after the shops in the market to give them the dignity of being a disciple of the Lin family.
But who doesn’t want to awaken, become a monk, go to heaven or earth, or become a human being?
Lin Yan wants it too!
However, during a family internal test three years ago, his body was found to have thin "genuine" energy and might not be able to awaken.
Generally speaking, if one out of ten people whose "true" energy is detected to be thin during the internal family test can be awakened during the awakening ceremony, that would be very good.
Many times, there is none.
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At noon, there were not many people in the market, and most shops began to close.
The market is closed in the afternoon, and the disciples of the Lin family who are looking after the shops will all return to their families.
"Lin Yan, let's go!"
A shout came from the door of the grocery store. Lin Yan came out of his daze and responded: "Here he comes!"
Putting today's income into a black cloth bag and putting it in his arms, Lin Yan stood up and locked the store door.
After telling the two guys to arrive early tomorrow morning, Lin Yan followed the young man who called him before and walked out of Fangshi.
This young man's name is Lin Qing. Like Lin Yan, his body's "true" energy was very thin during the family's internal testing.
"Lin Yan, how much did you earn today?" Lin Qing asked, turning his head.
Lin Yan patted the black cloth bag in his arms and said helplessly: "It's not the business you recommended to me. I only got three taels of silver in one morning."
The shop that Lin Qing is looking after is right in front of Lin Yan. It sells seafood and dried goods. The business is pretty good every day. Occasionally, he will introduce business to Lin Yan.
The rule within the family is that if the daily income from the shop business exceeds ten taels, the disciple who looks after the shop can withdraw one tael of silver.
Lin Yan's grocery store rarely earned more than ten taels from sales. In my memory, during the two years he took care of the grocery store, he only earned more than ten taels a dozen times.
Hearing that Lin Yan sold goods for three taels of silver, Lin Qing couldn't help but shook his head, took out the black cloth bag from his arms, and said: "My shop's business is pretty good today, you can pay these ten taels of silver! Tomorrow
Send the dried yellow croaker from your shop to my shop."
"What day is it today?" Lin Yan couldn't help but ask.
Lin Qing usually helped him like this on days when the clan was conducting routine inspections. If he failed to earn ten taels of income during the routine inspections, he would inevitably be punished.
Taking out the black cloth bag from his arms, Lin Yan put the ten taels of silver into his own black cloth bag without being polite to Lin Qing.
He didn't want to be punished with a night of confinement and no food.
Passing through Fangshi's North-South Street, the two of them joined the crowd and followed a group of Lin family disciples as they hurried back to the Lin family mansion.
The Lin family mansion is located on the southeast side of Luoye Town, covering an area of more than 100 acres and housing more than 2,000 Lin family children. Together with the Zhao and Sun families, they form a tripod in Luoye Town and are one of the three overlords of Luoye Town.
The Lin family's mansion is divided into an inner house and an outer house. The inner house is for the core disciples of the family, the disciples with a stronger "true" energy in their bodies, and the disciples of the family head.
The outer house is for disciples like Lin Yan and Lin Qing, who have weak "true" energy in their bodies, and disciples from the family's side lines.
The residences in the inner house are all exclusive. Among Lin Yan's generation, some outstanding inner house disciples even have their own pavilions and pavilions, as well as servants and maids.
The residence in the outer house is somewhat similar to a courtyard house, with three or four families living in a large courtyard.
The families of Lin Yan and Lin Qing both live in the West Courtyard. Because their parents have made some contributions to the family business, the two families jointly occupy a courtyard, Qingmei Garden.
After going to the accounting office to pay today's income, Lin Yan, with Lin Qing's help, not only escaped today's confinement punishment, but also received a commission of one to two to three dollars in broken silver.
Lin Qing handed over a lot of silver taels today. After giving Lin Yan ten taels, he handed over a full forty-five taels.
Coming out of the accounting room, Lin Qing took out his money bag, put four and a half taels of silver into it, and said happily: "Finally, we have it together, Lin Yan, come with me to the family elixir pavilion."
