"All right, don't meddle so much in other people's family affairs."
Zhang Bo stretched.
"Every family has its own circumstances."
It was hard for outsiders to truly understand.
"I was only saying it here, anyway."
Zhuge Yun shrugged.
"Let's go eat."
Zhang Bo stood up.
"I'm hungry."
"Yeah."
Li Yan agreed. "Come on, let's go eat."
"We've talked so much, my stomach's growling."
Xiao Xiao turned to look out the window.
The sky was growing a little dark.
Would it rain later?
Hmm.
He wondered whether the rain would affect Scholar's progress on his painting.
That monster... should know to shelter from the rain, right?
"Third Brother? Master Xiao?"
Zhao Luzheng and Li Yan noticed someone was missing and turned to call out.
"Coming."
Xiao Xiao walked toward the others waiting by the door.
"Third Brother, are you getting more and more high and mighty?"
Zhuge Yun had just lifted his hand to put it on Xiao Xiao's shoulder when he cried out, "Ow!"
"Who hit me?"
Zhuge Yun shouted.
"A Jiu, was that you?"
Before Zhuge Yun had even fully raised his hand, he heard a sharp smack.
He clutched his reddening hand and hopped around.
Xiao Xiao relayed A Jiu's message.
"A Jiu says that this time, it really did hit you."
Zhuge Yun: ...
"Haha!"
Zhang Bo burst out laughing first.
Li Yan and Zhao Luzheng soon joined in.
"Serves you right."
Zhang Bo took pleasure in his misfortune.
"That's what you get for accusing A Jiu."
"You made A Jiu angry, didn't you?"
"I was obviously asking a question."
Zhuge Yun protested.
"Then who hit me just now?"
"You're still asking?"
Zhang Bo rolled his eyes.
"Second Brother, that's what you get for trying to