Chapter 157: These Are Luck Seeds! Was That Too Hasty?
Xiao Mi and Lobster, under that increasingly intense feeling, could not help wanting to dance that “Bad Guy” choreography.
Lobster even directly started dancing.
After that, Xiao Mi also started dancing. Like Lobster, she had learned the Bad Guy dance for filming videos.
But in the past, after filming, even when she heard this “Bad Guy,” she had never had the idea of dancing it in public on the spot.
For some reason, now when she heard Chen Han playing this piece, it felt like the dancing cells in her body had awakened, with a strong impulse to dance.
It was a feeling she simply could not suppress.
Not just her, but the tourists around them also felt a kind of addictive rush when they heard this piece. Their bodies could not help but want to move with the rhythm, shaking their heads.
In public like this, some of them felt embarrassed, some felt ashamed, some found it awkward, but at this moment they all could no longer control themselves.
Then, the scene suddenly became interesting.
Chen Han was playing the guqin on the performance stage, Xiao Mi and Lobster were dancing the Bad Guy choreography, and the tourists gathered around were randomly twisting their bodies to the rhythm.
They each twisted with their own moves, in complete chaos.
It really was like dancing demons.
Xiao Yu felt this was excellent material, so she took out her mobile phone to film. After all, videos of hanfu plus classical instruments plus foreign songs, that kind of ritual-music-collapse content, naturally had a lot of popularity.
Moreover, senior brother, Xiao Mi Jie, and Lobster already had their own popularity. With the tourists being led into chaotic dancing, once the video was posted it would definitely blow up, serving as great promotion for the national style event.
But as she herself took out her phone to film, her body also could not help twisting to the rhythm, making the video she filmed feel like it was dancing too.
She could not control herself. Senior brother was good at playing the flute, yet playing the guqin he could still make people this addicted?
Chen Han naturally also saw the tourists all around twisting chaotically with the music, and he gained a deeper understanding of this dancing demons +2 attribute.
Such a spiritual attack was quite something.
And this was just a few people. If he played a piece of an outer realm demonic melody during the national style event, with how much promotion and popularity Xiao Mi now had, there would likely be a huge crowd. What kind of scene would that be then?
A few thousand people dancing on site?
And not even foreign-style dancing!
Finally, the guqin sound stopped, and everyone’s twisting bodies suddenly seemed to be frozen in place, coming to a halt and looking at each other.
This was really the first time they had twisted their bodies like that in public.
The key was that the feeling just now had been so exhilarating, as if they had fully let loose.
Now work pressure was high, and it was hard to let loose like that in daily life. Obviously, these tourists would never think they had been spiritually attacked.
In other words, their bodies had been controlled by the dancing demons +2 attribute.
“Senior brother, since when did you get so good at the guqin too?” Xiao Yu stepped forward, looking full of mock resentment. She had not even known senior brother had this trick.
Chen Han smiled and said, “When you’re out in the world, you naturally need to know a few more tricks. Otherwise how can you act cool at critical moments? I just like seeing familiar people around me shocked!”
“Pff!” Lobster could not help laughing when she heard this.
It was her first time meeting this Chen Family Head, and her first impression was that he was very abstract, even developing an abstract cultivation style.
Even Xiao Mi Jie had joined this style, adding the Hundred Flowers Fairy suffix.
Now she felt that this Chen Family Head was a very interesting person.
Xiao Mi pulled Lobster over to introduce her. “Chen Han, let me introduce you. This is Lobster. She is also one of the guests for this national style event and came early to have some fun today.”
“Hello, Chen Family Head!” Lobster smiled and reached her hand out to Chen Han.
“Hello!” Chen Han nodded. He naturally knew who she was, one of the top ten national style beauties, known for her open, easygoing personality.
After shaking hands, Lobster suddenly asked with bright curiosity, “Chen Family Head, is that scar removal cream video posted by Xiao Yu real? Is the Chen Clan’s scar treatment really that miraculous?”
【Because of the ambush you suffered from demonic cult rogues, the Hundred Flowers Palace Fairy invited her fellow disciples from the Hundred Flowers Palace to come support you. She presented you with a Hundred Flowers Palace random seed gift pack as a gift, but she seems very interested in the Chen Clan’s holy healing medicine.】
【Congratulations, you have received the Hundred Flowers Palace Fairy’s Hundred Flowers Palace random seed!】
A game prompt suddenly appeared.
