Chương 289: Chapter 290 What is the Merit of Holy Mother Mary (Third Update)_1

"What are these? How did you get them?" Bao Yi asked again.

"I accidentally touched the leaves of a lacquer tree, I guess... on my way back from Yanyue Square," Xin Meng said.

Bao Yi then asked, "A lacquer tree? The road from Yanyue Square to our house doesn't have a lacquer tree, does it?"

"I ran into someone selling wood, there was a lacquer tree among the wood he was selling, and I touched it," Xin Meng lied.

"Mother, you were in a carriage, how could you encounter someone carrying wood?"

"It was too hot at the time, and I inadvertently touched it while reaching my hand out to cool off." Just as expected, one lie often necessitates a hundred more.