Chapter 111 Godwin, who can’t hold back his temper, presents his treasure
My cousin’s daughter is called Chen Songxue, and she has been attending university in Hong Kong for the past few years.
She had originally planned to stay at the company where she interned after graduating from university, but before signing the tripartite contract, she heard about the incident at Mingxintang. Chen Songxue, a man of decisive action, immediately decided to forgo the previously secured job offer and return home to look for work.
Chen Songxue had always been puzzled as to why her cousin had given up such a great opportunity in the capital and returned to a small place like Mingxintang. But after hearing the news of Grandma Shen's accident, she almost immediately understood: while parents are still alive, one shouldn't travel far away. Her own parents were aging. If she stayed in Hong Kong to develop her career, would she really be able to return to care for them in the future?
Shen Jiang's memory of her cousin still lingers in her childhood: a dark-skinned, snotty-nosed little chap who loved to run after her. She must have been only four or five years old then. Later, she focused on her studies and Traditional Chinese Medicine, while her cousin followed her uncle and his family out of town.
When his cousin uncle and aunt brought a tall and pretty girl into Mingxin Hall, Shen Jiang didn't recognize her at all.
As they say, girls change a lot when they grow up. If Shen Jiang were walking down the street, she'd never mistake this fair-skinned, beautiful, and stylish girl for her snotty cousin. Honestly, standing between her uncle and his wife, her features bore a resemblance to them. But her face brimmed with energy and confidence, something her uncle and his wife lacked.
"Grandma is waiting for you in the yard, come in quickly." Shen Jiang collected his thoughts.
"Sister Shen Jiang!"
Chen Songxue's eyes lit up instantly when he saw Shen Jiang, but then the obvious sympathy in his eyes made Shen Jiang confused.
Didn’t her uncle and aunt tell her that Mingxin Hall is now on the right track and grandma’s health has improved?
The last time Chen Songxue saw Grandma Shen was several years ago, when she was admitted to university. Her family held a graduation banquet for her, and Grandma Shen from Mingxin Hall gave her a big red envelope.
In Chen Songxue's memory, Grandma Shen was a very special old lady, with a particularly cool look in her short silver hair. Seeing her again a few years later, thinking about how haggard she must have looked after recovering from a serious illness, Chen Songxue felt a pang of sadness.
Seeing how Shen Jiang was forcing herself to stay awake, she probably hadn't gotten a good night's sleep recently. Chen Songxue had to admit, she'd been observing Shen Jiang closely. She'd only taken a short nap in the car last night, her only rest time in nearly 48 hours. If Shen Jiang hadn't always had a regular sleep schedule, she wouldn't have been able to hold on.
Chen Songxue followed her parents into the courtyard and saw an elderly woman sitting under a large tree, enjoying the cool air. Far from the sickly, haggard look Chen Songxue had expected, Grandma Shen looked remarkably healthy, her complexion radiant, more radiant than even a young woman like her. Chen Songxue was used to staying up late, and if she hadn't been wearing makeup today, she might have looked even more haggard than Grandma Shen.
Chen Songxue was a little dumbfounded, and all of a sudden he forgot the speech he had prepared in his mind.
No, it wasn't that the old lady was injured and in critical condition. How come only over a month had passed and the old lady was in better condition than when she saw her a few years ago? She was truly rejuvenated.
Lunch was eaten at the restaurant next door. When Lin Yunqing heard that Grandma Shen Jiang had been discharged from the hospital, the small restaurant closed at noon to welcome her. Shen Jiang couldn't refuse, so she invited her to join them. He Mei had been resting at the clinic that morning. Her family lived in the residential complex behind Mingxin Hall, so Shen Jiang naturally invited her to join them, so she could introduce her to Grandma.
When it comes to finding a job, Chen Songxue is full of confidence: "I've already received interviews from several large companies in the city, such as the Su Group. Their newly appointed CEO is the eldest son of the Su family who returned from studying abroad. He is very capable. If I can get a job at such a company, my future development will be no worse than staying in Hong Kong."
