In the afternoon, after school, the palace chief invited Gu Yun to buy things on the street, and the two rode in the same carriage, and went directly back to King Cheng's mansion to drink tea after shopping.

Gong Changji specially asked someone to bring Gu Yun a thick cushion to cushion his buttocks, and watching Gu Yun sit down carefully, Gong Changji laughed so hard that his stomach hurt.

"If you fight so hard, your father and mother can do it."

"What, this is a holy decree, they are ordered to beat me." Gu Yun safely placed his swollen buttocks, and breathed a sigh of relief, "The saint is uncomfortable, his old man wants to find a place to vent his anger, then my ass will suffer." ”

"You sacrificed your ass to make the whole thing work out, and it was worth sacrificing. Hard work, I replace wine with tea, I salute you. ”

Gong Changji raised the teacup with a smile, and Gu Yun also raised his glass in response with a wry smile.

"This time we won a big victory, but it can be regarded as a bad breath, the next side will definitely stop for a few days, you should also turn your energy back to your studies and business, Bai Ko must have a new plan."

"New plans? Which aspect? Gu Yun immediately became vigilant, straightened his back, and sat up straight.

"I think I know what her true secret covenant with the saint is."

"Speak quickly!"

"I have to say first, Bai Yehong was really the best chef at the time."

"Or is it related to Bai Yehong?"

"The king came with an embassy to ask for help because his country was torn apart and there was a civil war, right?"

"That's right."

"Before that, when the old king was alive, there were already frequent political and business exchanges between our two countries, and their country has always had a permanent mission with us, otherwise the new king would not have thought of contributing beauties and treasures to ask for our assistance."

"Yes, the two countries have been dealing with each other for many years."

"Bai Yehong made a new dish during this period, which is the national meat sauce of their country, and it must be called authentic if they use their own local spices, but Bai Yehong imitated the taste of this meat sauce with our own local spices, and once made their envoys cry at the banquet, originally their king brought the envoy to come, this meat sauce is the established main dish, but who would have expected the next thing."

"So you think the real secret is this pate?"

"The Bai family is a hereditary imperial chef, and it is very reasonable to let Bai Ko cook in exchange for his own freedom, which is much more reasonable than paying taxes of tens of thousands of taels. Besides, didn't you say that Bai Ko bought a lot of plant seeds, many of which were edible spices? To remake that pâté, you have to solve the seasoning problem first, and our two countries have completely different climates, so I wonder if the big glass house in your factory is used to grow vegetables? ”

Gu Yun didn't speak for a long time, as if he was shocked by the palace chief's words, and it took a while before he breathed a sigh of relief.

"White's ready."

"Yes, she uses your workshop to make a lot of money for you at the same time, and do a little bit of her private business, but you can't be angry with her, if her private business is really done, it will also bring you a lot of wealth, and if those exotic spices are really grown, they will be sold for the same price as meat."

Gong Changji smiled gently, picked up the teapot and filled it with tea for both of them.

"You really have to think about it now, what to do with the white cardoon, do you sabotage her plans, or do you pretend that you don't know anything, and watch her go on step by step according to her plan? And in the future, after you get married, you will personally order her to be transferred to the factory for permanent residence? Be her rightful white shopkeeper? ”

"Sabotage? How can it be destroyed? Like you said, when I get married, she will go to the workshop, where can I restrain her? If she knew that I wanted to sabotage so that she couldn't get rid of the identity of an official slave in her life, she would hate me to death, and I don't know what means she would take to retaliate back, and it would probably be trivial to be ruined by her. ”

"I absolutely believe it." Gong Changji laughed, "Then your decision is to pretend not to know and not interfere and let her be free?" ”

"yes, let her go." Gu Yun smiled bitterly, "What else can I do?" ”

"Poor boy, do you want to leave a piece to eat? How many drinks shall we have? ”

"Good! I'm going to drink your treasures. ”

"Think beautifully! You still want to drink good wine when you are injured like this? Only fruit wine for you to drink. ”

"Hmph, stingy, insincere."

"No matter how nonsense you are, I won't even give you fruit wine to drink, you go back to your own house to drink tea, I think you can get a drop of wine from Bai Ko's hand."

Gu Yun puffed out his cheeks and sulked in the chair, the palace chief ignored him, ordered his subordinates to arrange dinner, and went to the Yeguo Mansion to inform Bai Ko.

After he was full of wine and food, Gu Yun returned home, the palace chief didn't give him much wine to drink, and naturally there was no smell of wine on his body, only when he opened his mouth to speak, he could smell a faint fruity smell of wine when he got closer.

After washing his hands and changing his face, Gu Yun first went to say goodnight to the elders, and then went back to the ear room to read, Bai Ko was already doing things inside, laying out a table and a floor of account books, and a few pages of ghost-like drawings.

Gu Yun, who was supposed to walk directly to his low cabinet, turned on his toes halfway, and first came to Bai Ko's side to steal a fragrant fragrance before going to his desk to read.

Although Bai Ko was a little harassed and interrupted her train of thought, she quickly fell back into the various things at hand, Gu Yun was not as attentive as her, although her eyes were looking at the book, her mind kept thinking about what Gong Changji said, the real content of the secret agreement must be one of these two possibilities, and in order to achieve the goal, she must be transferred to the workshop to do things wholeheartedly.

Next year's spring, after the spring, you will have to discuss marriage, no matter how you delay, you will definitely get married the year after tomorrow, Bai Ko's time by his side is probably over that time, after assisting the young grandmother to familiarize herself with the housework in the house, Bai Ko will be officially transferred to the workshop to be her white shopkeeper.

Thinking of this, Gu Yun didn't have the heart to read, he suddenly felt that he could understand Liang Zhongshan's mood, Lan Zhu's importance to Liang Zhongshan was the same as Bai Ko's meaning to him, but Lan Zhu did a little wrong and cared too much about Liang Zhongshan's mood and didn't give Tong Mingli enough respect, Bai Ko would not be disrespectful to the young lady, transferring to the workshop was her greatest respect, and she could do what she wanted to do, several parties benefited, and no one was hurt.

After discussing this topic with Gong Changji several times, he would finally come back to the conclusion that no one was injured, but Gu Yun had always been obsessed with this word.

He felt that he himself must be hurt, and probably the only one who would be hurt.

If Bai Ko was not around, what was the point of life, and with her cleverness, she was grateful to other officials and slaves for the promise of her master, which was a ridiculous lie in her eyes, and had no meaning except to make her laugh.

The more Gu Yun thought about it, the more depressed he became, threw down the book, and sighed for a long time.

When Bai Ko heard the movement, he looked up at him strangely, and when he saw that he was fine, he lowered his head and continued to do his work.

Gu Yun saw that Bai Qiao didn't pay attention to himself at all, and lay on the table in frustration, wanting to roll on the ground.