Unable to figure it out, Ning Bei could only scratch his head awkwardly.
"Even so, you can't do that, can you?"
"Tch. By the time you two started generating electricity on your own, the daylilies would've gone cold. Big Sis was just giving you a hand."
Dugu Yan was a little older than her man, and now she had actually started calling herself his big sister, leaving Ning Bei speechless. Still, he did not keep digging into it. The rice had already been cooked into lean-meat porridge, so what was the point of bringing up all that useless stuff?
After breakfast, the three of them set off on the return journey again. Along the way, Dugu Yan acted as if nothing had happened, constantly chatting with the two of them. From time to time, she lifted the carriage curtain to look at scenery Heaven Dou City did not have, while Little Cat kept sitting sideways and looking out the window. She did not even have the courage to join the conversation, only replying softly with a few words when Dugu Yan called on her.
When they passed through Idf Province, the three of them stopped to rest for another day. This time, Dugu Yan's period really had ended, and Ning Bei gave her a proper lesson. As for how he taught her, that was not something to be told to outsiders.
As they traveled leisurely through mountains and waters, Zhu Zhuqing slowly shed the awkwardness she had felt at first and gradually returned to how she had been before. Only, the youthful innocence once present between her brows was no longer there.
Because they had not deliberately rushed, the three of them spent several dozen days before returning to Heaven Dou City. There, the three split into two groups and