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The next morning.
Li Yuan stood by the stream, holding a wooden basin filled with yesterday’s dirty laundry.
A little ways off, their makeshift earthen stove was burning with firewood, and the scent of simmering pork ribs wafted through the air.
He rolled up his sleeves, crouched by the water, and started scrubbing the clothes, his and Xie Yu’s.
They’d been on the road for days. The noble young lady had grown weary, and with the drowsiness of spring settling in, she was still fast asleep.
Li Yuan rinsed each piece of clothing in the clear mountain stream, occasionally rubbing them with soapberry soap he'd bought from town.
Halfway through, realizing he didn’t have a second basin to hold the clean clothes, he summoned his ghost hand again and reached into Bloomtown for a new wooden tub.
A few coppers clinked onto a stall’s table, spinning as they landed.
The vendor stared in wide-eyed horror as a wooden tub disappeared into thin air.
Pupils shrinking, throat bobbing, he wiped his cold sweat, turned on his heel, and dashed off like his life depended on it, clearly headed to report this to someone.
Meanwhile, Li Yuan gave the new basin a rinse and neatly placed the washed trousers, silken undershirts, and dresses into it.
After finishing the laundry, he casually ran a hand through his messy hair, squinted up at the sky to gauge the time, then stacked the new basin atop the old one and walked back toward their small home.
Between two old trees in the yard, he strung up a clothesline...
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