Chapter 031: Cold Li Wan is hot-tempered, and foolish Baoyu shocks everyone
Li Wan was feeling uneasy when she suddenly felt a pair of eyes searching her body. She looked up subconsciously and met Sun Shaozong's eagle-like eyes .
She was so frightened that her heart was beating wildly. She lowered her head to her chest and blamed Jia Lian for the recklessness a thousand times.
Seeing the shame and anger on Li Wan's face, Sun Shaozong immediately realized that something was wrong. He quickly shifted his gaze back to Lady Jia and put on a respectful face to the wealthy and kind old lady.
At this time, Jia's mother had someone bring her tortoise-shell glasses. She held up the frames and carefully scanned Sun Shaozong's eyes. She couldn't help but praise him, "He is indeed a brave and heroic young general. No wonder he was able to resist so many salt smugglers on the river. You said this is also a meritorious descendant. Why are all the children in our Rongguo Mansion so weak and timid?"
The old lady couldn't hold back her chatterbox, and she sighed, "Studying and making progress is a good thing, but if you don't have a strong body, even if you can succeed for a while, how can you succeed for a long time?"
These words immediately pierced Li Wan's heart. Not to mention her husband who died early, her son Jia Lan was often ill. If one day...
Just thinking about it for a moment, she felt her hands and feet become cold to the bone.
"Ancestor!"
Jia Lian, however, wanted to show off, so he took the opportunity to say with a smile: "You underestimate Erlang. He not only has a good physique, but he can also solve strange cases!"
"I heard it, I heard it."
The old man patted the rosewood table and grinned, "'Captain Sun solved a strange case in half a day, and Prime Minister Ruan recognized a talented person with his keen eyes'. Someone told me this story a long time ago, and it was made into a little song and sung everywhere."
Jia Lian stretched out his chest and said proudly: "What I want to tell you today is not your old almanac, but something new that I saw with my own eyes!"
As he spoke, he narrated the story of how Sun Shaozong took office as the magistrate of Shuntian Prefecture and was asked to investigate the mysterious case of the naked corpse. The women in the room were all amazed. Only then did they realize that the strong man in front of them, who was as strong as an iron tower, actually had a very smart mind.
In the past, stories like this could only be found in ancient stories, but how could they compare to Jia Lian’s personal experience, which was told vividly?
Therefore, even Li Wan was absorbed in listening without realizing it.
When they heard that Sun Shaozong had locked onto the 'Nine-fingered Jade Phoenix' step by step based on clues, but did not take credit for himself but instead walked away calmly, they felt that this man was no ordinary person - his experience in dealing with people was something that few of the many men in the Jia family could match.
So she couldn't help but look up and take a closer look at Sun Shaozong's appearance.
Unexpectedly, Sun Shaozong saw Jia Lian's vivid description and only regarded himself as a prop to show off. He was so bored that he also stole a glance at Li Wan, and their four eyes met again!
Both of them were stunned.
Then Sun Shaozong smiled awkwardly, and Li Wan lowered her head again as if she had received an electric shock. However , for some reason, her mind was filled with Sun Shaozong's majestic figure, and some inappropriate thoughts popped up in her mind:
If my dead husband had such a strong body, would I still have to worry about my son dying young?
Then he thought, if Jia Zhu really had such a physique, how could he die so early, leaving him all alone to sleep every night?
Perhaps what a person lacks in life is what he cares about most in his heart - Li Wan usually remains calm when facing handsome men like Jia Lian and Baoyu, but when she first sees a "rough guy" like Sun Shaozong, her heart is moved for no reason.
Suddenly, she recalled the scene of the newlyweds enjoying each other's company, except that the groom still looked like Jia Zhu, but his figure had changed to that of Sun Shaozong...
Amitabha!
Li Wan hurriedly chanted the Buddha's name silently, trying to dispel the "evil thoughts" in her heart.
But she usually suppressed her human nature with scriptures, and she didn't know how much dry wood she had accumulated in her heart. This sudden "fire in the old house" could not be easily extinguished.
The more I silently recited the Buddhist sutra, the more I felt a heat rising from my lower abdomen, which was hot and stirring my heart. After a while, even Jia Zhu's face in my mind became blurred, leaving only a majestic figure...
"Second brother is so disloyal!"
At this moment, someone outside the door suddenly uttered a half-serious and half-fake complaint, and then the Shu brocade door curtain was lifted, and a delicate and handsome young man rushed in. As soon as he opened his mouth, the red hydrangea on the purple gold crown on his head trembled violently, looking really playful and festive.
He was heard complaining, "With such a strange story, why didn't you think of asking me to go and see it together?!"
As he spoke, his pair of dark, bright eyes as bright as stars were only fixed on Sun Shaozong, full of inquiry.
When Sun Shaozong saw the man wearing a red robe and jade belt, and was dressed even more luxuriously than Jia Lian, he guessed that the man should be Jia Baoyu, the protagonist of Dream of the Red Chamber. He looked at him carefully, but he found that the young man had a bright red spot on his lips, which turned out to be rouge used by women. He was stunned.
Could it be that the reason why Dream of Red Mansions became a love tragedy is actually because this guy is gay? !
Thinking of this, Sun Shaozong didn't dare to look directly into Baoyu's inquiring eyes.
"Who am I? It turns out you're the one eavesdropping!"
At this time, Jia's mother smiled and called out, "Come here and warm yourself up. It's so cold, you won't freeze standing outside!"
Baoyu agreed with a smile, but he was not in a hurry to go over. Instead, he came to Sun Shaozong and bowed, saying, "This must be the second brother of the Sun family, right? No wonder Sister Rong fell in love with him. He is really not an ordinary person!"
Since he was with Daiyu, he naturally saw Ruan Rong.
Seeing that he was only about thirteen or fourteen years old and his sexual orientation was very questionable, Sun Shaozong didn't care much.
Just as he was about to return the greeting, Baoyu bowed deeply again and said, "This is my first time meeting Brother Sun, and I shouldn't have mentioned some unwelcome requests. But if I keep it in my heart, Baoyu will feel really uncomfortable. I'm afraid I can only be rude to my brother."
An unreasonable request?
Sun Shaozong thought Baoyu was begging him to take him with him next time he solved a case, so he shook his head and smiled, "If you want to watch me investigate a case, I dare not agree to it rashly - the murder scene is bloody, if you get scared, I can't explain it to you, old Lord Feng."
Jia Lian, who was standing beside him, also said angrily, "How can a small person like you bear witness to such a bloody scene? Take the dead body today for example. There were at least dozens of cuts on its face. It looked even more hideous than the evil ghosts in the City God Temple!"
But Baoyu just shook his head and smiled: "That's not what I'm asking for."
As he spoke, he bowed deeply again and said earnestly, "I only ask Brother Sun not to disappoint my daughter's sincerity and quickly give up that useless official position so that you and Sister Rong can be together and live a carefree and happy life as a couple of gods and goddesses!"
