Siheyuan, my new life

Lin Yu, who was far away in Tianjin, paid no attention to the outside world's arguments. He got up early every morning to cook millet porridge, boil eggs, and mix pickled vegetables. He then went out to buy some fried dough sticks and buns. When his mother got up, the steaming millet porridge was already on the table.

At first, Zhou Xiu still wanted to get up early to prepare breakfast. Since her daughter got married, she would cook breakfast when the couple came back to live with her. But when she was alone at home, she would just go out and buy two fried dough sticks to make do.

Now that his son has come back to visit, Zhou Xiu initially planned to make breakfast for his son for a few days. Unfortunately, the kitchen at home was "occupied" by his son from the first day, under the pretext of practicing his cooking skills so that he could let his wife and children taste his cooking skills after he gets married.

Every noon, Lin Yu would prepare three dishes and a soup on time and wait for his mother to come home for dinner.

In the evening, he continued to prepare meals for his mother, and then the mother and son ate and chatted together warmly.

Whenever Zhou Xiu saw her son busying himself in front of the stove in an apron, her eyes would become moist. She knew that her son was deliberately trying to make up for the regret of not being around for so many years, so she would follow his wishes.

In just a few days, the staff of the street office all praised Director Zhou, saying that his complexion was much better than before. Not only was his face rosy, but even his hair was black and shiny. A female colleague who had a good relationship with Zhou Xiu secretly asked Zhou Xiu what kind of tonic he had taken to have such an immediate effect?

Zhou Xiu also proudly told the other party that her son cooked three meals a day these days, so she didn't have to do housework and was in a good mood, so she looked radiant. What she didn't know was that Lin Yu would drop a few drops of spiritual spring water into the millet porridge he cooked every day to improve his mother's physical fitness. With Zhou Xiu's physical condition, she could only bear such a dosage now.

When others found out about this, they were secretly envious. Director Zhou's son was already a department-level leader at a young age, and when he came back to visit his family, he could even go into the kitchen and cook three meals a day for his mother. Then they thought about the one in their own family, who was not a high-ranking official but had a lot of airs. When he came home all day he acted like a big boss, either reading newspapers or smoking and drinking tea. He didn't even know how to pick up a fallen oil bottle.

It’s not that no one wanted to introduce a girl to Director Zhou’s son. Everyone knew that she was an absolute rich son-in-law. However, after hearing Zhou Xiu’s explanation, everyone gave up the idea.

During this period, Lin Yu arranged two more dinner parties at Huibin Building. Apart from going to the vegetable market to buy some meat and vegetables for daily use, he stayed at home the rest of the time.

The two guests Lin Yu invited were his mother's old leader in the Women's Federation and his sister's in-laws. After all, he had come back, and although it was not convenient for him to visit them given his current status, he could only arrange for them to sit together in the restaurant out of courtesy.

Lin Yu would go straight back to his paradise every day after his mother left for work. After spending these few days with his mother, he could clearly feel his mind relaxed and realized that he should prepare to overcome the tribulation and break through to the Nascent Soul stage.

Lin Yu, who was in Tianjin, was preparing for a breakthrough in an orderly manner, but the officialdom in Shandong Province was in a state of panic.

As the second joint investigation team from Beijing took over the investigation, officials at all levels related to the case were taken directly from their units and homes by fully armed soldiers for investigation. As the investigation deepened, a piece of news shocked officials of all ranks in Shandong Province, and the heads of relevant units stationed in Shandong Province were also taken away.

In fact, the situation in Shandong Province is not worth mentioning compared with that in Beijing. According to the materials obtained by various parties, the relevant departments have taken away more than a dozen prominent officials for investigation.

It is said that the higher-ups were furious after receiving the report and instructed that the matter must be thoroughly investigated and this unhealthy trend must be resolutely corrected.

As the instructions were conveyed, those who had interceded for and tipped off officials in Shandong Province who were involved in the case were all given different punishments. Some of them were even found to have committed other serious violations of discipline and laws and were directly dismissed and investigated.

At this time, Lin Yu drove the jeep back to the capital alone.

After saying goodbye to his mother and sister and leaving Tianjin, Lin Yu did not return to Beijing directly. Instead, he returned to the paradise in a remote place shortly after leaving Tianjin. After nightfall, Lin Yu, accompanied by a dozen bodyguards, appeared on a reef not far from the Sakura Kingdom. This was the place he chose to transcend the tribulation.

The entire tribulation process was uneventful. Originally, Lin Yu had been suppressing his own cultivation, so when he released all his cultivation, a bolt of lightning suddenly appeared in the originally dark night sky and struck Lin Yu's head accurately. Then a violent thunder was heard. At this time, the sky within a radius of more than ten kilometers centered on the reef was covered with dark clouds, and only that bolt of lightning with huge power was flashing continuously.

The power of the first thunder tribulation did not break through Lin Yu's own spiritual defense at all, and it only caused a surge of spiritual energy.

Afterwards, under the attack of seven consecutive lightning bolts, Lin Yu's originally solid spiritual defense was already shaky, and it seemed that it was about to be destroyed by the lightning containing tremendous energy.

It's just that the twelve protectors all avoided the thunder tribulation area with ease, for fear of being involved in it. You know, if they get too close to the person undergoing the thunder tribulation, they will most likely be regarded by the will of heaven as interfering with the cultivator's tribulation, thus increasing the intensity of the thunder tribulation.

The bodyguards had no worries at all that their master would not be able to cope with a thunder tribulation of this power. You must know that until now Lin Yu had only been relying entirely on his own spiritual power to resist the thunder tribulation, without using any external force at all.

These protectors are of course aware of their master's incredibly powerful defensive magic weapon. It is no exaggeration to say that even if Lin Yu uses his body to face the thunder tribulation directly, the power of the thunder tribulation that only breaks through the Nascent Soul stage cannot break the defense of his magic weapon.

The only thing that the protectors were worried about was whether their master would be harassed by his inner demons. However, judging from the current situation, everything was going smoothly. With the fall of the last thunderbolt, it also indicated that this tribulation was nearing its end.

When Lin Yu endured the last thunder tribulation, a milky white light ball appeared in the sky, and in it there was a purple light ball only the size of an adult's fist.

The ball of light landed accurately on Lin Yu and quickly flowed into his body. A gentle energy kept restoring the spiritual power consumed when he just passed the tribulation.