Chapter 6 Returning Home

The fire was burning at the bottom of the casserole, and the fragrant soup was splashing along the edge. The house was filled with fragrance. Feeling that the fire was almost ready, Lu He sprinkled a handful of chopped green onions and sesame seeds and prepared to take it out of the pot.

The magic power surged, and the spell model constructed by runes in his mind instantly lit up.

A translucent big hand appeared out of thin air, ignoring the fire and the red outer wall, and directly picked up the casserole from the stove and placed it steadily on the table.

How can you eat chicken pot without Coke? With a light wave of his hand, the refrigerator door a few meters away was opened, and a bottle of iced Coke flew out and landed gently in front of him.

Lu He nodded with satisfaction. The hand of negative energy was really useful. It was worth his three days of day and night practice.

He took a look at the inheritance panel.

Name: Lu He

Inheritance level: Apprentice level (next stage opening conditions not met)

Rank: Primary Apprentice

Physique: 9

Strength: 9

Agility: 9

Spirit: 11

Magic: 110

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Skill: Hand of Negative Energy

I just cast a spell and consumed 2 points of magic, which is much less than expected. It may be because I simply took a high-temperature object. I will test it more later to see how much magic is consumed.

After dinner, Lu He cleaned up the house, packed what should be packed and mailed what should be mailed, mainly clothes and computers. Things like stools and desks that he bought were left here directly. There was no need to mail them back.

He planned to go back to his hometown this afternoon. The ticket had been bought and it would take nearly two hours by train.

It is really inconvenient to study spells and knowledge here. The house is not his own, and there are people living around. There are surveillance cameras everywhere when he goes out.

The hometown is different. It is a small village at the foot of the mountain. When I was young, there were many people and it was quite lively. But now young people either go to other places or move to a town more than 20 kilometers away. Last year, he went back to worship his ancestors and saw that there were only a few old people left.

After he went back, no one cared about him.

Before leaving, I wanted to treat Sister Qin to a meal to thank her for taking care of me in the past few years, but she had not returned from a business trip two days ago.

There was no way, so I had to postpone it.

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Lu He's hometown is in Yiling City, Hubei Province, about 400 kilometers away from Jiangcheng.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Lu He carried his suitcase and left the East Station of Yiling High-speed Railway Station.

Then he went to the automobile transport center next to the high-speed railway station, took the county bus, and went straight to Changyang County under Yiling City.

This journey takes two hours, and it takes another hour to find a car to the village after arriving in the county.

This is the remote countryside and the edge of the mountains.

Lu He sat in the back seat, looking at the trees and farmlands on both sides of the road that were rapidly retreating, and his heart gradually became peaceful.

The chatter on the bus never stopped. He couldn't understand what was said, but he still felt very friendly. Although they were all in the same prefecture-level city, the dialects between counties and even between townships might be quite different.

It was already past five o'clock when they arrived at the county town. There were several private car owners soliciting passengers at the entrance of the bus station.

Lu He found a private car at random and agreed to send him to his door for 100 yuan.

There were actually rural buses at this time, which only cost 20 yuan, but they couldn't reach Xiaolu Village. He would have to find a car when he got there. Lu He was dragging two suitcases and was too lazy to bother, so he just chartered a car to go back.

Xiaolu Village is surrounded by mountains and rivers. The mountains are Wuling Mountains and the water is Qingjiang River.

Along the way, there were winding rural roads. They used to be all mud roads. When Lu He was a junior in college, the state funded the construction of cement roads.

It was dark when he arrived at the village. Lu He looked at the scattered lights at the foot of the mountain not far away. He could vaguely see low houses in the moonlight.

One of the buildings was his home, where he was born and raised.

"Master, stop here." Lu He greeted him, and the cement road came to an end.

He got off the car, paid the toll, and dragged his luggage to a small bungalow with three rooms not far away.

When he arrived at the door, he took out the key, opened the door and walked in.

The house was full of dust. He only cleaned up his small room a little, then lay on the bed and started to work on the runes of the strange eye.

The next morning, Lu He got up to clean the house.

There were three rooms in the whole house. The main hall was the living room. There was nothing except an eight-immortal table and a few chairs.

A few steps back was a small kitchen, and then outside was a vegetable garden, a small pond and a toilet.

There was a small yard behind the kitchen with a stone well, which was full of dead branches and leaves. It should be usable after cleaning.

It was just that I hadn't been back for a year, and there was thick dust and spider webs everywhere, and some places were cracked.

It looked difficult to clean.

However, Lu He has a magic. When he stretches out his hand, the dust nearby will automatically absorb into the palm of his hand, forming a gray ball. Then the energy shakes, and the gray ball is bounced away and automatically falls into the trash can.

The basic ability of the negative energy hand: absorption and repulsion.

