Chapter 6 (1/2)

Chapter 6 To Buy SeedsLin Luoran drops her dirty clothes into the garbage truck and jumps onto a bus, heading to her destination.

Compared with the busy streets, the air is stuffier in the crowded bus. With the precious bead, Lin Luoran gets on the bus without hesitation. She doesn’t notice the foul air, but the atmosphere is strange. Why is everybody looking at her?

With the plan of making a fortune in her mind, Lin Luoran completely forgets that her appearance has changed. Even though her clothes are still cheap and plain, her delicate cheeks and bright eyes make her stand out.

Lin Luoran is beautiful but shabby. If it happened to other girls like her, they might be hara.s.sed on this crowded bus. However, Lin Luoran has the bead and with her cleansed bone marrow and cleared meridians, she is no longer an ordinary pretty woman. She wears a gentle expression together with a n.o.ble and righteous temperament. Normal people won’t even dare to look right at her.

R City is the capital of S Province. As the well-known center of leisure, it has a large population. Pedestrians and cars fill the broad street so the bus has to drive slowly. Lin Luoran changes two buses and finally arrives at her destination. With green façade and two small shops, it is the outlet store of a larger seed company in R City. Lin Luoran used to buy rice and vegetable seeds for her family and fellow-villagers. The price of seeds here is reasonable and the quality is pretty good so she is willing to come a long way here to buy seeds.

Seed is not people’s daily necessities. It is natural that the store only has a good turnover in planting seasons.

Now, there is no one shopping in neither of the two shops. A plump lady in uniform is texting under the counter.

Standing one meter away from the counter, Lin Luoran clears her throat to draw the sales lady’s attention.

The lady puts down her phone and puts on her professional smile. She is shocked as she looks up and sees Lin Luoran.

“This girl is so pretty. Her skin and temperament are so much better than mine.” The sales lady sighs quietly. However, she doesn’t feel jealous as she does when seeing other pretty girls. This certainly has something to do with Lin Luoran’s temperament.

“Belle, do you want some seeds? Do you need my recommendation?”

The sales lady calls Lin Luoran “belle”. This is not a compliment. People in R City are pa.s.sionate, and workers in the service industry will call every female customers “belle” and male customers “handsome”.

Lin Luoran has prepared for this. She smiles and replies, “Do you have small tomato seeds?”

“You mean cherry tomatoes?” The sales lady asks for confirmation.

“Yeah, yes!” Baojia has corrected her a million times that it was called “cherry tomato”. Still, Lin Luoran can’t get rid of her habit…

The sales lady knows what Lin Luoran wants, and she takes out a little bag of cherry tomato seeds after rummaging through the shelf. In recent years, business has been bad. The seed company used to despise this kind of small purchase, but it has started to make smaller bags of seeds.

“How much land can this bag of seeds cover?” Although Lin Luoran comes from the countryside and she used to help her family do farm work when she was a child, she is not an expert, for she does spend most of her time studying.

“It seems to be a little bag, but the seeds can cover more than half a mu of land.” The sales lady is patient because explaining to the customers is also a part of her job.

Half a mu… Lin Luoran is speechless. Even if she demolishes that little cottage, there will only be half a mu of land in that s.p.a.ce. If she plants cherry tomatoes for such a large patch, there will not be any more land for other vegetables. Nevertheless, all of this is just her disguise. She then asks for a dozen of more seeds of cabbage, celtuce and spinach, etc.

All the seeds only cost her about 100 yuan. Indeed, she doesn’t buy a lot.

The sales lady packs the seeds and finds the pretty customer still wandering in front of the counter. She asks, “Do you need anything else? We are a big seed company. Though the store is small, we do have a good variety of seeds.”

“Do you have wild ginseng seeds?” Lin Luoran pretends to be embarra.s.sed, but she is looking forward to getting a positive reply from the sales lady.

Right. Lin Luoran never intends to make a fortune by growing vegetables. She doesn’t see herself as a protagonist and it is a big problem to explain the source of the vegetables.

It is not the first time for the sales lady to meet such an amateur customer. However, because this one is pretty and unpretentious, she smiles and explains, “Belle, wild ginseng is worth a lot, but its seeds are cheap. Few people except researchers will collect them. Also, you can’t call cultivated ginseng wild. Here we have ginseng seeds of a species called “prospect”. It costs 720 yuan per kilogram. The “prospect” ginseng is very much similar with wild ginseng. Do you want some?”