Chapter 280 - The Soul Wood (1/2)

Chapter 280 The Soul Wood

Time waits for no one even during the leisure days.

When Lin Luoran and her families harvest the rice and begin a new round of cultivation, everyone opens a new chapter of their lives.

Lin Luodong and Huang Weijian are in the third grade of secondary school. In order to be admitted to the best high school in the R City, they are studying hard every day. Lin Luodong is 15 years old. It is an important year for him, because he will be 18 in three years. Every time when he sees Huang Weijian playing with his magic bald pen, he hopes that he can reach the age of 18 sooner, so that he can make a choice.

Huang Weijian’s unreliable and mysterious grandfather hasn’t shown up yet, which makes the young boy often guess whether the old man is fed up with him and just abandons him to the Lin family like throwing away a burden. However, he thinks the advantage of staying in the Lin family is that he can reach the middle stage of Training Qi within two years. He will be only 17 in two years. He will still be very young to be in the middle stage of Training Qi at 17 years old. Then he will be two steps earlier than Lin Luodong. Although Huang Weijian doesn’t show his feelings, he is very proud secretly.

Li Xi’er is in her early twenties when she is in the middle stage of Training Qi. It is not because Huang Weijian is more talented than her, but because as the last Confucian cultivator, he benefits a lot from his state of mind. His pride once depressed Lin Luodong who tried to get close to him.

The young boys devote most of their time to their studies. The only change of their lives, if any, is probably that the “disgusting” little fat boy Ma Ming has gradually replaced the girl Wei Xue, becoming another friend of Lin Luodong and Huang Weijian.

One reason is that they haven’t met Wei Xue for a long time, so they are not as close as they were. The other reason may be the coming of p.u.b.erty. The young people start to be aware of the gender differences, so they can’t play together frequently anymore. Thanks to Lin Luodong, Huang Weijian gets to know Rong Donglin and has learned a lot from him. As Lin Luodong and Huang Weijian are more knowledgeable than their peers, they are alienated from their peers. Only Ma Ming, the brazen boy, occasionally tries to persuade them to play games with him. Wei Xue has reached the age when girls like stars and beautiful clothes. Without a common topic, they inevitably drift apart.

Because of this, Lin Luodong has been upset for a while. Lin Luoran comforts him that people make different friends at different stages of life, so not all friends are lifelong, and it doesn’t mean the loss of a friend, but mean that he is growing.

Lin Luodong is a little confused. But after thinking for a while, he understands. If their friends.h.i.+p lasts for dozens of years, they will have deeper affection then. After he becomes a cultivator in the future, Wei Xue will surely die before him. It might be a real blow for him to lose a close friend at that time.

Lin Luodong suddenly realizes why the cultivators visiting his family don’t want to a.s.sociate with ordinary people. Because it will be troublesome if they have affection with ordinary people.

“So, must I sever all the contacts with ordinary people if I want to become a cultivator, sister?” Lin Luodong is very upset. He knows that Mrs. Lin doesn’t have the Taoist root. Thinking that she will leave them one day, Lin Luodong is so sad that he almost cries.

Lin Luoran thinks for a while, but still doesn’t know how to answer the question.

To cultivate, people must sever all contacts with ordinary people, including their relatives and friends, and they have to become indifferent and become immortal alone. Isn’t it more painful than death?

Although there is no news about Mount Penglai, Lin Luoran has never given up looking for the whereabouts of it.

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The “Lins’ Typhoid Pill” of Lin Luoran’s pharmaceutical factory finally win the market’s recognition within one year. While the pills are gaining a huge market share in China, the company is busy exporting them. The export price is still 66, but in US dollars. Many foreigners complain about the high price, but Lin Luoran doesn’t plan to reduce it.

As far as Lin Luoran knows, some so-called imported specific medicines are 100 times more expensive than her typhoid pills, but patients in Huaxia still pay for them. She doesn’t think that the export price of her typhoid pills is high. Because the environment is deteriorating, the flu becomes severer than ever. Even if patients in this country don’t buy them, there are many patients from other countries want them.

Unexpectedly, the “Lins’ Typhoid Pill” wins popularity because of Ma Ming, the little fat boy.

When Ma Ming got flu, Huang Weijian was disgusted by Ma Ming’s sound of snorting in the back seat every day. So he took a box of medicine from the Lin family and gave it to Ma Ming. Then Ma Ming, who had been on a drip for half a month, miraculously recovered from the flu after taking the pills for two days.

His father, a new rich, was surprised and marveled at the pill’s effect. Then he sent a box of pills to every employee in his factory as gifts for the Spring Festival. The employees found the pills even more useful than advertised. Because of word of mouth, the pills won many market shares in the R City. Within one year, they became popular in the whole country.

Zeng Tian plans to launch another new medicine, but is stopped by Lin Luoran.

There is only one reason. Zeng Tian is the only child of his family. Thanks to Gathering Qi Boluses and his own efforts, he finally rises from the congenital realm to the early stage of Training Qi.

In the early stage of Training Qi, even the simple Spells of the Five Elements are enough to make his parents no longer opposed to his cultivation. Other people who don’t have a chance to cultivate burn incense in Tianfu Square of the R City every day, hoping to cultivate. Now that their son can really cultivate and has made progress, so they would not object anymore.

Because he learned Spells of the Five Elements from Lin Luoran, he wants to continue learning from her. Since Lin Luoran hasn’t admitted him as her apprentice, he dares not call her master. But he calls Yuan Ye “Senior Brother”, and he stays in Lin Luoran’s home all day long, intending to turn from a nominal apprentice to a real apprentice of Lin Luoran.

Because he is honey-mouthed, Lin Luoran’s parents like him very much, which makes Yuan Ye have a sense of crisis. When Yuan Ye finally reveals his nature, Lin Luoran gradually knows that her seeming honest apprentice is actually no worse than Zeng Tian at flattering people!