Chapter 2341: 2338: Vegetable Plot
Chapter 2341: Chapter 2338: Vegetable Plot
Seeing Lin Tian a bit disappointed, Yan Lingling giggled and said, “Brother Lin Tian, you forgot, you’re the master of Medicine King Mansion, you can learn whatever you want.”
“Damn, I almost forgot about that. Then learning medicinal herb cultivation techniques is totally no problem.” Lin Tian was very happy.
“Of course it’s no problem. After Brother Lin Tian finishes class, I’ll tell you everything I know about growing herbs,” Yan Lingling said decisively.
With Yan Lingling’s definite answer, Lin Tian went to class with no worries. In the morning they had major courses, and when he came back at noon, Yan Lingling was tinkering with something, writing and drawing, and wouldn’t let Lin Tian see. But Lin Tian didn’t really care.
In the afternoon was PE; he brought a pair of swimming trunks and set off. He and Xiao Manxuan went to the swimming center as usual, and everyone practiced like always. The only difference was that two people were missing: David and Sally.
During the break, Lin Tian casually walked over to Xu Feibai and said offhandedly, “So? The students complained, the principal called you in for a talk, and you can still keep teaching?”
Xu Feibai glanced at Lin Tian and said calmly, “Are you saying that out of concern for me?”
“I care about my Xuanxuan, not you. I’m not interested in men,” Lin Tian said righteously.
Xu Feibai just smiled and didn’t mind. “I’m a specially hired teacher; I’m not under the school’s management. Besides, you’ve met the principal too—upright and strict, clear-sighted and fair. How could he wrongly accuse a good teacher like me?”
“That’s a pretty high-level line—flattering the boss and praising yourself at the same time. Since when did you become this narcissistic?” Lin Tian looked him up and down, as if he didn’t recognize him.
“I learned it from you, is that not allowed?” Xu Feibai shot back.
Lin Tian raised his brows and said helplessly, “Fine, that’s my honor.”
“You really should feel honored. You kicked out two troublemakers from the school,” Xu Feibai said, giving him a meaningful look.
Lin Tian froze for a second, then caught his meaning. “You mean David and Sally?”
“Of course. The two of them got into trouble and were detained. The school is currently discussing whether to expel them. Unless something unexpected happens, that outcome basically won’t change,” Xu Feibai said lightly, not feeling the slightest regret about expelling them.
Lin Tian laughed and said, “They’re overseas returnee students. I thought they’d get some special treatment. Looks like the school’s still pretty clear-headed.”
“That they are. They complained about me, yet it ends up like this. I bet people are guessing I must have some kind of background. You did this, right?” Xu Feibai suddenly asked back.
Lin Tian didn’t deny it at all and said very bluntly, “Anyway, you don’t care what other people think. Besides, you really do have a background; they guessed right. And they’re not qualified to make me take them to heart. Whatever you do, you bear the consequences.”
“Also, I have reason to suspect you’re stalking me—you know everything that happens to me.” Lin Tian glared at him.
Xu Feibai didn’t even look at him, turned and walked away, leaving just one sentence behind: “Break’s over, back to practice!”
Damn, pretty damn cocky. Lin Tian gave him the finger, still not sure what medicine this guy was selling in his gourd. Did he come back just to keep an eye on me?
Until class ended, Xu Feibai didn’t speak to Lin Tian again, and Lin Tian was too lazy to ask. Whether the Xu Family was looking for a chance to grab Shennong Ding or not, that was that.
After finishing the day’s courses and returning to the apartment dorm, he saw Yan Lingling hugging a stack of thick notebooks, a little smug look on her face.
“Ling’er, you’ve been writing and drawing all day. What exactly did you write that’s so mysterious?” Xiao Manxuan asked curiously.
Yan Lingling stuffed five notebooks into Lin Tian’s hands and smiled. “Everything in here is my experience and insights on planting medicinal herbs. As long as you understand all of these notes, you’ve basically learned it.”
“Five whole books?” Lin Tian smiled easily, and under Yan Lingling’s stunned gaze he started flipping through the pages with a rapid rustle. The thick notebook was flipped through in the blink of an eye, then he started on the next one.
Yan Lingling was dumbfounded watching him, but Xiao Manxuan wasn’t surprised at all. This way of “reading” by flipping through like that wasn’t Lin Tian’s first time.
In no time, Lin Tian set down the five notebooks and closed his eyes slightly. All kinds of images and words flashed through his mind like a movie on fast-forward.
“Master, next time you read like that, can you give me a heads-up? My kingly head is about to explode from the information load,” the Sword Spirit complained loudly.
Lin Tian didn’t care. “Serves you right for secretly learning. And besides, do you even have a head?”
“This king has a soul, okay? It’ll drive this king insane,” the Sword Spirit retorted, but quickly said in delight, “Still, following you really lets me learn a lot. You Huaxia people have a saying: ’Travel ten thousand miles, read ten thousand books.’ It’s really true. These notes are that little girl’s hard work, huh? The recording is super detailed. She treats you really well.”
Even though Yan Lingling was a Mid Innate expert, she didn’t have Lin Tian’s ability. Compiling all her experience into books in just one day had still been very tiring.
In the mundane world, this kind of book compiling is usually done by a whole team, but Yan Lingling did it all alone—recalling, organizing, writing, and drawing diagrams.
“Thank you,” Lin Tian said with great seriousness.
“Actually, I wanted to teach you bit by bit each day like this, so I could stay with Sister Xuanxuan and Brother Lin Tian longer. But I have to go back to Medicine King Mansion in a few days, so I could only write everything out. After that you’ll have to study it on your own,” Yan Lingling said, a little downcast.
Xiao Manxuan took the little girl’s hand and shifted her attention. “Tomorrow’s the weekend. Why don’t we start teaching us how to plant? Hmm… we’ll do it on the back mountain of the new villa. We’ll open it up into a vegetable patch.”
Lin Tian found it funny inside. A rare Medicine Garden, and you call it a vegetable patch—talk about cheapening it. But for Little Snow, it actually was a veggie patch, because if they managed to grow those herbs successfully, they might really become its “veggies.”
“But I didn’t bring any seeds,” Yan Lingling was really looking forward to it too, but then she remembered they were missing the most basic thing: medicinal seeds.
“Relax, I guarantee there’ll be seeds for you to plant tomorrow,” Lin Tian said with a mysterious smile.
However, Lin Tian didn’t explain to the two girls, because the herb seeds were coming from the Space Ring.
Inside the black iron ring were all the rare herbs the Shura High Priest had collected over his lifetime, including medicinal seeds.
Early the next morning, Lin Tian drove, taking the two beauties straight to the new villa. The new home now already had the rough outline of a manor—pavilions and towers hidden among green trees and mountain flowers, blending naturally into the environment.
But today’s main character wasn’t the villa, it was the back mountain behind it. Lin Tian wanted to open up the back mountain into a Medicine Garden, to rival Medicine King Mansion, maybe even surpass it.
Of course, that was a beautiful wish. Actually wanting to match Medicine King Mansion’s Medicine Garden was easier said than done. The Medicine King Mansion had a special climate, making herb cultivation much simpler.
Whereas this place was just an ordinary mountain area in the secular world, very normal. The only thing that comforted Lin Tian was that there was a valley behind the mountain, with very good soil and plenty of moisture. But it was still a bit short of the conditions needed for growing medicinal herbs. Whether they could successfully transform it was still unknown.