Lin Qinghen reached out and rubbed his eyes. He still remembered the strange dream he had just had, but the screen had disappeared and when he saw the people around him again, his attention was quickly diverted.
He was lying on the bed, and there was a woman sitting in front of the bed. It was she who had just spoken.
The woman seemed to be middle-aged, a little short, with her long hair tied up casually and a few red flowers inserted as decoration. She held a long pipe in her hand, and several bees and butterflies flew around her.
Judging from her face, she is not very good-looking, but there is an indescribable charm in the narrow and slightly red eyes, and even the wrinkles on her face reveal a special charm. She is a beautiful woman with temperament.
Her surname is Yu, and she manages the outermost circle in the Lin family’s huge plantation. Her name is Yu Yinyin.
Judging from the area under her jurisdiction, her status doesn't seem very high, and her strength is mediocre, only one star in the Xuan rank. But it is said that she was invited to the garden by a worshiper of the Lin family. The owner who manages the entire plantation is also very polite to her, and her background is a bit mysterious.
However, she has been in the Lin family for more than 20 years, and she has lived a secluded life, never shown off, spoke very little, and was aloof. She never went anywhere except to the plantation, and there was nothing special about her. No one else in the Lin family paid much attention to her.
Normally when Lin Qinghen was outside, he called her Master Yu like everyone else, but now that he saw that there was no one around, he changed his address.
"Master," Lin Qinghen called her, his tone much softer, "Have I slept for so long?"
It felt like only ten minutes had passed.
Yu Yinyin didn't say anything and asked him to look outside. Sure enough, it was already dark.
"ah… "
Lin Qinghen sat up from the bed, and his first reaction was regret.
"My shrimp porridge must have burned dry."
Yu Yinyin glanced at him, as if she thought that he was quite strange to still think about eating at this time. She looked a little helpless and replied: "Since you are fine, go back early when you wake up."
Although Lin Qinghen called her Master, judging from Yu Yinyin's attitude now, it seemed that the two of them didn't have a very good relationship.
But Lin Qinghen knew that this was her personality and he was used to it. He kept his tone soft and said thank you, Master.
The acquaintance of these two people can be traced back to their childhood.
Because the courtyard where Lin Qinghen lived was the most remote and dilapidated one, right next to the plantation. When he was a child, he was bullied and unable to fight back, so he took the opportunity to run here.
The rule that combat-type spiritual power cannot be used in the plantation is there, and many crops here grow huge, the terrain is complex, and there are many forks in the road. Lin Qinghen found a place and hid carefully, so no one discovered him.
In addition to managing the lingering sound here.
Lin Qinghen was very thin at that time. He curled up into a ball in a small tree hole and nervously looked outside through a tiny gap. A group of older kids who were chasing him soon came over. He saw those people and asked Yu Yinyin if she had seen anyone.
This woman had a cold and expressionless personality, and looked much more ferocious than the children who bullied him.
Lin Qinghen knew that she saw him. The woman turned her eyes and met Lin Qinghen's eyes through the gap.
Then, the fierce Yu Yinyin pointed the group of children in the wrong direction under Lin Qinghen's nervous gaze.
From Lin Qinghen's perspective, this was the first time he felt kindness since he traveled here. At that time, he clasped his hands together in his heart and silently thanked her, thinking that beautiful sister was such a good person. Thank you, sister.
For Yu Yinyin, she just helped without thinking much. After the bullying child left, she saw the ugly child in the tree hole gave her a grateful smile, frowned, turned around and left.
This was not enough to make Yu Yinyin look at him more, and she would not take it to heart. She didn't care about the Lin family, including this child.
It was not until a few months later that there were some unexpected fluctuations in the spiritual source supply in the center of the plantation, and the bees and crystal butterflies raised by Yu Yinyin were affected.
This butterfly is her marrow. Yu Yinyin is a spiritual master who tames animals. The 500 butterflies she raises throughout the plantation are an important part of the Lin family plantation. The spiritual power they digest is scattered in the soil and is very beneficial to the growth of spiritual plants.
Yu Yinyin relies on this skill to secure her position. Although she is only in charge of the periphery, no one in the garden dares to offend her.
Because the spiritual power fluctuated greatly that day, the connection between Yu Yinyin and the injured and lost Bee Crystal Butterfly was cut off. Every butterfly was very important, and everyone in the garden helped her look for it for a whole day, but still one butterfly was missing.
Yu Yinyin wanted to give up. But the next morning, she saw the ugly child Lin Qinghen sitting on the steps in front of her room.
He was only six years old at that time. When he heard the sound, he turned around and looked at her, grinning.
Lin Qinghen hadn't worn a mask at that time. Yu Yinyin saw the birthmark on his face, which was almost all over his face. It was blue, and some places were so blue that they turned purple. He was thin and small, wearing old clothes, and was a little dirty. He was indeed an ugly child.
With a face like this, even if he smiles, the picture is not very pleasing.
But his eyes were big and bright, with black pupils. When he saw Yu Yinyin, he carefully opened his hands and showed her what was inside.
That was the last bee crystal butterfly that no one else had found. He searched for it all night and finally found it.
"I'm giving it back to you, thank you for helping me before," she heard Lin Qinghen whisper, "Look, he's still alive."
The butterfly flapped its wings and flew from the child's palm to Yu Yinyin's fingertips.
Her heart seemed to be shaken as well, and a slight change occurred.
It's not just because such a young child has the heart to appreciate and repay kindness, he is indeed much smarter than Yu Yinyin thought.
