The cord is a type of knotting technique, using silk threads woven into the shape of a pouch to hold things.
It can also be woven into different patterns, used for decorating items like jade pendants, flutes, and weapons according to need.
There are many patterns for the cord, commonly used ones include incense stick, upward bench, elephant eye block, square victory, interlocking rings, plum blossom, and willow leaf.
The cord Jiang Yingying gave was of a heart-accumulating plum blossom pattern, a gift given on Zhu Biao's birthday the year before last.
Though it was a plum blossom, the overall color of the cord was predominantly crow green, with just a few stamens in faint red, obviously considering he was a man and the red-green color might not be very suitable.
Zhu Biao typically didn't use such things, thanked upon receiving it, and casually had someone put it away.
