The Second Master of the Red Chamber

Hengwuyuan is a cool tile house built on the mountainside with many flowers, plants and rocks.

Now that mid-spring has arrived, many flowers and plants are full of life again.

When Jia Lian stepped in, he first smelled the fragrance of green grass.

This is the breath of spring.

Hengwu Garden seemed even quieter than Xiaoxiang Pavilion. Jia Lian took "Xiang Ling" from the jagged yard to the main house step by step without even seeing a maid.

It wasn't until he stepped through the door and looked through the wooden lattice that he saw the master and servant sitting opposite each other inside.

Baochai has a graceful appearance and quiet temperament, while her maid Ying'er has bright skin and is small and exquisite. Sitting together, the master and servant are really a golden boudoir, which is very pleasing to the eye.

Maybe Baochai didn't like luxurious and complicated things. There were few spare furnishings in the room, not even a curtain between the inner door and the outer hall, so Jia Lian coughed lightly and walked in without any hindrance.

When Baochai and Baochai saw Jia Lian entering the room, they quickly put down their needlework and stood up.

Seeing Jia Lian looking at her, Baochai felt slightly ashamed and asked, "Why is second brother Lian here?"

"I have nothing to do today, so I came here to see you."

Jia Lian said, found a stool and sat down, motioning Baochai to sit down too, and then he saw a charming woman on Baochai's couch.

Baochai did not sit down. When she saw Jia Lian looking into the bed, she said softly: "This girl wandered around somewhere in the morning. After eating, she complained of sleepiness and fell asleep."

Jia Lian nodded. If he remembered correctly, since Xue Pan's accident happened and Baochai went home to be with his mother, Xiangyun felt that living in the mountains was boring, so he went down the mountain to bother Tanchun.

Now that Baochai has just come back, this girl has already moved back?

It's really fast. Could it be that he was also disliked by Tanchun?

But when I think about Xiangyun, this girl is young and has lost the love of her parents in her infancy. An intellectual "big sister" like Baochai is too lethal to her.

No wonder when Baoling Hou Shi Nai brought his family to work as a foreign official, Jia's mother took her from the Hou Mansion and said she was unwilling to arrange a separate house for her. She named Baochai to live with her.

Perhaps, for Baochai, it is not easy to deal with a simple and lively little sister like Xiangyun.

After taking the tea brought by Ying'er, Jia Lian didn't drink it. He just put it aside and said to Baochai: "Since she is asleep, let's go outside and talk."

After saying that, Jia Lian stood up and walked out. Baochai did not refuse. He said "hmm" and followed Jia Lian to the outside room.

Sitting down again, Jia Lian looked at the graceful Baochai, who was only 28 years old, and smiled.

This girl can be said to be a model of fair skin and beauty, and everything she says and does is pleasing to the eye. In the past, it was hard for him to stare at people, for fear of giving people the impression of being a slut, but now, Jia Lian can finally look at him openly.

Facing Jia Lian's wanton gaze, Baochai looked ashamed, but did not show any embarrassment.

Because Jia Lian was sitting carelessly on the low kang, she sat on the stool below, facing each other, waiting for Jia Lian's words.

But Jia Lian didn't know why he was looking so obsessed with her. She waited for a long time and there was still no sound, so she pondered for a moment and lightly opened her lips: "Second brother Lian..."

"Sister Baochai..."

Baochai, who didn't expect the two of them to speak at the same time, paused, looked back at Jia Lian, and said, "Brother Lian speaks first."

"I'm not in a hurry. Sister Baochai should talk first."

Jia Lian smiled brightly.

Baochai was silent. This situation made her feel that her heartbeat was a little fast.

Taking a deep breath, Baochai said: "I heard from mother that brother Lian was punished by the saint in the palace yesterday..."

Jia Lian's expression changed when he heard this. Except for the senior officials, not many people knew about the fact that he failed to marry the princess and was instead punished and demoted by the Supreme Emperor.

The royal family itself vetoed their marriage on the grounds that his affair with Princess Zhaoyang would bring disgrace to the Tian family, so it was naturally impossible to publicize the matter. Therefore, in Jia's house, except for Jia's mother and a few others, no one else knew about it.

Jia Lian didn't expect Baochai to already know, let alone Baochai would ask about it.

The smile faded and Jia Lian said, "What you want to ask about is about me and the princess, right?"

"Brother Lian, don't get me wrong. Baochai doesn't mean anything else."

"No problem."

Jia Lian waved his hands and his expression became darker: "You must have heard a lot about the rumors about me and her, and you must have some understanding and guessing in your mind.

I won’t be able to tell you all the details in a while. I can only tell you that she and I met by chance and became friends through adversity.

Like you, she is also a very good and outstanding girl.

She treated me with sincerity and said she would do her best to help me rise to the top.

