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Duan Le'er and I entered Duan Qinxiang's study together, and what we saw was him at a loss, with an anxious expression on his face. When he saw me come in, he knocked his pipe excitedly on the gray bowl, extinguished his pipe, and set it on the table. He stood up to greet me, walked up to me, and shouted, "I'm very happy to have friends from afar!"

This old Confucian businessman