Seeing the child touching and caressing her, Lin Jingge, who was squatting in front of the child, took a step back.
To everyone's surprise, the child stretched out his arms as if to be hugged and rushed into her arms. Startled, Lin Jingge quickly raised her hands, which were holding the bowl, high to prevent it from breaking.
The child suddenly pulled a spirit stone from Lin Jingge's arms. Looking at the spirit stone, he didn't even care about the star bead in his hand. He put the spirit stone in his mouth with both hands.
By the time Lin Jingge realized what was happening, the other party had already chipped a hole in the spirit stone.
"Hey! Wait, you can't eat this!" Lin Jingge quickly put down the bowl and snatched back the spirit stone with a missing corner.
The child in front of her chewed the small piece of food he had bitten off a few times, opened his big double eyelids, looked innocently at Lin Jingge, and swallowed the spirit stone in his mouth with a gulp.
"I want more!" She waved her short little hands and reached for the spirit stone in Lin Jin's hand.
Lin Jingge naturally wouldn't dare give it to her. What kind of child would eat spirit stones? Let alone a child, even an adult might not be able to chew on a spirit stone!
"Grandma, come quick!" Lin Jingge ran out of the main room with the spirit stone that was missing a corner, heading towards Grandma Lin who was washing dishes by the well, followed by a little short-legged boy who kept shouting "I want more!"
"What's wrong?" Granny Lin wiped her hands on her apron, stood up and looked at Lin Jingge who was walking towards her.
"She, she, she ate spirit stones!" Lin Jingge showed the spirit stone with a missing piece to Granny Lin.
Hearing this answer, Granny Lin was also surprised. If it weren't for the fact that the spirit stone with a missing corner was right in front of her, Granny Lin would have thought that Lin Jingge was just teasing her.
There were teeth marks on the spirit stone, and spiritual energy was slowly oozing out from the bitten area. If this spirit stone was left to continue like this, it would soon dissipate its spiritual energy and become an ordinary stone.
Even the well-informed Granny Lin couldn't tell what kind of child this was at this moment.
"Hungry!" The child stared at the spirit stone, drooling, and reached out to grab it, but couldn't.
In the end, Granny Lin gave the spirit stone to the child. As soon as the child got the spirit stone, he immediately started chewing on it again.
Watching the child eating so heartily, Lin Jingge felt like the world was in a surreal state. She turned to Grandma Lin and asked hesitantly, "Won't this cause any problems?"
"Probably not."
As it turned out, it wasn't. After swallowing the entire spirit stone, the child patted his belly and finally stopped complaining of hunger.
Granny Lin stepped forward, felt the child's pulse, and found that the child was no different from an ordinary person, and had no adverse reactions to the spirit stone he had ingested.
Now it was Lin Jingge's turn to be upset. She had bought a child who ate spirit stones, and the child needed to eat one spirit stone per meal. Where would she get so many spirit stones to feed her?
This wealthy man who consumed spirit stones made the already impoverished family even worse off.
For a moment, I felt that I had to make money quickly, otherwise I was afraid I wouldn't be able to support a child.
Afterwards, Lin Jingge repeatedly warned the child that she must not eat spirit stones in front of others.
That night, when Lin Jingge was putting the little boy to sleep, she realized that she hadn't named the child yet.
"Since I bought you, you'll take my surname from now on. What should I call you?" She shared half of her blanket with the child, gently patted her, and coaxed the child to sleep.
The star bead in the child's hand emitted a faint light in the darkness. Lin Jingge took the bead from the child's hand: "Since you like this bead so much, why don't you be called Lin Zhu? Okay, go to sleep now."
Upon hearing the name, a look of disgust flashed across the child's face so quickly that Lin Jingge thought she was seeing things.
“Count,” the child said.
"Hmm? You said your name is Shushu? Okay, from now on you'll be called Lin Shu!"
Lin Shu: ...
After deciding on the name, Lin Jingge coaxed the child to sleep, and then she herself fell asleep as well.
Just as dawn broke, Lin Jingge was awakened by a nightmare. Even after waking up, she still felt like she couldn't breathe. It wasn't until she touched something on her chest that she realized why she couldn't breathe.
Looking at Lin Shu, who was using her as a cushion, Lin Jingge was both amused and exasperated. He was sleeping so properly, how did he end up climbing on her in the middle of the night?
She turned over, and Lin Shu rolled off her and onto the bed. Not only was he not woken up, but he also smacked his lips and snuggled closer to Lin Jingge.
In the blink of an eye, more than half a month had passed. During this time, Granny Lin would brew a bowl of herbal soup every day, and the Qian family would send someone to collect the medicine early in the morning.
This has been the case every day without interruption.
At the end of the month, news of an auction was released from the Treasure Pavilion, and the auction list was sent to Qian Zhong.
As Granny Lin said, the last item on the list was the Heart-Clearing Pill, and the elixir Granny Lin wanted was also on the list.
Looking at the list in his hand, Qian Zhong began to doubt Lin Apocalypse's identity.
The auction hall of the Treasure Pavilion is the largest venue in the entire Lingyun City. Qian Zhong led Granny Lin and her entourage into a private room.
Outside the private room, there was a lot of noise, with all sorts of people talking, but most of them were discussing the extravagance of this auction, that they had even managed to get the Spirit Breaking Pill.
That's a Grade Earth pill! This is the first time a Grade Earth pill has appeared in their Lingyun City, how could it not be exciting?
You should know that with the Spirit Breaking Pill, the chances of breaking through from a Great Spirit Master to a Spirit King are at least 70% to 80% higher!
This time, the auction attracted not only families from Lingyun City, but also many from other cities, all waiting for the appearance of this Spirit Breaking Pill. Each additional Spirit Breaking Pill is equivalent to a family gaining an additional Spirit King.
That's the Spirit King! How could anyone not be tempted?
The private rooms were already full, and many elders from out of town sat directly on the steps opposite the auction stage.
"Brother, why did you bring outsiders to such an important moment?" Qian Guo said immediately as he watched Qian Zhong and his group enter the private room.
The private room, reserved exclusively for the Qian family, was already filled with people, including all the elders of the Qian family.
"They are not outsiders, they are the benefactors who saved my son!" Qian Zhong looked sharply at Qian Guo, who had stirred up trouble.
The two almost broke off relations over Qian Duoduo's matter, but because the family elders were present, things didn't escalate too badly.
Lin Jingge held Lin Shu in her arms and sat on the side, watching Qian Zhong and the others compete with each other.
"This time, we must obtain the Spirit Breaking Pill. Clan Chief, you've been at the peak of the Great Spirit Master realm for decades now. Perhaps with this pill, you can successfully break through this time." The one who spoke was the Fifth Elder, who was the branch in the family with the best relationship with Qian Zhong.
Upon hearing this, Qian Guo immediately became dissatisfied: "The Grand Elder is also at the peak of the Great Spirit Master realm. In my opinion, this pill should be given to the Grand Elder!"
No sooner had he finished speaking than a commotion arose on the auction stage outside the private room.
The auction has begun.
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