Volume 1–First time seeing the gold beam of a dream
Chapter 5: Overturning Lan Yan Country (1)
“Character then knowledge, knowledge then sincerity, sincerity then morality, morality then self-cultivation.”(1) The sound of reading clearly came, Bai Luo used his hands to support his face, overcome with boredom.
To think he is a twenty-seven years old person, and he have to experience the life of a child again and go back to the academy.
As soon as the bell for the end of class rang, the whole room instantly get up and became lively. In groups of three or four, they are laughing and playing. Bai Luo sat in a corner position, and the surrounding was very deserted.
Jimo Ge looked at the delicate profile of the youth, wanting to step forward to say hello, but felt a little worried. The teenager was cold and alienated, he was hard to get close to at first glance. While hesitating, Jimo Lin suddenly sat on the seat next to Bai Luo. “I am Jimo Lin, what is your name?”
Bai Luo looked sideways, the smile on the face of the boy who came was bright and sunny. He was a handsome young boy.
“Bai Luo.”
“Bai Luo, do you want to play soccer with us after school? Don’t worry, I am here, no one dares to bully you.”
“Not interested.”
“Why? Soccer is very fun to play. You must have never played it before. But don’t worry, I will pass the ball to you and won’t let you lose it. You don’t know, last time, I and that smiling tiger(2) competed, I won all three rounds.” Jimo Lin said, his brows were rising upwards, not proud at all.
Bai Luo only feels that there is a duck screaming all around, which is very noisy. Fortunately, the class will start in a while, and Jimo Lin will return to his seat.
At noon, Bai Luo still sat in his usual seat, preparing to eat. Who knows, the talkative boy in the morning sat opposite him with a plate. Jimo Ge paused and sat down at a random seat.
“Bai Luo, you eat so few dishes. Why don’t you eat mine? This red braised pork is very delicious, it will be gone if you grab it late. Did you not grab it? You can have mine.”
Bai Luo frowned, “No need, you can eat it yourself.”
The dining room was full of voices as usual, and there were chattering voices everywhere, but many people were secretly observing Bai Luo’s table.
“The Ninth Prince is really brave, he dares to talk to Bai Luo.”
“I want to sit next to Bai Luo for a meal too, and talk to him. He looks really good.”
“But, he is so arrogant and cold. It must be difficult to approach him. If we bothered him, it won’t be good to make him angry.”
On the other side, Bai Luo ate while listening to Jimo Lin speak. Although he was young, his actions were elegant and fitting, casual yet not stiff. The nobleman’s style can be seen in the future.
Jimo Lin was fascinated by it, “Bai Luo, you looks good when you eat.”
Bai Luo didn’t pay attention to the child’s nonsense. After eating, he stood up and went out. After circling the garden twice, he can go take a nap.
“Hey, wait for me.” Jimo Lin saw that Bai Luo was about to go out, hurriedly lowered his head and rushed to picked up the rice. Then he ran out to find Bai Luo.
The flowers in the garden are very colorful, trimmed very neatly, and beautiful in shape. Bai Luo walked all the way, and the oncoming people detoured and stayed far away. Something was floating down from the top. Bai Luo looked up and saw that it was an apricot tree with clusters of apricot blossoms on the branches. The apricot blossoms on the branches were so beautiful. The wind blew and the apricot blossoms fell down like a rain of flowers.
Bai Luo was dumbfounded while watching the apricot blossoms rain, and the people next to him were dumbfounded. A young man dressed in white was under the flower rain, his face was like a jade, and a brocade-like blue silk was floating backwards in the wind. His head raise slightly, revealing a smooth chin, people can’t help but want to sneak a kiss on it. They can only think of the phrase “Spring tour, apricot blossoms are blowing all over my head. A youngster of some family is on the street, greatly outstanding.”(3)
Feeling that enough time has passed for stomach digestion, Bai Luo walked to Xiaoqi Pavilion. In Xiaoqi Pavilion, rows of large rooms are lined up. In order to allow children to have better contact and communication, there are four beds in one room. There are two on the left and right, the two are very close.
There are many people living in the sunny rooms with nice scenery at the entrance. In a room on the corner of Bai Luo’s pick, he is the only one there. When he was just about to lay down and sleep, the annoying child appeared in his room holding a pillow. Bai Luo’s heart jumped, he has a bad feeling.
“Bai Luo, I will sleep next to you from now on. You can rest assured and sleep, I will call you when it’s time for the afternoon class. Rest assured that you will not oversleep and be late.”
Bai Luo sat up and looked at Jimo Lin.
Jimo Lin grinned and made his bed, “Bai Luo, there are still vacancies in the middle rooms, why would you choose this one?”
The room is chosen by yourself. When the time to pick room started, the people in the academy swarmed in and took things to occupied the bed. You could hear the roar everywhere, “This bed is occupied, you go find another place.”
There were also a few impatient people who fought for the room. Bai Luo stood at the end, a little puzzled. There were enough rooms to stay in, so there was no need to fight like this. And it’s just taking a nap, everything in the room was the same, and there was no need to be so intense.
After waiting for most of the others to choose, Bai Luo walked in. Almost two or three people stood at the door of each room, staring at him eagerly. Thinking of the quarrel that he heard just now, these people should have save beds for their friends, afraid he would go in. Bai Luo kept walking to the last row of rooms. There was no one at the door or inside, so he hung up his sign.
Seeing Bai Luo enter, the rest of the people breathed out disappointedly, regrets in their hearts. If they had know that Bai Luo likes the back room, you should run to the back room to occupy the bed early.
