438. Monarch, ministers, aides, and envoys_1

Guo Dong leaned in, carefully hooking a branch to inspect a golden-red fruit covered in fine thorns.

Observing their delicate thorns, the ripe golden-red color, and the size...

At this moment, she no longer feared the thorns, and reached out with her merciless iron hand—

Song Tan noticed that although her hands were white, her palms also had a number of calluses.

Her nimble hands threaded through the foliage, choosing one at a slightly downward angle, skillfully avoiding the dense thorns, and then using her fingernail to hook into the less thorny crevice to carefully pluck the dangerous Golden Sakura fruit.

Then she evaluated, "Your family's Golden Sakura fruit is flourishing, and the thorns seem even more fierce than I've seen before!"

Song Tan tensely clenched her face, feeling guilty.

Guo Dong scrutinized the plucked Golden Sakura fruit, and then wrapped it with a bunch of leaves, grinding it with her foot just as adeptly for quite a while.

Wu Lan: ...