Chapter 360 Shameless
But Baoyu was struggling all the way and finally arrived at Grandmother Jia's room.
Then Shi Xiangyun made some jokes that made the old lady laugh. She poked her forehead twice with her finger and said, "You are a grown-up girl now, why are you still so silly and irresponsible?"
"Ancestor!"
Shi Xiangyun went up to her shyly and teased her.
While the grandfather and grandson were playing, Jia Baoyu came in from outside and asked anxiously, "Which family wants to see Sister Yun? Could it be... Could it be..."
While he was still thinking, Wang Xifeng burst out laughing, stepped forward and nudged Lady Jia with her elbow, saying jokingly, "It's true that the monkey is the one who is most concerned about this monkey's matter. Look at how anxious Brother Bao is. He's almost climbing up a tree to scratch his head!"
Grandmother Jia laughed again, but said, "They have been playing together since they were young, so it is natural for them to worry about each other."
"The old ancestor is sensible, unlike Sister Feng, who only loves to tease people."
Jia Baoyu pretended to be indignant and gave Wang Xifeng a cold look, then walked up to Shi Xiangyun, looking as if he wanted to say something but stopped.
Shi Xiangyun's face had already turned red when she heard the word 'visit', and seeing Baoyu's expression, she was afraid that he would ask more questions, so she rushed to say, "I haven't been here for a long time. I wonder if there is anything interesting going on in our house recently?"
Baoyu was about to answer when he heard someone behind him say, "There is something strange happening right now !"
Everyone looked back and saw Lin Daiyu coming in from outside. She bowed to Lady Jia first, then smiled and said to Shi Xiangyun, "Sister Miaoyu brought back an ugly little girl from Shuntian Mansion the other day, and insisted on raising her independently."
"really?!"
When Shi Xiangyun heard this, she immediately became interested. She went up to Lin Daiyu, took her arm, and began to shake her: "Good sister, please take me over to have a look - Sister Miaoyu usually looks like a fairy, but I wonder what she will look like when she takes care of a child!"
"Your good sister is still in Zijin Street. I dare not take her title away from her."
Lin Daiyu uttered a half-truthful and half-false remark, then apologized to Lady Jia again and led Shi Xiangyun out of the flower hall.
Seeing this, Jia Baoyu naturally chased after him like the wind.
But along the way, Jia Baoyu felt as if he was on edge. When he saw that he had entered the gate of the imperial residence, and the maids and servants were still some distance away, he could not help but approach them and ask, "Sister Yun, I wonder which family you are from?"
Shi Xiangyun knew clearly what he was asking, but she was too embarrassed to respond. She just pretended to be dumb and said, "Which family?"
"Even if you don't tell me, I know it!"
Jia Baoyu blurted out: "The one who wants to see you is the second brother of the Sun family, right?"
"Second brother of the Sun family?"
Upon hearing this, Shi Xiangyun pouted and said angrily, "Where did you hear those rumors, second brother? How dare you tell me such nonsense!"
Isn’t it Brother Sun?
Jia Baoyu was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized: "So it was the second brother of the Wei family who came to see you!"
Princess Beijing has been trying to arrange a marriage between the Wei and Shi families, and Jia Baoyu has known about it for a long time, but in this way...
Isn't the so-called "Qilin Fate" just empty talk?
Baoyu's thoughts were strange. When he discovered the 'Qilin Fate Method' before, he felt very disappointed. Now that he heard that the 'Qilin Fate Method' was actually an illusion, he felt extremely regretful.
He was scratching his head and cheeks, almost stamping his feet and beating his chest.
Shi Xiangyun looked puzzled, but Lin Daiyu guessed his thoughts and couldn't help laughing: "He didn't listen to any rumors, but saw a rare object and decided that Brother Sun and you are destined to be together."
"Object? What object?"
“Yes.”
Lin Daiyu pointed at her neck and said, "Isn't that the Qilin you carry with you every day?"
As he spoke, he told Shi Xiangyun the story of how Sun Shaozong had happened to choose the 'Qilin' during the ceremony at Qingxu Temple that day.
Finally, he said, "I heard from Sister Bao that the Qilin is exactly the same as the one you brought, except that it is slightly larger. When your 'loving brother' saw it, he thought it was some kind of 'fate' and sighed for several days because of it."
"Have I ever sighed or groaned?!"
Jia Baoyu protested with a red face, while Shi Xiangyun, who was standing beside him, was holding the unicorn in her lapel, in a daze.
In the vernacular novels and operas that are popular nowadays, most of the talented men and beautiful women are brought together by small toys, such as mandarin ducks, phoenixes, jade rings and gold pendants, or shark handkerchiefs and phoenix belts. All of them are tied together by a thread of love, and finally they get engaged for life.
Nowadays, the daughters of wealthy families stay at home all day long. If people want to know about the affairs between men and women, don't they have to rely on these "storybooks and operas"?
Therefore, I am most obsessed with these things.
Even though Xiangyun was still young, when she held the Qilin in her hand, she couldn't help but imagine a romantic story, and her fair little face immediately became flushed.
When Lin Daiyu saw it, she pulled Baoyu aside to take a closer look.
Unexpectedly, Shi Xiangyun's face suddenly lost its color again, and she shook her head sadly and said, "What fate or no fate? Second brother just likes to talk about these nonsense. You should also walk faster. If you keep dawdling like this, when will you get to Longcui Temple?"
Having said that, he hurried a few steps and headed straight towards Longcui Temple.
Seeing her leave suddenly like this, Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu looked at each other, both somewhat puzzled.
In the end, Sister Lin was more thoughtful and sighed, "The Wei family is ready to meet her. What can we do even if we have a chance to meet each other? We are helpless girls and can only let others manipulate us."
Lin Daiyu couldn't help but feel a little sad when she thought of the other person's words.
"Why don't you have anyone to rely on? Why don't you have anyone to rely on?!"
Seeing this, Jia Baoyu immediately patted his chest and said shamelessly: "I have a ready-made support right here! If sister Yun is willing to accept this fate, I will risk my life to help her get this match made in heaven, what do you think?"
But how could Lin Daiyu listen to his "nonsense"?
He had already taken a handkerchief and was wiping the tears from the corners of his eyes while hurriedly chasing after Shi Xiangyun.
Baoyu stamped his feet and beat his chest in anger for a while, but when he saw that the two were getting farther and farther away, he had no choice but to chase after them in disappointment.
When they arrived near Longcui Temple and looked inside through the low fence, the three of them could hardly believe their eyes.
It turned out that in the open space in front of the Buddhist temple, Miaoyu, who was always calm, noble and aloof, had rolled up her sleeves and trouser legs, and was squatting on the ground rubbing her diaper like a village woman.
The three of them stood in front of the nunnery in a daze for a long time, until Miaoyu hung up the diapers one by one and returned with the basin. Only then did Jia Baoyu come to his senses for the first time, stamping his feet and beating his chest, saying: "Burning the piano and boiling the crane, it's really burning the piano and boiling the crane! How could this fairy-like person...how could this person..."
As he said that, he waved his hand in despair and said, "You can go in if you want, but I really can't bear to see her like this."
After seeing what had just happened, Lin and Shi felt a sense of shattered idol. When they heard Baoyu speak like this, they whispered to each other for a few words, then sighed and turned back the way they had come.