“???” Chen Han truly felt that surprises came out of nowhere. Just casually chatting and making introductions could bring such an unexpected gain.
He immediately looked at the new small pouch in the game warehouse.
It was the random seed gift pack given by Lobster, this newly arrived Hundred Flowers Palace Fairy.
Gift packs are a common thing in many games: excellent pay-to-win projects and great tools for game companies to harvest users.
There is a Journey to the West game that has such packs, where players might spend several thousand just to draw one item from them.
Now it was clear that Shu Shan Swordsman also had this feature.
It was easy to understand this random seed gift pack. Hundred Flowers Palace specialized in cultivating all kinds of spiritual flowers and herbs, so it was not strange for them to possess various seeds.
So, could this pack randomly give a seed of spiritual flowers and herbs?
His eyes lit up.
【Hundred Flowers Palace random seed gift pack（Un-unsealed）: This is the gift pack given by the Hundred Flowers Palace Fairy. After opening it, you can randomly obtain a special type of seed.
Note: The Hundred Flowers Palace Fairy is very interested in the Chen Clan’s holy healing ointment. As a courtesy in return, gifting her a portion of the Chen Clan’s holy healing medicine can unseal the gift pack.】
Chen Han understood. So this was a plot-style quest gift pack.
Many games had such quest packs that required completing a task to open, sometimes even specific items.
Chen Han immediately thought of the scar removal cream. No wonder Lobster had asked specifically about that earlier.
But the scar removal cream was for treating scars. Calling it a holy healing medicine was also acceptable.
That made this easy to handle.
After chatting with the three girls for a while, Chen Han went straight back to Uncle’s Kitchen to handle the medicinal cuisine.
After that, he remembered the scar removal cream matter and immediately called his junior sister. “Junior sister, bring me some aloe vera and olive oil. I’m planning to make some more scar removal cream here.”
“Okay, senior brother!” Xiao Yu was very happy to hear this news and hurriedly hung up.
By the time junior sister delivered the ingredients, Chen Han had already prepared spirit flower pollen.
After taking the ingredients, he began processing them and started making scar removal cream.
By noon, he had also prepared three portions for his junior sister. If she packed them in those small boxes, each could hold quite a lot.
By then, the medicinal cuisine was about ready.
Chen Han brought the dishes to the table and did not forget to tell Xiao Yu, “Earlier, Lobster asked about the scar removal cream. She probably needs it. You should give her some too.”
“Senior brother, I know. I’ll give it to her this afternoon.” Xiao Yu immediately turned to leave.
Before long, Chen Lin returned, along with Chen Dagou, Chen Shuisheng, and Xiao Mi.
Chen Han served each of them a bowl of medicinal cuisine and had everyone start eating.
After finishing, one by one they could not help opening Douyin again.
Xiao Yu suddenly said, “Senior brother, the video I filmed of you playing the guqin while Xiao Mi Jie and Lobster dance has gone viral.”
Once she said that, everyone started checking it.
Chen Lin watched his nephew playing a foreign song on the guqin while Xiao Mi and the tourists went crazy, and he could not help laughing. “Xiao Han, since when can you play the guqin? But why does your song feel so unserious?”
Chen Han smiled. An outer realm demonic melody, how could it possibly be serious?
He also checked his junior sister’s video on his phone. Not only were the people in the video dancing like demons, even the video itself seemed to dance to the beat. Clearly, junior sister had also been affected by the dancing demons +2 attribute at the time, twisting her body.
“Seriously, I never really understood what ‘collapse of ritual and music’ meant before, but after watching this video, I get it.”
“Su Shi: ‘May we all be blessed with longevity, oh yeah, Bad Guy.’”
“Watching this video feels like Li Bai is DJing and Lin Daiyu is at a rave.”
“We don’t collapse for foreign raves. Come on, everyone, hype it up.”
“……”
Chen Han smiled. He had not expected the effect of dancing demons +2, once filmed, to be this entertaining.
And these comments were very interesting too.
After lunch, Xiao Yu and Xiao Mi went to find Lobster. Since she had come as a guest to support them, they needed to host her properly.
When Lobster saw them, she sighed. “Xiao Yu, you just casually filmed a video and it blew up. It’s really enviable. And that Ming Di too, he casually filmed an abstract video and its numbers are really high.”
As she spoke, she played a video, the one where Ming Di took a girl and sneaked into the Chen Clan, then got discovered by the Chen Family Head.
To be honest, the video had zero technical content. If someone else had filmed it, it probably would not have gotten any traffic.
