“Patriarch Gu! Matriarch Luo! Five Little Sovereigns!
Open the kitchen side-gate—your neighbors from across the one thousand galaxies have brought farewell groceries for your trip upstairs!”
Outside the newly reinforced wooden gate of the [Gu Family Flying Courtyard Cosmic Ark], a booming, cheerful voice echoed from the lead cargo star-barge as One Hundred Million Civilian Supply Shuttles. Representing all One Quadrillion Protected Citizens across the 1,000-Galaxy Cluster—hovered in orderly, mile-wide delivery lanes along Asteroid Highway #888!
On the cedar porch of the courtyard, thirty-six-year-old Gu Changsheng and thirty-four-year-old Empress Luo Qingxue walked to the front gate alongside their five children, Auntie Qin. Grandpa Fu, looking out in warm surprise at the millions of neighborly faces waving from the open hatches of the cargo shuttles.
At the very front of the first delivery lane hovered a battered, affectionately polished wooden star-ferry from Planet Canglan (#001). Led by the white-bearded town mayor of Frost-Pine Town, the headmaster of the Canglan Primary Academy, and the neighborhood butcher and tofu-maker who had known Gu Changsheng since the kids were toddlers!
“Changsheng! Lady Qingxue!” the old town mayor of Frost-Pine Town called out warmly, waving his fur hat as twenty burly Frost-Pine townsfolk carried huge, frost-sealed earthenware jars up onto the courtyard porch.
