Hundred Schools Divine Powers: Starting from Chickens and Rabbits in the Same Cage
Chapter 45

Father Jing and Mother Jing

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After chatting with the auntie at the fruit stall for a while, Jing Zhi didn't buy the 'Feizi Smile' in the end. Instead, she spent two taels of silver on about ten jin of Sha Li, apples, Yingluo dates, and other common varieties.

In her words, her family doesn't like to eat lychees.

Lu Mingyuan, standing beside her, just smiled slightly and didn't say anything. This girl is already starting to be thrifty and manage the household.

After paying, he took the fruit and held her hand.

Then, the two walked side by side towards the restaurant, swinging their hands.

Halfway there, two youths in light blue long gowns walked towards them. Judging by their appearance, they were about fifteen or sixteen years old.

"Hey, Wang Yi, have you done your practice questions today?"

"Not yet. My dad said the weekend is halved, and I only need to study for ten minutes in the evening. Finish and sleep."

"Okay! You're so lucky. I can't do that. It's still ten minutes in the morning and ten minutes in the evening. If I hadn't just taken a nap, my brain would still be buzzing with 'Now there are beasts'."

"Sigh, Uncle Lin is really strict with you."

"What can I do! My dad is counting on me to become a Grandmaster and fulfill his dream.

He didn't say this before, but now that there's an opportunity, he wishes I would practice problems at home every day.

If the teacher hadn't said it's important to balance work and rest, I might not have been able to come out."

The two youths walked further and further away, but their words left Lu Mingyuan a bit confused.

Practice problems?

How do you practice them?

Is it like the 'sea of questions' tactics from his previous life?

Wait, there aren't that many problems here, and there's no such thing as 'practicing problems'?

Then... what exactly is going on?

As he was thinking, suddenly, a guess flashed through Lu Mingyuan's mind.

Could this be his doing?

Thinking of this, Lu Mingyuan asked Jing Zhi beside him, "A Zhi, what did those two people just say about practicing problems? I've never heard of it before."

"Practicing problems?"

Jing Zhi was stunned at first, then suddenly realized, "Oh, it's actually about continuously solving problems in the [Supernatural Power: Chicken and Rabbit in the Same Cage] illusion realm, and then, for some reason, it suddenly became called practicing problems."

"So that's how it is!"

Lu Mingyuan didn't expect it to be his fault.

So he has brought the culture of practicing problems from his previous life to the present. He doesn't know if anyone will hate him in the future.

After all, most students detest the 'sea of questions' tactics. If they knew it was Lu Mingyuan who brought it over, they would probably smash his door and windows every day.

Thinking of this, Lu Mingyuan felt a chill of fear. Fortunately, he hadn't exposed himself.

Jing Zhi didn't know how much her fiancé had thought in such a short time. "You don't know? Didn't I tell you? After it was confirmed that it could quickly improve talent, that supernatural power spread very quickly. Now, basically everyone knows about it."

"You did mention it. I just didn't expect it to spread to the students so quickly."

"Hey, it's been more than half a month. That's enough time for the students' parents and the academy's teachers to figure it out."

"That's true. Oh right, A Zhi, has your bookstore been asked to teach those arithmetic problems?"

"Don't worry. Xiao Xing'er and the others are still young and not suitable for practicing problems. However, I did try to pick a few simple arithmetic problems to explain last time, and the effect was quite good."

As she spoke, Jing Zhi's eyes were filled with a smile, as if she was thinking of something happy.

Seeing this, Lu Mingyuan stopped worrying.

He was afraid that his students' parents would also demand to use this supernatural power to practice problems and solve them, but neither he nor Jing Zhi had learned this supernatural power.

Fortunately, that situation didn't happen.

Backyard of the Jing Family Restaurant.

After some pleasantries, Lu Mingyuan and Jing Zhi told Father Jing and Mother Jing about the fact that the supernatural power required luck points.

In the middle, Lu Mingyuan also specifically introduced his upcoming Agrarianism Supernatural Power and its prospects, so as to avoid the two elders worrying.

"The supernatural power is not bad. It should have a good market."

Father Jing, named Jing Hu, was a broad-minded and strong man.

