The Wen family arrived all the way to Beijing, and the people from Tongfu stood at the dock early and waited.

Bai Lingxian saw a familiar face as soon as she got off the boat, and she didn't care about catching up with her son, so she hurriedly boarded the carriage of Tongfu and left.

Hurried all the way to the pine birch garden, Tong Huaiyuan saw that his face was a little haggard, and he hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop Bai Lingxian from going to the inner room.

"What?! Isn't the old lady sick, what the letter said is quite serious, you get out of the way. ”

"Don't worry, my mother is fine, you are like this...... You better go to the East Warm Pavilion to wash up first, you look at your oily face, it's too unsightly. ”

When Bai Lingxian heard the words "obstructing the view", he immediately exploded.

"Why do you talk like that, I ......"

Tong Huaiyuan hurriedly apologized, and Mother Wang hurriedly pulled people to Dongnuan Pavilion, and Bai Lingxian was pulled out of the house before he could finish his words.

"My old lady is really fine, don't worry, my lord, he didn't mean it, he has always been like this, and you know it."

"Of course I know, he's been so virtuous for so many years, at least for me."

Bai Lingxian was taken by Wang's mother to Dongnuan Pavilion for a simple wash, and Tong Huaiyuan grew up together since childhood, the two of them naturally looked at each other unpleasantly, and rarely did not stab each other when they met and talked.

If you don't talk about bad fate, both of them are married to the Wen family, and it is also because they are getting older, if Tong Huaiyuan had said this about himself before, Bai Lingxian would have already slammed his fists.

When she returned to the main house after washing, the old lady was already sitting there and waiting.

Bai Lingxian glanced up and down and knew that Mrs. Tong was really fine, so pretending to be sick and pretending to be so serious that she had to see herself as soon as possible, there must be something.

"Old lady."

"Doctor Bai is exempt."

"Old lady, don't call me that, let's call me by my name, Doctor Bai sounds weird, it's nothing to call me dad like that, and I'm not a serious doctor."

Mrs. Tong was in a trance when she heard her mention Doctor Bai, but she quickly returned to normal, turned her head to look at Tong Huaiyuan, and silently began to drive people away.

"Mother, it doesn't matter if I'm here, right?"

"Get out."

"Oh, okay."

Bai Lingxian looked at Tong Huaiyuan, who had gone out with his head bowed, and did not retract his gaze until the door was closed again, a smile on the corner of his mouth stiffened after touching the old lady's gaze, and he raised his smile calmly.

"It's still the old lady who can cure him, as long as you speak since he was a child, he will be honest."

"After so many years, you still can't let go of the distance?"

Bai Lingxian really couldn't laugh now, lowered his eyes and looked at the extra fine lines in his palm, and sighed.

"Old lady's joke isn't funny, how old am I......"

"How old can you be older than me? What are you pretending to be old in front of me, even if Sister Qi Ge'er is more than ten years old, you and Yuan'er are still children in front of me, what can't you say. ”

Bai Lingxian glanced at the old lady helplessly, this woman was still as sharp and direct as when she was young, or she was still as direct to herself as ever.

When he was young and ignorant, he gradually understood that every unprovoked confrontation was actually a disguised concern, but before he could realize some of his concern for Tong Huaiyuan, he heard the news that he was married.

The other party is even just the daughter of a merchant, in terms of identity, she is the daughter of a doctor, and she has learned a good medical skill, where can she compare to a merchant woman?

At that time, Tong Huaiyuan was all about studying, and the livelihood of the Tong family mostly depended on Tong Huaishan and Mrs. Tong.

Bai Lingxian wanted to go over to Tong Huaiyuan to show his feelings, if Tong Huaiyuan also had a good impression of himself, Bai Lingxian didn't mind proposing marriage for himself, and if he didn't fight for it, he might have to regret it for life.

In that letter, I specially bought a letter paper with red maple leaves inlaid with red maple leaves, and made mistakes on the ordinary letter paper over and over again, and finally copied it neatly on the letterhead, but unfortunately it could only be burned in the end.

Bai Lingxian didn't want to recall too much about the past, looked up at the old lady, and shook his head.

"I only have friendship with Huaiyuan, although I often don't talk speculatively and noisy, but I will never have the idea that I shouldn't have."

Mrs. Tong didn't want to dwell on this issue, anyway, what didn't work out back then is even more impossible now, even if she has a thought, after so many years, it is no longer the same.

"Your father left suddenly, did he leave you anything special?"

Bai Lingxian didn't have any questions about Old Madam Tong's sudden mention of her father, who had passed away for many years, and replied after thinking about it seriously.

"It's just some medical books, nothing special, those medical books are well stored, if the old lady wants to see me, she will send them."

"No, it's useless for me to ask for those medical books. Did your father tell you about the reason or the occasion when he studied medicine? ”

Bai Lingxian was a little stunned by this question, as if he had asked his father a similar question a long time ago, why did he want to study medicine, why can't he choose to study something else.

Bai Lingxian remembered that at that time, he had to identify medicinal materials and poisons, and he was tortured and wanted to give up, and his father's face was so serious for the first time.

"Studying medicine is not only for yourself, but also for the people you care about, you must learn."

This sentence was the reason given by his father to study medicine, and now of course, he was glad that his father did not allow him to give up the idea of studying medicine, but Mrs. Tong's question unexpectedly evoked a neglected passage in Bai Lingxian's memory.

My father suddenly fell seriously ill, and the medicine was ineffective, and when he was dying, he held his hand tightly and repeatedly chanted "take care of him".

When Wen Qi was still young, just outside his father's house, Bai Lingxian looked at his father's eyes outside the house, thinking that he was talking about letting himself protect his son like him, and also letting Wen Qi learn medical skills, but now that he thinks about it, he is a little uncertain.

"Does the old lady have something to say? My father was silent, but he only talked more when he taught me medical skills, and never said more about private matters, and I had no way of knowing about his medical studies. ”

Mrs. Tong's appearance today is really weird, obviously she has no relationship with her father, but her words always give people a feeling of familiarity.

"It's nothing, it's just that I've been in Beijing for a long time, and I have a headache and brain fever that reminds me of the situation in Changchun Mansion, if your father has a fellow in the capital, it would be good, and you don't have to worry about not being able to find a trustworthy doctor, but now you're not coming to Beijing, and you don't have to trouble others."

Bai Lingxian had heard that his father was the imperial doctor of the Tai Hospital when he was young, and he resigned and went to Changchun Mansion to marry a wife and have a daughter to settle down, but when he was young, his father never refused to say a word, his mother left earlier than his father, and his father refused to continue alone, and he was even more silent.