Chen Ru nodded. "That's right. If you go so far away and have to eat poisonous takeout and live in a small house every day, how can I worry about you? It's better for me to come back. Then I can eat here and pay for it."
Chen Songxue was stunned. She thought her mother would say, "Mom, I'll cook for you," but she turned around and threw her to someone else. This unassuming little restaurant, with no customers, didn't seem much different from eating out for poisonous takeout.
Shen Jiang hadn't heard of the Su Group in a long time, and hearing about it out of the blue felt like a lifetime ago. It had been so long, and if Su Qing hadn't come last time, she would have almost forgotten that this world was essentially a melodramatic love story.
Shen Jiang couldn't interfere with Chen Songxue's life. After all, in her eyes, this might be an extremely glamorous and well-paid job. She couldn't just disparage the Su Group and say it didn't have the same development prospects as Mingxin Hall. That would easily lead to misunderstandings.
Shen Jiang could only gently advise: "Stay away from the Su family, especially that Su what, the CEO you mentioned. It's easy to become unhappy if you get close to him."
If she appears next to the hero of the story, then she is definitely a cannon fodder girl. She is the most vulnerable group to the plot...
Shen Anlian looked up at her: "Xiao Gu, do you know him?"
Shen Jiang was vague: "I just happened to hear someone mention it, Songxue just listened to it casually."
Chen Songxue smiled and said, "For a newcomer like me, it would be difficult to meet the CEO even if I joined the company. Don't worry, Sister Shen Jiang."
Everyone chatted and laughed, and even before the food arrived, Shen Jiang's magic mirror in her pocket began vibrating again. Shen Jiang's hand, holding the chopsticks, froze. Didn't the big boss call her just this morning? Why was he calling again now? Ever since she got the magic mirror that could make video calls, the frequency of his calls to her had skyrocketed.
The magic mirror's vibrations persisted, and Shen Jiang, hesitant and struggling, finally chose to bow to reality. She worried that if she didn't please Lord Black Dragon, what would happen if Ellis and the others gathered their people and Lord Black Dragon refused to allow anyone to go up the mountain?
Shen Jiang found an excuse to slip out and make a phone call. Shen Anlian looked at her granddaughter's back, narrowed her eyes, and smiled meaningfully.
Xiaogu really doesn't know how to hide things at all. The expression on her face makes it even more obvious. She is definitely in love.
The dishes were served just at this moment. Chen Songxue picked up a piece of Malan vegetable with chopsticks and put it into her mouth. Soon, the refreshing and sweet taste of Malan vegetable spread between her lips and teeth. Chen Songxue looked down at the dish blankly, with only one thought in her mind: How can this dish be so delicious!
Shen Jiang hurried into the clinic to answer the phone, not forgetting to lock the door.
"Lord Godwin." Shen Jiang looked guilty.
Godwin was a little dissatisfied: "Why did you take so long to answer?"
"I'm sorry," Shen Jiang said, his face full of guilt and uneasiness. "I answered the call the moment I felt the energy fluctuations of the magic mirror. Were you waiting for a long time?"
Godwin didn't expect that the believer didn't delay. A strange feeling surged in his heart, which made him want to compensate the believer.
"It's not your fault. I guess the props that Perrin made weren't good enough, which is why there's this delay."
Shen Jiang felt very comfortable with passing the buck. After all, Godwin seemed to be unable to do anything with the silver dragon, and their relationship was much closer than the relationship between him and Godwin.
"Lord Godwin, what are your orders?"
Because the Black Dragon on the other end of the video was far away, Shen Jiang could not observe the subtle expressions on his face. He could only sense that he seemed to be in a good mood.
The black dragon stretched out its huge triangular claws and placed them on the ground, then roared towards a distance. The dragon's roar was extremely powerful. Along with the roar, a large group of gray-skinned, short creatures trembled and appeared in the camera.
A question mark slowly emerged in Shen Jiang's mind: What is this doing?
