Ever since Annie moved out a month ago with Lin Daiyu, Tanchun, Zijuan, and Xueyan and settled into this Lin Manor, the four of them had no longer been constrained by the rigid routines of morning and evening attendance. They no longer had to worry about others' scrutinizing gazes, nor fear the tangled social entanglements and all sorts of messy rules at Jia Residence.
Every day, they either cultivated the "Divine Machine Hundred Refinements" and the "Five Manor Cultivation Method" in the training room as Annie had taught them, wandered through the gardens sightseeing and playing, chatted and read in the study, or enjoyed the scenery and drank tea somewhere in the gardens. Their days were leisurely and carefree.
Thus, all four of them gradually came to love this unrestrained, peaceful, and idyllic life.
That afternoon, after the four had finished lunch in the garden, they sat idly in the flower hall.
Looking at the verdant spiritual plants in the courtyard, the exotic flowers competing in beauty, and several stalks of Beauty Bamboo that were said to have been transplanted from Yangzhou, coupled with the blazing sun outside, each of them felt languid and drowsy, ready to take a short nap right there in the flower hall.
"!!"
At that moment, Xueyan's eyes suddenly lit up when she saw Zijuan absentmindedly fiddling with the longsword at her waist. She then suggested:
"Miss, Third Miss, Sister Zijuan!"
"We've studied the 'Divine Machine Hundred Refinements' for so long. We can't keep just talking theory on paper, can we?"
"I say..."
"Why don't we make a few magical longswords ourselves today, just for fun?"
As she spoke, she once again looked at the training longswords hanging from each of their waists, which Annie had casually refined for them in the past.
Those four