AIRPORTS ARE WORSE THAN CARS ACTUALLY

Newspaper guy does not remotely notice that a donut has gone unpaid for. One person looks suspicious but relaxes immediately when Meng Yao clarifies aloud that he paid for his donut.

"I'm really annoyed that you can't keep your baby quiet," someone tells Lan Xichen. "I'm kind of fantasizing about strangling it."

"You can't possibly fantasize about strangling him as much as I do."

"Yeah," says the stranger, nodding, and he goes to sit as far away as feasible from the screaming baby.

Meng Yao braces himself for the airplane.

The safety announcement goes like this:

"Hey everybody! The pilots are not drunk so we're almost certainly going to be totally fine, but just in case, please raise your hand if you have any questions about the safety features of this aircraft that aren't answered to your satisfaction on the little card in front of you!" (No hands go up.) "Great, I hate having to go over all that again when we have newbie flyers. Last time we had a middle school field trip and they wanted the entire spiel! It was awful! If you want something that a flight attendant can reasonably provide and you're too dang impatient to wait for us to come around with beverage service, you can press your call button! You can also do it under other circumstances but it won't help. I hope you enjoy your flight because surly nauseated passengers are way less pleasant to deal with!"

Meng Yao loves this place. 

Something is HAPPENING to Meng Xuanyu's EARS and it is BAD.

"I hate you," says the little old lady in the aisle seat next to them calmly, and she takes out her knitting and starts furiously purling socks.

"I'm very sorry. If I had access to my family wealth I would be taking a private jet instead."

He is going to rise to a position of tremendous power by being the only person in politics who can lie and then he will have his OWN private jet with NO people making obnoxious comments. 

WHAT IS WRONG WITH MENG XUANYU'S EARS???? IS HE DYING

The flight is basically uneventful, although at one point someone loudly announces, "I walk really slowly but if anyone beats me to the lavatory the rest of this flight is going to smell really bad!" and people get out of his way to let him shuffle up to the bathroom.

Honestly that's very courteous of them.

Is there someone here to pick them up at the airport?

Yup, the Secretary of State has sent them a dude holding a sign that says I AM WAITING FOR THE VISITORS FROM ANOTHER WORLD.

...he never thought he would miss Xue Yang. 

"Hello!" he says. "That's us."

"Oh good, my feet hurt," says the dude. He escorts them to a limo.

"Do you have a car seat?"

"I have a booster seat, I didn't know how young your son was. He's cute and I want to pet his hair."

"You can pet his hair."

"He's actually Meng Yao's nephew but we adopted him."

The limo driver pets his hair. "I can see if the rental car place has rental baby seats."

He bounces Meng Xuanyu and sings to him in Chinese while this is sorted out. 

"I find it threatening when people around me use languages other than English!" says a woman walking by, but she doesn't stop to chat further.

The limo driver reappears with a baby seat from Hertz.

Into the car!