Chapter 144 - No prairie fire can destroy the grass (1/2)

Lin Luoran goes to the city to order a batch of jade boxes.

She has decided to sell all the century-year-old fleece flowers. A saying goes like this, “The tailor makes the man”. Therefore, spirit herbs should be packed in jade boxes, which is helpful for maintaining Reiki and the expensive look as well.

As for the cost of the jade boxes, well, whatever you’re given, you pay for it. Lin Luoran doesn’t want to give fleece flowers for free, so the price buyers pay contains the cost of packaging.

She is not short of money. For one thing, she’s got real estate. For another, even if she is short of money, she can sell a lot of things, starting with jade. The “Skin Beauty Boluses” she made is far more effective than all the essence sold on the market, which claims to “contain 24k gold” and is worth ten thousand yuan. If she is willing to sell the boluses, she can call the shots in price-fixing as all women love to be beautiful and there are a lot of rich ones who don’t care about money.

Lin Luoran also wants to find a primary school for Luodong. He has recovered a lot from autism and it’s not good for him to be isolated with his contemporaries… Even though he has Taoist root and will become a cultivator in the future, he still needs to experience a social life and communicate with people. The cultivation world seems to be very peaceful today, but no one knows what will happen in the future.

Even for Lin Luoran herself, she dares to expose her fleece flowers only because of her “master” that doesn’t exist. Moreover, she lets people know that she has something good from time to time, and that’s why people believe that her “master” actually exists. In a word, the safety of her and her family is actually at stake.

As soon as Baojia arrives in the city, she wants to go shopping. On second thought, however, she thinks of Commander Qin, who is living alone in the military compound. Baojia, therefore, decides to be a filial granddaughter. She ignores the temptation of shopping and goes back home to visit her grandpa.

Lin Luoran can’t say “no” to her decision; rather, she is willing to offer a gift to Commander Qin, that is, a bag of vegetables. Baojia has Taoist root and young Master An never avoids her in saying anything, so she knows a lot about the cultivation world. For example, she knows that it is common for something like Lin Luoran taking out a bag of vegetables —

“Luoran, I’m always wondering… Where do you take all those out from? You are hiding so much from me, aren’t you?”

Lin Luoran is speechless. She was going to share the secret of the bead with Baojia before. However, as she gradually knows what the bead is able to do, she gives up the idea. She is not being stingy, she just knows very well the story of “the precious stone lands its innocent owner in jail”. There must be a reason for the story to be popular.

Baojia cannot protect herself if she confronts with any cultivators. If someone wants to use Baojia to deal with Lin Luoran, the less Baojia knows, the better.

Lin Luoran thinks for a second and takes out the Universal Sack given by Wen Guanjing.

“Look, this is the bag they are talking about!”

Knowing that this small bag with gold fabric patterns is the storage bag that can hold a lot of things, naturally Baojia wants it so bad and she looks at Lin Luoran piteously. Lin Luoran cannot reject her requirement when Baojia plays cute, so she answers reluctantly,

“It’s not mine. It’s just provided for the mission and I a.s.sume I will have to give it back… I promise I will get you one when I have the opportunity.” Lin Luoran sighs. Even if someone is willing to exchange a Universal Sack for her fleece flowers, how much will it take? Lin Luoran is shocked after doing the math — if she wants to take the whole family into the cultivation world, the expenditure for necessities such as elixirs, magic weapons and Universal Sack is very big.

Lin Luoran sighs, no one can rest on their laurels!

She gave gifts to the Superior of the Qingcheng Taoist Temple to thank him for taking care of the Lin family for the past three months. If others want to have her spirit wine and spirit herbs, they can wait until the herbs and wine are more than enough for the Lin family and that’s when she may consider selling them. Lin Luoran will only give gifts to people who she is really close to.

She doesn’t prepare for a formal visit today, so Lin Luoran puts Baojia at the gate of the compound and decides to pay a formal visit to Commander Qin later.

As soon as Lin Luoran stops the car, however, Liu Zheng walks out of the gate. Seeing Lin Luoran and Baojia get out of the car, he is shocked for a moment but calms down quickly.

Liu Zheng, Baojia’s fiancé, the man accompanied Lin Luoran when she broke up with Li Anping, picked her up the night Lin Luoran went to solve problems with Zou Yaowei. It seems that they have not met each other after that night.

It’s been four months since that night. Liu Zheng gets a little thinner, but he seems to be in a good spirit. At such a distance, however, Lin Luoran sharply finds dark eye circles hidden under his gla.s.ses.

Liu Zheng does not avoid Lin Luoran’s look at all. He says h.e.l.lo to Baojia and turns to Lin Luoran,

“It’s been a long time. How are you?”

Lin Luoran doesn’t know what to do but nods her head. She feels that a lot of emotions that she does not want to respond to are hidden behind that leisure expression. She feels too awkward to say anything.

Fortunately, Liu Zheng is always considerate. After greeting, he says that he has something to do and just leaves. Lin Luoran lets out a sigh of relief and says goodbye politely. Baojia looks at them, feeling complicated and sighs quietly. They are perfectly matched both in character and in appearance, but they are separated by a lot of invisible factors and gaps.