Puzzler's Space

Puzzle Six: I came to tend the private garden, as did my mother and her mother before her, for the past five generations.

Puzzle Seven: It must be surgically removed, for any who learn the work of the fourth seer gain True Foresight, and thus in sleep can remember their future as if it were the past with perfect clarity. This, it is hypothesised, puts the future on a road from which it cannot stray until the student dies.

Puzzle 8: The permutations of this phrase are many. The most common is "hooves", but other variants include "an ape's", "another's", "for walking" and "legs".

In my research, it seems the original version translates roughly to "grow without studying humans."

After school-reading:
The papers were unimportant to Liu Kui. They were scraps leftover from flawed letters they had been drafting, and the completed letters were already stowed away safely in their luggage.