Chapter 114 Defending the Village

On December 19, it snowed heavily, and the entire Huajiabao was covered with white snowflakes, as if covered with a layer of silver from a distance.

Hua Kai came to the workshop for boiling animal bones. After boiling for more than a month, all the bones in the three vats had been burned and melted, and all the bone residues were burned into ash floating on the surface of the large vats. These impurities were heated again and slowly turned into ashes and floated in the air.

Hua Kai ordered the person in charge to open the bottom plug, and several naked men came over to quickly separate the gold and silver with a separation screen, and then only the crystal clear bone coins were left in the large vats.

The three large vats harvested a total of 1,834 taels of gold, 2,937 taels of silver, and 12,382 bone coins, which was only half of the animal bones, and the rest needed to be boiled again.

Boiling animal bones is very lively for a village. Hua Kai therefore gained a little luck value, prosperity, and cultural value, and the family attributes were accumulated bit by bit.

Hua Kai asked someone to send all the harvest to the housekeeper Hua Fu, and then he came to the spiritual field. At this time, Xu Hua had just finished teaching his students and was tending to the spiritual rice seedlings in the field.

"Old Xu is living a good life, and he looks more and more radiant!" Hua Kai looked at Xu Hua and said.

Xu Hua: Qi Training Level 7

Qualification: B-

Constitution: 47

Strength: 49

Will: 57

Farmer: Student

Mental Method: Meditation Technique (Xuan-level low-level mental method) Great Accomplishment

Martial Arts: Sky-Splitting Spear (Xuan-level intermediate martial arts) Minor Accomplishment

Farmer's Mental Method: Shennong Herbal Classic (Heaven-level intermediate mental method) Minor Accomplishment

Spells: Sweet Rain (Great Accomplishment), Promoting Birth (Minor Accomplishment), Exploring Spirits (Introduction)

Loyalty: 99

Xu Hua took the [Advanced Qualification Pill] to improve his qualifier by one level, from C- to B-. This way, his realm is still beyond his qualifier range, but it is much better than before. As long as he does not leave the range of the [Gathering Spirit Array], qualifiers are no longer important to him.

Xu Hua has learned the martial arts and mental methods of the Hua family, and his loyalty value has reached 99 points. He has already regarded himself as a member of the Hua family, but he does not know how powerful this [Sky-Splitting Spear] can be.

"Master, all the spiritual rice seedlings are growing very well, and none of them are dead. As long as we survive this winter spiritual storage period, this year will definitely be a big harvest." Xu Hua's aptitude has improved, and his body is more comfortable than ever. He has a smile on his face while teaching the children these days.

"Well, very good! The spiritual herbs planted are basically alive. You have to practice more gun skills recently. Come to my main courtyard starting tomorrow morning!" Hua Kai said to Xu Hua.

Xu Hua's aptitude is only B- now. I don't know how much his realm can be improved after the secret realm trial. It would be best if he can be promoted to the innate realm directly.

"Thank you, Master. Xu Hua dare not slack off on the family martial arts. Apart from anything else, as long as someone dares to enter this [Gathering Spirit Array], as long as he is not above the innate realm, I am still confident that I can take him down. The family should try to use the resources for the young people! I, Old Xu, only care about farming for the family."

Although he learned the Hua family's [Splitting Sky Spear] and [Calming Heart Sutra], Xu Hua's focus is still on his farming. He can only be considered half a Qi training realm in the Hua family at most.

"The Hua family will not be stingy with what they should give you. Perhaps you still have the possibility of being promoted to the innate level. In the future, teach students more about farming knowledge, and communicate with the family if there are good seedlings. The number of wild beasts outside the village has increased sharply in the past few days. You have to be prepared for the outer wall to be breached." Hua Kai reminded.

If the outer wall of Huajiabao is breached by wild beasts, everyone will shrink into the original inner wall. Hua Kai always has a hunch that this winter may not be as easy as imagined.

Xu Hua said that he would come to the main courtyard tomorrow. Hua Kai inspected the spiritual field and left.

After the family prosperity rose to 650 points, the improvement speed began to slow down again. The improvement of the family's combat power is an even slower process. Hua Kai is considering how to make up for the other four attributes of the family.

Agriculture and animal husbandry can only be put aside for the time being. It is not easy to expand the scale of planting and breeding during the winter rest period. The rest is culture and business.

Business requires trade. There is no way for the Hua family to trade in winter. The final foothold can only be placed on improving the culture of the village.

Hua Kai found Yu Jun and asked him to copy all the existing books in the village and print them into books in the printing workshop. Many of these classics are not complete, but they are also of reference value. It is not easy to get complete books. You need to go to various academies and palaces to copy them. The knowledge in this world is precious! Seeing the villagers' love for "Three Kingdoms", Hua Kai felt that a large part of the improvement of family culture should come from the promotion of "Three Kingdoms". Now Huajiabao is full of discussions about "Three Kingdoms". In the past few days, someone started talking about "Three Kingdoms" in Huajiabao Teahouse. Although it is not very good, it has also been sought after by many people. Hua Kai thought it was a starting point. He wrote some short stories at home these days. Although the stories are not long, the content is very exciting. He asked Yu Jun to print all these short stories into books. Huajiabao suddenly set off a trend. Many students in the school have a strong interest in the home. Even several students have already started "Basic Copywriting Skills" under the guidance of Yu Jun. This is something Hua Kai did not expect. On December 29, the entire Huajiabao began to be on high alert. Because of the continuous snowfall for several days, the wild beasts outside the village have gathered more than 7,000, and wild beasts arrive every day. Although the Hua family has been sending people to clean up, they cannot clean up the huge wild beasts. This is not a solution.

