Chapter 421 Throwing out!
Looking at the three-story villa in front of her, Lin Luoran even has confusion in her eyes for a moment.
It's so similar to buildings developed by her second apprentice Zeng Tian more than three hundred years ago. The structure is almost the same! She knows that it was rebuilt after the establishment of the Federation. Even the building materials are new, not to mention the red soil in the yard. The soil is precious so it's only one thin layer. The real feeling of stepping on it in the past is now totally gone.
What confuses her is that this rebuilt villa is very similar to buildings Zeng Tian developed on the edge of Dongting Lake in the past both in terms of the size or the layout.
Lins' Pharmaceutical Factory! Why did she forget it which had a trend of becoming medical tycoon!
Like a flash of lightning breaking through the fog, Lin Luoran awakens suddenly. If the earth was invaded by the Alpha Alliance and then mutant monsters appeared, federation would not give up the military industry as well as the pharmaceutical industry. Were these villas rebuilt by Lins' Pharmaceutical Factory?
She has a lot of thoughts in her mind. If someone doesn't open the door of the villa which once belonged to the Ma family, Lin Luoran really wants to dig into more clues immediately.
"Who are you guys? How can you break into a private house?"
This middle-aged man has a big belly. Ma Yiming and Ma Shuangshuang wear ordinary clothes and look like ordinary civilians in the city who break into this high-end residential area. It makes him feel very annoyed.
Especially the young man in his twenties who is staring at him with fierce eyes. It makes the man inexplicably feel uneasy.
However, he turns his eyes and sees Lin Luoran standing on the side. Tall and slender figure, snow-white skin which will absolutely make the new era women feel envy... This middle-aged man relaxes and smiles in a way which he thinks is the most charming. He smiles gently.
"I haven't met this lady. Are you a new resident in the community? If you meet any difficulties, just tell me. Neighbors should definitely help each other. "
Lin Luoran smiles and it looks like the flowers beside Dongting Lake in full bloom. The middle-aged man is totally stunned.
"Throw him out..."
The beauty is like spring breeze leaving these emotionless words. It makes the middle-aged man feel angry and embarrassing.
Ma Yiming clenches his fists. Aunt Lin is here. Even if his enemy was a Rank Seven warrior ten years ago, he has nothing to be afraid of. The teenager doesn't know where his brute force comes from. Maybe his accumulating hatred for many years reaches the peak and suddenly breaks out. He actually throws out the middle-aged man who is unprepared!
Yeah, he literally "throws" the man and the middle-aged man rolls a few times on the ground. The clean high-level community doesn't stain his clothes but his suit is crumpled and he looks embarrassed.
What makes him unacceptable is that many residents in the community hear the noise. They are condescending and they open the window to see this drama.
It is really a shame!
He jumps up from the ground and sweeps to kick Ma Yiming from the waist to break his bones. At this moment, the young man is like pulled by a string and he slides into the yard.
Ma Yiming is also shocked but he soon realizes that this is Aunt Lin helping him in secret!
Can he avenge himself?
Ma Yiming feels sore in his heart. When he was young, this middle-aged man bullied the Ma family. His widow mother and his family lived in this big villa but this man plotted his family. He tricked his mother that they were doing business in partnership... Eventually, the business ended up in failure. This man brought officers from a federal department to get the house as a mortgage.
His mother knew that she had fallen into the calculation of others. She vomited blood in anger and died in less than three days.
This people knew that their ancestral jade plate was kind of magical and he also wanted to get it. Ma Yiming took his sister who was only four years old to escape like a mouse on the street, picking up rotten leaves and smelly bones in the market... Ma Yiming remembers everything so clearly. His swallows and presses the button of the alloy sword.
"Shuangshuang, come in to check if this house is beautiful."
Ma Shuangshuang sees her brother fighting without saying anything. She knows that this man is the big enemy of her family. She is very anxious but she doesn't know what to do. Ma Shuangshuang is afraid that her brother will kill someone but she also fears that her brother will be hurt by evil people with better skills. She feels that a hundred deer are jumping together in her heart. At this moment, Lin Luoran's voice comes across the yard and the undoubted tone forces her to move.
It's not that she doesn't worry about her brother but she thinks her aunt can solve it.
Ma Shuangshuang holds her dress hem and walks into the room. She pushes the door open and sees Lin Luoran holding her hand and looking at the painting on the wall.
"Shuangshuang, do you like this picture? I don't think it is upscale so maybe we can take it down?"
Ma Shuangshuang is so anxious that her eyes are all red. She has no mood to appreciate the painting and she can only nod indiscriminately.
Lin Luoran tears the painting very "ruthlessly". A beautiful young woman curling up in the corner boldly yells, "What are you doing in my house? My husband is..."
Lin Luoran throws the painting on the ground and raises her eyebrow. "Say it again. Your what?"
The woman says in a low voice, "My hus..." She doesn't finish her words and stops talking.
Lin Luoran conceals the disdain in her eyes. How can some bad things remain unchanged even after three hundred years?
"Shuangshuang, is adultery legal according to the law of the federation? She is talking about her husband... does she expect us to know nothing about her? "
What do we know? Ma Shuangshuang freezes. For a moment, she temporarily forgets that her brother is still fighting with others. She subconsciously replies, "The Federation strictly forbids polygamy. Once adultery is revealed, men who have lovers will be punished and those lovers will also be sent to Pluto to reclaim... "
The young woman's face turns pale. Lin Luoran smiles, "Well, do you hear it clearly?"
