Chapter 133: Picking Fruit Without Hands

The personal cultivation rooms provided by the herb garden were quite good; the spiritual qi inside was no less than in the clan school.

Ouch, ouch...

The primary school children who were quickly picking fruit were all pricked by the thorny roots and vines; the unlucky ones even bled.

They had not even obtained the fruit yet.

Those red fruits also grew sharp thorns, so if one wanted to pick the fruit, it was best not to use one's hands.

Su Jin directly lifted a gourd vine, whooshed it to snatch a fully ripe little red fruit, and flung it into the basket.

The school children standing around Su Jin all turned their heads to look at her.

Su Wuji at this moment also produced a vine whip, imitated Su Jin's manner, coiled and tossed, and a red fruit landed in the basket.

Su Cheng also put on a pair of full-metal gauntlets; they were clearly accessories matching his inner armor. He pretended to roll up his robe and tie it, then tightened his trousers and boots, and charged straight into the herb field.

After all, he was actually wearing inner armor, full-body inner armor, so he was not afraid of being pricked.

Su Linyuan and Yang Guan looked at each other in surprise for a moment, then smiled and began to act.

Su Linyuan and Yang Guan each took out a pair of animal-skin gloves.

The fur appeared very soft and smooth, with a bluish-gray color.

With the gloves, they plunged headfirst into the herb field.

With the demonstration of these few, the other school children also showed their unique skills like the Eight Immortals crossing the sea; Liu Shi saw that at least twelve students in his class had already rushed into the herb field.

Indeed, which family that could afford to send their children to study in the Su Clan School would not have some family assets?

It was nothing strange to equip the children with various good items.

Standing here, Liu Shi saw at least six school children wearing some kind of special gloves, completely unafraid of being pricked.

The other six each had their own methods to pick the fruit.

The two little ones, Su Jin and Su Wuji, were too good at whipping the vines.

In less than half a ke, they had already nearly gathered three jin.

But the other school children who had prepared nothing could only stand outside the herb field, scratching their ears and cheeks in frustration.

Although Qi Yi had not prepared anything either and could jump directly into the herb field to pick fruit, she was an adult and naturally had One's Own Idea: "Liu Shi, may we apply to borrow the equipment previously used by herb workers? Preferably a pair of thick gloves."

As soon as Qi Yi asked, she immediately drew the attention of the other un-equipped school children; everyone looked at her, then collectively turned their gaze to Liu Shi.

Their eyes were earnest.

Liu Shi pressed her lips into a smile: "You may borrow the equipment, but you must pick an extra thirty jin of fruit every day as rent."

The primary school children heard this and looked at her speechlessly one by one.

"If you agree, I will go borrow the equipment for you."

"Agreed." Qi Yi agreed first; picking an extra thirty jin was better than not picking a single jin and failing the task.

Could the size of the herb worker equipment possibly be small enough to fit them perfectly?

After receiving the herb worker equipment brought by Liu Shi, the remaining twelve primary school children immediately became speechless.

They widened their eyes one by one, looking at Liu Shi as if she were a liar.

"Ahem, you see these herb worker equipments are half-new, but still sturdy and durable. These are old equipments; use them carefully. If you break them, you will have to compensate at their assessed value," Liu Shi continued.

Qi Yi and the others were utterly depressed; after putting on the equipment and donning the thick leather gloves, they charged into the herb field without looking back.

A cunning smile curled up at the corner of Liu Shi's mouth.

Su Jin quickly filled a basket, about three and a half jin; she returned the basket to the herb field administrator, registered the quantity of Crimson Red Fruits picked, then asked: "May I carry several more baskets, fill them all, and then bring them back?"

"Yes." The herb field administrator young lady was sweet and cute; when she smiled, two little dimples appeared.

She hid under a thatched cool shed, using an ice chest together with Liu Shi, drinking some ice dew that emitted a cool vapor.

What a comfortable life.

In contrast, they had to bake under the sun and pick fruit.

Oh my!

This time Su Jin took ten baskets and stored them all inside Little Wu Tian.

The young lady thought she was wearing a storage ring with considerable capacity and looked at her a few extra times.

Su Jin smiled at her and then ran off briskly.

"These young cultivators are truly amazing; when I was their age, I didn't get my first storage bag until I was over ten, and the space inside the storage bag was very small, only one cubic chi."

"Look at their storage equipment; it can directly hold ten baskets."

The young lady said enviously in a dry voice.

"She has a Purple Mansion Grandfather; do you?" Liu Shi directly roasted her.

"Uh, hearing you say that, I feel balanced again. Although I didn't have a Purple Mansion Grandfather back then, I will soon become a Purple Mansion cultivator myself." The sweet young lady looked young but was actually a cultivator at the peak of Foundation Establishment.

Su Jin ran to an uninhabited herb field edge, took out another gourd vine, and while holding a basket, used her spiritual power to drive two gourd vines to pick fruit.

This picking speed was faster; in less than a moment, she had picked seven or eight baskets.

But Su Jin's spiritual power was exhausted; she found a shady spot, swallowed a bowl of Bing Chen Lu, then sat cross-legged and began cultivating the Great Expansion Spirit-Linking Art.

This was the first time she had completely exhausted her spiritual power.

She felt her whole head was a bit numb; the Great Expansion Spirit-Linking Art, driven by her will, quickly completed a major cycle; hmm, it felt as if her sea of consciousness, like a dried riverbed, was becoming moist again. After cultivating another major cycle, hmm, there were puddles on the riverbed. Continuing to cultivate...

When her spiritual power was fully restored, Su Jin felt her spiritual power upper limit seemed to have increased by a tiny bit.

However, these were not what Su Jin cared about.

She looked up at the sky; this time her spiritual power recovery took about half a shi.

The sun gradually climbed higher; she estimated she could still finish about ten more baskets of fruit before lunch.

Thinking about having to pick three hundred jin every day, Su Jin immediately felt she had to calculate her time carefully, otherwise she would have to pick fruit under the stars and moon.

Just before noon mealtime, she finally handed over the second batch of fifteen baskets to the herb field administrator young lady; Liu Shi was not present at this time.

"The little girl is quite impressive; she picked seventy-five jin in just one morning. You are the only one in your class who has picked over seventy jin," the sweet young lady said, deliberately leaking the news.

"They will catch up soon. Sister, may I ask where we should go for lunch?" Su Jin asked.

"Are you hungry?"

"Yes."

"Do you see the houses below the medicinal field? Enter through the gate on the west side to reach the canteen. Go there and eat whatever you like, but do not waste food.

After you finish eating, the area behind the canteen is your personal cultivation room zone. You can go rest first, and come back to pick fruit in the afternoon after the sun is no longer at its hottest."

"Alright, thank you, young lady, for the guidance."