Oh, yes, certainly. Though I never understood why no one around him-- well, that's neither here nor there.

[sips his tea! don't try too hard to figure it out, I'm being deliberately mysterious, his smile seems to say. wouldn't want to break the rules of the Lan Sect.]

In any case, another student came to study with Uncle who he became very curious about. But because he was shy, it was difficult for him to make friends with that person, no matter how much he wanted to learn more about them.