After a long while, the sun had already climbed high into the sky. Zhang Xiaohua opened his eyes, feeling somewhat puzzled. "At this hour on previous days, Nie Qianyu would have come bouncing over long ago. Why has there been no movement at all today?"
"What could have happened?" As Zhang Xiaohua pondered, he was about to release his divine sense when he heard footsteps outside. Without even using his divine sense, Zhang Xiaohua knew from the sound alone that Nie Qianyu had arrived. Yet her footsteps today were somewhat slow, as though she was extremely reluctant.
Zhang Xiaohua got down from the bed and went to meet her. Sure enough, before the pill room stood Nie Qianyu's hesitant figure, her face carrying a faint trace of sorrow.
Seeing Zhang Xiaohua come out, Nie Qianyu forced a smile. "Brother Ren, you're up?"
Zhang Xiaohua was quite curious. "Little Fish, today is truly strange. Why are you speaking so formally? I have always risen early, and it is not as though you do not know that. Did something happen?"
Nie Qianyu opened her mouth, looking as though she wanted to speak but stopped herself. At last, she took out the Four Treasures of the Study from behind her and handed them to Zhang Xiaohua. "Brother Ren, Father asked me to bring these over. Yesterday, you already agreed to teach Uncle Si that Great Evolution Five Elements Formation. Father does not know how you plan to teach it, and he was afraid you would teach it the same way you taught us pill-refining techniques, so he told me to bring these things over."
Zhang Xiaohua did not take them, merely smiling. "That is exactly right. But just like last time, I will speak, and you will copy it down."
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