Divining Their Fortunes, Four Beauties Fish for Swimming Fish; Receiving a Stern Command, Twice Entering the Family School

After Yingchun was taken away by the Sun family, Lady Xing acted as though nothing had happened. Lady Wang, who had raised Yingchun for a time, felt deeply grieved and sighed alone in her room. Baoyu came to pay his respects. Seeing tears on Lady Wang’s face, he did not dare sit down at once and only stood to one side. Lady Wang told him to sit, and Baoyu moved to the edge of the brick bed and sat beside her. Lady Wang saw him staring blankly, as if he had something to say but dared not speak, and asked, “What are you brooding about now?” Baoyu said, “Nothing else. Yesterday I heard Second Sister tell of what she suffers in the Sun household, and I truly feel for her. I dared not tell the Old Ancestor, and I have not slept for two nights. How can a girl from a great family like ours endure such humiliation? Second Sister is the gentlest and weakest of us. She has never known how to quarrel with anyone, and yet she has met a man with no conscience at all, one who has no pity for a woman’s suffering.” As he spoke, tears almost fell. Lady Wang said, “There is no help......