The grapevines in the small courtyard's pavilion had already withered. Guo Sufi, Liu Qian, and Nie Qianyu sat inside the pavilion, chatting leisurely about something.
Although Liu Qian spoke to her mother from time to time, her eyes remained fixed on Zhang Bairen. When she saw him stop playing and raise his head to look at the sky, while the two little creatures who had never known fear actually lay sprawled on the ground, she could not help but feel astonished. Rising to her feet, she called, "Bairen? What's wrong?"
Before Liu Qian's words had even faded, a miserable "Neighhh" rang out from a corner of the courtyard. Huanhuan the Four Unlike's legs gave way, and it too collapsed to the ground, urine and feces streaming out... "This..." Liu Qian was greatly alarmed and cried, "Xiaohua, Xiaohua..."
"Elder Sister-in-law, were you calling me?" A voice descended from the sky, and a tall, lean young man in a long robe, his head completely bald, landed in the middle of the courtyard!
"Xiaohua, when did you come back?" Hearing Zhang Xiaohua's familiar voice, Liu Qian was first delighted. But when she saw him clearly, she instinctively stepped back two paces, covered her mouth, and cried, "You... how could you be Xiaohua? No... are you Xiaohua?? That can't be right either... how could you possibly be Xiaohua???"
Liu Qian was so flustered that she could not even speak clearly. With a leap, she rushed out of the pavilion and shielded Zhang Bairen behind her!
At first, Guo Sufi and Nie Qianyu had not paid much attention to Liu Qian's concern for Zhang Bairen. But upon hearing the Four Unlike's wail, they too rose to their feet. Then Zhang Xiaohua appeared in the courtyard, and Liu Qian's repeated denials left Guo Sufi dumbstruck as