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It was deathly silent in the study.
As Chen Ping'an pondered the two questions raised to him, he reflexively reached for his Sword Nurturing Gourd to take a drink, but he then immediately released it again.
Cui Dongshan didn't try to rush him into giving an answer, and Mao Xiaodong was also massaging his ruler in silence.
After a long while, Chen Ping'an finally said, "I don't have an answer to those questions for now. I'll have to think about it."
Cui Dongshan nodded in response as he replied with a bright smile, "There's no hurry. I raised the questions on a whim anyway, so answer them whenever you please."
Chen Ping'an rose to his feet to depart, while Cui Dongshan remained in the study, claiming that he wanted to discuss the current circumstances in the Great Sui Nation's capital city with Mao Xiaodong.
As Chen Ping'an made his way to the entrance of the study, he turned back to Cui Dongshan and pointed at his forehead as he asked, "How long are you going to keep that thing?"
Cui Dongshan hurriedly wiped the seal from his forehead as he said in an embarrassed manner, "I've been away from the academy for quite some time, and I've grown a little distant from Little Baoping as a result. It wasn't like this before; Little Baoping was always really happy to see me in the past."
Chen Ping'an closed the door, and the sound of his footsteps faded away into the distance.
Cui Dongshan snuck over to the door, then pressed his ear against it for a moment before bursting into laughter.
He stood up straight as he began swinging his arms vigorously back and forth in an alternating fashion, causing his baggy sleeves to ripple like waves as he celebrated, "I was able to avoid both a scolding and a beating!"
A puzzled look appeared on Mao Xiaodong's face at the sight of Cui Dongshan's childish display, and he said, "You weren't like this back when we were with our master. I heard from Qi Jingchun that when he first met you in the Great Li Empire, you had a really serious demeanor and liked to make yourself appear all prim and proper."
Cui Dongshan leaped up into the air, then suspended himself there and leaned forward before beginning to perform a doggy paddle, swimming back and forth through Mao Xiaodong's study as he rambled, "I was already in my early-twenties back when the old scholar swindled me into becoming his disciple.
“If I recall correctly, it took me three years just to travel from my hometown on the Eastern Treasured Vial Continent to the shoddy alley that the old scholar was staying in on the Middle Earth Divine Continent. Along the way, I experienced a lot of hardships, but never did I think that not only had I not reached the light at the end of the tunnel after my three years of suffering, I had...
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