Xiang Ying took out a bag of walnuts.
She stood up and smashed the bag hard with an iron pot, causing all the walnuts inside to shatter.
Xiang Ying led the way, grabbing a handful of broken walnut shells and rubbing them on her hands.
Soon, her entire palm was unevenly stained jet-black.
Peeling walnut shells stains the skin black and water cannot wash it off; it usually fades gradually after two or three days.
Lin Lingxiang was the first to react: "Does the elder princess intend for us to dirty our skin, making others think we have just been infected with the plague?"
"That's right," Xiang Ying nodded, "Hurry up, the boat is about to come ashore."
Everyone quickly set to work.
Xiang Ying directed them: "Apply some on the neck, around the chest area, and on the thighs and arms too!"
After Tao Xue had applied it on herself, she also smeared the black stains on Xiang Xiuxiu, worried the crew led by the Vice General would be ruthless.