I also pledged my vow to protect her for the rest of my life.

The two of us were sincere to each other, but unfortunately things didn't work out as planned and we went through all kinds of dangers, but we couldn't be together in the end. "

Jia Lian's voice was a little low. Seeing Baochai staring at her beautiful eyes and listening attentively, with obvious attentiveness, he laughed at himself: "How about it? Do you feel that I am a carefree person and regret entrusting you to me for the rest of your life?"

Baochai was startled for a moment, glanced at Jia Lian, shook his head and said: "Since ancient times, heroes are passionate, but beauties have bad luck. This has always been the case.

Although the second brother Lian said it briefly, I can also hear the sincere love for the princess from the words of the second brother Lian.

I think the princess must have admired Brother Lian very much to be able to say such words, and to be willing to serve as Brother Lian's foil with her dignity as a princess.

The only reason is that she is ill-fated. God must not see her being too happy and must hinder her from getting what she wants. "

Baochai naturally knew a lot about the disputes between Jia Lian and Princess Zhaoyang.

Not to mention anything else, let’s just talk about the story of the empress dowager’s robbed marriage and Jia Lian escorting the princess out of the fortress, but the princess was lost in the desert. Then Jia Lian rode alone and became the savior thousands of miles away. This story has long been compiled into a storybook and has been circulated among the people. long time.

It is conceivable that if the incident in the palace spreads, it will just add a follow-up to these stories that is consistent with imagination.

With this premise, even when Baochai heard her mother tell her this, although she was surprised, she was not shocked.

The deeds of Jia Lian and Princess Zhaoyang are in line with girls' longing for a beautiful love story.

Moreover, Jia Lian told her the affairs between him and the princess so frankly and without any concealment, which made Baochai feel that Jia Lian was magnanimous and gentlemanly.

Therefore, even though Baochai knew that there was a competitive relationship between Princess Zhaoyang and her, she could not feel any hostility at the moment, but actually felt sympathy for each other.

She even wanted to meet her to see what kind of woman she was, and to see if she could compare with her.

Baochai's words were calm and objective, and Jia Lian couldn't tell whether she was going against her will or not.

After all, Baochai didn't show any jealousy, but was respectful in his words, which made Jia Lian very useful.

At this moment, Jia Lian understood why everyone in the Jia family said Baochai was good. Shi Xiangyun, this little girl, really likes to pester Baochai.

This woman can take good care of the mood of others when she speaks and does things, making people feel happy. He is like this, let alone others.

Therefore, Jia Lian showed affection and waved to Baochai.

Baochai's calm expression suddenly became unstable. He subconsciously turned his head and glanced at the door of the room. Fearing that Jia Lian would see into his heart, he quickly turned back and stood up unconsciously.

Seeing Jia Lian waving to her again, she walked up to Jia Lian with a third of uneasiness and a third of incomprehensible mood, but did not dare to get too close.

Jia Lian knew that the girl was shy, so he did not intend to do anything too abrupt. He just took the girl's cold and tender hands, closed them in his palms, and sighed: "Jia Lian is so lucky to meet you in this life."

Baochai's snow-white and clean jade face suddenly turned red.

But seeing that Jia Lian just held her hand and did not do anything else, and looked at her with such love, how could her young girl's heart remain calm?

Xu was trying to break the embarrassment and prevent Jia Lian from talking to himself.

Perhaps because of her sincere feelings, her eyes softened when she faced Jia Lian. She looked at Jia Lian in almost the same tone and said: "It is Baochai's good fortune to meet and win the favor of the second brother Lian." .”

Jia Lian was slightly stunned. He never expected to get such a response from Baochai.

He originally just launched an offensive of love words against Baochai, hoping to win over this girl's body and mind as soon as possible.

He had the experience of coaxing Daiyu for years before he could completely win. He subconsciously thought that for Baochai of the same difficulty, even if it didn't take as long as Daiyu, the results would not be visible in a short time.

But he didn't expect that Baochai, as a cold beauty, would respond to his love words the second time they met after they decided on their relationship!

Jia Lian's eyes became profound for a moment, thinking about whether to strike while the iron was hot and do something else.

Perhaps seeing the hidden meaning in Jia Lian's eyes, Baochai suddenly took out his hands, glanced at the inner door, and said quickly: "Brother Lian, it's time for you to go. It won't be good if Xiangyun girl gets up and bumps into you later..." "

Baochai himself was surprised by his boldness.

Come to think of it, it's not surprising.

She was not as Jia Lian saw, she only became happy with Jia Lian after her mother decided to marry her to him.

She had already respected and admired Jia Lian a long time ago, when Jia Lian began to shine step by step, showing off his powerful abilities and unique personal charm.

Just because she has her own destiny and is bound by ethics, she cannot reveal anything.

