Chapter 164: Chapter 164
Jun Ning let out a cold laugh. Threaten her?
Did the old man get something wrong?
"Since you don’t want to do it, I’ll find someone else."
Jun Ning snatched the blueprint back from the old man’s hand, stood up, and made a move to leave.
Without her explanation, many of the crafting principles on this blueprint would be impossible for the old man to figure out just by a quick glance.
After all, this is not something one generation can research; it’s the accumulation of generations of trial and error, experience gathering, and summary-making, creating something ingeniously crafted.
The old man can’t possibly make it with just a glance.
How could the old man himself not understand this truth?
He was just a bit greedy, too eager to meet the one who designed this blueprint.
Seeing the little girl about to leave, he became anxious, caring less about seeing the designer. Just keeping the blueprint was fortunate enough.
"Young girl, don’t go. I’ll help you make it, won’t I?"
The old man reached out, beckoning Jun Ning.
Thinking to himself, "This little girl is really sharp, very tight-lipped, not letting him gain any advantage."
Oh, well, if he could craft such a marvel, it would already be his life’s honor, without any regrets. He shouldn’t be greedy anymore.
Jun Ning smiled and turned back around, sitting down again.
She explained the crafting principles and key points of the wooden kite to the old man, who, being an excellent carpenter, understood immediately. Upon understanding, he began the construction that very day.
He even told Jun Ning to come and pick it up in five days.
Before returning to the inn with Ming Yue, Jun Ning gave Ming Yue a bag of gold leaves, "Uncle Ming Yue, this is your reward for accompanying me on this trip."
It’s common for masters to reward their servants as long as the tasks are well done.
Ming Yue, accustomed to such, accepted with a smile and bowed, saying, "Thank you, Princess."
But upon opening the money bag, good heavens, it was a whole bag of gold leaves?
Ming Yue was frightened and dared not accept, it was too much. He hurriedly handed the money bag back to Jun Ning, saying, "Your Highness, protecting you is my duty. This...this is really too much, and I accept with shame."
"With shame?" Jun Ning laughed, "You helped me a lot today, how could there be shame? You deserve it, take it."
Ming Yue still hesitated to accept but was eventually persuaded both forcefully and gently by Jun Ning to take it.
The next moment, Jun Ning said to Ming Yue, "Today, all I did was roam around, understand?"
The matter of finding a carpenter to craft a wooden kite was really not suitable for the Crown Prince to know. Otherwise, she’d either be revered as a prodigy or feared as a supernatural being, doomed to be burnt.
Ming Yue looked at the bag of gold leaves in his hand and...felt as though he boarded a pirate ship...
He really didn’t want to understand.
Because the people the princess saw today and the places she visited, he had to truthfully report to the Crown Prince. Nothing could be left unchecked, but now...
Now, having accepted the Princess’s gold leaves and hearing her words, he dared not fail to understand, lest this bag of gold leaves cost him his life.
"I...I..." Ming Yue, loyal to the Crown Prince, truly did not want to be on Jun Ning’s pirate ship.
Jun Ning had no choice but to say, "I just want to share my brother’s burden a bit and don’t want him to worry about me. Rest assured, everything I do will benefit him, no harm."
Upon hearing this, Ming Yue was finally persuaded; as long as it didn’t harm the Crown Prince, he could help keep this small matter a secret.
The Crown Prince and Qi Qin were covered in scars again, and they had been swindled out of a hundred taels of silver by the inn’s shopkeeper. Qi Qin kept cursing the black inn for exploiting them, and even the usually composed Crown Prince couldn’t keep his cool this time.
Filled with rage, he clenched his fists, itching to smash the table under him. But seeing Jun Ning return, his mood improved somewhat.
"Sister, come over to brother here." The Crown Prince waved at Jun Ning.
Jun Ning walked quickly to the Crown Prince, looking at him with concern, "Brother, does it hurt?"
"It doesn’t hurt!" The Crown Prince shook his head, "Brother’s fine."
"Don’t go tomorrow, okay?" Jun Ning said, "Let’s think of some other ways. It seems we really can’t beat those big beasts now."
Jun Ning couldn’t bear to see the Crown Prince injured any more unnecessarily.
"We won’t always be unable to beat them," the Crown Prince said.
When he first entered the Black Forest with Qi Qin, they could only hold out for half an hour before being forced to retreat by the beasts.
Today, they had found some strategies, managing to hold out for an hour.
If they persist, they could surely become stronger and make it through the Black Forest.
Jun Ning could easily understand what the Crown Prince was thinking.
The Crown Prince is still young, he can afford to linger here, getting stronger slowly, but time waits for no one!
Counting the days they spent here, it’s already been two days.
Remember, the Emperor only has ten days.
After the Crown Prince finished speaking, he belatedly realized this issue, sighing deeply as he glanced at Qi Qin beside him, who was also looking dejected and clueless.
The two were deeply troubled and anxious about this matter.
But despite the trouble, they were determined not to abandon entering the Black Forest.
Jun Ning watched them leave early and return late every day, with their injuries getting worse and returning later and later... and on the sixth night, they hadn’t returned even close to midnight.
Jun Ning couldn’t wait any longer, her heart tightening with anxiety.
It’s known that nighttime is when the beasts are most active; the longer they stayed in the Black Forest at night, the more dangerous it was, with no benefits whatsoever.
Jun Ning waited and waited until finally, at the hour of the tiger, they returned.
But this time, both were so exhausted that they couldn’t even tend to their wounds, going straight to bed, planning to return to the Black Forest at dawn. It was Jun Ning who paid a hundred taels of silver to the shopkeeper and brought in a doctor to treat their wounds.
At the hour of the dragon, just at dawn, the Crown Prince opened his eyes, ready to get out of bed.
Jun Ning had slept lightly this night, and upon hearing the Crown Prince stir, she suppressed her fatigue and got up too.
Thinking that the old man must have finished the wooden kite today, after testing it, they could ride it over the Black Forest tomorrow. Thɪs chapter is updatᴇd by 𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹·𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗲·𝗻𝗲𝘁
Therefore, she absolutely couldn’t let the Crown Prince waste any more time in the Black Forest today; she had to take him to see the old carpenter test the wooden kite.
"Brother, don’t go into the Black Forest today, alright?" Jun Ning said.
Having put on his shoes, the Crown Prince stood up, turned back, and gently rubbed Jun Ning’s head, saying, "Yi Yi, you sleep, don’t worry about brother." With only four days left, he couldn’t slack off; he had to give it another try.
After saying that, he was about to leave.
Jun Ning stepped forward to hold the Crown Prince’s hand, "Brother, today Yi Yi wants to take you and Uncle Qi to see something good, so neither of you should go into the Black Forest, alright?"