Chapter 49: Chapter 49: Purification of the Six Senses, Ancestral Castration Technique, System Training Space!!
"I think this chicken needs some peace and quiet."
Zhang Lingchuan’s lips curled slightly.
"Peace and quiet??"
Song Wanqing was full of question marks.
seconds later.
"Oh! Oh, oh, oh!!!"
The imposing rooster sitting on the hen’s head was caught.
Zhang Lingchuan caught the chicken, pinned it to the ground, opened the medicine box, and immediately took out a knife to make an incision on its back.
He performed an ancestral skill of caponizing.
In less than a minute.
Two yellow rooster testicles were removed.
"Teacher Zhang, does ’peace and quiet’ mean six-sense peace?"
Song Wanqing was stunned, starting off directly with castration!
And the rooster’s testicles were actually inside the body, needing to be cut open to retrieve. This was the first time she knew.
"Yeah, look, feathers everywhere, it’s so troublesome to deal with."
Zhang Lingchuan smiled.
[Task progress: 8/100.]
As he looked at the ongoing task, he was full of confusion.
He clearly had cleaned and dressed the chicken’s wound, so why was the system unresponsive?
Could it be that the system can distinguish that this is a chicken? Then why couldn’t it scan the cow?!
Damn!!
Could it be that the system BUG has been fixed?!
Zhang Lingchuan was suddenly taken aback!!
He remembered.
The system had an upgrade at Boss Zhao’s house.
And scanning the cow as a human was before the upgrade. After the upgrade, there were two precise scans given, one of them was used on Boss Zhao, and the other one was used on the driver Xiaowang. The subsequent wound cleaning during a car accident was all done on humans.
He hadn’t had the chance to verify the system’s BUG!!
"Hiss—"
Zhang Lingchuan took a cold breath.
After the system upgrade, it became intelligent, and now it’s really tricky.
"Master Zhang??"
Just as Zhang Lingchuan was lost in thought.
He suddenly saw a pair of big round eyes looking at him in confusion.
"Ah? What’s up, Wanqing?"
Zhang Lingchuan was stunned for a moment.
He was really focused just now, didn’t even hear Wanqing calling him.
"I just wanted to ask you, Master Zhang, if I could edit some videos here? Because it’s better to post them directly after editing. Your account doesn’t have any videos yet, only doing livestreams is limited for gathering popularity."
Song Wanqing noticed.
Teacher Zhang seems to habitually zone out.
"Of course, you can!"
Having someone editing videos for him for free, that’s just like a gift from heaven, what’s there to hesitate about!
"Then Master Zhang, I’ll set up here at the dining table."
Song Wanqing pointed to the empty dining table.
"Alright! I’ll wipe it for you, Wanqing!"
There wasn’t a single dish on the dining table.
After all, the Zhang family was not home, and being alone, as a man, he naturally did things as conveniently as possible.
But the dining table was a bit dirty.
So, while Song Wanqing was fetching her laptop bag from the car, he wiped the table.
The Zhang Family’s home was really barren.
Although there were four or five rooms, most of them only had a bed.
Only his room had a desk.
But it was messy, and he was embarrassed to bring a girl there.
So, they had to settle on the dining table for video editing.
"Master Zhang is truly a good housekeeper, cleaning so thoroughly!"
Song Wanqing, carrying a pink laptop bag, approached the dining table. Seeing Zhang Lingchuan diligently wiping the table, she couldn’t help but tease with a smile.
"Wanqing, stop teasing me, the whole place is a mess. By the way, do you eat yellow-skinned fruit?"
Zhang Lingchuan, seeing the dimples on Song Wanqing’s smiling face, felt a bit embarrassed, and asked if she wanted some yellow-skinned fruit.
Since his home didn’t really have any fresh fruit apart from self-grown ones.
"Your family grows yellow-skinned fruit, Master Zhang??"
Song Wanqing asked curiously, as she had heard of it but never tried it.
"Of course, we have some, just in my backyard, I’ll go pick some for you."
Zhang Lingchuan noticed Song Wanqing’s curious eyes and smiled.
Yellow-skinned fruit is a specialty fruit of Lingnan.
Many people have heard of it but haven’t actually tasted it.
Just like how many southerners have heard of apricots and frozen pears but haven’t actually eaten them.
Basically, everyone is curious to try a new taste.
In the backyard.
"So, this is the yellow-skinned fruit tree. It’s so lush and sweet when you don’t spit the seeds, a bit sour if you do."
Unable to resist curiosity, Song Wanqing followed along.
She watched as Master Zhang agilely climbed the tree, snapping off bunches of golden-yellow fruit along with the branch tips and handed them to her.
Song Wanqing tasted one.
Super sweet.
But if you spit out the seeds, it’s a bit sour.
"So when eating yellow-skinned fruit, we generally don’t spit the seeds unless there are too many to finish, then we spit them out."
Zhang Lingchuan explained with a smile.
"Huh?"
Song Wanqing turned her head, the almond eyes behind her black glasses filled with confusion.
Seemingly asking why spit them out when there are fewer, but keep them in when there are more?
"Because when there’s less, we don’t waste inferior greenish-yellow ones, eating them whole isn’t sour. But if there’s too many, you’ll choose to eat only the huge earth-colored ones; yellow-skinned fruit can swell your stomach, so spitting out seeds lets you eat more non-sour earth-colored ones."
Zhang Lingchuan transformed into an agricultural commentator, patiently explaining to Song Wanqing.
He remembered his first time eating frozen pears in the north, and local northerners enthusiastically taught him their local ways.
"Ah, cough, cough."
"Spitting the seeds makes it so sour!!"
However, Zhang Lingchuan had barely finished speaking when he saw Song Wanqing coughing with her mouth open, eyes watering, her teeth bared including little canines, and her face twisted as if she’d eaten lemon.
"Classmate Wanqing, remember in the Northeast, it’s not one or two people who got stuck licking iron posts in winter with their tongues."
Zhang Lingchuan shrugged.
He had said that the greenish-yellow ones should be eaten whole to avoid sourness, but just as he finished, this girl obstinately started spitting seeds, making her pucker with actual sourness as expected.
However, curiosity is a tendency where people actively explore new things, understandable.
"No more! No more! I was just testing! Curiosity killed the cat!"
Song Wanqing genuinely conceded.
The greenish-yellow yellow-skinned fruits were truly sour when spitting seeds, just like eating lemons!
"There’s still some loquats and longans here, classmate Wanqing can try them too."
The backyard of Zhang Lingchuan’s house was a semi-enclosed garden, planted with quite a lot of fruits.
They were all planted by his grandma back then.
This old lady couldn’t sit idle even for a bit, always carrying a hoe, digging here and there, planting a bit here and there.
Before she got to eat them, she was gone... and the fruits benefitted the younger generation.
So the elders loved to say, ’The tree planted by forebearers, enjoyed by future generations.’
And it’s indeed true.
"Thanks, Master Zhang! Your house really has so many fruits!!"
Coming back from the backyard.
Song Wanqing embraced the yellow-skinned fruit, loquats, and longans, looking very satisfied.
She also spotted a pomegranate, pomelo tree, but those weren’t ripe yet.
"Hahaha, because there’s always a diligent person who loves to plant, plant, plant."
Zhang Lingchuan said half-jokingly.
Soon, the once empty dining table was filled with three types of fruit, and Song Wanqing started earnestly editing the video.
As for Zhang Lingchuan, of course, he wouldn’t disturb her here, so he went upstairs.
Although the task of wound cleaning and dressing couldn’t be completed for the time being, he remembered the system seemed to have rewarded him with some single-use Training Space, so he could explore it.
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