content: when the branch was finished , he took his journey home and tried to make himself look as if he were wearied and worn out with travel . he put the jeweled branch into a lacquer box and carried it to the bamboo - cutter , begging him to present it to the princess . the old man was quite deceived by the travel - stained appearance of the knight , and thought that he had only just returned from his long journey with the branch . so he tried to persuade the princess to consent to see the man . but she remained silent and looked very sad . the old man began to take out the branch and praised it as a wonderful treasure to be found nowhere in the whole land . then he spoke of the knight , how handsome and how brave he was to have undertaken a journey to so remote a place as the mount of horai .
answer: took his journey home and tried to make himself look as if he were wearied and worn out with travel .
question: what did the second knight do after the branch was finished ?
target: what did the second knight do after the branch was finished ?
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