Although Shuo Ling had heard from Tian Li before, Master Tuju was called a generation of pharmaceutical masters because he was able to artificially cultivate Amber Longzhi.
But seeing such a magnificent Amber Longzhi Garden with his own eyes, Shuo Ling couldn't help but feel shocked from the bottom of his heart by this not-so-handsome master.
Although I don't know the other herbal plants in the garden in front of me, I don't know the value of these herbs. But just looking at the amber Longzhi growing like living gems, Shuo Ling knew the value of Master Tuju's garden.
"sharp."
Shuo Ling sighed from the bottom of his heart to the amber Longzhi in the distance that shone like a flame. I couldn't help but take a step, and when I wanted to go deep into the garden, I was stopped by the apprentice guarding the garden.
"Sorry, without Master Doi's consent. Outsiders are not allowed to enter the amber circle."
A shy little apprentice looked only one or two years older than Shuo Ling.
Shuo Ling looked at the other party wearing a black-bottomed red-edged short gown and wearing the same pendant as Amber Longzhi on his chest, and nodded shyly at the other party.
"Sorry, I didn't notice the warning next to it. Because Master Doi's garden is so beautiful."
"Well. It's okay. Many guests who come to the master will be like this."
The little apprentice was very friendly and explained to Shuo Ling.
"Then, are other guests not allowed to enter the garden?"
"Yes, basically 90% of the guests are not allowed to enter. Only important guests who are personally guided by the master can enter the depths of the garden."
Listening to the little apprentice's words, Shuo Ling couldn't help tiptoeing to look into the distance, looking regretful.
But for such an important place, Shuo Ling could understand why Master Tuju didn't easily allow outsiders to visit.
"Then can you usually enter the garden?"
Shuo Ling looked at the little apprentice curiously.
"Do you mean all the apprentices of Master Doi?"
"Um."
"No way."
"You are not allowed in as apprentices?"
Shuo Ling looked surprised.
The little apprentice was a little embarrassed and quickly explained to Shuoling.
"It's not that all apprentices are not allowed to enter. Because some ignorant apprentices accidentally damaged important plants in the garden after entering the depths of the garden. That's why the master later formulated such a rule.
Of course, if you are a disciple approved by the master, you can still enter the garden to check important plants at the allowed time. "
"Then you are one of them?"
Shuo Ling explored in a low voice.
The little apprentice who was questioned nodded a little embarrassedly.
"Wow, then you must be a very trusted student of Master Dou. I guess you must be one of the best apprentices of Master Dou."
Hearing what Shuo Ling said, the little apprentice blushed and quickly denied it.
"No, no, I'm just an ordinary apprentice of Master Tuju. And I can only enter important gardens sometimes. The most powerful apprentices of Master Tuju are at least certified by the alliance."
"Alliance certification?"
"Yes, the disciples of Master Tuju, the most powerful is our brother Rogoff. He is still serving in the Alliance Sacrifice Hall. Working with the great witches."
"Wow, the pharmacist of the Alliance Sacrifice Hall. He is indeed a disciple of Master Dou."
"Yes, only a mature pharmacist like Brother Rogoff can come and go freely in the master's garden. Although sometimes, the brother will secretly pick the herbs carefully cultivated by the master without the master's consent ..."
The little apprentice was talking, while scratching his ears, recalling how senior brother Rogoff was kicked out of the house by his master with a broom.
Thinking of the subversive scene, the little apprentice couldn't help but smile with shame.
"Haha... I never expected that the master's disciple turned out to be such an interesting person."
He even secretly picked the herbs cultivated by his teacher, and was chased by the master with a broom.
Shuo Ling thinks about that scene and finds it very funny.
But after a short smile, Shuo Ling stood outside the master's garden and looked at those magical plants, and seemed to understand the behavior of the master's disciples.
Faced with rare herbs that are almost equal to living treasures, and there are still so many. If it was someone else, surely they couldn't help but want to secretly pick one and take it away, right
Even Shuo Ling, who doesn't even know what these plants are, can't help being attracted by these magical plants.
Even if you don't use it for medicine, it's good to just take it home as a simple pot pet, right
"These plants look like life from another world."
Shuo Ling looked at Diaoyuhua who was relatively close to him, and felt emotional with the little apprentice beside him.
The little apprentice also turned his head to follow Shuo Ling's line of sight, and nodded slightly.
"The master checks his garden every day. He takes care of these plants. It's like the fishing flowers that only live in the crevices of the rocks. Sometimes the master feeds them with live fish. Said It's to make them less homesick in their own garden."
"Those plants that look like fishing rods actually eat fish?!"
"Well. Yes. The master said that they are very sensitive semi-magic plants. In addition to the necessary nutrients absorbed by the roots, they also know how to fish to add nutrition and joy of life to themselves.
Oh, right. Those fishing flowers are all girls. In the fishing flower group, there is no male gender. "
"Do plants have their own gender?"
"some."
"It's also amazing."
"Actually, in our world, many, many plants have their own group attributes. For example, fishing flowers only have females, and they don't look similar to each other, because they all rely on the males of other plants. Plant pollination.
Therefore, with the genes of other plants, they look like each one is different.
The master said that the Miss Fishing Flowers are all independent women with a very life attitude. "
"I think Master Dou is also a very interesting person. He actually treats plants that cannot speak as girls."
"Well, Master is a very caring person."
"What about those plants that look like umbrellas opposite the Miss Fishing Flowers?"
"Oh, those? Those are cat's claws."
