Chapter 105: The Control Group for the Farm Family’s Lucky Baby (15)

In the dead of night, over a dozen bewildered men in black found themselves trapped in a ghost wall illusion¹!

Ren Xin received a notification and began considering whether she should just wipe them all out. After all, these were the murderers who had killed the original host’s entire family.

Book Spirit Number One offered a suggestion, 【Host, if you commit murder, you’ll lose all the Virtue Points for this plane. Maybe you should reconsider?】

Ren Xin rubbed her chin. She would have to find a way around this.

Suddenly, the men in black outside the village felt a sharp pain in their heads. They immediately lost consciousness and collapsed to the ground, dead to the world.

Book Spirit Number One cried out in alarm, 【Xin Xin, what did you do?】

“Please call me Host-Sama!”

【………】

“I didn’t do much. Since I can’t kill them, making them wish they were dead is simple enough.”

Book Spirit Number One: 【???】

The next morning, the Village Head gathered everyone in the village. He announced that dozens of fools dressed in black had appeared around the outskirts. He warned everyone to stay alert and keep a close eye on their children, forbidding them from going out. He had already reported the matter to the local authorities.

Bai Shengxuan was equally stunned. Only yesterday, he had been thinking that even if he died, he couldn’t let the villagers be dragged down with him. He had stood guard on the mountain all night but hadn’t seen a soul. He had assumed his estimations were wrong.

It wasn’t until he heard the Village Head’s words that he began to question reality. Was there some sort of hidden hermit master living in this village?

Dozens of professional assassins had been turned into idiots without making a sound? It was unbelievable.

Ren Xin kept her contributions a secret, hiding her merit and fame.

Book Spirit Number One offered some sycophantic praise, 【Host, you are truly incredible. You are the electricity, you are the light, you are the only…】

“Keep singing!”

Book Spirit Number One replied, 【I got tired halfway through the brown-nosing. I don’t want to continue.】

Ren Xin: 【………】

Like a little donkey pulling a cart, it had no stamina.

After the New Year passed, Ren Xin’s large-scale embroidery project was finally finished.

Her teacher gazed at the lifelike “Nine Fish Map²” before her. It was so auspicious. The red koi were embroidered with a gradient effect that was truly beautiful. There were even lotus flowers; she felt as if she could actually smell their fragrance. This was a masterpiece of the highest quality!

Ren Xin was declared a graduate. “With your current skill level, I have nothing left to teach you. However, if you wish to refine your craft even further, I can help you find a master…”

Ren Xin indicated that she was perfectly happy staying on this floor and had no desire to climb any higher.

The teacher sighed with regret but promised that she had the right connections to ensure this embroidery would sell for a high price.

Whatever worked. Money meant nothing to a ginseng spirit!

【Host, I can smell the arrogance from here.】

Because Ren Xin had completed her apprenticeship, Zhang Qingmei grew even more anxious. Embroidery was a craft that required a calm heart; without it, one could never achieve greatness.

Thus, she fell into a vicious cycle: the more anxious she became, the worse her embroidery grew, which only made her more anxious.

“Qingmei, you are too restless. This piece is stiff, and the color palette is wrong. Didn’t I teach you this before? The stitching here should be like this…”

The teacher looked at Zhang Qingmei’s defiant face and sighed inwardly. This child had shown some spark of talent at the beginning, but who would have thought she would ultimately fade into mediocrity?

In truth, the reason Zhang Qingmei had been able to marry into a high-ranking family in her previous life—aside from the debt of saving a life—was because her embroidery skills had added to her value.

Now, however, everything had become an unknown.

According to reliable sources, the Ren Family’s great pig-neutering enterprise had made a breakthrough.

Father Ren took a sip of wine and began to boast, “Compared to before, those piglets have grown more than just a little bit. They’re growing like weeds and have much better appetites. Once we’ve raised them for another year, we’ll taste the meat for ourselves. Our family is on its way to becoming a prestigious lineage of master gelders.”

Book Spirit Number One: 【Host, doesn’t that make you the ‘Eldest Miss of the Pig-Gelders’?】

Ren Xin: 【……….】 Just shut up

Translator’s Notes

• You are the electricity, you are the light, you are the only…: A humorous reference to the lyrics of the song ‘Super Star’ by the famous Mandopop group S.H.E, commonly used in Chinese internet culture to mock-worship someone.