Yin Huo chuckled, "You're in good health and can use your wits, so studying shouldn't be difficult for you."
Bai Erlang: "Difficult? Nothing in this world is more difficult than studying."
Manbao: "That's what you said when you were sowing wheat and transplanting seedlings too, that nothing in this world is harder than farm work."
Bai Erlang leaned back in his lounge chair, rocking it as he closed his eyes, pretending not to hear her words.
Seeing this, Yin Huo smiled and imitated him, leaning back entirely as the lounge chair began to rock. He turned his head past Manbao and asked Bai Shan, "Didn't you want to ask me something before lunch?"
Bai Shan glanced at Manbao, and seeing she had no objections, asked, "Since the Imperial Academy's climate has improved, why hasn't the atmosphere in the capital improved? Can't the sons of officials of the fifth rank and above enroll in school?"
