Chapter 133: The Helpless, Heart-wrenching Calf! Delivered To Our Door?
After finishing the medicinal cuisine at noon, Chen Han returned to his room, took out the Cloud Barrier Cauldron, and checked it to see the functions after the beginner repair.
After the beginner repair, the Cloud Barrier Cauldron had added a beginner and intermediate refine Cloud Barrier Pill consumption with different attributes, so it could refine intermediate Cloud Barrier Pills.
Moreover, whether to refine beginner or intermediate Cloud Barrier Pills could be freely chosen, which was quite flexible.
The materials needed to refine intermediate and beginner Cloud Barrier Pills were the same, all demonic beast grease and spirit grass that could burn to produce smoke, but the consumption was different, requiring more grease and spirit grass.
Fortunately, he made medicinal cuisine every day, so he had plenty of grease prepared. As for spirit grass, the courtyard was full of orchid branches and leaves.
【Please input true qi to activate the repaired runes on the Cloud Barrier Cauldron and refine intermediate Cloud Barrier Pills!】
Clearly, this also counted as a requirement.
Chen Han did not hesitate, input his true qi, and the repaired runes on the Cloud Barrier Pill lit up, beginning the refinement of Cloud Barrier Pills.
After a short while, a batch of Cloud Barrier Pills was refined.
Still ten pills.
But after he checked the remark information, his eyes lit up:
【Cloud Barrier Pill（20 meters）: this is a Cloud Barrier Pill with unimpressive effect. After crushing, it can instantly cover an area with a diameter of 20 meters in cloud mist!】
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【Cloud Barrier Pill（30 meters）: …】
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【Cloud Barrier Pill（40 meters）: …】
Chen Han randomly checked a few. Every Cloud Barrier Pill had a minimum coverage range of 20 meters.
【Cloud Barrier Pill（200 meters）: this is a Cloud Barrier Pill with a pretty good effect. After crushing, it can instantly cover an area with a diameter of 200 meters in cloud mist!】
After refining ten pills in a row, there were actually only two waste pills.
When he saw the last pill, its coverage range had reached 200 meters, which was definitely a qualitative leap.
If you did not include height and only calculated a circle with a diameter of 200 meters, then the radius would be 100 meters, circumference = pi × diameter. Taking pi as 14, 14 × 200 = 628 meters.
If you calculated area, it was about 4 standard football fields in size.
If such an area of cloud mist was in a forest, it would be enough to make a person lose their way inside.
Next, he immediately spent fifty thousand reputation to refine this 200-meter Cloud Barrier Pill.
People online were already discussing whether the legends about the Chen Clan’s back mountain were true or false, and some busybodies were even saying whether the demonic shadows in his videos could be real.
Although such people would definitely be scolded and ridiculed as contrarians, saying the Chen Family Head’s effects were obviously just special effects, rumors had nonetheless begun.
He thought that when these heavy demonic shadows covering a 200-meter range appeared, it would not be impossible to stir up some kind of eerie legends about the Chen Clan’s back mountain.
The refinement of the Cloud Barrier Pill was also very fast, and it was completed not long after.
He checked the remark information and, sure enough, there was an added heavy demonic shadows attribute.
At this moment, he heard his junior sister’s voice downstairs: “Senior brother!”
In a moment, his junior sister hurried into his room, and he also asked, “Why are you in such a hurry? What happened?”
Xiao Yu quickly explained, “Senior brother, that Ma Xue’er saw our rectification video and posted another video praising our Chen Clan. Her attitude is very good. It seems she really was worried that You Fu and the others might harm people before.”
Chen Han took out his mobile phone to check and found someone had tagged him. It was that Ma Xue’er. Clicking in, he saw her video.
“After seeing the Chen Clan’s rectification video, I have to admit that Chen Clan tourism is a very conscientious scenic spot. They are swift and decisive in rectifying hidden dangers, and they truly keep tourists’ safety in mind.