No one in the entire plantation was found, but this child was found. It was not just luck.
Yu Yinyin asked another question, only to find that he knew the map of the entire plantation like the back of his hand.
Every time, it's not just that the brainless light hides here. It seems that all the roads and paths are engraved in Lin Qinghen's mind. As long as he doesn't want, no one can find him here.
The plantation had a complex terrain, and he had only been hiding there for a few months, but he remembered it better than some old servants who had worked there for half their lives.
"… And I found that the flight patterns of the bee crystal butterflies are regular, they also have division of labor, and each one looks different," Lin Qinghen explained to her slowly. The child's voice was thin, but the tone of his speech was very firm. "That one is the same, it has a fixed flight route. I looked for it along that area and found it. It was hanging on a leaf on the treetop."
The main reason was that Lin Qinghen, who had traveled through time, had never seen this kind of creature, so he paid more attention to it. However, even Yu Yinyin, who raised the bee crystal butterfly, didn't have the energy to remember it so clearly.
Later, Lin Qinghen had some contact with her.
Yu Yinyin has always been indifferent, as if she doesn't care about anything. This is just her personality. They have been together for more than ten years, and there doesn't seem to be much change in their relationship.
But in fact, during the ten years that Lin Qinghen has been in the Lin family, this person has given him some truly precious warmth and is also his enlightenment mentor.
Yu Yinyin is indeed an excellent teacher. She knows a lot about spiritual plants. It seems that he does have some talent in this area. Even if sometimes she only gives a few words of advice, people can benefit a lot.
It is a great fortune to have such a person willing to teach me. Without her, Lin Qinghen would not have been able to work here as a farmer for so many years.
Moreover, Lin Qinghen always felt that his master was not as simple as he seemed. His knowledge and experience were unmatched by anyone in the entire Lin family.
But everyone has secrets, and Lin Qinghen won't get to the bottom of them.
He also knew that he was in a bad situation in the Lin family. Someone in the family had no intention of letting him go, and he only dared to call him "Master" in private. To the outside world, the two of them seemed to have no intersection, which was also what Lin Qinghen hoped to see.
After he woke up, Yu Yinyin seemed to be in a good mood and talked more. She told him the follow-up of today's events: "Just as you guessed, the Ninth Elder Lin Shushu did return today, and the two farmers were fine."
It seems that I was not wrong, Lin Qinghen thought.
After returning from a great victory, the family should have a banquet to celebrate, but he certainly would not be able to attend. He had been hungry all day, and after getting up, he was ready to go out and find himself something to eat.
But when Lin Qinghen took a few steps and was about to push the door and go out, he suddenly saw something strange.
I didn't notice it when I just woke up, but now when I raised my hand, I saw a green dot the size of a fingernail on my left wrist.
Looking closely, it was not a dot, but a grass-like mark, as if it was printed on the skin. Moreover, the grass looked a little familiar.
He was about to leave when he stopped. Yu Yinyin, who was already sitting far away, was also puzzled and asked: "What's wrong?"
Lin Qinghen was stunned for a moment, then subconsciously showed her his wrist: "Master, look."
"What are you looking at?" Yu Yinyin looked at his wrist and frowned, "Are you injured here too?"
She can't see
Lin Qinghen now remembered why he felt it looked familiar. This was the appearance of the "marrow" when the alchemist was testing the spirit.
He subconsciously reached out to touch it to see if he could rub it off. The moment his fingers touched it, a familiar screen lit up in front of him, the same one he had just seen in his dream.
Alchemist system!
Wait... this stuff is real, he's not dreaming!
Lin Qinghen was confused.
Isn't he just an ordinary little waste
Moreover, even if this system was to come, it would have taken him almost twelve years to arrive after traveling through time. Isn't the delay too great
Yu Yinyin couldn't see the grass marks on Lin Qinghen's wrist, so naturally she couldn't see the screen. She just felt that Lin Qinghen looked a little strange after waking up, so she asked again, but saw that Lin Qinghen jumped on the spot as if he was frightened by something.
"I'm fine!" Lin Qinghen pushed the door open and slipped out like a rabbit, "Thank you, Master! See you tomorrow!"
Yu Yinyin: "..."
Did you fall on your head
After he ran out, he didn't walk far. He found a place to sit under a big tree outside, enjoying the breeze and trying to calm himself down.
It’s just an additional system, calm down, calm down.
He told himself over and over again.
Then the next second Lin Qinghen couldn't help but cover his head and scream silently.
Ahhhh!
No, this thing is too sudden!
Lin Qinghen's cold wind blew from dusk till late at night before he finally calmed down a little.
He took a few deep breaths, touched the grass on his wrist, and called out the screen again.
Although this system came really late, if you think about it carefully, it is just in time.
If he had been bound as soon as he came here, he would have really thought that he was the chosen one, and it would not have been a good thing to be too proud and overconfident.
Besides, the things given by this system are not something that can be obtained easily. Look, it is clearly written above that he needs to complete the task.
The first novice mission was written as if it was an entry-level mission that was easy to complete, but looking at the entire spiritual world, everyone knows that Yuanmai's alienation rate has never been able to be controlled artificially.
The varieties used in the Lin family's plantation are already excellent, and the environment in the plantation is hard to find in the world, so the alienation rate has only increased slightly to about 2%.
If this task were given to anyone, they would probably say "impossible" and would have no idea where to start.
Except Lin Qinghen.