Herbal Medicine Kindergarten

[The first four volumes are complete, and updates are steady! Add to your collection!]

[Child-rearing + medicinal plants personified after the Compendium of Materia Medica + interstellar medical rescue]

Lin Jiu, a PhD student specializing in Chinese medicinal herb cultivation, had worked hard to raise seedlings only to have them pulled out. When he opened his eyes, he'd become the head of a medical research base, in charge of... a group of little ones?

The System painted a rosy picture for him: These are medicinal herb symbiote younglings. They can cure every poison, treat every illness, and even beat up alien beasts with their bare hands!

Looking at the younglings, who had nearly been ruined by a succession of bizarre researchers, Lin Jiu fell into deep thought.

Does anyone have any common sense? Why would you need a research base to raise kids? Of course you open a kindergarten!

On the first day of Baicao Kindergarten, the little ones eagerly logged into a virtual exam hall to take their entrance assessment. Then they were bundled off to a rescue starship from decades ago, where almost nobody had survived. It went down in history as the Plague Cruise.

The younglings barely escaped with their lives, while Director Lin remained cheerful all by himself. The moment the exam ended, Lin Jiu went to pick the kids up and take them home. "So, did you have fun on your first day of kindergarten?"

The kids: ...

Fun. It was to die for.

Between classes, Lin Jiu took the kids across different planets to carry out rescue missions, "broadening their horizons and refining their character."

A few months later, a medical rescue team named the Baicao Special Rescue Squad quietly swept across the trending topics on the star network. The beautiful director's daily life with the kids became an interstellar sensation.

Some people condemned it as publicity. Others screamed about it every day:

What a cheerful little ray of sunshine Dandelion is! The shy little cat Schizonepeta is so soft and adorable, I want to pet it! The cool little guy Cocklebur is mine once he grows up! I can't tell Large Thistle and Small Thistle apart, but they're both so cute!

The kids healed my heart again today!

At first, people thought it was just a publicity stunt by Lin Jiu, the pretty-boy director.

That was until someone opened a live news report in the war section and saw a familiar figure...

The humanoid catnip who subdued a fierce feline alien beast and could also relieve pain was Schizonepeta? The humanoid insecticide who drove away mutated insects was Cocklebur? The twins darting through the trauma ward to stop bleeding looked just like Large Thistle and Small Thistle? Little Dandelion could face a whole nest of snakes alone and cure every poison?

Come on, enemies, attack already! Aim right at me! (No.)

With the younglings suddenly famous, several former researchers appeared to claim custody: some had received promotions, some had been imprisoned, and a few were rumored to have been blown to bits like fireworks.

Alye, the Federation's top general, ranked among the top two in both combat strength and looks, appeared with a knife. "Who dares touch my kids?"

The war grew fierce, and Alliance General Alye led troops into enemy territory, then vanished without a trace.

Lin Jiu, the director of the interstellar sensation Baicao Kindergarten, was invited to appear on a talk show.

Quite a few men and women sent in letters asking if he had someone special, and they clearly had ulterior motives.

Lin Jiu crossed his long legs, faced the camera, and smiled. "Alye, you abandoned your husband and children!"

-I appreciate the kind offers, but our kindergarten has hundreds of younglings, and they only recognize one father, a man called Yeye.-

#Even the Federation's coldest war dog will fight someone to the death when a youngling calls him Daddy#

#Didn't you say you hated kids?#

#Has General Alye finally come around today?#

[Practical, scheming, sharp-tongued kindergarten director bottom × proud, aloof, loyal puppy general top]

1. Main plot: Raising kids and interstellar medical rescue, with leveling up and fighting monsters interspersed with academy life. The story is outlined. It's currently being completed after leaving my job, so feel free to start reading.

2. The central concept is personified plants from the Compendium of Materia Medica, with tons of original details. The information about medicinal herbs is especially inaccurate. To serve the plot, their medicinal properties have mostly been greatly expanded, and much of it is made up. Please don't scrutinize it.

3. The top has a congenital vision problem and needs a black eyepiece to see. He shows only half his face for most of the story. (It's fine, it won't get in the way of kissing (?))

4. The main couple is the director and the general. None of the younglings have romance plots, and not a single medicinal-herb kid will die.

