Ch. 87 - Jia Baoyu Give his Aspiration in the Boudior and Sun Shaozong Encounter with Headless Corpse
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At the beginning of July in the 10th year of Guangde, it rained continuously for several days, but it also relieved the summer heat and made the people in the Capital happy.
Only the hundreds of craftsmen in the yard of visiting parents in the Rongguo Mansion were constantly complaining. They were soaking in the mud all day and had to do elaborate work. After three or five days, more than a dozen people fell ill, and the rest were complaining constantly.
Seeing that the construction period would be delayed in this way, Jia Zhen and Wang Xifeng hurriedly gave a wave of rewards to the craftsmen. Only then did the craftsmen calm down.
However, in this way, the cost of building the yard has more than doubled the budget. Even Wang Xifeng, who was used to such extravagance, often looks at the astronomical figures in the accounts and is shocked.
However, at present, more than 80% of the visiting yard has been constructed, and most of the rest were "face-saving projects,” which could not be reduced.
They have no other choices. The masters of the Jia family could only grit their teeth and bear hard, filling in with the money they accumulated over the years.
Of course, these "mundane affairs" have not yet affected the bevy of young girls, rich and noble people in the Rongguo Mansion.
In the early morning of July 8th, seeing that the rain outside was getting tighter and heavier, Lin Daiyu nestled in the room, playing with her sewing while chatting with Zi Juan.
While talking about the gossip of the sisters, they suddenly heard a crash outside, and then there was the scream of Xua Yan and Chun Xian, "Second Master Bao, how can you come here again in such a heavy rain?"
"Yes, look, your clothes are all wet. How can we bear the consequences if anything happens to you?"
"It's okay, it's okay."
Jia Baoyu said that there was nothing wrong with it, but he had already gone into the inner room, and there was no room to complain. "I heard that Brother Sun was coming, so I hurried to find him. But he didn't even stay for long and went to the Feng Mansion with Brother Lian to congratulate him. It made me go over for nothing, so I had to go to find you to relieve my boredom."
Recently, because Ruan Rong was having such bad morning sickness that she couldn't eat or sleep soundly every day, Sun Shaozong was so distracted that he went out late and returned early all day and tried to open Ruan Rong’s appetite.
Therefore, the "martial arts class" at the Rongguo Mansion naturally stopped, and the others were still fine. However, Baoyu could not hear the latest developments in the case, and he was bored all day long, running around like a monkey.
"So I'm the one who amuses you?"
Lin Daiyu was coquettish and angry, but at the same time, she hurriedly called Xue Yan and Chun Xian to make hot tea to keep Baoyu warm and asked Zi Juan to serve him to let him take off his wet coat.
However, Baoyu was impetuous. Zi Juan here was undoing his buttons, but when he saw the embroidery that Lin Daiyu had put on the table, he grabbed it and said with a smile, "The red and gorgeous veil looks very festive. Isn't it embroidered for me?"
"Spit! Look at your eyesight!"
Lin Daiyu spat out, "What handkerchief? It's belly innerwear for children. I specially embroidered it for Sister Rong. Hurry and return it to me and don't get it dirty!"
When Baoyu heard that it was a child's belly innerwear, he put it back. He let Zi Juan take off his coat and suddenly saluted the belly innerwear and said, "Amitabha, Buddha bless Sister Rong. She must have a lovely daughter. Don't let that ” eyebrow dirty thing” pollute the efforts of Sister Rong."
"You!"
Lin Daiyu was annoyed when she heard this. Although she was still young, she also knew that if a concubine wanted to be honored and favored, the most important thing was to have a son.
What's more, this was the eldest son of the Sun family!
But now Baoyu asked the Buddha to bless Ruan Rong to give birth to a daughter. The reason was that he was afraid that the boy would stain the belly innerwear…
As soon as she bit her silver teeth, Lin Daiyu suddenly took out a pair of scissors from the dustpan. With a click, she twisted a big hole in the belly innerwear!
Baoyu was startled and said, "What's this for, Sister? How can you just cut something nice?"
Lin Daiyu ignored him and continued to cut the belly innerwear into pieces and threw it on the ground with hatred. Only then did she feel a little relieved.
Looking back at Jia Baoyu, he still looked ignorant. He didn’t know where he was wrong. If she thought about it, he always liked to belittle men. She’s afraid he might not think so much.
So she didn't bother to make it clear to him. She just changed the topic and said, "Normally, when an official comes to the family, you won’t move even if they were to invite you. How is it that as soon as Brother Sun arrives, you went to find him on your own?"
Jia Baoyu didn't even see through what she was thinking. When she suddenly asked about it, he said, "I'm not going for his official clothes. What I love is his ability to break the cause and effect for others!"
"The cause and effect?"
"Yes, it's because of the incompetence of those time-servers and place-seekers, that there are so many evil spirits and fierce ghosts in the world. Brother Sun found out the truth and ended the cause and effect of those evil spirits and fierce ghosts. I'm afraid it's more than ten times better than inviting a hundred monks and Taoists to do it!"
Baoyu said with shining eyes, "If I can learn such skills, I won't need any official position in the future. As long as I hear that there is a grievance, I will go and clear up with people. After that, I will leave secretly and hide my name. Isn't it happy and beautiful?"
Lin Daiyu listened to what he said and couldn't help thinking about it with him, but she had long forgotten the unpleasantness earlier.
—Dividing Line—
Jia Lian opened the window of the carriage. Seeing the heavy rain pouring outside change the sky color of the place, he could not help but complain, "How did Brother Feng choose this day? I'm afraid the bride would be drenched before she got off the sedan chair?"
Because there was a period of relationship on the canal and the face of Sun Shaozong, he agreed to go to Fengxin Mansion to make a wedding scene. But they were caught up with such weather, and now he has already regretted his intestines turned green.
Sun Shaozong smiled and said leisurely, "I've seen so many neat brides. When did the second brother see brides like drowned chickens? Just for this reason, we must go and have a look, don't we?"
Jia Lian thought that it was the same. He also thought that although the daughter of the small official was a concubine, she was known as a talented woman. She was not bad in shape or appearance. If she was wet…
The more he thought about it, the more agitated he was. He couldn’t help but urge the coachman to speed up so as not to miss the scene of the bride getting off the sedan chair.
But at this moment, the speed slowed down sharply and finally stopped in the middle of the road.
"Why did it stop?"
Jia Lian lifted the curtain of oiled cloth and asked discontentedly, but Bao Er, the driver, pointed at the opposite side and screamed, "Kill... Kil-ill-ki-l-kill, someone has been killed!"
Hearing this, Sun Shaozong hurriedly looked out, and he saw that the carriage was askew across the road, and the driver's servant was leaning on the carriage. He could not see anything wrong with his body, but the head was missing from his neck!