Chapter 134: Lin Linghua's Child Education

Su Jin had just finished lunch and returned to her personal cultivation room when she discovered that the two doors next to hers were open.

It was Su Wuji and Su Cheng who had fetched their meals and returned to eat.

The two of them had gathered in Su Wuji's room, eating happily.

Su Jin poked her head over and was spotted by Su Cheng.

"Su Jin, you're back too? Have you eaten?" Su Cheng asked.

"I just ate in the cafeteria. I don't think I saw you two fetching food when I was eating there," Su Jin said, puzzled.

"Probably because there were so many people." Su Cheng and Su Jin simultaneously recalled the sight of the cafeteria just now, packed with so many adult students. Not seeing them was normal.

"Su Jin, do you plan to take a nap later?" Su Wuji asked again.

"Definitely. I just asked the cafeteria staff, and there are places to bathe here. I plan to take a bath, then take a short nap, and then go out to work once the afternoon sun isn't so scorching," Su Jin said.

"Then I'll go take a bath too." Hearing this, Su Wuji immediately agreed.

"Then let's go together." In this hot weather, who wouldn't want to bathe? Su Cheng hurriedly said.

"Then you two continue eating; I'll go take a bath first." Su Jin returned to her personal cultivation room, gathered her bathing supplies and change of clothes, and headed to the hot spring bathhouse over here.

There were many hot springs of various sizes here; Su Jin simply picked one and dove in.

After enjoying a wonderful bath, Su Jin went back and took a short nap.

Once the hottest part of the day under the sun had passed, Su Jin went to the medicinal fields, refreshed and energetic.

Come to think of it, every time she woke up from a nap, she felt refreshed and full of vitality, feeling even better than the effect of cultivating the Great Expansion Divine Art on restoring mental energy.

This thought flashed through her mind for just an instant before Su Jin forgot it.

With the practical experience from the morning, Su Jin discovered that if she used only mental energy to operate the gourd vines for picking fruit, efficiency improved, but her mental energy was easily depleted. Once depleted, it took at least two hours to recover.

In that amount of time, she didn't know how many fruits she could have picked.

So, exhausting her mental energy as hard as she did in the morning was simply not cost-effective.

Fewer fruits were picked.

To pick more fruit in a short time, she still had to use the gourd vines. Using the gourd vines consumed both magic power and mental energy; since it was a dual consumption, both her magic power and mental energy could last longer.

So this time, she specifically went to the medicinal field administrator young lady and took fifty baskets, then found an unoccupied medicinal field to start picking.

Su Jin adjusted her picking method and was soon able to fill a basket. She threw the filled small basket into Little Wu Tian, then swapped it for a new empty basket to continue picking. This time she lasted even longer; for nearly three hours, she continuously whipped the gourd vines to pick fruit, making the vines move more and more at her will, as if they had completely become an extension of her own arms.

Su Jin had just filled her last basket and was about to return to the medicinal field administrator young lady to hand in the task and have it weighed when she saw Qi Yi, covered in sweat, her small face smeared by the perspiration into a cat's face.

The key point was that Qi Yi was walking toward her again.

"You're not here to find me again, are you?" Su Jin asked, looking at her warily.

"I saw you picking fruit over here and thought I'd come see how many jin you've already picked," Qi Yi said.

"We aren't that close! Don't act as if we have a very intimate relationship! Didn't I tell you before that from now on, when you see me, pretend you don't see me, and I will do the same to you?" Su Jin said.

"But..." Qi Yi struggled.

"There is no 'but.' If you keep harassing me, I'll have my grandfather go find your father. Not to mention anything else, beating him until he can't get up is definitely no problem," Su Jin warned her.

Although Qi Yi hadn't really done anything to her, and the two had no past grievances or recent conflicts. At least Su Jin felt that Su Zhang was Su Zhang, and Qi Yi was merely a stepdaughter. What did Su Zhang's actions have to do with Qi Yi?

But that was still no reason for Qi Yi to keep blocking her.

"I just want to be friends with you." Qi Yi gasped, thinking to herself that Su Jin really had a heart of stone.

"But I don't want to be friends with you."

Hearing this, Qi Yi was utterly speechless, thinking to herself how such a difficult little girl could be.

"But I won't harm you."

"But I don't like you," Su Jin said bluntly.

"Is it because of Father?"

"Even without Su Zhang, I wouldn't like you. You are the kind of person who is simply unlikable," Su Jin said.

Thinking carefully, Qi Yi did bear some resemblance to Su Shen. Not in appearance, but in temperament.

Su Shen was a bit solitary! She liked to be self-centered; everyone else had to indulge her, spoil her, and obey her.

Later, Mother discovered Su Shen's bad habit and took drastic measures to correct her.

Lin Linghua's method of educating children was to beat them relentlessly!

If they didn't listen, or pretended not to understand, then beat them until they became sensible.

Because of such bad tempers and flaws, Su Shen was beaten by Mother many times before she gradually corrected herself.

Last month, she received a letter from Su Shen, saying that Mother's main target for training had now become the two younger brothers.

She was finally relieved and no longer had to endure beatings frequently.

What did this mean? It meant that Mother also felt Su Shen had been trained well by her.

Poor two younger brothers; from now on, their nightmares had begun.

"So, do you hate me?" Qi Yi asked pitifully.

"I don't hate you, but I can't like you either. By the way, don't use that tone to speak to me in the future. When Su Shen just learned to walk and couldn't even speak properly, she would use that pitiful expression of yours to beg for food.

Later, after being beaten several times in a row by Mother, she became obedient."

The expression on Qi Yi's face instantly froze.

"I really don't want to beat you, so stay away from me. I'm afraid I won't be able to control myself," Su Jin said contemptuously.

Qi Yi, furious, turned and left.

She would never come to curry favor with her again, this broken child.

After Qi Yi left, Su Jin secretly breathed a sigh of relief, thinking the troublemaker had finally gone.

She immediately ran all the way to the medicinal field administrator young lady to register and have her harvest weighed.

"That makes a total of two hundred and fifty-six jin. You only need forty-four more jin to complete today's picking task. Your efficiency in picking fruit this afternoon is clearly much higher than in the morning," the young lady said with a smile.

"Mm-hmm, practice makes perfect. I didn't know how to do it in the morning, so I wasted quite a bit of time. In the afternoon, I figured out how to work more efficiently, so naturally, I picked more fruit." Su Jin replied.

"So, do you plan to continue completing the task now, or do you plan to go eat dinner first?"

"Go eat dinner." Su Jin said. "The remaining quota for the task, I'll just finish it after dinner."

"Fine, you can go."

After Su Jin had dinner, she ran back to work for another half an hour, completed today's task, and went back to rest.

She used the first half of the night to complete today's cultivation, and used the second half of the night to sleep soundly, dreaming of her Pang Xingchen.