Chapter 781 Xue (I)
Being used to the relatively conservative clothing these days, Aunt Xue's outfit today is undoubtedly eye-catching.
She was wearing a blue-edged chiffon flowered dress. The main part of the dress was sky blue satin, and the "V"-shaped hem below the knee was embellished with a circle of deep royal blue.
At the "入"-shaped gap, the light yellow gauze lining seemed to be transparent but not see-through. If you looked closely, you could seem to see a pair of tight legs wrapped in underwear, but it was difficult to see clearly when you looked closely.
In comparison, the neckline above is very open.
The inverted collar almost penetrated deep into the waist and abdomen. Although the two bright yellow ribbons tightly bound the vital parts, the spring scenery could not be concealed when viewed from the side.
Below the shoulders, the sleeves were made of light yellow gauze, through which the white arms were revealed, like two jade pillars.
This was a palace skirt that showed off her figure extremely well, and since Aunt Xue was facing sideways at this moment, her voluptuous beauty was even more exposed!
In fact, if you really look closely, Aunt Xue's shoulders are a little broad - but the good thing is that her shoulders are curved downward, which invisibly makes up for the shortcoming of broad shoulders.
The two pink arms wrapped in the gauze were indeed not as strong as those of a delicate girl, but they were far from being strong. At best, they could be described as round and smooth.
But compared with the mountains not far away, it is undoubtedly slender.
As for the waist, it can be said to be the finishing touch. The royal blue belt with gold flowers outlines a contour that can be held in one hand, highlighting the protruding upper and lower parts, making people want to put their arms around it and take a closer look.
As for that pair of legs, although they are not as slender and tall as the girl's, they can still be considered appropriate.
Especially now that she was standing on the high-soled, forward-leaning deerskin boots, her body appeared to be straight with her shoulders raised, highlighting her plump figure to the extreme.
Whereas these places might become flaws on a young girl, but when integrated into this plump body, they blend in as if naturally. The right places are big where they should be big, and the right places are small where they should be small. If one point more, it would be too fat, and if one point less, it would be too thin.
Although it is said that "the body of a young girl in her twenties is as soft as butter", how can her youthful appearance quench thirst and satisfy hunger as that of a mature woman?
Therefore, when he took a look at him, Sun Shaozong couldn't help but feel his throat surge and his mouth water.
Although there were a lot of words, it was ultimately just a glance, because seeing that Aunt Xue had already hung up her cloak, Sun Shaozong quickly lowered his eyes again.
After all, she is Xue Pan's mother. It's okay to take a sneak peek at her, but it's not right to look her in the face.
However, he never expected that his timely change would make Aunt Xue feel quite disappointed. She thought that she was deliberately showing off her figure and did not attract the other party's attention.
But today's Aunt Xue is no longer the naive woman she was three years ago .
Now that she is determined to seek "justice", how could she give up halfway just because of this small setback?
While Jia Baoyu was still not inside, she feigned surprise and exclaimed, "Ah! Why is there someone else in this room?!"
As he spoke, he brushed towards the chest, and those jade-like fingers made a mistake in their haste and 'accidentally' hooked the bright yellow collar. The already deep neckline suddenly fell down, revealing a large area of fair skin.
When the fingers broke free, the collar suddenly retracted, causing the mountains to rise and fall, shaking but not falling.
Although this scene is difficult to describe in detail, it made Sun Shaozong's eyes flash. If he had not become more and more experienced in recent years and could not show his emotions, he would have almost revealed his stupidity.
He suppressed the urge to take a closer look, and knelt on the ground, bowed and said, "My nephew greets Aunt Xue."
Of course, although he tried his best to restrain his gaze, a person with sharp eyes and a keen mind would have noticed that his eyes, which seemed to be lowered, were secretly glancing at him from the corner of their eyes.
It's a pity that Aunt Xue is just a woman in the backyard with a romantic nature. How could she have such a good eye?
Thinking that Sun Shaozong had not seen it, he felt unwilling and discouraged, and for a moment he even forgot to respond to Sun Shaozong's greeting.
Fortunately, at this time Jia Baoyu also came in, panting, carrying a big bag.
Aunt Xue was afraid that he would find out something, so she immediately scolded him like a wicked person, "Baoyu, there are guests in this room, why didn't you tell me in advance?"
Jia Baoyu knew that he was in the wrong, but he could not admit to being a "foreign guest" in front of Sun Shaozong.
So he put the bundle on the table with a smile, clapped his hands and said, "Aunt, what are you talking about? How can Second Brother Sun be considered an outsider? Not to mention that the three families have been friends for generations, and now they are relatives - even if we only talk about my cousin, he is definitely not an outsider."
Aunt Xue took the initiative to attack because she wanted this effect.
After listening to Baoyu's answer, she also vaguely realized that she had gone too far in calling Sun Shaozong a "foreign guest" in person.
So he quickly covered his mouth and laughed awkwardly, "Don't blame me, Sun Jia's Erlang. I was just startled and said something nonsense. I don't mean to be distant with Erlang."
At this point, she pointed at the bundle and said, "What a coincidence! These leather materials were brought by Xue Ke a few days ago, and he also specified that some should be distributed to your family. I was so confused that I completely forgot about it."
