Chapter 002 Confused Life
This improvement is very low. After all, it is only 0.06 attribute value. Compared with 1 attribute point of a standard adult male, it is equivalent to only improving the physical fitness by 6% on the original basis. It cannot make Chen Jue become a superman all of a sudden.
But at least it strengthened his physical fitness and relieved his fatigue. After sitting on the small stool for more than ten minutes, Chen Jue got up, opened the suitcase, and began to put away the things he brought back.
A laptop, a tablet, several sets of clothes, and a bundle of more than 20,000 yuan in cash.
Before coming here, considering that he would have to live in the countryside for a while, Chen Jue was smart enough to go to the bank and withdraw some cash.
But when he saw the minivan delivering people and the small shop at the entrance of the village all posted QR codes for payment, Chen Jue couldn't help but laugh at himself: "Prejudice really overshadows cognition!"
After finding a few quilts from the cupboard at home and spreading them out randomly on the hard bed, Chen Jue lay down for a while. Then he began to watch the sky outside the window gradually darken.
He was originally a white-collar worker in the workplace. When he was drifting in Hangzhou, he earned tens of thousands of yuan a month and lived a comfortable life. But due to the current economic downturn and the involution of the workplace, he was fired and forced to resign.
The reason I returned to this old country house was that I felt lost and tired after wandering around for too long.
As for Chen Jue's family, none of them are alive now.
His grandparents passed away when he was in college, and his mother got cancer when he was in junior high school. In order to treat the disease, the family borrowed a lot of debt, and his father went out to work to repay the debt. When he was in high school, he encountered a construction site accident and passed away early.
In the end, it was considered a work-related accident and the contractor paid more than 600,000 yuan in compensation. This money was just enough to support Chen Jue to finish school and finish a third-year college degree. He also took care of his sick grandparents for several years until they passed away. He also renovated the old house with the help of several uncles and aunts, and almost all the money was spent.
After graduating from university, Chen Jue has been wandering around working, from Beijing to Hangzhou. After more than six years of this, he still hasn't saved enough money to buy a house. Coupled with his unemployment, he was so discouraged that he returned to his hometown to relax.
As for Chen Jue's savings, there were less than 300,000 left.
Although wages in Hangzhou are high, with monthly salaries barely exceeding ten thousand yuan, expenses are also high. The monthly rent easily costs two thousand yuan, plus social engagements and meals, so out of a monthly salary of tens of thousands, one can only save four or five thousand yuan at most.
This is still considered a relatively frugal life for Chen Jue, as he did not flirt with any young ladies to have a relationship.
Given his current conditions, he'd better not harm those young ladies.
But even so, these three hundred thousand are not enough to buy a house in Hangzhou, unless Chen Jue is willing to buy those cheap commercial and residential apartments.
But now that he has left the workplace, Chen Jue no longer wants to pursue real estate.
Workers are destined to work, no matter how hard they work, they can't catch up with the rapidly rising housing prices in Hangzhou. Even in his hometown of Vancouver, the average housing price is more than 20,000, which is not something Chen Jue can afford with the 300,000 yuan he has.
Unable to compete with his peers at work, Chen Jue simply gave up the idea of buying a house and followed the advice on the Internet to go back to his hometown and lie down!
After all, Chen Jue still has this newly awakened attribute panel to accompany him. He can study how to develop this attribute panel behind closed doors, so he won’t be too bored every day.
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I lay in bed for half an hour, picked up my phone and saw that it was almost 7 o'clock.
Chen Jue jumped up from the bed and felt a little hungry, so he went out to the village store and picked up a bag of rice, a bundle of noodles, some vacuum-packed cooked meat products, and a case of beer.
Life in the countryside is inconvenient. Except for the elderly who grow their own vegetables, if you want to have a good meal, you have to go to the vegetable market in Panlong Town.
However, Chen Jue had just returned less than half a day ago, so he didn't think too much about it and just made a meal to fill his stomach.
After all, you've been busy for a long day and your body is exhausted. Only by supplementing with these meat products and eating some oily foods can your body recover faster.
