Lin Fan knitted his brows when he heard this, but he didn’t take back the bag that he had placed.
He just watched the staff member carefully without saying a word.
When he was being stared at like this, the staff member couldn’t help feeling awkward, but he just remained there without any changes to his expression. However, Lin Fan really did put quite a bit of pressure on him by not doing anything.
Finally, Lin Fan just turned to leave without saying a thing.
The staff member couldn’t help being shocked by this sudden movement by Lin Fan and didn’t know how to react. When he came back to his senses, he found that the man in front of him was already gone.
If it wasn’t for the bag in his hand and the bag on the counter, he would have thought that it was all a dream.
But he found that when he tried remembering what happened, he couldn’t remember anything about that person just now. He couldn’t remember the appearance of the cloak that he had worn or the voice that he had spoken with.
It was as if everything had become a blur.
After Lin Fan left, he went to the next location on the list.
However, no matter how many locations he went to, he wasn’t able to find a single thing.
He had hope at first, but that hope slowly dwindled with each location that he went to.
After all, not a single person knew a thing about the suppliers of this Dragon Tongue Herb. He hadn’t even been able to find a trace of the Dragon Tongue Herb in his search.
There wasn’t a single trace of the herb no matter where he searched.
It was almost as if it didn’t exist in this Night Fang City at all.
But he was certain that it did or else the fourth prince wouldn’t have sent him here.
So just where was it?
Finally, as he made his way through the list, he reached the bottom of the list.
There was only a single place left to check and it was the most unlikely place to have the Dragon Tongue Herb.
It was an orphanage.
According to the information from the Night Eye Organization, this place was where a deal involving the Dragon Tongue Herb had been held. However, this was the least likely place since this was just a one time event and the involved parties should be gone.
He was only searching this place since he had no other choice.
When he arrived, he found a completely dilapidated building that seemed like it was abandoned. However, he could hear the sounds of children laughing coming from inside the building which told him that it wasn’t.
But Lin Fan didn’t go into the building in the end.
After all, there was no reason for him to go in.
The deal for the Dragon Tongue Herb had been held in a clearing near the orphanage and not in the orphanage itself.
So Lin Fan was planning on going around the orphanage until…the kids spotted him through the gate.
They were all curious why someone was lurking around the orphanage, so they all followed him as he made his way through.
Lin Fan had wanted to walk by unnoticed, but it was hard when there were a bunch of kids following him from behind the fence. It attracted a lot of attention, so he had no choice but to address them.
So he looked at the kids and asked, “Can I help you with something?”
One of the boys came forward and asked, “Big brother, what are you doing here? Why are you sneaking around like this?”
Lin Fan couldn’t help revealing a bitter smile when he heard this.
It seemed like he really couldn’t do anything against the natural curiosity of children. Even if he had moved with enough stealth that normal people wouldn’t notice him, the naturally curious mind of children still found him in the end.
So Lin Fan said, “I’m just looking for something around this area. It’s nothing important.”
The boy tilted his head and asked, “What are you looking for?”
Another one of the boys said, “We can help you find it if you want.”
A third one said, “We know all the best places in the area. Especially the peeping spot by the bath.”
As the third boy said this, all of the other boys revealed knowing smiles before quickly covering each other’s mouths and looking around.
Lin Fan couldn’t help revealing an awkward smile when he heard this.
These kids…they really were naughty boys just like they looked like.
But he didn’t have time to play with them.
However, before he could say anything, there was someone that suddenly came over and said, “What are you boys doing? Are you up to more trouble?”
When Lin Fan heard this voice, he looked in the direction that it came from.
When he saw the owner of this voice, his chin couldn’t help dropping…
That was because…there was a beautiful girl who had appeared in front of him.
This was a beautiful girl that didn’t belong in a dirty place like this, but there she was.
She was wearing a simple robe and didn’t have any accessories on. Even with the dirt that was on her face, there was no hiding the beauty that was underneath.
Lin Fan was amazed that there was such a beautiful girl here.
As soon as the beautiful girl appeared, all of the boys started to panic as they scattered in all different directions. However, the beautiful girl said, “Stop!”
With this one word, all of them froze before turning back to look at her with bitter smiles on their faces.
Then without her saying anything, they lined up in front of her and waited for her to speak.
She looked over them in a line before saying, “Explain what happened.”
The boys looked at each other before pointing at Lin Fan who was standing outside the fence and saying, “It was him!”
When they pointed at Lin Fan, the beautiful girl’s eyes followed their fingers to finally notice Lin Fan standing outside the gate. When she saw Lin Fan, she couldn’t help being caught off guard before suddenly revealing a blush.
If it was just in front of the boys, she didn’t mind acting this way since it was the way that she normally acted.
However, when it was in front of strangers, it was hard for her not to feel embarrassed.
So she couldn’t help lowering her head when she saw Lin Fan.
But then she remembered what she was doing and she turned back to the boys to pull on each of their ears before sending them back into the building.
Once they were gone, she turned to Lin Fan and said with a smile, “Do you want to come in for some tea?”
Lin Fan couldn’t help being taken aback by this smile, but he still nodded in the end.
After going over to the gate and following her over to the building, he was surprised to see just how many children were here.
He had also started an orphanage and had seen the situations of many orphanages when he had been recruiting for the Love Sect, so he had a good idea of how many kids would be in an orphanage generally.𝓞𝒱𝐿xt.𝐂𝑶𝗆
But this place…was completely packed with them.
It was hard to believe that all of them could live in this small building.
Yes, a small building.
This building was only the size of a normal house and there were so many kids running around.
Every other orphanage that Lin Fan had seen before was several times larger than this one and had fewer kids.
It really was amazing that this place was still running.
After seeing him come in, all the kids started to hide at first.
It wasn’t strange since he was a stranger after all, but it didn’t take long for the kids to get used to him and they started coming out to see who he was. It didn’t take long after that before Lin Fan was completely surrounded by these kids.
He was even more surprised since he saw all those kids popping out of the woodworks.
It seemed like this place had even more kids than he had first thought.
Seeing how well he got along with the kids, the beautiful girl couldn’t help revealing a smile before leaving them to him. She went into another room that Lin Fan could see was a kitchen and started boiling some water.
Lin Fan just sat there surrounded by these kids.
He had only come in because he had been caught off guard by the beauty of that girl, but now that he was inside, he suddenly remembered what he was supposed to do. However, it was too late since he was already trapped.
The only thing he could do was…play with these kids until the girl came back to save him.
So with a flip of his hand, there was a ball of fire and a ball of water that appeared in the air.
With another wave of his hand, the balls of fire and water started to dance with each other, creating a clash between them that created a dazzling light show.
Kids were very easily impressed by things like this, so they were all dazzled by this.
When the beautiful girl came back with a cup of tea, she couldn’t help deeply knitting her brows seeing this.
After all, she never expected that this person was a cultivator.