The Pumpkin Carriage creaked to a stop in the open space before the gate.
The white Big Rats looked ahead, then behind them, hesitating over whether they should simply dig a hole and burrow inside.
Ding Dang jumped down from the Pumpkin Carriage. The moment he saw Zheng Qing, he raised three fingers on his right hand and swore miserably, "I didn't know they'd run this far either! They only told me to keep an eye on these Big Rats... I'm just the driver. I don't know anything! I haven't even finished my Potion Class homework today!"
Hearing only that last sentence, one might easily mistake him for a student of Jiuyou Academy.
"Ding Dang?" Zheng Qing asked uncertainly.
"It's me..." the Rat Person answered obediently.
Zheng Qing sighed. If Ding Dang, that audacious fellow, had been driving, then perhaps he would not have been able to escape involvement in tonight's affair. But Ding Dang? That timid muddlehead certainly did not have the courage to venture deep into the Silent Forest in the middle of the night.
"Who's in the carriage?" Jiang Yu stepped forward and asked a question Zheng Qing was also very concerned about.
Ding Dang did not need to confess. A little head obediently poked out—it was Poseidon. Perhaps because the atmosphere was rather delicate, the Little Fox did not dare spout nonsense. Instead, she jumped down from the carriage and dashed toward Zheng Qing, wailing theatrically, "Waaah, Daddy, I was scared to death! The forest was pitch-black! I almost thought I'd never see you again!"
Since she had taken human form, this was the first time Zheng Qing had held her.
Compared with the Little Fox in his memories, Dongdong was much heavier now, and much noisier as well. Once she burrowed into his arms, her