章 25: A Decent Person

編集者: EndlessFantasy Translation

Ms. Kim was stunned to see how easily and quickly Jing Yunzhao had accepted Gan Songbo's offer.

She was happy for Jing Yunzhao since it was clear that Gan Songbo would love and care for her like she was his actual granddaughter. Gan Songbo was from a family of physicians and was a famous physician himself; since Jing Yunzhao was into medical knowledge, she had nothing to lose and everything to gain from this decision.

Things became much easier after this issue was settled.

Not having to attend classes for the day, Jing Yunzhao packed her things and moved into Gan Songbo's apartment that day itself.

Gan Songbo wanted very much to send Jing Yunzhao there himself, but he had promised his grandchildren that he would only disturb them on the day he came to collect the 'rent'.

The apartment was called 'Cozy Garden', which was appropriate since it was rather small but cozy.

Gan Songbo's unit was on the fifth floor. She heard that it had an attic where various flowers and plants were planted, and the apartment would be filled with the smell of flowers when they all bloomed in a few months.

Jing Yunzhao got to the fifth floor without breaking a sweat. She knocked on the door and a girl in rabbit pyjamas quickly opened it.

"God-cousin?" The girl asked, eyes bright.

Jing Yunzhao's lips twitched in surprise and she nodded stiffly. She was pulled into the apartment immediately.

"My name is Su Chu. I heard from Grandpa that you are now his god-granddaughter, so that makes you my cousin! My other cousin is studying in his room; his name is Gan Jinchen. He is one year older than us but he repeated a year in elementary school so we are all in the same grade now. I know you, Jing Yunzhao, you are the top student in our school!" The girl said enthusiastically.

Jing Yunzhao was surprised to meet someone who did not try to avoid her despite knowing who she was.

"Grandpa explained the situation to us. He said that you went to the police station today and the gangsters were arrested, and it has been proven that you had nothing to do with them. I don't know what happened exactly but Grandpa is always right about someone. I am sure that you are a decent person since he accepts you as his god-granddaughter," Su Chu explained kindly when she saw Jing Yunzhao's astonished expression.

"Your room is the one next to mine, and we have already cleaned it up. Make yourself comfortable. I am going to study now since it is only a few days until Grandpa's test," Su Chu said easily and stretched before hurrying back to her room.

Jing Yunzhao exhaled deeply and looked around the apartment.

The apartment was around 120 square meters and the kitchen and washrooms were all well-equipped. Nevertheless, the interior appeared to be quite messy as various snacks and books were scattered all around the floor.

Jing Yunzhao found her room and liked it the moment she entered it.

It was a room facing the sun, with golden curtains and a bed, bookshelf, and wardrobe – a generally satisfying room.

She had lived in the smallest room when she was with the Qiao Family, and had tried her best to get cheap little things like a bed canopy, a flower vase, and other accessories to make the room as cosy as possible.

Her new room looked even better after she unpacked and organized everything.

When Jing Yunzhao finally settled everything at the end of the day, she locked the door and entered her secret space to sort out the things that she had bought in the morning.

In her secret space, the bags of seeds that she had bought earlier were arranged neatly on the ground, and the seeds actually appeared more vibrant in the space.

Jing Yunzhao used a shovel and sowed all the seeds according to the steps written on the Naling Jade slip, then started focusing on absorbing the medical knowledge after watering the seeds with a mixture of the well water and the magical water that flowed out from the dragon head.

The seeds began to look different at around the twelfth hour in the secret space. The plants had grown to different extents depending on the ratios of the magical water that they were watered with. The one thing that the plants had in common was that they were all growing healthily.

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章 26: The Spirit of The Jade Bottle

編集者: EndlessFantasy Translation

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.

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