“Bai Luo, there is still a vacant bed in my room, but since you sleep here, I will be here too.”
Bai Luo was noncommittal. Just as he was about to lie down to sleep, Jimo Lin suddenly leaned over, his face was getting closer and closer, his hand reached behind his head, and his mouth said, “Don’t move.”
Jimo Lin took out an apricot flower petal from Bai Luo’s hair, put it on his nose and smelled it, “Really fragrant.”
It should have fallen on his hair just now. Fortunately, it was not a bug. Bai Luo yawned, no longer caring about Jimo Lin, and lay down to take a nap.
Jimo Lin saw that Bai Luo was asleep, and then lightened his movements. After looking at Bai Luo’s face for a while, he also fell asleep.
When he came to class the next day, he saw Jimo Lin sitting in front of him, Bai Luo had no feeling for Jimo Lin’s behavior.
When Bai Luo was in a daze in class, he heard the teacher called him by his name to recited the Book of Rites learned yesterday.
Bai Luo stood up, feeling that being called on in class was familiar yet unfamiliar for a while. He did not expect to experience it again after many years. Seeing that Bai Luo was silent, the students around him felt more nervous than the one being called on, and sweated for him.
Jimo Lin lifted up the book, gestured with his fingers on the book. Bai Luo opened his mouth to recite without looking at him.
The teacher nodded in satisfaction as he listened. As expected of being the Prime Minister Bai’s son. He has been nurtured under the scholarly family since he was a child, showing a nobleman’s outstanding disposition.
The students around him looked on in admiration. Sure enough, Bai Luo is not only good-looking, he also reads better than them, and is extremely clever. How can they, the ordinary folks, match up?
Days passed, except for Jimo Lin who couldn’t be driven away with a cold face, everything else was quite peaceful.
“Bai Luo, we don’t have to go to the academy tomorrow. Let’s go hunting in the mountain, okay?” Jimo Lin has been persuading him from the early morning on how to have fun, how to play game, how to barbecue game, and he also brought good wine.
Bai Luo nodded in order to cleanse his ears for a while, and the smile on Lin’s face became big, “I’ll tell the other people. If they know you are going, they will definitely be too happy to sleep tonight.”
Bai Luo didn’t take it to heart, as usual. After finishing his homework, he went to bed on time. When he woke up the next morning, the little servant on the side brought water to wash face and rinse the mouth, “Gongzi, you are awake. The Ninth Prince and the other gongzi have been waiting in the drawing room for a while.”
Bai Luo remembered the hunting mentioned by Jimo Lin yesterday, but he didn’t expect them to come to his house to look for him so early.
Bai Luo dressed up and walked into the drawing room. Inside was a few commonly seen faces. Seeing him coming, they stood up and said hello, “Bai Luo, morning.”
“Bai Luo, you don’t have to get up so early. It doesn’t matter if we wait for awhile.”
Several others echoed.
Bai Luo asked, “Have you had breakfast?”
A delicate xiao gongzi said shyly, “I ate, I ate.” After speaking, his face became a little red.
“Then you sit down for a while, I’ll go eat breakfast.”
Jimo Lin hurriedly said, “I haven’t eaten yet, I’m going to eat with you.”
Bai Luo nodded, and the other xiao gongzi scolded Jimo Lin for being cunning as soon as they heard, “I thought we would go eat breakfast together after we meet, so I didn’t eat. Bai Luo, you don’t mind me eating?”
Bai Luo told the little servant on the side, “Let the kitchen prepare more.”
The intestines of the gongzi who had said that he had eaten were all blue. Let you talk, let you talk. The chance to eat with Bai Luo is now wasted. Seeing that everyone else would follow Bai Luo to the dining room, he was almost in tears.
“You can have some more snacks.” It’s boring to sit and wait alone.
The little boy’s eyes lit up suddenly, and he nodded, “Well, I ate less for breakfast. I’m hungry now.”
A group of people went to the dining room. When they were about to leave after eating breakfast, Bai fu came over, and the group of young boys one after another saluted and greet him.
Bai fu smiled, “Well, hello to you all. I heard that you are going to hunt in the mountain. Luo’er does not like to talk, is feeble, and have not been to the mountain alone. Trouble you to take care of him.”
“Don’t worry, Prime Minister. We brought the Imperial guards for protection. We went there to play twice, I will take good care of Bai Luo.”
“I am relieved with the words of the Ninth Prince,” Bai fu patted Bai Luo on the shoulder, “Luo’er, go and play. Be careful underfoot when walking. There are many rocks on the mountain. Don’t go to dangerous places. Don’t stray away from the crowd and run around by yourself.”
Bai Luo nodded.
Bai Luo and his party set up camp at a flat area on the mountain, set up the support, organize and put away the things they brought, made room to sit, and Bai Luo was helped to settled down and rest.
(1) Confucian classic text. Something about self-cultivation and family governance. I couldn’t find the official English translated version (if there are any) so I just translated it based on my understanding.
(2) 笑面虎: xiào miàn hǔ—laugh face tiger; according to the dictionary I used, a man with a big smile and evil intentions.
(3) 春日游，杏花吹满头。陌上谁家年少，足风流。
(4) 即墨: jí mò—to approach ink, the name of a county in Qingdao, China.
(5) 磨叽: mò ji—to waste time.
The author has something to say:
This world that look at face~ I want to use a high-end two characters surname. After looking for it for a long time, I showed it to my friend, “How about it, Jimo(4), is it pleasant to hear?” She said, “Look at it the other way around, Moji(5).” Speechless. . .
T/N: Almost a one week break, whatever.
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