"Ah— No. Stop, you beast," Mei Nianqing reprimands quickly, trying to pull his robes from the dog's mouth as carefully as he can to prevent ripping.
He's forced to follow a few steps or else risk damaging his robes.
"Who taught you manners?? Let me go! Is this how you ask??"
The question gets him a bark in response, his damp nose pressed against the palm of Mei Nianqing's hand.
After enjoying the pats, he grabs at his robes with his teeth and begins to drag him... who knows where.
Oh! Oh, well— Looks like he passed the sniff test with flying colors, it seems.
"Yes, yes. Settle dow— Hey, don't bark at me."
Despite the huff he lets out, he reaches out to try and give the dog a pet on the head.
"Is someone missing you, little one? Where should you be?"
The dog gives Mei Nianqing's hand a tentative sniff, curiosity in his dark eyes. Cue a long stretch of silence—
... Seems fine to him.
Once the hesitance is shed away, he hops around the human before giving a happy bark.
Watches the dog approach. When it gets close enough, he slowly reaches out a hand towards it, offering up his hand for a trust sniff test.
"Hello there... Where did you come from?"
As the guan is left safely in his grip, Mei Nianqing huffs out an annoyed noise as he practically squirrels the object away into his robes.
Gods forbid that boy had broken it... It's far too precious to just leave out around the other, so best to hide it away.
Still rather —
Shen Zechuan is so shocked by the sudden reaction that he drops the guan over the other's hand and takes a step back.
The words sound so familiar, the tone nipping at his heart. He hears the aggravated voice of his shifu trying to get him to drop a toad that he had>>
— annoyed at being held at guan point in his own home, Mei Nianqing trudges his way outside to go grab the other's clothes, mumbling complaints to himself as he pulls the now dry clothes down from the line and folds them neatly.
Collecting them and returning back into the —
For a moment, everything falls still. Mei Nianqing doesn't so much as flinch as something sharp is pressed to his throat.
Only once he glances down at it, see that it's one of his guans... Only then does he grow stiff, frown pulling at the edges of his lips.
"That crown..." —
Shen Zechuan moves quicker tham the other would expect of someone who was just bedridden, but as soon as the other takes a step out, the youngest one has taken a random hair crown he found in the house and holding the pointy end to the other's neck as he grabs the back>>
— right there with you!"
He points back to the table; to one of the candles.
"There! There, take the candle and go see for yourself! And for all of Heaven's sake, put that guan down before you break it!"
Oh, how he yearns for his horsetail whisk... Then he could smack the —
Clicking his tongue, the older man once again waves away the offer like he's waving away a fly.
"I have no need for whatever service you offer, young man."
He carefully straightens out his robes as he stands, the outfit much more dressed down than earlier seeing as his earlier—
He leans against the wall eyeing the other, the book he was reading, trying to catch if he recognizes the title.
Then he looks for his sword, because it's important to him and he simply cannot lose it. His heart rate does increase as his eyes fail to catch even a glimpse>>
— He turns to head for the front door before pausing, turning back to lay the other with a look as he points to the other.
"Did you even take the medicine and food I left out for you? Don't be wasteful now. Go take it while I grab your things."
Making a shooing motion at the —