Chapter 52: Return in Glory (Seeking votes and bookmarks!)

  The boudoir wafted with a faint scent of rouge, Cao Guan embracing his snow-white and warm concubine's delicate body, but his mind was floating with Lin Huan.

  As the first major force in Qingniu Town with a deep foundation, the Cao family not only monopolized most of the town's commerce but also had business connections to the big city of Jinyuan. Cao Guan is over 50 years old, has one wife and six concubines, and has many children - a total of eleven sons and three daughters. The only thing that makes Cao Guan unhappy is that his children are all born with a silver spoon in their mouths, are spoiled, and among the fourteen children, either have mediocre talent or indulge in food, drink, and pleasure, making it difficult for them to achieve anything. Only his third son and eldest daughter show some promise on the path of martial arts.

  Able to stand upright in various treacherous undercurrents for nearly a hundred years without falling, the Cao family's main policy over the past century has been to widely recruit talents from all over the world. The current Cao family, apart from the five reclusive guest elders, has more than a thousand guards, and its most important source of strength comes from the large number of inner disciples.

  Inner Disciple refers to a young person with excellent qualifications who, due to certain needs, is bought by the Cao family and treated as a close relative. The Cao family provides free training according to their cultivation achievements.

  As a disciple of the inner door, not only will you receive guidance from famous teachers hired by the Cao family, but also occasionally receive free elixirs and martial arts techniques. As for food, clothing, and shelter, they are all provided for free. The disciples who are cultivated will also be assigned to various branches according to their actual strength, taking charge of important positions, with a bright future ahead.

  Many young people with dreams try to squeeze in every year.

  For the past three or four years, what has been troubling Cao Guan is that the inner disciples he recruited are uneven in quality and too mediocre. If this continues, the Cao family will definitely face a major crisis.

  Lin Heng's appearance made him bright. Being able to rush into the first product during the medicine ceremony, whether successful or not, it shows that Lin Heng is indeed a talented person. He himself is over 50 years old, if he can recruit him into the Cao family, when he gets older, he will be just right to assist his next generation. Solving his inner worries about more than ten incompetent children.

  If one day he really went, the Cao family could have such a person in charge, and although it's unlikely to develop and expand, it should be no problem to keep the foundation. He is close to knowing his fate, and has to think deeply about considering future things.

  Another thing that made his mind lively was that last month, he had dealings with Jin Yancheng and several other major forces, and secretly learned a piece of information.

  The beast hunting market of Guiyuan City's Returning to Truth Hall will be transferred in five months, and when selecting the transferee, a small-scale new martial artist competition will be held. Whoever wins among the merchant families will get the trading rights. The only rule is that participating martial artists must have been promoted within the past year.

  An ordinary warrior, to a first-class warrior, without several years of hard work, how can they easily advance and succeed? If the news today is true, Lin Heng was breaking through during his medicine washing, which means his realm must be infinitely close to one product, or he has already broken through successfully and advanced to one product.

  As a first-rate warrior, he was about to crush those new warriors who had just advanced for one year and could be said to have almost put the championship in his pocket. At this juncture, running into Lin Yang, that one-in-a-million anomaly, was simply heaven helping him!

  The beast hunting market makes a profit of nearly five million taels of gold every year. If it can be obtained, it is equivalent to the Cao family having another huge income every year.

  The more he thought about it, the more intense his interest became. He regretted not being able to grasp this shining gem, Lin Huarong, tightly in his hand before other major powers discovered him.

  "The master of the house, a palace eunuch has come with an urgent message to report." A few knocks on the door, and a maid outside spoke in a low voice.

  "What's the matter at this late hour? Can't it wait till tomorrow?" The beautiful concubine, half-naked and revealing a pair of snow-white and round breasts, said displeased towards the outside of the door.

  She was Cao Guan's fifth concubine, Qiu Shi, who was not yet twenty-six years old. Seeing the master of the house finally come to her place with great difficulty, she was naturally displeased when someone interrupted them.

  Cao Guan fondled her plump and elastic breasts, then put on the cloak beside him, smiled and said: "Darling, don't be angry, I'll be back in a few minutes."

  Normally, he would have done as she wished, but he had a faint feeling that there was some new news from Lin's side.

  He went out to the outer hall and saw the attendant who was in charge of this matter. The attendant had a look of urgency on his face, sometimes sitting down and sometimes standing up, clearly very anxious.

  "Has Lin Huan got news?" Cao Guan motioned for him to sit down.

  "There's news! Just received the latest message, Lin Hengzhong has successfully ascended!" The attendant found a vent and nodded vigorously in response.

  "What a Lin Huan, indeed a genius! While washing the medicine, he successfully broke through to the first rank, and in one night, he broke through the ordinary person's years of effort, which is also an unprecedented record." Cao Guan was full of praise, feeling that Lin Huan did not disappoint his expectations.

  Unexpectedly, the attendant hastily waved his hand and said: "Master of the mansion, it's not like that. Lin Heng's cultivation is not just first-rate, but second-rate. The latest news just came in saying that after Lin Heng left the pass, he was detected by the Appraisal Instrument to have a reserve power of 22,000 points!"

