After waiting a little while longer and seeing no movement outside, Lin Jingjing asked, "Yinyin, what did you put on your sleeve dart just now?"

Yin Yin coughed lightly: "A rather effective sleeping potion."

Lin Jingjing was somewhat surprised: "Where did you get the sleeping potion? I've never heard of it before?"

“The older sister who works at the pharmacy gave it to me,” Yin Yin said. “When I went out earlier, they thought I was too small and had trouble even chasing a rabbit, so they gave me some things, but I haven’t used them yet. They’ve been sitting there for so long, I’m worried they might have expired.”

Of course it won't expire.

In fact, what the other person gave her was just ordinary sleeping pills. It was only later, when Yin Yin was on good terms with the other person and went out to play, that she added something to the pills using the leftover scraps to make them more effective.

To be honest, even the best treatment wouldn't be able to take someone down as quickly as this guy outside, since it wasn't like he was being injected with a large amount of blood.

So the Yin Yin sisters waited a while longer before daring to secretly poke a hole in the window paper and peek out.

After confirming that the person lying on the ground was not moving, the two sisters, one holding a rope and the other aiming a hidden arrow, carefully opened the door.

The person was already lying by the door, and when the door opened, he fell straight in.

The two sisters quickly put a rope around her and tied her up neatly before they had time to pay attention to anything else.

"No wonder she imitated Bai Shao so well, it turns out she's Zi Lan. But how did she manage to make her voice sound exactly like Bai Shao's?"

Lin Jingjing thought for a while but couldn't figure it out. She used the strength she had developed over the past three years to drag the person inside, stuffed something into her mouth, and then the sisters worked together to tie her tightly to the chair.

As for the wounds inflicted by the hidden arrows, they were naturally left untreated. The ropes used to bind him were tied with only four, five, six, or seven knots.

"No wonder it worked so well," Yin Yin said, glancing at the powder all over the doorway before quickly closing it. "She was planning to drug us too, but thankfully you closed the door in time. She probably absorbed the powder from my hidden arrow and the powder she was going to use herself."

"Serves you right," Lin Jingjing said with a gloating look on her face, but her hands quickly searched her body and pulled out a bottle of pills. "Yinyin, come and take a look. I think this medicine tastes a bit off."

Yinyin took it and sniffed it. Although she couldn't identify all the herbs, the few she did recognize were already of questionable quality.

Seeing her frown, Lin Jingjing immediately said, "I misunderstood. Isn't it simple to find out what's in here?"

Yinyin was waiting for her to speak when she saw her take the bottle back, remove the cloth from Zilan's mouth, pour out a pill from the bottle, stuff it into her mouth, and press acupoints to force her to swallow it.

"Look, let's wait a little longer, and we'll know the result soon enough."

Seeing her sister's smug face, Yin Yin didn't say anything.

After all, Zilan came alone, pretending to be Bai Shao to lure them out, and even drugged them. She also carried this bottle of medicine of unknown use, so she didn't have any good intentions. It's not like Yinyin's kindness was so readily apparent that she would sympathize with someone who wanted to harm her.

After taking the medicine, they waited for a while but saw no reaction, so the two sisters put away the rest of the medicine, planning to show it to their elders later.

After the two sat down again, Lin Jingjing slowly came to her senses and felt a little scared.

She peered out from the hole she had just poked for a long time: "Yinyin, why don't we just take our things and head over to Master's place? The side room there is close by and can be used for sleeping. As long as we're quiet, we definitely won't disturb Master."

Zilan, whose skills are inferior to theirs, is trying to use the guise of an acquaintance to administer medicine to them. But there's no guarantee that a second or third person, perhaps even more skilled, won't follow.

Although Yin Yin didn't know why Zi Lan had come after her and her sister, now was not the time to get to the bottom of it; ensuring her own safety was the priority.

Thinking of Zilan, Yinyin covered her face with a cloth and used a loose brush and slightly stiff paper to sweep up the sleeping pills scattered at the doorway.

The dust was mixed with sleeping pills and a little water. Yin Yin asked her sister to help her feed it all to Zi Lan.

"Good idea," Lin Jingjing said eagerly, looking at the medicine Yinyin had just applied to the sleeve dart. "How about we force-feed her this bottle too?"

“No,” Yin Yin advised, “This is already too much. If we drink another bottle, it will be too much. Let’s keep it for now, in case Aunt Qiu Shui asks us questions.”

Lin Jingjing had no choice but to regretfully abandon the idea and go to set up the food and the small stove first.

"Yinyin, just take care of your little baby, don't worry about anything else."

The little treasures Lin Jingjing was referring to were naturally the various little things that her fellow disciples who were close to Yin Yin gave her after they were assigned to different places.

Lin Jingjing used to never care about these things, just letting her younger sister collect these trivial junks. But now, seeing the potency of this medicine, she suddenly became very concerned.

Yinyin agreed and put the things she might need into a box before sneaking out with her sister.

The two lived very close to Xuan Nu, only a few hundred meters away. Using their lightness skills, they ran at full speed and it only took them a few dozen seconds.

The two sisters ran safely to the side room, looked at each other, and burst into laughter.

To avoid disturbing Xuan Nu, the two of them made sure not to make a sound.

The two sisters tiptoed into the side room, put their things down, and quietly came out to set up a small stove under the eaves to heat up the dishes.

Separated from them by only a wall, Xuan Nu, who had seen everything through a crack in the window, smiled faintly and closed the window.

It's really necessary to turn it off; once the dishes are heated on the stove, the aroma will waft everywhere.

Just as the two sisters had heated up the food and were about to pack their master's portion separately and bring it to her as before, the door to the main room, which was not far from them, suddenly opened.

The two sisters were startled when they heard the noise before turning around to look.

Xuan Nu maintained that expressionless, cold face, but her eyes were full of gentleness.

"Master, you are out of retreat!"

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