Chapter 81: Lamenting that my beloved is not my perfect match, I read the storybook at night with a panic
But Baochai hid behind the screen and listened to Sun Shaozong talking. It turned out that Sun Shaozong understood her thoughts better than her own brother, with whom she had lived for more than ten years. She also heard him advise Xue Pan to have a good talk with his mother so as not to hurt the family relationship, and she felt even more mixed emotions.
Later, seeing that Xue Pan had been persuaded, the master and servant returned quietly to the west wing.
Ying'er saw Baochai standing there in a daze for a long time beside the low couch, and she hadn't thought of sitting down. Her rosy cheeks were sometimes happy and sometimes sad, and it was unclear what she was thinking. So she plucked up the courage to test him, "Miss, I didn't expect that Sun Tongpan could understand your thoughts better than you do."
These words touched Xue Baochai's heart. She first bit her lips, then shook her head slightly, and murmured, "Although he is a good man, it's a pity that he is not a good match."
"how come?!"
Ying'er's eyes widened in confusion, but she didn't care about the hierarchy anymore, and spoke rapidly, "In terms of family background, ability, future, and character, Sun Tongpan is first-rate. Even Master Bao in this mansion... is only slightly more talented in literature than him. How can they not be considered a good match?!"
In her haste, she almost disparaged Baoyu. Fortunately, she came to her senses in time and hurriedly changed her words.
Baochai saw Ying'er's anxious look and couldn't help laughing. She stretched out her hand and poked her nose, teasing her, "You look so anxious. Could it be that you have taken a fancy to Lord Sun? Do you want me to tell my brother tonight and ask him to send you to Lord Sun's house as a concubine?"
"What are you talking about, girl!"
Ying'er knelt down and said in a hurry, "I have followed you since I was a child. Wherever you go, I will go. How can I abandon you and depend on others?!"
"Hurry up, hurry up, it's just a joke, how can you take it seriously?"
As Baochai spoke, she pulled Ying'er up from the ground, but could not help sighing, "I said that Lord Sun was not a good match because of his beautiful concubine Qianxiang - the friendship of 'falling in love at first sight and following her thousands of miles away' cannot be covered up by the title of a wife. No matter who gets to live in Lord Sun's house in the future, I'm afraid there will be a fierce struggle."
Just now, behind the screen, Baochai did have some feelings moved, but she was not Ruan Rong after all, and she would not rush into it without hesitation based on a momentary impulse - on the contrary, in just a short moment, she had suppressed that trace of emotion deep in her heart.
--Dividing line--
Not to mention what happened to the people in Yiranxuan.
But that afternoon, Li Wan brought the "Sutra of the Great Compassionate Heart" that Jia's mother asked her to copy to the west wing, and chatted with the old lady. Seeing that Jia's mother looked tired, she tactfully took the initiative to say goodbye and left.
After passing through the alley between the two gates, Li Wan saw that she was not far from Wang Xifeng's courtyard. She was hesitating whether to go in and say hello, when she suddenly saw a shadowy figure of a book lying in the flower bed on the left side of the gate.
Although printing technology had become quite popular in the Zhou Dynasty, books were just barely out of the category of luxury goods and were still far from being cheap goods.
Besides, Li Wan came from a family of scholars and farmers, and was a book lover, so she hurriedly asked Suyun to pick it up. She wanted to come over to take a closer look, but she only saw the three words "Strange Cases" written on the royal blue cover.
She didn't know that this was dropped when Sun Shaozong was arguing with Xue and Feng, and she just thought that Baoyu dropped it accidentally. After all, Baoyu was the only one in the mansion who liked to buy such storybooks.
She had originally thought of having the book delivered directly to Baoyu's room, but when she accidentally opened it, her face turned red with shame and she immediately changed her mind.
Baoyu should still be in the "Martial Arts Hall" now. His widowed sister-in-law sent such evil silver things to his room. If people knew about it, they might spread all kinds of rumors.
Just as she was about to throw the book back into the flowerbed, Wang Fu-ren's maid Jin Chuan came towards her. Li Wan had no choice but to put the book in her sleeves and pretend nothing had happened. She chatted with Jin Chuan for a few words and then hurried back to her own yard.
He was going to find a way to destroy it as soon as he got back, but when he got into the house, he saw his beloved son Jia Lan holding a copy of "Thousand Character Classic" and reciting it.
But she doesn't care about anything else?
He hurried forward and asked with concern: "Lan'er, why did you come back so early today?"
"mother."
Jia Lan put down the book in his hand, pulled Li Wan to sit side by side on the couch, and then said: "Teacher Sun had something urgent to do, so he asked us to leave early. By the way, today the teacher drank the sour plum soup that my mother sent, and he also specifically reminded me that after starting to practice boxing, I can only do aerobics once a day to avoid hurting my body."
As he said that, he hugged Li Wan's arm and said coquettishly, "Mom, can you practice boxing with me in the future?"
Li Wan smiled and was about to coax him a few words, but she heard Jia Lan say "eh", stretched out his hand to feel around Li Wan's sleeve and asked: "Mother, what are you hiding in your sleeve? It feels hard to the touch."
Oops!
Li Wan then remembered the book "Strange Cases" in her sleeve , and quickly pulled her arm out, forcing a smile and saying, "It's nothing, it's a Buddhist scripture I brought back from your great-grandmother. If you hadn't mentioned it, I would have forgotten about it. Let me put it away first, and then I'll come back to talk to you."
Having said that, he hurriedly went inside.
Who knew that just as she took a step, she heard Jia Lan behind her say, "Teacher Sun also took a sleeve of books back today. They are all detective stories bought by Uncle Bao. He said he would take them back and destroy them to avoid any disaster. Mother, how can these detective stories bring disaster?"
Why can storybooks bring disaster?
Li Wan didn't know it at first, but when she thought of the "real thing" with pictures and texts in her sleeves, she naturally understood.
He couldn't help but secretly feel lucky that he didn't rashly send it to Baoyu, otherwise he wouldn't be able to explain the consequences even if he jumped into the Yellow River.
only……
She went into the inner room and took out the "Strange Cases". Suddenly, a strange idea popped up in her mind: It is said that Sun Erlang is good at fortune-telling . Could it be that he deliberately left the book there, waiting for her to pass by...
Once this thought came to my mind, it seemed to take root in my heart and could not be shaken off no matter what.
The idea of destroying the book was thrown out of the window without me noticing.
That night.
Li Wan stroked the book and hesitated for a long time. Finally, she tremblingly opened the cover and read the embroidered picture word by word.
Sitting alone in this deep courtyard, no one knew what she was looking at or what she was doing in the dark.
But early the next morning, the head maid Suyun took out the two quilts from the inner and outer rooms and washed them several times. She was so tired that she was sweating all over, but she refused to let anyone else touch them.