"Cat's claw? But they don't look like cats at all?"
"Ah, no, no. They are called cat's claws only because they also like to eat fish. Master Dou said that they have the same hobbies as Miss Hua, and they should be able to chat better as neighbors."
"Uh... between plants, can they really chat?"
The little apprentice shook his head.
"I don't know, but the master always said so."
"I didn't expect Master Dou to have a rich imagination. Then I guess those cat's claws also have a single attribute? For example, they are all boys."
"That's not true. The sexes of cat's claws are much more abundant than ordinary plants. If their population is large enough, there may even be hundreds of sexes."
"Hundreds of genders? Are you kidding me? Humans only have two genders."
Shuo Ling couldn't accept this strange knowledge, and couldn't imagine the concept of a plant having hundreds of genders.
But the little apprentice who explained it to Shuo Ling seemed to think it was a normal thing.
"But cat's claws are plants? They are different from humans. Moreover, Master Doi also said that sometimes compared with plants, humans are actually very ordinary creatures. They are so ordinary that they are a bit boring."
Shuo Ling heard the expression of the little apprentice who fully agreed with his master's theory, and for some reason he felt unconvinced for himself as a human being.
"What? Humans are the most powerful creatures in this world, aren't they?"
"But so what? Compared with plants, humans only have two genders. This is not very common."
While talking, the little apprentice actually shrugged his shoulders helplessly.
"But humans can dominate the world? Humans are much more advanced than plants!"
Shuo Ling folded his arms around his chest in disbelief, looking at the little apprentice.
The little apprentice looked at the unconvinced Shuo Ling a little strangely.
"But without plants, human beings can't survive. Human beings have been relying on plants to survive since the day they were born."
"Who said that?! Humans can survive without plants?! There are so many delicious animals in this world."
"emmmmm... But most of these delicious beasts also eat plants to survive. Plants don't need humans as much as humans need them."
"You...how can you speak for plants like this? Aren't you a human being yourself?"
Shuo Ling found that he could not argue with the little apprentice at all, and could only use his human identity to question the little apprentice.
The little apprentice sticks out his tongue and rubs his head in embarrassment.
"Sorry, because I often deal with plants with Master. So I can't help but stand on the side of plants.
Never mind, it doesn't matter how much we argue. The plants don't know either.
Master said that plants are very open-minded, and they never care about these things with us. They both prefer to focus on their own lives. "
"Although what you said is quite reasonable, but I don't know why, but I still feel that the life of a human being is more boring than that of plants, and it hurts a bit."
"Hahaha, I'm sorry. It's all because I told you strange knowledge."
"It's me who insists on overflowing with curiosity, and it's not your fault."
Shuo Ling still can't imagine why a mere plant can have hundreds of genders? How should the hundreds of sexes pair up and pollinate each other? Then how will the baby between them be born... no, grow out
Standing outside Master Tuju's garden, Shuo Ling frowned and thought carefully at the magical plants that swayed in the wind.
But those plants that grow quietly in the garden are completely unaffected by the outside world.
From time to time, a small fish swims by Miss Fishing Flower's pond, and Shuo Ling sees that Fishing Flower, which was closed with flower buds, suddenly blooms its own gorgeous flowers, and then throws out tentacles like fishing lines to stick to the fish in the pond. small fish.
"Clap clack!"
The fishing flower instantly wrapped the caught small fish with its flexible petals, and the wrapped fish was still struggling to shake its tail. But it cannot change the food that becomes the fishing flower.
Watching the slightly wriggling petals swallow and digest the little fish little by little, and then the colorful petals trembled gently. Shuo Ling actually has an inexplicable feeling of being happy because Miss Hua, a fisherman, catches fish and eats it.
"The fishing flower actually knows how to fish for itself."
Shuo Ling was still dumbfounded.
"Well, so will the catclaws next door."
"How do catclaws catch fish? They don't look like they have tentacles or anything."
Shuo Ling was wondering, when he saw a cat's claw plant not far from Diaoyuhua slowly unfolding its canopy. The liquid dripping from under the canopy fell into the surrounding pond like raindrops.
Soon the small fish in the pond were attracted by those raindrops.
Shuo Ling saw that the small fish that were attracted seemed to be bewitched by the cat's claw grass, and even if they were caught by the fishing flowers next to them, they still had no intention of leaving the danger. Then the slow-moving Cat's Claw retracted its canopy little by little and rolled the little fish under the shadow into the canopy.
Compared with the quick and rough fishing flowers, some fluffy cat's claws look very ladylike. Eat fish gracefully and slowly.
No wonder Mr. Dou put these two fish-loving plants together as neighbors. The picture of eating fish together really has an inexplicable harmony.
Shuo Ling even found himself staring at the two plants fascinated without knowing it.
The other Dragon Academy students obviously felt the same way as Shuo Ling.
Heika and Tianli left from the window of the laboratory at some point, and came to Master Dou's back garden to look for Shuo Ling. But when he saw Shuo Ling, he found that Shuo Ling was chatting happily with a little apprentice he didn't know. Compared with Heika and Tianli who watched the experiment before, they looked more forgetful.
"In the end, Shuo Ling himself really likes Master Tuju's manor."
Tian Li and Heika slowed down and said while smiling.
Because he was so absorbed in chatting with the little apprentice, Shuo Ling didn't even notice when Heika and Tianli appeared behind him.
"Master Tuju is really a very powerful person. He was able to let plants from so many different places live in such a harmonious way in a garden."