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He Ming quietly waited for a while, but seeing that Yuan Zi was already mixed into the crowd beside Liu Xinyue, he pretended that nothing had happened and handed the basket in his hand over to the other disciple.

"This small door is too small and the basket containing the medicinal ingredients is too large. If I continue to plunder the medicinal ingredients like this …"

As He Zhen and the others were quickly plucking the medicinal ingredients, He Ming stared at the small door and frowned, pondering, "When will we be able to find all the medicinal ingredients?"

"This won't do, this method is too slow, I have to speed it up …"

Previously, state advisor had said that it was already late, and there was no time to waste. If the fourth round of the competition continued like this, then it would take even longer than the first three rounds.

and this was definitely not what state advisor hoped to see.

"There must be some sort of trap!"

He Ming frowned, he looked at the shopkeeper in front of him and saw him smiling, he did not seem to be anxious at all, and felt that there must be something more to this!

However … He hadn't discovered it yet!

On the other side, Liu Xinyue was listening to Ya Er's report.

"Mistress, your subordinate has found a protrusion over there."

As Ya Er said till here, a faint trace of excitement appeared on his face. After all, when Liu Xinyue asked him to look for her, he still didn't understand it in his heart.

However, from the looks of it now, his master had really divined things!

Looking in the direction that Ya Er pointed, Liu Xinyue curled his lips slightly, but the smile quickly faded away.

Liu Xinyue knew that because of his performance in the previous three rounds, his actions now had attracted the attention of many. If these people saw his expression, they might not be able to take the next step.

But luckily, Liu Xinyue was able to quickly look at the people around him, and realised that those people were attracted to He Ming because of his movements, so he temporarily did not pay attention to her.

Thus, Liu Xinyue quickly brought Ya Er in the direction he had pointed to.

Yuan Zi was mixed into the crowd, and when Liu Xinyue looked over, he squatted down and pretended to tidy up his shoes, but when he stood up again, he was shocked to find that Liu Xinyue and his medicine boy had disappeared!

"Something's off!"

Yuan Zi instantly understood what was going on and immediately headed towards Liu Xinyue's original location. His movements were extremely small as he searched everywhere, but he still could not find the two of them, causing him to become anxious.

After all, He Ming had a mission for him before.

"Wait, I saw Huo Zhongxi's medicine boy point in a direction earlier …"

After the initial anxiety, Yuan Zi quickly calmed down. Closing his eyes, he carefully thought back to what he had just seen. Immediately, he abruptly opened his eyes and quickly looked in the direction he had pointed at.

Although he still couldn't see Liu Xinyue and Ya Er from where he was standing, Yuan Zi had a premonition that these two people were right there!

"Let's go over and see what this Huo Zhongxi is trying to do!"

With that thought, Yuan Zi continued to stealthily walk towards that direction in the crowd.

The other people present might not know what Liu Xinyue and Ya Er were doing, but the people sitting on the stage could clearly see them.

Liu Xinyue brought Ya Er to the back of the huge basket.

The one on the back was He Ming and the others, because the place where Liu Xinyue and Ya Er was standing was right opposite to his current position.

"Mistress, this is the place."

Ya Er brought Liu Xinyue to the place where he had discovered the protrusion, pointing at one of the places that looked normal, he quickly said to Liu Xinyue.

Liu Xinyue looked towards the direction Ya Er pointed. At first glance, he indeed didn't see anything wrong, it was just a very normal huge basket outside.

However, since Ya Er said it with all his heart, then it must be true.

So, Liu Xinyue took a second look at this place, and carefully checked the outside of the basket, and sure enough, he discovered some extremely minute details.

This huge basket was weaved out of bamboo, and the place Ya Er pointed to, was actually only a portion of the bamboo in the huge basket.

And after careful observation by Liu Xinyue, they discovered that this piece of bamboo looked slightly more protruding from the side than the surrounding bamboo, but because the protrusion wasn't too obvious, almost no one would be able to find anything abnormal at a glance.

In addition, the color of the four edges of this slightly protruding bamboo shoot was slightly darker than the other parts of the surrounding bamboo shoot.

If it wasn't for the fact that Liu Xinyue observed everything carefully, or if it wasn't for the fact that Ya Er used his hands to feel it directly, people would definitely not be able to detect it.

"Master is indeed Master. I was able to tell the difference with a single glance."

Originally, Ya Er wanted to remind Liu Xinyue where this protrusion was. However, seeing Liu Xinyue's current expression, he knew that he did not even need to open his mouth to say anything, as the other party had long ago discovered it.

Ya Er was full of worship towards Liu Xinyue.

After seeing the difference in the gigantic basket, in order to further confirm his thoughts, Liu Xinyue extended his hand and placed it on the protruding bamboo.

Following that, Liu Xinyue used a bit of force to push the bamboo into it. After all, this was a normal design, but the next scene caused her to be surprised.

He couldn't push the bamboo into it at all …

Seeing that, Liu Xinyue could not help but raise his eyebrow, which immediately piqued her interest. Since pressing on them inside was useless, why not use some strength on the outside?

With that thought, Liu Xinyue quickly changed her strength and pulled the bamboo out of the room. Very quickly, the bamboo that was originally unmoving started to move outwards as her hand shook slightly.

Seeing that, Liu Xinyue laughed.

Sure enough, her guess was right. There must be something wrong with this protruding bamboo. After all, her pulling force just now was practically useless!

Since it proved that what he thought was correct, then Liu Xinyue would not dawdle any longer. After all, the longer he stayed, the easier it was for him to attract other people's attention.

After that, Liu Xinyue quickly pulled the bamboo stick out, and Ya Er was surprised to see that the bamboo stick had turned into a hollow bamboo box.

It was currently quietly resting in Liu Xinyue's hands.