Chapter 360 Mother’s Legacy (1/2)

“Why are you still laughing? They gave you the cold shoulder because they didn’t want to see you. Whatever, we don’t want to see them either.”

Baizhi was complaining to herself, but she didn’t ask Lin Mengya to barge in.

The three maids were Lin Mengya’s confidants. They were very well trained. Now they might be whining, and that was their way to take it out. They wouldn’t really do it.

Because they knew Lin Mengya had her own plan.

No servant dared to block their way anymore. They first went to Lin Muzhi’s study.

The study was still as clean as it ever was. The inkstone Lin Muzhi used before had dried up.

When she was little, she and her brother learned how to read from their father here. Now everything had changed. Both kids had grown up.

Only the study remained the same.

“Keep watch for me at the door. I’ve got something to find inside.”

Lin Mengya asked Baizhi to stay outside. She was checking her father’s bookshelf carefully.

Her mother had collected plenty of medical books, ranging from the treatment of colds to fatal illnesses. Some of them Lin Mengya had skimmed through before, but as she read them again, she found their content simpler and more detailed than what her teacher had taught her.

Lin Mengya knew this wasn’t a good time to study. She turned on the scanning and classification function in the Shen Nong System and then she scanned all the books.

Just when she was about halfway done with her work, she found that however rare these books were, they were now useless to her.

She checked carefully one more time, only to find that there was nothing about the Tranquil Lotus at all.

“Did Qiu Yu make a mistake?”

Lin Mengya put the last book on the shelf.

She knew Qiu Yu well enough and she trusted him. She knew that the imperial physician had a much more complicated background then she knew about.

Since he stressed the books that Lin Mengya’s mother had left, she was sure that the use of the Tranquil Lotus had to be in those books. There should not be any mistakes.

The reason why Qiu Yu was so sure about it might be that he had seen Lin Mengya’s mother save someone using the Tranquil Lotus.

“Where on earth is the book?”

Lin Mengya sat in the large chair, rubbing her forehead. Her eyes looked empty, her mind taken over by all kinds of assumptions.

According to Qiu Yu, the Tranquil Lotus wasn’t a local species of Dajin. It was tricky to cultivate and use, so it had not been widely used.

It was mostly used as an antidote. Therefore, it might have been recorded in those books about peculiar folk prescriptions, or in those prescriptions about detoxification.

Yet she failed, again and again, to find it in those books. She thought it might be in one of the books that was hard to get.

She had seen it on TV shows. A divine medical book was hidden somewhere, maybe a shadowy corner, waiting for the right person to pick it up.

When that idea kicked in, Lin Mengya became exhilarated and tried to knock on the walls in Lin Muzhi’s study.

Unfortunately, she still found nothing after she tried for quite a while.

She was lying on the table, wondering if she had overthought it.

Seeing how active and hard-working her master was, Baizhi wanted to help, but Lin Mengya insisted on making her wait outside and watch out for her.

Seeing that no one came around, Baizhi walked inside to help her.

“Master, what are you looking for?”

Lin Mengya turned to her and smiled in exhaustion.

“I’m looking for a medical book. Can you help me figure out where my mother’s legacy has been kept, aside from this study?”

She had inherited the memory of this body.

But she was sure there were parts that were missing.

It had all happened many years ago, and she could still recall some of the details. Lin Mengya must have had a good memory since she was a kid.

Baizhi thought about it for a moment.

Then she played with her own fingers and said, “Some of them were in Mr. Lin’s study; some in your brother’s private coffer; some in our yard as well as Mrs. Lin’s. Some have been put in storage. We also sold a lot when we were young, which I can’t exactly recall.”

Lin Mengya could recall all those things as well.

However, all these things that Baizhi mentioned just now were nothing more than some antiques, calligraphy, paintings, and jewelry. If she traced all of them one by one, she would be exhausted.

“Who’s there? Stop hiding!!”

Lin Mengya’s sensitive ear detected that someone was leaning on the window of the study, trying to spy them.

Baizhi rushed out. She saw the back of a woman in dark blue. The woman then escaped.

She stomped her feet because Lin Mengya had told her to be careful. However, in such a short period, their conversation had been bugged.

“It’s all my fault! I’ll go and get her!”

Baizhi was about to go and chase the woman, but Lin Mengya stopped her.