Chapter 121: Qixi Festival Appointment
Su Luo struggled for days between asking and not asking. Time went into July. Princess Huairou had already started planning to set off, taking Su to Zhuxian Town to resolve Su Tong's issue, and then going to Beijing to relax. It was expected to return to Nanjing at the end of the year. If Su and Bao Zixing's relationship developed smoothly, Su Luo would be able to change her surname to Bao next year. However, although Su Luo admired Justice Bao very much, she still felt that the name "Bao Luo" sounded like dumpling filling or bun filling, so she discussed it with Bao Zixing in advance. Of course, Bao Zixing, who was so open-minded, would never care about such things. The only thing he cared about was whether Su would take him with her on this trip. Men always want to show their ownership to their rivals, even if they were just former rivals.
However, Bao Zixing was destined to be disappointed, because his name was not on the princess's entourage list, but Su Yi was going to go.
The princess planned to arrange for Su Yi to study in the Imperial College in the capital, which made Su Luo happy and worried. The happy thing was that the Imperial College was not a place that anyone could enter if they had money. It was the central government school, the highest institution of learning in ancient times, for the children of high and middle officials to study. Entering the Imperial College would be of great benefit to his future career; the worry was that Su Yi was only fourteen years old this year, and he had to leave his hometown and go so far away at such a young age. Although he didn't have to worry about food and accommodation under the arrangement of the princess, he was still living under someone else's roof. If he was wronged, there would be no one to comfort him.
Su Yi was open-minded about this . He said that a man must be independent one day and cannot always rely on his family for care. If he didn't want to concentrate on his studies, he would have been married by now. In other words, he was an adult now, so what was there to worry about?
It was only at this time that Su Luo realized that in ancient times, people were considered adults after the age of ten, which was truly an unfortunate childhood.
Finally, Su Yi said one more thing, and Su Luo was completely relieved. He said, "Sister, if you really can't bear to leave me, just work hard to expand your business in the capital. By then, Brother Zhou will also go to the capital to be an official, and the family will be reunited again."
Su Luo felt that it made sense. In comparison, she was too unmotivated. She was satisfied with her small achievements and had completely forgotten her ambition to become the richest man in Ming Dynasty. But it was not right. Zhou Chongwen had proposed the title of the richest man in Ming Dynasty. Now he gave up halfway, so... then she would just give it a try. If she could not complete it in the end, it would not be a shame to her dream.
It seemed that she had to use her brain again. There were many ways to reach Rome and many ways to make money. She had to choose the shortest and easiest way.
In this way, Princess Huairou took Su Shi and Su Yi away from Nanjing on a sunny day. Fortunately, Su Luo was not alone. There were Bao Zixing, Wu Yong, Lao Li and many other people accompanying her. This is the advantage of a big family. Su Luo wondered whether to find a companion for all the single people in the house. A little more stability would make them more devoted to work. Besides, the Chinese Valentine's Day was just two days away. Maybe the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl was too touching, so everyone had a sense of substitution, especially women, who all looked forward to finding their own cowherd on that day. However, people later relaxed their standards and no longer limited to finding cowherds on the Chinese Valentine's Day. There were more and more cowherds. A certain island country even had a cowherd ranking, with the top one being X Tiao X Xi.
Of course, it takes some skills to be at the top of the list. It's not about ability or skill, but that this guy can always find a bunch of island Martian beasts to take photos with him. Against the backdrop of the Martian beasts, he is indeed a rare gem in the gigolo world.
Back to Chinese Valentine's Day, Su Luo basically has a love-hate relationship with this day. If she had a lover now, or if she was more relaxed and had a crush on someone, she could also plan a date or confess her love, at least she would have something to do, instead of having to date someone like now.
Zhou Chongwen? He was about to enter the imperial examination, so she should not distract him; Qin Huai? After all, he and she were just acting, and Su Luo hoped that he would meet someone he really liked, so she rejected his invitation and didn't want to waste his chance; Volkswagen and BMW seemed to be quite compatible with the two beauties, so they would definitely have a show that night; and besides... Wu Yong was the only one left. Actually, Wu Yong was not bad. He was a senior researcher, earning an annual salary and living in a mansion. Apart from his unknown gender, he had no other shortcomings.
Su Luo decided to go with it. After all, it was better to go out with someone rather than alone that day. But she changed her mind later because Wu Yong said that he had accepted the invitation of seven beauty girls. They had agreed to attend the "A Thousand Miles of Marriage" event held by Guanyin Temple that day. They played speed matching and maybe they could find their ideal husband.
"Ruyi...My dear?" Su Luo looked at Wu Yong uncertainly.
Wu Yong nodded as he applied the mask, "Is it wrong?"
"No." Su Luo immediately shook her head, joined the ranks of people making facial masks, and gave up the intention of reminding Wu Yong of his biological gender.
"You might as well make an appointment with Lord Li," Wu Yong suggested to Su Luo, "Lord Li seems to be free."
Su Luo pouted, then quickly straightened her mouth to avoid affecting the effect of the mask.
Wu Yong seemed to have a good impression of Li Rusong. "Lord Li is very good. He is handsome, promising, and caring about others..."
"He cares about people? He cares whether people are dead or not!" Su Luo almost choked to death.
"He's just not good at expressing himself, just like me."
Su Luo choked again.
Wu Yong sighed, "He is leaving soon. As the host, you should not ignore him anyway."
Su Luo was stunned for a moment and sat up from the recliner, "Is he leaving?"
Wu Yong nodded, "Maybe we can leave after Chinese Valentine's Day. You can try to date him."
"I don't want to!" Su Luo lay down again, "Don't talk, you'll get wrinkles."
Wu Yong was quiet, but Su Luo was indignant. Even Wu Yong knew about it, so Qin Huai knew it a long time ago, but no one told her. Tomorrow is the sixth day of the first lunar month, and the day after tomorrow is the Chinese Valentine's Day. Doesn't that mean Li Rusong won't have many days to stay? No, no, no, that's not the point. The point is that everyone knows it but she doesn't know it. Wouldn't it make her seem unimportant?
No matter what, Su Luo would never date Li Rusong anyway, there was no reason to make herself upset on such a romantic day. She also planned to participate in the One Magpie event. She heard that participants would get souvenirs, and it would be nice to win a prize, so she could just consider it as expanding her circle of friends.
On the day of Chinese Valentine's Day, Qin Huai asked Su Luo out again, but Su Luo still refused. She had said before that she didn't want to delay Qin Huai's search for happiness. After hearing this reason for rejection, Qin Huai smiled weakly for a long time, and finally left a sentence: If we can meet in the sea of people, some things must be decided.
What does it mean? Su Luo pondered for the whole morning, and finally basically agreed with Qin Huai's words. In fact, for some things, it really doesn't hurt to give it a try. Whether there is a destiny or not, it all depends on God's will.
