Chapter 23: Mustard Seed Bag

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

At the Bai family’s home.

“Patriarch, your disciple struck it rich today. There’s a foolish and rich man next door who spent 500,000 dollars to buy a talisman from me! Soon we’ll see the success of our Taoist Temple’s revival!”

Bai Jin was mumbling in front of the tablet, “I’m still thinking that it’s better to be more prudent. Such a big client doesn’t come often. Moving on, we’ll have to go slow and steady…”

Slam! The tablet fell again.

“Ah! Patriarch, you don’t know much about the standard measurement of the modern world, do you? Let me tell you, 500,000 dollars is equivalent to 10,000 taels of silver! We’re rich!” Bai Jin explained.

Whirr, the incense burner on the table then wobbled and rolled to the ground.

“Ah! I overlooked! Patriarch, you are actually complaining that I haven’t bought you an incense burner yet. I’ll make the arrangements now! Please forgive me!”

Bai Jin quickly bowed. She had been busy all day and had not bought an incense burner for the Patriarch! Since she had used up all the talisman paper and cinnabar that she had brought from Mount Prosperity, and Master Clueless’s bird food had also run out, she would go shopping and buy everything at once!

In the living room, seeing that Xiao Bai had dressed up and was prepared to go out, Tao Ran looked at her bag and said, “Xiao Bai, you should change your bag. Look, your cloth bag is already torn.”

Xiao Bai looked at her bag, it was indeed a little old. Thus, she picked out a relatively not so eye-catching bag from the wardrobe that Bai Yang had prepared for her.

Tao Ran saw Xiao Bai continuously taking things out of her gray bag and stuffing them into the new bag. Both bags were not big, but the things that were taken out and stuffed in were like from a bottomless pit to another. One could not be emptied, and the other could not be filled up.

“Xiao Bai, what kind of strange bag is that? How could it hold so many things?”

Tao Ran was in the crucial period of rebuilding her worldview. She had acquired some knowledge and exposure. However, when she saw Xiao Bai’s way of packing things, she was amazed.

“Oh, this is a mustard seed bag.” Faced with the studious and curious Tao Tao, Xiao Bai answered happily, “A mustard seed is often viewed as something insignificant, but it has the potential to grow into something big, and it could contain everything. As long as my mustard seed talisman is attached to it, an ordinary bag could also become a mustard seed bag.”

“Do you still have that mustard seed talisman?” Tao Ran immediately remembered the Chanel, Dior, and Hermes bags in her bag cabinet. Those small bags were only good for decorative purposes. If this mustard seed talisman was attached to them, wouldn’t those pretty bags become practical for usage?

“Yes!” Xiao Bai rummaged through the bag. “But there are not many left. I’ll give you two first, 20 dollars each.”

“Okay!” Tao Ran happily took the yellow talisman and asked Xiao Bai how to use the talismans in detail.

Tao Ran was not disappointed when she heard that these talisman papers would not last. After all, it was only 20 dollars each. Moreover, she heard from Xiao Bai that she could draw many of these talismans as long as she had the materials. Xiao Bai had even asked her if she needed to reserve a few more.

She really struck it rich! Xiao Bai was such a great daughter! When Xiao Bai realized that she did not have enough talismans but was too embarrassed to trouble her, she had even taken the initiative to help draw the talismans!

It was truly a blessing from her ancestors to encounter such a good daughter!

“Tao Tao, you’re thinking too much. I just want to earn more money,” Xiao Bai thought.

Tao Ran asked again, “Xiao Bai, can I go with you? You’re new to Sea City, and you’re not familiar with the place. I can show you the way, and the driver can take us. It’ll be more convenient this way.”

“Okay.” Xiao Bai certainly agreed.

Seeing that Xiao Bai agreed readily, Tao Ran quickly grabbed her bag, and the two of them left the house..