"I don't know if it will work out." Li Qianxia was eating a cucumber.

"Not optimistic." Yang Qinglan held a handful of fresh peas in her hand, eating them slowly like a noble lady. "But it's good that there's progress, at least I won't die."

Li Changzhou rubbed his chin, remaining silent.

More than Hurd's reaction, he was concerned that he muttered something to himself, and Hurd "woke up".

Was it a coincidence, or did the black mist overhear his words?

Compared to the ability to communicate with the black mist, the ability to safely bestow skills upon others is insignificant. There are many other incomprehensible mysteries surrounding the black mist.

The doorbell rang twice.

"Come in." Li Changzhou pulled himself out of his reverie.

Aferona entered the house carrying several boxes and gently closed the door behind her.

“‘Lord’.” She presented the box in her hand.

Li Changzhou took it first, and after confirming that there was no danger, he handed it over to Yang Qinglan.

Yang Qinglan didn't take it. She pointed her slender fingers at the table, indicating that he should put it there, and continued eating the peas in her hand until she finished—she didn't want to get her hands dirty.

Li Changzhou put it down, turned to Aferona and said, "Send someone to keep an eye on Heder. If he's conscious, have him deal with that Lei first..."

“Gregory,” Yang Qinglan, her fair fingers pinching a fresh green pea, reminded him.

"Make him hand over Gregory's ID card," Li Changzhou continued to instruct.

Li Qianxia chewed on the cucumber with a clattering sound, almost bursting into a silly laugh, thinking that the two of them looked like a married couple.

"Yes," Aferona replied, head bowed.

"If there's nothing else, you can go downstairs."

“My lord…” Aferona hesitated, unable to finish her sentence.

"What's wrong?" Li Changzhou looked at her.

“Please punish me.” Aferona lowered her head even further. “What happened with Renato was my mistake.”

Li Changzhou tapped his fingers on the table, looked at her for a while, and said:

"I won't reward you for how many players you recruit as subordinates, nor will I punish you for what your subordinates do. That's your business. My only standard for punishment and reward is what you've done for me."

"You did a great job this time, finding some very useful medicinal herbs for me. Not only will I not punish you, but I will also reward you later. Do you understand what I mean?"

“…Understood.” Aferona nodded.

"Well, but you should also be careful. It would be a real headache for me if you died. There probably isn't another person like you who can keep up with me without any special training. Alright, go down and do what I told you to do."

"Yes, please get some rest."

Aferona took three steps back, turned and left.

“Brother,” Li Qianxia leaned closer, “I think you shouldn’t be a lawyer, you should be an actor.”

"And then you'll be my agent?"

Li Changzhou took her cucumber, broke it in two, returned the piece she had eaten to her, and ate the rest himself.

"Agents are annoying, I don't want to be one. I want to be an assistant, I'll have food and drink, air conditioning even in the desert, and I'll travel all over the world with you every day, how great would that be?" Li Qianxia looked on with anticipation, thinking that such a future would be pretty good.

"Are you sure you're talking about the assistant?" Yang Qinglan had finished eating the peas by then, wiped her hands with a paper towel, and began to examine the medicinal herbs.

Calvino and Herd, perhaps because they had many subordinates, collected a total of seven kinds of medicinal herbs: three to increase strength, two to increase agility, one to increase physique, and one to increase perception.

In terms of strength, Li Qianxia is 1 point short, while Yang Qinglan is quite lacking, needing 6 more points. All three herbs that increase strength need to be refined, leaving two strength pills.

“If you’re not bad, you can save one plant,” Li Changzhou said to his sister.

"You didn't say Qinglan was six points off, but you said I was just a little bit off?" the younger sister protested.

"Two plants at exactly six o'clock," Yang Qinglan said matter-of-factly.

"Qinglan, even you have no shame!"

Amidst laughter and conversation, the Power Pills were finished. The two of them consumed seven pills, pushing their power to its limit.

Yang Qinglan was in charge of alchemy.

The goal is to accumulate and study cooking experience and methods from the recipes that come with the rice cooker, so that in the future, I can use the rice cooker to cook dishes that are not in the recipes—unnamed dishes that even pigs wouldn't eat don't count.

In terms of perception, Li Qianxia was 5 points short, Li Changzhou was 1 point short, and this time it was exactly 6 points, but there was only one herb to increase perception.

"Brother, you eat first later." Li Qianxia looked at her brother.

“You eat it.” Li Changzhou tossed away the cucumber tail. “I’m just one point short. I can level up by just going into a dungeon once.”

"It's too risky to take a risk for just one point."

“If you eat three, your perception will be at 8 points. If your brother enters a dungeon once and upgrades his black card, both your four stats will be at their maximum. But if your brother eats first, and you eat two, you'll only have 7 points. In that case, your brother won't just enter a dungeon once, but will have to help you level up twice,” Yang Qinglan said.

"Okay, I'll eat it." Li Qianxia thought about it and nodded obediently.

She suddenly laughed again: "I never thought that among the three of us, Qinglan would be the first to achieve a perfect score in all four categories, and maybe even the first in the world!"

"Strength," Yang Qinglan said calmly.

"Holy crap!" The brother and sister were both shocked by her shamelessness.

Yang Qinglan laughed.

After chatting for a while, the Perception Pills were ready. Li Qianxia ate them one after another like eating peas, raising her perception to 8 points.

"Taking medicine is too easy. What was the point of all our hard work before?" Li Qianxia sighed.

In just one day, she improved by 5 points, while Yang Qinglan improved by 8 points!

"Otherwise, why would the protagonists in novels all love to refine elixirs and take medicine?" said Li Changzhou, who had worked for free but never got to eat any of the medicine.

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