"Yes." She lowers her head and thinks the resentment in her eyes is well covered up. She is not old enough to be the man's wife. The young woman is still nervous when she hears a gentle voice above her head, "Why are you still here? Are you waiting for me to throw you out?"
The beautiful women is like to be freed. She doesn't dare to ask Lin Luoran for packing her jewelry and gorgeous dress. She just opens the door and runs out.
Opening the door, she sees that the middle-aged man is defeated by a young man with a sword and falls to the ground, moaning continually.
Ma Yiming stares blankly at his alloy sword. He is so amazed at his martial arts which have made such great progress. He totally forgets to kill the man.
Many people in the community know this middle-aged man and think the affairs between he and his lover is revealed. They are afraid that their own dirty story will also be found. As a saying goes, Pulling out the radish and mud will also be brought out. They don't want to watch it anymore and close the door or window loudly and tightly.
Killing him... not killing him... Ma Yiming is staring at the injured middle-aged man. He sometimes remembers the scenery of his mother dying vomiting blood while sometimes thinks of the clean eyes of his sister Ma Shuangshuang and Aunt Lin... he can't kill him! Ma Yiming makes this decision in an instant. He has to avenge his family. However, besides killing, there are many other righteous ways. He can't allow the blood of this wicked man to stain the ground of his family house and stain his sister's eyes.
"Bao Honglai, you and I will discuss this later..."
Ma Yiming sneers and puts away the alloy sword. He then steps into the yard.
Bricks and tiles here haven't changed in the past decade. The Ma family has also had glory and this old house is maintained very well.
His mother loved to grow some peppers and cucumbers in this yard. She had good cooking skills and was good at making cuisines of the center of Chuan province before the new era. He heard that his ancestor, the federal hero, was a person of the center of Chuan province before the establishment of the new era federation.
Ma Yiming looks at the yard where roses are planted now. His eyebrows twist. He has to talk to Aunt Lin that he still wants to plant eggplants and peppers here!
The teenager runs back to the villa, leaving behind the crying young woman and the middle-aged man who falls to the ground.
It isn't that the man doesn't want to get up. The damn thief has destroyed his hamstrings!
Bao Honglai grits his teeth in pain. He has enjoyed many years of blessing and his original martial arts have long been rusty. Careless, he is so careless!
The young woman is still crying, "Sir, what can we do... maybe we can turn to Mr. Pang?"
Bao Honglai's eyes light up and he thinks of something. Enduring his pain, he suddenly slaps the young woman.
"Go away! I have spoiled you! What a shitty idea!"
The young woman is beaten up. She doesn't expect that her rainmaker will suddenly beat her. The sun is dazzling and she can hardly open her eyes. She is cold all over and suddenly realizes what she has proposed...
Although Mr. Pang is powerful, he is Bao Honglai's brother-in-law. If he really does it, her identity as a lover will definitely be revealed.
Thinking of the serious face which often appears in the important speeches of the city hall, the young woman feels so hopeless.
Chapter 422 Treatment
Mr. Pang finally knows the thing between his brother-in-law and his lover.
At that time, Bao Honglai is ready to make a vengeful plan. Mr. Pang's goal is actually Lin Luoran but he finds out the conflict in front of the villa.
He thinks about it and does not warn Bao Honglai not to provoke Lin Luoran. He just tells his sister.
Bao Honglai is then busy to take care of his own troubles. Lin Luoran is still waiting for him to come here one day so that she can finish the property transferring process. The man still hasn't arrived. Ma Yiming's accumulating revenge is like a punctured leaking balloon.
A week later, the Mas' villa has totally changed. Mr. Pang does not get more information but Bao Honglai has comforted his wife. Mr. Pang doesn't know how he can do it but his unwise brother-in-law obviously wants to revenge.
Because Mr. Pang does not receive any information, and he also wants to check Lin Luoran's strength so he doesn't stop him.
Lin Luoran doesn't know a conspiracy against them is brewing. Even she knows it, she is too lazy to care about these so-called martial arts or spiritual masters as long as the federal government has no intention to eradicate the "fairy"—she has witnessed the so-called spiritual masters in the city defence. Those who could kill mutant monsters alone with spirit power were extraordinary. It is similar to spiritual mind but is still kind of different.
The residents in the high-end villa community occasionally peek at the Ma family villa.
People in the new era value privacy and this is a high-end villa community. They will basically not visit each other. Everyone feels that the landscape of the villa has changed overnight.
On the sidewalk of the pedestrian walkway near the villa, there are two large leafy trees in the yard. Their trunks are not huge but they are three-storey high, filled with yellow velvet flowers. They are not a remaining species of the earth in the new era. Maybe it is from the universe—what kind of fruit will it bear?
The stainless steel railings are covered with vines. Through the low-hanging lush branches, people can only vaguely see the red bricks of the villa's outer wall. The villa's yard and the house itself are well hidden.
If someone is lucky enough to be invited to the Mas' house at this moment, even ordinary rich people will be surprised by the scene in the courtyard.
In a hundred-square-meter yard, there is a big tree with a swing. A set of table and seats made of stone is under the tree and there is a bunch of roses with some dewdrops in the corner which has not been completely eradicated.
Except for the gravel paths for people to walk, other places have all turned into vegetable fields.
