Chapter 1: Body Infusion

Chapter 1: Body Infusion

Chapter 1: Body Infusion
In midsummer, the sun sets in the west and the sky is filled with sunset glow.

A wedding just ended in Chenjia Village.

After the guests and neighbors had eaten and drunk their fill, they gradually dispersed, and their laughter and joy echoed in the small village.

Chen Yuan followed behind his parents, wearing a linen short shirt, holding a bulging cloth bag in his right hand, and holding his ten-year-old sister's hand with his left hand, and walked towards home.

The dim sunlight cast long shadows behind the two people.

"Old Chen Dahua is so proud today. How come his daughter-in-law is so pretty..."

My parents commented on today's wedding with a hint of sourness, and my younger sister chattered away, marveling at the liveliness of the wedding and the sumptuousness of the banquet.

Although the six rituals such as the marriage proposal were not performed, in the poor Chenjia Village, this simple wedding was the most lively event besides the New Year's Festival, bringing together more than half of the families in the village.

Chen Yuan listened carefully to his little sister's excited narration with a smile on his face. He gently pulled her hand from time to time to remind her to avoid the potholes and stones on the dirt road.

"Brother, the braised pork is delicious. I want to eat more...Brother, have you eaten the white cake? It's so sweet...Brother, it turns out that chicken can be eaten. Aren't chickens used to lay eggs...Brother..."

The little sister asked question after question, and the smile on Chen Yuan's face gradually faded.

He lowered his head, looked at the thin little sister, and said softly:
"Be good, little sister. From now on, whatever you want to eat, your big brother will buy it for you."

"Really? Then I want to eat chicken! Well, no, chickens need to lay eggs to earn copper coins, so let's eat braised pork, and that white cake, which is sweeter than sugar..."

The younger sister's voice became clearer and clearer, but Chen Yuan fell silent.

Chen Tiezhu turned around and scolded:

"Wild girl, you are so cunning, eat whatever is expensive!"

Chen Li gave him a push:
"That's enough! I finally got my chance to eat at the table, can't I talk about it?"

Chen Tiezhu glared at the woman, turned away and said no more.

The little sister pouted and lowered her head to play with her shadows.

Chen Yuan held his little sister's hand tighter and tighter.

The family came to a small courtyard in silence.

There were two thatched houses in the yard, one large and one small, surrounded by a thorn fence that was one meter high.

A dilapidated wooden door, shaking, with a wooden pin stuck in it.

Chen Tiezhu untied the wooden pin, and the family walked into the larger thatched house. Chen Yuan let go of his little sister's hand and placed the cloth bag on the rough yellow wooden table.

The room was dimly lit, with only a tiny window covered with yellowed window paper.

There was a small candlestick on the table with half a thin candle burning on it.

Chen Li took out a pottery bowl with a missing corner from a cabinet with half a door missing, then took out five extremely heavy coarse flour cakes from a cloth bag, put them in the bowl, turned the cloth bag over, shook it twice, and poured the fine flour crumbs into it.

These cakes were leftovers from the host's family after the banquet and were distributed among the villagers. The Chen family got five.

Chen Li picked up the bowl, glanced at Chen Yuan, put the bowl down again, took out a coarse flour cake and handed it to him:
"Erniu, you have a big appetite. Are you not full at the banquet? Have another pancake."

Chen Yuan took the coarse flour pancake:

"Thank you, mother."

"Hey, why are you being so polite to me? You're just like those kids in school, so good at talking..."

Chen Li blamed Chen Yuan verbally, but her face was full of smiles, with wrinkles piling up at the corners of her eyes.

She was only in her early thirties, but she looked like a middle-aged woman in her fifties, with a weather-beaten face.

Chen Tiezhu chuckled:
"Don't tell me, Erniu is a mature kid. He will definitely have a bright future."

He sat at the table, holding a long pipe, took a deep breath of smoke, and then exhaled slowly, his face full of intoxication.

Chen Yuan smiled and put the coarse flour cake back into the cloth bag.

Chen Li frowned:
"Saving it for dinner again?"

Chen Yuan smiled and said:

"I'm not hungry now. I'll eat before going to bed, otherwise I'll be hungry in the middle of the night and wake up again."

"Okay, then go chop the wood."

"Okay, I'll go right away."

Chen Yuan took the cloth bag and went to another hut.

This hut is not big. Under the window on the right side of the door, there is an earthen bed covered with a thatched mat of varying shades of color. Various farm tools and sundries are piled on the left.

Chen Yuan looked outside the door and gently unbuttoned his sackcloth.

An incredible scene appeared. His stomach was abnormally sunken. In the shallow pit, there were four coarse flour cakes, but there was nothing unusual from the outside.

He took out four coarse flour cakes and put them into a coarse cloth bag. His stomach slowly returned to its original shape, and then he put on his linen clothes. His figure was exactly the same as before.

Chen Yuan lifted a corner of the thatched mat, covered it with the cloth bag, picked up an axe from the pile of debris, and went to the yard.

He picked up a small pile of firewood from the pile in the corner of the yard, walked to the open space nearby, stood up a piece of wood as thick as his arm, swung the axe, and chopped it down.

Click!

Chen Yuan's arm muscles bulged and he split the firewood into two neatly.

Click!

Another blow of the axe and the second piece of firewood broke.

Click!Click!
Chen Yuan held a four-pound iron axe in his hand and chopped off one piece of wood after another, breathing slowly and with a calm expression.

The younger sister was bored in the house, so she came to the yard to watch Chen Yuan chopping wood and clapped her hands:
"Brother is so strong, so amazing..."

A quarter of an hour later, Chen Yuan finished chopping a small pile of firewood and piled it next to the stove.

By this time the sun had set and the sky had darkened.

