Chapter Eight: Strong Desire

  Supermarket, vegetable section.

  Just in time for lunch, many housewives were rushing to make purchases, making this area a bit crowded.

  Babe looked at the scene in front of her with interest, picked up an onion, peeled off the outer skin, and the vendor hastily stopped her: "Sorry, please don't do that."

  "Oh?" Turning his head to look at Beibei, Shang Guan Nengren said: "Can't even get rid of that useless old skin?"

  Shangguan Nengren shook his head: "The vegetable market is okay, but supermarkets have clear prices and don't allow haggling."

  "Oh." Turning to Beibei, putting down the onion and turning her head to look at the round cabbage, pointing to one of them: "Don't even let that slightly rotten outer skin move?"

  "We can pick a better one." Upper Official Ren couldn't help but laugh, it was the first time he saw Xiang Beibei's 'ignorant cuteness', now she looked like a high school student, not that cunning little demon.

  Fifty yuan has limited purchasing power, and vegetables are not cheap now. The more expensive dishes can only be bought in small quantities, and most of them are still those commonly seen in summer and autumn, such as tomatoes, cucumbers, bean sprouts, and eggplants.

  Bai Bei didn't picky eat at all, in the end she only symbolically picked an onion, and the rest of the shopping list was all decided by Shang Guan.

  After buying vegetables, there were about 20 yuan left. Shangguan Ren went to the grain specialty area and bought half a catty of peanuts, plus five yuan worth of mantou (steamed buns), and then went to the meat specialty area to buy half a catty of beef. The fifty yuan was almost spent.

  "Hmm..." The officer looked at the thing in his hand, nodded: "It's about right, let's go!"

  Looking at Beibei, who looked like a housewife, Upper Official Nengren chuckled and said: "You'll definitely be a good husband in the future."

  "Hmm... cough, I think so too." It's not boasting, but Shangguan Nian really thought he would be a good husband in the future. Perhaps all unmarried men would think this way, but how things would turn out after marriage could only be known after marriage.

  At the entrance of the supermarket, Officer Wang put a basket of groceries in the front frame of his bicycle, unlocked it, straddled the bike and said to Beibei: "Hop on!"

  Bai Bei came to school by car this morning and sent the driver away after school, letting Shang Guan take her.

  Towards Beibei and sat on the left side of the bicycle, with both hands pinching Wang Neng's waist, laughing: "Let's go!"

  "Hold on tight!" Officer Nangeng kicked one foot, and the 26-brand bicycle easily got on its way.

  Originally, after absorbing F-class mechanical abilities, Shangguan Yubao thought of modifying his bicycle by adding a variable-speed gear wheel to make it easier to ride, but due to financial constraints, he temporarily gave up on this idea.

  Now even the capable people are quite frustrated, many abilities can't be exerted due to economic reasons. Even asking Beibei out for a meal requires financial support from dad, it's really frustrating.

  Shangguan Neng had also thought of using his Xiu Zhen abilities to turn stones into gold, but after absorbing the Xiu Zhen practitioner's abilities, he had also clearly divined some of their laws and regulations. Among them was one that was particularly deadly: using magic to gain ill-gotten wealth would result in karma binding him, with lighter consequences being a setback in his cultivation and heavier ones bringing disaster upon his family.

  What is false wealth? It refers to wealth that does not actually exist.

  For example, the so-called "turning stones into gold" seems impressive at first glance, but a stone is still just a stone. If you force it to become gold and sell it at a high price, this wealth is false wealth, in other words, it's deceitful.

  Nowadays, many people make a living by cheating others with fake goods. As Guo Degang said, "The only real thing in the world is a turtle, but it's called 'fake fish'." This shows how harmful fake things are to society.

  But these counterfeiters, as long as they are not caught, there is no problem. Even if they are caught, as long as the circumstances are not too serious, a fine will do, and then they can continue to counterfeit and sell counterfeits without any pressure.

  But for a cultivator of the truth, it doesn't work that way. A cultivator of the truth originally cultivates the Tao, and the Tao is located in the heart. Cultivating the Tao is cultivating the heart. If you do something that goes against your heart, it's equivalent to going against the Tao. If you've already gone against the Tao, what true self are you still cultivating?

  Shangguan Nengren wasn't afraid of his cultivation regressing, after all, his situation was special. As long as he found the right person, absorbing their energy would be enough to fix things. However, the possibility of 'dragging his family into trouble' made him dare not act rashly.

  Karmic force is simply "bad luck", as opposed to merit, which is "good luck". The more merit one has, the better their luck will be, while the more karmic force they have, the worse their luck will be. What's even scarier is that a person's good or bad luck sometimes isn't just their own affair, but also involves those around them.

  For example, buying lottery tickets never wins a prize, stepping on dog poop when going out, being hit by a car on the street, this is a person's bad luck, and if one person dies, it will be over. But once family members have problems, it's really unbearable.

  For example, if a family member gets cancer, treatment requires money; if a family member is hit by a car, medical care requires money; if a family member is kidnapped, ransom requires money. These are all bad luck that affects the family, and once encountered, you can't ignore it even if you don't want to get involved. After all, they are your own family members, and you can't just abandon them to die. Unless you're a heartless and selfish person who doesn't care about others' lives.

  Filial piety, this is a gene that exists in the body of every Chinese person. Among all ethnic groups in the world, the Chinese are the most filial nation. The hundred good deeds start with filial piety, and from this sentence, we can see how much importance the Chinese attach to filial piety.

  In ancient China, especially during the Han and Wei Jin dynasties, if one wanted to become an official, he had to first be 'recommended for filial piety'.

  In that era, the way to become an official was through recommendation, so it was called 'recommendation', which means 'to recommend'. The so-called 'filial piety and integrity' refers to people who are filial and incorruptible. This is what ancient people considered as good qualities, believing that only such people could make good officials, hence the term 'filial piety and integrity'. From this point, it can also be seen that the way of filial piety has influenced all aspects of human behavior, a filial person is always respected by others, while an unfilial person will inevitably be despised. This is the excellent quality of a nation.

  Although Shangguan Changan himself thought he had no strengths, he was indeed filial to his parents. If someone beat him up, that's because he wasn't skilled enough and deserved it. But if anyone bullied his parents, even if he knew he couldn't win against the other person, he would still fight them.

  Because he values his family more than himself, Shangguan Yun will never bring calamity to his family for the sake of wealth, so despite having extremely powerful cultivation abilities, he is still a poor and miserable wretch.

  Shangguan Neng decided to spend some time in the antique market, first raising his fake-making ability to level E. The things made with level E fake-making ability should be able to deceive some people.

  Shangguan Nian has some ideas about combining forgery and refinement, but whether it's useful or not will have to wait until his abilities reach that level.

  What is it that the upper class people lack the most now? It's undoubtedly money. After the system upgrade, the upper class people have an unprecedented strong desire for money. A hero will be defeated by a single coin, and without money, every step is difficult to take. Money, money, money, not having money is really not okay!

  Thank 'Xinzhongde Fuyun' for rewarding 200 Qianbi, thank 'Yinlong' for rewarding 588 Qianbi, thank 'Chen Baobao' for rewarding 100 Qianbi.