Chili is a must. Now the three people who eat together all have the taste of the center of Chuan province in Huaxia. They all like spicy food. The center of Chuan province cuisine has a strong taste. A few garlic seedlings, coriander, chives and fennel leaves are all planted here. Some leeks look tender and cute. There are loofahs and white gourds on the big tree. Several cucumbers are planted by the branches on the corners of the wall. They are three inches long with some unwithered flowers.
Dark purple eggplants are shiny. There are several other cabbages. Dense black fungus grows in wet rotten wood. The entire yard of about a hundred square meters is filled with plants, leaving no space.
Early morning sunlight shines through the floor-to-ceiling windows. Ma Shuangshuang opens the door. There is some confusion in her eyes when she looks at the courtyard occasionally.
Not only will Outsiders feel strange. When she and her brother wake up overnight and see the new scene in the yard, their eyes also wide open and cannot utter a word.
Aunt Lin is really a mysterious person. They have this consensus and do not ask in detail wisely.
"Brother, what do we have this morning?"
Ma Shuangshuang takes a look at the kitchen. The white rice is always good. Aunt Lin said that light meals are best for breakfast. Therefore, she controls herself and let go of the idea that having white rice with braised pork every meal.
Hearing his sister's question, Ma Yiming opens his eyes on the big bed. This is the room on the second floor with a sunny exposure where he lived when he was a child. It seems that since Aunt Lin's visit, their lives have changed dramatically. He slept so deeply last night. He won't wake up in the middle of the night because of the things buried in his heart.
Ma Yiming hears the sound of spatula downstairs and shouts loudly, "Shuangshuang, be careful! Hot oil may hurt your hand. You just drop it and I am coming."
Ma Yiming turns over and gets out of bed immediately. He drives Ma Shuangshuang from the kitchen to the living room.
Sister controller Ma Yiming looks around the kitchen and also struggles about the braised pork as her sister. He finally looks at dumplings in the refrigerator. Isn't it good to have dumplings for breakfast?
The water in the pot he puts before has not been boiled. The windbells hung on the iron gate in the yard are dancing.
Lin Luoran walks into the shade from the sunlight with two fishes in her hand. The fins tied by the reed grass are flicking. It looks like that she has just caught them.
Ma Shuangshuang stares at the fish suspiciously, "Aunt Lin, where did you buy them?"
Since the establishment of the Federation, clean water resources are scarce. Except for the Dongting City, the drinking water in other human gathering places must go through many purification procedures. Few places can afford to produce aquatic products. All things grown in water such as fish, shrimp and crab are all unbelievably expensive, just like fruit.
Ma Shuangshuang once saw living fish when she was a little girl but she has totally forgotten it. This is actually the first time she sees fish alive jumping around.
"I caught them in the lake to make fish porridge for you. Without the nutrition, you can't build up your body."
Lin Luoran throws the fish into the pool. Ma Yiming is stunned with a kitchen knife. He has always known that his new aunt doesn't obey the federal laws and regulations. However, catching fish from Dongting Lake in broad daylight? How dare she!
They haven't eaten aquatic products. Even it's just simple porridge, they are afraid of destroying it. Ma Yiming kills the fish and Lin Luoran guts it herself. When Lin Luoran slices fish fillets, the fish fillets are thin without fish bones as the kitchen knife goes down. In Ma Yiming's eyes, this is extraordinary knife skills but not making porridge.
When scent of the space rice porridge is drifting from the pot, Lin Luoran puts the finely cut mushrooms and ginger shreds into it. The fish fillets are the last to put into the pot. With a little green onion, the aroma is all over the room.
Because temperature is high, food ferments quickly. The jar of pickles two days ago is now ready. Ma Shuangshuang has two bowls of porridge with pickles and then remembers the fish head is missing. She asks curiously but Lin Luoran only smiles mysteriously.
"Fish head is also a delicious dish. Leave it for the noon."
The food Aunt Lin thinks delicious will never fail them. Ma Shuangshuang swallows secretly and thinks she is hungrier and hungrier.
Can fish head also be a dish? What kind of dish?
The little girl is still thinking wildly. Lin Luoran puts down her bowl and says, "Shuangshuang, how about making clothes as entertainment after breakfast?"
Making clothes? Ma Shuangshuang's eyes light up.
The new era tries to keep material thing as simple as possible. Besides, for the convenience of combat, both clothes of men and women are close-fitting. No one pays attention to clothes style. Ma Shuangshuang really admires Lin Luoran's simple, elegant and retro dress.
"Can I also make clothes?" Ma Shuangshuang's eyes darken. Because her brother has protected her so well, she can hardly do anything.
Lin Luoran nods certainly, "Can't you knit some little stuff? Certainly, no problem. "
...
"Well, this wire almost doesn't go through it. Stay focused."
Ma Shuangshuang has some sweat on her forehead. She has to be highly concentrated and it makes her feel extremely tired.
Ma Yiming is practicing some boxing techniques. He sees his sister "fighting" with the old loom and feels speechless. Aunt Lin gets the wooden old-fashioned machine from nowhere...A manual loom. Maybe no one used it even before the new era. If someone knows it, it will definitely be sent to the Dongting City Museum!
He can feel the green silk threads are silky and cold. However, when can it be wove into cloth and then made into clothes?
If men are not gifted with doing these trivial matters by nature, Ma Yiming really wants to help his sister.
Ma Shuangshuang is still sweating even though she is in the shadow.
Lin Luoran makes the meal and asks her to take a shower first.
"Wooden barrel again, right? Aunt Lin."
