After Xia Xiang finished cooking, she first saved a portion for Sun Shangxiang, and then used serving chopsticks to take a bite of each dish.
"I don't want any of these. You can call that big guy back to help you get rid of them," Xia Xiang said to Xiao Qiao.
"If you can't finish it, you don't have to make so much. It's a little wasteful," Xiao Qiao said softly.
"I do," Xia Xiang said expressionlessly, then went to deliver food to Sun Shangxiang and ignored her.
——
The next morning, when Xiu arrived, Sun Shangxiang was fast asleep and showed no inclination to meet him and express her feelings.
Xiu could only look at Xia Xiang with a resentful expression before going to school.
Sun Shangxiang was awakened by the aroma of lunch. With her hair all messy, she went downstairs in a daze.
Xia Xiang had already served her rice.
"I've finished reading it. How is the test?" Sun Shangxiang asked while eating.
“There are forty-nine vats of water next to the orchard. You need to water those fruit trees evenly. Once you’ve finished watering, you’ll have passed the test,” Xia Xiang said.
"???" Sun Shangxiang looked puzzled and said angrily, "What does this have to do with that book that's thicker than my head?!"
"I meant a test, not a test on the content of the book," Xia Xiang said, hiding a smile in her eyes.
"Ugh!" Sun Shangxiang was genuinely a little angry.
She did it on purpose; it's supposed to be an automatic irrigation system, but she made to water it manually!
"You're the one who wants to ask me questions, not the other way around," Xia Xiang said nonchalantly.
"I'm pouring!" Sun Shangxiang started frantically shoveling rice into her mouth.
Xia Xiang: Am I putting too much pressure on this child?
No, she didn't force her at all; she gave her choices.
In the evening, Xia Xiang lay on a recliner in the pavilion, drinking iced cola and watching Sun Shangxiang water the plants.
Just as Xia Xiang had predicted, Sun Shangxiang was clever. After lifting the toy bucket, she leaped onto the water vat, used her internal energy to draw water, and poured it onto the fruit trees.
Then he turned to look at the leisurely Xia Xiang. Seeing that she did not object, he continued to fetch water, and became more and more skilled, soon consuming a large vat.
He sighed, glanced at the remaining forty-eight vats of water, and sped up.
"Are you thirsty? Come down and have some water," Xia Xiang called out with her eyes closed.
Sun Shangxiang paused for a moment, also feeling the need to rest, and picked up the light green drink that Xia Xiang had prepared for him to drink.
"Pfft—" Sun Shangxiang spat it out. "What is this? It tastes so weird."
"Energy water," Xia Xiang said, "replenishes physical strength."
Sun Shangxiang continued drinking after hearing this, but Xia Xiang immediately gave her a fresh cup.
“It needs to be quantified,” Xia Xiang explained after noticing her questioning gaze.
"Hurry up and finish drinking, otherwise I might forget what questions I wanted to answer if I haven't finished watering by sunset."
"Hmph—" Sun Shangxiang glanced at the fresh lemon slices soaked in cola in the empty dish, gave her a rude snort, and went back to watering the plants.
Before sunset, Sun Shangxiang still managed to finish watering the plants, but she collapsed from exhaustion.
Xiu, who insisted on coming with Gan Zhaolie and Cao Cao, looked at Xia Xiang with a resentful expression.
"Tch~" Xia Xiang rolled her eyes in annoyance.
"You cook," Xia Xiang said to Gan Zhaolie.
Then he looked at Cao Cao and Xiu, "This guy with the slicked-back hair is going to draw a topographical map of the bamboo forest. I need to know the exact location of every bamboo shoot. And that coward is going to play the zither for the radishes in the field, so that the radishes can hear music, but I don't want to hear it."
Cao Cao (Big Back Hair): ? ? ?
Huyan Jue Luo · Songsong · Xiu: She's trying to torment people in all sorts of ways, isn't she?
It must have been the breath he had before he was born, when he was sending Ah Xiang to Youzhou.
Gan Zhaolie looked at the two of them with sympathy. She hadn't believed Zhang Fei when he complained to her before, but now she did.
"Miss, my name is Cao Cao, courtesy name Mengde, and I am the student council president of the Eastern Han Academy..." Cao Cao said, bowing slightly.
"No need!" Xia Xiang raised her hand to stop her. "I don't need to know who you are. If you understand, just go quickly."
Cao Cao: ......
"Okay," Xiu and Cao Cao agreed.
Cao Cao took his tools and observed the outside for a while, but when he went inside, he found that the layout had completely changed, and his expression immediately became serious.
"A formation??? The Eight Trigrams Formation? Are you kidding me?!"
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