"When should we go looking for the Five Seas?" Zhang Xiaofan asked, looking at his two senior brothers.
"We'll have to think it over carefully," He Dazhi replied after a moment's thought.
The Five Seas were mysterious above all because they were almost impossible to leave once you entered. With so little information, charging in recklessly could mean never coming back out.
As soon as Zhou Yixian saw Zhang Xiaofan leave, he sprang up and rushed to the room they had arranged for him. Then he began packing.
"Grandpa! Are we leaving?" Xiaohuan was reluctant to leave the Food Mansion. There was delicious food, plenty to do, and people to play with. She'd been very happy here.
"If we don't leave now, disaster will be upon us! Those reckless fools from Big Bamboo Peak, who don't know the limits of the heavens and have more guts than sense, are bent on courting death! If your grandpa doesn't get out of here, I'm a dead man!" Zhou Yixian said, quickening his movements as he spoke.
"Why?" Xiaohuan popped a candied hawthorn into her mouth and tilted her head, gazing curiously at her grandfather.
Ever since arriving at the Food Mansion, Xiaohuan had gotten to taste delicious candied hawthorn she couldn't find anywhere else. She felt as though she'd stepped into the land of immortals people talked about.
"I cast a divination for myself. It was a dire omen! If I stay, I'm bound to die!" Zhou Yixian hid the bundle he'd packed beneath the quilt. At daybreak tomorrow, he planned to pretend he was going to Sanfu Town to have someone read his fortune, then use the excuse to flee as far away as possible.
"Oh!" More than delicious treats, Xiaohuan cared about the grandfather who was her only family. Seeing