Chapter 36 400 Nutrient Solution Plus
Edith walked out of the office, looked up at the clock tower not far away, and found that there was still a long time before the next class.
There was no way. After all, Marcia finished class early, and there was only this one class in the morning schedule, so the time left was enough for her to go back and take another nap.
She walked happily towards the dormitory.
......
Senior classroom.
Perkin had a stiff face, accepting the vague gazes from all around him.
If he had known this would happen, he might as well not hand in the homework!
When he first arrived at the college, he tentatively asked his roommates. These guys kept saying that they had not changed a single word of their homework, had not made a single bottle of potion, and had just messed around with the additional questions to get by. He actually believed them and patted his chest, feeling relieved - with so many people around, the professor should not be able to find out about his problem.
Who knew that when it was time to collect homework, the papers handed in by everyone were thicker than anyone else's, the medicine they were refining was too much to hold with both arms, and the textbooks on the desk looked like they had been read countless times during the vacation -
brazen!
In the end, only five people in the class handed in the extra questions. Among them, only the top student in the class did the extra questions in addition to completing all the regular homework. The remaining four people just muddled through to make up the numbers.
The teacher publicly called out the names of four people who had not submitted their regular homework. Perkin had no choice but to bite the bullet and walk onto the stage amid the gloating looks of the crowd. The bottle of potion he had spent a lot of money on was tightly held in his arms, and it was slightly warmed by his body temperature.
The teacher frowned, looked at the additional questions that ranked first in the class, smelled them, tasted them a little, and nodded with an expression of approval.
"A little bit of sword grass, the hallucinogenic ingredients in it make people feel like they are in a spring garden, but it won't cause dizziness due to overdose." He smacked his lips and continued, "It's sweet. Added cage fruit? Not bad, it won't reduce the medicinal properties, but it can add flavor... Next is the fire dragon bone powder? I can feel my skin temperature rising..."
He made a simple judgment, and the student also added a few words and briefly talked about his own refining ideas. The smile on the teacher's face became more and more intense, and he couldn't help nodding: "Not bad...You can go in this direction for your graduation thesis. Appropriately reduce the hallucination substances and see if other materials can be used as substitutes. The ingredients that are harmful to health in functional potions should not be too much."
"If nothing unexpected happens, you will get the highest score today."
The man put on a perfect smile, bowed, and walked back to his seat gracefully under the envious gazes of everyone.
Professor Fergus's good mood only lasted so long.
Except for the first place in the class who had a potion homework, he didn't dare drink the bottles that others handed in. He poured a few drops of the potion into the test paper, and after confirming that there were no side effects, he finally reluctantly dipped a little with a cloth strip and put it into his mouth.
What a bunch of trash!
The next three bottles of potion made him feel more uncomfortable each time.
"A pure, non-toxic, sweet mixture of fruit juice and water - you shouldn't study at the School of Pharmacy. The agricultural products section of the Tulip Market is more suitable for you. Others will join the association after graduation, but you can find a job across the street and be responsible for destroying rotten fruits and vegetables." He pressed the bottle of weird-tasting juice heavily on the table. "Finish all your holiday homework within a week, and submit an illustrated guide of at least 200 crops."
The second student walked away with his head down.
"A whole bottle of hallucinogenic potion, plus a large amount of sleeping ingredients, will make you fall asleep immediately after taking it - what, looking for love in your dreams? The other person will fall asleep directly after drinking it, and will fall in love with sleep rather than you." He snorted coldly, "You should also make up for your holiday homework and complete a report on the harmfulness of hallucinogenic ingredients."
The third student ran away covering his head amid laughter.
The fourth student saw this and quickly hugged the bottle back to his chest, trembling: "I will make up for it! I promise to hand in the homework within a week."
Fergus: "It's late, you have double the homework."
After dealing with the first four people, he finally turned his attention to Perkin, who was at the end of the list. Seeing that he also hid the bottle in his chest, he narrowed his eyes and asked, "You don't want to hand it over either?"
"You triple it."
“No, no, no, I’ll hand it in. I’ll hand it in!” With triple the homework, he can’t even think of taking a break for this week!
Perkin had no choice but to pull the bottle out of his clothes and hand it to Fergus with great pain.
This potion costs two thousand gold coins per bottle. Even though he comes from a well-off family, he still feels a pang of pain when he spends the money.
Fergus didn't have high hopes for this bottle of medicine. Although Perkin's grades weren't the worst, they weren't great either. He was always in the middle of the pack. If he was conservative with the questions, he would make progress, but if he was innovative, he would regress.
For a child like this, it's OK to let him refine medicine according to the book, but to let him use his divergent thinking to innovate on his own? Forget it.
As a matter of routine, he simply tested the drug's toxicity, and only put a little into his mouth after confirming that it was non-toxic.
"You--" He was about to taste it carefully to determine the composition of the medicine when he suddenly heard a bang in his head, as if something sweet and soft wrapped around his skin and covered his mouth.
In an instant, he seemed to have returned to ten years ago. The greasy fragrance of unknown origin suddenly turned into a specific floral scent. In the garden dance, his young wife, in a dress, turned around and smiled brightly at him who had the courage to extend his hand.
He could hear his heart beating vigorously again and again, and his voice began to tremble. "I want to ask... if you are willing to dance with me."
The sunlight and falling petals lingered in the girl's hair. She blinked playfully and opened her mouth gently.
"——Teacher, are you okay?"
The dream is shattered.
