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Mo Ping examined the sword, feeling that it looked somewhat familiar, but he couldn't quite place it.

If he couldn't remember, he stopped thinking about it and put the sword back in its sheath.

As the sword light slowly faded, he suddenly remembered something and shouted.

"What's wrong?" Xiao Ran looked up and asked him.

"Junior brother! I suddenly remembered something, wait for me!" After saying that, he casually threw the sword into the basket and ran back to the courtyard.

Xiao Ran pursed her lips helplessly, looking at the mess on the ground opposite her. She hadn't even managed to pick off a few leaves for her.

She remembered that the fourth leader had once told her that Mo Ping wasn't interested in medicine, so this senior brother was probably just making an excuse to run away.

She wasn't too angry, after all, if she had been a little faster, she might have been able to create a miracle for the two of them tonight.

She had only been picking leaves with her head down for a short while when she heard heavy, thumping footsteps.

She looked up and saw Mo Ping running towards her, panting and sweating profusely, carrying a large pile of wooden tools that she couldn't identify.

"Senior brother?"

"Hey, junior brother! Stop! I have some good stuff here!" He threw all the wooden tools on the ground.

“Look at this!” He picked up a round wooden pole, put whole clover inside, tied a thin rope to one end, threaded it through the hole in the middle of the pole, and then pulled hard.

Soon the leaves and flowers separated.

"Don't rush, there's more!"

Then he poured the sifted flowers and fruits into a basket-like container woven from wooden pieces, then bulged something at the bottom of the container, then put the lid on the basket and shook it vigorously.

Soon, the fruit seeds fell out one by one.

Xiao Ran stared in disbelief at all this, then opened the lid to check. Indeed, there were only alfalfa leaves in the basket, not a single fruit or seed.

"Senior brother, you're amazing!" She couldn't help but clap her hands.

"Hmph, of course!" Mo Ping straightened his back and gladly accepted the praise.

No wonder her senior brother wasn't interested in studying medicine; it turns out all his interest came from here.

"Senior brother, you've really helped me a lot with these things, and they should also help with processing other herbs. Master will surely praise you!"

After speaking, Mo Ping didn't reply for a long time. He just squatted down and picked up alfalfa seeds idly, his head drooping.

"What's wrong, senior brother?"

Instead of the triumphant words, a disappointed voice followed: "No, Master just said I was being opportunistic. Processing medicinal herbs requires meticulous care, something my rough wooden tools can't do. Only alfalfa can be processed like that..."

“But I think these tools of yours are really amazing! You can use them to help Master fertilize the land and we need alfalfa!” Xiao Ran comforted him.

"You really think so?"

"Of course!"

Mo Ping chuckled, then rummaged through the pile of wooden tools and pulled out a pestle and mortar, though they had been modified. A bunch of wood was ingeniously connected to the pestle with mortise and tenon joints, and there was a wooden stick on the other side. The deeper you pressed, the greater the force of the pounding.

"This can be ground into what you want very quickly, but I only made it recently, so I haven't taken it out yet, just in case..." Mo Ping scratched his face, a little embarrassed.

Xiao Ran smiled and encouraged him, "Senior brother has really helped me a lot!"

……

Before the first half of the night was over, two brothers, one older and one younger, were seen sitting on the edge of the field, panting heavily. The younger brother wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve and looked at the fertilizer that had already been applied in front of him, feeling rather happy.

I didn't expect my senior's stuff to be so useful. I think I'll see results by tomorrow!

This shouldn't count as breaching the contract with the fourth leader! After all, it's only the third night.

But that doesn't matter anymore, because she can find the boy and leave the valley tomorrow.

Mo Ping watched his junior brother walk briskly into the courtyard, and it was clear that his junior brother was in a good mood.

He hurriedly packed up, carrying the wooden tools, and shouted, "Wait for me! Junior brother!"

The cicadas chirped loudly on the bamboo branches on a summer night. Perhaps it was just past the fifteenth of the lunar month, and the bright moonlight made the rustling bamboo shadows sway on the ground, but as they swayed, they gradually disappeared into the darkness.

……

The next morning, after the fourth leader got up, he would, as usual, inspect the medicinal fields one by one.

But this inspection gave him a big fright.

His life's work... it all...

One by one, they stood up again, radiating a vibrant new life.

"This, this..." His hand, touching the leaf, began to tremble.

"Master!" Mo Ping shouted.

Mo Ping pulled his junior brother along and ran over quickly.

The fourth leader's voice was still trembling, but his eyes never left Xiao Ran: "You...you did all of this?"

Xiao Ran shook her head. "No, it's all thanks to my senior brother's help!"

"How can this be my achievement? I just..." Mo Ping immediately retorted, then looked up at his master's expression, still not deciding to reveal his wooden tools.

But then he exaggeratedly said, "These were all painstakingly found by Junior Brother in the mountains over the past three days, and we spent the whole night making this fertilizer last night."

He emphasized the phrase "the whole night" in the second sentence.

The fourth leader simply nodded repeatedly, "Yes, yes, yes...they're all my good disciples!"

He then said, "Tell me, what reward do you want?"

Mo Ping was overjoyed when he heard this, but when he actually stood in front of the Fourth Master, he suddenly stammered and repeated the word "I" countless times.

Xiao Ran gave him a hard push from behind.

He was forced to take a few steps forward, and the fourth leader began to wait for him to say what reward he wanted.

"I...I..." Suddenly mustered up her courage, closed her eyes, and blurted out, "I want those bamboo trees by the gate of the courtyard!"

“No,” the fourth leader said.

Mo Ping was somewhat disappointed. He knew that his master did not allow him to tinker with those gadgets, so he could only do it secretly. He would steal firewood from the woodshed whenever he had free time. Recently, with the arrival of summer, there was much less firewood, making it even more difficult for him to steal.

Mo Ping thought to himself, "If only we could use bamboo, which is better than firewood."

But Master refused outright.

"No one cuts down things in their own yard. If you want to do it, go outside."

Mo Ping's eyes immediately lit up. Master... agreed?

With his master's approval, he tacitly agreed that he could openly and legitimately pursue his little gadgets.

"What? You're not willing anymore?" The fourth leader raised an eyebrow at him.

"Of course I'd love to! Master is the best!!!" Mo Ping's smile was barely contained. He then happily circled the courtyard, occasionally exclaiming, "That's great!"

Seeing her senior brother so happy, Xiao Ran couldn't help but shake her head. Then she heard someone behind her say:

What do you want?

She turned her head, cupped her hands, and said, "The Fourth Master should know what I want."

The fourth leader didn't answer as quickly as before. After pondering for a moment, he said in a deep voice, "This matter can't be rushed. Please choose another one."

She knew that the fourth leader wouldn't let her leave the valley easily, but she didn't know if it was due to the circumstances or his personal selfishness.

Anyway, she can still see the boy tonight and have him take her out of the valley, so she doesn't need to rush here.

"Then there is none."