Xia Chujian almost didn't recognize the way, seeing white everywhere.
Xia Yuanfang said with emotion, "I didn't expect it to be snowing so heavily outside Mulan City."
Xia Chujian explained to her, "This place is actually tens of kilometers away from Mulan City, so it's not very close."
Aunt Chen led them, stepping deep and shallow, through the snow.
The heavy snow fluttered down, quickly covering all footprints and traces.
After walking for another three minutes, they finally stopped in front of a snowdrift.
Aunt Chen patted it with her hand, and large patches of snow fell off, revealing a hatch.
It was the hatch of the Civilian Flying Vehicle that Xia Chujian had seized from Feng Qianzhan.
San Zong's pig head appeared from the translucent hatch.
He happily opened the door and said excitedly, "Female Sire! Happy New Year!"
Xia Chujian was used to it, and said calmly, "Happy New Year, San Zong, this is a red envelope for you."
She put a red envelope in San Zong's hand.
San Zong's eyes lit up and said, "Aunt Chen has already given San Zong a red envelope! Female Sire also gave San Zong a red envelope! San Zong's luck this year will definitely be especially good!"
Xia Chujian introduced him again, "San Zong, this is my aunt."
San Zong hurriedly bowed, "Happy New Year, Female Sire's aunt!"
Xia Yuanfang: "..."
This title was really upsetting.
She glared at Xia Chujian.
Xia Chujian grinned.
San Zong happily bent over and stepped aside, letting Xia Chujian, Aunt Chen, and Xia Yuanfang in, then quickly closed the hatch, blocking the cold air outside.
Small Dog Si Xi ran out of the small kitchen like a wisp of smoke, calling "Wu Er Fu, Wu Er Fu" and pounced on Xia Chujian.
Xia Chujian picked it up, smiled and said, "Si Xi, Si Xi, I miss you," then rubbed heads with it affectionately.
Zhu Yingying saw Xia Chujian coming and originally wanted to run out with Small Dog Si Xi.
But suddenly she saw a mirror hanging on the wall in the small kitchen and stopped.
It had been more than a month, but she still couldn't get used to her cat face.
Zhu Yingying hid in the small kitchen, secretly watching Xia Chujian being affectionate with Small Dog through the crack in the door.
Xia Yuanfang followed Aunt Chen in, curiously looking around the place.
This small Flying Vehicle looked like the small apartments in her previous world.
Small but complete.
Entering, there was a "living room", which was actually the main cabin where the cockpit and passenger seats were located.
There should have been three rows of passenger seats, but they had been modified.
A rectangular dining table was placed in the middle of the main cabin.
Those passenger seats could be turned one hundred and eighty degrees, and the middle seats could be turned around, right next to the back row seats, surrounding the rectangular dining table.
Behind the main cabin, there was a small corridor leading to the tail of the Flying Vehicle.
On the right side of the corridor were the small kitchen and bathroom.
On the left side of the corridor, there were also two rooms.
According to Aunt Chen, she and Yingying lived in one of the rooms, and the other room was where San Zong and Small Dog lived.
A standard two-bedroom apartment.
While Aunt Chen took Xia Yuanfang to her and Yingying's room, Xia Chujian carried Small Dog Si Xi to the small kitchen.
Zhu Yingying immediately hid behind the door, not daring to let Xia Chujian see her.
Xia Chujian understood Zhu Yingying's awkwardness and embarrassment.
She walked in with a smile, acting as if nothing had happened, and said, "Yingying, how old are you? Still playing hide-and-seek with me? - Come out quickly! If I can't find you, I'm not going to talk to you anymore!"
Zhu Yingying was uneasy, especially afraid that Xia Chujian wouldn't be used to her new appearance, but also worried that Xia Chujian would really get angry.
She hesitantly shuffled out from behind the door, and carefully said, "...Chujian."
Xia Chujian, holding Small Dog, turned around and saw Zhu Yingying's fluffy cat ears and her amber-like, pure and lovely big eyes, and her eyes lit up.
"Yingying! Happy New Year!" She pounced over, hugged Zhu Yingying, and casually pinched her cat ears.
The white fluff on Zhu Yingying's face turned pink, both shy and happy, and with a sense of relief.
"Chujian, do you... really not mind me looking like this?" Zhu Yingying asked quietly.
Xia Chujian confessed, "Yingying, actually, if you had looked like this earlier, I would have gotten along with you even better!"
"Why? Wasn't I prettier before?" Zhu Yingying's cat eyes widened even more.
Xia Chujian held Small Dog up in front of her, and said, "Small Si Xi, do you like Yingying like this?"
Small Dog looked at Zhu Yingying innocently, not understanding what Xia Chujian was saying.
Xia Chujian followed "Wu Er Fu" and barked twice, saying, "If you like it, just bark like that!"
Small Dog then heard its "Wu Er Fu" and immediately barked "Wu Er Fu, Wu Er Fu" happily.
Xia Chujian said, "Yingying, look, even Small Si Xi likes you like this!"
Zhu Yingying was amused by her, and said, "Chujian, you're tricking Small Si Xi again. That's the only way it can bark, can it bark any other way?"
"Haha, so what if that's the only way it can bark! Serves it right for being at a disadvantage!" Xia Chujian took advantage of Small Dog's inability to speak, and felt no pressure to take advantage of it.
Small Dog really didn't understand what they were saying, but it felt happy when it heard their voices, so it barked even more cheerfully.
Xia Chujian put it down, and it circled around Xia Chujian, never stopping for a moment.