“For this, I must give the Chen Clan a like and help promote them. I will also personally go experience the Chen Clan. A scenic spot like this deserves everyone’s support.”
Listening to her words, Chen Han frowned tightly.
From the words in this video, he could not hear the slightest malice. If he did not know that she was the rumor-mongering guest, he would probably think she was truly some righteous person.
The deceptiveness was too strong.
This was probably the saying: one is not afraid of an open villain, only of a hypocrite.
At this time, Xiao Yu also tried to claim credit. “Senior brother, I replied and invited her to come over, and she already agreed. I also invited her to shoot a collaborative video when she comes, and she agreed.”
“So that means she is coming.” Chen Han had reason to believe she had already planned to come. His junior sister taking the initiative just fit her intentions.
His junior sister had led a wolf into the house.
It was not that she was too naive, but that this rumor-mongering guest was too deceptive.
On the other side, Ma Xue’er had also finished her preparations and headed for the airport, a proud expression on her face. As she had expected, once she posted that video praising the Chen Clan, the Chen Clan people got carried away.
Give them a little color and they open a dye shop; it truly was human nature. Not only did they invite her over to have fun, just as she expected, they wanted to do a collaborative video to hype up popularity.
But how could the popularity from a mere collaboration video satisfy her?
Since a single video criticizing the Chen Clan’s cow problem had gained her over a hundred thousand fans, if the cow really turned out to have problems as she predicted, then the popularity would truly explode. If hyped well, the popularity would soar and the increase in fans would be huge.
By evening, after boarding the airplane, Ma Xue’er took out the videos recorded before boarding and started editing, especially the part where the Chen Clan people invited her. This time she would make a long video.
With the Chen Clan’s active invitation and the collaboration invite, once something happened later, people would not suspect that she had schemed it all out or that she was the mastermind.
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Chen Clan.
Chen Han, however, welcomed a visit from several police uncles.
The man in the lead greeted him as soon as they met. “Chen Family Head, I am Huang Xin, captain of the tourism police squad stationed at the Chen Clan by the county. I look forward to working with you.”
“So you are Captain Huang.” Chen Han immediately shook hands with him.
Tourism police and scenic spots needed close cooperation. Scenic spots also had to assist with some safety and legal publicity work, so it was natural for them to visit him at the first opportunity.
He was not surprised at this, as Director Chen from culture and tourism had already mentioned it to him yesterday.
“Chen Family Head, I look forward to working with you in the future!” After shaking hands, Huang Xin was very courteous.
First, he would indeed need this Chen Family Head’s cooperation in the future; second, whether he could advance one or two steps in his career would also depend on him.
He had of course already inquired and knew that the county now attached great importance to tourism at the Chen Clan. In recent days, the number of tourists at the Chen Clan had exceeded one thousand.
Right now, they were only setting up one duty point. If the number of tourists at the Chen Clan doubled again in the future, setting up a scenic spot police station would not be impossible.
Moreover, he had investigated the Chen Clan’s development and felt this was truly possible.
So, those in the know understood.
Chen Han was very cooperative with their work. He personally led them around the Chen Clan and introduced each area.
The county had dispatched tourism police not only to familiarize themselves with the situation, but also for one of the most important matters, which was the police office at the duty point.
So he led them to an empty courtyard building of the Chen Clan. “Captain Huang, in the future this courtyard will be your duty point.”
To cooperate with tourism police work and ensure that tourism police could better serve tourists, scenic spots would provide a police office at a suitable location inside the scenic area, where tourism police could rest between duties or stay on night shifts.
If it was a popular scenic spot and the duty point was upgraded, the authorities might also, according to work needs, build or rent premises around or inside the scenic area as a police station.
Of course, this was not absolute. Different regions had different circumstances and different cooperation models. The overall goal was to make the scenic spot better and provide better service to tourists.
Additionally, Captain Huang discussed another matter with him: because the Chen Clan was far from the county, meals were troublesome. The county would provide meal subsidies for Captain Huang and his people, and this money would go to the Chen Clan, with the Chen Clan’s restaurant providing their meals.
