However, this liveliness was blocked outside the Parting Garden's array. The moment they entered the Parting Garden, all they saw was a quiet courtyard.
"You're back?" Xu Jin was fiddling with herbs in the courtyard. When he heard the footsteps of the two, he didn't even raise his head to ask.
"Master." Sima Youyue bowed to Xu Jin.
"Is it done?" Xu Jin put down the medicinal ingredients and asked.
"Yes, it's settled." Sima Youyue walked over and saw Xu Jin's herbs. She said, "Master, some of your herbs are not ripe yet."
"I can see it." Xu Jin glanced at her, "But you know, some herbs are best used when they are not ripe."
"When I'm not mature."
Xu Jin picked up a green peach-like fruit and said, "Look at this Bodhi Peach. After it ripens, it can be used to refine restriction breaking pills and so on. It has a wide range of uses. Even if it's taken directly, it can clear one's heart and guard one's nature, increasing one's divine sense cultivation. But do you know that if this thing is picked before it's ripe, its medicinal properties will be the opposite, and it can confuse a person's mind? "
"I didn't know it had such an effect." Sima Youyue took the Bodhi Peach, looked at it, and smelled it. Indeed, it did not have the comfortable fragrance of a ripe peach. Instead, it had a slightly bitter taste.
"That's not all." Xu Jin said with a smile, "Among these medicinal herbs, some of them have better effects when they're not mature, some of them have opposite effects, and some of them are similar, so you'll have to spend some effort to understand them. Things in this world will always pop up when we think we understand them. "
Sima Youyue nodded and agreed with Xu Jin. This world was vast, and no one could say that they had everything under their control.
"I'm hungry." Little Seven pulled Sima Youyue's hand.
"Little Seven is playing with Master in the courtyard. I'll go make some food for you, okay?"
Although Little Seven didn't want to be with Xu Jin, seeing how Sima Youyue treated her like a child, in order to not make her suspicious, she could only nod obediently.
Sima Youyue walked a few steps before she realized that there was no kitchen. She took a detour and went to the backyard.
The open space there is large.
Xu Jin waited for Sima Youyue to leave before he continued to fiddle with his herbs. Little Seven walked over and stuffed a herb into her mouth. She even commented, "These things of yours are all so low-grade."
"Eat one of mine. You have to pay me back." Xu Jin stretched out his hand. "I know you have a lot of radishes. Just give me two of them."
"In your dreams, those are my food." Little Seven wouldn't give her things to Xu Jin. "You humans are all like this. Only a silly person like Yue Yue wouldn't want my radish."
"That can't be. She's so silly. Your radish is a good thing and she doesn't want it." Xu Jin felt sorry for Sima Youyue. This fellow should have more radishes, as much as she could.
"Humph, look at you. My Yue Yue is a good person. She doesn't want these things." Little Seven looked at Xu Jin with disdain.
Xu Jin automatically ignored her disdain. "My silly disciple really didn't want your radish. Could it be that you said you would give her radish and she really took it as a radish?"
"How can that be?" Little Seven looked at him as if he was a fool. "I put the radish in her hands two or three times. She didn't want it and gave it back to me."
Xu Jin touched his chin and pondered, "It seems that my silly disciple is really too silly. I have to teach her properly when I go back. Really, I don't know how Old Man Devil taught her before. She's actually so silly. She doesn't even know how to take good things. "
"You don't have that ability." Little Seven snorted.
"You plan to follow her until Old Man comes back. You still dare to stay here?" Xu Jin looked at Little Seven provocatively.
"Why wouldn't I dare?" Although Little Seven said this, she still didn't have enough confidence.
"I say, if you don't stay in the place they prepared for you, if you get caught and eaten, you won't even have time to cry." Xu Jin reminded her.
"This is the school. Who can catch me?" Little Seven didn't listen to his words. She took a bite of the herb and spat it on the ground. "Why does it taste so bad?"
"Who told you to eat it directly?" Xu Jin's heart ached for his own herbs. This fellow was too wasteful.
"If I don't eat it like this, how can I eat it?" Little Seven threw the rest of the herbs into Xu Jin's arms.
"You eat these herbs just to absorb the medicinal properties inside to increase your strength. It's not like you're really going to eat them." Xu Jin said, "Since it's like this, haven't you thought about refining them into pills? After refining them, they won't taste that bad."
"It can be like this?" Little Seven's eyes lit up. "These things are too bad, but I have to eat them. Every time I eat them, I feel pain. Although Yue Yue's cooking is good, it can't satisfy my needs. If I can refine them into pills, it'll be better. "
"It's like this when you're stupid. When you transformed into a little doll, why didn't you transform yourself to be smarter? "Xu Jin teased.
"Tsk" Little Seven bared her teeth at him and threatened. "Do you believe that I'll eat you?"
"You can try." Xu Jin wasn't afraid at all.
"Hmph, wait until that old fellow comes back. Let's see if you can still be so cocky."
"I'm fine. At most, he'll scold me a little when he comes back. But you're wandering around without your original body. I think you'll be taught a lesson."
"Let's wait and see. I'll go find Yue Yue to make me eat the pills." Little Seven ran towards the backyard after she finished speaking.
Sima Youyue was cooking while Han Miao Shuang watched with shining eyes.
When Youyue started cooking, she smelled the fragrance. Then her legs didn't listen to her and ran over with her.
"What did Little Seven say to Master? Wait a little longer. It'll be done soon." Sima Youyue waved at Little Seven.
Han Miao Shuang smiled and teased. "Little Junior Brother, you treat Little Seven better than the rest of us."
Sima Youyue wasn't angry. She smiled. "You're all adults. Little Seven is still a child. Why, are you jealous of a child? If you like it, I'll give you a big jar later. You can drink it slowly."
Little Seven walked over and sat beside Han Miao Shuang. "I'll give you a big jar of vinegar."
"You two are in cahoots." Han Miao Shuang looked at Little Seven. She felt that she wasn't as simple as a child. But looking at Sima Youyue, she seemed to trust her.
Little Seven seemed to like it when Han Miao Shuang tied her and Sima Youyue together. She wasn't angry and just smiled.
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