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Published at 22nd of August 2019 09:41:19 AM
Chapter 6


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Lin Luoran drops her dirty clothes into the garbage truck and jumps onto a bus, heading to her destination .

Compared with the busy streets, the air is stuffier in the crowded bus . With the precious bead, Lin Luoran gets on the bus without hesitation . She doesn’t notice the foul air, but the atmosphere is strange . Why is everybody looking at her?

With the plan of making a fortune in her mind, Lin Luoran completely forgets that her appearance has changed . Even though her clothes are still cheap and plain, her delicate cheeks and bright eyes make her stand out .

Lin Luoran is beautiful but shabby . If it happened to other girls like her, they might be harassed on this crowded bus . However, Lin Luoran has the bead and with her cleansed bone marrow and cleared meridians, she is no longer an ordinary pretty woman . She wears a gentle expression together with a noble and righteous temperament . Normal people won’t even dare to look right at her .

R City is the capital of S Province . As the well-known center of leisure, it has a large population . Pedestrians and cars fill the broad street so the bus has to drive slowly . Lin Luoran changes two buses and finally arrives at her destination . With green façade and two small shops, it is the outlet store of a larger seed company in R City . Lin Luoran used to buy rice and vegetable seeds for her family and fellow-villagers . The price of seeds here is reasonable and the quality is pretty good so she is willing to come a long way here to buy seeds .

Seed is not people’s daily necessities . It is natural that the store only has a good turnover in planting seasons .

Now, there is no one shopping in neither of the two shops . A plump lady in uniform is texting under the counter .

Standing one meter away from the counter, Lin Luoran clears her throat to draw the sales lady’s attention .

The lady puts down her phone and puts on her professional smile . She is shocked as she looks up and sees Lin Luoran .

“This girl is so pretty . Her skin and temperament are so much better than mine . ” The sales lady sighs quietly . However, she doesn’t feel jealous as she does when seeing other pretty girls . This certainly has something to do with Lin Luoran’s temperament .

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“Belle, do you want some seeds? Do you need my recommendation?”

The sales lady calls Lin Luoran “belle” . This is not a compliment . People in R City are passionate, and workers in the service industry will call every female customers “belle” and male customers “handsome” .

Lin Luoran has prepared for this . She smiles and replies, “Do you have small tomato seeds?”

“You mean cherry tomatoes?” The sales lady asks for confirmation .

“Yeah, yes!” Baojia has corrected her a million times that it was called “cherry tomato” . Still, Lin Luoran can’t get rid of her habit…

The sales lady knows what Lin Luoran wants, and she takes out a little bag of cherry tomato seeds after rummaging through the shelf . In recent years, business has been bad . The seed company used to despise this kind of small purchase, but it has started to make smaller bags of seeds .


“How much land can this bag of seeds cover?” Although Lin Luoran comes from the countryside and she used to help her family do farm work when she was a child, she is not an expert, for she does spend most of her time studying .

“It seems to be a little bag, but the seeds can cover more than half a mu of land . ” The sales lady is patient because explaining to the customers is also a part of her job .

Half a mu… Lin Luoran is speechless . Even if she demolishes that little cottage, there will only be half a mu of land in that space . If she plants cherry tomatoes for such a large patch, there will not be any more land for other vegetables . Nevertheless, all of this is just her disguise . She then asks for a dozen of more seeds of cabbage, celtuce and spinach, etc .

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All the seeds only cost her about 100 yuan . Indeed, she doesn’t buy a lot .

The sales lady packs the seeds and finds the pretty customer still wandering in front of the counter . She asks, “Do you need anything else? We are a big seed company . Though the store is small, we do have a good variety of seeds . ”

“Do you have wild ginseng seeds?” Lin Luoran pretends to be embarrassed, but she is looking forward to getting a positive reply from the sales lady .

Right . Lin Luoran never intends to make a fortune by growing vegetables . She doesn’t see herself as a protagonist and it is a big problem to explain the source of the vegetables .

