【New Red Mansion】Perfect World

Li Shuirong led Lin Pin'er downstairs and looked at the distance. The stage had been turned off and it was pitch black. Then he turned left and followed the arrow path into the depths of Wanhua. He crossed the Jiuquping Bridge and went down the bridge. He took a small road from the main road and forked to the south. This area was full of layers of rockery. The mountain was winding and twisting, like a swimming dragon, so it was named Wanyan Ridge. When he reached the end of the ridge and passed a small road outside Tianxin Pavilion, he saw their villa area not far away.

"How do you know this path?" Pin'er didn't dare to speak at first, not knowing where he was going to take her.

"I've carefully looked at the floor plan of the garden before, and I walked past it once when I was going back from here last time. But this place is remote, so I can only bring you here when I'm around. Otherwise, if you encounter bad guys, it will be too late to run away or call for help." Shui Rong instructed.

Pin'er smiled and said, "Then I must come with you. If I come alone, I will definitely get lost."

The two walked under the moonlight, and Pin'er suddenly pointed at the moon in the sky and said, "The moon tonight is brighter than the previous few days."

Shui Rong looked up in the direction she pointed.

"Then let's walk and admire the moon. The moon can accompany us and illuminate the road ahead."

Pin'er suddenly said, "I saw a news report a few days ago saying that the moon had actually died a long time ago."

Shui Rong comforted him, "We can all be reborn, and the moon will be reborn too. I often think that maybe the people around us are all reborn, which means that everyone will be reborn after death. It's just that everyone has their own secrets, and they keep their secrets to themselves."

Pin'er looked up at the moon, afraid that tears would fall from her eyes. She thought to herself: Father and mother should be living well too!

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In the next few days, they still went to school on time. Wu Qing had taken time off to learn painting in order to prepare for the art exam. Pin'er was supposed to help her find a painting school, but later Baoyu arranged it. This was also good, Baoyu seemed to have become more responsible.

It was Teacher's Day, and Pin'er prepared gifts for several of her teachers: Mrs. Li and Professor Yue received a woolen shawl in a soft milk tea powder to match their cheongsams. They also received a brooch each. The two old ladies were best friends, so she didn't want them to argue over the different gifts, so she chose the same one.

The teachers in the school, including the head teacher, Mr. Zhu, also wore a shawl, and the other teachers each had a thermos cup. Only the history teacher she liked had a fountain pen prepared for him. Pin'er saw that he liked to put a fountain pen in his shirt pocket, so she guessed that he was a person who liked to write.

This festival is great. Pin'er is very grateful to her teachers for teaching her, and she takes this opportunity to express her gratitude on Teachers' Day.

After Teacher's Day, they decided to hurry up and complete the task of the poetry club. So everyone started to divide the work: one person designed the cover, another designed the message, another counted and designed the catalog, and then assigned another person to collect poems and proofread them. Finally, another person designed the back cover.

Pin'er was responsible for designing the cover. After school, she went to visit Xichun at her residence and brought her a few orchids.

Xichun had just come home from school. When she saw the orchid in Pin'er's hand, she liked it very much and hurriedly welcomed her into the house.

Pin'er saw that her room was too empty, with no furniture, just a big desk in the corner, connected to a design workbench. The paintings on the wall were quite good, but the room was arranged like this, not like a place to live, but more like a gallery.

"Sister Xichun, I came to ask you something today. The school wants to make a cover for the club poetry collection. Can you give me some inspiration?"

Poetry collection? Xichun's heart was moved, but she regained her composure.

"Have you thought of a theme?"

"We have discussed it, and the name is Mo Xiang Shi Ying."

Xichun put down her schoolbag and walked towards her design workbench with Pin'er.

"Ink fragrance, poetry and shadow. So it's related to ink?" After saying that, she turned on the computer, found a few materials in the material library, drew a logo, adjusted the size and placed it on the picture. Then she found a font and changed a few fonts to let Pin'er see which one would match best.