Xia Chujian pulled Zhu Yingying out to the main cabin, sat down next to the rectangular dining table, and said, "Yingying, are you getting used to living here?"
Zhu Yingying tilted her head and said, "To be honest, I wasn't used to it at first. But I slowly got used to it later."
As she spoke, she glanced at the rear cabin, and seeing that her mother and Xia Gugu were still in that room and hadn't come out, she leaned close to Xia Chujian's ear and whispered, "Chujian, my mother and I went to the Land of the Far North in the Exotic Beast Forest a few days ago..."
Xia Chujian thought of Aunt Chen's heaven-defying "Stealth" attribute, and clicked her tongue, saying, "Aunt Chen has this ability, it's really enviable."
But Zhu Yingying said, "...We went so many times, but we didn't catch a single Black Truffle Wild Rhino Pig."
Xia Chujian: "..."
No way? They were clearly quite easy to catch. Last time they went, they caught two.
"Why is that?" Xia Chujian asked tentatively, "Is it because it's too cold, and those pigs are hibernating?"
Zhu Yingying shook her head seriously, "My mother said that Black Truffle Wild Rhino Pigs don't hibernate. They will come out to forage even when it's cold in winter. Moreover, the colder the weather, the more tender their meat will be, and the nutritional value will rise to a medicinal level."
"This year is unusually cold, and my mother said that we should catch a few more to store up. But in the past month or so, we've run around so many times, and we haven't caught a single one!"
Xia Chujian frowned, propped her head with her hand, leaned on the rectangular dining table, and pondered, "Could it be that it's too cold? So they moved?"
"My mother said that there are only a few places in the Exotic Beast Forest that have Black Truffles. These Wild Rhino Pigs feed on Black Truffles, so they won't move elsewhere," Zhu Yingying said seriously.
Xia Chujian didn't understand, "...Not moved?"
Zhu Yingying shrank her neck, glanced at the door over there again, and lowered her voice even more, "...No. Actually, they didn't run away, but the entire pigsty was wiped out by some exotic beast..."
As she spoke, Zhu Yingying showed her Smart Bracelet, and pulled out a few videos she had taken from the middle for Xia Chujian to watch.
Xia Chujian was speechless.
In the video, she and Aunt Chen looked like they had entered a Wild Rhino Pig nest.
The place was so big, densely packed with black Wild Rhino Pigs.
But these pigs couldn't be called pigs, but only pigskins...
Because the meat inside them seemed to have been sucked dry by something.
Xia Chujian felt goosebumps all over her body.
"...What kind of thing did this? It's too outrageous!" Xia Chujian looked at the already dull and fragmented Wild Rhinoceros Pig teeth, as well as the important parts that had been cut off at the kidneys, filled with righteous indignation.
Who did this?! It's simply draining the pond to catch the fish!
Zhu Yingying shook her head: "My mom and I don't know, it's a pity, the Wild Rhinoceros Pig of the Exotic Beast Forest will be extinct from now on."
Xia Chujian denounced it a few times, and suddenly remembered that she had four Big Tooth and four Pig Kidneys stored in the refrigerator here!
Wait...
If the Wild Rhinoceros Pig really becomes extinct, wouldn't the things in her hands become a limited edition?!
Then she can just wait for the appreciation!
Xia Chujian's mood suddenly improved.
She said with a smile: "Yingying, I'm thirsty, is there any water?"
"Yes, my mom has hoarded a lot of bottled Spring Water." Zhu Yingying went to the kitchenette to get two bottles of water for Xia Chujian.
At this time, Aunt Chen called her in the room: "Yingying, come here, Xia Gugu wants to ask you about your studies!"
Zhu Yingying: "..."
She had been playing like crazy for the past month, where had she touched a textbook? Zhu Yingying looked at Xia Chujian for help.
Xia Chujian liked watching Xia Yuanfang tutor others, as long as that person wasn't herself.
She pushed Zhu Yingying and said mischievously, "Yingying, go ahead, I'll go see San Zong."
She ran away in a puff of smoke to knock on San Zong's door.
Small Dog had been lying at her feet, and now followed her to paw at San Zong's door.
That room was actually Small Dog's room as well.
San Zong opened a crack in the door, and only after seeing that it was Xia Chujian, did he hurriedly let her in.
Small Dog squeezed in from Xia Chujian's feet.
This room was also the room San Zong used to grow Blood Kirin and Kong Sang.
Xia Chujian hurriedly said, "San Zong, I don't want to ask you about this online, how is it? Is the Blood Kirin showing any signs of improvement? And the Kong Sang?"
San Zong said excitedly: "Female Sire! The Blood Kirin has sprouted!"
"Really?!" Xia Chujian's eyes lit up, and she hurriedly followed San Zong to take a look.
San Zong opened the lid of a metal round jar, which was filled with humus soil brought from the Land of the Far North in the Exotic Beast Forest, which was also the humus soil where the Blood Kirin once grew.
The nine Blood Kirin had been ruined by her Huo Huo, leaving only the seeds brought back at that time, which were planted by San Zong in these humus soils.
Sure enough, in the middle of the round jar, was a weak orchid-like plant, which was the Kong Sang!
It was growing well.
And around the Kong Sang, there was also a circle of small green leaves that were trembling and growing out of the soil.
The leaves were fleshy, as if they were full of water, and if you pinched them with your hands, juice would flow out.
Xia Chujian remembered very clearly that the grown Blood Kirin leaves looked like this!
This is the second update. There will be a new update after 0:05 tonight.
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