"Thank you, Headmistress," Random said happily, then got up and left.
"You're welcome," Pomona said, watching Random open the door and leave her office.
After the door closed, Pomona picked up Dream of the Red Chamber again.
Random had not actually come to ask for his confiscated magazine back. He had come to ask for her help, hoping to study combat techniques with the Centaurs.
It was not a difficult matter, so Pomona agreed. Then she turned her attention back to the book.
Although Grandmother Jia had once served as an emperor's wet nurse, she was not like Ming Xizong's wet nurse, Lady Ke, and Wei Zhongxian, obediently staying at home with her children and grandchildren to enjoy domestic happiness.
She dearly loved Jia Baoyu and was also fond of Lin Daiyu, mainly because Lin Daiyu had lost her mother at a young age. Jia Min had been the old lady's favorite daughter. She had not married into a powerful family, but instead married Lin Ruhai, who had become a third-place scholar while still young and was also descended from a marquis's family.
Lin Daiyu had lived in Jia Mansion from the age of seven to ten. Those three years happened to complete her mourning period. When she was twelve, after Jia Yuanchun returned home for a visit, she moved into Xiaoxiang Hall. Grandmother Jia took Granny Liu to Lin Daiyu's room and saw the window gauze made of green soft-smoke silk. She felt that the green clashed terribly with the green bamboo and wanted it replaced with colorful papered windows.
During mourning, one naturally wore plain colors. If one shed a few more tears, others would even call it filial piety. Yet when Lin Daiyu visited Baochai in Pear Fragrance Garden, she wore a bright red feather-satin jacket fastened