"My slave found a craftsman. Because the agarwood you wanted was relatively expensive, he didn't have any ready-made ones there. He had to make a new one, so he asked my slave to get it in twenty days."
Cai Ling said unhappily: "Twenty days is just a comb, why does it take so long?"
A Luo lowered his head and said, "Just making a comb naturally doesn't take that much time, but he has to find someone to buy agarwood, which naturally takes a long time."
"In this case, we might as well get a jujube or mahogany comb to avoid so much trouble and we can carry out our plan earlier." Cailing stroked her chest and said, "My heart has been going up and down in the past three or four days.
It's hard to have a moment of peace, for I'm afraid that the pure concubine will make some life-threatening plot."
Tang Jiu nodded repeatedly at the side, "Yes, A Luo, if you delay this for half a month, don't you mean that the master will be on tenterhooks for the next twenty days?"
A Luo bowed to Cai Ling and said, "Master, forgive me. I didn't mean to delay. It's just that if I make a jujube or peach comb casually, I'm afraid I won't be able to win the trust of the emperor. After all, the pure concubine is one of the six concubines. With her
With his identity, how could he give a cheap comb to Nala?"
Cai Ling thought about it and said: "Okay, twenty days will be twenty days. During this period, you and Tang Jiu will be more careful. Any food brought into Bilin Pavilion will be tested with a silver needle to avoid being like the previous one."
Like that again.”
A Luo and Tang Jiu each agreed to give them half a month to decide whether to go fast or slow. By the time De Luo got the comb, it was already the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, and it would be New Year's Eve in two days.
Cai Ling took the agarwood comb handed over by A Luo. As expected, the hair comb was well made and the carving was exquisite. Coupled with its own material, it was really a rare fine product.
Cai Ling looked carefully at each comb tooth, and sure enough she found that there was a gap as thin as a hair, for people to put things like hair oil.
Cai Ling put down her comb with satisfaction, turned around and said, "Tang Jiu, have you found the cat hair you were asked to look for?"
Tang Jiu smiled and said: "Master, I'm sorry, I haven't found him yet."
Cai Ling immediately frowned, "What's going on? I gave you the order several days ago, but it hasn't been done yet? Are you taking the opportunity to avoid it?"
Tang Jiu said quickly: "Master, you are wronged. I have been looking for cat hair, but the cat named Happy is either hiding in Yanxi Palace or running very fast. I have never been able to catch it. As for the other cats, they are not
It's pure black, so even if you catch it, you can't use it."
"It's really useless." Cai Ling scolded and said, "I don't care what method you use, you must catch that cat and remove its hair."
A Luo got ahead of Tang Jiu and said, "Master, why don't you let me try it? I fed it for a while when I was in Yanxi Palace. It shouldn't run away when it sees me."
Cai Ling's eyes lit up and she said: "I forgot about this. Okay, A Luo, I'll leave this matter to you. You must get the cat hair as soon as possible and get everything done. I've been waiting for too long.
, I don’t want to wait any longer.”
"This slave understands the master's mood. If the master does not need a slave to serve him, I will go get the cat hair now."
Cai Ling immediately said: "I only need Tang Jiu to serve me here. You should hurry up and take care of it. The most important thing now is this matter."
A Luo agreed, and after leaving the Bilin Pavilion, she did not look around, but went straight to the outside of the Yanxi Palace. She put her index finger under her lips and whistled a few times. After a while, a black shadow emerged from the palace.
Jumping down and falling into A Luo's arms, it was Kai Kai that Tang Jiu had never caught. Kai Kai stretched out his pink tongue and licked A Luo's fingers, making the latter giggle, "It's so ticklish, don't be happy."
I licked it and it was so itchy.”
As she said that, she took her happiness away a little, looked at it carefully and said, "I haven't seen you for a while. You, the greedy cat, are a little fatter than before. Is it because the second elder brother often brings delicious things to feed you?
You, eat well and sleep well, it’s difficult
My master... is still trapped in the cold palace and suffering!" After saying this, A Luo's eyes were slightly red, and his expression became gloomy. Kaixin seemed to be aware of the sadness in her heart, and once again stuck out his tongue to lick A Luo's fingers, while
Called softly.
A Luo came back to his senses, stroked its head, and said with a smile: "You know how to act coquettishly, it's okay, things are going very smoothly, the master will come out soon. By then, we can be the same as before.
"Yes." At this point, she put Xingxin on the ground, then took out a pair of silver scissors from her sleeve and said: "Xinxin, let me cut some of your hair, but don't move, otherwise I will hurt you, I don't care."
"
Kaixin lay obediently on the ground and let Aluo cut off the hair on her body. Aluo did not cut the hair in one place, but spread it out so that others could not find any obvious traces on Kaixin.
After Aluo carefully wrapped the hair with a handkerchief, he patted his happy head and said, "Okay, come in quickly, I should go back."
"Meow." Kaixin shouted at Aluo, as if he was a little reluctant to leave, but in the end he listened to Aluo and jumped into the Yanxi Palace again. Aluo also left quickly. Cai Ling saw the bag she had taken.
Mao Mao was extremely happy. After putting the cat hairs into the teeth of the comb one by one, he said in a good mood: "The weather is nice today. You two go out with me for a walk. I have been staying in the house these past few days, but it's boring."
The panic."
Naturally, A Luo would not disappoint her and helped her to the Royal Garden. Unexpectedly, not long after she left, she happened to run into the Su family, who was walking with the Jin family. They saw Cai Ling and walked away.
He came over and said, "I didn't expect to meet Ling Changzai here. What a coincidence."
As soon as she saw her, Cai Ling remembered that she bribed the eunuch of the Royal Pharmacy to poison her own medicine, and almost questioned her face to face. After suppressing the impulse, she said in a stiff voice: "Yeah, what a coincidence.
"
Jin raised her distant eyebrows and said with a sneer: "Ling Chang is so arrogant. When she meets this palace and my concubine, she can't even be polite."
Cai Ling secretly gritted her teeth, knelt down and said, "I would like to say hello to the Pure Concubine, and I would like to say hello to the Jia Concubine. Good luck to both of you."
The tortoise shell armor on Jin's little finger crossed the hand warmer in his hand, making a soft "ding" sound, "It's okay to give such an insincere gift."
"Sister, that's all. When Ling Chang was a concubine for the first time, she would inevitably have some bad etiquette. As sisters, we shouldn't criticize her harshly."
"Sister?" The smile on Jin's face became colder and colder, "What is her background and how does she fit in with our sisters?"
Su deliberately persuaded: "Sister, she is here forever now, why do you still bring up the past?"