The Red Chamber: Starting from Saving Xue Baochai

Chapter 40 The Ceiling of the Slightly Fat World

After comforting each other's longing for each other, the two ended their intimate relationship.

Shen Yuan cleaned himself up, and then helped the weak and feeble Baochai to wipe her body and tidy up her clothes.

Looking at the soaked handkerchief in my hand, I still felt strange. The girl was indeed made of water.
Baochai noticed the boy's expression and felt extremely embarrassed, with a look of coquettishness on her rosy face.

How could a good man like Shen Lang be so willing to serve her like that, and even use the handkerchief she gave him to wipe her hair?
Although the girl had already had sex with Shen Yuan in the secret passage of Aomen Village, it was due to the effect of drugs and everything happened in a hazy state.

But just now, she was sober. The bone-eroding feeling and vision intertwined completely overturned the girl's cognition.

At the same time, I was also a little confused. How did Shen Lang know so much?

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

While the two were lost in thought, there was a knock on the door.

Soon, Xiangyun's voice was heard.

"Brother Shen, Sister Bao, it's time for lunch. Sister Qiu'er asked me to ask where we should eat."

Shen Yuan put his thoughts aside, and seeing that the two had almost finished packing, he stood up and opened the door.

The door creaked open, Shen Yuan looked at the loli standing outside the door, and said in a clear voice: "Bring the food here, let's eat together."

"Oh, I'll go talk to Sister Qiu'er."

Xiangyun left in response, and before leaving she tiptoed to peek into the room, curious why she didn't hear Sister Bao's voice.

After the loli left, Shen Yuan turned around and looked at Baochai, and put on a gentle smile again, which made the girl shy again.

Baochai thought of the beautiful scene she had just experienced here, and then thought of Qiu'er and Xiangyun coming over to have dinner around the table later. She felt ashamed to face Baochai, who was always elegant and indifferent.

I don’t know why Shen Lang insisted on eating in this room?
In fact, Shen Yuan didn't know that he blurted it out just now. Perhaps subconsciously, he liked to see Baochai's shy and lovely look.

Not long after, Qiu'er and Xiangyun came over with their maids, carrying food boxes.

As soon as she entered the room, Xiangyun sniffed and asked curiously, "Why is there a smell in the room? Did Brother Shen and Sister Bao eat something secretly?"

Hearing the word "cheating", Baochai's heart couldn't help but tremble slightly, and she couldn't help but tighten her legs under her skirt.

Shen Yuan couldn't help but feel strange when he noticed Baochai's behavior.

As for the smell, Baochai's is as clear as water and has no peculiar smell. On the contrary, his own has the smell of heather.

This should be what Xiangyun smelled. The girl's sense of smell was indeed sharp, even though Shen Yuan had already cleaned it with water.

Shen Yuan looked at the innocent little girl, coughed awkwardly, and said in a clear voice: "It doesn't smell. Maybe the room has been closed for too long."

Xiangyun was puzzled, thinking that she must have smelled it wrongly. She tilted her head to look at Qiu'er and asked, "Sister Qiu'er, did you smell it? It's just that... there's a strange smell?"

Qiu'er also sniffed and nodded: "It seems so."

Shen Yuan: “.”

Baochai:"."

"Ahem, let's eat. It's cold and the food will get cold soon." Shen Yuan interrupted the two girls' exploration.

Upon hearing this, Qiu'er and Xiangyun no longer worried about the smell and told the maid to serve the dishes on the table.

Ying'er, who was standing by, secretly memorized the smell and saved it for later to find the answer. Ying'er was not stupid and knew that the smell must have been caused by the girl and her husband.

Then, several people picked up chopsticks and ate their food.

Shen Yuan looked at the fish soup in front of him and called out, "Sister Xue." As he spoke, he very gently scooped a large spoonful of soup and put it into Baochai's bowl, saying, "Eat more of this fish meat."

