Looking at the dejected Ye Qing, Old Master Zhang smiled. "But don't lose heart. Since you're Ziran's cousin, we're practically family, so telling you a few things wouldn't count as violating our ancestral rules."
Hearing the obvious significance in Old Master Zhang's words, Ye Qing's hopes flared anew.
Unlike Ye Qing, whose hopes had been rekindled, Zhang Sisi and Zhang Siyu both laughed when they heard this. Clearly, they knew what was coming next.
Their laughter immediately gave Ye Qing a bad feeling. Sure enough, what came next sent his newly rekindled hopes crashing down again.
Old Master Zhang smiled. "I have a biography of a Master Craftsman from a thousand years ago. He made Berry Balls back then. If you can find him or his descendants, there might still be a way forward."
Ye Qing fell apart at that. That was a thousand years ago. How was he supposed to find him...?
Zhao Ziran said with a smile, "Grandpa, stop teasing him.
"Everyone knows that even the most primitive Berry Balls were only invented within the past few hundred years. How could anyone from a thousand years ago have invented them?"
Ye Qing nodded in agreement. Zhao Ziran was right. The brief world history he had read when he first transmigrated had recorded it too, explicitly stating that Berry Balls had only been invented within the past few hundred years.
Looking at the two supremely confident youngsters, Old Master Zhang scoffed. "Shallow. Is the history you've seen necessarily the true history?"
"Huh?"
Both Ye Qing and Zhao Ziran were dumbfounded.
What did that mean?
Could history written into textbooks actually be false?
Fortunately, Old Master Zhang did not deliberately keep them in suspense. Instead, he explained in detail, "The history you've seen is broadly correct.
"It's just that around