Chapter 450 - A Thing of the Lin Family (2/2)

Lin Luoran’s heart thumps. She feels nervous. What can be in the interlayer? She has to calm herself. When she is prepared to uncover the layer, she hears something outside her s.p.a.ce.

Someone is knocking on the door.

Lin Luoran takes a deep breath, places the box on the table and then quickly emerges from her s.p.a.ce.

It’s Colin.

“Lady, the female pirate Windsor contacts the Edward again and asks if we will take the same path as her.” He calls Lin Luoran “lady” in a natural way. Well, when Colin Weir takes his business seriously, he can outs.h.i.+ne most butlers and render them out of work.

Lin Luoran ponders over Windsor’s invitation and asks Xiaozhi if it knows the routes to the Nami Star.

“With the flight permit, we are allowed to enter the network of flight path. There are several routes to Nami Star. Which one would you like to take, sister?”

“The fastest one. Colin, tell Windsor to follow us if she would like to.”

Colin Weir nods and says to Windsor accordingly.

There is no reason to guard against evil persons day and night. Even if the Edward heads to the Nami Star alone, they may encounter other pirates on the way. Whether or not Windsor has an evil intention will be clear as time pa.s.ses by. Anyway, Lin Luoran is confident about her power to hold the pirates in check if they want to do harm. Now it’s time to test the sincerity of the glamorous pirate leader. Lin Luoran hopes she won’t be disappointed.

After handling these trivial matters, Lin Luoran has calmed down. She enters her s.p.a.ce again.

When she opened the interlayer to reveal the old yellowish book hidden at the bottom of the box, she is stunned.

She is too familiar with this thing—the cotton bookbinding thread and the blue back cover. Except for the wormholes, it is exactly the same as the incomplete medicine book pa.s.sed down by her ancestors.

The blue back cover shows that the book is the second half of her medicine book!

Lin Luoran takes out the first half of the medicine book that she has kept, and compares it with what she has just got. It turns out her guess is correct. The missing part of the medicine book of the Lin family was actually found by her in a small variety store on the N2 planet.

Did the familiar feeling come from this unknown medicine book belonging to her ancestors?

She knows the second half of the book was lost many generations ago, so how did it end up on the faraway planet? Lin Luoran remembers that when she was a child, Mr. Lin relied on the first half of the book to identify medicinal materials. He gathered herbs on the back mountain of Li’s Village to make money, so that he could support Lin Luoran’s education.

Every time she held the banknotes of small denominations to pay for her tuition, she secretly vowed that she would earn a lot of money when she grew up. She would make her parents lead a comfortable life.

When she was sick, Mr. Lin boiled medicine for her according to the drug-decocting method described in the medicine book. Indeed, she was very weak when she was a child. She used to be thin and short, and got ill from time to time. Mr. Lin often went to the mountains in search of medicinal herbs of highly nutritious value, while Mrs. Lin would kill a chicken she raised and stew the meat with herbs for Lin Luoran.

The higher her personal ability, the more clearly she remembers what happened in her childhood. What efforts her parents had made to bring her up under such difficult conditions! She didn’t feel this way when she was young, but now she finds that her grat.i.tude for her family has become all the more intense after they were missing.

She remembers Mr. Lin sighed a few times. He knew that the prescription in the medicine book could improve Lin Luoran’s health. How he hoped to find the second half of the medicine book… Father, I have found the other half of the medicine book. Do you know about it?

Between heaven and earth, where can her family be… Are they in a place farther than the distant starry sky?

Looking at the two parts of the medicine book, Lin Luoran can’t help crying.

Her tears drop on the blue cover, which gives off a s.h.i.+mmer of white light. Lin Luoran’s eyes are blurred. She doesn’t notice that two halves of the medicine book have merged and become an integrated whole again in the light. The cotton thread of the book also becomes invisible. It seems that the book has never been torn apart, as if she had gone back in time and s.p.a.ce.

“Why are you crying?”

It’s a relatively mature female voice tinged with the sweetness of a child. Lin Luoran dries her eyes and looks up. The girl sitting by the bed is about 13 or 14 years old. She has big bright eyes and has her hair in a bun. A ribbon flutters on her head. Indeed, the light-hearted girl is a feast for the eyes.

Her cheeks are now much thinner, the nose is more defined, and the eyes are bigger. Lin Luoran asks uncertainly.

“You are, Momo?”

She has grown taller. Nevertheless, her features and voice clearly show that she is Momo, the little girl Lin Luoran once met after she entered the Bearing Essence Period. Lin Luoran doesn’t expect to see Momo, the teenager Momo at this time.

Lin Luoran forgets her sadness for the moment and says unbelievably, “Momo, how come you grow up?!”