Chapter 30: The Runaway Girl
Seeing Xia Lin's embarrassed expression, Liu Jieming could guess what Xia Lin was thinking without much guessing, and couldn't help but helplessly hold his forehead.
This girl, should I say that she is really "ignorant is a blessing"?
"Then you must also know that the coral fern you sold to Zhao Yumei, although the quantity is not large, it has almost always been of the highest quality?"
Charlene frowned slightly, she thought she knew where the problem was.
That's right, because when she decided to live here temporarily, she had already carefully collected all the information about Qingshan City, and even more focused on understanding the "specialty" of Qingshan City.
In addition to the suitable environment in Qingshan City, another reason why she decided to choose to live here temporarily is for the specialty of Qingshan City, the second-order fire heterogeneous coral fern.
Don't look at the Coral Fern as a second-order fire-based plant, but it actually has almost no attack power, which is about the same as a first-order or so, but it has the effect of a third-order fire-type mutant plant.
If it weren't for the scarcity of coral ferns, which have extremely demanding needs for the required living environment, it would have become one of the most important fire-attribute medicinal plants in the Federation long ago.
Although Charlene said that there were countless piles of items in her space, and most of the items that she would never use or use up in her life, she knew very well that as long as she was careful and sold them on the black market, there would not be much of a problem.
But if there are too many, it will inevitably attract the suspicion of those who have a heart.
She didn't want to get into endless trouble because of her stupidity. Therefore, finding a new "source of income", at least a source of income that can be put on the bright side, has become the most important thing for her.
So not long after moving to this castle hill city, Charlene began to look for coral ferns. What Charlene didn't think of was that because of her inexplicable strange abilities, she seemed to have a very high affinity for all alien plants, so it would take almost several times less effort to find and collect coral ferns than others.
In addition, although she is a newcomer, she has a super high plant affinity, almost all the places in Qingshan City, large and small, except for the places where she was warned that they are "too dangerous", she goes to almost all the places that the residents of Qingshan City have never been to on weekdays, and the coral ferns there are naturally excellent in both quantity and quality.
What's even more gratifying is that her rubble space, which has long been accustomed to the lack of grass, seems to be very compatible with the "delicate" alien vegetation of the coral fern, and it almost doesn't take her too much effort to take root in the barren soil under the rubble, and then reproduce.
In the beginning, Charlene would also sell a very small part of the coral ferns she had collected to Aunt Zhao, so as not to arouse the alarm of the residents of Qingshan City.
After all, she drilled into the woods every day to look for coral ferns, and she couldn't hide the countless pairs of eyes that stared at her, both openly and secretly.
And since he is collecting coral ferns, even if he is a "novice", it is impossible to catch nothing for a few days.
Later, in order to save time and have more time to explore the land around Qingshan City, she chose to pick out the coral ferns in her space that were not growing well, or the coral ferns that had been picked by hand and had matured, as her "harvest" and sold them to Aunt Zhao, purely for cover.
But she didn't expect that she didn't think that in the eyes of Zhao Yumei, Aunt Zhao, who buys coral ferns all year round, the quality of the coral ferns that Charlene sold to her every time was very good.
Once or twice is an accident, three or four times is a surprise, and if there are too many, it is inevitable that you will be suspicious.
After all, the residents of Qingshan City have been collecting coral ferns for generations, although this fern has been growing very well in the land of Qingshan City, and it seems that the reproductive ability is also very strong, because the city lord's control is strict to pick coral ferns in the juvenile stage, so there is no danger of extinction, but it does not mean that they all have a chance to "mature".
Therefore, Aunt Zhao also noticed Charlene's ability to pick coral ferns.
It's just that she didn't plan to do anything to Charlene originally, after all, Charlene's identity as a fourth-order citizen is not fake, and her own son is also a high-level ability in Qingshan City, and she also knows how to protect her son's face.
And their Zhao family is not short of this money, otherwise she would not have bought a large number of coral ferns in Qingshan City all year round, for the sake of not her son?
In addition, the coral fern that Zhao Yumei originally purchased should be able to make Zhao Xiangqing last until the summer of the second year, which is also the most prosperous season for coral ferns, and she will not be interested in the coral ferns in Xia Lin's hands.
However, her son is facing advancement at this stall.
Advanced!
Moreover, it is still the third order to the fourth order!
For a family genius like Yu Yang and even Bu Siduo, this kind of advancement, although important, is just an important breakthrough.