This was naturally a small matter, and Chen Han directly asked Xiao Yu to arrange it.
Overall, the stationing of tourism police was greatly beneficial to the Chen Clan. At the very least, if any demonic cult rogues appeared in the future, when Uncle Dagou and the others taught them a lesson, they would have fewer scruples as they would only be assisting Captain Huang and his team.
If someone resisted and refused arrest, and even attacked, then if they were beaten a bit more heavily, they would have brought it on themselves.
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At night, Chen Han took out his mobile phone again to watch the video where Ma Xue’er praised the Chen Clan. This video had also gained a lot of popularity, and many tourists who had visited the Chen Clan left messages.
“The Chen Clan is indeed great, the scenery is beautiful!”
“The ancient buildings are very beautiful, I just came back. It’s a pity the sea of flowers has not bloomed yet!”
“……”
These tourists clearly did not know the true purpose of this rumor-mongering guest; they had all been deceived.
Thinking of this, he touched the Magic Qi Ring on his finger.
He waited for her to come. It was, after all, a task, and he hoped she would have an item drop.
After that, he took out a spirit stone and began to cultivate using the 《Nine Heavens Profound Scripture Basic Qi Cultivation Method》.
The next morning, after washing up and going downstairs, he saw a bit of starlight in the Moon Gazing Rabbit Hutch, meaning one Moon Gazing Sand had been collected.
However, as he walked closer, the Little White Rabbit clearly noticed him and, as if prepared, lifted its rear, and a bit of starlight popped out.
Today’s gain: Moon Gazing Sand +
Chen Han put away the two Moon Gazing Sand, storing one in a wooden tube made from an elm branch as a collection, and directly consumed the other.
That cool, comfortable feeling in his eyes appeared once more.
He had already consumed quite a bit of Moon Gazing Sand. With the eyesight +2 attribute, his vision was now extremely good, and the distance he could see clearly far exceeded that of an ordinary person.
Seeing the Little White Rabbit show off again, he picked it up and, under its innocent gaze, took it with him to the special spiritual aperture.
After finishing cultivation in the special spiritual aperture, Chen Han put the Little White Rabbit back and, as always, returned to Uncle’s Kitchen to make medicinal cuisine.
He took out the Green Feather Pheasant Meat that You Cai had offered yesterday, processed the Green Feather Pheasant feathers the same way, and then collected the Green Feather Pheasant plumage that still contained a trace of wind attribute power.
After the meat was prepared and stewing had just begun, Xiao Yu brought someone into the kitchen. It was none other than Wu Ying from Provincial Xin City News.
As soon as she saw him, she greeted him warmly. “Chen Family Head, we meet again. I was afraid of disturbing you if I came last night, so I waited until this morning to visit.”
“Reporter Wu, you are too polite.” Chen Han smiled and shook her hand.
They exchanged a few pleasantries.
He knew Reporter Wu’s purpose and asked his junior sister, “Junior sister, how much Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea do we have now?”
Xiao Yu explained, “Senior brother, we have 16 jin of premium tea and 410 jin of ordinary tea.”
“Good.” Chen Han nodded. This accumulated yield was already the maximum the Chen Clan could achieve. Even with more hands, the bamboo leaf growth of that Thunder Bamboo Forest could not keep up.
Thinking it over, since he needed this reporter from Provincial Xin City News to deal with that rumor-monger, he instructed Xiao Yu, “Junior sister, give Reporter Wu 10 jin of the premium tea this time.”
“Okay, senior brother!” Xiao Yu nodded.
Hearing this, Wu Ying’s face was full of joy. No matter what, she had achieved her purpose in coming to the Chen Clan.
Chen Han remembered something and instructed his junior sister, “Junior sister, when that Ma Xue’er arrives, she should contact you. Let me know when she does.”
This matter had to be guarded against. As long as they kept an eye on her, then whatever she did online could be left to Reporter Wu, and he would consider giving her a few hemorrhoid inflictions.
