He slept soundly through the night.
Even at Wen Zhixia's house, Chen Shi'an still got up at five in the morning.
When he woke, the house was quiet. Even the two elders didn't usually wake that early.
Chen Shi'an kept to his usual routine. After waking, he moved quietly, taking the towel and toothbrush the girl had prepared for him to wash up.
After washing up, he returned to his room, changed into his Dōfuku, and packed the belongings in his bag.
Then he tidied the bed he had slept in, neatly folding and arranging the sheets, quilt, and pillow.
Rather than sitting idly in his room, Chen Shi'an walked slowly up to the fourth-floor rooftop to get some air on the open terrace, practice, or lean against the railing and gaze at the small county town's early-morning scenery.
He took out his phone, opened the map, and searched for a cycling route back.
If he took the long-distance bus back as originally planned, he would have to travel another two stops from Wen Zhixia's house, then transfer to another long-distance bus to reach Town, taking about an hour and twenty minutes.
Now that he had a bicycle, Chen Shi'an only needed to navigate straight to the little village at the foot of the mountain. The map showed a total of three hours and twelve minutes.
Chen Shi'an changed the starting point again, setting it to the Jiahe Residential Community where he currently lived. The map showed a total cycling time of five hours and twenty-one minutes.
Not far.
Compared to taking the bus, it only doubled the time.
The map calculated its cycling times using an average speed of twenty kilometers an hour. For Chen Shi'an, that was very slow; he wouldn't actually need to ride for that long.