The secret space was quite spacious to begin with, and it became wider as Jing Yunzhao absorbed the contents of the Naling Jade.
Jing Yunzhao had only bought about one kilogram of seeds in total. Though the seeds she had purchased were not much, Jing Yunzhao knew that they were enough to make profit. For example, she had bought dang shen which was commonly known as 'poor man's ginseng'. She had just enough dang shen seeds to sow half an acre of the land, which would give her a return of about 100 kilograms of dried goods after harvesting. She would earn around 5,000 bucks from selling them even if she sold them at a low price of 50 bucks per kilogram.
With the convenience of her secret space, she could harvest any type of herb in no time and reap only profits.
Jing Yunzhao was pleased when she realized that a usual two to three year harvest only took twelve hours in the secret space, or two hours outside of the secret space. People would kill for such an opportunity.
That being said, Jing Yunzhao began to feel uneasy as she looked at the field of ripe herbs.
While selling the herbs planted in her secret space would be easy money, did it also mean that she would have to harvest tens of thousands of acres of land all by herself?
Jing Yunzhao was surprised as memories suddenly flashed through her mind. The Naling Jade had information about the harvesting of the land!
The complete information came to mind when Jing Yunzhao sharpened her focus.
The jade bottle was considered a rare treasure even in the foreign land that her ancestor came from. The space within was not like any other magical space which might contain only non-living things, and its area grew with the mental strength of its possessor.
For Jing Yunzhao, absorbing the contents of the Naling Jade was as good as boosting her brain power as well as her mental strength.
If she wanted to save herself the trouble of harvesting the herbs on her own, all she had to do was drip a drop of her blood on the ground to summon the spirit of the jade bottle, and it would take care of everything else.
Jing Yunzhao tried it out immediately. She pricked the tip of her finger and a drop of her blood fell to the ground, disappearing only to be replaced by a glowing blue light.
Jing Yunzhao took a few steps back warily, and suddenly realized that the glow was actually a bunch of little blue worms.
The worms were cute and pudgy. As if led by Jing Yunzhao's blood, they started to wriggle towards her.
Jing Yunzhao began to wonder if these little worms that were only the size of her thumb could really help her with the harvesting.
As if sensing her doubt, hundreds of the light blue worms started wriggling towards one of the herbs. Some of them burrowed into the ground and some crawled their way up to the leaves, and in the end the herb was completely pulled out of the ground.
The little worms worked fast and the half acre of dang shen that Jing Yunzhao had sowed earlier were all harvested and placed neatly in front of her in the blink of an eye.
"Thank… Thank you," Jing Yunzhao looked at the harvested herbs in disbelief and stammered her thanks to the little worms. The worms lined up before her and raised their small bodies up to bow to her. The little worms looked so adorable that Jing Yunzhao's heart melted.
With them around to help, Jing Yunzhao felt completely at ease and she instructed them to harvest all the other herbs.
Since the magical space always kept everything fresh, Jing Yunzhao couldn't make dried goods from her herbs within the space and would have to sell them fresh until she had enough savings to buy a house with a yard to dry them.
Meanwhile in the real world, it was only the second day after the three days that Jing Yunzhao had spent in her secret space.
Jing Yunzhao left the house only when it was time for school. Su Chu was waiting for her at the door while Gan Jinchen was still nowhere to be seen.
Su Chu was wearing a pink coat with a pair of fine leather boots while Jing Yunzhao wore a normal sports jacket. Jing Yunzhao's outfit was dirt cheap compared to Su Chu's.
"This color suits you well, Yunzhao. Your fair skin looks good in red or white," Su Chu complimented Jing Yunzhao sincerely.
Su Chu looked like the pretty girl next door and Jing Yunzhao figured she must be quite popular in school.
But to Su Chu, Jing Yunzhao was the kind of stunning that turned heads wherever she went.
She had actually seen Jing Yunzhao a couple of times at various school ceremonies when she had to deliver speeches as the student representative. She was always calm and never cared about what the audience said about her.
It was undeniable that Jing Yunzhao was beautiful, but back then she always looked dejected and messy. It was only recently that Jing Yunzhao started to look like a different person entirely and her beauty shone through even in a normal sports jacket.
"Are you going to skip breakfast?" Jing Yunzhao asked bluntly, not bothered about her attire.
"There are only instant noodles at home… Jinchen left early today so I didn't get to have porridge," Su Chu complained unhappily.
Jing Yunzhao pursed her lips and let out a sigh. Since they were still early, she told Su Chu to wait for her while she prepared porridge for two.
"Did you have to cook at home often, Yunzhao? Your porridge tastes so much nicer than Jinchen's!" Su Chu asked curiously when she noticed how skilled Jing Yunzhao was at cooking.
Her cousin, Gan Jinchen, was only slightly better than her at cooking. He was definitely no match for Jing Yunzhao considering how scrumptious Jing Yunzhao's porridge was.
"I can make it for you whenever you feel like having porridge," Jing Yunzhao smiled and said.
Jing Yunzhao never talked unless she had to in her past life, but things seemed a lot better in this life.
It was only Su Chu who was chatty the whole morning. Jing Yunzhao initially tried to keep the conversation going but started to reply less and listen more when she realized that their thinking differed quite a bit. The both of them walked to school together after breakfast. Outside the apartment, the sunshine was nice and warm as if celebrating Jing Yunzhao's new life.
"Look, it's Jing Yunzhao," one of the students whispered to the others the moment Jing Yunzhao stepped into the school.
"Qiao Hongye was crying in the classroom yesterday after she came back from the teachers' office. She didn't want to tell me what happened but after I kept on asking her, she told me the truth. Turns out Jing Yunzhao was adopted by the Qiao Family and does not share the same mother as Qiao Hongye. Remember when Qiao Hongye's father came to make a fuss yesterday? They all went to the police station and in the end, Jing Yunzhao insisted on moving out of the Qiao Family's house. She is drawing the line with the Qiao Family," said one girl softly.
Though the girl's tone was lowered, all the students standing around could hear her.
Jing Yunzhao glanced at the girl and recalled her face from her past life.
The school that Jing Yunzhao attended was the best school in the whole of Huaning County. There were over twenty classes in total for her grade, and she and Qiao Hongye were in Class 1 and Class 2 respectively.
Their classrooms were next to each other, and the fact that they were siblings always made them the subject of comparison. Jing Yunzhao remembered that in her previous life, it was this girl – Lu Jia, who always followed Qiao Hongye and made comments about her as if her existence was a huge grievance to Qiao Hongye. She would always stand up for Qiao Hongye and say really hurtful things to her.
In this life, Lu Jia was acting exactly like she did in Jing Yunzhao's previous life. She felt smug when she saw Jing Yunzhao notice her and started to speak even louder. "Some people just think that they can do as they please since they do well in school and try to draw the line and be independent. They might not be biological parents, but they still raised their child. I can't believe someone can be so ungrateful and ditch them so easily!"
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