After returning to Sea City, Lin Wan threw herself into "tense and busy" work.
That work was:
Cooperating with the two aggrieved parties to investigate the stolen cultural relics case.
Lin Wan described the job like this: meetings and chatting in the morning, a nap and some snacks in the afternoon, a report around six saying no clues had been found, and then it was time to get off work.
"After all, we're a responsible great nation. We have to keep up appearances by specially assigning people and time to handle this matter. Whether we can actually solve it is another question."
"Excellent!"
Lu Zheng gave her a thumbs-up. After all, the Forbidden City Museum had experience with this sort of thing too. Presumably, they had found nothing last time either.
When Lu Zheng returned to ancient times again, it was already nearly New Year's.
Though icy winds whistled through the county town, they could not dampen the people's enthusiasm for preparing New Year goods.
However, the Lu Family and Liu Family did not need to prepare any New Year goods this year, because they would be spending the New Year at the East Sea Dragon Palace.
"Lu Lang!"
Liu Qingyan wore an emerald willow and green bamboo silk lily dress, with a jade willow-leaf hairpin gathering her dark hair. She spun gracefully before Lu Zheng, lightly lifted her skirt, and asked softly, "Lu Lang, do you think it's all right for me to wear this to the East Sea?"
"It's gorgeous!" Lu Zheng nodded frantically.
Liu Qingyan bit her lower lip lightly. After pondering for a moment, she nodded and said, "I'll change into another one. Take another look for me."
Before long, Liu Qingyan had changed into an apricot-yellow dress with silver-edged winding-river cloud patterns. She wore