Chapter 1 Filling the Body
In midsummer, the setting sun sets in the west and the sky is filled with sunset.
In Chenjia Village, a wedding had just ended.
After the guests and neighbors had eaten and drank, they dispersed one after another, and the laughter and laughter echoed in the small village.
Chen Yuan followed behind his parents, wearing a linen short coat, holding a bulging coarse cloth bag in his right hand, and holding his ten-year-old girl in his left hand as he walked home.
The dim sunlight shone down, leaving long shadows behind the two of them.
"Chen Dahua, this old guy, is so handsome today. Why is my daughter-in-law so handsome..."
My parents commented on today's wedding with a hint of sourness, and my little sister also chirped. I kept marveling at the excitement of the wedding and the sumptuous banquet.
Although no six rites such as nacai were held, in the poor Chenjia Village, this simple wedding was already the most lively event except the New Year's Day, bringing together more than half of the village's families. .
Chen Yuan smiled and listened carefully to the little girl's excited talk, gently pulling her hand from time to time to remind her to avoid potholes and rocks on the dirt road.
"Second brother, the braised pork is so delicious. I want to eat it... Second brother, have you eaten that white cake? It's so sweet... Second brother, it turns out that chicken is edible. Isn't chicken used to lay eggs..." Second brother..."
The younger sister asked one question after another, and the smile on Chen Yuan's face slowly faded.
He lowered his head, looked at the thin little sister, and said softly:
"Be good, little sister, whatever you want to eat in the future, my second brother will buy you whatever."
< br>"Really? Then I want to eat chicken! Well, no, the chicken has to lay eggs in exchange for copper coins, so let's eat braised pork, and that white cake, the white cake that is sweeter than sugar..."
The younger sister's voice became clearer and clearer, but Chen Yuan fell silent.
Chen Tiezhu turned around and scolded:
“You are a wild girl, you are just a slut, you can eat whatever you want!”
Chen Li gave him a push:
< br>"Okay! I finally got back to the table, can't I talk about it anymore?"
Chen Tiezhu glared at his mother-in-law, turned away and said nothing.
The little girl pouted, lowered her head and played with the shadow.
Chen Yuan held the little sister's hand more and more tightly.
The family came to a small courtyard in silence.
There are two thatched houses in the courtyard, one large and one small, surrounded by a thorn fence as high as one person.
A dilapidated wood door, rickety, with a wooden pin stuck in it.
Chen Tiezhu untied the wooden dowel, and the family walked into the larger thatched house. Chen Yuan let go of the younger sister's hand and placed the cloth bag on the rough yellow wood table.
The light in the room was dim, with only a tiny window hole covered with yellowing window paper.
There is a small candlestick on the table with half a thin candle on it.
Ms. Chen Li took out an earthenware bowl with a corner missing from a cupboard with half of the door missing, then took out five heavy thick flour pancakes from a cloth bag and placed them in the bowl. He turned over the bag again, shook it twice, and poured the fine crumbs into it.
These pancakes were left over by the host's family after the feast, and were divided among the villagers. The Chen family received five.
Chen Li picked up the bowl, glanced at Chen Yuan, put the bowl down, took out a thick flour pancake, and handed it to him:
"Er Niu, you have a big appetite. Are you full?”
Chen Yuan took the thick flour pancake:
“Thank you, mother”
"Hey, why are you so polite to my mother? You are just like those dolls who are studying and can talk..."
Ms. Chen Li scolded Chen Yuan, but she smiled broadly and wrinkles appeared at the corners of her eyes. Layers upon layers.
She is only in her early thirties, but she looks like a middle-aged woman in her late fifties, with a weathered look on her face.
Chen Tiezhu chuckled:
“Don’t tell me, this kid Erniu is mature and will definitely have a future.”
He sat at the table, holding a long dry tobacco stick, taking a deep breath of smoke, and then exhaling it slowly, his face full of intoxication.
Chen Yuan smiled and put the thick flour pancake back into the bag.
Ms. Chen Li frowned:
“Save it for dinner again?”
