Watching as Zhu Pingniang stord off, Xu Chang’an, just about to return to the banquet, was montarily taken aback. Then he saw Li Zhibai coming down the stairs with a helpless expression.
Xu Chang’an approached her, puzzled, and asked, "Teacher... what’s with Senior Zhu?"
"She just threw a little tantrum." Li Zhibai shook her head.
Basically, she was eager to get to the banquet, but before even entering she heard her second daughter criticizing her figure... Of course, Zhu Pingniang wasn’t happy about it, but it was her own daughter, and what she said was the truth; her figure isn’t that great.
So Tong Jun felt stifled for a mont, not even thinking about the Beauty Fruit.
"A little tantrum..." Xu Chang’an’s eyes widened slightly.
"It’s nothing, it has nothing to do with Ms. Yun." Li Zhibai looked at Xu Chang’an, who was empty-handed: "Weren’t you going to prepare desserts? Why are you back so soon?"
"I calculated that Miss’s tea would have cooled down, so I ca to add so." Xu Chang’an said matter-of-factly.
"...You." Li Zhibai chuckled, saying, "Go back to your own business, don’t return to the banquet just yet."
Listening to the won at the banquet talking about body figures, she naturally couldn’t let Xu Chang’an go over and dampen their spirits.
Li Zhibai didn’t think this was a big deal.
In her youth, at tea parties among young ladies, it was normal to joke around and discuss bodies. Tong Jun’s anger... probably stems from being used as a negative example and feeling embarrassed in front of the girls.
Seeing Xu Chang’an was stunned, Li Zhibai raised a corner of her mouth and gently pushed Xu Chang’an: "I told you to attend to your matters. With Tong Jun’s daughter there, would she allow Ms. Yun to have cold tea?"
Her words, would Chang’an not believe?
"Ah... okay." Xu Chang’an nodded and then turned away, but as he reached the corner, he glanced again at Li Zhibai walking towards where Zhu Pingniang had gone.
Teacher...
Has sowhat changed?
Xu Chang’an frowned.
Simply put, it seed the teacher appeared more gentle?
Could it be because of her makeup?
Shaking his head.
Xu Chang’an did not know what caused this subtle change in Li Zhibai, but... this more motherly feeling, for him, was definitely good.
After all, at the wedding with Miss Yun, the teacher is the only elder candidate.
He returned to the kitchen, while Li Zhibai walked toward the direction where Zhu Pingniang left. She seed to hear sothing, opened her palm, and glanced at her hand.
Earlier, the scene of her pushing Xu Chang’an seed to have been witnessed by the girls from Flower Moon Building from afar.
A woman’s hand shouldn’t touch a man’s waist?
That would be the case if Chang’an were considered a man in her mind.
For a young man she watched grow up, Li Zhibai couldn’t count how many tis she hit him with a ruler, so making her be careful about avoiding suspicion with Xu Chang’an was sothing she really hadn’t thought of.
The world says that courtesans aren’t simple, yet Li Zhibai found them surprisingly... ticulous about such matters?
She shook her head helplessly, then caught up with Zhu Pingniang, seeing her puffed-up face, and asked, "Why are you upset?"
"It wasn’t you they were talking about." Zhu Pingniang stomped her foot, then her gaze swept over Li Zhibai’s figure, her eye twitching.
She couldn’t very well say anything about Li Zhibai’s body either.
"I am like this, anyway. It’s not like I can use so Transformation Technique to make my figure better." Zhu Pingniang clenched her fist. "Lu’Er, under Wen Li and Yun Qian pointed out my shortcomings, just wait for how I’ll deal with her tonight."
"It’s your own daughter, of course, she wouldn’t speak ill of you." Li Zhibai didn’t believe Miss Lu would speak negatively of Zhu Pingniang. She probably spoke of so important matters that inadvertently touched on her.
After all, it was because what Miss Lu said was the truth, poking at Tong Jun’s sore spot.
"They know I hate the topic of body figures the most, those little brats." Zhu Pingniang gritted her teeth, annoyed by a bunch of girls calling her "Pingniang."
"I won’t return to the banquet for now." Rembering sothing, Zhu Pingniang said, "Ah Bai, that Half-Demon girl under is about to take the stage. I’ll go check on her state, would you like to join ?"
"I won’t go." Li Zhibai thought about that Half-Demon?
Co to think of it, earlier, wearing a Daoist Robe, she was mistaken by those won for coming to subdue demons.
"Then go see their performance at the banquet hall." Zhu Pingniang didn’t insist, but she reminded: "Don’t go back to the banquet hall."
On the banquet stage, those three won are discussing figures; her Ah Bai suddenly showing up would be seen by others, drawing the conversation onto her?
"Understood." Li Zhibai responded, and then with Zhu Pingniang, went to find Ah Qing, not returning to the banquet either.
Going there... she would see the Sect Leader mingling with the girls, and she actually hadn’t adapted yet.
Thinking, Li Zhibai walked towards Xu Chang’an’s location in the kitchen.
With nothing to do, she might as well have a conversation with Chang’an.
Tong Jun said he’s uneasy, as the teacher, ensuring his peace is also a responsibility... It’s just that Li Zhibai was surprised to find when she arrived at the kitchen, she didn’t see a busy Xu Chang’an, but rather the boy leaning against the window, daydreaming at the night view.
"Chang’an?" Li Zhibai was very surprised.
She thought... the kitchen would be busy.
"Teacher?" Xu Chang’an was also montarily stunned. Just a mont ago, he saw her, not expecting Li Zhibai to show up again.
"Why are you here?" He t her.
"Nothing special." Li Zhibai looked oddly at Xu Chang’an: "Weren’t you busy in the kitchen?"
"It’s just so Beauty Fruit, already cut and prepared there." Xu Chang’an pointed to a table on the side and smiled.
"Then..." Li Zhibai moved beside him, also leaning a bit of her weight on the railing, turning her head to ask, "Since you’ve finished, why not return to the banquet?"
"Intentionally not going back." Xu Chang’an shook his head: "It’s rare... that she has a chance to talk with other won, to experience the atmosphere."
"I see." Li Zhibai wasn’t surprised at all.
Because wanting Yun Qian to chat more with peers and thus intentionally giving them space... is sothing Chang’an would do.
"But you, why aren’t you going with Senior Zhu to enjoy the banquet?"
"Chang’an."
"Yes."
"I heard from Tong Jun, she insists you call her sister."
"..." Xu Chang’an’s eye twitched, suddenly feeling a bit guilty.
Calling her sister does overturn the hierarchy between him and the teacher?
"Just do as she says." Li Zhibai didn’t intend to bla Xu Chang’an, but seeing the montary fluster in the young man’s normally calm eyes, her lips curled up a bit.
No need to tease him.
Li Zhibai looked at the distant exquisite lake view and asked, "Did you feel uneasy earlier?"
Hearing Li Zhibai’s inquiry, Xu Chang’an, instead of being surprised, asked back:
"Teacher... what makes you say that?"
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