But for Zhao Xiangqing, it was a sensation for the entire Zhao family, and even a major event in Qingshan City, she naturally wanted to do her best for her son!
Therefore, the purchase of coral ferns in large quantities has become a top priority. After all, the excessively expensive potions developed by the Federation to provide energy for those who are about to advance are not something that their Zhao family can bear.
Even if they gritted their teeth and could come up with the money to buy one, at this time, Qingshan City was in the middle of a long rainy season that could be called isolated, and there was no way to communicate with the outside world, even if they had money, they couldn't buy it.
At this time, the coral fern in Xia Lin's hand has become the resource that Zhao Yumei is most concerned about.
So it seems logical to come to the door or something.
After listening to Liu Jieming's investigation and reasoning, the corners of Xia Lin's mouth twitched, and she didn't know whether to sigh whether her luck was really "good" or "bad".
It's just, "Why is she sure I must still have stock?" You know, I'm just a novice, maybe it's just because I'm not familiar with the properties of coral ferns, so I only pick what looks like a large-leaf fertilizer, like a mature coral fern? ”
Xia Lin was angry and indignant, but Liu Jieming snorted angrily.
"As a resident of Castle Peak Castle for generations, who doesn't know how to pick and preserve coral ferns, how to catch juvenile fish, and how to catch fish, which are ancestral crafts that have been passed down from generation to generation in Castle Peak Castle?"
Charlene: Σ(°△°|||) ︴
"World! Generation! Ancestor! Transmit?!! ”
Liu Jieming looked at Xia Lin with a smile, "Do you know why no one has come forward to accuse you, whether it is whether you pick a large number of coral ferns, secretly catch round juvenile fish, or participate in Xunyu's fishing activities with big spines?" ”
"I used my own methods, I didn't steal or rob, why should they accuse me?" Charlene rolled her eyes angrily.
It's just some tricks, and they haven't applied for a patent, so why don't they let her use it?
Baby, you are so authoritarian, did your mother make it? Did your fathers make it?
"Hehe......" Seeing Charlene's childish movements, Liu Jieming chuckled, not angry, but continued to talk slowly.
"Although most of the people in Qingshan City have lived here for generations, it is not that there have been geniuses, but most of those people have chosen to go out or move their families. And some of those people, some of them or their juniors will come back, and some of them will never come back......"
"So, they regard me, the 'little orphan girl', as the descendant of the aborigines who went out to wander in Qingshan City?" Charlene reacted quickly and guessed the meaning of Liu Jieming's words.
"That's right." Nodding, Liu Jieming had a faint smile in his eyes, "There was once a family of people who moved out of Qingshan City with their families, and their family was surnamed Mu. ”
Charlene only felt in her heart that there were 10,000 grass and mud horses galloping past.
Peat, is this the "if there is a similarity" in the four legends? !
"I never said I was." Charlene said this somewhat dryly.
"But you never said you weren't." Liu Jieming smiled harmlessly.
Charlene:......
"So?" I don't know when I slipped out of the bedroom to listen to the two in the corner, the little one couldn't help but jump out and interjected.
"Hehe, this child is the foreign child in the Zhao family's mouth yesterday, right?" Seeing that the little boy who was wearing a white "robe" that was obviously "modified" by Charlene from his clothes did not fit well, Liu Jieming smiled and asked.
Charlene nodded. "Yes."
"What about the other one?" Liu Jieming looked around for a moment, and asked with a slight frown on his brows.
"My brother was injured yesterday and is resting upstairs." Without waiting for Charlene to figure out how to deal with it, Qi Tianze's soft voice replied.
"He's sick?!"
Hearing Qi Tianze's words, Xia Lin and Liu Jieming asked almost in unison.
"Sister, you don't care about your brother at all......" Seeing Xia Lin's appearance, Qi Tianze's little face wrinkled, and he glared at Xia Lin angrily, but said in a pitiful voice.
"Although I know that my brother and I shouldn't hide it from you, we secretly came here to look for you, and as a result, we got you into trouble, but who told you to run away from home without making a sound...... Do you know how worried my brother is? Sister, you're just a girl's family, what should you do if you meet a bad person, let my brother do it......"
Charlene: Σ(°△°|||) ︴
What the hell are you talking about?
Liu Jieming: Σ(°△°|||) ︴
He said, how could this girl Xiaoqing go to this poor country to settle down by herself, but every day except for drilling into the forest and tinkering with food, she hardly has contact with anyone, and it seems that she is completely out of contact with the outside world, it turns out that she ran away from home! RS