Bai Chen suddenly thought of something and asked, "Oh, did you finish taking care of things? How did it go?"
"It wasn't anything major. It's all taken care of. They're just a bunch of underhanded, scheming people, so there's not much to say. Let's not talk about it." Lin Jingchen felt there was no need to tell him about the affairs of the branch family and spoil his mood.
"Did you understand this handbook?" Lin Jingchen asked. When he had read it before, there had been parts he couldn't understand, and it had taken him a long time to figure them out.
The mention of the handbook perked Bai Chen up considerably, and he wanted to share what he had learned right away.
"More or less, but there are a lot of methods in this handbook that I've never seen in any books. That was quite a surprise. I can try putting what I've learned from it into practice later, but there are a few points I don't quite understand. Could you explain them to me?"
Bai Chen carefully turned to the page with his fingers, then looked at Lin Jingchen, eager to learn what the handbook had to offer.
Lin Jingchen smiled and agreed. "Of course. Let me have a look. It's been so long that I might have forgotten."
Lin Jingchen found another small chair nearby and sat down to study the methods in the handbook.
His grandmother had begun recording its contents many years ago. It was an old keepsake.
It contained all kinds of plants his grandmother had encountered on her trips to remote regions. Some had even gone extinct, leaving only written descriptions and a few black-and-white photographs.
In her youth, Ci Qing had been the daughter of a wealthy family in Jiangnan, but she