“Alright.” Xiao Yu nodded. “I have made an appointment with her. She will notify me when she arrives.”
As they were talking, they heard a series of cow calls from outside.
Moo!! Moo!!
It was clearly You Fu’s call, and it sounded anxious.
Puzzled, Chen Han walked out.
Out of curiosity, Wu Ying followed him. As soon as they stepped into the courtyard, they saw the calf hurrying over to the Chen Family Head and rubbing against him affectionately.
Like a wronged child seeking comfort.
She quickly took out her mobile phone to film. This was a reporter’s habit; such footage might become a hot news item.
But what happened next shocked her. The Chen Family Head actually patted the calf’s head and asked, “What’s wrong? Why do you look so aggrieved?”
The Chen Family Head was really talking to the cow?
Although there were videos of the clever cow and their conversations, those were just videos, and many people thought they were staged with dubbed audio.
Moo! ~ Moo! ~
When the Chen Family Head finished speaking, the calf called out to him as if replying, even biting the rope connected to its nose ring and mooing again.
The sound seemed like aggrieved complaints.
Chen Han understood You Fu’s meaning. It had never experienced being leashed and made to work like its parents, and it was already used to freedom. So suddenly being put on a rope and led by someone felt uncomfortable, and it had come to complain, wanting the rope removed.
In response, he could only comfort it. “There is no way. Some people say you are dangerous and might hurt tourists. If we do not do this, you will not be allowed out to play. You choose one.”
Moo! Moo!
Hearing his words, You Fu called again anxiously, trying to show that it would never hurt anyone.
Wu Ying was full of amazement. The cow’s expression was incredibly human. Its helpless attempt to explain made people’s hearts ache.
The key point was that the Chen Family Head could actually communicate with the cow.
Was the Chen Clan’s Beast Taming Technique really this powerful?
At this moment, an old master came running over. He was one of the three elders of the Demon Subduing Hall, currently serving as a member of the spirit beast platform, responsible for one cow.
You Fu seemed to understand that there was nothing it could do. Very dejected, it picked up the rope in its mouth and handed it to the elder who had run over.
It looked like a wronged child, which was even more heartbreaking.
“Chen Family Head, you can really talk to this cow?” Wu Ying could not help asking.
Chen Han answered indirectly. “Actually, inviting Reporter Wu here is also for this cow. Some news commentators are targeting them, and I had no choice but to put them on a rope. But I have received word that the other party does not intend to stop. In this era of traffic, some people are truly disgusting.”
Wu Ying understood and immediately promised, “Chen Family Head, leave this to me. If someone is really like that, they should be condemned. Targeting such a spiritual calf, how could their conscience be at ease?”
The video she had just shot was useful. The calf’s dejected and helpless appearance was so human that she was confident once it went online, anyone who saw it would feel distressed.
If anyone made trouble without reason, they would naturally invite criticism.
Moreover, her stance was very firm. Even if the Chen Clan had been in the wrong, she would still help smooth things over, let alone when they were not.
That elder also greeted Chen Han. “Patriarch, it ran over by itself.”
“Grandpa Chen Yuan, it is fine. Just take it back.” Chen Han said with a smile, not forgetting to pat You Fu’s head to comfort it.
Chen Yuan nodded and led You Fu away, then left the Chen Clan grounds, because You Fu liked to receive tourists. Even with the rope on, it had to be allowed to indulge that interest.
You Fu’s mentality was clearly very good. After realizing the complaint was useless, it could only accept it. Seeing a girl get out of a car, it went up to greet her.
After getting out of the car, Ma Xue’er looked at the stretch of ancient buildings of the Chen Clan. She had to admit that these ancient buildings were indeed very aesthetic and beautiful. No wonder they had become popular.
Then she saw the calf walking toward her, and her eyes lit up. She had not expected to have such an opportunity as soon as she arrived at the Chen Clan.
This had delivered itself right to her door.