Lin Luoran nods and Ma Shuangshuang rushes back to the room happily. Aunt Lin is more attentive to her than her brother. She can understand her thoughts as a girl. Lin Luoran made a huge wooden bucket for her in the bathroom. Every time when she is tired of playing in the yard and returns to her room, there will be a bucket of special water. With a slight fragrance and petals floating on the water, Ma Shuangshuang even has a feeling that she is a princess in ancient times at some moment.
She goes upstairs happily. Lin Luoran spreads a layer of chopped green and red peppers on the surface of the fish head left in the morning. She then steams it on the stove in the kitchen.
Ma Yiming can't help asking the question that has been hidden in his mind for a long time, "Aunt Lin... about treating Shuangshuang..."
Finally?
Lin Luoran doesn't look back and just puts some medicine powder in the dishes. She says slowly, "When the clothes are ready, Shuangshuang's diseases will almost be cured."
Ma Yiming is kind of suspicious.
He doesn't doubt Lin Luoran's ability. However, the three of them just stay in the villa all day to eat and drink together. He never sees Lin Luoran treating his sister—is knitting cloth or taking a bath also a kind of treatment?
Chapter 423 Two Concubines
In fact, weaving clothes and bathing are both treatments.
The filaments extracted from fibers of plants are once soaked in potions. The bath water contains concentrated herbal essences and there are also medical powders in daily meals and drinks.
The formula is also very simple. Prescription for leukemia can be made from the Bone Marrow Cleansing Elixir formula. For Ma Shuangshuang who is weak by nature, it will also work just by removing a few medicines. After all, the trouble is that Ma Shuangshuang also has the Heat Poison inside by nature. The external coldness and the internal heat are mixed together and this girl's body becomes so weak that the treatment seems to be a bit troublesome.
Lin Luoran laments how vicious Bao Honglai was and she also thinks it's lucky to meet the two siblings at this moment. For two years longer, Ma Shuangshuang would die whether Ma Yiming can save enough money to buy gene fortification fluid or not.
In the middle of the night, the brother and sister of the Ma family have fallen asleep. Lin Luoran takes off the display screen which looks like a pair of glasses.
Now it is four o'clock in the morning and she still finds no more clues.
These days, she did have some gains. For example, she finds that at the beginning of the new era, Lins' Pharmaceutical Factory played an important role in combating human diseases caused by cosmic radiation. Years of experience in treating the waters of Dongting facilitates Lins' Pharmaceutical Factory to develop a circulation system which can purify polluted water in a short time... This is the most important precondition that other human gathering places on the earth can be preserved.
This water circulation system is still working even in the new era of 301.
Lins' Pharmaceutical Factory has made a significant contribution to the Federation. However, it disappeared in the 32nd year of the new era. The only connection is that the year was 2061 AD when the Alpha Alliance helped mankind and gene evolution fluid became the top priority.
Gene evolution fluid? Lin Luoran presses a button on her personal computer. A secret slot pops out and a tube of blue liquid in the transparent glass reveals.
She bought it from the market yesterday. The most expensive gene evolution fluid which can be found on the market costs 200,000 crystal coins. She sells a lot of mutant monster inner boluses which she gets easily for getting the fluid.
The gene evolution fluid worthy of 200,000 crystal coins claims that it can help ordinary people to gain the opportunity of breaking through the ninth rank martial arts. However, in Lin Luoran's view, it is totally worthless.
Forcibly exploiting the potential of the human body will block the way to further breakthroughs.
Lin Luoran finds that all humans who have been injected with gene evolution fluid can no longer feel Reiki molecules anymore. In other words, while gaining a shortcut to strength, they also lose the way to longevity.
Did Lins' Pharmaceutical Factory find this problem so it disappeared?
Lin Luoran puts away the evolution fluid and her mind is filled with conspiracy theories. What does the Alpha Alliance want to do to the earth? Did they pay so much just for one more colonial star? Excuses such as mining are not enough for the Alpha Alliance army to travel around galaxy, right?
Even if it is a conspiracy, it is still not reasonable. Unless—Lin Luoran suddenly sits up from the bed.
Unless this is a conspiracy against cultivators! Wait, take it easy... Lin Luoran forces herself to calm down. What she knows is that the fake saintess came to the earth during the period of Emperor Yan and Huang for controlling the rise and fall of the world of cultivation... The Tower of Babel... cultivators of the Gathering Vitality period and monster nationality disappeared on a large scale more than a thousand years ago. More than a thousand years later, the Alpha Alliance suddenly attacked the earth and the last group of elites in the world of cultivation all disappeared!
The fake saintess... she has to go to the Kalahari Desert.
Lin Luoran feels that the answer may be hidden in the underground world. If she didn't have to take care of the two teenagers of the Ma family, she would leave for the Kalahari desert immediately.
The earth is in great trouble. Can the seal of the crazy Taoist still be effective? Lin Luoran feels a little uneasy in her mind. Her soul is messy and she doesn't sleep well. When she wakes up, she almost misses the breakfast time.
After asking Ma Shuangshuang to continue her weaving, Lin Luoran feels very gloomy. She walks by the Dongting Lake. In a ladies' room of the riverside park, she casts a Mini World to fly to Mount Jun.
With towering trees and knee-high grass, this is a suitable place for her to be alone and meditate.
