"You..."
The Ice Empress spoke, but she did not know what to say.
She took a deep breath, trying to regain her majestic bearing as the Ice Jade Scorpion sovereign, but the pink blush on her shell betrayed her.
The Ice Empress had no choice but to lower her body further, tuck her scorpion tail beneath herself, and draw her eight legs together, trying to make herself look smaller.
"Why did you kiss me?" the Ice Empress asked quietly.
"You've helped us so much, and I didn't have anything to give you, so I gave you a kiss," Jiang Lan said, perfectly justified. "My Mom Bo Saixi said that when someone treats you well, you should give them kisses."
The pink on the Ice Empress's shell deepened another shade.
Zhu Zhuyun said, "Nice."
It was her first time seeing a child make a ferocious beast blush.
"All right, all right. Where are we going now?"
"To the seaside to fish!"
After thinking for a moment, Jiang Lan said this to the Ice Empress.
He was quite curious about how the fish near the Far North tasted.
"Fishing on the coast of the Far North?" The Ice Empress looked at Jiang Lan. "That's another two days' journey north. The coast is covered in ice reefs, and the sea is full of soul beasts. For you humans, how is fishing there any different from courting death?"
"That's why we're bringing you along, Sister Ice Empress." Jiang Lan tilted his face up toward her, blinking his big eyes.
The Ice Empress fell silent for a breath, then pulled her tail out from beneath herself and raised it again.
"Four pills."
"Didn't I give you three last time?"
"Those three were yesterday's price." The Ice Empress narrowed her emerald scorpion eyes slightly, her tone