Bai Jingfei already knew the drill by then. Duck and hide till the person leaves and then make your escape. Bai Jingfei was already a battle hardened warrior of ducking and hiding.
Unfortunately she had an old man with her. The old man was not only a pain to hide but also a pain in general. The cave creature would have to figure out how to hide him without him making noise or drawing unwanted attention.
"Someone's coming, teacher!" she hissed aggressively before pulling heavenly doctor Ming under a table that had bonsai covering it.
"Oh this is such a good idea for a bonsai stand, we should do this too Feifei!" said heavenly doctor Ming without paying attention to how loud his voice was.
Bai Jingfei sighed.
She realized yet again, that she had made a bad choice coming here with heavenly doctor Ming.
If it had been just her, she could've jumped over the wall quickly and hidden in the jade medical hall where there was little to no chance of being caught.
Unfortunately she was with heavenly doctor Ming who'd arthritis was a huge problem, second only to his stupidity.
Like teacher, like student, I suppose.
Bai Jingfei could only slap her hand over his mouth to shut him up as the footsteps drew nearer.
Bai Jingfei yanked heavenly doctor Ming's foot under the table making sure not a single part of their bodies could be spotted unless one purposely looked under the table, which Bai Jingfei hoped was improbable.
The footsteps drew nearer and Bai Jingfei recognized the person who had shown up.
Song Zihao.
He had a bottle in his hands and was standing in the garden, staring at the sky like a fool. Well not as big a fool as the teacher-student duo squashed under the table.
Bai Jingfei dropped her hand and watched in awe as Song Zihao opened the jar and scattered its contents all over the floor in one elegant, dance-like motion.
From the sky came hundreds of birds of various colors, fluttering their wings as they descended. The huge number of birds created a fish-scale like effect as the feathers glimmered in the setting sun.
These were probably migratory birds of some sort that Song Zihao was feeding.
Song Zihao would feed these birds every night but Bai Jingfei and heavenly doctor Ming had never seen this because they always left early to nap.
As Song Zihao spread the bird feed all over the grass while the birds ate, heavenly doctor Ming whispered to Bai Jingfei with a smile.
"See that red one there? If you catch it I can have the most delicious dish made out of it!"
Bai Jingfei felt the urge to smack heavenly doctor Ming but found her mouth watering at the thought of a meal, especially if made out of the plump, red bird in front of her.
Despite her hunger, she reigned in her emotions and shushed heavenly doctor Ming with a frown. At this rate they were definitely going to get caught.
After tending to the birds for a couple of minutes, Song Zihao walked back inside, groaning.
Bai Jingfei could almost hear him cursing and assumed a bird bit him or something of the sort. Either way, he was leaving and that was a huge relief for her.
"That darn bird! Again! How many times will it do this!" grumbleded Song Zihao is his deep voice.
Bai JIngfei had thought that he was the 'dutiful wife' type but it looked like Song Zihao had been a wolf in sheep's clothing all along. From his grumbly, annoyed attitude it was evident he wasn't as nice a person as he seemed like.
But at the very least he was leaving.
Within seconds of him leaving, Bai Jingfei left from under the table and helped heavenly doctor Ming out while scaring away all the birds that had landed in the garden.
She then moved back to the table on which the gigantic saffron was kept and plucked out almost all the saffron in one go and jumped over the wall.
She repeated the ordeal with heavenly doctor Ming, heaving him across the wall so that they could finally leave. Once he was over the wall she pushed the saffron into his hands and closed his palms.
She then proceeded to dust her hands and walk off with a frown on her face, crashing headfirst into a wall and then landing on her butt yet again.
By then heavenly doctor Ming had organized himself and walked over to Bai Jingfei who was on her butt and looked down. Bai Jingfei refused to meet his eyes and stared at the base of his walking stick instead.
She then curled up into a fetal position much like a certain heavenly doctor had done after being confronted by Bai Liu.
"Feifei let's go." he said trying to hold back his laughter.
"I don't want to." said Bai Jingfei, obviously shaken by the turn of events, now extremely upset about the proceedings and how much work she had had to do.
She had taken all the saffron from the plant and basically saved their butts multiple times and in the end she wasn't going to get any benefits from the whole procedure.
She had thought that she could pocket some of the saffron in between but it was obvious she couldn't during the chaos that had happened.
And at the end, she ended up falling on her butt for the first time in a month.
She'd broken her lucky streak with this crappy mission and there were no benefits for her in it.
Heavenly doctor Ming bent down as much as his hip would allow and whispered to her.
"FeiFei I'll show you how to make a pill with this stuff!"
He was obviously trying to entice her but Bai Jingfei wasn't having any of that. She didn't lift her head the slightest bit. Heavenly doctor Ming felt some pity after all the work she had done and forgot his penny pincher ways for a few minutes.
"Fine- Fine- You can have half of the pills once we're done making them."