She found a large vat in the storeroom, placed it in the very center of the courtyard, then pulled two small porcelain containers from the large embroidered pouch at her waist and poured everything inside them into the vat.
After a sizzling sound and a wisp of pale smoke, nothing else happened.
Su Qiao took another small porcelain bottle from her embroidered pouch and sprinkled some powder over herself. Only then did she walk over to the nearby pavilion, sit down, prop her chin on her hand, and wait quietly.
With just these two potions, would poisonous snakes, scorpions, frogs, and the like really come?
"I don't know either."
This was her first time doing this, too.
How was she supposed to know?
You don't know? Then why were you putting on such an inscrutable act?
Before the poisonous creatures arrived, Su Qiao finally got her brother—and a man dressed in black robes.
The way the two of them appeared was rather special.
They had started fighting outside the courtyard wall.
Su Qiao had just walked out of the pavilion to meet them when her brother, Su Baiwen, pushed her back.
"Little sister, go find somewhere to hide. I'll deal with him, then come find you."
Su Qiao was a little helpless. "Brother, he came to play with me."
She had not expected the two of them to run into each other this time.
"Play?"
Su Baiwen's thick brows drew together as he glared fiercely at Ye Jingwen in the courtyard. "What's there to play with in the middle of the night?"
"Besides, you're a young lady, while he's a grown man. He doesn't keep his distance and even comes right up to you. He clearly has bad intentions."
"Little sister, I'm telling you, you can know a person's face