After resting for a few days, Ning Bei kept his promise and took Zhu Zhuqing onto the road to Spirit Cat City. There were still several months before the Ice God Soul Bone Set took form, and even if he stayed at home, he could not immediately undertake the final trial. He would also have to endure Huo Linglong's nagging from time to time, so he might as well go out and clear his head.
Besides, counting carefully, Little Cat had not set foot in her family home for nearly ten years. Now that their relationship had changed, it would be good to go back and inform her elders, lest old Patriarch Zhu spend his days on edge. After all, he had sent Ning Bei a pretty young wife, hadn't he?
"Are you nervous?"
"Mm?"
Zhu Zhuqing was stunned for a moment, then realized Ning Bei was asking whether she would feel nervous seeing her father again after so many years.
Shaking her head, Zhu Zhuqing said with a smile, "I don't really care what he thinks of me anymore, so naturally I won't be nervous. In any case, he can no longer decide my future."
When the carriage passed through a city on the former border between Heaven Dou and Star Luo, Zhu Zhuqing looked at the endless stream of merchants coming and going outside the city and could not help sighing.
"In the past, this was an area guarded by heavy troops. Because relations between the two countries were tense, you basically couldn't see any merchants here. I never thought it would be able to develop like this now."
"It's easy to understand. Now that the two countries are one, without that tense confrontation, merchants naturally come to seek profit."
Zhu Zhuqing nodded noncommittally. She did not care