The two ladies who were standing relatively close to the Snow Maiden quickly moved away, for fear of being blackmailed by the Snow Maiden.
Jin Zhu quickly stepped forward and held Xue Nu's arm: "Ms. Xue Nu, let's go back to the inn."
Liansheng shook off Jin Zhu's support and walked straight forward. Her snow-white skirt swept across the ground, and occasionally one or two drops of blood fell, splashing a small blood flower.
Ming Ruo sat in the carriage, her shoulders finally slumped, carrying the air of a princess was really tiring.
Si Haochen boiled water to make tea, and steam rose up in the carriage, making it even warmer.
"Want to play backgammon?" Si Haochen's voice was low and sweet, with some bewitching power.
"No." Mingruo shook his head. Attending the palace banquet consumed too many brain cells, and now he just wanted to be in a daze quietly.
"Here." Si Haochen placed a white jade box half the size of a palm on the table.
"What is it?" Mingruo suddenly became energetic and opened the jade box. It was a light blue glass marble with fine ice cracks inside, which was very beautiful.
Ming Ruo was about to get the bead when Si Haochen grabbed his wrist: "You have no internal strength, you will get frostbite."
Mingruo's hand hung directly above the bead, feeling as if he had reached into the freezer: "Is this... the phantom ice bead?"
"Yeah." Si Haochen nodded.
Ming Ruo suddenly had an idea and thought that the snow girl would no longer be able to 'make lotus flowers every step of the way': "Snow girl's?"
"Um."
"Uh..." Si Haochen was always with him during the palace banquet. How did he get the Magic Ice Bead?
"You have no internal strength, so you have to wear sky silk gloves to touch the magic ice beads." Si Haochen took a sip of tea, "Now you can only look at it through the warm jade box."
"Okay." Mingruo nodded.
"What do you want the magic ice beads for?" Si Haochen asked.
"When refining some medicines, the temperature needs to be lowered instantly." Although the original purpose was to make ice cream, the reason for refining medicines is obviously higher.
"It will take a few days for the sky silk gloves to be available."
"Oh, I'm not in a hurry." Mingruo felt a little guilty.
The Magic Ice Bead is so precious, and its origin is not very legitimate. Mingruo thought about it and felt that it would be safer to keep it in the medical system. However, it is not medicine, can it be kept? Mingruo put his hand on the jade box.
With a thought, the light blue bead was suspended in the system panel, while the jade box remained intact on the table.
Huh? This is a bit weird. When collecting pills into the system, you can usually bring porcelain bottles, wooden boxes, etc., so why can't this jade box be put in as well?
"Princess, your servant has made egg yolk cakes, do you think it tastes like this?" Zicao held the freshly baked snacks and gave them to the princess who provided the recipe to taste.
Mingruo picked one up and took a bite. The skin was soft, the bean paste was sweet, and the egg yolk was dense. It was delicious!
"Yeah, very good." Mingruo nodded, "Next time, try adding a layer of rice cake between the bean paste filling and the puff pastry. It should taste better."
"My slave, I have taken note of it." Zicao responded quickly.
"Send some to Xiaotuanzi to try." Mingruo remembered that Si Haochen likes to eat egg yolk mooncakes, so he probably also likes to eat egg yolk cakes, "Send some to the prince too."
"My slave knows."
Mingruo stood up, feeling dizzy and shaking twice.
"Princess Princess." Zicao quickly supported her, "What's wrong with you?"
"Maybe I didn't have a lunch break today and I'm a little tired." The dizziness lasted only for a moment. Mingruo walked directly to the bed and said, "I'll take a nap for a while."
"I will wake you up during dinner," Zicao said.
"Okay." Mingruo lay on the bed and fell asleep quickly.
As for Mingruo, who was sleeping, she was in a fog, and her head was dizzy. She seemed to be walking forward, or spinning in circles, and the only thing she could see was a meter square under her feet. Until she came to a place.
In a place surrounded by stones, phantom ice beads are suspended there, rising and falling.
There is a depression in the stone in the middle. Mingruo intuitively should put the Magic Ice Bead into the depression. He also remembered Si Haochen's words that you cannot directly touch the Magic Ice Bead without internal force...
Mingruo took a deep breath. This matter was very clear to her in the dream. Since it was a dream, it shouldn't matter. Mingruo stretched out his hand to catch the floating phantom ice bead. A cool feeling reached from his fingertips to his palm, but it was just cool.
Yes, the cold was not unbearable. Mingruo put the magic ice beads into the groove of the stone, and gurgling spring water suddenly appeared around the stone, quickly filling the small pond surrounded by the stone, and slowly flowing into the distance.
Mingruo looked around and saw that the thick fog was slowly dissipating. The fog dissipated, revealing neat medicinal fields, and in the distance there was a green bamboo house with a thatched roof.
Mingruo walked along the field ridge in the direction of the bamboo house. She found that close to the spring, there was still snow in the medicinal fields, and medicinal materials such as snow lotus, snow ginseng, snow amaranth, and snow agarwood grew. The further away from the spring, the more medicinal herbs grew.
The more heat-loving medicinal materials are. In the medicinal field in front of the bamboo house, there are even tropical medicinal materials such as Millet Spatholobus. Along the way, there are large tracts of thousand-year-old ginseng and Ganoderma lucidum. Mingruo looks at them.
They were all shocked.
Mingruo could only walk to the fence of the bamboo house, but she couldn't go any further. It seemed that there was an invisible soft wall blocking her, preventing her from overstepping even half a point...
Si Haochen looked at the golden snacks on the plate with a faint smile on his lips. After finishing an egg yolk cake, he felt that he should reciprocate politely. He ordered Aunt Dong to make a few exquisite side dishes from the palace, put them in a food box, and brought them to Zhuyuan herself.
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"Prince." Jixue saw the prince walking in wearing a dark cloak and holding a food box in his hand.
"Has the princess had dinner?" Si Haochen rarely spoke to Jixue.
In fact, Si Haochen didn't like this maid very much. The lust in her eyes was too mixed. But she used to be Mingruo's valet, so the princess might have trouble with him if she kicked her out of the palace.
"The princess felt a little tired when she came back and fell asleep." Jixue opened the curtain, invited the prince into the flower hall, and made tea.
Zi Su saw the prince coming with a food box. It was this time again, so he should have dinner with the princess...
"Your Majesty, would you like me to go to the bedroom and send a message?" Zi Su asked.
"No, I just need to sit here for a while." Si Haochen knew that entering the palace was a very laborious task, so it would be good to let her sleep a little longer. The girl on the left and right would wake up if she was hungry.
Si Haochen sat there for half an hour. By this time, it was already very late to have dinner. If he were to wait any longer, he would probably have to stock up on food.
"Go and see if the princess is awake." Si Haochen said in a deep voice.
"Yes." Zisu also felt that the princess had slept for too long, so she opened the bedroom door and walked in, calling softly, "Princess, please wake up and have dinner before going to bed!"
There was no sound at all. Zi Su walked into the inner room and saw the princess's eyes were lightly closed, her breathing was long, and she seemed to be sleeping deeply.
"Princess, the prince is waiting for you to have dinner." Zi Su raised her voice again.
