Once Su Wan returned to the room, she smelled a faint sour smell . With a frown, her eyes followed the direction of the smell where she ended up looking at where Ye Qingtang was .
Although the living quarters for the three people were all in one room, they were separated by a screen and thus Su Wan could only see Ye Qingtang’s shadow and not what she was busy with . Su Wan’s face turned ugly as she covered her nose .
“What smell is this . It’s so stinky . ”
Su Wan’s complaints traveled into Ye Qingtang’s ears, and Ye Qingtang merely smiled lightly .
While the tannic acid had a rather sour smell, there was a fruity scent in it, and it did not smell bad and was even fresh-smelling .
Knowing that Su Wan was unhappy with her over Yun Shu, Ye Qingtang did not take her comment to heart .
She looked down at the wooden bucket where the translucent tannic acid had already turned brownish-red due to the soaked Fire Beast’s scales . Ye Qingtang used two long chopsticks to poke at it and realized that the scales had already softened . Then, she picked them up immediately .
After soaking in tannic acid for such a long time, the scales of the Fire Beast which was initially thick became unusually soft . Its texture was not as rough as before and felt soft like a slightly-thick piece of cotton instead .
Ye Qingtang wiped away the tannic acid on the scales, took out a pair of scissors, and immediately cut them before they hardened again . Afterward, she took out a special iron needle, threaded a fish glue thread through it, and began sewing nimbly .
Half a day passed just like that .
Ye Qingtang used the softened scales of the Fire Beast and made three pieces of fire-resistant soft armor .
Out of those three pieces of armor, she kept one for herself .
Then, she wrapped the other two and kept them aside .
This fire-resistant soft armor was very light and had good flexibility . There would be no discomfort for anyone and was very suitable to be worn on the body .
Although it was thin, the characteristics of the Fire Beast’s scale was fixed within the fire-resistant soft armor . Even if these three pieces of armor were thrown into a furnace and left to burn for three successive days, only the fish glue thread would be burnt at most, and the soft armor would definitely not be affected at all .
Ye Qingtang wore one of the three pieces of armor, and with outerwear, one could not tell any unusualness or plumpness .
As the weather was turning cold, wearing the fire-resistant soft armor even warmed the body .
After putting it on, Ye Qingtang immediately took another armor and headed out to find Yun Shu .
“This is… for me?” Yun Shu looked strangely at the dark red “vest” that Ye Qingtang handed to him .
He could not tell what material was that vest made of, but it felt warm to touch and was very magical .
“This thing is not too bad . If Senior Brother Yun doesn’t mind, wear it on your body on normal days,” Ye Qingtang said with a smile . She would naturally not forget about Yun Shu when she had something good; she owed him her life in her previous life .
Yun Shu took the fire-resistant soft armor in his hand and pursed his lips with a complicated expression in his eyes . He looked up at Ye Qingtang with a subtle expression .
Seeing that she had an upright look and no flirtatious intent in her eyes, Yun Shu really did not know how to react at the moment .
After staying silent for quite a while, Yun Shu finally replied rather stiffly, “Since it is Junior Sister Ye’s kindness, then I will… accept it . Thank you . ”
“There’s no need to be polite with me,” Ye Qingtang said generously .
No one knew that the interaction between the two of them fell into the eyes of someone who passed by them not far away .