Chen Yuan fed the chickens again, said goodbye to Chen Li, and took his little sister back to the hut to sleep.

The little sister had been playing for a long time and was mentally tired, so Chen Yuan told her a story about "Wu Song Fighting the Tiger". After a few words of coaxing, she fell into a deep sleep.

Chen Yuan himself was not sleepy at all. He kept his eyes open and listened quietly to the voices of Chen Tiezhu and Chen Li chatting in another hut. As the night deepened, the moon slowly rose. The moonlight shone through the window, casting a clear glow on the thatched mat.

Finally, Chen Tiezhu's snoring sounded, and the only sounds in Chen Yuan's ears were the chirping of insects and his little sister's gentle breathing.

He got up quietly, stepped out of bed lightly, walked to the corner of the hut, and with the help of the cold moonlight, he took a piece of yellow soil from the wall, revealing a narrow hole in the wall.

He took out a cloth bag from inside, gently pushed open the door and walked into the yard.

Looking around, there was no one around, the Milky Way was hanging in the sky, and the stars were shining.

Chen Yuan opened the cloth bag and took out something.

This is a piece of white jade jue (jue), the jade is fine and delicate, and it emits a faint green light under the starlight.

Suddenly, all the stars in the sky twinkled together, gathering into a thin beam of white light, which fell from the sky and landed on Chen Yuan's head.

Chen Yuan closed his eyes slightly, and felt a cool feeling enveloping his whole body. His whole body was slightly numb and felt very comfortable.

Ten breaths later, the green light on the jade pendant faded away, and the white light dissipated along with it.

Chen Yuan opened his eyes and felt a hunger rising.

He had clearly already had the banquet, but now he felt like a starving person who had been hungry for three days and three nights while fleeing a disaster, and his stomach kept making rumbling sounds.

Chen Yuan swallowed his saliva, went back into the house, put the jade pendant back into the cloth bag, hid it in the hole in the wall, then took out the five coarse flour cakes and devoured them.

Soon, all five coarse flour cakes were eaten. This was the food intake for an ordinary person for two days, but it was only enough for him to eat half full.

Chen Yuan lay back on the bed, feeling the emptiness in his stomach, and sighed softly.

I have not had a full meal in the three years since I came into this world.

He was originally from China on Earth. Although he only graduated from an ordinary second-tier university, he studied the most popular computer major.

After graduation, he followed the trend and founded an Internet company, which successfully raised funds several times in a row. In less than two years, its market value reached more than one billion US dollars. His net worth also soared to hundreds of millions of US dollars, and he became a famous young entrepreneur in China.

Being young and rich, there are naturally all kinds of temptations around you.

Chen Yuan fell into the land of pleasure, surrounded by luxury cars, beautiful women, a life of debauchery and revelry every night.

Alcohol is a poison that penetrates the intestines, and sex is a steel knife that scrapes the bones. After a few years of excessive indulgence, an extremely irregular lifestyle, and frequent all-night work, my body completely collapsed and I was diagnosed with advanced gastric cancer.

Chen Yuan panicked, sold all his shares, and was admitted to the hospital, where he received treatment 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 suddenly realized that he was not a man of destiny, but he was able to achieve something because he caught up with the trend of the times.

The absurd extravagance of the past is like a dream.

The glitz is gone, leaving no trace.

In regret and pain, Chen Yuan closed his eyes.

When he opened his eyes again, he had turned into Chen Erniu.

This is a place called Qi. Its language and writing are very different from those of China, but its level of development is similar to that of ancient China, and its cultural customs are also similar.

Three years ago, when Chen Erniu was ten years old, he caught a cold and had no money to treat it, so he became seriously ill and died.

Chen Yuan's soul traveled through time and took over his body.

Yu Jue also followed Chen Yuan's soul and came here.

After Chen Yuan succeeded in his business in his previous life, he bought a lot of antiques and collectibles to show off his culture.

Jade Jue is one of them, and it is an ancient artifact from the pre-Qin period.

At a Sotheby's auction, Chen Yuan fell in love with the jade pendant at first sight and spent tens of thousands of dollars to buy it. He loved it very much and never took it off.

However, Yujue did not bring good luck, and he still contracted AIDS.

But after traveling through time, Chen Yuan discovered the magical side of Yu Jue.

Under the shining of the stars, Yu Jue can draw starlight into his body every twelve hours.

After the infusion, Chen Yuan felt hungry.

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 astral infusion be carried out.

Otherwise, even after twelve hours, even if the jade beads drew down the starlight, it would be useless.

After Chen Yuan discovered the magical effect of the jade pendant, he was ecstatic, but soon calmed down.

The ups and downs in his previous life had worn away all his edge, making him extremely cautious.

He didn't dare tell anyone else about the special features of the jade pendant, not even his parents or younger sister. He only infused his body with starlight when the time was right.

But the Chen family was poor and could only barely make ends meet.

In the past three years, Chen Yuan had only performed infusions twenty-one times, mostly on specific occasions such as festivals to worship ancestors, weddings and funerals, and when relatives visited.

Only at these times could he have a full meal.

Just these twenty-one times of starlight infusing his body made Chen Yuan's physical strength far beyond that of ordinary people. His strength increased greatly, and his control over his body reached a meticulous level.

When he was having dinner today, he secretly took a few coarse flour cakes, controlled his abdominal muscles, and hid them close to his body. No one had discovered them for several hours, which gave him this opportunity to have the starlight infused into his body.

Although these five pancakes can only make one half full, it is not necessary to replenish energy that night after the starlight infuses the body. As long as the feeling of hunger is eliminated within three days, the strength of the body can be improved.

The remaining four cakes were enough to help Chen Yuan digest the gains from this starlight infusion.

But after the next day, he still didn't have enough to eat.

The next time starlight will infuse the body is still a long way off.

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)