In that case, Lan Wangji returns to his task. The sooner he has sampled everything, the sooner he will have finished sampling everything. He eats a red vine, carefully doesn't make a facial expression, and then pauses to dutifully record his observations. Because the entire setup seemed too crowded for grinding ink, he is writing with one of the pens Magnus provided, but because he refuses to compromise his handwriting, he is doing so very slowly and with deep focus in the pursuit of each character emerging as neatly as possible.