I Have a Date with a Thousand-year-old Female Corpse
Chapter 555 Fragrant Torreya_1

Chapter 555: Chapter 555 Fragrant Torreya_1

Both of them looked at you with faces full of horror, while you glanced at the electronic watch on your left hand, and added in Italian, "Oh, sorry, I misspoke, there should only be sixteen hours left."

Frank suddenly stood up, his face full of shock as he stared with his deep blue pupils.

Speaking of which, looking closely at foreigners’ eyes, you find their eyes to be even more terrifying than Ghost Eye. Because their pupils are not a single color. You say it’s blue, but if it were a pure blue like in the anime, a jewel blue, it would be pleasing to the eye. However, their blue pupils are mixed with impurities, the color not pure, and the more you look at it, the more disgusting it gets.

Murphy hurriedly pleaded in Italian, "Master, please, I beg you, save us!"

You scratched your head and said in Chinese, "Actually, I’m not really interested in dealing with your lousy issues. But since Aunt Han has intervened, I have to give her some face."

With that, a Yellow Vermilion Charm flew out from your pocket and before Murphy could react, it already stuck to her forehead.

Just as she was about to touch the Cinnabar Talisman, everyone saw a gentle glow emanating from the talisman, followed by a gust of wind hitting Murphy, causing her sleeves and hair to flap wildly.

When the wind subsided, Murphy suddenly felt a weight lifted off her, the heavy burden that had been pressing down on her like a boulder swept away, and even the panda eyes disappeared.

"Mmm~ so comfortable!"

Feeling that oppressive gloominess disappearing completely, Murphy couldn’t help but moan, and the way she looked at you changed; her blue-green eyes clearly showing more admiration and teasing.

These foreign women are so straight-forward; liking and disliking are just a flip of a page away, and they seem bad at hiding their feelings, all their emotions are expressed in the moment.

Of course, you have no interest in blond-haired, blue-eyed foreign girls, not even the interest to be normal friends.

Murphy struck what she considered to be a seductive pose and said with the directness typical of European and American people, "My name is Murphy, what’s yours?"

Glancing at Wei Shuxian next to you, you both smile at each other and then cock an eyebrow at her with a playful tone, "My English name is Walter Cotton, Visen Moore, Lamo Handsome, Handsome Stude, Brilliant Brilliant."

"Pff!"

Zong Wangyue immediately gave you a thumbs up, and his mother also couldn’t help but laugh, not expecting you to have such a humorous side.

"Boss, I’ll definitely have 5,000 of those business cards printed and distribute them throughout the school."

Ignoring Zong Wangyue, who was on the verge of laughing his head off, the smile faded from your face, and you calmly said to Murphy, "Miss Murphy, our time is precious, let’s cut to the chase."

Murphy spoke Chinese with some emphasis, though her pronunciation was clear enough, it’s just that her definition of nouns was a bit strange.

"A week ago, Frank, two other friends, and I went to the Great Beauty’s hometown; it was so pretty, so beautiful. We drove to a place called Divine Wood Forest, it was so pretty, so beautiful. And then..."

"Hold on!" You interrupted Murphy, frowning as you asked, "Who is this Great Beauty? And where’s her hometown? Is it in Yuhang City?"

Murphy shook her head, "Those two words are too hard to remember; I forgot how to say them in a blink."

"Geography is important. Before you recount your tragic journey, I must clarify this," you said, turning to Zong Wangyue, "Zongzi, use your phone’s map to confirm a few nearby place names with her."

Nodding, Zong Wangyue took out his phone from his pocket, opened the map, and pointed out some locations to Murphy.

"Here, yes, that’s the place."

Zong Wangyue saw this and couldn’t help but crack a smile, "Boss, she’s talking about Zhuji, the hometown of Xishi."

"Zhuji?" His brows raised, he hadn’t expected these two foreigners to have such an interest, actually going to the birthplace of Xishi for a visit.

Murphy continued, "When we were visiting the Great Beauty Temple, we tasted a very delicious fruit, its name is the same as mine, it’s called, called..."

"Round Bandit." Frank, still sporting a panda eye and a pale face, gloomily called out the two characters.

"No, no, it’s fragrant, fragrant as in the overflowing aroma, and the character after is not read as ’bandit,’ but as ’fei,’ the ’fei’ in Murphy."

"What they’re talking about must be Fragrant Torreya, a specialty of Zhuji; this thing can only be found deep in the mountains there, all other places have cultivated it later on." Zong Wangyue returned and sat next to Yun.

"I’ve heard of Fragrant Torreya before. It’s said to have high nutritional and medicinal values."

"Mhm," Zong Wangyue nodded.

"Little Yue, we should still have a box of Fragrant Torreya at home. Go get it and let Mu Yun have a taste."

"That would be great."

Zong Wangyue stood up and without waiting for your reaction, quickly left the living room.

"Thank you, Auntie."

You were never one to put on airs, after all, with your relationship with Zong Wangyue, to say too much empty courtesy would just seem hypocritical and pretentious.

Soon, Zong Wangyue came back holding a very exquisitely designed gift box.

After opening the gift box, he took out a small package containing about a dozen fruit that resembled olives in shape. The fruits had a hard, brown shell with some textures on them.

"Boss, have a taste; it’s quite good," he offered.

Taking a Fragrant Torreya from Zong Wangyue’s hand, you applied a gentle force with your right hand and with a "crack," you pinched a crack in the shell. The edges of the crack were smooth and the sides straight, showing that the force had been applied very evenly.

This seemingly casual action, however, sparked a trace of surprise in the eyes of Zong Wangyue’s mother and Murphy. Fragrant Torreya is actually the nut, and after the fruit flesh rots away, the nuts are extracted and processed—in better-quality Fragrant Torreya, the shell is harder. Even for the nuts that Zong Wangyue was holding now, it would be difficult for ordinary people to open them without using their teeth or a specialized tool for eating Fragrant Torreya.

After cracking the hard shell, the inside revealed a layer of charred material.

"Boss, you can eat it after scraping off this layer of black stuff with the shell."

Nodding slightly, you took the hard shell and lightly scraped the black material with its sharp edge, quickly revealing a yellow fruit.

After biting lightly into it, it was hard, crisp, and the taste was mild; as for it being as delicious as the merchants claimed, extending one’s lifespan and improving one’s complexion, it was actually not as exaggerated as they’d said.

You then scooped out the black material, tasted it, and laughed. It turned out that the part of the Fragrant Torreya with the most medicinal value was precisely that layer that people discard as waste.

Having finished the fruit of the Fragrant Torreya, you looked up to Murphy and asked, "After eating the Fragrant Torreya, where did you guys go next?"

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