Chapter 168 - Bolus Trade (1/2)

Lin Luoran stays at home and makes boluses. She only rests when Reiki inside her are used up and the first thing she does after getting up is to open the alchemy furnace and make more boluses. She does this repeatedly for a whole month. Mrs. Lin is worried that her daughter exerts herself so much. Therefore, Mrs. Lin ransacks her brain every day to think about how to cook nutrient food for her daughter.

Every time Lin Luoran gets out of the bas.e.m.e.nt, her mother is waiting for her with some soup made of love. The wild chickens in the mountains and fish in the lake suffer. The chickens are mostly brought back by Goldie as its snacks, yet Mrs. Lin always takes the chickens and makes them into soup for Lin Luoran. The fish are caught by Mr. Lin who goes fis.h.i.+ng by the lake in his spare time. His special way of cultivation is to sit by the lake with a fis.h.i.+ng pole in his hand. During the fis.h.i.+ng, Mr. Lin slows down his breath in order to feel the Reiki in the air.

Lin Luoran doesn’t oppose her father for combining cultivation with his hobby.

Who says that everyone has to meditate while absorbing Reiki? Take Lin Luoran as an example. She breathes at the same frequency of the breathing methods when she eats, sleeps, and even makes boluses. She doesn’t think she absorbs Reiki much slower than when she meditates.

Cultivation depends on one’s ability to keep calm.

Similarly, one needs to endure the loneliness in order to make boluses. Just like the sea, the path of cultivation is endless. Sea is made up of countless drops of water, and cultivation grows while one works harder day by day. n.o.body can control the sea, yet cultivators can choose whether to make efforts or not.

Lin Luoran puts all of her attention into making boluses this month. She goes directly to sleep after stepping out of the bas.e.m.e.nt, which leaves herself no time to cultivate. Nevertheless, Lin is happy when she checks on her own state of cultivation after finis.h.i.+ng making the boluses.

She doesn’t regress. On the contrary, she actually makes some progress.

As the proverb goes, you have to break before you build. During the last month, though she didn’t reach the state of “break”, she indeed used up the Reiki inside her every time she made the boluses. Then the Reiki will be replenished between breaths and during sleep. This can also be counted as cultivation, right?

A month later, Lin Luoran stops making boluses.

The Lin family sit by the table and stare at the jade boxes. Baojia opens her mouth first: “You only made such a little bit during this entire month…”

Lin Luoran pinches Baojia. Such a little bit? She worked so hard on these boluses and there are actually quite a lot!

She has made 18 batches of boluses during the last month. There are 14 batches of Gathering Qi Bolus, which are 480 in total. She collected 29 boluses in the least productive batch and 38 boluses in the most productive batch. The productivity rate was unstable. She will have to practice more.

Lin also made 4 batches of “Circulation Bolus”, which are 78 in total. Last night, she successfully collected 28 Circulation boluses in one batch and it made her so glad.

In order to make all of these over 500 boluses, toads which used to live around Lin’s villa are now rarely seen, let alone all the other medicines Lin put in the furnace.

She has saved some medicines in the field and planted some more. She spent so many medicines on making these boluses and she didn’t plant much of every medicine in her s.p.a.ce. Therefore, she won’t be able to make too many boluses soon.

Except for Lin Luoran, a rich woman of herbs who has a “cheating device”, cultivators in the alchemy school may not be able to make so many in such a short time.

The efficacy of Gathering Qi Bolus lasts for a month. Lin Luoran is not going to offer too much to her father and Baojia. Firstly, it will be such a waste. Secondly, her father and Baojia are still building their foundation. It is inappropriate for them to take too many boluses.

Lin Luoran saves 100 Gathering Qi boluses for her father and Baojia, which are enough for them in the next four years. She also saves 100 boluses for herself and prepares to sell the rest 280 — Lin doesn’t want her compet.i.tors to get too powerful, and she decides to set a purchase restriction.

As for the “Circulation Bolus”, she is going to save half for her family and sell the rest one by one!

Lin Luoran, who is almost like a profiteer, clicks into the BBS and changes the status of her boluses from “pre-order” to “on-sale”. The buyers, who have long since got the jade ready for the exchange, are finally relieved and start to head to R City.

This time, the trade has to be done on spot. “Uncle Lin” wrote on the webpage that she would have to look at the quality of the jade in order to decide how many boluses she likes to offer.

Xi Heng, one of whose apprentices is familiar with Lin Luoran, is wreathed in smiles. However, it seems to be too flattering to send Li Xi’er there. Xi Heng decides to send someone else to trade with Lin Luoran in the name of Li Xi’er.

Head of the Wen family is glad too. Even Chen Yun, the minister of the special department, is thinking about trading some boluses with Lin Luoran as the reward for his staff.

Everybody wants to get boluses as much as possible and everybody seems to be confident.

With the purchase restriction in mind, Lin Luoran is sitting in front of her computer, laughing like a cunning fox. Her laughter shocks Luodong, who happens to pa.s.s by the study—

Why his sister’s laughter today makes him feel that all of his pocket money will be robbed?