Thinking of how seriously Old Man Mi had taken it, Zu An couldn't help but bring the sniff to his nose: "Could it be some kind of miraculous elixir?"
It did have a faint medicinal smell, but it was very strange; it wasn't the smell of the herbs I had smelled at Ji Xiaoxi's house before.
Hearing his words, Pei Mianman also became interested and came over to examine it: "It doesn't seem like it. There is no fluctuation of vital energy, and it doesn't look like a rare treasure at all."
“This thing is definitely important,” Zuan said decisively, otherwise Old Man Mi wouldn’t have been so fixated on it.
"Where did you find it?" Pei Mianman asked curiously.
“Hidden so deep in a secret compartment under his bed, it must be something extremely important,” Zuan said.
"Hidden under the bed..." Pei Mianman was a little confused, but then she suddenly realized something, and her face turned red instantly. She threw the box over as if it were a hot potato.
"Hey, hey, be careful!" Zu'an scrambled to catch it before it fell to the ground, and then asked curiously, "What happened?"
Pei Mianman blushed, turned around, and spat, "Only you men would treasure that thing."
It was rare to see her so shy, and Zu'an became even more curious: "Do you perhaps know what this is?"
As he spoke, he held it up to his eyes and looked at it a couple more times.
Pei Mianman was initially embarrassed to say it, but seeing that he was about to bring it close to his nose to smell it again, she finally couldn't help but stop him, saying, "Hey, no, that's...that's a eunuch's...a eunuch's root of troubles."
"The root of trouble?" Zu'an didn't react for a moment. Just as he was about to ask again, he suddenly remembered something and threw the thing and the box away as if they were burning his hands. "Holy crap!"
Thinking about how he had just been holding that thing, turning it over and over, and even bringing it to his nose to smell it, Zu An felt a churning in his stomach and hurriedly ran to the bushes to dry heave.
Seeing his distressed appearance, Pei Mianman was both amused and annoyed, but still considerately patted his back gently.
Zuan was speechless: "Big sister, why didn't you say so sooner!"
“I just remembered,” Pei Mianman said, blushing. “Besides, you’re a man, how could you not recognize yourself?”
Zuan was even more frustrated: "I've seen eagles soaring high all the time, but I never knew someone could be as small as an earthworm."
The more I talked about it, the more nauseous I felt, and I gagged again.
Pei Mianman suppressed a laugh and said, "It's probably because some eunuchs entered the palace at a young age, were castrated when they were very young, and then were preserved with various medicines to prevent them from rotting. After being dried and dehydrated, they probably only have this much left... this little bit."
Zuan: "..."
Although I know about eunuchs, they are a species that is too far removed from my own life, so I don't know anything about them in detail.
At this moment, Pei Mianman suddenly became worried: "Eunuchs value their things very much... They call these things treasures, and they must be taken back for burial so that the body can be complete and the body can be reborn as a complete person. However, generally speaking, these things are kept in the palace and cannot be taken out privately. Eunuch Wei has a special status in the palace, so it is probably because the emperor has granted him permission to take them out himself."
"But if you do that, you've stolen his treasure. If he finds out, it'll definitely be a fight to the death. Why don't you find a chance to put it back?"
This thing is completely useless to others, but it's enough to drive any eunuch crazy; the benefits and risks are completely disproportionate.
"Don't worry, I've tampered with things over there, so it shouldn't be discovered anytime soon." Zu An's expression was strange. Connecting all the clues from before, he finally understood and realized many things he hadn't been able to understand before.
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