Chapter 417 - Call White Black (1/2)
“This is…” Lu Yiming freezes for a long time before he realizes he doesn’t know this young woman’s name.
He seems to be too careless. He only meets her twice and doesn’t even know her name. However, he invites her home because of her favors. Lu Yiming regrets it so much especially when Lin Luoran’s eyes lock on the necklace of his sister Lu Shuangshuang directly.
d.a.m.n, what makes him so careless?
The alarm in Lu Yiming’s eyes and his sister Lu Shuangshuang’s little pale face bring back Lin Luoran’s attention immediately.
“This jade plate is really nice. I always like some old objects. Sorry for that… Well, my surname is Lin.”
The jade plate is indeed an old object but Lu Yiming’s vigilance has not completely faded away. Lin Luoran has an extraordinary ability and he can’t put his sister in danger. He decides to take things slowly.
Pale-faced Lu Shuangshuang has no idea how alert her brother is. Because of her poor health, this girl has been trapped in this small place and she rarely has a visitor. When she sees Lin Luoran who is also a female, she feels very excited.
“Hey, this sister…Sister Lin… can I call you Sister Lin?” Lu Shuangshuang is not in good health and her face is as small as a palm, which makes people feel compa.s.sionate. Lin Luoran remembers that three hundred years had been past after she came out Mount Penglai. In this case, is she now more than three hundred years old?
Although she doesn’t actually live that long and then becomes a kind of knowledgeable old monster, she inevitably feels awkward when a little girl calls her sister even if she is a thick-skinned person.
However, Lu Shuangshuang is really enthusiastic. Seeing how hesitating Lin Luoran is, she thinks Lin Luoran is just shy. She doesn’t even notice Lu Yiming’s desperate signal and invites Lin Luoran to enter the house over and over.
There are two small rooms and one living room and the larger room is only ten square meters. The small living room is too small for three people. Lin Luoran sits down and feels her legs are not able to stretch. However, their home is clean and tidy. She can tell that some furnis.h.i.+ngs are made by their own hands. Lu Shuangshuang gets water for Lin Luoran and Lu Yiming finally remembers the rape soup he packed before.
“Sister Lin, I don’t know what you like to drink so just I make a gla.s.s of lemonade. You can have a taste.”
Lu Shuangshuang comes out with a gla.s.s. Two pieces of dried lemon slices slowly stretch out in the gla.s.s. With sugar, it tastes sweet and sour. Perhaps because of her state of mind, Lin Luoran thinks it is much better than the mango ice Boss Zheng treated her.
She takes many sips and Lu Shuangshuang feels very happy. Her pale face flushes with joy.
Lu Yiming brings the hot rape soup here. The aroma remains but the leaves have already turned yellow. It’s not nutritive at all. The girl is very happy but Lin Luoran feels sad.
In this world, the price has long been unequal as fruit> vegetable> meat> synthetic food. However, growing Lu Shuangshuang is very satisfied with a bowl of rape soup which is no longer delicious. Lin Luoran who has not yet integrated into the new era frowns silently.
She has to figure out where the jade plate comes from.
Lin Luoran finds an excuse immediately, “Well… there is something wrong with my personal computer and I can’t go back to my place. Can I stay at your house tonight, Shuangshuang?”
Lu Yiming will never want Lin Luoran to stay overnight and he even wants to return the 18000 crystal coins bravely. However, he sees his sister Lu Shuangshuang’s blus.h.i.+ng cheeks and he can’t say anything to refuse.
He has been striving for a living for a long time. His sister always stays at home because of her physical condition and rarely communicates with outsiders. She must be very lonely… It’s not usual for Lu Shuangshuang to meet a woman she likes. Lu Yiming is now in a dilemma.
Lin Luoran just sits on the sofa casually and seems to be easy-going. However, Lu Yiming still remembers how she broke the hand of the man of Proud Dragon Business easily. After thinking about it, he decides to maintain the status quo.
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Because a guest is here, Lu Yiming has to go to the store to buy some toiletries and food. He just gets a fortune today. Even if he doesn’t have to treat Lin Luoran, he has always been very generous to his sister.
When Lu Yiming leaves, Lu Shuangshuang talks more. Without her brother who has always been worried about her, she is much more active. She takes Lin Luoran to visit her room and shows her a small bone sculpture on the counter. It is said to be the first mutant monster Lu Yiming hunts. He carved its bone into a bear as a souvenir for Lu Shuangshuang.
