Upon hearing Chen Ying's question about where her children had gone, Big Spirit Cat Mother said they had recently wanted to go on adventures and hadn't gone far, just wandering around the village.
Regarding overnight stays, tree holes, burrows, firewood sheds— they could sleep anywhere and didn't necessarily have to go back.
More importantly, during the New Year's period, there were more people in the village and more children, several of whom would bother the Large Spirit Cat Cubs when they had nothing else to do. That's why the cubs didn't like to go back to rest.
Hearing what Big Spirit Cat Mother had said, Chen Ying understood where the problem lay.
After returning, she gave Yin Li's sister a key to her house and called her aunt, asking her to come over three times a week to clean, and to keep the door locked the rest of the time to prevent anyone from entering or leaving.