Hua Kai is visiting the village elders with heavy gifts. Tomorrow is the New Year's Day. The Hua family has made full preparations for the New Year this time. Everything is to quickly improve the family's luck and comprehensive strength.

At this time, a thick black smoke suddenly floated from a distance. A village outside the city was breached by wild beasts.

Hua Kai hurried back to the main courtyard. At this time, grandfather, fifth uncle and other core members of the family have arrived.

"It looks like it's the direction of the Chen family. This year, they gave us the news, so we can eliminate the Hutuo Mountain bandits. Should we send people to rescue this time?" Hua Xing saw Hua Kai coming and asked first.

"We must rescue them, but it is getting more and more dangerous outside our village. Many wild beasts have killed each other today. I believe they will not be able to bear it for long. Let's send only one team this time! Uncle Wu, you and Hua Yue will lead the team and bring the elite team. You should also carry these pills with you in case of emergency." Hua Kai said to Uncle Wu Hua Zichen.

Uncle Wu led 130 members of the village protection team to Chenjia Village. This time they brought more than 20 Qidong Realm masters. Now the number of Qidong Realm masters in the Hua family has exceeded 30. This makes people sigh at the speed of the Hua family's strength improvement.

All this is because of the improvement of everyone's qualifications and the [Family Secret Realm Space], plus Hua Kai's continuous supply of pills, the strength of Huajiabao has been greatly improved.

Shortly after Uncle Wu left, smoke rose from the direction of Wanjia. At this time, the Hua family was no longer able to save them, but Grandpa Hua Xing still insisted on taking action. Hua Kai thought about it and could only agree. After all, the eight villages outside the city were of the same blood. Grandpa could enter the [Family Secret Space] to hide if he was in danger, so he let Grandpa ride to Wanjia alone.

The entire Huajiabao was in a tense atmosphere at this time. The fear of wild beasts had been deeply rooted in everyone's mind since childhood. Seeing that wild beasts continued to appear outside Huajiabao, the Hua family did not have the strength to go out and clear them out at this time. When this group of wild beasts gathered enough, the Hua family could defend against the next wave. Maybe it would be safe today. If they organized an attack too early, they might have to defend against another wave after the New Year.

It was not until dark that the wild beasts outside Huajiabao did not launch an attack, which made everyone feel relieved. Uncle Wu came back with the second team of village protection. This time, the family lost two people and finally helped the Chen family drive the wild beasts out of the village.

"The Chen family suffered heavy losses this time. The second son of the Chen family was killed, and the entire Chen family lost half of its main combat power. The Li family rescue team in the city had already arrived at Chenjia Village, but when they saw the Wan family also sent out a distress signal, they went directly to rescue the Wan family." Hua Zichen came back and said to Hua Kai.

So the Wan family will have no problem surviving this crisis. But Hua Kai waited until the second half of the night and did not see Grandpa return. If he had not sensed that Grandpa was fine, he would have sent someone to check on the Wan family.

At noon on December 30, Grandpa went home alone. The Wan family encountered a mid-level wild beast this time. Hua Xing and the Li family masters fought all night before they killed the wild beast herd. The Wan family and the Li family also suffered heavy losses.

It was originally the time for the New Year, but the wild beast herd outside the village disrupted the Hua family's plan. The village elder had to stop halfway through the visit. Hua Kai came to the wall outside the village and saw the dense wild beast herd below. His face showed a heavy feeling that was difficult to conceal.

In order to prevent the wild beasts from expanding, Hua Kai and the people of Huajiabao agreed not to clear the wild beasts outside the city. However, in just one day, three wild beasts suddenly appeared outside the village, one of which reached level 5, which was an intermediate wild beast.

At night, the entire Huajiabao was in a state of war readiness. All the workshops stopped working. Everyone took up weapons to prepare for the attack of wild beasts. Everyone was in armor. The three teams of the village guard team monitored the city wall, one team was ready to support at any time under the city wall, and the other team was also on standby at any time to prepare for the next attack.

On the first day of the first lunar month, when Hua Kai came to the city wall again, he saw that the wild beasts outside the village had begun to slowly approach Huajiabao. After one night, there were 4 more wild beasts outside Huajiabao. The number of the entire wild beast group was close to 10,000. The wild beast group had begun to be violent after hunger, and everyone was on high alert.

On the second day of the first lunar month, when Hua Kai came to the city wall again, many wild beasts could not help but start to attack tentatively. Some wild beasts led the wild beast group to start looking for a breakthrough point along the city wall. For these scattered wild beasts, everyone in the Hua family tried their best to kill them.

The entire village school had been suspended, and the commercial district began to become depressed. Hua Kai saw that the number of wild beasts outside the village had exceeded ten, and the army of nearly ten thousand wild beasts began to slowly approach the city wall. He felt relieved when he saw this.