Forgotten Legend of the Bloodied Flower

After instructing her sister to rest, the young Lin Xia walked out of her house.

After a few years of intense poison training, the young Lin Xia had long passed that stage and could focus more on her study by now. The study started from herbs identification, basic properties memorization, recipe memorization, medicine making, poison making, and so on.

Everything was taught step by step to them and there would be an evaluation every few weeks and months to test their level.

Once they were determined to have mastered a certain knowledge at a short period of time, they could be deemed to have talent in that area. And it was through the time record that these elders determined who has talent and who didn't have any.

So far, the young Lin Xia's result was really good.

She was one of the few people in the Lin Family who could already learn how to make more types of medicines and poisons. It was also because of this that the young Lin Xia was allowed to enter the family's garden to gather some herbs.

"Get to your place and start your task today." The elder saw these children and gave immediate order.

"Yes."

These children answered and started moving.

Their task started from classifying the herbs to tending the garden. Each of them had different task and would not go to other people's place because it would the other party resent them.

And sabotaging others were pretty easy.

So if they dared to sabotage others, they have to be prepared to be sabotaged.

Lin Xia headed to the garden and started checking the plants. Her task was to grow these plants well aside from her own study, so she always made sure to come here when there was time.

Thankfully, the other children would not make trouble here.

Because if the plants were destroyed, whoever came to the garden would be punished. It was especially if the one who came here was someone who had nothing to do with the task of tending the garden.

'It's beautiful.'

The young Lin Xia smiled faintly. She always felt calm in the garden, surrounded by nothing but plants. These were the only time when she could truly relax.

Even if there were usually many tasks for her to do, she could still relax appropriately from time to time.

"Elder, it's her!"

The sudden voice startled the young Lin Xia and she raised her head to look at an elder coming with another boy from the Lin Family. She frowned because she recognized him as one of the few people who also got good result during this period of time.

After all, there would not only be one genius in a generation. Everyone who did well would be given more priorities for resources.

"Lin Xia, did you take the herbs privately?"

The young Lin Xia was startled when she heard this.

She did take some herbs yesterday for her sister because she had seen her sister's condition was bad. But all she took was nothing more than a few leaves and the amount was minimal.

Because if the young Lin Xia dared to take more than that, the Lin Family will find out and then Lin Xia would be punished.

"No, I didn't," the young Lin Xia replied and looked at the young boy.

The young boy stuck out his tongue and shot a contemptuous look.

Seeing this, the young Lin Xia's eyes narrowed. It seemed that she had to deal with these annoying b*stard in the future so that they would not make trouble for her. It would not do her any good to have her being suspected like this.

"Come with me for investigation," the elder said and then turned to look at the boy. "You too."

"Ah?"

"How do you know that Lin Xia brought the plants if you're not in the garden?"

Hearing this, the gloating look on the boy disappeared and it turned solemn. He knew very well that he might also get some punishment because of this.

This made him feel grumpy.

…

Bang!

After coming back without any evidence, Lin Xia went back home for lunch. She looked at her younger sister, who was resting and didn't bother with her. Even with the antidote delivered, there would still many residual poison in Lin Miao's body, which would make it hard for her to do anything else.

When she herself was a kid, the young Lin Xia also had to stay and rest almost all day long.

'It's really close.'

The young Lin XIa felt gloomy when she thought about the investigation that the elders were doing. He also arranged for more people to work in the garden, which meant that the chance for the young Lin Xia to slip away some herbs would be very low.

But with her sister's current condition, if she was not relieved at all, she might die.

The young Lin Xia had already checked her sister's body and it was already on the verge of collapse. If not because of the poison was slightly alleviated, it was estimated that the young Lin Xia would only be greeted with Lin Miao's corpses today.

'In that case… I only have one way out.'

Aside from tending the herbs, these teenagers also had other tasks. That was to go down the mountain to deliver the medicine once a week. At the same time, they were also allowed to search for herbs and these herbs would have to be handed over to the Lin Family upon their return.

The only thing that the young Lin Xia could do was to sneak some herbs from the mountain when she came back.

This would depend on her luck whether she could find the herbs or not.

But…

Compared to losing her sister, the young Lin Xia would rather do this.

…

In the weekend, the young Lin Xia quickly did her task along with the other children and then they all went their separate ways. None of them have good relationship with each other and they would avoid each other.