Jinse carefully put the earplugs into her purse, then clutched the purse tightly in her hand.
Thinking about it, I was afraid of damaging the earplugs, so I let go of my hand.
In short, she simply didn't know how to take good care of those earplugs.
Ren Yingying: Sigh, if I had known, I would have brought you more.
It's nothing valuable; I knew she liked it, so I gave it to her a long time ago.
"Princess Consort, please give me your orders. I will go through Jinse and water for you."
Ren Yingying: "Hahaha, offering yourself in return?"
This kid is so funny when he gets serious.
Qu Nian: I knew it! That Poisonous Woman Ren had no good intentions!
Jinse blushed.
"I'm just teasing you," Ren Yingying said. "I suddenly remembered that when we were chatting before, I remember you said that your zither playing was very impressive, right?"
"Shang Ke," Jinse said, "But I've only learned the basics, and I've brought shame upon our ancestors."
"Hey, I'm not telling you to be modest. I remember you said you could somehow make people, well, infatuated?"
"Princess Consort," Jinse blushed even more, "I meant that some people don't use their talents for the right things, but instead waste them on other things..."
"Hehe, if I ask you to help me, it doesn't have to be through legitimate means, okay?"
Jinse was startled. "You, you mustn't... Even if you have those thoughts, you should wait until the princess leaves..."
Qu Nian so angry her Zidu twisted out of shape.
Okay, she wants to climb the wall, you guys hurry up and get her a ladder.
What a fine concubine she is!
"Use it to deal with the princess," Ren Yingying said. "Qu Hua usually can't be without a man at night. Tonight, you can 'enliven' her. Anyway, it's the guards who will be exhausted, not her."
Qu Nian: You know too much; you want someone to kill you to silence you.
"But why do this?" Jinse was a very cautious person.
"Buy me some time so I can go and retrieve something from the pool!"
Qu Nian: You've thought of everything.
This time, Jinse agreed without much hesitation.
However, she had some reservations, saying, "It can indeed adjust the sound, making women more easily aroused. But I'm afraid others might also..."
"It's alright, cover your ears," Ren Yingying said. "Besides, this is just to create atmosphere, it won't be that exaggerated, will it?"
She has self-control!
Jinse nodded.
Ren Yingying chuckled and said, "I didn't expect there to be a gender distinction! Is there one for dogs to hear? To inspire some Dog Meat!"
"No, that's not the case."
"Hahaha, just kidding." Ren Yingying patted Qu Nian's head. "Our Dog Meat will be alright."
As night fell, and the wind howled, Ren Yingying went out.
Jinse moved her zither to the doorway, dressed in a moon-white gauze robe with gold-embroidered lotus patterns, and sat gracefully beneath the peach tree, her hands caressing the zither strings...
The music was plaintive and yearning, like weeping and lamenting, its lingering notes echoing endlessly.
Ren Yingying stood by the pool. "It sounds nice, but it doesn't seem to be about men!"
Did they play the wrong track?
Never mind, he's just a foil; the key is that Nanxing is here to bolster our courage.
Qu Nian stood by the pond, his face downcast, his feelings complicated.
What exactly is it?
Actually, he was curious too.
The process of retrieving the item was not smooth because it was too heavy.
Fortunately, both Nanxing and Jinjin can swim, and Nanxing is the main force. In the end, Qu Nian jumped into the water to help. The three women and a dog used all their strength to finally lift a small box out of the water.
"Let's go, let's go quickly, don't let the people from Chahua find us."
The group then laboriously carried the boxes back.
The box was about two feet long, one foot wide, and one foot thick. It was made of an unknown material, but it was perfectly square and looked as if it had been naturally formed.
"Oh my god, could this just be a rock?" Ren Yingying looked it over from left to right, up to down, and came to this conclusion.
"No." Nanxing touched the center of the "stone." "Look at the patterns."
Ren Yingying leaned closer; wasn't it just a circle engraved with gold thread?
She couldn't recognize what the carving was, but she thought it was strangely beautiful.
"This looks like a hidden lock," Nanxing said.
At the same time, Qu Nian recognized it as a hidden lock.
What is a hidden lock?
"It's a lock with a hidden mechanism, a very subtle one."
Ren Yingying deflated immediately. "Then we can't open it either!"
There is no locksmith service available here.
Jinjin asked, "Can we smash it open?"
Hua Cha objected. "Wouldn't that break the mechanism?"
Jinse was still playing the zither, and Yuanyang was keeping her company outside, so neither of them were there.
Nanxing said, "The hidden lock is difficult to unlock, but there are skilled craftsmen. First, carefully make a rubbing of this pattern, and then give it to the Princess Consort. Perhaps someone in the Prince's household can give it a try."
"Okay, it's decided then." Ren Yingying made a quick decision. "I'll go get some paper and pen."
This "square" layer was laid all over the bottom of the pool.
She's starting to wonder if this is the "foundation" of the pond!
This is such a big undertaking; if we come up empty-handed, it would be incredibly embarrassing.
But losing face in front of your best friend doesn't seem like a big deal.
Ren Yingying brought over paper and pen.
The top sheet of paper had clearly been used and had been set aside by her.
Qu Nian glanced at it, then looked at it again, and then stared intently at it.
Why is that a man in the painting?
Taking advantage of a moment when no one was paying attention, he scratched around with his claws and discovered that there was more than one man. He drew six portraits of men, and none of them were the same.
You, Ren Yingying, even though you haven't cheated on me, you're just giving me empty promises!
There isn't a single portrait of him!
Qu Nian bit and scratched, tearing the portraits to shreds.
However, Ren Yingying was busy, so she didn't pay any attention to him; even if she saw him, she didn't care.
Anyway, I'm just drawing handsome men for fun, and I can keep drawing even without her.
Just then, Xiao Ye came to deliver Tang Zhuyun's letter, Ren Yingying quickly had him send the rubbing of the pattern, along with the letter explaining it, back to Tang Zhuyun.
While she was busy here, Tang Zhuyun wasn't idle either.
She kept waiting for news from Zhou Xu, even wondering if she should go somewhere with Zhou Xu then...
As a result, after planning for many days, Zhou Xu took advantage of the moonlight and brought her aunt directly to the Prince's mansion.
Prince of Jin hadn't returned yet, Xiu'er said, "Your Highness, can you see him? What if it really is tuberculosis and he infects you?"
Tang Zhuyun said, "It's okay, I have a mask."
I am grateful to Ren Yingying her feeding and replenishment over a thousand miles, no, a thousand years plus a thousand miles.
"Besides, I don't think she has tuberculosis," Tang Zhuyun said, standing up. "The illness is secondary; the main thing is to guard against someone causing trouble."
After thinking for a moment, she said, "Go find a guard and tell him to help hold the person down to prevent them from having a seizure."
"Then it seems we don't need to..." Xiu'er said, "Zhou Xu probably thought of this because she was afraid we wouldn't believe her."
"Um?"
"She kidnapped her aunt..."
Tang Zhuyun: Are you sure it's because you're afraid we'll overthink it, and not because her aunt herself doesn't want to come?
"Let's go out and take a look."