Chapter 225: Old Man
Lin Jieyu's brows furrowed again, and she softly let Jin Zhi into the house.
The door creaked open, and Jin Zhi walked in with a tray, and the pear soup in the bowl exuded the sweetness of the fruit, which also made the feeling of isolation and dullness in the room even stronger.
"Mother, shall I have a window?"
Lin Jieyu nodded nonchalantly, "What's the matter with her stealing from the guards?" Caught red-handed? β
"No," Jin Zhi replied as he opened the window, "and the father-in-law who went to Donglin Temple with her this time has one of our people. Coincidentally, when I was going to the toilet in the temple, I bumped into the guard I had seen in the Imperial Garden. β
Jin Zhi chuckled, "The slave maid just went to check, today Zuo Wei Ying does not have any official business to go to Donglin Temple, Bai Ling must have secretly made an appointment with his friend, and the two of them went to the mountain for a private meeting together." β
Lin Jieyu narrowed her eyes slightly, "That's right? β
"Can't be wrong," Jin Zhi moved a little closer, "The father-in-law said that he didn't recognize who this person was at all, but he just saw that he was wearing the mask of a royal guard, which was suspicious, and after following him for a while, he saw him take off the mask, and it was the person in the imperial garden." β
"Still wearing a mask?" Lin Jieyu sneered, "So there are no three hundred taels of silver here?" β
"The slave maid specially sent someone out of the palace to inquire, Bai Ling is eleven this year, and she has not been engaged until now, and many people have come to her house to talk about matchmaking, but her father Bai Shijun does not agree." Jin Zhi laughed, "It turns out that I have already made up my mind to climb the high branches in the palace."
"The imperial guards are also considered high-branched?" Lin Jieyu's face showed a somewhat disdainful smile, "Okay, don't talk about this." You ask Gonggong Jia to think of a way, take Bai Gu or someone who has seen the guard to the left guard camp to identify people, and don't act rashly before the matter is big and the identity of the other party is fully confirmed. β
"Okay, mother, you know!"
"Has Bai Ling been to Kwai Shui?"
"Well, I don't know."
"Let the Chengqian Palace keep an eye on it, it's really impossible to find someone to go to the Internal Affairs Office to find the way and check it." Lin Jieyu thought for a while, "Also, pay attention to the Imperial Garden these days to see if this guard will appear again." β
Jin Zhi remembered Lin Jieyu's previous sentence not to act rashly, and couldn't help but be a little puzzled, "If it appears, we?" β
"You don't have to do anything, just write it down." Lin Jieyu said softly, "At what time, what clothes the guard was wearing, and how long the two of them stayed together in the palace need details." β
"Understood!"
Lin Jieyu got up, walked to the table with the support of Jin Zhi, and sat down to chew the white fungus and pear slices in the pear soup.
She thought about the few meetings with Bai Ling, this girl did have a bit of maturity beyond her age.
However, as long as people of this age, whether they are boys or girls, most of them are a little naΓ―ve, and the most obvious point is that they are not clear about love and love. met his favorite sweetheart, which is not a hundred tempered tempered fingers soft, so green that he can pinch out the water to think about it, Bai Ling has entered the palace, and he dares to have a private meeting with someone in the imperial garden, and even go to Donglin Temple to call each other
"Interesting." Lin Jieyu couldn't help laughing, "This is really interesting." β
"I see." After listening to the life experiences of Fourteen and Han Chong, Bai Ling sighed for a while, "It turns out that you are friends who grew up together and apprenticed together, no wonder I always feel that he is a bit similar to you in his behavior." β
Fourteen was slightly surprised, like?
He didn't think so.
"But if you look closely, it doesn't feel the same. Fourteen and he are two kinds of people in the end. Bai Ling said softly, "But what happened later, since you are a teacher, why does he seem to be very hostile to you now?" β
"Honestly, I don't know." Wei XIV said softly, "He disappeared for a year. β
Bai Ling was a little surprised, "Disappear? β
"Hmm. We were on a mission together and he didn't come back. I've been looking for him for a long time and there's no whereabouts. Wei Shixi said softly, "When I reappear in his traces, he has already re-established himself as a flag officer in the Beizhen Fusi, and his attitude towards me is completely like a different person." β
"Could it really be a different person?" Bai Ling's eyes narrowed in disbelief, "Although it looks alike, it's actually a disguise technique?" β
"No, it won't." Wei Shixi softly denied this conjecture, "The disguise technique can't deceive acquaintances, and even if it's really a perfect disguise technique, it can't be flawless in the details." β
"When did Han Chong disappear?"
"Ten years ago? Or even longer," Wei Shishi recalled with deep eyes, "it was all before my master really passed on my mantle." I've paid attention to his movements, and he didn't hide anything about his martial arts with the dark guard, and it was all written in the original debriefing document, but the reason why we entered Beijing in the first place was hidden. β
"Is that so?" Bai Ling blinked, and suddenly felt like he was grabbing a little bit of his tail, "What does Fourteen think about him wanting to erase the birthmark on the back of his neck?" β
Wei XIV was silent again for a moment.
He stood up and paced slowly around the room.
"It probably has something to do with not wanting to be a plaything to be watched," Wei Shishi said softly, "It is not a good experience to be treated as an auspicious offering, and to be caught and given away like cats and dogs." He's probably always minded. The birthmark was a natural imprint, and it was nothing for him to want to remove it along with his past experiences. β
Bai Ling propped his chin and looked at the person in front of him, "What about fourteen?" β
"What?"
"Have you ever had such an identity?"
A slight smile appeared in Wei Shishi's eyes, "I really don't like it, so I'm not anymore." β
Bai Ling also laughed, and for a moment wanted to applaud Fourteen's answer. She wanted to open up to Fourteen and tell him that he had always been a very reliable companion, but it was a bit too deliberate to say that now.
The things that should be said were basically finished here, Wei Shixi looked at the sky outside, and said that he would go out of the palace again in the afternoon to go to Ah Li to see the progress.
Bai Ling sent him to the window, and then suddenly remembered something, and talked about the old man with a strange laugh in the book department.
"Does Fourteen know who this man is?"
Wei Shishi frowned slightly, "Are you sure he has a beard?" β
"He must have grown a beard, he's got a lot of beard, he's grown here," Bai Ling gestured to his chest, "he still has a long string of keys around his waist, and although he is very old, his back is very straight"
"There should be all fathers-in-law in the book division, and there won't be any white-bearded old men."
Bai Ling's pupils dilated a little, and there was surprise in his voice, "Never?" β
Wei Shixi looked at her and replied seriously, "At least, I have never touched it. βγ