"Were you two looking for me?" Luo Yunji asked, eyeing them suspiciously.
Wild Dog Daoist nodded emphatically. "Wherever the Ancestor is, that's where I'll be!"
"...But she thinks you're ugly!" Luo Yunji silently drove a "knife" into Wild Dog Daoist's heart.
Wild Dog Daoist heard him and lowered his head in dejection, looking thoroughly miserable.
"What about you?" Luo Yunji asked curiously, glancing at Jin Ping'er's somewhat pale face.
"My master told me to stay by your side! You think I want to? You run around all day, and the moment I look away, you disappear. I had to chase you all the way to this remote, desolate place in the Southern Border!" Jin Ping'er puffed out her cheeks and complained.
"That's your own fault! Who told you to provoke Incense Valley in the first place? Did you think they wouldn't come after you?" Wild Dog Daoist snapped at Jin Ping'er.
"Go get some food! If there's nothing tasty, then bring back some ingredients!" Luo Yunji ordered the Quadruplets.
The four cupped their hands in a salute, then happily ran off.
"Senior Brother, I heard you let them capture you willingly?" Luo Yunji asked Zhang Xiaofan, glancing at the two Miao People standing at the door, keeping watch over them.
Zhang Xiaofan nodded. "The three of us can't understand what anyone here is saying. And we haven't seen a single inn around. We didn't know why they wanted to capture us, so we figured we might as well save ourselves the trouble of finding somewhere to stay."
"Besides, Jin Ping'er needed to recover from her injuries, so we let them take us."
Faxiang and Lu Xueqi both looked rather taken aback by Zhang Xiaofan's words. This wasn't the way they'd heard he acted in recent years.
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