Chapter 419: Rongguo Mansion at Night (Part 2)
In the Grand View Garden, beside the peach blossom forest.
A dozen red candles as thick as a child's arm illuminated the pavilion as bright as day. Sun Shaozong and Jia Baoyu sat opposite each other in the pavilion. On the stone table in front of them, there were a dozen dipping sauces with different flavors.
On the edge of the stone table, in two oval plates that were half a meter long, dozens of mantis shrimps were lying quietly, with their tails and whiskers intact but their armor removed.
Steamed, fried, salt and pepper, spicy...
Almost every imaginable cooking method has been tried on these mantis shrimps, which are then arranged on the plates in groups of six.
Every time the two of them picked up one, a maid would immediately come forward to refill it. In order to achieve this, there were more than a dozen maids in the peach forest, fighting a desperate battle with the hideous hard shell.
Including the maid who was responsible for looking after the river lanterns, this simple banquet that seemed to have only one main course actually employed more than 20 people to serve, all of whom were young and beautiful girls in their teens - because according to Jia Baoyu, those things that were peeled out of dead fish eyeballs were really hard to swallow.
Although he scoffed at Jia Baoyu's remarks, Sun Shaozong was happy to be served by the maids and had no guilt at all about being an exploiter.
It's really getting more and more depraved .
However, after three rounds of wine and dishes, Sun Shaozong began to ask around, trying to find out whether Jia Zheng was a matchmaker for him. However, seeing Jia Baoyu's ignorant look, it seemed that there was no news about this matter.
Did Jia Zheng stop all the activities immediately after he came back ?
Originally, Sun Shaozong was actually quite conflicted and was in a dilemma about this marriage, but now that everything was quiet, he felt disappointed.
He secretly criticized Jia Zheng for a few words, and suddenly remembered Jiang Yuhan's entrustment, and hurriedly said: "By the way, I met Brother Jiang in the palace a few days ago, he..."
"How is Officer Qi doing now?!"
Jia Baoyu sat up suddenly and looked at Sun Shaozong excitedly.
"I received some punishment from the prince, but I am still fine."
Sun Shaozong thought about it for a moment and used a slightly more tactful and elegant way of saying it: "From what he said, it seems that he wants to forget about our relationship from now on."
"Let's forget each other from now on?"
Jia Baoyu chewed over these words in a daze for several times, then sat back dejectedly, hanging his head in frustration, like a primary school student who was about to be expelled from school, and muttered to himself: "That's right, how can I have the face to see him now?"
As he spoke, his eyes turned red, and he beat his chest and stamped his feet, saying, "It's all my fault for being spineless. I betrayed my friend just after being interrogated for a few questions! I... I really..."
Seeing that he was getting more and more excited, he raised his hand to hit her in the face.
Sun Shaozong hurriedly said: "In fact, he didn't mean to blame you. He just said such heartless words under the pressure of the prince."
Pah~
Who knew that Baoyu slapped himself in the face after all, and said with a sad face: "Official Qi is so generous, doesn't it only make me look even more despicable and mean that day?"
As he spoke, tears as big as beans began to fall.
When he was nearly beaten to death by his own father, he didn't cry like this. Now that he heard that his best friend wanted to break off the friendship, he just...
As a real man, Sun Shaozong was feeling very awkward and didn't know whether he should continue to comfort her. Suddenly, he heard Xiren report outside the pavilion: "Sir Sun, our second wife sent some things over and asked you to present them to my aunt [Jia Yingchun]."
Did Wang Xifeng send someone to deliver something?
Sun Shaozong's heart moved, and he immediately thought of Ping'er, and asked hurriedly: "Where is she? Is there any letter you want to take back with you?"
"I don't know about this."
Xiren shook her head, just as Sun Shaozong expected, and said, "Or I can ask Sister Ping'er to come over, and you can ask in person."
"Thank you very much."
But when Baoyu, who was standing next to him, heard that Ping'er had arrived, he quickly wiped his tears and sat up straight, obviously not wanting to embarrass himself in front of Jia Lian.
Soon, Ping'er arrived outside the pavilion, stopped at a distance, and bowed, saying, "In reply to Lord Sun, I don't have any letters to entrust to you, but I heard from my aunt in a letter a few days ago that your family is sending people to the south to buy Taihu stones to rebuild a rockery."
"Second Madam, please ask me to see if he has already left for the south. If he has not left, we have some supplies in our house. When you are free, you can go home and take a look."
Sun Shaozong had just spent a quiet night in Jia Yingchun's room yesterday, so he naturally knew that she had not said a single word to Wang Xifeng recently, let alone anything about buying Taihu stones.
Therefore, he immediately guessed that what Wang Xifeng wanted to inquire about was actually the progress of the "timber business".
only……
Why didn't Ping'er find another excuse but insisted on saying that she wanted to build a rockery?
Sun Shaozong thought suspiciously and answered casually, "In fact, the servants in our mansion arrived in Jiangnan half a month ago. They sent a letter back yesterday saying that they had ordered a lot of good stones and the price was quite suitable. So I am afraid that I can only disappoint the good intentions of the Second Madam."
Ping Er bowed again after hearing this and said, " If that's the case , please ask Master Sun to pass the things to my aunt."
As he said this, he turned around and greeted someone, and immediately someone brought the mermaid silk gauze to Sun Shaozong.
After Sun Shaozong took the things, Ping'er led the maid to bow and take their leave.
But they had not walked far before she said something to the little maid and the two of them parted ways and walked away from each other.
Sun Shaozong took a peek in the pavilion and saw clearly that in the direction Ping'er was going, there was a rockery made of Taihu stones!
His mind suddenly became clear as a mirror. He patiently exchanged a few words with Jia Baoyu, then left in a hurry, making the excuse that he had to go to the toilet.
But when he made a circle of neither too big nor too small and arrived near the rockery, he found that the entrance was in the opposite direction, and there was a dense bamboo forest in the middle. If he wanted to go around it, he would have to use a lot of effort.
But where is there so much time to waste nowadays?
Seeing that the rock was steep, it was only about seven or eight meters high. Sun Shaozong rolled up his sleeves without hesitation and climbed up using his hands and feet.
When we got to the top, we saw a small pavilion among the rocks. Inside the pavilion, a shadowy woman was standing, craning her neck to look down the mountain.
Sun Shaozong's heart was warmed, so he quietly covered it up, and suddenly he held her in his arms, held her earlobe with his mouth and said, "I'm waiting impatiently..."
Before the word "bar" came out of his mouth, Sun Shaozong had already realized that something was wrong.
The waist of the woman in his arms was surprisingly slender, even thinner than Ping'er's, but her chest felt a whole circle smaller!
