Li Hongjin woke up much faster than Shang Lin had expected, which showed how wonderful it was to be young and healthy. Shang Lin, who rarely had a moment of peace, couldn't help but sigh inwardly, after all, he was currently suffering from illness.
As soon as Li Hongjin opened his eyes, he subconsciously rubbed his forehead. Shang Lin hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "What's wrong? Headache?"
"Tiedan?" Li Hongjin looked up at Shang Lin with a puzzled expression. "Why are you at my house? Do you need something?"
Shang Lin tentatively asked, "Do you remember what happened before?"
Erasing memories would have been easy for the former Shang Lin, but now... it's wishful thinking. So he can only hope that Li Hongjin remembers nothing.
Li Hongjin was taken aback, then suddenly grabbed Shang Lin's arm, his tone extremely urgent, "It seemed like a girl was following me just now, and she wanted to..."
Perhaps considering that Shang Lin was still a minor, or perhaps because Li Hongjin was embarrassed to speak, he stopped, but his face turned slightly red with embarrassment. Normally, his face wouldn't be so pale, so it wouldn't be easily noticed, but now it was clearly different.
Shang Lin's heart skipped a beat. Could it be that the demon wanted to absorb yang energy to replenish yin?! But he spoke with a straight face, spouting nonsense: "I think you're in such a hurry to find a partner that you're daydreaming about having girls following you? Then let me ask you, where have you been these past few days? Have you seen any girls?"
In a daze, Li Hongjin was genuinely intimidated by Shang Lin's serious face and subconsciously touched his head, "I've been in the mountains these past few days and haven't seen a girl at all."
But as if realizing something, he loudly protested, "Tiedan, what did you just say? I'm in a hurry to find a partner?! Is this something that can be rushed? Ah, no, why should I be in a hurry? What's there to rush about for a fine young man like me who just turned eighteen?"
Seeing Li Hongjin looking lively and energetic again, Shang Lin's anxiety gradually eased. "I know, I know. I came to see you to call Manager Duan back. By the way, why are you alone at home? Where's the village chief?"
Li Hongjin rubbed his head again, feeling that something was off, but still answered, "My sister gave birth, and my dad went to the county to see them. My mom went a few days ago. I originally wanted to go too, but someone has to stay at home. I'll go when my dad comes back."
"Congratulations."
“Oh, right, make a phone call.” Li Hongjin immediately led the way. “Manager Duan must be looking for you about the mountain produce, but do you have any left? I don’t have much left, otherwise I wouldn’t have gone deeper into the mountains these past few days.”
"You went to the deep mountains alone?"
"How could that be? I'm not that bold. I went with Brother Wang, but it's not the time to close up the mountain yet, so we only gathered a little bit of medicinal herbs."
Shang Lin immediately disagreed, saying, "For your safety's sake, you'd better not go to the deep mountains. Didn't you make quite a bit of money selling mountain products before? Are you really in a hurry to save money to get married?"
Sure enough, there must be strange creatures in the deep mountains and marshes. I wonder where Li Hongjin offended him? Is that why Old Man Chai kept telling me not to go into the deep mountains?
Li Hongjin immediately retorted, "What you're saying has no necessary connection between making money and getting married? Who doesn't make money at a young age?"
"Then you also need to consider safety, otherwise what's the point of making money?" It's a pity I can't even afford the tools for drawing talismans right now, otherwise I could draw one for Li Hongjin...
Okay, tools are one thing, but with my current cultivation level, even with the tools for drawing talismans, I couldn't draw a powerful one unless I used blood as a brush. But my sickly body couldn't withstand that. I could only use it in a crisis, not normally...
Haha, is he making things difficult for himself?
While looking for Manager Duan's business card, Li Hongjin said, "You're starting to look more and more like an old man. But speaking of which, I feel so tired, I really want to sleep for three days and three nights."
Shang Lin wanted to laugh when he heard the first half of Li Hongjin's sentence. He was not an old man who could be described as "old". But when he heard the second half of his sentence, he became serious and composed. "You must have been tired from going into the deep mountains. Come to my house for dinner tonight and have some medicinal food with me to help you recover. You must never go there again. You really value money over your life."
Li Hongjin, holding Manager Duan's business card, paused in surprise. "Look at your attitude and tone, you're even more intimidating than my dad when he's serious. And why would I go to your house for medicinal cuisine? You should make a call now."
Shang Lin was also taken aback. He realized that he didn't look like a fifteen-year-old boy. But what should a boy be like? He thought seriously about the boys in his sect in his previous life, and then said with a bitter face, "The medicinal food is too hard to eat. Can you come to my house tonight and help me eat some? It's really hard to eat alone."
Shang Lin was stunned by his own words. Good heavens, he really couldn't play the role of a young man. But! Li Hongjin! He actually! Compromised!
"Okay then, we'll go to your house together after you finish your call."
What?! Shang Lin was completely bewildered; it actually worked?! It's truly... unbelievable.
Manager Duan answered the phone quickly, and upon hearing it was Shang Lin, he immediately smiled and said, "You're back from visiting relatives? Will you be home tomorrow?"
"exist."
"I'm a bit busy right now, I'll come to your house tomorrow."
"good."
Shang Lin put down the microphone, and Li Hongjin immediately asked, "Is that all?"
"Otherwise what?"
"Wait for me a moment, then we'll go to your house together, so you won't get scared by the dogs running around in the village."
Shang Lin immediately laughed, "Do you think I'm a three-year-old? That I can't be scared by a village dog?"
Li Hongjin insisted, "That won't do either. Anyway, I'm going to your house. Can't you wait for me a bit?"
Shang Lin smiled but remained silent. These days, let alone dogs, almost any animal would run away at the sight of him; small animals are much more sensitive than humans. But had he been encountering too many strange people?
Unfortunately, spiritual energy, spiritual plants, and spiritual treasures are hard to find in the human realm, and even if you could find them, it would require a huge amount of money. I feel like I'm trapped in a vicious cycle: on one hand, I need a healthy body to earn money, and on the other hand, I need enough money to recover my health. It's really...
Li Hongjin actually drank Shang Lin's medicinal diet. He felt that the taste was not bad and not as exaggerated as he had imagined. He just didn't know how effective it would be.
Shang Lin originally wanted Li Hongjin to stay overnight, fearing that if he were home alone, no one would notice if something happened, but the other party said, "Why am I home alone? My dad has to come back tonight, otherwise where will he stay?"
So Shang Lin stopped worrying. In fact, he should be more worried about everyone in the Dragon Spirit Tower than Li Hongjin. He wondered how the fight had gotten.
But no matter how worried Shang Lin was, he had to wait until late at night, otherwise he couldn't create an independent space with his current abilities, not even an overlapping one.
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