Lu Changfeng set down the book and smiled openly. "Your Highness has been so generous. It would be discourteous of me to refuse."
He first picked up the Secrets of the Jade Satchel. "This alchemical legacy would benefit me. I would like this."
Taiping guessed it belonged to Zhang Changzong and waved the matter through. "Granted."
Lu Changfeng then looked around and spotted a pill the size of a longan in an open jade box. It radiated immense vitality, with cloud patterns circling its surface. His heart jolted. This had to be the sacred healing medicine said to "revive the dead and grow flesh upon bare bones"-the [Great Restoration Pill]!
This was rather too precious...
He hesitated, beginning to consider whether he ought to know when to advance and when to retreat.
One glance told Taiping what he was thinking. With a faint smile, she drew the pill over, then flicked her finger, sending it into Lu Changfeng's hand. "You need not worry, Minister Lu. I keep my word. Shaolin has occupied Shaoshi on Mount Song for more than two hundred years, and that privilege does not come free. Great Restoration Pills are hardly rare treasures to the imperial family. Choose whatever you please."
"Thank you, Your Highness."
Since that was the case, Lu Changfeng stood on no further ceremony and carefully put away the Great Restoration Pill.
With the two things he wanted most already in hand, he was in excellent spirits and had no intention of shearing any more wool. He casually picked up a green Jade Pendant with a smooth, lustrous texture. Its front bore a relief of a mist-shrouded mountain valley, serene and expansive in mood. It rather appealed to him.
"This piece of jade will do."
Lu Changfeng knew when to stop while he was