Volume 4 An exceeding beauty Chapter 151 The first appearance of great beauty

“December, 17th; 30th year of Hongwu Period; it is not suitable for people who was born in the Year of the Ox (in Chinese zodiac) to handle affairs in the west. Today is the sunniest day of this month. The sun is like gold on the ground and makes people feel warm. One side adjoins mountains and rivers; the nature is quiet and beautiful. Another side has the murmuring of running water and bamboo grove; it’s elegant and fresh. Ah! The water is as clear as a mirror and the green grass look as if it has just been washed. The birds on the shore are pecking. All this is surrounded by green hills in the distance. This peaceful scene is as poetic as a first love. When you look up, you are watching the lake; when you look down, you are missing Meng Xuan. What a good poem! And it is written on the back hill of Chengxu Academy and named Qing Dairy of having Time Travel to the Ming Dynasty. What do you think? Is my classical Chinese very good? Does it go even farther than The Orchid Pavilion? Oh my god! Do I used ‘go even farther than’? I’m about to become a litterateur!” The lake was as high as the shore. A girl sat on the lake’s edge. She skimmed the water by a blade of grass, and it rippled. She wore a skirt which was embroidered with tiny patterns and a hazy moon. The high neck and tight waist of the skirt depicted the beautiful outline of her. Her black hair was combed into a Liuxian haircut, and there were two wisps of her hair hung down loosely and felled from behind her ears to her chest. She wore a pale pink butterfly-shaped hair ornament on the top of her bun and twigs of green camellias on either side.