Of course, after three days of observation, Chen Jue also discovered that the combination of "eating meat + exercising" can make the free attribute points increase faster.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to save up 0.06 attribute points in just three days .
"We have to find a way to get more free attribute points!"
"If I could add my physique, strength, agility and intelligence to a few integer values, wouldn't I become a superman?" Chen Jue secretly thought.
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After filling his stomach and opening a beer, Chen Jue walked out of the old house, drinking while walking up the mountain along the cement road in the village.
After years of development, the cement road in Chencun has been widened to about three lanes, with bright street lights on both sides, directly connecting the two villages above and below.
On the mountain behind the village is the Chencun Reservoir, which covers a large area and is surrounded by mountains with pleasant scenery.
I heard that it was built in the 1960s and 1970s, and was renovated in recent years for the construction of a new countryside. The plan was to create a small tourist attraction to attract city residents to come for outings and fishing.
During the day, Chen Jue was busy cleaning the house and didn't pay attention. But when he came to the reservoir along the road at night, he actually saw several parked cars and SUVs. They must be fishermen from the city.
Occasionally, a few old men and women from the village, as well as a few middle-aged villagers, would come up here to take a walk to digest their food after dinner.
When they saw the unfamiliar face of Chen Jue, they all thought he was one of those city people who drove here to fish. They didn't ask much and just went for a walk and exercise.
There is a newly built temple next to the reservoir. It is magnificent and has lights on at night. When you pass by, you can hear the chanting inside, but it is all played from the speakers, not sung by people.
There was fitness equipment similar to those in residential areas set up on a vacant lot next to the temple, but it was too late and no one was exercising here.
Chen Jue took a quick look at the familiar yet unfamiliar environment of Chen Village. He did not expect that his hometown had changed so much after leaving for so many years.
While drinking beer, we walked around the temple and arrived at the dam of the reservoir.
The dam is very high and long, with a drop of at least ten meters from the water surface. New guardrails and floor-to-ceiling light strips have been built. Coupled with the quiet water surface and the deep mountains, it does look poetic from a distance.
As for the embankment, several villagers were sitting there enjoying the breeze and admiring the moon. There was also a little old man standing alone in an open space, jumping or punching.
The movements looked neat and vigorous, but I couldn't tell whether it was gymnastics or boxing, nor was it the common Tai Chi seen in the park.
"Old man! Are you from Huangjia Village?"
"I see you practicing boxing here. What kind of kung fu are you practicing?" Chen Jue felt that the old man looked unfamiliar, so he couldn't help but ask a few questions as he passed by.
"Hey! You don't recognize me, do you?"
"This is the boat fist! It's passed down from our ancestors!" The old man smiled with some pride, and practiced a few sets of moves in front of Chen Jue, making strange noises from time to time, which made Chen Jue very interested.
Chen Jue took out his mobile phone, opened the browser and searched, and he actually found information about Chuan Quan.
The introduction says that this is a local traditional martial art in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas with a long history. It was once a style of boxing practiced by fishermen in ancient coastal areas to fight against Japanese pirates.
The reason why it is called boat boxing is that the fishermen practice boxing or weapons on the bow of the boat, and the space for their feet is only slightly wider than an eight-immortal table. It cannot be as open and closed as other martial arts routines. After all, performing martial arts on a boat is not like performing on flat ground. If you are not careful, you will fall into the water.
Seeing Chen Jue watching for a long time, the old man couldn't help but ask, "Young man, do you want to learn something?"
"OK!"
Since he had awakened the attribute panel, Chen Jue was extremely interested in this kind of training method, so he followed the movements of the old master and practiced a few moves.
However, soon, Chen Jue's attention was attracted by the new prompt that popped up on the attribute panel.
Name: Chen Jue
Age: 27
Strength: 0.83
Agility: 0.74
Intelligence: 1.22
Constitution: 1.04
Mastered skills: Ship Fist Lv0 (3/100)
Allocable free attribute points: 0.01
"There's actually an additional skill attribute?"