But the Chen Family Head had been doing abstract cultivation content and had accumulated many fans. Plus, he truly had real skills and was currently very popular. Then Ming Di added the demonic cult rogue persona, and his fans skyrocketed.
Xiao Mi quickly said, “Lobster, you’re very popular too. Among us, your live stream does the best. You’ve already broken 3,000 concurrent viewers.”
For these national style girls, their stronger field was offline events, with appearance fees higher than many other internet celebrities. But their live streaming was not that strong, mostly because they were not great at live stream talk and techniques.
Lobster sighed even more. “I only have these viewers because I work really hard. Look at that Ming Di though, just by piggybacking on popularity, his live viewers have already broken 5,”
Xiao Mi (Xiao Mi Jie) smiled and said, “Lobster, you can be like me and add a Hundred Flowers Palace suffix, like Xiao Yu’s Chen Clan, or Ming Di’s demonic cult rogue.”
Lobster was a bit tempted. “Would that be inappropriate?”
She had said all this because she actually wanted to join in. She admired that the Chen Family Head and the others were playing with something very new.
It seemed like they were building an abstract cultivation worldview, and fans were very interested. It even felt like it was growing larger and larger.
So joining might bring huge benefits.
Xiao Yu immediately said, “Lobster, don’t worry. Senior brother won’t mind. He has made some scar removal cream and told me to give you some. Do you want to try the effect?”
“Really?” Lobster’s eyes lit up. It was normal for her to have scars from being naughty as a child.
When she saw Xiao Yu’s video before, she had already become curious about this scar removal cream.
……
Not long after, Chen Han received a game prompt:
【Congratulations, you have completed the courtesy exchange. The Hundred Flowers Palace Fairy random seed gift pack has been unsealed. You can open it to see what kind of seed you will randomly obtain!】
Chen Han knew that junior sister must have given the scar removal cream to Lobster.
He was curious what kind of spiritual flower or herb seeds he could obtain, so he immediately chose to open the gift pack.
【Congratulations, you have opened the Hundred Flowers Palace Fairy random seed gift pack and obtained a packet of special rapeseed seeds!】
When Chen Han saw this prompt, his first reaction was to want to cough blood. He had thought it would be seeds of spiritual flowers or herbs, but it turned out to be rapeseed seeds?
Those were everywhere in real life. But when he saw the word “special” in front, and remembered a news report he had seen recently, he instinctively checked the game warehouse.
Sure enough, there was an extra packet of seeds.
Recently there had been news about rapeseed.
Their country was the world’s largest importer of rapeseed, and the biggest source was Maple Country.
Everyone knew Maple Country’s relationship with the Stars and Stripes Nation, so Maple Country’s relationship with them was not great. They had even doubled the tariff.
This was a very unfavorable situation.
You could say their throat was being choked.
【Special rapeseed flower seeds: These are special seeds cultivated by the Hundred Flowers Palace Fairy. However, aside from the attributes of growth speed +1, yield +1, oil production +1, and two harvests a year, they have no other special effect. They are considered a failed cultivation product of the Hundred Flowers Palace.】
So Lobster, this Hundred Flowers Palace Fairy, had used failed seeds to trick him out of holy healing medicine?
That did not sound very righteous.
But seeing the three +1 attributes, he decided not to fuss with Lobster.
Because in reality, these were luck-blessed seeds.
Once these seeds were produced, they could completely change domestic demand for rapeseed. They might not need to import anymore, and could even export.
Maple Country might end up playing with mud instead.
Also, rapeseed flowers were very beautiful. By then, if rapeseed flowers were planted all around the Chen Clan vicinity and in Linhe County, what a magnificent sight that would be.
As Chen Han was thinking this, Chen Jing arrived and greeted him respectfully. “Patriarch.”
Chen Han nodded. “Have you become familiar with the Daoist scripture notation?”
Chen Jing nodded. “Patriarch, I am already familiar with it.”
“Good. Then study the Ancient Quiet Heart Art with me now.” Chen Han nodded and began teaching Chen Jing the Ancient Quiet Heart Art.
Chen Jing studied music and was already familiar with Daoist scripture notation, giving him a big advantage in learning the notation. He learned very quickly, mastering it in just over an hour.
Now he only needed to become fluent in chanting it.
Chen Han had him practice on his own, then pretended to return to the hall and took out the rapeseed seeds to study them.
Just then, the telephone rang.
It was Director Chen from culture and tourism calling.