Lin Luoran walks slowly through this silent Mount Jun. There are no birds or monsters, which makes her think of how busy this place once was. When she first pretended to be god and showed herself, there were almost tens of thousands of tourists on Mount Jun. Time lapses and the good old days are gone. Mount Jun is now protected by the federal government. No wonder it is so deserted.
A thought flashes in her mind and Lin Luoran is suddenly stunned. The federal government protects Mount Jun... Does it mean that no believers can come to her Taoist field?
No wonder that they say Mortal Heart Fairy is sheltering the waters of Dongting as the pure land of the federation but the faith light groups in her ocean of consciousness don't increase much... Lin Luoran is paranoid. She even thinks someone deliberately stops her from consolidating the godhead.
She reveals her emotion on her face. It is a chilling smile.
Plotting her? Unfortunately, she not only returns safely after three hundred years, but also comes back with a condensed godhead. She gets a lot of time to figure out all things.
Lin Luoran remembers the magical function of the holy spell fire phoenix once told her. She wants to try to contact her devout believers on the earth to know more about the situation. She unconsciously walks to the former temple of two concubines.
Lin Luoran's colorful sculpture in front of Liu Yi Well is still colorful and beautiful but the Two Concubines Temple has already been ruined.
Lin Luoran remembers the gorgeous sculpture of the two concubines in the past. She stops and removes the weeds around the Tomb of the two concubines and then uses the Cleaning Spell to remove the thick dust from the sculpture. Even if the dust is removed, the paint has been mottled. There is no Reiki as it was. Lin Luoran feels really sorry about it.
She sees some other weeds growing in the gap between the two painted sculptures so she goes around behind them to pull out the weeds.
However, are there two pieces of cinnabar yellow paper on the back of the painted sculptures? Who posted these two weird things on the painted sculptures of two concubines?
Different from the magic figures of Qingcheng Taoist Temple, the lines on the paper are messy without any Wakan. She has no idea who is the troublemaker.
Lin Luoran takes them off gently. A strange wind runs over and several old bamboos on both sides of the tomb shudder. Lin Luoran recognizes that they are the tear-stained Xiangfei Bamboo in the past. She is kind of nostalgic and puts her hand on one bamboo. A hot stream comes out of her palm and runs into the old bamboo spontaneously.
Lin Luoran is so shocked. She thinks it is a calculation and wants to get rid of it but fails.
A bamboo monster? If it is that case, it should steal her Wakan rather than the power of faith. Two light groups fly out from the old bamboo and fly into the statues. The mottled and ruined statues of the two concubines come back to life after a few hundred years.
Between light and shadow, the painted sculptures become colorful and bright. The light is getting brighter and brighter. Lin Luoran has witnessed a lot of things but she is still distracted by such glory for a moment.
When she comes to her sense, the two painted sculptures have been alive.
Two beautiful women walk down from the desk together. The woman on the left is gentle and smiles at her. Even though she is smiling, she can't hide her sorrow, "Are you Mortal Heart Fairy?"
Lin Luoran nods. She has guessed the identity of the two fairies secretly but she dare not believe it.
The woman on the right has a heroic temperature but her smile looks noble, "I have been your neighbor for many years but I don't expect to see you today. Lucky chance is really unpredictable."
Lin Luoran still holds the bamboo with one hand. She is so excited and there seems to be a thousand words coming out from her mind. However, she finally acts like a surprised old friend, "How can you two be here?"
—are they old friends? They are Ehuang and Nvying, who were two ancient concubines called Xiaofei and Xiangfei... she is just a little female cultivator but she can even talk to legendary gods and immortals...
Chapter 424 Leaving the Message
In fact, it is not true that the two ancient Xiaofei and Xiangfei concubines are gods and immortals. They are just local officers similar to local village gods formed because of incense and worshiping. When they first got intelligence, it was the late Tang dynasty of Huaxia before the new era. After about a hundred years' incense worshiping, mud statue embryos got spirituality but it's just a little. Without ancient bamboos with overflowing Reiki before the Tomb of the two concubines, it would have been diluted by turbid air of the earth.
At that time in Mount Jun, there was not much incense. There were still many Huaxia ghosts like these two concubines getting worship. These two sisters knew they were weak and devoted themselves to self-cultivation without paying attention to other things. Occasionally, they helped some devout believers to solve some little problems and they thought it was very satisfying.
Time lapsed stealthily in the mountain and hundreds of years passed by. It was the Qing Dynasty and the gods of the two concubines were made. However, Yueyang magistrates sent people to remodel their statues and moved those bamboos—it almost killed the two imperial concubines. After working so hard to improve their personal ability, they encountered this difficult situation and their souls almost scattered.
"Taoist Jiang happened to pass by Mount Jun. We showed up boldly and he was very nice to help us. He got a bunch of old bamboos in the bamboo sea to balance the Yang spirit here."
Taoist Jiang? Lin Luoran holds the old bamboo, remembering that she won the Dragon Palace inheritance by fiercely fighting with Xin Yuanping. At that time, the crazy Taoist took Liu Zheng to clean the desk of painted sculptures of the two concubines. She only thought the crazy Taoist was really crazy but never knew that he was their friend.
Ehuang is the elder sister, namely Xiaofei, who looks sorrow even without saying anything. Nvying is the younger one, namely Xiangfei who looks heroic.
Two concubines are born because of wishes. Believers make different wishes so one of them is soft and the other one is tough, corresponding to the personality of the legendary Emperor Shun's two concubines. It's legendary story so it is not always true. It's still unknown whether there are two ancient Xiaofei and Xiangfei concubines in history or not.