Pin'er secretly admired him, she had no idea at all. As soon as she heard the name, she immediately got inspiration, and within ten minutes, a cover was ready.

"You are so amazing. I thought this design would take several days to complete, but I didn't expect that inspiration would come to you as soon as you sat down, and the design is so good." Pin'er praised in a sweet way.

Xichun clicked print to see the effect.

"I often take on these kinds of designs to earn some pocket money, so I'm more comfortable with them. It's nothing to me."

She held the printed cover up to look at it, then moved it to a book and showed it to Pin'er from a distance.

"What do you think? If it's not good, I'll make some changes."

Pin'er saw that it was already very good: "This is great, there is no need to change it! I just don't know how to thank you."

Xichun handed the printed paper to Pin'er, and then said, "Didn't you give me orchids? You're welcome! Tell me your email address and I'll send the electronic version to your email address. We can discuss how to print it later. You can take this to school as a sample tomorrow."

Pin'er was happy. She had originally thought that she would just give her some advice. She had no idea about designing the cover, but she had found the right person. Her work was completed in no time, and it was completed so well.

"Then come to me anytime you need bamboo in the future." Pin'er didn't know how to thank her.

"It just so happens that I need some moss today. I'll go dig some from your yard later."

The two girls immediately took action. It was so novel to Pin'er. She felt that everyone around her in this life was her teacher: Wu Qing guided her on how to survive, Shui Rong taught her how to set goals and work hard to achieve them, Xiangyun taught her how to sing and dress, and Jia Mu taught her aesthetics and bearing... Including Miaoyu, Madam Li, Professor Yue, etc. whom she met later, and Xichun today, Pin'er learned something from each of them.

The two girls started talking. Xichun found a large plastic bag and a small shovel. She went to Pin'er's yard first, dug up a lot of moss near the bamboo forest, and then went to the garden to look for materials.

Both of them were people who loved and cherished flowers. They did not destroy the plants, but just picked up some fallen branches and leaves. They walked to the gate of Li Wan's courtyard. The gate was half open, and Xichun led Pin'er in.

"I come here often. My sister-in-law grows a lot of vegetables, and there are many new things in her yard."

This was the first time that Pin'er came to this yard, because it was not on her daily route to school.

The yard seemed to be divided by a ruler, with green vegetables planted neatly in each field, and a grape rack near the glass window. There was a stone table underneath and a bamboo lounge chair next to it.

What is new is that there are some mechanical equipment installed in the middle of those square fields, which are rotating and spraying water mist in an orderly manner.

"This is a little gadget designed by Lan'er. It can save you from having to sprinkle water manually. There's also equipment for catching insects over there."

As she was talking, Xichun spotted Jia Lan squatting at the foot of the wall in the distance:

"Lan'er."

Jia Lan turned around and made a hushing gesture to them.

The two of them were very careful not to step on the planted vegetables, and they slowly approached the base of the wall.

Jia Lan was bending over, tiptoeing, holding a bamboo stick in his hand, and was actually removing stones and digging mud.

"What are you looking for?" Xichun asked him softly.

Jia Lan waved his hand and continued to watch and listen.

Before Pin'er could see clearly, Jia Lan suddenly stood up and covered his mouth with his dirty, muddy hands.

"Come on. Go ask Suyun for a basin."

After saying that, he ran along the wall into the house, and the two men had no choice but to follow him.

After entering the house, Suyun indeed brought over a porcelain basin. Jia Lan carefully placed the things in his hand into the basin, quickly closed the lid, and then ran to wash his hands.

The two of them came over, and Suyun gently opened the lid of the basin a little and looked inside. It turned out to be a cricket. When the lid was opened, the cricket raised its two whiskers and flickered brightly.

"This is just a crab shell green, not as good as the jade crown golden wing I caught before. But the weather will get cold soon, so I won't be able to catch it. Let's keep it for now." Jia Lan said with experience.