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Chapter 99 Welcoming the Kitchen God, Sitting as the Landlord

Ao Peng's curiosity was off the charts, and he wanted to ask about the specifics.

However, the God of Wealth was unwilling to discuss this further, so he revealed another piece of information to divert Ao Peng's attention, "By the way, speaking of this, it seems that you in the real world are also celebrating the New Year, right?"

Ao Peng realized that the True Lord of Abundant Wealth wanted to give him some guidance, so he quickly nodded.

The God of Wealth continued, "Do your real-world games hold any events or activities during the Spring Festival?"

Ao Peng was dumbfounded. "So, even Old Earth is going to copy those lousy planners?"

The God of Wealth was furious. They'd already gone this far, and he still had to make the other person point!

He grabbed Ao Peng's head and banged it five times, like hitting a wooden clapper.

"Calendars, folk customs! This is the beginning of the flame of civilization. If those old fogies want to reclaim the calendar, they must start with folk customs. The core of the calendar is all kinds of folk customs. How can you be so dense and clueless!"

After saying that, he angrily picked up the bamboo box again, turned around and left. He squeezed into the crowd on the street and disappeared in a short while.

Ao Peng scratched his head and chuckled foolishly, "Folklore, the flame of civilization, struck five times!"

This True Lord is really a good friend!

After receiving the specific information, Ao Peng logged out of the game. He flipped through the lunar calendar and found that the most recent major folk festival was the Kitchen God Festival.

As the righteous god in charge of the kitchen fire of a household, the Kitchen God has a very wide range of divine duties. His full title is the Eastern Kitchen God of Fate, Nine Spirits, Yuan King, and God of Fixed Fortune. He is responsible for reporting all human words, deeds, fortunes, and misfortunes to the Heavenly Emperor. He is a standard close minister and important official of the Heavenly Emperor!

According to ancient official ranks, he would be at the level of Imperial Censor, one of the core power holders in the Heavenly Court!

Moreover, the belief in the hearth fire is a core belief not only in China, but in all human civilizations.

Take, for example, the goddess of the hearth in ancient Greece. She was one of the twelve Olympian gods, and the fact that she was able to maintain her status as a virgin goddess in the licentious world of the gods in ancient Greece, and was also the older sister of Zeus, is enough to demonstrate how powerful this goddess of the hearth was.

In many legends, Zeus held this goddess in great awe and even fear; otherwise, given Zeus's habit of controlling his larger head with his smaller one, he would have long since lost his temper.

Moreover, another matter is enough to illustrate the influence of this goddess in this world.

The Olympic flame, passed during one of the world's largest folk events, originated from the folk traditions of this goddess!

Ao Peng took out his phone and called Chu Ge directly.

"What is it?"

On the other end of the phone, Chu Ge was listening to his subordinates report on the background check.

"Sis, do you have someone over there?"

Chu Ge immediately understood. She waved to her subordinates, signaling them to leave the office first.

"Alright, they've gone out."

"Sister, it's almost the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. I'm planning to hold a Kitchen God Festival ceremony at home. You can prepare some things these days."

Chu Ge immediately understood what Ao Peng meant.

The Cai Zao ceremony is very important!

Her expression was serious. "What do we need to prepare?"

Ao Peng smiled wryly, "This is my first time doing something like this. I just looked at the Baidu Encyclopedia, and there are so many things to prepare. You should prepare all sorts of things, use the best ones, so as not to offend the Kitchen God."

Chugo immediately nodded, indicating that he understood. "Then I will try my best to prepare the best offerings I can find."

In mythology, this Kitchen God is the type who is obligated to help others who have taken his food!

After informing Chu Ge about the Kitchen God Festival, Ao Peng didn't inform his mother. He figured he would definitely bring his mother and younger brother to his home to celebrate the festival together.

Speaking of home —

Ao Peng put down his phone and looked around the bedroom for a while.

Before entering the Old Land, he released Little Chaos, partly to guard the house, and partly so that if anyone came, Little Chaos could directly notify Ao Peng with his thoughts, so that Ao Peng could quickly exit the Old Land game.

Where did that kid run off to?

Because of the connection, usually after Ao Peng comes out, Xiao Hun Dun will run over quickly like a puppy, asking for some incense as payment for guarding the house. However, Ao Peng had already been out of the game for two or three minutes, but this time Xiao Hun Dun did not show up.

Following his connection to his own spirit, Ao Peng got up and left the bedroom. He went to the basement, turned on the light, and walked down the stairs step by step. However, before his upper body was fully inside the basement, the basement lights began to flicker and dim, and at the same time, loud banging sounds came from inside.

When Ao Peng came downstairs, in the limited light, he saw Little Chaos happily playing with a colorful ball.

However, he wasn't playing alone. Every time Little Chaos slapped the ball into a place where the light couldn't reach, the ball would bounce back from the power of the darkness.

Ao Peng entered the basement, and was naturally noticed by something in the darkness.

Then a little boy emerged from the darkness. He was about four or five years old, with a bright and clever appearance. His dark eyes and rosy cheeks were particularly endearing. He was wearing a Chinese-style Fuwa jacket with a large upside-down Fu character written in the middle, although the color was a bit too blood red.

The boy caught the colorful ball that Chaos threw to him, and slowly approached Ao Peng while holding the ball in one hand. He seemed a little annoyed that Ao Peng had disturbed his play, and there was obvious dissatisfaction in his eyes.

But the next moment, his mood shifted dramatically, from anger to joy, and he said with a grin, "Big brother, want to play ball together?"

As he tilted his head, his adorable eyeballs popped out of their sockets and landed on the ground with a crisp sound. Crimson blood flowed from his eye sockets, leaving two bloody streaks on his rosy face.

Ao Peng's face darkened when he saw the bizarre scene before him. Even during the New Year, these naughty kids deserve a good beating!

Half an hour later.

Ao Peng sat at the bottom of the stairs in the basement, happily playing with a ball, making a thumping sound as he bounced it.

And then he earnestly asked the ball, "Do you still like playing with the ball?"

The "ball" had a mournful face; it was the head of the little boy from before. Ao Peng took it off and used it as a ball for half an hour!

"I'm not playing anymore! I'm not playing anymore, brother! Give me back my head!"

Ao Peng took his head off and played with it like a ball. Who could stand that!

Ao Peng stopped playing the ball when he heard the boy's pleas for mercy. He held the boy's head in one hand and threw an appraisal spell with the other.

[Landlord].

Things that are old are called refined, and strange things are called bizarre.

A branch of the Taihang Mountains extends to this place, colliding with the abundant human energy here and creating a local evil spirit. Coincidentally, the Yin and Yang of heaven and earth change, and the evil spirit develops sentience and transforms into the local master.

This place is the birthplace of the landlord, so he considers it his own territory and has been evicting the tenants here for the past three months.

The transformation of the Earthly Fiends into human form is indeed quite strange.

Ao Peng's first thought was of the Zashiki-warashi from Japanese mythology, a kind of little monster that is said to bring good luck to a household.

So he asked, "Brother, let me ask you a question: can you bring good luck?"

The landlord shook his head, unable to move, and could only cautiously answer, "No."

No, that's impossible.

Ao Peng suddenly wanted to bounce the ball again, and he prepared to swat it with his hand supporting his head.

The landlord quickly replied, "But while I can harm others, I can also help you find the dragon vein and locate the dragon's lair!"