Lan Wangji is indeed still watching him. Angrily. Sometimes he is specifically watching Jiang Cheng's sword. Every time Wei Wuxian speaks, Lan Wangji's eyes flicker to him and then back.

Wen Ning arrives! Finally! Master Wei was not in his house or nearby, so Wen Ning is relieved and a little bit proud to have found him elsewhere so quickly.

"Wei-gongzi!" He shuffles over, bowing to Wei Wuxian and nodding his head nervously to Jiang Cheng and Jiang Yanli.

"Ah? - Ah, Wen-gongzi! I'm so happy to see you, what a good time for you to join us - Young Master Wen, come sit down!" He pats the grass beside him.

Oh yay!!!

Wen Ning has slight difficulty sitting down, but the grass here is soft and nice and he manages. "I'm, m, happy to see you too, Master Wei," says Wen Ning, timid but very sincere.

Wei Wuxian pats Wen Ning amiably on the shoulder. "Ah, don't mention it! Say, Master Wen, me and my brother were just having such an interesting conversation, I wonder if you know anything about it! Do you know what my brother and your sister have been doing together? All by themselves? Off in..." he waggles his eyebrows. "The woods?"

"Wei Wuxian!  We were not in the woods and we were not doing anything!"

"Eh? What do you think, Wen Ning?"

"Uh,,"

"What do you think they were talking about all sneakily?"

"Uh, mmaybe, death?"

He coughs. "I mean, preventing it?"

"Death? Wah, Young Master Wen, you really know nothing about bedside manner!"

'Death?' he mouths, entirely nonplussed.

It's... not wrong?

"Yes," he starts slowly.  "Lady Wen is a healer."

Wen Ning makes an apologetic face over at Master Jiang. "She's a very good healer! The best in Qishan, and in our generation. You can tell her if, if maybe you get hurt, Master Wei, and she can help you."

"Too kind, Master Wen! Don't worry, I never get hurt. I am a very cautious and well-coordinated person! Jiang Cheng, on the other hand..." He shakes his head. "Ah, sometimes I think he's a lost cause... so reckless."

"You are way more reckless than I am!" Jiang Cheng argues.

"Wrong! I am a very restrained person! Master Wen, don't I seem restrained to you?"

"I'm, ah, sure you try your best, Wei-gongzi!"

"Thank you! Aiyah, Jiang Cheng, look how this stranger has more confidence in me than my own brother! Do you feel no shame for being so heartless?"

Oh.

Yeah, okay. Strangers. That's - reasonable. Yeah.

Jiang Yanli pats Wei Wuxian's arm.  "A-Xian might not have as much restraint as others, but he has many other virtues."

Wen Ning seems sad at not being part of the group.  Clearly, this can be best solved by him becoming part of the group.  "What about you, Wen Ning?  Would you say that you are restrained or reckless?"  

His sister is so nice!!! Wei Wuxian beams and hugs her. Then he sticks out his tongue at Jiang Cheng.

!!!Part of the group!

"Oh, uh. Well. I think I'm usually pretty restrained, Lady Jiang, unless - unless things are really different."

Jiang Yanli thinks this sounds very good!  What a nice new friend.  

They will continue their discussion.  Yanli is careful to leave Wen Ning plenty of opportunities to speak up without forcing him to.

He hasn't been able to hear the entire conversation at this distance (except for Wei Ying, who is quite loud), and Wen Ning speaks quietly, but Wangji continues to have suspicions about Wen Ning being from the future as well. Nothing he sees or hears makes him suspect this less.

It's bittersweet to see Wen Ning and Wei Ying together, both young and happy and allowed to exist without being hunted. With Jiang Wanyin, who doesn't want to kill them, and Jiang Yanli, who isn't going to die. (She can't die. It is very very important that Jiang Yanli does not die.)

Wangji is slightly jealous at how easily Wen Ning gets to go right back to being Wei Ying's friend, laughing with him and earning his warmth and smiling at each other. Wangji doesn't know how to do that. How to just... be friends. Wei Ying needs to follow him around for months to get that same comfort and closeness with each other that Wangji misses so badly. He doesn't know any other way to be known by him.

If Wangji isn't around or if Wei Ying doesn't feel so inclined, this time, then - then that'll be that.