Soon, she saw short creatures in ragged clothes lining up one after another. As each of them passed Lord Black Dragon, they would pour the contents of their backpacks into the dragon's claws. However, the contents were so insignificant that Shen Jiang didn't see clearly until a while later that the dragon's claws contained a pool of liquid like water.
The black dragon smiled at the stunned human on the other side of the magic mirror: "This is the core of the earth."
Shen Jiang didn't understand, but she knew from the name that this thing must be something special, and she let out a proper "wow" in approval. Shen Jiang didn't care about the Earth Core; she just wanted to get back to lunch.
The Black Dragon looked calm and composed, and only the black magician who had been with him these days knew that in the past four days, Lord Black Dragon had traveled to almost all the goblins' nests to collect this group of goblins that could dig deep into the ground to extract the core of the earth.
Godwin stored the Earth Core of the Claw Heart into his own space and said to the believer, "What are you doing?"
Shen Jiang was sweating and didn't dare to say that he was eating, otherwise it would mean that the boss was disturbing his meal.
No, the boss had no reason to call across the world to ask her what she was doing? Did he have nothing better to do? Shen Jiang felt miserable.
After finally dealing with the big boss, Shen Jiang summarized the content of the phone call, which was nothing. Shen Jiang felt that Heilong called purely because he was curious about getting a new toy.
This wasn't the end of it. In the afternoon, Lord Godwin called again. This time, Godwin took her to see the elves in the forest...
Shen Jiang didn't get enough rest yesterday, so he went to bed early today to catch up on his sleep. While half asleep, he was woken up by a certain dragon to watch him dig out the devil's eyes...
It was late at night and everyone was asleep. The devil's shrill cries drove away Shen Jiang's sleepiness and he felt a sudden chill down his spine.
For the first time, Shen Jiang realized that she was grumpy when she woke up, but she didn't dare to vent her anger on the excited Lord Black Dragon. She could only bite the corner of the quilt silently. A sinister thought flashed through her mind: why not break this broken mirror?
Godwin, who thought he only took the time to call his believers every three or four days, naturally didn't know that his believers were so tortured by his phone bombardment that they were dizzy and even wanted to destroy the sunglasses in their hands.
Godwin calculated the time and found that the believers would be back soon, but he was still a little short of collecting materials.
The black magician originally just wanted to use the most difficult material to collect in the world to make things difficult for others, but he didn't expect that the other party was actually a dragon, and in just over half a month, this extremely powerful dragon had collected most of the materials.
The Black Mage was completely despairing, with only one thought in his mind: If he had known earlier, he should have shared all the ingredients he knew! But werewolves, goblins, and the like were no match for the dragon. Now, all he needed to find the ingredients he'd mentioned was ten drops of dragon blood. The Black Mage's eyes flashed, and he blurted out, "Congratulations, Lord Black Dragon! Now we only need to collect ten drops of different Heart-Protecting Dragon Blood to create the potion."
Heart-protecting dragon blood? Didn't this old man say before that he only needed ten drops of different dragon blood?
Godwin looked down upon the respectful old man and snorted coldly.
The black magician heard the dissatisfaction in the cold snort of the God of Death in front of him, but fortunately he had a plan to deal with it.
"Lord Black Dragon, what I said before about ten drops of dragon blood is true, but that only guarantees the most basic potion effect. Now that I see your great powers, I must tell you how to produce potions with rare effects, and that is to use the Heart-Protecting Dragon Blood."
He'd heard that the dragon clan was incredibly ferocious, so he couldn't believe this foolish dragon could defeat ten dragons in a row. Besides, the dragon clan's heart-protecting blood was unlike ordinary dragon blood. It was a top-tier, rare material found beneath the dragon's hardest scales. To obtain the heart-protecting blood, he wouldn't hesitate to take the dragon's life.
Even if this foolish dragon dared to attack his own kind, he would probably bring disaster upon himself. Then he would find a way to escape.
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