"You made this?" Ji Fengyao took the wristband-like object. Her hand touched several tubular objects; unfolding them, she saw they were three extremely thin copper tubes attached to a brocade cloth, with three equally small copper boxes at the back: "These are sleeve arrows?"
Black Owl gave Ji Fengyao a brief explanation of how to use the "sleeve needle".
Just as Ji Fengyao was about to try to press the activation mechanism, Hei Xiao quickly reached out to stop her: "Don't touch it. This thing can only be used three times. Don't waste it unless it's a matter of life and death, otherwise all my hard work over the past night will be wasted."
Ji Fengyao: "..."
Brother, you might not believe it, but if you give me most of the night, I can concoct a thousand kinds of poison.
Although the hidden arrow sounded like a burden, Ji Fengyao couldn't let the effort go to waste, so she politely thanked them and put it on.
The white brocade was embroidered with pale yellow dodder flowers, which complemented her fair skin quite well, making her look very elegant.
Ji Fengyao casually complimented, "Good taste, and the material is suitable for summer, it won't be hot."
"Of course, I'm the most popular courtesan in every brothel. It's a piece of cake for me to wear all this rouge, powder, clothes, and jewelry," Black Owl said smugly, tossing his hair.
Finally, remembering something, he smiled and leaned closer, whispering, "Do you want to know what happened between you and the Ninth Prince after you fell asleep last night?"
Ji Fengyao: "!"
Could it be that she climbed into Shang Xiye's bed last night and did something else inappropriate, and this guy saw it all?
Holy crap, could she just poison this guy to kill him right there and then?!
Seeing the little female bandit's face turn bright red and her black grape-like eyes darting around in panic, Black Owl chuckled and said, "Haha, I was just teasing you. You actually took it seriously. You two are so innocent. I've never seen anyone more innocent than you two."
“Brother, I advise you to disappear on your own before I finish preparing the poison,” Ji Fengyao gritted her teeth.
Black Owl suppressed the glint in his eyes and indeed got up and left.
But as soon as he turned around, his radiant smile vanished into nothingness, leaving only a desolate and cold silence.
Inside the ink studio.
After reading the battle reports sent back by carrier pigeons from the border, Shang Xiye bent down, picked up his brush, wrote a few lines, rolled them up, sealed them with a vermilion seal, and handed them to Wuying: "Are the newly trained carrier pigeons ready? How often should we change them?"
"Your Highness, they've all been trained. A new batch is being rotated every ten days." Wuying held the scroll in his hand, turned open a book box on the inner wall of the study, and placed the scroll inside. He then closed the book box, and a slight mechanical rattling sound came from inside the wall.
In a secret chamber beneath the Prince's mansion, a skilled man in black robes and a mask picked up a small wooden box delivered by a mechanism on the wall. He traversed a maze-like passageway and arrived at a dense forest on the outskirts of the capital. There, he handed the box to another man, also wearing a black demon mask and riding a tall black horse, who was waiting in the forest.
Without exchanging words, the two men finished exchanging items, and the man on horseback spurred his horse and rode away silently like the wind.
Shang Xiye picked up another scroll of intelligence from the Di Kingdom and looked at it. After a short while, he suddenly looked up and said, "The Princess Consort will be entering the palace tomorrow to attend Consort Yin's birthday banquet."
Wuying: "?", didn't understand.
"The people in Chengxiang Palace should get some exercise too," Shang Xiye said, her fair fingertips gently rubbing together a corner of the official gazette.
Wu Yingjing: "Your Highness, apart from the men Eunuch Zhao brought this morning who smuggled some things in, there are no other clues that could harm the Princess. Is it too late to deploy our hidden agents now..."
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