Seeing Lin Qing's happy expression, Lin Yan was a little surprised. He glanced at the money bag in Lin Qing's hand and said casually: "You haven't given up yet?"
"Ha! Give up? I, Lin Qing, don't have the concept of giving up." Lin Qing showed a smile, but his clenched fists could not help but tremble.
There are three days left for the family awakening ceremony, and this is the tenth time he has gone to the family elixir pavilion to buy the "Qi Condensing Pill".
"Qi Condensing Pill" has the effect of condensing "true" qi, but it is extremely weak. Even taking hundreds of pills cannot reach the level of rich "true" qi of those outstanding disciples.
There was a precedent for a disciple with weak "true" Qi who could not awaken even after taking fifty "Qi Condensing Pills".
Moreover, the "Qi Condensing Pill" is expensive, with one pill costing twenty taels of silver.
Lin Yan also ate two, but in his opinion it was a waste of money, and the income of the grocery store he was looking after was not high, so he stopped eating them later.
Lin Qing never gave up. Since the family beta test, he has taken nine "Qi Condensing Pills" one after another in the past three years.
Following Lin Qing through a corridor and through the south courtyard, the two came to the family elixir pavilion located in the east courtyard.
There are many people in the Pill Pavilion. In addition to Lin Yan and the other disciples from the outside, there are also many disciples from the inside.
Inner disciples and outer disciples buy elixirs in different ways. Outer disciples buy them in pills, while inner disciples buy them in bottles. This is the difference.
"Elder Yuntian, I want a "Qi Condensing Pill"." Lin Qing walked to the counter and poured the silver in his wallet onto the table.
The person in charge of the family's elixir pavilion was a family elder named Lin Yuntian. He glanced at the silver coins on the table, put them away, then turned around and took out a jade bottle from the medicine shelf and poured out one.
"I want the rest."
Suddenly, a voice sounded behind Lin Yan, and then a young man crossed Lin Yan, walked to the counter and stood side by side with Lin Qing, and said: "Elder Yuntian, how many "Qi Condensing Pills" are left in the medicine pavilion? I have them all.
wanted."
"Oh, it's Hongyu! Wait a minute, let me check..." Lin Yuntian turned around and checked the jade bottle on the medicine shelf, then turned around and said: "There are more than three hundred and twenty pills, you want them all."
?"
"Well, give them all to me!" Lin Hongyu nodded and handed over a crystal card.
"It's Lin Hongyu!"
"Why did he buy so many "Qi Condensing Pills"?"
"Who knows, I guess it has some uses!"
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Listening to the whispers around him, Lin Yan also turned his attention to the tall and tall young man.
This Lin Hongyu is the same age as him, fifteen years old, but the gap between them is as big as heaven and earth.
In the family internal test three years ago, Lin Hongyu's "true" Qi was the strongest, while Lin Yan's "true" Qi was the thinnest.
"gone!"
After putting away the elixir, Lin Qing turned around and greeted Lin Yan, with a deep sense of frustration clearly in his eyes.
The two of them walked towards the outside of the Pill Pavilion, but they didn't realize that Lin Hongyu behind them turned around and glanced at them, and his eyes were full of coldness.
Back at Qingmei Garden, Lin Yan walked towards his home.
Yesterday, Lin Yan's parents and Lin Qing's parents went to Yangzhou City to purchase goods. They would not be back until the afternoon of the day after tomorrow. Only Lin Yan, Lin Qing, and four servants were left in Qingmei Garden.
After lunch, Lin Yan read books in his room all afternoon. He was so dizzy that he didn't eat dinner and went to bed early.
midnight.
When the entire Lin family mansion was silent, several dark green-skinned "fish-men" climbed over the wall of the Lin family mansion and quietly entered the Lin family's inner house.
"Gululu!"
After sleeping until midnight, Lin Yan woke up from hunger.
Lin Yan reached the kitchen in a daze, and as soon as he opened the door, he was stunned.
A smooth back, covered with shimmering green fish scales, blocked the entire door!