After washing up, Pei Wendong practiced calligraphy and worked on problems in his own room while Pei Qin taught Pei Yuan and Pei Qian. It was a hot summer and they needed ice, so when the dog days began, they all slept in the same room to save on ice blocks.
Lu Hao bolted the door and climbed up the wall to look outside, only to see Mo Heng standing not far from the door under an elm tree, wordlessly imitating Pei Qin's eye-rolling dismissiveness. Young Master Shen thought he had left, but the man had not gone at all; in fact, he had moved even closer. It was the middle of the night; instead of sleeping, he wandered over here, ghost-like, and even wore all black, as if he didn't know how frightening that was!?
