Before long, the items Zhu Yu requested were brought back by Fu Lu, and seeing the amount of soot wrapped in paper, Zhu Yu couldn't help but think that the bottoms of the local families' pots must have been scraped shiny.
"Master, is this enough?" Fu Lu asked uncertainly, "I originally wanted to get more from several households for you, but some people felt unlucky seeing constables from the corpse room at their door, they wouldn't even let us in. Getting more would require traveling further and we worried you might get anxious waiting."
Zhu Yu looked at the soot in her hand and waved to Fu Lu, "This is enough, you don't need to get more. Just rest outside and wait."
With that, she took the soot inside and soon came back out to fetch water and a cloth towel.
The door was shut once again.
Quite a long time passed, long enough that Fu Lu was getting restless, worried that something might have happened to Madam inside, constantly glancing towards Lu Qing.