After listening to Lu Mingyuan's explanation, he nodded with a smile. His heart was immediately more satisfied with his son-in-law. It seemed that his daughter would not have to eat coarse food after marrying him.

He was also a good hand at farming in the past, so he naturally knew how big the market for this supernatural power was.

Then, as if thinking of something, Father Jing frowned, "Mingyuan, no one has ever created such a supernatural power that can provide a large number of tools before. You are the first.

But I can be sure that this market should be very, very large, so as soon as your supernatural power comes out, there will definitely be a lot of pirated copies. Do you have any plans for this?"

After speaking, Jing Hu stared intently at his son-in-law, who had many ideas since childhood, wanting to see how the other party planned to deal with it.

Lu Mingyuan had no intention of hiding anything and said directly, "Uncle, after I create the supernatural power, I will directly join the Agrarianism. At that time, I will have the 'Hundred Schools Protection Decree', which should be able to hold on for a while."

Regarding the Hundred Schools Protection Decree, Jing Hu certainly knew about it. It was an agreement jointly proposed and observed by the Hundred Schools of Thought of the Human Race.

Once a supernatural power was protected by this decree, for a period of time, no individual or force was allowed to pirate or plagiarize it. Violators would be jointly attacked.

Historically, many forces had paid the corresponding price for this.

Later, under pressure, the Three Great Royal Families and various major clans and forces gradually joined in.

Now, this protection decree has become a treaty that everyone in the Human Race must abide by.

However, there was a problem: only the Hundred Schools of Thought and the major forces that joined later were protected. Individuals were not.

Therefore, Lu Mingyuan's idea of joining the Agrarianism school was correct.

Otherwise, once his supernatural power was revealed, as long as it became even slightly famous, piracy would flood in. It would be like the anonymous "Chicken and Rabbit in the Same Cage."

Of course, the benefits of "Chicken and Rabbit in the Same Cage" were too great. Unless Anonymous shared the benefits, he wouldn't be able to keep it.

After thinking this through, Father Jing nodded with a smile, "That's a good idea of yours.

However, given the situation with your supernatural power, it might only be protected for ten days to half a month at most. You should be mentally prepared."

Lu Mingyuan knew this as well. The market was simply too large, and other forces would never allow him to monopolize it for a long time.

Perhaps, it wouldn't even be ten days.

He had long been mentally prepared for this.

"Uncle, I know that. But if I can earn a few hundred thousand, I'll be content. If I earn too much, I won't be able to keep it."

"It's good that you can think that way."

Father Jing didn't say anything more.

In fact, what he admired most about his son-in-law was this: he wasn't greedy and knew himself. Only such a person could achieve greater happiness.

"Alright, I'll go prepare some Earth Luck Points for you now. I'll be back in a moment."

After speaking, Father Jing strode out the door with a powerful gait.

Although he had retired several years ago and later became a chef and opened a restaurant, his style remained decisive and swift as ever. He did things immediately, without any hesitation.

"Mingyuan, come, have some fruit first. We'll wait at home for a while. Your uncle is going to the Taxation Department to exchange for some Earth Luck Points and will be back soon."

After Father Jing left, Mother Jing, who had been quietly listening beside them, quickly brought over the fruit bowl from the table and began to enthusiastically entertain her son-in-law.

A mother-in-law looking at her son-in-law, of course, found him more and more satisfactory.

"Aunt, no need, I can do it myself."

Seeing his mother-in-law approach with the fruit bowl, Lu Mingyuan quickly got up to decline. He wasn't really a guest, so how could he let an elder serve him?

A moment later, Mother Jing began to pull out her big moves, constantly revealing embarrassing stories from Jing Zhi's childhood.

For example, when she was little, she climbed a tree and accidentally got stuck, crying until she was rescued.

Also, when she was little, she liked to describe all sorts of terrifying scenes, like someone cooking in a graveyard and smoke rising.

Lu Mingyuan listened, dumbfounded. He never expected that Jing Zhi had such a colorful childhood. It was completely unlike her current gentle and generous demeanor.

Meanwhile, Jing Zhi, standing beside him, kept her head down the entire time, suppressing a smile. She also occasionally showed a look of curiosity.

It seemed she didn't know she was like that when she was little either.

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