Chapter 36

"Pretty girl" hooked up with the "flower-boy".

——Thinking of Director Zhao Benshan's 《Rural Love》.

(Preface: I've always been a seller of proper Beauty, but who would have thought that now proper Beauty has no buyers, and the top sellers are all those with fishy-smelling smelly Beauty. Well then, let's go to the deep mountains and old forests to sell some ** for friends to try. Starting from Chapter 112, everything is fishy-smelling **, guaranteeing you'll get your fill——)

Last time the story mentioned Liu Laolao in Daguanyuan, telling the young boys and girls beside Jia's mother the tale of stealing grass by a wild beauty in heavy snow. Before the story finished, someone shouted: 'The horse stable is on fire!'

That shout wasn't a big deal, but it scared the grass-stealing beauty away.

The beauty ran off, and Baoyu was not happy about it.

What a lovely girl, she only said a few words—how did she get scared off by the 'fire'?

"How boring!" Baoyu muttered to himself.

"Beauty, with such heavy snow, where are you running to?"

Baoyu has a strange quirk: he's a bit scatterbrained, dislikes boys and secretly loves girls. Because of this, he inevitably gets his father's rod, and this old habit never changes. He's born with cheap bones and flesh.

He also spouted nonsense like: 'Girls are made of water, boys of mud; I want to gaze at beautiful women and distance myself from men.' In Daguanyuan he's a little lecher who loves every beauty he sees.

People all say: 'Now he's a little lecher, someday he'll definitely become a big lecher.'

But Jia Yucun just wouldn't accept it.

Of course, Jia Yucun's dissatisfaction has a reason. Yucun is a 'flattery expert', living by fawning over the Jia family and pulling at their coattails; he's the Jia family's 'dog'—if he doesn't speak up for his master, does he not want to keep living?

You see Jia Yucun still quoting the classics, spouting a bunch of 'zhī hū zhě yā' nonsense: 'Heaven and earth give birth to people; aside from great benevolence and great malevolence, everything else is no different; if one is greatly benevolent, they ought to arise with the times; if greatly malevolent, they ought to arise timidly…'

Don't listen to that Jia Yucun, that dog of a thing chewing on maggots. This flattery expert, a corrupt official who treats human lives like grass, mouths 'benevolence and righteousness' while his heart is thievery and prostitution. As the common folk say: 'Believe him, and you could even sell rancid salt.'

"Don't listen to that Jia Yucun—this bureaucratic scoundrel, the anti-corruption bureau will surely get him sooner or later."

We might as well watch Director Zhao Benshan's 《Rural Love》 to '**', and listen to the story of Baoyu and that wild beauty to relieve our boredom——

Baoyu, this little lecher, neglects his good studies, avoids proper work, and spends his time seducing girls—his specialty. He's eating from the bowl while eyeing the pot. At barely ten-odd years old, he and the maid Xiren have already done 'that' in bed. His father Jia Zheng was so angry he beat him half to death.

Baoyu, although he said he was beaten half to death, still did not repent. He is truly a dog that eats feces, cannot leave the privy. As soon as he heard Liu Laolao mention that there was a pretty little girl, his mind turned crooked again.

That Miss Daiyu had already seen it in her eyes, and anger was in her heart.

Eldest daughter Lin is by nature narrow-minded, cannot tolerate even a speck of sand in her eye, and at the slightest provocation she gets sulky. Although she and Baoyu have not yet done 'that' anything, in their usual exchanging glances, they already have 'that meaning' in their hearts. As the saying goes: 'Their hearts are in tune, a single point connects.'

Daiyu watched Baoyu foolishly clinging to Liu Laolao, persistently asking about the whereabouts of that 'wild beauty', and without a pleasant tone said: 'You silly goose, that wild beauty has fled to the cave and is waiting for you!'

Daiyu's mouth is indeed sharp; her words are biting. As soon as she speaks, the young men and women beside Lady Jia all laugh, and even Lady Jia is amused by Daiyu's sharp remarks.

Baoyu, whom Daiyu called a 'silly goose', not knowing whether Daiyu's words were mocking him, upon hearing that the wild beauty had fled to the cave and was still waiting for him there, turned his head and clung to Daiyu, saying: 'Good sister, that beauty fled to which mountain, and lives in what cave?'

At this point even Daiyu was made to laugh by Baoyu's question, saying: 'You hopeless fool, how can you be so dense! That mountain is called Huaguo Shan, and that cave is called the Water Curtain Cave. Do you want to go look for it?'

At this point even Daiyu was made to laugh by Baoyu's question, saying: 'You gloomy girl, I today admit defeat. Everyone says I, Lady Wang Xifeng, have a sharp tongue, am fiery spice, but who would know this 'Li Kui who digs out from the dark earth', you this young lady, are even more eloquent than me.'

Baoyu, upon hearing Daiyu say that the 'wild beauty' had fled to Huaguo Shan's Water Curtain Cave, thought: 'That's not enough; Huaguo Shan is Sun Wukong's old home, and that Monkey King lives in the Water Curtain Cave. The beauty and the Monkey King living together—this is like 'pulling fresh flowers from an oil pan', 'drawing a live child from a wolf's mouth'? If we don't go rescue her early, the fine beauty will be 'loved' by that monkey-headed creature. How regrettable!'

I will go look for her, my beloved in my heart—whether you flee to Huaguo Shan or to Flaming Mountain, I will bring you back to be my bride.

How did Baoyu get to Huaguo Shan Water Curtain Cave to seek that 'wild beauty'? Can Daiyu tolerate it? Listen to the following explanation. Tomorrow's topic is――

"He first hooked up with a pretty girl is――"

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