There are also little rabbits made of thick fibers whose red eyes are lovable, just like their owner Lu Shuangshuang. Because of her poor health, this girl is trapped in this small world and she always has a fantasy for the outside world. Her eyes are moving, full of ignorance.
After introducing herself, Lu Shuangshuang asks Lin Luoran again.
“Sister Lin, can I also visit your house?”
Lin Luoran touches her soft and yellow hair. She nods, “Of course, my home is in Yueyang District. You can come to my home whenever you want.”
Lu Shuangshuang raises her face, “Do you mean the Yueyang District nearest Mount Jun? It’s so beautiful and the public security there is good. No wonder Sister Lin can’t go home without your computer. ”
“Oh, have you been to Mount Jun?”
As expected, Lu Shuangshuang shakes her head, “The federation has designated Mount Jun Island as a key protected area. Every year, only some leaders can go to wors.h.i.+p Mortal Heart Fairy. We ordinary people don’t get the chance to even think about it. But my brother said that Mount Jun is very beautiful. He used to catch shrimp when he was a kid. Unfortunately, we moved house later… ”
Lu Shuangshuang is very honest. Before Lin Luoran gets her to talk, she has almost told her the situation of the Lu family. At this time, it is summer. An artificial energy hood over the Dongting City cannot completely isolate the heat. The air conditioner of the Lu’s house has already broken down. Lu Shuangshuang feels embarra.s.sed and Lin Luoran proposes to go to places under the vines to cool down.
Lu Shuangshuang pats her own head, “Sister Lin, I can treat you grapes.”
Summer is definitely the season of ripening grapes. Lin Luoran doesn’t know what breed this vine is. It’s fruitful but the size is very small and it tastes sour. Even so, children from this building often come here to steal it.
Lu Shuangshuang feels very happy and proud that her guest is having the grape she takes care of so much.
In fact, the grape is incredibly sour. Only in places like slums of the new era will they be valued.
Thinking that the two children may be descendants of her old friends, Lin Luoran feels very guilty as an elder. She owns so much but she did nothing for them.
When Lu Yiming finishes shopping, he carries a small half-pack rice and a large piece of slightly tender mutant frog meat. There are also a few tomatoes and green beans. Some kelp from the Dongting Lake is unbelievably expensive and he only bought a ball of it.
Everything is done for her so Lin Luoran says righteously that she cannot stay here for free. She insists she should cook tonight.
Lu Yiming feels suspicious and Lin Luoran says eloquently.
“Why? Are you afraid I’ll poison you?”
Under his sister’s watery eyes, the brother can only give up. He hands over the ingredients to Lin Luoran.
Technology is improving and the electric cooker has become very convenient. People can cook rice on the bottom while vegetables on the small compartment separately. The fire and seasoning are accurate because Lu Yiming has adjusted it. Lu Yiming feels very surprised when he sees Lin Luoran going out and being back with a bunch of strange and unknown spices.
Of course Lin Luoran doesn’t buy them from store. She just makes some excuses to get spices from s.p.a.ce.
She has also changed all the ripened vegetables bought by Lu Yiming with s.p.a.ce products. The mutant frog meat is a bit difficult to handle. There are so many monster meat nourished by Reiki in s.p.a.ce that she can’t eat them up in a hundred years. She randomly selects a large piece of wild boar meat and carries it here.
Lu Yiming grits his teeth, “Doesn’t your PC break down… Sister Lin?”
The teenager says the words “Sister Lin” with full strength but Lin Luoran says like nothing happens, “Of course it is. I changed goods with mutant monster inner bolus… the boss wants me to be his customer next time very much!”
She is acting like “I have tons of inner boluses” and Lu Yiming is speechless.
Of course, there are TV programs in the new era. However, they are difficult to survive because people don’t pursue entertainment as they were hundreds of years ago. Trendy dramas and soap operas cannot survive since no one wants to feed entertainers with his taxes. Serious news and military films with the theme of the Earth Defense War are the only things left on TV.
The kitchen is too small and it’s totally not enough for two people together. Lu Shuangshuang is pushed out by Lin Luoran to watch TV. The little girl watches a role of a federal hero on the TV and her eyes are s.h.i.+ning.
“Brother, you once said that our ancestors are also war heroes. Did you lie to me?”
Lu Yiming rubs her sister’s hair with love, “You fool, of course your brother won’t lie to you.”