Chapter 38: Ten Apricot Powder

Following Dong Yiyi to meet the current head of the Dong Family, Mo Xiaobai was soon brought outside an apricot orchard.

A middle-aged man dressed like a farmer in hemp clothes was busy watering a row of newly planted apricot seedlings.

“Daddy.”

Dong Yiyi took small steps forward and whispered something in the middle-aged farmer’s ear. The latter listened, nodded with a smile, sprinkled the last bit of water around, put down the wooden ladle in his hand, and walked out.

“Baron, your arrival brings great honor; This old man failed to welcome you from afar.”

After coming out, the middle-aged farmer first bowed to Mo Xiaobai, then gestured invitingly: “If you do not mind, how about talking with This old man in the hall?”

“That is my wish.”

Mo Xiaobai nodded with a smile; wasn’t that his purpose in coming here?

“Daddy, your daughter will not accompany you.” Second Miss Dong was simply a different person in front of her father; she bowed and spoke, then slowly left.

However, as soon as she left the sight of Mo Xiaobai and Dong Father, both heard a series of cheering footsteps and the howling sounds of a Bear Lion Beast.

It seemed that girl couldn’t pretend for too long even if she tried.

“Baron, please do not laugh at me.”

Dong Father shook his head helplessly and led Mo Xiaobai to the tea hall where he entertained guests.

As soon as they sat down, before they started talking, Dong Father began fiddling with a set of tea utensils on the desk that were clearly used often.

Seeing Dong Father about to boil tea, Mo Xiaobai really wanted to refuse.

It wasn’t that Mo Xiaobai was being polite, but the Han Dynasty tea-boiling method was really not something residents of Water Blue Star could get used to; even though Mo Xiaobai had lived in the Plane for fifteen years in his previous life, he still couldn’t accept this stuff.

Mo Xiaobai was someone who even found tea brewed with lotus plumule too bitter, so how could he stand a pot of tea soup containing dozens of medicinal ingredients and seasonings?

“Whatever, I’ll just brace myself and drink it.” Mo Xiaobai’s eyelid twitched, but he quickly regained his previous expression and took out the handwritten family letter from Dong Zhen from his Player Backpack.

“This is the letter Miss Dong asked me to hand over to Lord Dong.”

“My daughter, sigh~”

When Dong Father heard about his letter, his right hand, which was scooping out two taels of cicada slough, couldn’t help but tremble.

That’s right, it was cicada slough.

This stuff was also to be boiled in the tea soup!

Mo Xiaobai tried his best not to look at the tea soup and asked instead: “Is Lord Dong dissatisfied with your daughter?”

“It is not dissatisfaction, just…”

Before finishing his words, Dong Father shook his head silently: “My Dong Family has practiced medicine for generations; others only see the century-old prestige of the Dong Residence, but how do they know the difficulties of people like us who practice medicine.”

“Practicing medicine is harder than traveling. I originally thought that since I only had two daughters in this life, the Dong Family could finally put down the heavy burden of that plaque, and the burden of this Divine Doctor would be completely lifted by my generation. Who would have thought that my daughter’s talent would surpass mine? Not allowing her to study medical classics, she has now become self-taught.”

“Never mind, since she is unwilling to come back, This old man will not force her and her sister. The two sisters have been one ice-snow clever and one lively and mischievous since childhood; since they are willing to assist the Baron, please Baron, for the sake of the Dong Residence’s thin face, take good care of my little daughter.”

This was truly a father who had worried his heart out for his daughter.

Mo Xiaobai did not comment on the Dong Family’s family affairs, but he could see that the affection between the Dong father and daughter must be very good. It was just that the father and two daughters each had their own ideas.

Originally, when he came, Mo Xiaobai had considered whether he could invite the entire Dong Family back to Daming Village, but now it seemed there was basically not much hope for this.

The father did not want his daughter to go further and further on the path of a doctor, but the daughter wanted to prove that her medical skills were worthy of the title of Divine Doctor.

