Chapter 210 - Shui Script and Soul Wood (1/2)

Lin Luoran, Luodong, Rong Donglin, Yan Feng, and Professor Qi go to a small diner near the university town. Forgetting about the sanitary condition, dishes in the small diner taste good and the prices are quite low.

They ordered Sliced pork with garlic sauce, Sautéed water spinach, Shredded potatoes with salted egg yolk, Boiled fish with pickled cabbage and chill, Brain and tofu stew, Pork head meat, and Cabbage and tofu soup. There are six dishes, a pot of soup, as well as a small bucket of steamed rice, which is perfect for four adults and a young boy.

The cyan little fox only eats things with Reiki. It always steals the vegetables and herbs which are taken from Lin Luoran’s s.p.a.ce from the kitchen and hides them in the bamboo cabin. The little fox eats the vegetables alone late at night. Now, these delicious dishes can’t draw its interests at all. It sits on the plastic chair and starts to clean its hair. Other young girls in the diner all whisper to each other about how cute the little fox is.

“Professor, you’ve stayed at the site of the tomb for over five days. Yesterday, I ran into your wife on campus and she complained to me about this!” Seeing that Professor Qi and Rong Donglin are still talking about the ancient scripts they found in the tomb, Yan Feng says with a piece of tofu in his mouth.

Professor Qi puts down the chopsticks and shakes his head. He says with a smile, “Yan Feng, when it comes to our professions, you’re never as focused as Donglin is.”

Yan Feng secretly makes a face at Rong.

Maybe because he is tired, or he still feels depressed, Rong Donglin lays low and keeps eating during dinner while sometimes helps Luodong fetch more food.

“Professor, I heard that Rong knows the Shui script well?”

Lin Luoran asks. The dinner is already over. She has sent Luodong to pay the bill. Lin brings this question up so that they can have a topic to talk about.

Lin only asks this question to kill time. However, Professor Qi takes it seriously and says, “Rong knows the Shui script better than me. He is talented for doing research.”

Noticing the attention on himself, Rong Donglin explains, “My father used to teach the Shui script, and I’ve only learnt a little from him. My knowledge is not even close to Professor Qi’s!”

Then, Rong starts to talk about the bamboo sheets they found in the ancient tomb with Professor Qi again,

“I wonder who the occupant of the tomb was. These bamboo sheets are strung together with gold threads and they are perfectly preserved. And the story written on these sheets is so strange…”

They get on Lin’s car. On the back seat, Professor Qi shakes his head, “Strange? There are so many mysterious things in the history of our country. That story can’t be considered as strange.”

Out of his love for this professional field, Rong starts to discuss this issue with Professor Qi. He says, “The story written in the Shui script is not related to the myth system of the Cla.s.sics of Mountains and Seas. Also, no other books have ever recorded a story like this… This story talks about ointment that helps people grow back a broken arm and spirited wood that can gather souls. These things only exist in novels. How can they be real?”

Professor Qi keeps shaking his head. Clearly, he disagrees with Rong. Hearing about novels, Yan Feng finally finds the topic he can talk about. Yan starts to discuss with Rong about whether cultivators are real.

Normally, Lin Luoran may feel awkward if she hears people talk about this question. However, after Rong said something about “spirited wood that can gather souls”, Lin’s thoughts start to wander… The wood Rong talked about sounds like the Soul Wood!

Is this the blessing of G.o.d?

Lin gets excited. She feels that her lips are so dry.

“Luodong, do you think there are swordsmen in the world?” Yan Feng looks around and asks Luodong, who is the youngest person in the car.