Although grilling fish was now an open secret at home, with her mother even saying she wouldn't interfere, the old woman still couldn't help but glance over every time Yuan Si started cooking. Staring at their dwindling supply of firewood, she said nothing, but her heart grew heavy with worry.
The main symptom was that she would toss and turn in bed at night, unable to sleep. Yuan Si knew this couldn't go on. Her mother was extremely frugal; if she actually got sick with worry over something so trivial, Yuan Si would become an orphan, and life in this world would become even harder. So, taking advantage of the time before the wheat harvest, she made another trip to the reservoir. Of course, she told her mother she was going to see her Immortal Master.