Chen Yuan smiled and said:
"You're not hungry yet. Eat before going to bed. Otherwise, you'll wake up hungry in the middle of the night."
"Okay, then go chop the firewood."
"Okay, I’ll go right away.”
Chen Yuan took the coarse cloth bag and came to another hut.
This hut is not big. Under the window on the right side of the door, there is an earth bed with a thatched mat of different colors on it. On the left side are piles of various farm tools and sundries.
Chen Yuan looked outside the door and gently untied his linen clothes.
A strange scene appeared. His belly was extremely sunken. There were four thick pancakes in the shallow pit, but there was nothing strange about it from the outside.
He took out four thick flour pancakes and put them into a coarse cloth bag. His belly slowly returned to its original shape, and he put on linen clothes again. His body shape was exactly the same as before.
Chen Yuan opened a corner of the thatch mat, covered the coarse cloth bag, picked up an ax from the pile of debris, and came to the courtyard.
He picked up a small pile of firewood from the firewood pile in the corner of the small courtyard, went to the open space aside, put up a piece of wood as thick as an arm, picked up the ax, and chopped it down.
Click!
Chen Yuan's arm muscles flexed and he split the firewood in half neatly.
Click!
Another blow of the ax struck, and the second piece of firewood broke.
Click! Click!
Chen Yuan held an iron ax weighing four kilograms and chopped off firewood one after another. His breath was long and his expression remained unchanged.
The younger sister was bored in the house and came to the courtyard to watch Chen Yuan chopping firewood. She clapped her hands and applauded:
"Second brother is so strong and awesome..."
A quarter of an hour later, Chen Yuan finished chopping a small pile of firewood and piled it beside the stove.
At this time the sun had set and the sky was getting dark.
Chen Yuan fed the chickens again, said to Mrs. Chen Li, and took his little sister back to the small hut to sleep.
The little girl was tired after playing for a long time. Chen Yuan told her a story about "Wu Song defeated the tiger", and after a few words of coaxing, she fell asleep.
Chen Yuan himself was not sleepy at all. He kept his eyes open and listened quietly to the chatter between Chen Tiezhu and Chen Li in another thatched hut. As the night gets darker, the moon slowly rises. The moonlight shines through the window and casts a clear glow on the thatched mat.
Finally, Chen Tiezhu's snoring sounded, and all that was left in Chen Yuan's ears were the chirping of insects and the gentle breathing of the little girl.
He got up quietly, got out of bed lightly, and went to the corner of the hut. Under the cold moonlight, he took a piece of loess from the wall, revealing a narrow hole in the wall.
He took out a coarse cloth bag from it, gently opened the door, and came to the courtyard.
Looking around, there is no one around, the Milky Way is hanging in the sky, and the stars are shining.
Chen Yuan opened the coarse cloth bag and took out something.
This is a piece of white jade (jue). The jade is delicate and emits a faint green light under the starlight.
Suddenly, the stars all over the sky shone together, gathering into a thin beam of white light, falling from the sky and landing on Chen Yuan's head.
Chen Yuan closed his eyes slightly and felt a cool feeling covering his whole body. His whole body was slightly numb and felt very uncomfortable.
Ten breaths later, the green light on the jade device disappeared, and the white light dissipated.
Chen Yuan opened his eyes, feeling a sense of hunger.
He had obviously eaten the banquet, but at this time he was like a hungry man who had been hungry for three days and three nights on the road to escape disaster, and his stomach kept making gurgling sounds.
Chen Yuan swallowed, returned to the house, put the Yujue back into the bag, hid it in the hole in the wall, then took out the five thick flour pancakes and wolfed them down.
Not long after, all five thick flour pancakes were eaten. This was the amount of food an ordinary person would eat in two days, but it was only enough for him to barely eat half full.
Chen Yuan lay back on the bed, feeling the emptiness in his belly, and sighed softly.
In the three years since I came to this world, I haven’t had a few full meals.