The wife in front of him suddenly spoke a man's voice, and then the flowers and trees around him suddenly collapsed. The dense leaves turned into books on both sides of the wall, and the flowers disappeared, revealing the hard floor underneath. Fergus looked up in a trance, and his wife's long hair became shorter and shorter, and finally stopped at a finger joint length on her head. Perkin's worried face was revealed in his wife's smile, "Teacher, teacher?"
He called out passionately, and seeing that the other party was still smiling strangely, he couldn't help but panic and shouted to the stunned people on the stage, "Does anyone have a prepared healing potion--"
Fergus: "..."
Damn, what just happened!
"Shut up." He couldn't stand it anymore, so he picked up the pointer and hit Perkin who had his back to him, "Who asked you to treat me? I'm so angry..."
Perkin covered his buttocks and howled, then jumped away flexibly to avoid the teacher's next attack. He looked back and saw Fergus standing there in good condition. He couldn't help but burst into tears: "That's great, teacher, you're okay!"
Fergus was so angry that he didn't know what to say. He was about to curse a few more times, but when he turned around and saw the bottle of pink potion, he still didn't say a word, "...Forget it, you did a good job."
"Did you prescribe this medicine?"
Perkin stood up straight immediately and answered without blushing or beating his heart: "Yes, teacher. That's right, teacher."
Fergus took off his glasses and finally got serious this time, picking up the wet cloth and observing it carefully. "Did you choose a hallucinogenic pollen with a small amount of toxicity... It can avoid the test strip detection, give people an atmosphere, and most importantly, the inherent toxicity can make the detoxifying herbal ingredients in the potion work, thereby promoting blood circulation and speeding up the heartbeat... It's really a genius design."
He looked up, his eyes full of approval: "I guess you didn't do it alone."
Perkin's heart tightened, and before he could think of a reason, he heard Fergus speak confidently, "Your sister has read the notes of the master of potions in the library inside the academy, right?"
"Ah? Ah, yes, I specifically asked my sister to help me find relevant information on hallucinogenic drugs at the library. Inspired by the predecessors, I made this potion." Perkin was extremely grateful that he had a sister who was in the top ten in academic performance. He immediately attributed the credit to her. "My sister also helped me a lot during the refining process. I'm sorry that I took too much credit for myself."
Anyway, his sister is now an apprentice in the Pharmacy Association. She is not here, so there is no evidence.
"It's a good thing to be proactive in seeking knowledge." Fergus didn't mind and put the bottle into his suitcase. "I'll take the things first - your homework is acceptable, so you don't need to submit it separately."
"In addition, I give you the best grade for this assignment."
Po Jin Gang was still heartbroken that the potion he bought with 2,000 gold coins was taken away just like that. When he heard the teacher say this, he immediately stopped thinking about it and smiled happily: "Thank you, teacher!"
Worth it! A top grade can be exchanged for a letter of recommendation from a teacher, which is a relationship that cannot be bought with 2,000 gold coins!
He walked off the stage lightly and sat back in the seat he had occupied before, grinning from ear to ear. It was not until his friend poked him with a pen with a smirk on his face that he came to his senses and looked in the direction the other person's finger was pointing.
There, William, the top student in the class, was staring at his face with a deadly look. When he saw Perkin turn his head, he smiled sinisterly.
"You'd better always be a good baby to your sister." He threatened with his lips moving each word.
Perkin couldn't help but shudder and got goose bumps all over his body.
"Ignore him, he's just jealous that you have a good sister." The friend said nonchalantly, "After all, he's the only one in his family who was admitted to the academy, and his grades are seriously unbalanced. He probably won't be able to see the library in his lifetime. Seeing that you got first place with your library notes, he must be so angry that his teeth are about to break."
Not far away, William, who was at the center of the discussion, was shaking violently under the burning gazes of the people around him. His friend hurried forward to mediate, saying, "It's okay, it's just a one-time incident. His sister left the college, and he himself can't go to the library. You will have to take the highest honors in the future."
"Yeah, it's impossible for him to enter the internal library again - but his sister has joined the Pharmacy Guild!" William gritted his teeth, "Pharmacy Guild, huh, they are using their precious library qualifications to help their brother. Would they be reluctant to give up a research result in the future? They are really a guy who will do anything to climb up."
The friend was about to say something but stopped. He wanted to say that you were the most unscrupulous person - but when he thought about the various obstacles you set for your competitors, he had to shut up.
Forget it. What if I tell the other person and make him hate me? Then I might be the one who gets drugged before the next exam and fails.
"His sister is an apprentice after all, so she doesn't have access to much of the Pharmacy Guild's stuff." The friend consoled him, "How many people join the guild every year, and how many people have the qualifications to go to the internal library? Obviously the latter is much more valuable."
"If you ask me, instead of going against Perkin, you should find an opportunity to go to the library. Didn't the rules change this year? You can choose to challenge others in any aspect, and if you win, you can inherit the number of times - this rule is tailor-made for you."
William's expression improved a little and he nodded in approval.
Yes, his performance in Potions was so good that if it weren't for the other Coras holding him back, he would definitely have made it into the top ten.
"So who do you think is a good challenge for me?" He tilted his head and asked his friend.
My friend paused for two seconds.
It definitely won’t work for fourth or fifth graders, after all, it’s too difficult because they are one age higher.
Those in the same grade...are not that good either. Although William himself wouldn't admit it, there is some fakery in his grades, and there will be problems if they are compared one-on-one.
The second grade hasn't been divided into houses yet, so we don't know which of the top ten are good at potions and which are not. Choosing a good one doesn't necessarily mean success -
——After much thought, I think first grade is more suitable.
The friend thought for a long time and said cautiously:
"What do you think of Edith Griffin, the first-place finisher in the first-year entrance exam?"
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