[Just as before, Xiao Xingchen can make no sense of it. Now sure that his friend is safe, he returns to the table once more.]
Perhaps... it's for shaking the leaves in your tea, though I couldn't guess why someone would want that.
[That has to be as good a guess as any, right?
Hope for finding anything useful at all wanes even further, but they should at least finish checking these boxes. He finds even larger gifts at the center of the base, as if hidden in there. Maybe the larger items will help? Though one of the boxes is very long, which immediately gives him a bad feeling after the first gift he opened.
He sets that gift on the bed to be checked later before finding something wider and flatter. Shaking the box a bit makes it feel like some kind of fabric material is in here, so he gets to untying this one.]
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Perhaps... it's for shaking the leaves in your tea, though I couldn't guess why someone would want that.
[That has to be as good a guess as any, right?
Hope for finding anything useful at all wanes even further, but they should at least finish checking these boxes. He finds even larger gifts at the center of the base, as if hidden in there. Maybe the larger items will help? Though one of the boxes is very long, which immediately gives him a bad feeling after the first gift he opened.
He sets that gift on the bed to be checked later before finding something wider and flatter. Shaking the box a bit makes it feel like some kind of fabric material is in here, so he gets to untying this one.]