He was originally from China on Earth. Although he only graduated from an ordinary second degree, he studied the most popular computer major.
After graduation, he followed the trend and founded an Internet company. He succeeded in financing several times in a row. In less than two years, the market value reached more than one billion U.S. dollars. His net worth also soared to hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars, and he became a well-known person in China. Young Entrepreneurs.
Young and rich, naturally there are all kinds of temptations around you.
Chen Yuan fell into a gentle countryside, with beautiful cars, beautiful women, drunken life and music every night.
Alcohol is a poison that penetrates the intestines, and sex is a steel knife that scrapes bones. Over the past few years, due to overindulgence, an extremely irregular life, and often working all night long, my body completely collapsed, and I was diagnosed with advanced gastric cancer.
Chen Yuan panicked, sold all his shares, admitted himself to the hospital, and was treated with the most advanced technology and drugs.
But money is not everything. Chen Yuan spent the last two years of his life lying on the hospital bed.
Before he died, he realized that he was not a son of destiny, but he only caught up with the trend of the times and made great achievements.
The absurd extravagance of the past is like a dream.
The glitz disperses, leaving no trace.
In regret and pain, Chen Yuan closed his eyes.
When he opened his eyes again, he turned into Chen Erniu.
This is a place called Qi State. The language and characters are very different from those of China, but the level of development is similar to that of ancient China, and the cultural customs are also similar.
Three years ago, Chen Erniu was ten years old. He contracted a cold and had no money for treatment. He died of a serious illness.
Chen Yuan's soul traveled through time and occupied his body.
Yu Jue also followed Chen Yuan’s soul and came here.
After Chen Yuan succeeded in starting a business in his previous life, he became arty and bought many antiques and toys.
Jade Jue is one of them, an ancient relic from the pre-Qin era.
At a Sotheby's auction, Chen Yuan fell in love with the jade at first sight and spent tens of thousands of dollars to buy it. He loved it so much that he never left it.
However, Yujue did not bring good luck, and he still contracted AIDS.
But after traveling through time, Chen Yuan discovered the magical side of Yujue.
Under the shining of the stars, Yujue can activate the starlight to fill his body every twelve hours.
After filling the body, Chen Yuan will feel hungry in his body.
If you eat in time and replenish energy, your body will become stronger than before, and your strength, flexibility, agility, five senses, etc. will all be improved.
Even thoughts will become clear and sensitive.
But only when the feeling of hunger disappears can the next starlight injection be carried out.
Otherwise, even after twelve hours, the starlight directed by Yu Jue will have no effect.
After Chen Yuan discovered the magical effect of Yujue, he was ecstatic, but he quickly calmed down.
The ups and downs in his previous life have worn away all the sharp edges in his body, making him extremely cautious.
He didn't dare to tell others about Yujue's special features. He didn't even reveal anything about it to his parents and younger sisters. He only performed starlight injection at the right time.
But the Chen family is poor and can barely maintain food and clothing.
In the past three years, Chen Yuan has only had twenty-one indoctrination sessions, mostly on special occasions such as annual festivals to worship ancestors, weddings and weddings, relatives coming to visit, etc.
Only at these times can he have enough to eat.
Just these twenty-one starlight injections have made Chen Yuan's physical body far stronger than ordinary people, his strength has greatly increased, and his control over his body has reached a meticulous level.
When eating at the banquet today, he stole a few thick flour pancakes, controlled his abdominal muscles, and hid them close to his body. No one noticed them for several hours, and only then did he have this opportunity to be filled with starlight.
Although these five pancakes can only be eaten half full, after the starlight is injected into the body, it is not necessary to replenish energy overnight. As long as the hunger is eliminated within three days, the physical strength can be improved.
The remaining four pancakes were enough to help Chen Yuan digest the harvest brought by this starlight infusion.
But after tomorrow, he still doesn’t have enough to eat.
The next starlight injection is still far away.
Chen Yuan sighed softly, enduring the feeling of being half hungry and half full, closed his eyes, and slowly fell asleep.
(End of this chapter)