Chapter 24 (1/2)
Chu Jinmiao said he would write in the Baoxia, and the other girls were also amused. Finally, the small Baoxia was crowded with people. Everyone held a pen and knelt down in front of the bookcase to write.
Lin Xiyuan said to Chu Jinyao, ”cousin, you can't squeeze the table here. Move to that side.”
”No.” Chu Jinyao stared back at him, ”I can't sit here. You go outside and find another place.”
”Neither do I.” Lin Xiyuan forcibly sat beside Chu Jinyao. Chu Jinyao felt that there was something wrong with the man. She was forced to sit to the right and bowed her head to continue writing.
Lin Xiyuan didn't care about Chu Jinyao's indifference. He put his hand on the table, slightly supported his chin, and looked at Chu Jinyao's writing with a smile. After a while, he asked, ”I see you are still a little rusty with your pen. You should be a beginner. Why is your handwriting a little heroic, not like a woman's word?”
Her characters were taught by Qin Yi. Of course, they are heroic. Chu Jinyao said, ”maybe I grew up like a boy, so I write like a man.”
Lin Xiyuan chuckled. He held his head in his hands and couldn't help laughing. Chu Jinyao was stunned and immediately understood that he remembered the day she jumped off the wall.
Many people looked at Lin Xiyuan and asked, ”Shizi, what are you laughing at?”
Chu Jinyao's face was stiff for fear that Lin Xiyuan would say it. Fortunately, Lin Xiyuan just waved his hand and said with a smile, ”I think of a cat. It's all right.”
”Cat?” Lin Xining thought and asked suspiciously, ”there are no cats in the king's house and Hou's house.”
Lin Xiyuan smiled but said nothing. Chu Jinyao bowed her head and pretended not to hear.
Others have been staring at Lin Xiyuan's movements. When they see that he finally starts to turn the book, they turn back again and again. When other people's eyes moved away, Lin Xiyuan whispered to Chu Jinyao, ”I said I would do it if I wouldn't tell others.”
Chu Jinyao paused with the tip of her pen. She looked up at Lin Xiyuan. She didn't say anything and lowered her head again.
While Qin Yi was in the jade pendant, he snorted. A few years ago, the king of huailing took Lin Xiyuan to Beijing to pay a tribute, and also took Lin Xiyuan to the east palace to meet him. At that time, Qin Yi only thought that Lin Xiyuan was stable and generous and could be made. Unexpectedly, in private, Lin Xiyuan was very popular with girls.
Chu Jinmiao glanced back quietly, then took out a Book of poems and turned it deliberately. When the third girl heard this, she raised her voice and asked, ”what's this, fourth sister?”
Chu Jinmiao said, ”the poems I scribbled some time ago are too messy. I'm going to transcribe a new one.”
The third girl picked up the poetry collection, looked at it and said, ”is this the original? Ouch, it's valuable. You don't know how long it took to write it. You must keep it. If someone accidentally spills water, your efforts will be ruined.”
”How could it be?” Chu Jinmiao said with a smile, ”grandma, there won't be such a rash girl here.”
Six girls listened to what they said, and came to make fun of it: ”listen to you talking about poetry. What poetry is it?”
Chu Jinmiao saw that the sixth girl came over and turned it around, so he pressed the poetry collection under the book: ”I wrote it carelessly. It's not worth looking at.”
The sixth girl saw Chu Jinmiao put away the poetry collection and said with a smile, ”the fourth sister is too modest. You are the best in our sister's Chinese. If you write poems carefully, what should we do?”
Although the sixth girl said so, she didn't think so. Chu Jinmiao's poems were greatly praised by her family, but six girls felt that they were just vassals who were forced to worry about new words, and they didn't show them to her now. Six girls thought it was funny and even guarded against her. Who wants to see them!
Chu Jinmiao has copied two pages. She said, ”it's too boring to stay here. Let's go out and relax. We'll write together when we come back.”
The seventh girl was impatient for a long time. After hearing this, she immediately responded. The third girl also responded positively. The sixth girl had nothing to do, and Lin Xining saw that Chu Jinmiao was going out. Of course, he accompanied him. In the end, everyone in the Baoxia has to go out to play.
Chu Jinmiao smiled and looked at Chu Jinyao: ”sister five, we're going out. What about you?”
Chu Jinmiao is the East. Chu Jinyao doesn't want to go. She said, ”I won't go. Have a good time.”
Chu Jinmiao had expected this answer. She looked at Lin Xiyuan again: ”son of the world, you...”
Lin Xiyuan turned a page of the book and said, ”I'm too lazy to go out. Go.”
Chu Jinmiao hesitated. The three girls said in secret, ”it's good for the fifth sister to stay in the Baoxia because she's too lazy to move. If the son of God stays, I'm afraid...”
Lin Xiyuan looked up and smiled, but the three girls shrank inexplicably. But the dark light in Lin Xiyuan's eyes soon disappeared. He thought that he and Chu Jinyao were really not legitimate cousins. His forced stay would only be bad for Chu Jinyao's reputation. When Lin Xiyuan thought of this, he could only stand up, resist the boredom in his heart and said, ”well, let's go out together.”
Lin Xiyuan and a large group of people left in a mighty manner. After everyone left, it was much quieter when hugging the building. Chu Jinyao breathed a sigh of relief: ”it's all gone.”
Qin Yi watched it for a long time, but he was inexplicably unhappy. He said to Chu Jinyao, ”next time you go out, you don't have to avoid it. You are Chu Jing's legitimate daughter. Even if you avoid it, they avoid you. How can you stay and let them go out?”
”Yes, I don't want to go,” said Chu Jinyao. ”I don't know how long it will take to follow them. First, I want to practice calligraphy well. Second, I don't have you! If I go out, I won't be able to talk to you for a long time.”
Qin Yi was speechless for this reason. After a long time, he sighed, ”you dead heart.”
Chu Jinyao writes quietly in the Baoxia. There is no one else in the Baoxia, but it can make her quiet. After a while, Lin Xiyuan came in. As soon as he entered the door, he saw Chu Jinyao still writing. He accidentally picked his eyebrow: ”have you been writing for so long?”
”Well.” Chu Jinyao looked up and asked, ”how can the son of God come back? Where are the others?”
”They went to see the fish. I don't like these, so I came back first.” Lin Xiyuan looked at Chu Jinyao's pen swing regularly and had to sigh, ”if my sister has half your perseverance, my parents don't have to...”
Chu Jinyao waited for a while, couldn't help but look up and ask with a smile, ”you continue to say ah, don't do anything?”
Lin Xiyuan looked at Chu Jinyao and smiled at him. A smile also appeared in his eyes. He shook his head and said with a smile, ”nothing.”
”I really hate your habit of saying half and hiding half. If you have anything to say, you have to let people guess.”