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“Are you unhappy at the academy?” Chen Ping’an asked.
Li Baoping shook her head with a puzzled expression as she replied, “Not at all. Did Mountain Master Mao tell you something, Junior Uncle?”
“Mountain Master Mao feels like you’ve become really quiet and withdrawn, so he’s a little concerned,” Chen Ping’an explained with a smile.
“I’ve always liked to keep to myself,” Li Baoping said in a justified manner. “It’s not like I became like this only after coming to the academy. I just don’t say anything when I don’t feel like there’s anything to be said.”
Indeed, she had always waded into streams to catch crabs on her own, rushed through the streets and alleys to see door gods on her own, skipped from grid to grid on the bluestone slab road of Fortune Street on her own, waited for the peach blossoms on Peach Leaf Alley to bloom on her own, gone to pick out pieces of porcelain from the old mountain of porcelain on her own... She had always been like this.
Chen Ping’an was struggling to contain an amused smile at this realization.
“What are you smiling about, Junior Uncle?” Li Baoping asked as a smile spread across her face as well.
“I was just thinking about the first time I ever saw you,” Chen Ping’an replied with a smile. “You were so little back then, yet you were running around like the wind with a branch from the old locust tree on your shoulder. Even thinking back now, I still think that was a very impressive feat.”
A rare look of embarrassment appeared on Li Baoping’s face, and she raised her bowl to cover her face, but was unable to fully conceal her smile.
“Let’s go to Xie Xie’s place,” Chen Ping’an said with a smile, and the two of them set off together, with Li Baoping asking questions the entire way, while Chen Ping’an answered them one by one.
On the way there, they ran into Pei Qian, who was accompanied by the ecstatic Li Huai, as well as Lin Shouyi and Yu Lu.
After hearing the commotion outside, Xie Xie opened the door, and a faint smile also appeared on her face at the sight of the large group of visitors outside.
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