Seeing this, Baochai blushed slightly, lowered her eyebrows, and said softly, "Thank you, Brother Shen."

Shen Yuan gently reminded: "Sister, eat more meat in the future, it will be good for your growth."

When Baochai heard this, her heart warmed, her eyes moved slightly, and she glanced at the front of her clothes inadvertently. It seemed that Shen Lang still liked her to be more plump.

She raised her almond-shaped eyes, looked at the young man beside her, and said softly, "Brother Shen, you should eat more too."

Shen Yuan looked at Baochai, whose gentle expression and soft voice, and was distracted for a moment.

Noticing that someone was staring at him, Shen Yuan looked up and saw Xiangyun opposite him staring at the fish soup in front of him with burning eyes.

Shen Yuan couldn't help but smile and said, "Sister Yun likes fish soup?"

As he spoke, he took an empty bowl, filled it with fish soup, stood up and handed it to Xiangyun.

The little girl was stunned for a moment, then she reached out to take it, her lips moved, and she whispered softly, "I don't particularly like it."

Shen Yuan didn't know if she was saying one thing and thinking another, so he smiled and said, "Sister Yun is still young and growing up, so she should eat more of these. Look at your sister Bao..."

While speaking, he suddenly felt something was wrong and stopped talking.

Xiangyun: “.”

She is indeed not as plump as Sister Bao, but Brother Shen can't be so blunt and complain that she is too young.

Xiangyun thought about it, and with a pair of autumn watery eyes, she looked at Shen Yuan with anger, and said in a coquettish voice: "Brother Shen, you are making fun of Sister Bao, aren't you afraid that Sister Bao will get angry and ignore you?"

Shen Yuan: “.”

When did he make fun of Baochai? Wasn't he praising Sister Xue?
Sure enough, the little girl was overthinking it, and she didn't intend to compare Xiangyun with Baochai.

Shen Yuan said softly: "I'm not making fun of her. Sister Yun is at the age of growing taller now. It's always good to eat more and grow taller. Sister Yun, you don't want to be short, do you?"

I deliberately emphasize that it is the growth in height, not anything else, to correct the little Loli’s deviation in thinking.

After hearing this, Xiangyun said no more. She opened her lips slightly and drank the fish soup secretly.

When Qiu'er saw the conversation between the few people just now, she started to think in her heart. It turned out that Brother Shen's eyes were full of the goodness of Sister Bao, and he was afraid that his heart could no longer accommodate anyone else.

The girl raised her eyes slightly and looked at Baochai again. Sister Bao's figure was indeed just the right size.

In the original version of the Dream of the Red Chamber, Baoyu saw Baochai's arm, which was as white as lotus root, and thought to himself that it was like this arm grew on Lin Daiyu. Later, he compared Baochai with Yang Guifei.
This shows how beautiful Baochai's figure is. Some people in later generations commented that she was the "ceiling of the slightly plump world", which is not an exaggeration at all.

As Baochai listened to the young man's words, she could feel that her lover's words and actions all revealed his fondness for her.

The girl's almond-shaped eyes twinkled under her willow-shaped eyebrows. She gently picked up a piece of crab meat and placed it in Shen Yuan's bowl. With this small action, she expressed her love for her lover.

Shen Yuan nodded and ate his food naturally.

Seeing this scene, all the other girls in the room showed envy. There is no more beautiful love in the world than this.

Before they knew it, they had finished their meal and were sitting down to drink tea and chat.

Shen Yuan chuckled and praised: "The dishes in Jinling are indeed delicious. It's all thanks to Sister Qiu'er's thoughtfulness to find a cook from Jiangnan."

Qiu Er looked at the happy expression of the boy opposite her, and felt a little happy in her heart. She said softly: "We all grew up in Jinling, so we have to taste the dishes of our hometown."

Several people in the room were chatting and laughing, and the snow sculptures in the yard outside the room were shining with golden light under the warm sun.

Time just passes by quietly in peace and beauty.
(End of this chapter)