Ling Ba approached Qiu Yan and asked her, "What do you want to eat? I'll go out and buy it."

Before Qiu Yan could speak, Qin Susu said first:

"Grilled skewers and milk tea."

Ling Ba nodded, his gaze remaining fixed on Qiu Yan.

Qiu Yan thought for a moment. She wanted to eat something light in the morning, but after racking her brains, she still didn't know what she should eat.

"Let's make some baked buns, and see what kind of rice porridge we have." She could accept eating meat for a day or two, but if she ate meat every day, she would get a sore throat sooner or later.

"Okay." Ling Ba left the inn to buy food.

He couldn't communicate with the people at the inn.

We were able to stay at this inn back then entirely thanks to Xiaoyan's use of gestures to communicate.

Fortunately, Xiaoyan had exchanged some of the local minted coins in advance.

Outside, you might encounter one or two people who can speak the Central Plains dialect, and there's a wide variety of food available. Inside the inn, however, there's not much you'd like to eat.

At this moment, Vera smiled and said goodbye, then left the inn with Ap and the others.

Qiu Yan guessed that Vera probably couldn't get used to the food at the inn.

A short while later, Ling Ba returned from shopping and delivered the food directly to Qiu Yan's room.

They had baked buns, kebabs, and milk tea, but Qiu Yan wanted something light and thin porridge. Ling Ba searched around but couldn't find a single place that served it, so he ended up buying her a bowl of mutton offal soup.

He bought himself thin-skinned steamed buns and hand-pulled noodles.

Qiu Yan could accept it because of the aroma of the mutton offal soup.

Seeing Qiu Yan eating a bowl of mutton offal soup with baked buns, Qin Susu suddenly felt that the kebabs and milk tea in her hand were no longer appealing.

The breakfast was quite substantial, and Qin Susu ate until she was completely stuffed.

"Xiaoyan, where are we going today?"

By this time, Ling Ba had finished eating and was standing outside Qiu Yan's room.

Qiu Yan: "Shopping."

She didn't really go shopping yesterday because she was thinking about making charcoal.

Today, she wants to find out more about the size of the State of Lu.

She wasn't familiar with the environment here.

"Great!" Qin Susu jumped up excitedly; she loved shopping the most.

Qin Susu, like a joyful bird, stretched out her arms and ran down the second floor to the entrance of the inn.

But he almost bumped into the burly man who was about to enter.

She quickly stepped aside, giving an embarrassed smile, "I'm sorry."

The man stared intently at Qin Susu, muttering to himself as if he were saying something.

Qin Susu didn't understand. Turning her head, she saw Qiu Yan and Ling Ba approaching. She coughed awkwardly.

"Xiao Yan, Ling Ba, let's go quickly."

"You must be the Central Plains people my sister mentioned." Just then, a petite woman holding a child appeared in their line of sight.

As soon as the petite woman arrived, the burly man stood beside her.

Qiu Yan took a good look at the woman. She was dressed in standard Western Region attire, but had a face from the Central Plains.

She recognized the woman at a glance; she was the Central Plains woman they had met at the inn yesterday, Jiang Cai'er's sister.

Jiang Cai'er's younger sister is petite.

The baby in her arms was soft and cuddly, blinking its eyes and humming in its own language.

Her husband, the man Qin Susu had almost bumped into, had a full beard, was dark-skinned and muscular, and was tall and strong.

Qiu Yan estimated that it was over two meters tall.

The height and body size difference between the couple immediately reminded Qiu Yan of the story of Beauty and the Beast.

Uh, thinking about someone like that seems a bit inappropriate.

When Qin Susu saw the woman, especially the man beside her, her mouth formed an "O" shape and she couldn't close it for a long time.

She muttered softly,

"Girl, what made you fall for this man? He's so dark and strong, like a big black bear."