Ye Jinyun sat in the room blankly for a while, and then she heard Lin Qingtang coming back and calling her happily in the yard.
"Jinyun, come out and see what I brought you."
When Ye Jinyun heard the voice, he put his worries aside, opened the door and walked out briskly.
Lin Qingtang was holding a few gray wild rabbits in his hands. The rabbits' legs had been pierced by arrows and were bleeding. Lin Qingtang was holding them motionless.
"Oh, is this the spoils you brought back from hunting today? They're really good, and look very plump."
Lin Qingtang raised his chin and said, "Not bad, I shot the rabbit before my second brother. He was upset for a long time."
Ye Jinyun couldn't help but chuckle, "Yes, yes, you're the best. But coming back to the point, you guys have been out for so long, and all you got back were these few rabbits?"
Lin Qingtang handed the rabbit over to Bai Lu to take care of it, then fetched some water to wash his hands. He then pulled Ye Jinyun to sit on a bench in the yard and talk:
"How could that be? The Emperor's team is so powerful. They hunted a lot of prey before us. If our team hadn't been waiting for Chu Mingrou, we would have come out to hunt. I don't know why she took so long to change clothes, forcing us to follow behind the Emperor and his team and only be able to pick up some leftovers. It's really infuriating."
Ye Jinyun's eyes flashed when she heard this. She knew that the reason Chu Mingrou took so long was because she was planning something with her family, but she would not tell anyone about this. After all, it would be a disaster for anyone who heard it, so she just kept it to herself.
Lin Qingtang didn't notice her reaction and just kept talking to himself:
"You don't know. When the Emperor saw how little we hunted, he laughed at us. He said he could hunt more than us, even though he had beautiful women with him. But we, with my second brother, a fierce general, only managed to kill a few rabbits. It's like using a sledgehammer to kill a chicken. Oh, I'm so angry! I'm so angry! Tomorrow I'm going to take first place."
Seeing her like this, Ye Jinyun couldn't help but burst out laughing. Lin Qingtang didn't get annoyed when she saw her laughing. A sly smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he spoke nonchalantly:
"Just laugh it off. Your big brother is also on our team. I'm not the only one embarrassed anyway. If you have the guts, go laugh at him too."
Ye Jinyun raised her eyebrows slightly. She didn't expect that this guy could use this to take advantage of her, so she stopped laughing at her.
"Okay, okay, I'll stop laughing now. You guys have to show off tomorrow and hunt some other trophies. If possible, bring back a couple of rabbits that aren't seriously injured."
Lin Qingtang was puzzled. "What do you want a rabbit for? Are you going to raise it?"
Ye Jinyun shook his head, glanced at Yu Wan'er's door, and said, "I'm not raising it. I want you to bring it back to Wan'er. She's not in a good mood, and I think raising an animal might help."
Lin Qingtang understood what she meant, and without asking any more questions, he agreed to it.
At dinner time, Ye Jinyun cooked the rabbits as a snack. After asking Qing'er to deliver Yu Wan'er's meal to her room, she and Lin Qingtang had the meal together.
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The next morning, Ye Jinyun had breakfast and sat in the yard. Yu Wan'er's door finally opened.
Yu Wan'er walked out, looking better, no longer as sad and haggard as yesterday. Ye Jinyun felt relieved seeing this.
Inviting her to come and sit, Ye Jinyun asked her softly: "Are you feeling better? Have you had breakfast?"
Yu Wan'er nodded slightly: "I have used it, Sister Ye, I'm sorry to have worried you. I thought about it last night. Even if Wan'er and him are not destined to be together, it would be good to have the opportunity to see him again, so..."
She didn't say anything else, but Ye Jinyun understood what she meant and nodded: "Go, be careful and don't let anyone know."
Yu Wan'er nodded to her and took Xiaotao out.
Ye Jinyun looked at her slightly thin back, sighed softly, and decided to give her more time and let her let it go slowly.
Lin Qingtang got up early in the morning and went to meet her second brother. When she left, she told him that he must bring her some good things back. They would go out hunting and would not come back for lunch, so someone specially set up a camp in the forest for the hunters to rest and get supplies.
Yu Wan'er has also gone out now. It's a good opportunity for her to go into the mountains to dig some herbs. Her erythema will soon expire in the next two days. The remaining residue in the rouge box is not enough for her to mix it once. She has to speed up the process and find all the materials as soon as possible to make it.
After changing clothes and preparing things, the master and servant once again went out of the dog hole into the mountain, and then returned after staying in the mountain for some time. They did not dig too much at a time, otherwise there would not be enough time for cleaning and processing, so they could only go back and forth in the mountain several times.
The emperor summoned the officials to stay in the royal forest for a total of ten days for this autumn hunt. Officials did not have to stay with him for so long and could leave first if they had something to do. However, there were not many opportunities to accompany the emperor on an outing and show up in front of him. Naturally, no one wanted to leave first, so they all stayed in the forest.
Every day the three of them had their own things to do as if they had divided the work. Lin Qingtang would run to find his second brother every day when he got up, either to go hunting or play polo or something like that. Yu Wan'er was also nowhere to be seen all day, and Ye Jinyun was even more busy and dizzy.
She was only two herbs short of making the powder, so she planned to go deeper into the mountains to look for it tomorrow, as she hadn't found any in the forests on the edge of the mountains in the past two days. She guessed it must be growing deep in the mountains.
Anyway, it was already late autumn, so she wasn't afraid of snakes, insects, rats or ants when she went into the mountains. Moreover, even though she knew no one would notice her, she still cautiously wore a veil and a hat when she went into the mountains, so as not to worry about being accidentally seen and having her identity known.
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