The winter's roadside trees had shed many of their leaves, and at a glance, the road was a straight line without an end in sight.
Xia Xiaoxiao wished that the stinky dog could lead her to keep walking, and Xu Qingfan wished the same.
Unfortunately, the call from Yao Jiping summoning them back for dinner disrupted this atmosphere.
"No choice, let's take a cab back, my mom is calling us back for dinner," Xu Qingfan said as he hung up the phone and gave a shrug to Xia Xiaoxiao.
"Okay," Xia Xiaoxiao nodded, making a mental note of their current coordinates.
[Next time we have a chance, let's start our walk from here!]
After hailing a taxi, Xia Xiaoxiao took a longing look toward the end of the road, quickly following Xu Qingfan into the back seat of the taxi.
The starting price for Li City taxis was ten yuan for two kilometers; from here to Donghui City was just under two kilometers, exactly the amount left from the ten yuan they had after the dollar store.
