Chapter 373

Song Yun happily obtained five bottles of cola; Ye Fan, seeing the immortal sister again add several large boxes of cola in the space, couldn't help but feel somewhat satisfied.

Because of the immortal sister, he is no longer an ordinary disciple with no reliance; now he is quite wealthy and well-endowed.

The medicinal pills didn't stay overnight in Ye Fan's hands; as soon as he got them, he immediately contacted Lin Meng.

The small porcelain bottles containing the pills were neatly placed in a storage bag; the moment they were handed to Lin Meng, she felt that the name "happy water" for cola was truly deserved.

Just by spending five 500‑ml bottles of cola, she got a storage bag full of medicinal pills—what's the difference from robbery?

But the other party also thought they had made a profit.

Lin Meng didn't move the pills into her own space; keeping them neatly in a storage bag is fine.

She carefully calculated: there were five thousand Opening Aperture Pills, and the other pills like Return Spring Pills and Jade Marrow Pills were each given a hundred, and the Marrow Washing Pills as well.

"Immortal sister, the pills provided by the Song family are all in white porcelain bottles, while the Opening Aperture Pills purchased from outside are all in green porcelain bottles, making them easy to tell apart."

After Ye Fan finished speaking, Lin Meng immediately inspected a few of the green porcelain bottles containing Opening Aperture Pills; the quality was quite good, and she nodded in satisfaction, saying:

"Not bad; besides the Opening Aperture Pills, you also collected so many other pills—thank you for your hard work."

Ye Fan dared not take credit; he was just opening his mouth to help pass things along, really not hard at all.

"Immortal sister, this is all I should do. By the way, there are also fifty Yellow Dragon Pills refined by Senior Brother Song and twenty Yellow Dragon Pills I refined—all for you."

"The medicinal herbs have also been irrigated with cola, improving their quality, but since many of the herbs here are already over three hundred years old, the effect of cola on them is not that great."

Lin Meng had already seen those herbs in her space; they looked more vibrant, with a faint cola scent drifting from the roots, showing that cola really works wonders for cultivating medicinal plants.

She said to Ye Fan:

"Got it; if I need your help later, I'll let you know in advance. Keep these twenty Yellow Dragon Pills for yourself—you also need to raise your cultivation—and I'll take the remaining fifty."

Seeing that the immortal sister gave him the Yellow Dragon Pills refined by Senior Brother Song, while keeping the ones he himself refined and not returning them, Ye Fan instantly felt that all his hard work over the past few days was worth it.

With so many medicinal pills in hand, Lin Meng felt she suddenly had a lot more confidence; that night she took a Yellow Dragon Pill and meditated until dawn.

Her Foundation Establishment cultivation had now reached the middle stage, and her demand for Yellow Dragon Pills also increased.

The Yellow Dragon Pills refined by Song Yun and Ye Fan both had a strong cola flavor, but their effect was stronger than those previous Yellow Dragon Pills.

Just taking one pill provided an amount of spiritual energy equivalent to twice that of the original pills.

In the future, their demand for cola will only keep growing, which is a good thing for Lin Meng.

On the second day after obtaining enough medicinal pills, Lin Meng didn't go straight to the military district; instead, she waited for them to come to her door themselves.

The thirty Opening Aperture Pills she left behind were enough for the higher-ups to allocate, whether for experiments or to analyze the composition and try to replicate them; Lin Meng wasn't worried.

Although modern technology is very advanced, the pill‑refining arts of cultivators in the immortal world are not that easy to imitate.

Some of the medicinal ingredients used to refine Opening Aperture Pills are not native to this place.

Sooner or later they will still come to find her.

What Lin Meng didn't expect was that the first to come looking for her weren't the military, but people who, after hearing the news, secretly visited her.

The first to come calling were actually members of the Fang family.

The Fang family, after all, is an extremely prestigious lineage of traditional Chinese medicine, also engaged in the pill business; after hearing the news of the Opening Aperture Pill's appearance, the whole Fang family was in an uproar.

Fang Fang, the head of the Fang family, could no longer sit still; she used the family's core connections to inquire everywhere, and finally learned the source of those Opening Aperture Pills.

Fang Fang never imagined that the pills actually came from Lin Meng.

Combining the earlier case of the Ye family grandfather and grandson—one suddenly recovered from a critical illness, the other completely healed from a severe car accident in an instant—

Fang Fang had long noticed that there was an expert behind the Ye family, but she never expected that expert to be Lin Meng.

In that case, everything makes sense.

That's why the Ye family treats Lin Meng differently, and even Ye Chenjing repeatedly lowers his attitude before her—it's all because of this!

Therefore, on the way there, Fang Fang specifically instructed her companion Fang Siyao to be polite to Lin Meng.

"Grandma, are you senile? Lin Meng is about my age—how could she possibly be that formidable?"

Fang Siyao had originally been doing her beauty treatment, but was forcibly taken by her grandmother—not to go on a blind date, nor to attend any important banquet, but to visit that woman she dislikes!

"Grandma, pull over and let me down—I'm not going!"

Fang Fang paid no heed to her granddaughter's protest, putting on a stern face and issuing a serious warning.

"Fang Siyao, if you keep this attitude later and speak without restraint, I will cancel all your bank cards and forbid anyone in the family from giving you money to spend!"

Fang Siyao didn't expect her grandmother to actually follow through this time—no money is absolutely out of the question—but she really couldn't fathom why her grandmother always treats Lin Meng with such courtesy, even to the point of trying to please her.

"Isn't Lin Meng just relying on the Ye family to back her? Why does the grandmother respect her so much?"

Even when Fang Fang personally pressed the doorbell, Fang Siyao still couldn't understand.

Seeing this half‑mountain villa worth an inch of land, an inch of gold, Fang Siyao became even more furious, muttering to herself.

"How could a country bumpkin like her possibly live here? It must be thanks to the Ye family."

"Just what evil cultivation has Lin Meng practiced, that she could bewitch Ye Chenjing into giving away a villa worth billions just like that!"

Just then, the door opened, and Lin Cuihua, standing inside, seeing the two strangers, immediately asked:

"Who are you looking for?"

Fang Fang was about to speak, but unexpectedly was cut off by Fang Siyao behind her.

Fang Siyao, hands on her hips, with an impatient expression, said:

"Oh, did you hire a maid? Hurry up and tell Lin Meng to scram—how can she have the cheek to live in the Ye family's villa? I really don't know how thick‑skinned she is!"

Fang Siyao's mouth moved faster than her brain; after shouting, she suddenly recalled her grandmother's warning, her heart gave a little thump, but she quickly regained her bluster.

"Grandma wouldn't really cut off her finances, would she? Lin Meng is at most an outsider, while she herself is the grandmother's beloved granddaughter, pampered since childhood—who's close and who's distant, the grandmother surely knows."

As soon as Lin Cuihua opened the door and heard someone spewing nonsense, still blocking the doorway to belittle her niece, her face instantly turned cold and she shouted at Fang Siyao:

"No manners— the Lin family refuses to receive you; please leave!"

Having spoken, Lin Cuihua immediately slammed the door shut; because she was angry, she put extra force into it, and the door made a loud bang as it closed.

Lin Meng heard the commotion, came out, and frowned, saying:

"Little aunt, whose dog is barking wildly at the door?"