"Miss Jing! Please wash your hands before entering the room!"
"..." Jing Yiren and Lu Ming looked blankly at the basin that Butler Chen held, with water soaking the greenish-yellow, unhomogenous stalks of grass and vines.
"What is this?" Lu Ming asked with implied confusion.
Butler Chen smiled as he explained, "This is mugwort, used to drive away evil and dampness. In my hometown, whenever something unfortunate happens, washing with this helps to erase the misfortune, and then only good things will follow."
"..." Jing Yiren didn't expect that there would be such a custom here as well.
She remembered that in her childhood, Luyuan also had such a tradition. People who were released from prison would take a purifying bath, stepping over a fire pan. However, they used lotus leaves and mugwort instead, the material was the only difference.
Jing Yiren suddenly felt a sense of kinship, and she dipped her little hands in the water, scrubbing them together.
