It was not that she was frightened by the future Du Anrao had described; rather, she simply did not believe a word of it. She even felt she must have lost her mind to be neglecting her actual work just to play house with a pre-teen girl.
"Elder Du, your granddaughter is quite the humorist. She knows we old fogies usually live too rigidly, so she’s gone out of her way to help us experience something new."
"Indeed. These young people today have endless, fashionable ideas. We old folks can't even catch up if we rode the fastest horses; we really are getting on in years."
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