"Grandma," A'Jiu looked up at her, "that water is limited. If I had a river, I wouldn't be fighting with you over it."
"Then... then tell me what else can be planted," Wang Shi squatted down to watch her granddaughter dig.
He clearly felt that although the seeds were kept by him, they were becoming worse with each generation.
The seeds produced by the seeds this time, when planted, yielded watermelons that were already second generation, with very little spiritual energy.
A'Jiu recalled the ten seeds in her space.
Counting on her fingers, she said, "I have a cotton seed, and apricots, plums, Chinese cabbage, and..."
Wang Shi listened with a headache, "Stop counting, whatever. Anyway, I don't want to eat watermelons anymore."
"Hey, Grandma!" A'Jiu disliked Grandma's picky habit:
"So you're tired of eating them. What time is it? Didn't you see those starving people on the road? Still being picky."
A'Jiu furiously dug, "If you have the ability, make it rain! If it rains, everything will revive, and who knows what delicious things will grow."
Hmph!
Bringing this up again was Wang Shi's weak spot.
He had bragged, but now that he had just opened the Ren and Du meridians, if he jumped off the carriage, wouldn't his legs be broken?
The purple river car hadn't even formed yet, and he was talking big.
"Mother, what are you two talking about?" Meng Shaode's head poked out from somewhere.
A'Jiu jumped in fright. Seeing it was her father:
"Dad, I'm planting some seeds. Grandma said she's had enough watermelon."
Speaking of which, A'Jiu deliberately glanced at Wang Shi.
"What? Mother, you... you're getting senile. It's good enough to have something to eat, why... that's not right."
Meng Shaode came to his senses and looked at his daughter.
She was digging a hole as if nothing had happened, and she had just scattered a jet-black seed.
This wasn't a watermelon seed either, it looked like an apricot pit.
"Daughter, you mean, that watermelon was grown by you?"
"Uh-huh, I grew it," A'Jiu didn't look up.
Meng Shaode gasped and raised his hand to pinch his philtrum. He couldn't hold his breath and fell down.
Seeing this, Wang Shi quickly grabbed Meng Shaode,
"Son, what are you doing? Son?..."
A'Jiu just realized she had said the wrong thing and scared her father unconscious.
"Dad!" A'Jiu dropped the bull-horn knife and quickly tried to calm her father.
All the way here, A'Jiu hadn't intended to hide it from the start, she was just afraid her parents couldn't handle the shock.
"Dad, do you think it grew too fast? Actually, I used spirit spring water, so it grew very quickly."
A'Jiu quickly explained, otherwise, this person's life would be in danger.
Upon hearing her granddaughter's explanation, Wang Shi snorted angrily, "You've never seen the world. How can I have a stupid son like you?"
Meng Shaode looked at the sky, seeming to have not recovered.
"A'Jiu, the watermelons we ate weren't found by your Grandma? They were grown by you?"
A'Jiu pursed her lips. This time she was scared and didn't know whether to tell or not.
"Lihua, Lihua, come quickly."
Meng Shaode suddenly sat up and shouted loudly.
With this shout, Cai Lihua was startled. He was untying Steward Li, whose hands were swollen from being tied.
He was loosening them before tying them up again when he heard this yell, scaring Cai Lihua into thinking they were being conscripted.
She quickly got off the carriage and ran over.
Tuoba Yan and Zhao Kun had just arrived when Cai Lihua arrived.
"What's wrong? What's going on?"
"Your daughter... grew watermelons." Meng Shaode stared at his wife, not blinking an eye.
"What are you making such a fuss about... What did you say?"
Cai Lihua also just realized.
Wang Shi looked at the couple as if they were suffering more than eating feces, "What's wrong with the watermelons your daughter grew? Are they poisonous?"
"Yes, Auntie, A'Jiu's watermelons aren't poisonous. I've eaten them."
Tuoba Yan hadn't figured out what was going on either.
"I..." The bull-horn knife in A'Jiu's hand clattered to the ground.
"I used spirit spring water to irrigate, so it grew fast. Mother, look..."
The few holes A'Jiu had just dug were already pushing out a small bulge after being watered.