Daily Life in the Countryside After Being Reborn

Chapter 799: Chapter 115: Something Fishy Inside (Part 2)

The restaurant is located at the southernmost end of the botanical garden. Outside the transparent glass is a patch of thriving purple lilacs. The restaurant’s green theme, along with the neatly arranged white dishes and utensils, with steaming self-service vegetarian dishes, made one’s mouth water.

"Xiao Xian, you’re finally here," the restaurant hadn’t been open for long, and those dining were mostly botanical garden staff and a few teachers who just finished their classes. Yu Gang sat near the window, waving at Xiao Xian.

"Fake Mei Nian" was not in the restaurant. Yu Gang invited Xiao Xian to sit down, with three dishes in front of him, two of which had not been touched.

Xiao Xian had slept in the hospital overnight and hadn’t had the chance to eat breakfast in the morning. By lunchtime, she was truly hungry.

No matter how important, it wasn’t as urgent as hunger. Xiao Xian mused, even if she became a true cultivator, she would probably be the kind that still needed mundane foods.

The vegetarian restaurant offered a wide variety of foods, from peeled and mashed pea soup to a sweet and sour salad mixed with pickled shredded corn and mushroom pieces, as well as omurice and oven-baked monkey head mushrooms, accompanied by freshly picked blueberries from the garden. The meal not only satiated the stomach but was also a visual feast for the eyes.

After eating and drinking her fill, Xiao Xian asked, "Why haven’t I seen Master Mei? I heard she’s been frequently with Uncle Yu Gang lately." Unconsciously, Xiao Xian used a questioning tone, having learned about "Fake Mei Nian’s" situation. Seeing Yu Gang treating her with such care inevitably made her grumble.

"She was just with me in the plantation all morning. She mentioned being quite interested in the North Campus. I was planning to accompany her, but since you said you’d come, I let her go on her own," Yu Gang said, "Mei Nian and I both graduated from the genius class of the Huake Institute a year ahead."

Mei Nian’s return to the school seemed unfamiliar with many things on campus, which Yu Gang attributed to her long absence causing unfamiliarity.

As for the North Campus, even if "Mei Nian" was curious, so was Yu Gang himself.

Outside the North Campus, "Mei Nian" walked to the high wall, her eyes filled with doubt.

"I must thank that fool for bringing me to Huake Institute. It saved me from a lot of hassle this morning. This school is quite peculiar, with its spiritual power maintained at such a consistently abundant state. Could it be that there’s rhinestone within?" Like Xiao Xian, "Mei Nian" found the location of this campus extraordinary upon arrival at Huake Institute.

The ginseng spirit baby wasn’t naturally born in the Changbai Mountain region, but because the spiritual energy there was more stable compared to other places in the country. However, after millions of years of consumption by the ginseng spirit baby, the spirit vein has long been depleted.

"Hey, isn’t that Senior Mei? Why are you outside our school? Xiao Xian hasn’t been at school for a few days." Upon hearing someone greet her from behind, "Mei Nian" turned around to see a short-haired girl with a cheerful smile. She didn’t recognize her.

"Do I look old for you to call me Senior?" "Mei Nian" said coldly.

"Ah, no, it’s just that you aren’t..." assuming she’s talking to Mei Nian, Xuerou, who had been away from school for over a week, had met Mei Nian a few times. She didn’t expect this encounter to turn cold right away, "Then I’ll call you Aunt Mei. Have you forgotten? I’m Xiao Xian’s good friend, Zeng Xuerou."

Hmph, Zhu Xiaoxian, isn’t she the annoying girl who relentlessly chased it at the Snow Valley bottom? To remember her "great kindness," she even sent a special gift to her hospitalized aunt.

The ginseng spirit baby indeed resided in Mei Nian’s body. The ginseng spirit baby at the bottom of Changbai Mountain’s Snow Valley, after initially developing human spiritual sense, still needed another hundred years to transform from a spirit baby into a human form.

That day, Mei Nian stumbled into the Snow Gully by accident, and the ginseng spirit baby, seeing her as a cultivator, took the opportunity to trap her at the snow valley bottom with its ability to absorb spiritual energy, initially planning to deal with Mei Nian after draining her spiritual power.

It was also due to Mei Nian’s cultivation that the ginseng spirit baby could form early. Yet, four or five cultivators followed, each bringing a certain amount of spiritual power.

Especially the one called Zhu Xiaoxian, whose spiritual power was curiously unaffected by the Snow Valley of Changbai Mountain, relentlessly pursuing the ginseng spirit baby.

The spirit baby, helpless, had to escape, taking Mei Nian’s body with a trace of remaining spiritual power.

While escaping, Xiao Que, following the White Spirit Mastiff down the hidden passage on the side of the snow valley, collided with the two.

In a moment of desperation, the spirit baby first chose Xiao Que’s body but, discovering she was a deaf-mute child, killed Xiao Que and snatched Mei Nian’s body again.

Mei Nian, whose spiritual power was thin at the time, had to flee with the last trace of spiritual sense under the spirit baby’s coercion. In the vast Snow Valley, her spiritual sense would soon dissipate, forcing her to enter Xiao Que’s body.

The ginseng spirit baby couldn’t let Mei Nian escape like that, releasing entangling ginseng roots to trap Mei Nian’s weak spiritual sense within Xiao Que’s body, resulting in the bizarre scene of the two swapping bodies.

"I remember, you are Xiao Xian’s good friend. You’re also a student of the North Campus, can you take me inside to have a look?" Mei Nian’s attitude improved a bit. The school gate seemed very peculiar, and if she tried to force her way through, it might alarm the people inside. Since this female student knew her, she figured she might as well have her lead the way.

Xuerou was about to agree, then suddenly stared at Mei Nian with a peculiar expression on her face. (To be continued. If you like this work, welcome to Qidian () to vote for recommendation tickets, monthly tickets, your support is my greatest motivation.)