"Humph! You can't stop me; Mom's already cooking for me!"
Yun Yan Shuang huffed, sticking her tongue out mischievously at her brother.
"You little rascal," Yun Yan Shui muttered with a half-annoyed smile.
Just then, their mother's voice called out from the kitchen. "Shuang'er, the noodles are ready!"
"Coming!"
With a gleeful skip, Yan Shuang darted into the kitchen, returning moments later with a steaming bowl of pork knuckle noodles. She plopped down beside her brother under the eaves.
"Here, Ge. You can have the pork knuckle," she offered, sliding the bowl toward him.
"I'm stuffed," Yan Shui waved her off. "You need it more after running yourself ragged fighting off demons."
"By the way," Yan Shuang said between slurps of noodles, "Uncle said earlier today that after the ancestral ceremony, Second Uncle will take some people and escort Yan Tian-ge and me to Yulin County."
"Yulin County? What for all of a sudden?"