"Since you are here today, you can share it with Baoyu, so I won't have to worry about it any more."
Having said that, she went forward on her own to untie the bag.
This was a decision that had been made long ago, otherwise how could Aunt Xue take advantage of the opportunity to stay?
However, when she was making the plan, the transitions were quite abrupt and anyone who noticed the problem could easily spot it.
But she had said the wrong thing in a hurry just now, which made her behavior seem like she was trying to make amends, and the flaw was avoided by accident.
Therefore, Sun Shaozong did not think much about it. He just looked at Aunt Xue's shy and flustered appearance and could not help but sigh in his heart: Although such a beautiful woman is rare, there is always a way to find her.
The most rare thing is that this mature woman still reveals her girlish innocence from time to time.
The two combined together are like adding wings to a tiger.
If she had not been Xue Pan's mother and Jia Baoyu's aunt, Sun Shaozong might not have been able to control himself when Li Wan was trying to bring them together two days ago.
However, the leather bag, which was tied too tightly to begin with and had just been carried by two maids, had now become a pig's trotter buckle.
Aunt Xue tried several times but failed. Unconsciously, she used all her strength and tore the perky parts until they trembled all over, inadvertently giving away a lot of benefits.
Now that Baoyu was also in the room, Sun Shaozong naturally couldn't look at him for too long, so he reluctantly withdrew his gaze and asked casually, "Has Brother Xue Ke been at your house these days? Since he is thinking about me, I should thank him in person."
“It was originally there.”
Jia Baoyu shook his head and curled his lips again: "But that Hanlin Mei is leaving Beijing for his new post today, and Brother Xue and Sister Baoqin have gone to the dock to see him off ."
Sun Shaozong was surprised when he heard this: "Seeing you off at this time?"
"He said he would leave Beijing at 3pm, so he should be back by now."
Leaving Beijing at 3 p.m.?
Sun Shaozong was more and more surprised. These days, unless there were special circumstances, people usually left Beijing in the morning. Even if they were held up by something, they would choose to leave before noon.
Leaving Beijing at 3 p.m., and considering the protracted customs of welcoming and seeing off officials, doesn't it mean that we will have to stay in a hotel right after we set out?
Even if we go by water, sailing at night may not be that convenient...
I really don’t know what Mei Hanlin is thinking.
However, this Hanlin Mei was indeed a strange person. Recently, Sun Shaozong had more or less inquired about what kind of person Mei was - mainly asking Yu Qian, after all, he had just been in the Hanlin Academy for a year and a half.
According to Yu Qian's description, this Hanlin Mei was also a unique figure in the Hanlin Academy.
To put it in a positive way, his eccentricity lies in that he is proud of his superiors but does not bully his subordinates.
He is often kind to his subordinates or those with lower social backgrounds than him, but he is silent towards his superiors and those with good backgrounds.
This is not surprising at all.
After all, the Hanlin scholars are aloof and proud, and that is a long-standing tradition.
The strange thing is that once a colleague or subordinate with whom he has a good relationship gets promoted, he will quickly distance himself from the other party. On several occasions, he even turned his friends into his enemies in person.
As a result, not to mention his superiors, even his colleagues and subordinates, who were always friendly to him, kept their distance from him.
It is also because of this that Mei Hanlin has been in the Hanlin Academy for more than ten years without being recommended for promotion, and is still a seventh-rank editor.
This time when he was sent out, he only got the sixth-rank official position of Zhou Tongzhi.
It seems that he was promoted one grade, but considering the noble status of Hanlin and the convention of raising one grade when leaving Beijing, this is actually a promotion in name only and a demotion in reality.
No, it's almost a direct downgrade!
It seems that although the emperor did not express his opinion openly about his memorial criticizing the alchemist, he still gave him some punishment in secret.
This is something we can learn from.
Anyway, although Sun Shaozong has a great reputation, he has never had any connection with the upright censors. It would be better for him to stay out of such matters of denouncing treacherous officials in the future.
Speaking of which...
What was the Xue family trying to achieve by entering into a marriage contract with Mei Hanlin?
Just as I was thinking about something else, Aunt Xue finally opened the bundle and called out, "Come over here and take a look to see if there is any material that suits your taste."
Upon hearing this, Jia Baoyu immediately came over, obviously not thinking that there was anything inappropriate about the three of them getting along.
Seeing this, Sun Shaozong naturally would not deliberately imitate those moral gentlemen. He just took two steps around and came to the position diagonally opposite Aunt Xue.
After such a struggle, Aunt Xue's forehead was already slightly sweaty.
It turns out that she has a plump and heat-sensitive physique.
According to Sun Shaozong's experience, this kind of physique is most likely to be very 'smooth'...
cough~
Look at the leather, look at the leather!
These leathers are really rare and fine products. I wonder where Xue Ke, a southerner, got them from - wearing fur should not be popular in Jiangnan at that time, right?
"Meet Master Xue!"
At this moment, the voice of a maid greeting suddenly came from outside, and it sounded as if Xue Ke had arrived.
This is really the case. Speak of Cao Cao and he will appear.
Sun Shaozong unconsciously stopped flipping through the books and looked up at the door.
When the cotton curtain was lifted, the person who came in first was not Xue Ke, but Xue Baoqin in plain clothes.
