They Called Me a Coward, My New Master Asked for Lessons novel · Chapter 24 of 24
Chapter 24: The Next Mountain Is Optional
The visitor in gray travel robes asked for a chair before she said her name.
She stood in the new doorway with a rolled letter in one hand and her pack still on her back.
Ji had spent half the morning preparing for a different kind of arrival.
She had expected banners, a gong, perhaps a procession of attendants with their sleeves held aloft.
The woman had come on foot, alone, and her boots were as muddy as Shen's hems.
"I have walked since dawn, so is there a chair?" the visitor asked.
"There is," Shen said, and her whole face brightened.
The chair stood by the table, made from the sound end of the old beam.
The carpenter had left it at the door two days after the roof, in payment for lessons he meant to take.
It had a back, four legs, and a faint smell of river.
Nobody had yet sat in it.
Shen had been saving it for a great occasion.
She tested it with one brown shoe, as she tested every chair, and then waved the visitor into it.
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