Lin Luoran hears the two concubines talking about history and she remembers the yellow paper she took down.
"Is that yellow paper also senior cultivator Jiang's masterpiece...?"
Heroic Xiangfei nods, "Aliens invaded the earth and we couldn't just see residents of Dongting Lake suffering so we tried to do something. However, we were biting off more than we could chew and our souls were almost shattered. Taoist Jiang came to help us by gathering our souls. After more than two hundred years of cultivation and nourishment from Mortal Heart Fairy today, we finally... "
Xiaofei smiles gently and leans over to salute, "Mortal Heart Fairy, please forgive us for my sister's nonsense."
Lin Luoran has expected that the sudden appearance of the two concubines must be related to the warm flow which actively entered the old bamboo. However, she never knows that the power of faith she has always neglected has such wonderful uses.
She carefully let go of the old bamboo. Two concubines are still standing there with a smile. Lin Luoran immediately realizes they don't need much power of faith so she let go of the old bamboo.
"To be honest, when the disaster happened, my families and friends would definitely pass by the Two Concubines Temple before entering the Dragon Palace. Luoran would like to ask... did the number of people when they entered remained the same when they left? "
She doesn't expect that they can know the whereabouts of the Lin family. As long as the number was the same, it means the Lin family didn't suffer a lot after the disaster happened.
Two concubines look at each other and smile like flowers.
"Taoist Jiang is our savior. He also asked us to tell Mortal Heart Fairy something when we see you."
Xiaofei's eyes are soft and straight and her tone is gentle, as if she hasn't seen Lin Luoran on that side flushing and breathing heavily. Mortal Heart Fairy seems to be crazy for the message the crazy Taoist left.
"Taoist Jiang asked you not to go to the Tower of Babel to find them..."
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"Asked you not to go to the Tower of Babel to find them..."
The sunlight is bright and the shadow of the bamboo is dancing. The last hope in Lin Luoran's heart is just ruthlessly killed. Before a bitter smile appears on her face, she sees that Xiangfei turns from a heroic woman into a naughty girl. She draws out the words and continues to say.
"They will not be in the Tower of Babel. Where cultivators in Huaxia are is not only far away in the starry sky, but also restricted by the laws of heaven and earth... However, Taoist Jiang said if you could return from Mount Penglai one day, starry sky is endless and it is destined to see you again! "
Xiangfei's sentence is very powerful and Lin Luoran is totally empowered. Her limbs and bones are full of strength and the mist accumulating in her eyes disappears without traces.
Her old friend has left her a message and it is a guarantee.
Lin Luoran takes a deep breath. Since she found that the earth was ruined and the whereabouts of the Lin family were unknown, this has been the second good news besides meeting Ma Ming's descendants.
The gloom in her heart disappears and she only thinks what Xiangfei says is very reasonable.
Yeah, since she can return from Spirit Mountain, she has achieved some impossible things. Of course, what the crazy Taoist said is not nonsense.
She continues to talk with them about the details of that year. She knows that the Lin family were calm when they entered the Dragon Palace. When they went to the Tower of Babel with the crazy Taoist, they were not emaciated. They didn't choose to go to the Tower of Babel out of desperate... What the crazy Taoist said may be true.
The sunlight is getting stronger and the personal computer on her wrist is buzzing. Ma Yiming is telling her to have lunch.
Xiaofei and Xiangfei are gods of Yin so that they can't be exposed in the strong sunlight for a long time. This is not a good time for chatting so Lin Luoran has to say goodbye to the two concubines.
Because her gloom dissipates a lot, Lin Luoran is in a good mood. She casts a condensing water spell and catches some fish and shrimp on the shallows of Mount Jun Island. With a big lotus leaf by the lake, she takes them home—actually, it's not her home but the Ma family villa. She has regarded the two siblings as her own juniors. At this time, she is in an excellent mood. She remembers the villa which she has rebuilt and she even feels the warmth of her own home.
After she goes away, two concubines return to the painted sculptures and talk silently.
"This Mortal Heart Fairy is really nice. We are in her Taoist field so we don't have to be afraid of being beaten up. It's just that you use words to coax her. Don't you afraid that after she meets Taoist Jiang and then finds out the truth, we will become faithless people?" Xiaofei's words still sound sad.
Xiangfei doesn't take it seriously, "Taoist Jiang has said that our neighbor is very soft-hearted. It's okay to get some incense from her. Moreover..."
Xiangfei changes the topic and she sounds cunning, "Moreover, if Taoist Jiang can come back with the Huaxia cultivators, Mortal Heart Fairy will go into ecstasy. How can she blame us for our half-truth message? Sister, don't you want that rambling Taoist Jiang to come back? "
Xiaofei says nothing. They are gods of Yin born of wishes. Two ancient Xiaofei and Xiangfei concubines have always been representatives of the ancient faithful woman. She and her sister naturally have a faithful personality.
Xiaofei's heart is full of grievances when she thinks of Jiang Shang who saved them twice.
It has been three hundred years. Although gods of Yin can live long, she doesn't know if they can see each other in this life.
As for the concubine who told a half-lie, she is very confident in the crazy Taoist Jiang—Only the good die young. Her sister is just worried about ridiculous things.
...
Ma Yiming has already prepared meals in the villa. Lin Luoran is cleaning snails and freshwater shellfish in a water tank.
