"Hey."

In front of the restaurant, the girl was loading bag after bag of luggage onto the carriage.

The astronomical and astrological equipment inside fills the bag to the brim, making people worry that it will burst next second.

After stuffing all the luggage on hand into the carriage, Mona wiped the sweat from her forehead.

A ray of setting sun shone down, highlighting the slender figure of the young man in front of him.

"Hello~"

Looking at Bai Qiyun standing in front of the restaurant, Mona shouted softly a few times, causing the young man to turn around.

"Why, are you reluctant to give up?"

Facing the girl's playful face, Bai Qiyun was stunned for a moment, then smiled with relief.

"Yeah, I'm really reluctant to give up."

But just like a young bird always leaves its nest, he had to leave his hometown today to find the life he wanted.

Bai Qiyun got on the carriage, opened the curtain and stared at Liyue Harbor with people coming and going, his eyes fixed on it, as if he wanted to carve this picture into his mind.

The wheels began to turn, and Mona, who acted as the groom, drove the horses forward, blowing up a gust of autumn wind.

I haven’t woken up yet in early autumn, but late autumn has arrived.

When the fallen leaves turned yellow in Liyue Port, a carriage carrying two people slowly drove out of this thousand-year-old port.

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The carriage began to tremble due to the friction between the wheels and the stones, causing Bai Qiyun's back of the head, which was leaning against the window, to hurt.

The road was deserted, with only Bai Qiyun and Mona huddled in the carriage, staring at each other.

Oh, maybe there was also Yandora, but that guy just got into the corner of the car and fell asleep.

"So are we going to keep doing this?"

Looking at the girl so close, Bai Qiyun shrank his face back.

The breath Mona exhaled just now hit his face, making it tickle.

"You have to spend at least a few days in the car. It also takes two days and two nights to get to the nearest inn from here."

Taking the map on one side, Mona estimated the carriage's forward speed and gave her own inference.

"That means we have to stay in the carriage for at least two days. Have you brought a tent?"

"Tent? How can I carry that kind of thing? It's hard enough just to carry these instruments."

Mona, who was asked, looked at the young man in front of her with a curious expression. How could she possibly bring something like that?

She was so confident that Bai Qiyun felt a little embarrassed.

"But the problem is that I didn't bring it with me. What will I do then?"

He thought that Mona, a guy who wandered around all year round, would bring her, but it seemed that he was overthinking it.

"If we don't have a tent, why don't we still have a car? The two of us make do in the car -"

In the middle of her words, Mona stopped talking instantly like a duck being strangled by the neck.

She glanced mechanically into the carriage and found that it was difficult for the two of them to lie side by side together. If they wanted to spend the night together in this situation, it would be inevitable for the two of them to have extensive physical contact.

In that case... wouldn't it be equivalent to two people sharing a bed?

As a normal girl among the three employees of Tingyuge boss in the past, Mona blushed as soon as she thought of that possibility, huddled under the blanket like a quail, and stopped making any sound.

Seeing this, Bai Qiyun sighed.

This girl usually looks quite bold and doesn't wear very fashionable clothes, but when this happens, she really looks like an innocent little girl.

How could he sleep in the car with this guy? He was really worrying too much.

Taking the map from the ostrich-like girl's hand, Bai Qiyun made several circles with a pen according to the route in his memory.

If he remembered correctly, when he passed by these places last time with the caravan, there were several inns on the roadside.

Although not as famous as Wangshu Inn, these inns are still relatively reliable in the ears of merchants on this trade road leading to the border.

At least they are doing regular business and there is no such thing as ripping off customers.

And the nearest inn is in...

"Oh, we have to take a little detour."

If you want to find a place to stay before dark, you cannot follow the original route. You need to plan a new route based on the location of these inns.

"Get up and stop pretending to be dead."

After determining the target, Bai Qiyun dragged out the girl who stuck her head into the blanket like an ostrich and left her butt outside.

Maybe it was Mona who was trying to resist, so it took him a lot of effort to get this guy out.

"snort..."

As the darkness in front of her eyes turned into the boy's face, Mona snorted and turned her face away.

Tsk tsk tsk, I know I’m shy.

"Take it and hurry up, otherwise you will really have to spend the whole night in the car."

Throwing the map in the girl's face, Bai Qiyun moved his body and climbed outside the carriage.

The streets were deserted, with rubble scattered on the roadside. There was no such patchwork beauty as in Liyue Port.

Perhaps because of the late autumn, all the yellow leaves fell to the ground and were stepped into the soil by people passing by.

After a while, Mona got out of the carriage without any fuss, sat next to Bai Qiyun and began to control the carriage.

God's Eye flashed, and a slight gleam of water attached to the horse. The horse, which was a little tired just now, immediately became active again, with wind under its feet, and started galloping all the way on the trade road with the carriage behind it.

This method of using elemental power to strengthen mounts to increase speed is not uncommon. Bai Qiyun remembered that when he rushed to the Wind Dragon Ruins before, Diluc used medicine and elemental specialties to stimulate the potential of the horses, allowing them to almost advance one step ahead of schedule.

It took a whole day to reach the destination.

However, the fate of those horses was not very good. Almost all of them died within a few days because their vitality was overstretched.

This is what Ying later told him when he came to Liyue.

But if someone like Mona consciously controls the amount of elemental power, she should be able to control the damage to the horse within an acceptable range.

Well, probably.

I hope this guy can last until the two of them reach Mondstadt.

"Drive~"

The carriage ran wildly on the trade road, raising smoke and dust all over the place.

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As night fell, under Mona's pressure, the horse finally dragged the two of them to the inn marked on the map.

In the endless wilderness, a medium-sized wooden house that did not look impressive was leaning against a rocky slope.

Although it is not very conspicuous, the several carriages parked outside have proved its identity.

There is no doubt that this is the inn that Mona has longed for.

As soon as their carriage stopped, a middle-aged man wearing a brown-red gown came over from the house.

Obviously, in this wilderness, if the carriage stopped at this time, it must be someone coming to stay at the hotel.

After taking the valuables that needed to be taken out of the car with them, the two got out of the carriage.

A middle-aged man walked towards me, his face was thin but he was very energetic, and his clothes didn't look like he came from a poor family.

But I think those who can open a store in this place may not be short of money.

"Haha, do you two want to stay in a hotel?"

Glancing at Mona, who was following Bai Qiyun, the middle-aged man smiled and walked to the young man's side.

"The boss is joking. Anyone who comes to the inn at this time will definitely want to stay."

It was supposed to be a door-to-door transaction, but the owner of the inn had a slightly troubled look on his face.

However, after glancing at the couple in front of him for a few times, he smiled again.

"That guest, actually the guest rooms are a bit tight today, there is only one left."

Hearing this, Bai Qiyun raised his eyebrows.

"one?"

Just kidding, the guy on the carriage just mentioned it and it became like that. If he really wanted to live in a room, he wouldn't explode immediately.

No, no, then he might as well sleep in the car.

"Just one room, give us a room."

But what surprised him was that before he could make the request, the girl behind him agreed.
To be continued...