  "Twenty-two thousand yuan? It's a second-tier impact, and it was successful!" Cao Guan stumbled, almost unable to sit still, luckily grabbing the armrest beside him.

  In one night, from washing medicine to first product, then to second product... how is this possible! Cao Guan was already unable to use language to describe the shock in his heart. This speed, even Chen Que, who was known as the number one genius of Qingniu Town, had been left behind by several streets!

  "Lin Heng's second product is a success!"

  Lin Heng broke through like a broken bamboo, setting a record of 22 days for the Qili Gou medicine washing. Moreover, during the medicine washing process, he first broke through the first product, then broke through the second product, breaking through history that even ancient people had not achieved. The latest detection power reached 2nd product's 22000 detection power...

  "Lin Heng has become powerful now, suddenly becoming the second highest hand in Qili Gou, next only to the patriarch Huo Tianzhao! Lin Heng, who is not yet eighteen years old, became the second two-product of Qili Gou, and slapped the faces of those old-fashioned warriors from other villages who had not even entered the first product..."

  The sky was barely bright, and the news with the words "Lin Hang" spread like a swift arrow to every corner of Qingniu Town, shocking the entire town!!!

  Lin Huan's mother gazed at him, who had become the pillar of Qi Li Gou overnight, and the second son of the second product of Qi Li Gou. The happiness and satisfaction flowed out from the wrinkles on her forehead. Since Lin Huan broke the five-day record of washing medicine in Qi Li Gou, their family had never received such respect from others. Not to mention the neighbors, even those high-ranking officials who used to be unapproachable in her eyes were rushing to send large boxes of gifts. In the village, men and women, old and young, looked at her with envy and respect in their eyes when they greeted her, which was a world of difference from the humiliation and contempt she had suffered in the past.

  All this is due to the fact that this son in front of me has made a good name for himself and brought honor to the Lin family.

  Lin Yao's expression was also complex, this son being able to suddenly rise to prominence and become a great success was naturally a very good thing, in the past he had not even dared to hope for such a thing. However, at present Lin Lang had actually become a second-rank cultivator, his cultivation suddenly surpassing that of his father by far, leaving him momentarily stunned.

  He had also fantasized about Lin Huan becoming a master overnight, but at most he would be satisfied with becoming a first-rate master. However, Lin Huan actually achieved something that even he didn't dare to imagine in his dreams.

  "Dad, mom, what are you looking at me for? You're eating too. Your son is a human being, not an animal. Looking at your expressions, it's as if you're treating me like some kind of monster." Lin Heng returned home last night and slept soundly until this morning after many days without rest.

  Near the door, the morning sunlight of this world shines through, he peels off the ordinary white porridge in the bowl, holding a garlic clove with soy sauce, feeling extremely comfortable.

  After leaving the "Wu Chi", he also felt that his family had been treated with a complete reversal. He had previously hoped to bring honor to his family, and finally did so, which was also one of the reasons for his happiness. Another reason is that he didn't like being in the spotlight, and wasn't yearning for those luxurious and dazzling noble lives; he only enjoyed the simple, warm, and peaceful family life at present.

  "You're going to be the successor of the clan, a great man in the future, and you still talk like that." His mother smiled and added another spoonful of warm white porridge to his bowl.

  "We can't even do big things, let alone be as strict as our parents. Even when facing our own parents, we have to be restrained, the Lin family doesn't have this rule."

  Lin Hong smiled and said: "That's right, I completely agree with Dad on this point..."

  After breakfast, Lin Rongji's affairs arrived, and the first thing was how to deal with all the things in the house.

  Since he entered the medicine washing pool, there have been constant streams of gifts. After breaking Huo Tianzhao's five-day record, it has become even more so, with all sorts of exquisite animal hides, silk fabrics, wax meats, wealth and treasures, jewelry... filling up an entire room.

  As they all came for Lin Hou, and Lin Hou didn't return, Lin Hou's parents were in a difficult situation. Sending them back would make people say that they had achieved their goal through underhanded means and offended others.

  Lin Hang looked at the full house of things, his head was big, and he couldn't send them back. Even if they were used by one family for two or three years, they wouldn't be enough. Taking them away to sell seemed disrespectful to the person who gave the gift.

  "Dad and mom, you guys go handle it. You all know what kind of son I am, I have no experience with this sort of thing at all. If I mess up, others will say that the Lin family is like this or that...it won't be good..."

  Lin's father and mother looked at him with a gloomy face, thinking that Lin had never been worldly before, and indeed had no way to deal with this kind of thing, and nodded in agreement.

  His father pulled him in front of two large chests and said, "The others we can help you deal with. But these two things, one is from the Cao family in Qingniu Town and the other is from Duobao Hall in Qingniu Town, you have to handle them personally. On the one hand, both are among the top powers in Qingniu Town, on the other hand, these two things are not ordinary items, we can't take liberties with them for you."

  When he saw his father, Lin Heng solemnly opened the first box, only to see that it was full of agate jewelry, shining with dazzling light.

  My days, even if I add up the previous life, Lin Huan has never seen so many gold and jewels. Lin Huan was dazed for a moment, feeling emotional: Brother also has a day of being an official noble! The most precious treasure is a delicate black box, next to which is placed a silver-white card.

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