Ma Yiming sees that Aunt Lin seems to be in a good mood today. After thinking about it, he can't help but ask, "Where did Aunt Lin buy the mutant pork? The thing I bought can never taste that good. "
Lin Luoran smiles perfunctorily, "You just didn't get the right timing."
How can she tell him that it is the real monster meat? Lin Luoran sees Ma Shuangshuang smirking and she asks the little girl if she is focused on weaving today.
Ma Shuangshuang nods while having the rice. Weaving is very funny. In the past few days, she feels her cold limbs are gradually warming up after these days of exercise. She doesn't know if it is her own illusion.
After lunch, Ma Shuangshuang is sitting under the eaves and weaving cloth while Ma Yiming is practicing martial arts. Lin Luoran sees that his moves are extremely neat and asks him if it's the fighting techniques used by the federal army.
Ma Yiming stops practicing and says with regrets, "Aunt Lin is really sensitive. This boxing method was also taught by my ancestors. At that time, there was also a set of mental cultivation method. Unfortunately, the Ma family did not pass it down. It's said that it was from a female general whose surname was also Lin before the new era. It is really a coincidence! "
Lin Luoran has a strange feeling and asks, "Female General Lin? Do you know her full name? "
Ma Yiming scratches his head, "I only remember her surname was Lin and there was the word 'Xue' in her name. At that time, I was too young. I heard it from my grandfather but now I can't remember it clearly."
A female general surnamed Lin with the technique of fighting and "Xue" in her name... Lin Luoran can almost be certain that the general must be the captain of the former Special Forces, Lin Qingxue.
After more than three hundred years, Lin Luoran inevitably reveals nostalgia when she hears some people she knows.
Lin Qingxue, the female captain who was better than any males. Although she was just an ordinary person, she must have left her own trace in history. In the dream world of Mount Fuji, the female officer had the courage to engrave her name on her wrist in order to keep sober. Did she finally become a Huaxia female general?
Sunlight passes through the dense forest and it is cut into dots of light like broken glass.
Ma Yiming sees Lin Luoran showing nostalgia again. Every time Aunt Lin reveals such kind of expression, he feels that this beautiful woman in front of him is about to go with the breeze of Dongting Lake into the sky.
"Aunt Lin, can those small shells also be cooked? It seems that the shells are much more than meat! "
Ma Yiming changes the topic and pulls Lin Luoran back from her memory. The latter smiles mysteriously, "Of course! You will taste it when it's clean tomorrow."
Ma Shuangshuang covers her mouth and smiles. She is just about to talk when she hears someone shouting outside.
Lin Luoran yawns lazily, giving an exact comment in four words, "Bad guys are coming."
Chapter 425 Invitation from the City Hall
Bad guys are coming.
These people are officers of the Public Security Department of Dongting City Hall. They seem to be fighting for justice and they ring the doorbell politely outside the courtyard.
Lin Luoran opens the door and she looks more indifferent than they are.
They receive a report saying that there are gangsters occupying other people's house. There is something in their waistband. These people are equipped with thermal weapon and they may punish her immediately if Lin Luoran refuses arrest. Ma Shuangshuang feels so nervous now.
Of course, she and Ma Yiming know that they disseized the Ma's villa in a violent way. They were the original owners of the house and they were fooled in the past; however, now they have no reason to occupy that Villa.
Lin Luoran waits indifferently for the two public officials to finish their sentences and closes the door to send them away.
The two officers look at each other. Sure enough, Mr. Bao was right. The people who took this house do not respect the federal laws and are very arrogant... They hold the magical pistols at their waists and feel somewhat confident.
One of them silently sneers several times and rings the doorbell again.
No one opens the door for them this time. Only a piece of fine white paper is handed out from the door.
People of the Public Security Department pick it up. Their expression becomes complex after reading it. Even if they don't want to, they still have to apologize embarrassingly.
"Sorry. There seems to be some mistakes."
No one answers them from the villa, and they return with embarrassment.
Of course, they have no right to blame Bao Honglai. Two hours later, this fine white paper appears on Mr. Pang's desk.
At a glance, Mr. Pang knows that this house transfer contract is a fake one. Even with the signature and the red handprint of his brother-in-law on it, the dazzling number "1 crystal coin" still makes Mr. Pang feel absurd. In the meantime, he almost wants to laugh.
When Bao Honglai comes nervously to the office of his brother-in-law who is more than ten years younger than him, he sees the paper on the table. His eyes are wide open.
"This... I have never signed such a thing."
Even if he had lost his mind, he would have never sold a villa to others at the price of "1 crystal coin"... unless the woman is the daughter of the Federal President!
Mr. Pang points to the word "lai" and says, "I have got someone to verify this. It is 100% the same as your handwriting. Except that the ownership transfer procedure hasn't been finished in the city hall, the owner of that villa is actually someone else."
Mr. Pang flicks the snow-white paper, which is really a piece of good paper. With the handwriting and handprint, he can't see any trace of cheating at all.
Bao Honglai's eyes are wide open again, "It's impossible! You... you know I never sign a paper contract!"
Bao Honglai doesn't lie about this. Since he made a few big deals with the ancient method of paper contracts in the past few years, he has learned something from those idiots. He will never use the old-style contract form. Bao Honglai only does it with his personal computer. If he makes a deal, the City Hall will get the evidence immediately, which is the best and the fairest way.
Bao Honglai's expression is interesting and Mr. Pang has totally seen it. Mr. Pang tells him that it has nothing to do with him. Bao Honglai always has no momentum in front of his brother-in-law. He goes out with an obsequious and funny smile.
