Li Bao walked back to Li Bai's bedroom. She had finished buying the ingredients that Li Bai asked her to buy, and so came to deliver them. She arrived and opened the door, only to see her brother desperately making something out of wooden sticks that he scraped off from his bed.
"Li Bai didi, what are you doing?"
Li Bai couldn't walk so to get items far away from his bed, he needed to formulate a plan. He finally thought of one - scrape some wood off of the bottom of the bed and make some kind of contraption out of them! This was what he was doing.
The desperate Li Bai knew that this wouldn't work, he was just stalling for time. His idiot sister shouldn't be that long from now!
When she arrived, he gave up on what he was doing and threw all of the wood scrapes away on the floor.
"Bao jie-jie, never mind that, have you gotten the ingredients?"
Li Bao immediately showed her leather bag which was full of the items Li Bai asked her to buy.
"Yes, Bai didi."
"Thanks, please put them down on the table there, and push it closer to me."
Li Bao, following the instructions, pushed the table closer to her brother and laid down all of the plants and beast parts on the table.
Li Bai pointed to under the desk beside his bed, where a curtain was hiding something.
"Bao jie, please get my cauldron also."
Li Bao heard her brother and immediately looked for his cauldron. She knew what it looked like, she saw him use it before! The only problem was that she didn't know where it was.
She got on all fours and crawled all over the bedroom, with no results. She turned towards Li Bai and was about to ask where the cauldron was when she saw his annoyed face and more importantly his finger which was pointing somewhere.
The curtains which were being pointed at were suddenly lifted by Li Bao and there she saw a metal pot. This is the exact cauldron! She happily grabbed it and stood up, sweeping the dust on her arm with her empty hand. Her knees were also dusty, but she couldn't reach them.
Li Bai told Li Bao to put the cauldron down on the table beside him, where the ingredients were. She did so and sat down on the dusty floor. When she did, the dust on the floor went flying all over the place. Both of them covered their faces to not breathe in the dust.
Li Bai noticed something. I haven't noticed it before but... why is my bedroom so dirty?
The truth was that even though there were servants who didn't look down on Li Bai, they weren't the ones assigned to him. The ones assigned to him though were all lazy and didn't bother cleaning his room because they regarded him as trash. Li Bai's plan to make a healing bath for his legs were halted because of this. The dust could affect the composition of the mixture!
"Bao jie, call servants to clean up my room, please?"
.....
After a while, the room had been cleaned up by the reluctant servants. They were threatened by Li Bao that if they didn't clean her brother's room, they would get fired.
The servants all followed Li Bao soon after but not because of the reason she thought. The threat had no effect, but the issuer was Li Bao herself! Of course, they would follow her!
The room still had dust here and there, but overall it was much cleaner than it was before. The brewing of the liquid was not out of reach any longer.
Li Bao was satisfied by this clean room but her clothes were all dirty and stained. She wasn't aware of this and had a fairly happy expression on her face.
