By noon, when they descended the mountain, the three women were utterly exhausted. The four of them found a restaurant and feasted to their hearts' content.
After satisfying their hunger, the three women seemed to be fully reenergized and immediately decided to go shopping at the mall. The trip was a spur-of-the-moment decision; Yang Xinyi had seen a post from a friend announcing a one-day-only event at the mall that Saturday, with a twenty percent discount on everything.
Hearing the plan, Ye Xiong immediately objected—not because he was afraid of spending money, but because he dreaded being used as a beast of burden.
Unfortunately, his objections were in vain.