Unlimited Resources: Raising a Minister with a Pocket Supermarket - Chapter 11

Chapter 11: I’ll Be Your Friend From Now On

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Jiang Lin’s excitement turned into silence. After pondering for a long time, he said, “That’s not right. How could the Saintess of the Sorcerer Tribe be buried here? The Saintess of the Sorcerer Tribe is the most powerful woman in the Sorcerer Tribe. How could she be buried in this desolate mountain? Impossible! Impossible!”

Jiang Lin looked at the stone door of the cave again and muttered, “Is there really an immortal Gu in this world?”

Just as Yu Xiaolian was about to take the white porcelain bottle from Jiang Lin’s hand and take a look, Jiang Lin nervously grabbed it and put his hand behind his back. “It’s useless even if you have this. When we go back later, we’ll pass by the trap I set. No matter how much prey there is inside, it’s yours. This bottle… can it be mine?”

Yu Xiaolian was silent for a moment. “I’m not fighting with you for this porcelain bottle. I just want to take a look.”

There were still a lot of such bottles in the tomb. If she wanted them, she would have taken one more just now. The reason why she took one out was to give it to Jiang Lin.

Jiang Lin put the porcelain bottle into his pocket and smiled unnaturally. “It’s just a broken bottle. What’s there to see? Let’s go back. Don’t dig for wild vegetables later and go straight back. If your mother asks why you didn’t dig for wild vegetables, just say that I used wild animals to exchange for wild vegetables with you.”

As Jiang Lin spoke, he walked back impatiently.

Yu Xiaolian followed behind him and asked tentatively, “Um… how much do you know about the Witch race?”

Jiang Lin paused for a moment. After a while, he pretended to be carefree and said, “I know a little, not much.”

Yu Xiaolian pretended to be curious and asked, “The Shamans seem to be very terrifying. My grandmother never allowed us to discuss these things. What’s so special about them?”

Jiang Lin casually carried the basket on his shoulder and slowed down. He smiled foolishly and said, “Actually, I heard from my father that the Sorcerer Tribe is a mysterious tribe that lives in seclusion. Moreover, it’s a place where women are respected.

When the women of the Witch race reached adulthood, they would hold a competition. The most skilled in voodoo would be called the Holy Maiden.

It was rumored that the previous Saintess died a few years after becoming the Saintess. I don’t know how she died.

However, there were also people who said that she did not die. Instead, she went into seclusion because she developed a rare Gu like the Longevity Gu and was not tolerated by her clansmen.

She probably couldn’t die. After all, she could even nurture such a powerful Gu worm. How could such a powerful person die so easily?

I was just spouting nonsense. Don’t take it seriously.

I didn’t expect you to be so bold to actually climb in.

If you bring the prey back today and let your father skin it, you’ll have meat to eat tonight. Are you happy?”

By the way, my father doesn’t know that we came out today. You can’t betray me. After all, you’ve eaten my drumstick.”

Yu Xiaolian knew everything that Jiang Lin said. She just wanted to know how much Jiang Lin knew about the Sorcerer Tribe.

For example, did he know that she was a descendant of the Witch race?

“Have you seen anyone from the Sorcerer Tribe? How are they different from us? Do they have three heads and six arms?”

Yu Xiaolian pretended to be relaxed and asked with a smile, “Why do they want to live in seclusion? It’s so aggrieved to stay in the same place all the time!”

Yu Xiaolian actually felt a little uneasy. She felt that Jiang Lin knew more than this.

Yu Xiaolian asked a series of questions, but Jiang Lin took it as the curiosity of a ten-year-old girl. He laughed and said, “I didn’t expect you to be so interested in the Sorcerer Tribe. Although I’ve never seen a Sorcerer Tribe member, I heard from my father that the eyes of the Sorcerer Tribe members are different from ours. Their eyes are gray.

Speaking of which, your eyes seem to be a little gray.”

Yu Xiaolian was shocked and quickly smiled. “You must be mistaken. How can my eyes be gray?”

Jiang Lin stopped in his tracks and looked into Yu Xiaolian’s eyes seriously. “They’re really black! In the past, I often heard your grandmother call you a monster and say that your eyes are different from others. It seems that your grandmother despised your father for picking you up and deliberately scolded you.”

Yu Xiaolian heaved a sigh of relief. “That’s right. My grandmother has never liked me.”

Jiang Lin was curious. “I heard that when your father picked you up, it was night and it was snowing heavily. You were surrounded by thick snow, but not only did you not freeze to death, there was no snow on you at all.”

Yu Xiaolian sighed, “How could a baby not die after freezing for an entire night in the snow? It’s just something my grandmother made up. She only said I was a monster because she wanted my father to throw me away. Sigh… It’s fine if she made things up, but I don’t even have a friend in the village.”

Jiang Lin smiled and said, “Isn’t that so? I’ll be your friend from now on.”

Yu Xiaolian smiled. “That’s settled. If I have anything in the future, I’ll have to trouble you.”

“By the way, how did your father know that the Sorcerer Tribe had gray eyes? Could it be that he had seen the Sorcerer Tribe before?”

Jiang Lin grinned. “It’s a secret. I’m not telling you, hehe!”

Yu Xiaolian deliberately turned her head and pouted. “You’re still saying that we’re friends. How unfriendly.”

Seeing this, Jiang Lin smiled apologetically and said, “Don’t be angry. I’ll tell you in the future.

Let’s leave quickly. It will take a while to collect the prey. If you go back late, your father will be worried again.”

Yu Xiaolian knew that she wouldn’t be able to find out more from Jiang Lin today. She wasn’t in a hurry. There would always be opportunities in the future.

She had been out for a few hours. She really had to hurry back.

She and Jiang Lin checked a few traps along the way, but they were all empty. It was not until the last two that they found something.

Jiang Lin generously gave one hare and two pheasants to Yu Xiaolian.

Yu Xiaolian’s basket was full. She casually dug out a few wild vegetables and covered them. Then, she said goodbye to Jiang Lin at the foot of the mountain and quickened her pace towards home.

Along the way, Yu Xiaolian’s heart was in turmoil.

When they parted just now, she had specially instructed Jiang Lin not to open the white porcelain bottle easily. It would be bad if there was any danger.

Although Jiang Lin agreed, Yu Xiaolian could see that he didn’t take Yu Xiaolian’s words to heart at all.

The main story of the novel she read revolved around the female lead, Yu Yanran. The description of Yu Xiaolian’s childhood as a supporting character was glossed over, and there were no details about Jiang Lin.

For some reason, the more Yu Xiaolian tried to recall the plot of that book, the more blurry those memories became.

Yu Xiaolian returned to the Yu family with her imagination running wild. As soon as she entered the courtyard, she saw Old Madam Yu instructing her eldest son, Yu Changfu, to catch chickens. It seemed like she was planning to kill them to eat.

What day was it today that Old Madam Yu was actually willing to kill a chicken to eat?

She poked her head into their house and saw Madam Cao’s two sons. It turned out that Yu Zishu and Yu Ziyi had returned. No wonder Old Madam Yu was willing to kill chickens.