She takes Masozi's hands in hers. "I know it's really hard for you to think these things through-- it's hard for everyone-- but Xianxian is so impulsive and he'll do whatever seems like a good idea at the time. And I know you can be smart and careful enough in this school even though it's so different from what you're used to. And then you can keep yourself and Xianxian safe."

"....Okay. I'll try. I...guess even if that means not going to Monday morning shop." He looks over at Wei Wuxian. "Can we still change which shop we go to, now?" 

"No, but we can run in quickly for assignments and skip a different class to go to shop then-- you can get someone to look through your schedule and figure out what'll be easiest to get the assignments for--"

"--Wei Wuxian, I heard that you were in Monday morning shop, but obviously I knew you would never do something so stupid."

Oh come on.

"We were just talking about this, a-Qing-- please be gentle with them, it was an honest mistake, everyone makes mistakes their freshman year--"

"Yes, and that's why three-quarters of the people in this school die."

Masozi thinks it's kind of unfair that everyone is getting mad at Wei Wuxian - or sad at him, which he seems to find worse - for taking Monday morning shop, when Masozi ALSO did this. 

He's not going to bring that up, though. This conversation is stressful and draining enough already. Also he...doesn't feel entirely well? Mostly just in a vague way where he would sort of prefer to lie down. Maybe he ate too much food again. 

"I promise I'll help Wei Wuxian be more careful," he assures Jiang Yanli. "I - if I want to go back to my room and study Mandarin some more, should I get someone to walk with me there?" 

"I'll walk with you after I'm done scolding both of you. --Wei Wuxian, you idiot, you can't do things that mean you're going to die. What do you think the graduation plan for the freshmen is? It's you, because you're brilliant and can pull some clever plan out of nowhere to get both Wen Ning and Nie Huaisang to safety. What chance do you think they have if you wind up devoured by a mal freshman year because you couldn't wait two years to get to raid the Monday morning shop cabinet? Or ask a Shanghai upperclassman if you want something! It's not like we don't have artificers!"

"Sorry, a-Qing."

...Okay the Monday morning shop was probably a mistake. Masozi doesn't think he could possibly have known enough to judge this when he picked it, but Wei Wuxian probably should have, and Masozi probably should have been able to point out that both of them going at this point was a terrible idea. 

(Masozi does not feel guilty, exactly. He's slightly frustrated and restless about having misjudged something, and wants to mull on it until he's propagated whatever he was wrong about and made sure he'll remember the lesson in future.) 

"Don't call me a-Qing when you're in trouble. --And you," she says to Masozi. "You were told to stay in your room and study Mandarin, and not to take a class with New Yorkers on the most dangerous level of the school. Don't you remember we almost fought a war to keep you alive?"

"But Wei Wuxian said it was...." Masozi trails off. 

"Wei Wuxian is an idiot and you shouldn't listen to him about whether things are safe."

"--I'm sorry, someone should have told you that explicitly."

- okay he really is feeling kind of bad now. Not emotionally bad, actually physically bad. 

"....Can someone walk me back to my room now." 

"Yes, I will."

Does Masozi want interesting facts about the difference between medieval Arabic and medieval Chinese medical magic on his walk?

He will listen to interesting facts but he's more subdued about it than usual. 

When they get to Masozi's room, Wen Qing says, "Do you get along with Nie Huaisang?"

"- Yeah? He's - nice. He tries to help a lot." Why is she asking this question. It's very mysterious. 

"I'm tempted to assign him to-- teach you how the Scholomance works? Since you don't have the education most people in Shanghai have."

Masozi is not especially clear on what she means by that! It does seem like he's missing quite a lot of important education, though. He nods. 

"If you have any of the complaints about how he treats you, please tell me right away."