Although Li Xian's home was large, there were very few places to hide. The rooms were still arranged just as they had been when left unused after his parents' deaths, empty and desolate, with no sign that anyone had lived there for any length of time.
So if they really had to choose, their options were basically limited to wardrobes, under beds, and storage cabinets.
Li Xian chose his own bedroom as their hiding place. A solid wood wardrobe stood against the wall, and he rose onto his toes to open it. Just as Song Qingzhang and Jiang Qiuyue assumed they would be hiding inside, Li Xian reached in with both hands and dragged something out...
The two looked closer and realized it was a large suitcase.
"Holy sh... That's brilliant."
Halfway through her exclamation, Jiang Qiuyue remembered that she was a child now and forcibly swallowed the rest of the curse.
All three of them were children now, with correspondingly small bodies. Jiang Qiuyue compared herself against the suitcase and found that it could probably hold two of them.
Any more room would have been pointless anyway, since someone would have to stay outside to unlock it.
All that remained was deciding who would stay outside...
Let Li Xian decide.
While Jiang Qiuyue was thinking this over, Li Xian had already laid the suitcase flat on the floor and opened it. To their surprise, however, he did not ask anyone to climb inside. Instead, he turned around and hauled something out from under his bed...
A piggy bank?
It was a standard gold piggy bank-and a large one at that. Judging by how hard Li Xian struggled with it, it was probably packed full of coins. There was no rattling at all as he moved it.
Li Xian managed