The bonfire party continued late into the night—even Yu Sheng felt that if children's energy had no limits, Little Red Riding Hood and her younger siblings could have kept going for three days and three nights without resting.
After all, the night sky "Big Brother Yu Sheng" had personally created for everyone could continue indefinitely.
But in any case, happy times were limited. The bonfire party finally ended—the children, their energy exhausted, were carried back to their rooms one by one, while those who had played themselves tired and fallen asleep beside roadside walls or in patches of grass were found in every nook and cranny by the night watchmen summoned by the King and tossed onto their beds. The half-grown children of thirteen or fourteen tried to force themselves to stay awake and help the adults clean up, but Teacher Su and the others quickly drove them back with the excuse that "staying up at night will affect your development."
Rapunzel had finished setting off the fireworks, but she still seemed unsatisfied. In the end, she ran over to discuss with Yu Sheng and Little Red Riding Hood what excuse they should use to hold another similar event next time, so she could get her fill of it. However, her stockpiled explosives had clearly put Little Red Riding Hood on high alert—the latter kept asking where Rapunzel had gotten so many fireworks and where she had hidden them before, but failed to get anything out of her.
Baili Qing had left before the party ended—not because she truly couldn't adapt to the atmosphere here or because of the "awkward silence," but because her position was special. Every day, every hour, and even every minute had to be carefully planned. Being able to set aside two hours like today to