Little Ruanruan had a serious little face, crossed her little arms over her chest, and looked at the three grandfathers with cute but earnest eyes. "Grandpa Yan, Grandpa Huang, Grandpa Peng, although I have learned a little medicine, I don't have any talent for medicine, so I am definitely not suitable to be your apprentice."
Grandpa Yan sat up. "Hey, little girl, we never said we wanted you to be our apprentice. It's just that, you see, the three of us old folks are getting old now."
My hands and feet aren't as nimble as they used to be, so it's not easy for me to go up the mountain to collect herbs.
"My dear granddaughter, you wouldn't bear to watch your three grandfathers go up the mountain to gather herbs and fall to their deaths, would you?"
Little Softie: ……
She wanted to say she could bear it, but looking at the pitiful, pleading looks on the three grandfathers' faces, she decided, "I can't bear it!"
The three grandfathers immediately revealed cunning smiles like old foxes. Grandpa Peng picked up Xiao Ruanruan and couldn't help but kiss the little girl on the cheek. "My good granddaughter is the best. She knows how to care for her grandfather."
But as soon as he finished kissing him, he felt a chilly gaze. When he looked up, he met Gu Chen's dark, deep, and icy eyes.
Grandpa Peng raised his eyebrows arrogantly and lifted his chin, clearly saying to Gu Chen: I'm going to kiss my own granddaughter, and if you're not happy about it, then keep it to yourself!
At this moment, Grandpa Huang had already happily gone inside to get a cell phone and stuffed it into Xiao Ruanruan's little hand. "Xiao Ruanruan, since you promised to help the grandpas collect herbs, you must first memorize these Chinese herbs."
Over the years, my grandfathers haven't done anything else, but they've taken up the art of tasting hundreds of herbs like Shennong, and recorded the shapes and effects of various Chinese medicinal herbs.
"My dear granddaughter, please take some time recently to memorize all the important documents and records on this phone!"
Little Ruanruan looked at the phone shoved into her arms, her eyes twitched, and she asked weakly, "Grandpa Huang, how many kinds of Chinese herbal medicine information are stored in this?"
Grandpa Yan came over, smiling kindly and gently. "Not many, not many, less than 30,000 kinds. I heard from Gu that you have an amazing memory, Little Softie, and can remember everything you see."
If you memorize a thousand kinds a day, you'll finish memorizing them in a month. After that, you can go up the mountain to help us gather herbs.
Looking at the bright smiles on the faces of the three grandfathers surrounding her, Xiao Ruanruan felt an urge to die.
For the first time in her life, she looked at Gu Chen with deep resentment.
She's just a rich kid who dreams of being a freeloader, why make her learn so much?
Gu Chen received Xiao Ruanruan's gaze, his heart filled with doting and helplessness. The reason he told these three old men about Xiao Ruanruan in such detail was partly because the three old men had noticed that he treated Xiao Ruanruan differently and had been pestering him to ask about her all the time.
On one hand, it's his fault. I don't know what got into him at the time, but he wanted to brag to the three old men about how amazing his wife was, and then...
Gu Chen walked towards Xiao Ruanruan and said, "If you three old men really can't find any apprentices, I'll reluctantly become your apprentices. Xiao Ruanruan is still young. How can you bear to make her suffer and learn medicine with you?"
As he spoke, he reached for the phone that Old Huang had given to Xiao Ruanruan.
But before he could even grab the phone, Old Master Yan slapped his hand across the back of his hand with lightning speed. "You brat, what are you doing? Trying to steal our precious granddaughter's things right under our noses?"
Old Peng glanced at him disdainfully, "Heh, kid Gu, you want to be our apprentice now? Let me tell you, no way!"
Now that we have such a well-behaved, adorable, and intelligent granddaughter, who would want a brat like you?
Gu Chen glanced at Old Huang again, who, though silent, also looked arrogant and disdainful of him.
Are these the same three old guys who used to chase after him all the time, wanting to take him as their apprentice and pass on their mantle to him?
But then he looked at the three old men who were looking down at him with smug expressions. They were telling him with their eyes what it meant to say, "Back then, you ignored me; now, you can't afford to associate with me!"
Little Ruanruan angrily picked up her phone, biting her small, white teeth. "It's just information on tens of thousands of herbs, isn't it?"
She carried it on her back!
But she also glared fiercely at Gu Chen. Gu Chen had betrayed her, and she had to get revenge!
The three old men glanced at the little girl's resolute expression and exchanged a smug look.
This time, they finally felt relieved. Not only did they trick a well-behaved granddaughter's little apprentice, but they also gave Gu a good thrashing. It was a way of venting their anger at being rejected by Gu so many times over the years!
Let's see how that kid will ever put on a cold face in front of them again.
Now that they don't beg him anymore, if he dares to give her the cold shoulder again, she'll have her granddaughter teach him a lesson without hesitation!
Little Ruanruan sat cross-legged on an old-fashioned bamboo recliner in the yard. She found it too tiring to hold her phone, so she found a small white robot in the house and asked it to hold her phone while the phone was in automatic reading mode.
As she quickly browsed the important information on her phone screen, she silently complained to herself about how stupid the three old men were. They had to type the information into the phone and then hold it to look at it—how tiring!
Why not just get a robot?
Thinking of this, her eyes lit up instantly. That's it! She could get a robot, input all this information into the robot's database, and then have the robot help her grandfathers collect herbs.
Give the robot a scanning function so that when it goes up the mountain, it can identify Chinese herbs in the database with just a scan and then pick them up. It will save time, effort and worry. How great would that be!
This time, Xiao Ruanruan was very proactive and acted immediately. She grabbed the robot that was helping her get her phone, and then asked Uncle Qiu Shun to help her get the tools. She then got to work.
When the three old men returned after having a few drinks in high spirits, they saw Xiao Ruanruan carrying the silly little robot they had bought but had been keeping idle, walking into the mountains with a small basket on her back.
Gu Xiaozi followed closely behind her, neither too close nor too far.
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