The evening breeze was slightly cool. Liu Chang'an took the red gourd-shaped hat Zhou Shuling had knitted and put it on Zhou Dongdong, then tied a scarf around Shangguan Dandan.
The two little ones had already claimed their spots on the electric scooter. Zhou Dongdong stood on the footboard with both hands tucked into her sleeves, while Shangguan Dandan sat on the tip of the seat with a thermos slung over her shoulder, constantly going, "Beep beep!"
"You still haven't learned how to ride an electric scooter, but you're getting more and more convincing at imitating one. You could absolutely pass for the real thing." Enduring the girl's shrill cry, like a skylark singing at full pitch, Liu Chang'an sincerely praised her imitation.
He should have thrown little stones at her upstairs just now.
Shangguan Dandan only needed him to praise her for being shrewd and capable, frugal and thrifty, a dowager empress who knew how to manage a household. She did not particularly care for praise in other areas and simply turned a deaf ear to it.
"Riding an electric scooter is still a little dangerous. The cars on the street keep swooshing back and forth, scaring me. I don't really dare to ride one." Shangguan Dandan reluctantly explained why she had failed to learn.
Thinking back to the dowager empress's little carriage, it had raced all over Everlasting Palace. Even throughout all of Chang'an, it had traveled without obstruction. Other than walls ahead, what pedestrian, carriage, or horse would have dared impede it in the slightest?
The driving conditions now were completely different. There were even strange things like traffic lights on the roads. Wasn't it perfectly natural that the dowager empress did not dare ride an electric little carriage?
Liu Chang'an swung onto the electric scooter. The