When he answered, Chen Kai’s voice came through. “Chen Family Head, may I ask where you are now?”
“I’m in the courtyard. What is it?” Chen Han was puzzled. This seemed urgent.
“Chen Family Head, the county leaders and Mr. Liu have come to the Chen Clan to visit you. I will bring them over.” Chen Kai hung up and turned to a middle-aged man beside him. “County Magistrate Chu, let’s go into the Chen Clan.”
Chu Ping nodded and very politely said to the nearby Liu Ye, “Mr. Liu, please.”
This was a tycoon with a nationally recognized name. With just a bit of his investment, Linhe County could gain huge benefits.
For example, this time he wanted to invest five hundred million in tourism around Linhe County, building high-end resorts and high-end garden tourism.
For a poor county like Linhe County, this was definitely a huge investment, and more importantly, his reputation could be used for investment promotion.
So after receiving the report, Chu Ping personally came to host him. Someone of this level had to be treated like a big shot.
The key was that this person was investing because of the Chen Clan.
At first, when the county saw the Chen Clan’s popularity, they already had great confidence in Chen Clan tourism, but they had not expected such an extra surprise.
And he could see this investor’s respect toward the Chen Clan, which reminded him of those unbelievable things Chen Kai had reported.
This Chen Clan was not simple.
The group entered the Chen Clan compound and kept walking deeper inside.
“County Magistrate Chu, ahead is the Chen Family Head’s courtyard.” Chen Kai said when they were not far.
“Okay.” Chu Ping nodded and followed him forward. Just as they were about to enter the courtyard, they suddenly heard scripture chanting.
At first there was nothing special, but once they stepped into the courtyard, they suddenly felt a strange sensation arise.
Under this sensation, their moods suddenly calmed, entering a wonderful state of undistracted focus.
Chu Ping was stunned. This feeling was definitely not normal. He even turned to look at Mr. Liu, whose face showed a pious, blissful expression.
Soon, he himself fully enjoyed this chanting. In this state, his thoughts were unusually clear, and he more deeply understood what Chen Kai had meant by “not simple.”
Chen Han was also surprised. Chen Jing truly learned fast, already managing to chant the Ancient Quiet Heart Art successfully.
After a moment, the special feeling disappeared, not because the chanting ended, but because Chen Jing’s notes went wrong.
At this point, Chen Han looked over at Chen Kai and the others.
“Greetings, Chen Family Head.” Liu Ye was the first to greet him.
Seeing this, Chu Ping, together with Chen Kai, also greeted Chen Han.
Chen Kai did not forget to introduce Chu Ping’s identity.
“Chen Family Head, it is a pleasure to meet you.” Chu Ping smiled broadly and shook hands with Chen Han.
“County Magistrate Chu, likewise,” Chen Han replied politely. He also understood why this man had come. It was all because of Mr. Liu. The other party had invested in a five-hundred-million project, and given his wealth and fame, if the county did not seize this opportunity, they would be unqualified officials.
Chu Ping sighed sincerely. “Chen Family Head, Linhe County has truly benefitted from you. Chen Clan tourism has attracted many tourists, and the Chen Clan has helped the surrounding villagers become prosperous. The county should thank you.”
“We should thank the county for its support,” Chen Han replied with a smile. This was indeed true; culture and tourism had given them a lot of help.
“We are supporting each other and developing together,” Chu Ping said with a smile, then asked curiously, “Chen Family Head, Mr. Liu has donated a mountain to the Chen Clan. Does the Chen Clan have any development plans for it? Whatever the county can help with, we will fully support.”
He knew about the Chen Clan National Style Event. According to the data reported from below, the number of people coming each day would definitely exceed the total of all scenic spots in Linhe County combined.
This kind of opportunity was once-in-a-lifetime for Linhe County. Naturally, they hoped the Chen Clan would develop more projects to accommodate more visitors.
Chen Han answered honestly. “As for the mountain behind, our Chen Clan does not yet have a development plan.”
As he spoke, he remembered that packet of rapeseed seeds and smiled. “But recently, the elders of the clan dreamed that the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation descended into a boundless sea of rapeseed flowers, so we plan to plant rapeseed flowers.”
“Huh?” Chu Ping.
“……” Chen Kai.
“……” Liu Ye.
The group were all stunned when they heard this.
Because the family elders dreamed that the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation descended into a sea of rapeseed flowers, the Chen Clan would plant rapeseed flowers?
Wasn’t that a bit hasty?
