"Mom, did you eat something too salty? You're so thirsty!"

Bonnie watched as her mother drank a whole tub of water in one go. How much salt did they put in that dish?!

"I didn't eat anything salty. I ran into Dazhu's wife on the boat. We talked all the way here until our mouths were dry and our throats were burning."

After drinking the water, Bao Ni's mother felt like she had come back to life.

Bonnie had already guessed it; her mother must have been telling Dazhu's wife about what she had seen and heard in Beijing the whole way.

"You've really given Dazhu's wife a lesson on Beijing. It must have been tough talking all the way here. It's great to have such a good listener. Look at my mother, her throat is practically on fire from talking so much."

"Who does this child associate with?"

Bao Ni's mother slapped her daughter; that was too much.

"With whom?"

Sanqi, who was listening to his grandmother talking, also patted his mother on the shoulder.

"You jerk."

Bonnie tapped Sanqi's forehead with her finger; he was everywhere.

“I am Sanqi, not Qiandeng.”

"My goodness, my grandson, how can you be so adorable? Bonnie, looking at Sanqi, I see exactly what you looked like when you were little, not a single bit different."

Sanqi was held in her grandmother's arms, not understanding what was going on, but she was quite cooperative and kept nodding.

Bonnie covered her face. Honestly, she had to wait until Gu Ye wasn't here, otherwise she would have something to say.

"Mom, I'm not leaving."

"Why aren't you leaving?"

Bonnie didn't understand what Sanqi meant and looked at Sanqi with a puzzled expression.

"We'll have dinner tonight, and then we won't leave."

"You mean you're having dinner at your maternal grandparents' house tonight and not coming home?"

"Yeah."

She was finding all sorts of opportunities not to come home for dinner. She saw the note Gu Ye left: he had gone out to sea and would be back in a few days. She muttered something like that, which Sanqi overheard and remembered.

"Okay, we won't go back. We'll bring my sister over later."

"Um."

Sanqi walked away with satisfied strides!