It is not the first time for the sales lady to meet such an amateur customer . However, because this one is pretty and unpretentious, she smiles and explains, “Belle, wild ginseng is worth a lot, but its seeds are cheap . Few people except researchers will collect them . Also, you can’t call cultivated ginseng wild . Here we have ginseng seeds of a species called “prospect” . It costs 720 yuan per kilogram . The “prospect” ginseng is very much similar with wild ginseng . Do you want some?”

Lin Luoran is ashamed that she just made a fool of herself, but she is aware that there is a huge difference between the price of cultivated ginseng and wild ginseng . Should she take the second-best option?

“Can I have a look at the seeds? Someone else asked me to buy some so I’d better check out the quality . ” Lin Luoran leaves herself a way out .

The sales lady rummages through the shelf for quite a long time and finally finds the ginseng seeds . These seeds are put aside since few people might come asking for them .

Lin Luoran grasps some seeds and concentrates on them . She is disappointed .


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There is only a wisp of faint green smoke insides of these seeds, indicating their lack of spirit . Lin Luoran is not sure whether the ginsengs she cultivates in that space can be sold as wild ginsengs .

She looks around and a small plastic bag of seeds on the counter catches her attention .

It is a zipper bag with a few seeds in it . Those seeds are emitting thick green smoke but look very similar to the ginseng seeds in her hands… Lin Luoran’s heartbeat races . Those must be good stuff!

“Are those ginseng seeds?” Pointing to the zipper bag on the counter, Lin Luoran asks, pretending to be careless . With her good eyesight, Lin Luoran can count clearly that there are seven seeds in the bag .

The plump sales lady turns back and has a look . She says without much thinking, “Those are also ‘prospect’ ginseng . They are probably the sample some customer asked for then forgot to take away . You can bring those back to your friend to have a look, if needed . ”

Sales staff of the seed company deal with seeds every day so they can basically recognize the species of seeds which look very alike in the eyes of amateurs . Therefore, the sales lady can tell that those are ginseng seeds .

Lin Luoran’s plan works out . She holds back the pleasure and leaves the store with all the vegetable seeds as well as that small bag of ginseng seeds .

She passes by a tall guy as getting out of the door . Lin Luoran doesn’t pay any attention to him but the tall guy can’t help having a second look at her . He thinks for himself it is definitely true that people always say there are lots of beautiful girls in R City, and it is not so bad to be banished to this place!

Lin Luoran has got the seeds she wants . Unprecedentedly, she calls for a taxi as soon as she gets out of the store, rather than taking the crowded bus . In less than a minute, the tall guy comes out in a hurry . All he can see is the busy traffic . There is not even a shadow of Lin Luoran .

“She leaves so fast! I’m so pissed!” The tall guy stamps his feet in front of the store .

The plump sales lady also comes out with anxiety on her face . “General Manager, I … I really don’t know those are seeds of wild ginseng…” She flushes bright red . She makes such a big mistake when she even doesn’t get a clear picture of the new manager . What can she do?

The tall guy almost spits out blood!

“What wild ginseng seeds! Those are the seeds of a 500-year-old wild ginseng! Wild ginseng seeds are rare, let alone seeds of a 500-year-old ginseng… There is no point to tell you this now . They are already gone!”

Hearing this, the sales lady forgets about her knowledge that cultivated wild ginseng is not “wild” . Guilt and fear fill her mind, nearly making her cry .

Seeing that the sales lady is about to cry, the tall guy’s head is going to explode, “Forget it . It’s my fault . Just go back to work…” He sends the sales lady back to the store, but the bad look on his face does ruin his good appearance .

“I shouldn’t have gone after that woman and ask for her number… God! Does it mean I have to stay here longer? Who on earth takes away my ginseng seeds? Ahh!”

The tall guy laments in regret . A sparrow is astonished by him, so is the passengers . People all dodge him, which makes him look worse .

******

In the meantime, on the taxi, Lin Luoran sneezes out of no reason . Country people always say that sneezing out of no reason means that someone is talking about you behind your back . Lin Luoran can’t figure this out . Are her parents back at home missing her?

Lin Luoran thinks that she should go see her parents after a while . She smiles and feels satisfied with the seeds in her pocket .

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