My completed historical farming and legal-case novel, The Young County Magistrate Boyong, is in my collection. Feel free to read it!

My next infinite-flow novel, Infinite Asylum, is waiting to be written. Please add it to your collection!

Below is the blurb for an upcoming story, Waiting to Die at Home After Graduation↓↓↓

As one of the many people born at the wrong time and crushed by the era's harsh realities, Xu Duo had lived for twenty years and was simply too exhausted to keep competing.

While new graduates were frantically searching for jobs, he lay in his dorm bed for three months, planning to go home and wait to die as soon as he graduated.

Xu Duo had little family left and no possessions to speak of, except for a dilapidated courtyard passed down from his ancestors.

After graduating, he hauled his suitcase back to the village to farm, and plunged himself into it with no intention of coming back out.

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In Yuchuan Town, there was a village called Shenwu Temple Village. It really did have an old, dilapidated Shenwu Temple. No one remembered which deity was worshipped there, but people would stop by to pray during holidays when they happened to think of it.

One day, just after Xu Duo had finished praying and walked out of the ruined temple, a man in gleaming silver armor suddenly fell from the sky and landed right in front of him.

The handsome stranger knew nothing and couldn't even remember his own name. He only said he was one of the hundred thousand heavenly soldiers sent to suppress the monkeys.

Xu Duo: ?

Countless cautionary tales in books and movies had taught Xu Duo not to pick up strange men from the roadside. A weirdo who liked to cosplay was even more likely to bring ruin to his family.

But the deity flipped his hand and conjured more money than Xu Duo could ever spend, even though Xu Duo had given up on life and was waiting to die.

Xu Duo: ...

Well, since things had come to this, he might as well go home and eat.

While people his age struggled in the pursuit of fame and fortune, Xu Duo worked hard to renovate his old house, grew a lush garden of vegetables to feed himself, and had both cats and dogs for company. He had nothing to worry about, and could spend his nights getting intimate with the real, actual deity he'd picked up.

If you can't keep competing, then don't. Life isn't that easy to ruin.

Wait... are you saying I accidentally picked up the God of Wealth's lucky cat? And I've been using the Kitchen God's treasure basin to make salted vegetables?

Hold on, who are you, old man in all those antiques? Is my old house sentient?

#Ever since I picked someone up, my unlucky life has been going strangely well#

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One afternoon, a news report came from the TV in the newly renovated, bright house: An ancient tomb has been discovered in Yuchuan Town. Excavation and research have confirmed that it belongs to Lu Huaiting, the great Shenwu General of the Sheng Dynasty.

Xu Duo tilted his head back restlessly and nudged the man who was misbehaving on top of him.

Handsome, look! Did someone dig up your grave?

The deity, who had always been troubled by his own past, ignored him and raised a hand, swish, blocking out the sunlight.

Xu Duo struggled to get away in alarm. "Why are you closing the curtains in broad daylight, Lu Huaiting!"

The great Shenwu General was more than he could handle. From then on, he and the deity he'd picked up got intimate both day and night. ()

-

When Lu Huaiting first fell from the sky, all he remembered was that his childhood name was Yuanji, his heavenly soldier number was 077931, and before ascending, he'd been some kind of general.

He couldn't remember the details. Partly because it had been a very long time, and partly because every one of the hundred thousand heavenly soldiers had been a great general in their previous life.

He'd spent thousands of years competing among a sea of generals, only to end up as a gatekeeper.

He didn't know how he'd fallen from the sky, and all he could think about was returning to the Southern Heavenly Gate to report for duty.

The young man raised his eyelids and asked mildly, "What would happen to Heaven if you weren't there?"

Yuanji froze.

Later, they renovated the old house together, raised pets and grew crops, and experimented with recipes... At last, Yuanji understood.

Heaven would be the same with or without him, but Yuanji and Xu Duo together made a difference.

As the saying goes, if you can't keep competing, then stop.

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Easygoing, lazy genius bottom × divine man top

Food, food, food; farming, farming, farming; cats and dogs; renovating an old house

Job hunting is miserable, so I'm writing something light and healing.

It's probably my last fantasy before I die, so don't worry about it. (No.)

Love you all!

Theme: Preserve and pass on the culture of traditional Chinese medicine and medicinal herbs.