Now her mother and Jia Lian hit it off and decided her whole life. It can only be said that it fulfilled a wish deep in her heart, so that she no longer had to restrain herself like that and dared to express her feelings.

But she also knew that now it was just Jia Lian and her mother who had reached an agreement. The matter between her and Jia Lian has not yet received the consent of the Jia family, especially her cousin Wang Xifeng.

She was not worried that Jia Lian would not be able to fulfill her promise, and she was not in a hurry to rush Jia Lian.

But as long as the matter between her and Jia Lian is not "announced to the world" for a day, she will not allow anything out of the ordinary to happen between herself and Jia Lian.

Therefore, it was clear that Jia Lian had not been here for a while or said a few words before she began to urge Jia Lian to leave.

She was worried that if Jia Lian stayed any longer, he would not be able to help doing something to her, and she was even more worried that she would not be able to resist.

"Uh……"

The girl who was clearly in love with him one second and sincerely confessed her love to him was issued an eviction order the next second, which made Jia Lian feel a little uncomfortable.

But seeing that Baochai's pretty face was shy, her eyebrows were lowered, her hands were hidden in her sleeves, and she turned sideways to expose the direction leading to the door, it was obvious that she was serious about driving him away.

With a dry laugh, Jia Lian stood up and prepared to leave.

But when he passed by the girl, he suddenly took action and hugged her delicate body.

Smelling the girl's unique fragrance coming from her mouth and nose, Jia Lian hurriedly said with a smile before the beauty could get angry: "After Sister Xiangyun woke up, she greeted me and said I came to see her. Next time Don’t say I’m partial or don’t care about her.”

After saying that, while Baochai was thinking about what he said and had no time for him to pay attention, he kissed Baochai gently on the head, and then waved his sleeves without taking away a piece of his belt.

……

After Qin Keqing entered the Grand View Garden, she put away her true form and pretended to be like Xiangling.

Not to mention, with her 80% resemblance to Xiangling's appearance, plus the make-up, if she didn't speak, others wouldn't be able to tell.

At least after following Jia Lian for most of the Grand View Garden, no one doubted her identity, which made her feel both excited and proud.

But when she goes to a place where no one is around, she can't help but reveal her true nature.

At this moment, she jumped up beside Jia Lian, clasping her hands behind her back, and tilted her head to look at Jia Lian.

Look left, look right, look around.

Jia Lian thought she was blocking the way, so he stretched out his palm to drag her beautiful face, and pulled her aside.

Qin Keqing gave a sweet cry, then jumped in front of Jia Lian, put her hands on her hips and tilted her head and asked, "Second Master, you and Miss Bao...?"

"what happened?"

"nothing……"

After a while, she changed her playful look and said, "Does Mistress Lian know?"

When Jia Lian heard this, he knew that she had noticed, so he smiled and did not answer.

Qin Keqing laughed and said, "It seems that I don't know. Humph, the Second Master is so greedy. He has Second Grandma Lian and Miss Lin, and he still misses Miss Bao!"

Thanks to Mistress Lian being so kind to you, why can't you just be a little more restrained and bring less people into the house? "

Jia Lian stopped, looked at the person in front of him with a smile, and asked, "In your opinion, who else in the world is worthy of Miss Xibao's character besides me?"

"Keke, the second master is right!"

Qin Keqing had no intention of refuting Jia Lian, but instead agreed with a smile.

Jia Lian was so excited by her knowledge that he took her over and reached under her spring shirt with one hand, directly into the soft place.

Qin Keqing hummed and lay in Jia Lian's arms with a red face.

After a long while, she folded her arms and looked up at Jia Lian dimly, and hummed: "Second Master suddenly bullied me like this, did you think of Miss Bao? Huh, bad Second Master, I know I can't compare to Bao here. It’s a girl’s fault, and the second master can’t be so humiliating.”

When Jia Lian heard this, he stopped his hand, glanced at the beauty in his arms guiltily, dropped her and walked forward.

Alas, this woman is still too smart and too knowledgeable. As a master, he couldn't even hide his thoughts, so there was nothing he could do.

Behind him, Qin Keqing felt that Jia Lian's reaction was interesting, so he looked around, straightened his clothes, ran forward quickly, twisted Jia Lian and asked: "Second Master, Second Master, where are we going now?"

But he saw Jia Lian turn around, lift his legs and walk up the steep stone steps next to him step by step.

Qin Keqing raised his head and looked up. Above dozens of stone steps, a green mountain gate hung clearly, with three large characters written on it:

Cui Cui'an

Qin Keqing looked happy. Thinking of the speculations she and her mother-in-law Youshi had about the relationship between Jia Lian and the head of the Cuicui nunnery, she ignited a raging fire of gossip in her heart. She quickly lifted up her skirt and followed Jia Lian's footsteps. (End of chapter)