Hongxuan nodded. "I've used it."
Jiaming: "Don't you think the vegetables at your uncle's house taste better?"
Upon hearing his mother's reminder, Hongxuan immediately remembered.
Indeed, my uncle's vegetarian dishes are delicious, almost as good as my mother's. I used to think it was because my uncle's cook was good at making vegetarian dishes. But it turns out, the vegetables at my uncle's house have been modified.
But if these vegetable varieties were improved by my mother, why didn't the village grow them before, and why are they only being grown now?
Hongxuan then realized that he had blurted out his true feelings, and for a moment he was stunned.
He was confused, but others weren't. Jiaming didn't want to talk to Hongxuan because it was obvious he was suspicious of her again.
So, the one who answered Hongxuan was Hongtao, who was feeding little Hongjing: "It's mainly because of the Fifth Prince. After you left for a while, the Fifth Prince became a bit picky about food and his appetite wasn't very good. He ate very little of the food prepared by the small kitchen. Only when His Majesty personally cooked the food did the Fifth Prince's appetite return to normal."
Hearing this, Hongxuan was surprised to learn that this had happened back then, as his mother hadn't mentioned it at all.
Hongtao continued, "Fourth Prince, as you know, it's impossible for His Majesty to cook every day. Because Fourth Prince likes to eat vegetarian food, His Majesty decided to use better ingredients to cook. That way, the cooks in the small kitchen can also make vegetarian dishes taste better, and Fifth Prince won't dislike the cooks' skills as much, so His Majesty won't have to cook for him all the time."
So, the reason he couldn't eat such good vegetarian food before was because he wasn't a picky eater.
Hongxuan: "..."
Hongtao continued, "The master felt that the ingredients sent to the small kitchen were not good enough, especially the vegetables, which were not delicious enough. So he specially sent someone back to the Guarjia mansion. After that, your uncle sent someone to give the vegetable seeds to the people on the master's estate to grow."
During the conversation, dinner ended, but the suggestion that Jiaming wanted to make to Hongxuan was not mentioned yet because the conversation had gone astray.
However, after dinner, when the mother and her two children were taking a walk, Jiaming told Hongxuan what had happened.
"Xuan'er, you're working as your mother's accountant, and you probably don't earn much money. You're now spending more than you earn (to appease your money-grubbing younger brother Hongjing)!"
Hongxuan nodded with some worry. Since returning from beyond the Great Wall, he had not earned any income.
Jiaming smiled and said, "How about your mother gives you an idea?"
Hongxuan's eyes lit up, and he was about to nod when Jiaming, who was beside him, continued with a smile before he could answer: "Your mother will give you more responsibilities. You will be in charge of your mother's estate. Anyway, it will be convenient for you, a boy, to go out and inspect it."
Hongxuan was somewhat reluctant to agree, not because he couldn't do it, but because he noticed that his mother's smile was a little strange when she spoke.
Hmm, it feels like my mother is making me work for her.
"In the end, you get four and I get six," Jiaming continued with a smile.
With such favorable terms, Hongxuan's eyes lit up, and he agreed: "Okay!"
"That's right!"
"What?" Hongxuan looked at Jiaming in confusion.
Jiaming handed the baby Hongjing to Hongtao, then asked the people accompanying her to stay there. She then took Hongxuan's hand and walked into the depths of the flower bushes, saying as they walked, "Come on, Mother has recently cultivated a new variety of flowers. Let me take you to see them."
"Oh, I see," Hongxuan said, and without Jiaming pulling him along, he followed her.
Upon arrival, Hongxuan immediately leaned closer to examine the so-called new variety of flower.
He also really likes flowers and plants; they give him a very warm feeling. In fact, he thinks they have emotions, which is amazing—it's his secret.
"Doesn't it feel familiar? It feels like you understand them."
Upon hearing this unexpected remark, Hongxuan's heart skipped a beat. He immediately realized that it was his mother who had spoken, and breathed a sigh of relief.
Jiaming smiled and reached out to touch the cluster of flowers, channeling her supernatural power into them. "Do you know why your mother can improve vegetable varieties? It's because your mother can sense them. You are your mother's son, and your mother's abilities can be passed down through bloodlines; it's just a matter of how much is inherited."
Hongxuan was stunned. In a daze, he remembered that when he was very young, he simply liked flowers and plants and felt a sense of familiarity with them. However, after he cultivated the Shangqing Scripture, his perception of plants became more than just familiarity. In fact, he could even sense their emotions.
“You didn’t inherit much at first, but your abilities increased after you moved to the front yard.”
Hongxuan: "..." So, his ability was innate, not acquired through cultivating the Shangqing Scripture, but rather because his cultivation ability had become stronger.
"I'm telling you all this so that you understand that you have the ability, and if you want to, you can improve vegetable seeds like me, and even improve grain seeds one day."
Jiaming's expression became even more serious as she spoke. "You can improve any seed, but you can't expose your ability. Your ability can not only improve seeds, but haven't you noticed? You've been very healthy since you were little, and you've almost never been sick. When your third brother had smallpox, you didn't, because you inherited your mother's ability."
"I didn't have smallpox when I was a child? But I clearly remember that back then..."
Before Hongxuan could finish speaking, Jiaming immediately interrupted him and explained, "That was because your mother wanted to cover up your constitution by letting you come into contact with a kind of herb that caused an allergic reaction, similar to smallpox. Actually, that herb is harmless."
Hongxuan suddenly realized: "So that's how it is!"
"You should know the principle that possessing a treasure is a crime, so no matter what you want to do, first and foremost, you must not expose the ability you inherited from your mother," Jiaming solemnly warned Hongxuan.
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