"What are you laughing at? Why haven't you come out to eat?" Bai Qi asked, poking his head through the doorway.
"It's nothing. This is the laugh of someone who just cheated death." When it came to Bei Mingyuan, Xin Huohuo had a habit of lying to Black and White Impermanence. "And close the window."
"Hurry up! Xiaoxue made fried lamb chops, and they smell amazing."
"You're eating meat again."
"It's not beef." The precepts of Taoism were relatively lenient; most didn't forbid eating meat, but beef, dog meat, wild goose, and black fish were off-limits.
"Still, you shouldn't be so gluttonous," Xin Huohuo said, pulling Bai Qi out of the room. "Watch out, or the Nine Heavens Patrol King Spirit Officer might catch you slipping up."
Bai Qi flinched and fell silent, obediently following Xin Huohuo to the kitchen.
