Transmigrated into a farmer's lucky charm, all the villains in the family panicked.

Yun Shengsheng rested her chin on her hand and looked at Yan Shijin.

[Hmm, you look much better than the last two times I saw you! Your face has filled out, instead of being as thin as a skeleton.]

[She's becoming more and more exquisite and beautiful... that small face, those eyebrows and eyes, that aura—tsk tsk tsk.]

[If this were in my day, I could just find a park, film a video, and get commercial gigs; I'd be a guaranteed child star.]

Yan Shijin: ?

Yun Shengsheng was completely absorbed in her auntie smile, forgetting that she was a three-year-old child.

The more I look at this face, the more I like it, and the more I want to touch it.

She couldn't help but reach out her little hand and touch it...

"Wow...so soft...!"

So fair, so tender, so cute!

Come on, give your auntie a smile!

Auntie will buy you candy!

An eerie silence fell over the entire courtyard.

Yan Shijin froze.

His excessively refined face was expressionless. He lowered his eyelashes, looking at the audacious little hand in front of him, and his lips twitched very slightly.

Old Li almost laughed himself to death, slapping away Yun Shengsheng's little hand, his beard trembling.

"You brat! You can't just touch His Highness's face like that!"

Yun Shengsheng then realized what a terrible thing she had done.

Her face flushed red to her ears, and she pulled her hands back and hid them behind her back.

But his lips were still pouting, his face full of resentment.

Seeing her innocent appearance, Old Li assumed she was too young to know who he was. He cleared his throat, becoming unusually serious, bent down, and whispered in her ear.

"This is His Highness the Crown Prince, the Emperor. We are his subjects, and we cannot act recklessly, understand?"

Yun Shengsheng blinked her eyes and nodded obediently.

[Nonsense, I already knew. I was just momentarily stunned and forgot about my identity.]

[I hope this young prince won't hold a grudge when he grows up... I hope he doesn't one day remember this and order my hand chopped off...]

Yan Shijin listened silently, her eyebrows twitching very slightly.

Yun Shengsheng originally thought that Old Master Li brought her here to keep the young crown prince company and relieve his boredom.

After all, he's a patient, so interacting with lively and adorable children can be beneficial to his physical and mental health.

She was clearly overthinking it.

Suddenly, Old Li pulled out a huge wooden box from somewhere and placed it on the table with a "thud," making the teacups jump.

When the box was opened, it was filled with compartments, each containing a medicinal herb.

There are nine small compartments per layer, and there are at least ten layers stacked high. Just looking at them makes your scalp tingle.

Old Li looked at her with a smile, which Yun Shengsheng found terrifying: "Little girl, do you see? Once you've memorized all the medicinal herbs here, you can go play."

Yun Shengsheng's eyes widened, and only two words escaped her lips: "So many..."

It's more than just a lot.

There must be at least ninety kinds of medicinal herbs...

She had studied Chinese medicinal herbs before, but back then she mainly learned commonly used prescriptions and herbs, which were only a few dozen in number. But in this box, there were many things she had never seen before, and she didn't even know what they were.

Yun Shengsheng let out a wail and slumped onto the table, burying her face in her arms.

It looks like he's in a lot of pain.

Old Li wasn't buying it.

He lifted Yun Shengsheng off the table, straightened her up, and put her in a proper sitting position. His smile was as benevolent as that of Maitreya Buddha in a temple, but his words were icy cold as they came down: "Finish memorizing it as soon as possible so you can rest. You have to memorize it even if it's dark. You decide what to do."

Seeing that she couldn't refuse, Yun Shengsheng could only pitifully begin to recite.

She recognized the medicinal herbs in the first three compartments of the first layer: Panax notoginseng, Angelica sinensis, and Codonopsis pilosula.

She examined it for a while, pretending to look at it, then wrinkled her nose and looked at it over and over again.

Then she reached out and picked up the fourth herb, a small, round, grayish-yellow one. She held it to her nose and smelled it, but it didn't have much of a smell.

She tilted her head, moved closer, and even subconsciously brought it to her mouth...

Yan Shijin, who had been silent until now, suddenly spoke.

"That's Moon Gazing Sand."

Yun Shengsheng was taken aback, and then "smack" threw the grain of moon-gazing sand back into the grid.

【Moonlight Sand!! Isn't that just rabbit droppings?!】

Thank goodness I didn't put it in my mouth to taste! Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to eat anything today!

Yan Shijin was taken aback, not expecting that she knew. Her curiosity about her grew even stronger.

Yun Shengsheng suddenly looked at Yan Shijin, [How does this person recognize this medicine? Could it be that his medicinal soup contains this medicine?]

Does that mean he's already eaten the rabbit droppings?

Yan Shijin: (* ￣︿￣)

When Yun Shengsheng looked at the rows of medicinal herbs on the table again, her expression changed completely.

Just a moment ago he was a miserable apprentice, now he looks like a mine-clearing engineer.

Instead of grabbing the herbs directly with her hands, she picked up a pair of clean chopsticks from the side and used them to examine each herb, holding it far away to scrutinize it, smelling it closely, and then immediately removing it.

Because she was genuinely afraid.

Who knows if that old fox Li has secretly slipped one or two more unusual things into the cubicle?

Chicken droppings white?

Left-handed dragon?

It's all shit...

What if Old Man Li gets interested and gives her some strange medicine, maybe with a bit of poison? It won't be fatal, but it'll give her a face full of red rashes!

She needs to show her face to the public...

Old Master Li and Steward Chen were drinking tea and playing chess at the tea table next to them, chatting as they glanced at the two children.

The scene was actually quite beautiful: two children sat side by side, one with a serious expression, using chopsticks to sift through the medicinal herbs, and the other sitting quietly beside him watching.

Butler Chen lowered his voice and laughed heartily, "Yun Shengsheng is such a lovely girl. You don't know, every time she comes, the young master becomes noticeably more cheerful. Just now, he even took the initiative to remind her of the name of the medicine."

"We've served the young master for so long, and he barely speaks more than two words to us a day."

Old Li clicked his tongue, crossed his legs and swung them around, his beard practically pointing to the sky.

"Of course! My little apprentice, I'm not exaggerating, is incredibly adorable. He's not even three years old, yet he's exceptionally clever."

"She can remember all the characters taught by Changru without making a single mistake."

"It's not just about memorizing characters; he can actually write them! Not a single one is wrong."

Butler Chen paused in his tea-pouring, genuinely surprised: "Not even three years old? That's truly remarkable. It's a pity girls aren't allowed to take the imperial examinations. Otherwise, she might have become a top scholar someday, dangdang."

Old Li nodded repeatedly, about to agree, when suddenly, as if remembering something, he raised an eyebrow and asked, "Hey, speaking of which, have the quotas been issued again this year? Is the palace selecting female officials?"

Steward Chen refilled his teacup and replied, "Yes, the registration list will be submitted in October, and all the prefectures are screening people. It seems they've increased the quota this year, asking for twenty more than in previous years..."