"Leave that family alone... Otherwise, something may happen at the banquet three days later."
Bao Honglai is stunned. Something may happen at the banquet three days later? Does it mean that the descendants of the Ma family will also be invited to the banquet?
...
The invitation letter from the city hall arrives in the evening.
The invitation is sent by two heroic soldiers. Unfortunately, Lin Luoran is not interested in uniforms nor in the banquet of the city hall which is said to celebrate something.
Ma Shuangshuang is curious about the dark red invitation letter with silk bowknot.
Ma Yiming feels a little dazzling. His grandfather has never attended a party like this before he died. Later, the Ma family became a fallen family. They are descendants of a hero, but his sister has no chance of seeing such kind of occasions. It is somewhat a pity.
Lin Luoran can see the reluctance on Ma Yiming's face. She asks with a playful tone, "Do you want to go to the party?"
Ma Yiming is a little flustered.
"Of course not... Aunt Lin, I'm not a fool. The only person they want to invite is you."
Lin Luoran flicks the invitation letter with her hand. "If you want to go, we will attend the banquet. Anyway, we have enough crystal coins and we don't have to defend the city. Shuangshuang almost finishes the clothes she has been making. Life is really boring now. "
Ma Yiming feels the same way.
Yes, since Aunt Lin found them, they haven' t had to worry about food and clothing. Life is so easy for them that Ma Yiming often forgets the fact that he is living in a new era when everyone must strive for life.
Ma Shuangshuang carefully puts away the invitation letter, "Aunt Lin, what do you do with this pile of small clams? Braised? "
After those clams are clean, Ma Shuangshuang doesn't know where she can start.
Lin Luoran shakes her head for many times, "How can freshwater shells be braised? You will violently damage heavenly things!"
The two teenagers are always following her. Lin Luoran washes the shrimp and scallops. The freshwater shells are steamed together with mashed garlic. She selects some bigger shrimp to make White boiled shrimp—Lin Luoran puts shrimp in water with ginger and then puts shredded ginger with spicy pepper on it. She then uses the soy sauce and a few drops of vinegar as a dipping sauce. It preserves the fresh and original taste of the lake shrimp, which is the favorite dish of the Lin family before the new era.
As for the rest small shrimp, they are fried in the oil pan with thick broad-bean sauce. Finally, she puts the green onion and green and red pepper on the dish. There is a pungent aroma before the food leaves the pan.
Ma Yiming coughs and feels hungry. Lin Luoran nods and then they begin to eat everything on the dining table at an amazing speed.
Ma Shuangshuang likes steamed shellfish with garlic best. However, she is also worried about the smell of garlic in her mouth after eating it. Lin Luoran takes out a small porcelain bottle for her.
"What is this, Aunt Lin?" Ma Shuangshuang shakes it, and something is gurgling inside, as if there is some kind of liquid in it.
Lin Luoran shells shrimp gracefully, "Throwing out all roses in the yard is really wasteful. I refined a bottle of flower liquid. It's best to remove smelly smell. You can drink it slowly."
Ma Shuangshuang nods in surprise and she can finally feel relaxed to eat garlic steamed shellfish.
Lin Luoran looks at how funny the little girl looks when she eats. She smiles. Lin Luoran doesn't realize how adorable she thinks this girl is.
Rose flower liquid is real but it is far more than that. However, the seasonings like soy sauce and vinegar in her space which she stored before have almost been used up. Even the spicy bean chili sauce which people of the center of Chuan province like best is not much left. She has to make some someday.
As for the banquet held by the City Hall, since Lin Luoran decides to go, she does not want to pretend to be an ordinary person in rags. In this case, it's reasonable that others look down on her.
Isn't it just some clothes and jewelry of the earthly life? Lin Luoran doesn't think it is a problem.
She and Ma Shuangshuang chat and laugh at home for two days. They make a green dress and a black tuxedo. The tuxedo was the style before the new era. Clothes buttons are made of polished rhinocero monsters horns. They are shining. Besides, every button has a little magic circle inside which can both used for attack and defense. Lin Luoran is very satisfied with this effect. She tells Ma Yiming that even if she doesn't wear this dress, she still has to keep the buttons.
"They will help when you are in danger. Don't lose them!"
Ma Yiming doesn't understand it. However, Aunt Lin is always right so he also values these buttons.
As for Ma Shuangshuang, on the day when the cloth is woven, she drinks the flower liquid. She gets sweaty and then her hidden illness is almost healed. Lin Luoran takes her out at ease.
Lin Luoran has plenty of jade, gold, and silver. Ma Shuangshuang is too young for gold. Lin Luoran melts some silver ingots which she hasn't used in the Penglai country. She makes a set of silver silk jade jewelry for the girl. The girl holds her breath in front of the mirror in the green dress. She stares at herself and almost loses her mind.
In the evening three days later, the sunset has not completely engulfed by the horizon yet. A car with a license plate of the city hall comes to pick them up.
Lin Luoran takes them to get in the car gracefully. The door is closed silently, and the car is particularly noticeable when they are driving on the streets of Yueyang District without even a private car.
Ma Yiming's mood is a bit complicated while Ma Shuangshuang feels a little nervous. However, Lin Luoran is very calm. They are in a completely different mood, but one thing is the same: they don't know what is waiting for them at the banquet.
But life is just like this. It is gorgeous because of the ubiquitous surprise... or shock.