January 7th!
January 8th!
January 9th!
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By the lake in Linhu Village, Lin Chen and the three others trained against each other daily, mutually identifying their weaknesses.
Since the fifth, the three have stayed directly in Linhu Village. Lin Chen's home was too small, so the village chief found a household with extra rooms, arranging accommodations for them.
Zhao Jingchuan even had his father deliver meals to Linhu Village daily, all of which were nourishing poultry to strengthen Qi and blood, though not as good as black deer meat, each meal cost two taels of silver.
Three meals a day amounted to six taels.
This money wasn't solely from Zhao Jingchuan; Lu Yongfeng and Cheng Ying also privately gave silver taels to Zhao Jingchuan.
Although the three did not say it outright, Lin Chen, being who he is, could more or less guess from the way Lu Yongfeng and Cheng Ying spoke and acted.
