After countless battles and conquests, the beauty on the bed is limp and boneless.

It was past 11 p.m. when Liu Xiaoyuan left Wang Qing's house. After several rounds of labor, Wang Qing was exhausted, lying on the bed with a satisfied expression. But Liu Xiaoyuan, the laborer, wasn't having an easy time either!

When Liu Xiaoyuan got home, it was already past midnight. He took a cold shower, didn't even wash his hair, and went to bed.

The next day, Liu Xiaoyuan slept in late, not getting up until almost breakfast time. After washing up, he heard his parents talking about how the government was going to develop the cedar forest. They had already held a meeting in the village yesterday afternoon to discuss it, and they had even called his father over.

Liu Xiaoyuan knew that Liu Minfu must have deliberately called his father over because he saw that Liu Xiaoyuan knew Fang Jianyang.

My parents told me that the town was allocating funds to pave the dirt road leading to the cedar forest into a cement road, and they had given my dad the contract to find people to do the construction.

Liu Xiaoyuan estimated that the stretch of road was at most three or four hundred meters long, but even such a short distance would definitely cost tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of yuan.

When my father received this project, he initially thought there was something wrong with his ears and couldn't believe it was true. But after someone in the know explained the situation to him, he suddenly realized what was going on.

"Xiao Yuan, they said you know Secretary Fang, is that true?" Dad asked for confirmation.

There was no point in hiding it, so Liu Xiaoyuan admitted it directly. His father looked at him with surprise after receiving Liu Xiaoyuan's confirmation.

Liu Haimin found that his son was becoming increasingly unpredictable. Since returning home today, he had completely changed. He even recognized Secretary Fang from the county, which was unimaginable for Liu Haimin, an ordinary citizen.

"Tell Dad, how did you meet Secretary Fang?" Dad asked impatiently. Everyone has a gossipy heart, and Dad was no exception.

Liu Xiaoyuan said, "Dad, I'll tell you the details about this later. Let's eat first today."

"Hey, tell me what you're going to do in the future, since we have time now anyway." Dad really wanted to know the answer.

Liu Xiaoyuan thought for a moment and said, "I got to know Secretary Fang because I did him a small favor."

"What help did you provide?" Dad was determined to get to the bottom of it.

At this moment, my mother interrupted, saying, "Why ask so many questions? It's a good thing that our son knows Secretary Fang. Why do you care how he knows him? He knows him anyway."

Hearing his mother's words, his father stopped asking questions and started drinking his wine.

After breakfast, Liu Xiaoyuan went straight to work, while his father, who had contracted to repair that section of road, went out to make contacts.

Just as the village was bustling with construction, a group of strangers arrived. Each of these strangers was a master of internal energy cultivation. Of course, ordinary people couldn't tell.

After these strangers arrived in the village, they paid to stay in the villagers' homes.

When Liu Xiaoyuan got home from get off work, his mother was still complaining about why these people who came to the village didn't stay at their house.

Liu Xiaoyuan hurriedly asked his mother how many strangers had come to the village. His mother said there were probably more than a dozen. They all looked like rich people, and the villagers they chose to stay in were all those near the mountains.

Hearing his mother's story, Liu Xiaoyuan guessed that these people were probably after the Blood Ganoderma.

Unexpectedly, their guess came true. The mysterious woman in white's rampage only scared Chen Bo and his group away, but this time it attracted an even more powerful expert.

What were these strangers doing in his village? Were they here for the Blood Spirit Mushroom? All of this was just Liu Xiaoyuan's guess.

However, Liu Xiaoyuan believed that his guess was probably correct, since his village had never had many strangers before, as it wasn't a tourist attraction.

These people who came to their own village are probably like Chen Bo and his group last time, all after the Blood Spirit Mushroom.

Liu Xiaoyuan was somewhat expectant, wondering if this group could find the Blood Spirit Mushroom. He was also curious about what the mysterious woman in white would do, and whether she would make an example of someone among them to scare them away.

The next day, Liu Xiaoyuan got up very early and went for a stroll on the mountainside. Sure enough, he saw several strangers, all of whom were experts in the Transformation Realm.

Holy crap! It seems these sects have really gone all out for the Blood Spirit Mushroom, sending out a whole host of experts at the Transformation Realm.

If others knew that a dozen or so masters of internal energy had gathered in a village, those who didn't know the situation would think something big was about to happen.

After wandering around for a while, Liu Xiaoyuan went home.

I was thinking of going up to them to get a few words out of them, but then I thought better of it. These people were all very wary, and trying to get any information out of them was just a pipe dream.

The arrival of more than a dozen martial arts masters in his village did not affect Liu Xiaoyuan's life; he still had to go to work as usual.

Whether these dozen or so experts at the Transformation Realm could find the Blood Spirit Mushroom was not Liu Xiaoyuan's concern. In his view, with that mysterious woman in white around, these people would probably just end up empty-handed again.

Just as Liu Xiaoyuan was about to go to work, Chen Bo suddenly arrived at Liu Xiaoyuan's house. However, this time Chen Bo did not come alone; he was accompanied by a man in his forties, a master of internal energy.

Liu Xiaoyuan was slightly surprised that Chen Bo had come along this time.

"Brother Liu, it's been a few days, how have you been?" Chen Bo greeted him politely.

Liu Xiaoyuan didn't know why Chen Bo had brought this man to see him, but he didn't want to refuse someone who was smiling. Liu Xiaoyuan smiled and said, "Everything's fine, I can eat and sleep well!"

"Brother Liu, let me introduce you. This is my martial uncle, Luo Changyi," Chen Bo said.

Luo Changyi immediately clasped his hands in greeting to Liu Xiaoyuan and said, "Brother Liu, hello. I've heard Chen Bo mention you before and know that you're a capable person. I apologize for bothering you today!"

Liu Xiaoyuan felt something was off. Both Chen Bo and his senior apprentice Luo Changyi were being unusually polite today, to the point that Liu Xiaoyuan felt a little uncomfortable.

"Not at all, not at all!" Liu Xiaoyuan greeted Luo Changyi and the others with a smile and welcomed them into his home.

When Chen Bo's mother saw him arrive again, she smiled and asked, "Mr. Chen, are you going to stay here for a while again? Would you like to stay in a room? The room you slept in last time is still empty. You and your friends are welcome to stay anytime!"

The mother spoke in Mandarin with a heavy local accent, and Chen Bo and Luo Changyi understood the gist of it.

"Thank you, Auntie, but we've found another place this time, so it's not necessary," Chen Bo said with a smile.

When Mom heard that Chen Bo and his group had found a place to stay, she immediately looked disappointed. In her eyes, they had missed another good opportunity to make money!

(End of this chapter)