Before noon, the cleaning is completed, and the inside and outside are clean.

Lu He took a short rest, and when it was almost twelve o'clock, he went out with a bag on his back.

He planned to take the bus to the county and buy a car.

He will live in the countryside in the future, and a car is indispensable, otherwise it will be inconvenient to go anywhere.

He has already picked out what car to buy, Harvard H6.

He can't afford other cars, mainly because he doesn't have much money, plus the compensation given by Sister Qin, the total is just over 130,000.

"Xiaohe?"

Lu He was walking on the road, and a man in his fifties riding a tricycle met him. He glanced at him unexpectedly and asked uncertainly.

"Uncle Four, it's me." Lu He replied with a smile.

The man's name is Lu Dayou, from the same generation as Lu He's father, and he lives at the head of the village.

Lu He was also very happy to see his uncle Lu Dayou. After his father passed away, he helped their family many times, but he never gave money directly because everyone was poor. The deepest impression was that every busy farming season, he would take a few days to help grandpa and grandma harvest rice.

Lu He was very grateful.

"Oh, I almost didn't recognize you after not seeing you for so many years. I heard that you work in Jiangcheng. Are you on vacation now?" Lu Dayou stopped the car.

Last year, Lu He brought cigarettes and alcohol to visit his uncle, but he was not there and went out of town.

Lu He glanced at the tricycle. There was a clamp on the back car, which should be ready to go hunting in the mountains.

When he was a child, he ate a lot of game sent by his uncle.

"I didn't take a holiday. I quit my job on my own. I wanted to take a break, so I went back to my hometown."

"It's good to come back and rest. It's not easy outside. It's too tiring to work every day." Lu Dayou nodded, thinking of his son who worked 996 hours in another place, and sighed.

"Fourth uncle, you go first. I'm going to the county today. I'll come back to chat with you later."

"Go ahead. I'll go get some good things. Come to my house later and we'll have a drink."

The shuttle bus came while they were talking. Lu He waved his hand, and the shuttle bus slowly stopped. He greeted his fourth uncle and got on the bus.

When they arrived in the county, they took a taxi directly to the car dealership. There was no 4S store in the county, only a car dealership that basically sold all brands.

As soon as he got off the car, a slightly fat man came over and asked Lu He if he wanted to buy a car.

"Do you have a Harvard H6?" Lu He nodded and asked.

The slightly fat man was happy and quickly said, "Yes, a batch just arrived a few days ago."

After that, he took Lu He to see the car.

After some arguing, Lu He bought an H6 for 98,000 yuan. In fact, he felt that if he negotiated further, he could get a lower price. However, the salesperson said that he could drive away today, so he didn't bother to worry about it.

It takes some time to handle the temporary license and full vehicle inspection. Lu He sat on the sofa and dozed off, actually sketching runes in his mind.

After a while, he suddenly heard a few people chatting nearby saying that there was a dog market nearby.

He had an idea in his mind. After asking where it was, he got up and went to the dog market a few hundred meters away.

The dog market in Changyang County is very famous. Decades ago, when hunting was not banned, basically every household raised dogs, mostly hunting dogs, and lived off the mountains.

However, Lu He took a look and found that most of the dogs in the dog market were pet dogs, such as golden retrievers and teddy bears, and they were sold at very high prices.

After searching for a long time, he found the old man in the corner of the edge. There were several cages in front of him, which contained several kinds of puppies.

Lu He immediately fell in love with the three Qingchuan in one of the cages.

When I was a kid, I saw this kind of dog chasing wild boars in the forest. It was very fierce and left a deep impression.

He squatted down and touched the head of a puppy. The puppy made a whining sound and opened its mouth to bite him.

"Dad, this is a Qingchuan dog, how much is one?" Lu He asked.

"Yes, one hundred each, an authentic Qingshan dog, look at its eyes and fur, both are top quality." The old man took out a puppy and handed it to Lu He.

The eyes were brown and red, the muzzle was slender, and the fur was black.

"How old is it?"

"Less than two months."

"I want all three of them." Lu He picked them up and was very satisfied.

In fact, he didn't understand much, but he thought they looked very energetic and active. With these two points, they must be good.

He carried the dog cage and went to the pet store next door to buy a few bags of dog food.

After waiting for more than four o'clock in the afternoon, after the new car procedures were completed, Lu He took the three puppies to the supermarket to buy some daily necessities.

He also picked a Blue King and two bottles of 20-year-old Baiyunbian, which were given to his fourth uncle.

Then he drove home.

He drove very slowly and it took him an hour and a half to get home.

There was no other way. The last time he touched a car was when he was a junior in college and took his driver's license test.

If it weren't for the fact that he could clearly recall the details of his driving lessons after he got started with meditation, Lu He would not have dared to drive alone on this winding and narrow mountain road.