This kind of “contradiction” was temporarily in an irreconcilable state.

In addition, there was Second Miss Dong, who only thought about playing all day long; if he invited Dong Father to Daming Village, she would probably protest and run away.

“Fish and bear’s paw, uh, it’s two bear paws and a small yellow fish!”

“Never mind, there’s simply no comparison.”

Mo Xiaobai lost the thought of inviting Dong Father to move, and soon he turned his idea to another aspect.

The Dong Family had practiced medicine for generations and had great authority in the Great Han Dynasty. With the Dong Family’s connections, helping Mo Xiaobai recruit a few ordinary doctors would be no problem at all.

When Mo Xiaobai voiced this request, Dong Father first frowned, then nodded reluctantly: “Since the Baron has spoken, This old man will pass on the message; whether there are fellow practitioners willing to condescend to the Baron’s Territory, however, depends on their own wishes.”

“Bai Ri thanks Lord Dong for your generous help!”

Mo Xiaobai thanked him without thinking. With a word from the Dong Family, was there still fear that this matter wouldn’t succeed?

Although the Prefecture City had a large area and a large population, there were also many people eating this bowl of rice. Mo Xiaobai thought to himself that scooping up just one or two to take back would definitely be enough in the early stage of development in the current Plane.

The two sat and chatted for a while, and by then the tea soup on the small stove was ready.

Dong Father calmly poured out the tea soup, then poured a cup for Mo Xiaobai:

“Baron, please.”

Facing this cup of dark brown unknown liquid, Mo Xiaobai instinctively resisted. But the tea soup was prepared by Dong Father, so he really couldn’t refuse.

Bracing himself, he closed his eyes and brought the teacup close to his mouth. After blowing on it continuously for more than ten times, Mo Xiaobai finally gathered the courage and took a small sip.

As the tea soup entered his throat, Mo Xiaobai’s first feeling was that it was hot.

The second feeling was that it was bitter.

Immediately after, the root of his tongue actually felt a faint fragrant sweetness.

Eh?

It was very different from those tea soups he had eaten in his previous life; the taste was actually not bad.

“Ding~ Congratulations to Player ‘Daydreaming’ for tasting the Dong Family’s tea medicine soup secret recipe ‘Ten Apricot Powder’. The effect of ‘Ten Apricot Powder’ soup takes effect. Innate Attribute ‘Body’ +2, ‘Agility’ +2.”

Mo Xiaobai was still savoring the taste of the tea soup when a prompt from the Intellect Brain sounded in his ear.

Innate Attributes increased!

“It can actually increase Innate Attributes!”

A small cup of tea soup surprised Mo Xiaobai again.

Innate Attributes were different from Lord Attributes; Lord Attributes could constantly grow as the level increased, and there would be many activities or tasks that could increase Lord Attributes in the future.

But Innate Attributes were different!

This was the result of the Intellect Brain’s detection of the Player’s various qualifications when logging into the Plane.

Simple leveling up and doing tasks could not change them at all.

“In the previous life, Innate Attributes were called values that could only be changed by rare encounters.”

“Sitting here drinking a cup of tea counts as a rare encounter?”

Mo Xiaobai smacked his lips; he didn’t know if Young Master Lanshan had come to the Dong Residence for a cup in the previous life, but Mo Xiaobai felt that this rare encounter was really too simple.

If there were such rare encounters, please give me a whole stack, okay!

With greedy thoughts still unsatisfied in his heart, Mo Xiaobai no longer hesitated and drank the tea soup in his hand in one gulp.

At this moment, this small cup of tea soup was no different from the Flat Peaches in the eyes of the Great Sage. But unfortunately, no prompt appeared after drinking the second sip, and Mo Xiaobai could only shake his head with regret.

Sure enough, good things were limited edition.

Being able to increase 4 points of Innate Attributes, he should be content.