"If needed, I will take silks and make us clothes," he answers, definitively, as if learning to sew were something that he could just easily learn and be good enough to hand-sew an entire wedding ensemble by the time they are to be wed. With no instruction.

He'd also build Wei Ying a house this way, if he wanted, if he needed one. He'd get down in the dirt and make bricks by his own handiwork, lay them, plank wood for floors, build him a bed, make him a hearth, make him a place to call home.

He would do anything for Wei Ying, and he need only say the words.