3315 The Fourth Star

Madam Hua carefully tucked the talisman back into the bottom of the box.

She sighed with relief and then said, "Dongni, I'm telling you, don't disbelieve me! This is an ancient gold-planting talisman. It can definitely grow wealth!"

"Its scope is wide. Spirit coins, gold, silver, jade, or even jewelry, it can grow them all."

"Last time, I planted a set of headpieces, guess what happened?"

Mu Dongni was a bit stunned, her eyes shining as she looked at her sister-in-law. "What happened, what happened? Tell me, Sister-in-law!"

Madam Hua lowered her voice, whispering, "It grew me an identical set of headpieces. The luster and smoothness were exactly the same as the original set."

"Pfft." Mu Dongni laughed, then gave Madam Hua a sideways glance. "Sister-in-law, do you really think I'm stupid? Are you trying to fool me? How could there be such a talisman in this world? Planting gold! Get gold from planting gold? Get headpieces from planting headpieces? Can you really get spirit coins from planting spirit coins?"

Madam Hua casually pushed her away, carefully reburying the box of spirit coins under the willow tree. She then turned and grabbed Mu Dongni, walking away. "If you leak this secret, I'll never forgive you!"

The next day, Mu Dongni had originally planned to meet the legendary Little Crown Princess, but the secret Madam Hua had revealed kept her distracted all day. She sent her personal maid, Zhanju, to observe the old willow tree.

She didn't see her fifth sister-in-law near the willow tree all day, which made her feel a little suspicious.

Could it be that sister-in-law hadn't lied to her after all?

In the afternoon, the Little Crown Princess visited the courtyards of her second and fifth aunts. As soon as she mentioned playing mahjong again, both women's faces darkened. They respectfully, and through a mix of coaxing and deception, shooed her away.

The Little Crown Princess feigned great anger, huffily leaving. Midway, she detoured to the palace, adapted to the feeling, and then entered Taoyuan Star to continue refining medicine.

She had never managed to refine a supreme-grade black-patterned elixir before, which showed how difficult it was to refine such a pill.

Now, on her Nine Stars Reflecting Moon Cauldron, four of the nine stars had lit up.

The cauldron's fire, which was originally bright red, had turned into a faint glazed color. The cauldron fire was extremely pure, naturally providing greater assistance to her alchemy.

Now, she no longer needed to pay attention to controlling the fire.

All she had to do was put the correct amount of medicinal ingredients into the cauldron, and then she could be a hands-off manager, letting the cauldron refine on its own until the sound of the elixir forming inside the cauldron signaled it was complete.

The young girl was chatting with Little Tree at the moment. Little Tree was telling her that it needed to go into seclusion soon to stabilize its mid-growth stage.

That night, Qiao Mu didn't return to the Mu family. Instead, she found an excuse to stay at the palace.

Anyway, there were still three days until the old master's birthday, so she could go back the day after tomorrow.

When she was at the Mu family, even in the Yulan Garden, she always felt like something was watching her, so she didn't dare casually enter Taoyuan Star.

But it was different at the palace; she could come and go as she pleased.

It just so happened that these two days, she needed to research the black-patterned elixir for the old master, so she wouldn't go back to the Mu family. Time was twelve times faster on Yulan Star, and the research time at the Mu family would probably not be enough.

Qiao Mu was comforting Little Tree, telling it to go into seclusion with peace of mind tomorrow.