Chapter 285 - A Battle of Stratagem (2/2)

Li Xi’er mutters, “Don’t treat me like a three-year-old, Luoran. Is the shop owner a cultivator too? She’s not a demonized cultivator, is she? I didn’t realize at all.”

Lin Luoran laughs, “Me neither.”

A light of alert comes into Li Xi’er’s eyes, “There must be something wrong.”

I agree. I didn’t see anything on her. There must be some problems. It’s uncommon for a girl at her age to open a flower shop with that many precious flowers. If she is just some ordinary girl, wouldn’t she be afraid of thieves? I can feel Wood Reiki rus.h.i.+ng out from the Acacia tree in the backyard and nouris.h.i.+ng the precious flowers there.

However, Miss Yang doesn’t have any personal abilities. The Reiki-devouring worms love Reiki. If the Reiki-devouring worm got into Lin’s mansion with the peony, why did it choose to live in an ordinary peony instead of the Acacia tree with abundant Wood Reiki? I’m afraid there’s only one explanation. Miss Yang owns it. The Reiki-devouring worm doesn’t have the gut to touch that Acacia tree without her consent.

Lin Luoran takes a look at the business card she took unintentionally from the shop. Yang Lisha is such an ordinary name.

Nevertheless, all the mysteries will be solved tonight.

The Reiki-devouring worm is kept at Lin’s mansion. Will Miss Yang come to find it?

Will the moon s.h.i.+ne bright tonight?

……

Shortly after Lin Loran leaves, Yang Lisha closes the shop earlier today. She pulls out the peony and carefully digs into the soil under it.

“You naughty bug, hiding in the peony behind my back. I almost sold you to those two young cultivators. You should be glad they didn’t recognize you and sent you back because they couldn’t treat the peony.”

It is true that the two young cultivators didn’t recognize the Reiki-devouring worm, but Lin Luoran has two experts in her s.p.a.ce. Yang Lisha would never know about this and in a short time she frowns.

The soil in the flowerpot falls all over the yard yet there is no trace of the worm. Yang doesn’t think Lin Luoran took it. She frowns because she thinks the Reiki-devouring worm stays at other’s home and doesn’t want to leave. Thinking about Lin Luoran’s personal abilities, Yang Lisha suddenly realizes something. She grabs the address book and finds her address. Everything makes sense now.

“So, it is you. Fate has brought us together.”

She replants the peony and puts it under the Acacia tree. Then, she washes her hands and sweeps a ladybug off the trunk.

“I didn’t expect to find someone involved so quickly. Although she’s not the true owner, there is no much difference. Voiddy, are you helping me silently?”

The Acacia tree has a name. She stands in the middle of the yard and doesn’t answer.

Yang Lisha stands under the tree for a while. She blinks her eyes, trying to hold back her tears. Then, she raises her head.

……

Night falls soon. Li Xi’er is too excited to fall asleep. She has to peep through the window and looks outside because Lin Luoran asks her to hurry up and go to bed.

Lin Luoran makes a pot of scented tea and puts it on the stone table in the front yard. Koi fish in the tank jump out of the water from time to time, competing for the peanuts Lin Luoran occasionally throws into the tank.

The peanuts are big. Their seeds were sowed in Lin Luoran’s s.p.a.ce yesterday and ripened overnight. Koi fish go crazy again. The peanuts must taste good.

Lin Luoran feels the protection circle she spent great efforts to build moves a bit. The water magic circle of attack shuts down before it launches. The shadow that shows up on the wall seems to belong to an ordinary pa.s.serby. It all looks like a false alarm.

Seeing Lin Luoran sitting in the yard drinking tea and is not surprised by her visit, the intruder stops and jumps off the wall.

“Are you waiting for me?” Does this female cultivator see through her? Yang Lisha hesitates for a while then sitting down and pouring herself a cup of scented tea. The tea is really good. Its scent reaches every corner of Yang Lisha’s mouth. However, she still doesn’t believe that Lin Luoran knows who she really is.

Lin Luoran puts the bamboo tube on the stone table and gives her a faint smile, “I also know you are looking for this.”

Yang Lisha is not surprised as well, “You seem to know the Reiki-devouring worm as I do. It’s in your hand now. Why don’t you keep it yourself?” Reiki is in great shortage recently. A Reiki mine is hundreds of, even thousands of times more valuable than before. A Reiki-devouring worm can help you find one.

Lin Luoran takes a sip of tea and says,

“I show it to you because I’m greedy. I want more than this, like……the place you find it.”