Chapter Ninety-Five: The Old Courtyard

The next morning, when Bai Ling woke up, she heard the sizzling of hot oil coming from the kitchen—it was Bai Yi frying eggs.

Bai Ling rubbed his eyes, got up and got dressed and went to the ground.

There was still an unused medicinal juice at her bedside - after arriving home last night, Bai Shijun pretended to grind a few herbs and boil water, and then moistened the medicinal soup with a handkerchief to give Bai Ling a hot compress.

Zhan Shi from the palace tried to help the whole process, but Bai Shijun basically didn't give him a chance.

After applying the medicine, Bai Ling lay in the room for more than half an hour, and then ran out vigorously and said that his head did not hurt.

In this situation, Zhan Shi of the palace was stunned for a while, and praised Bai Shijun as a contemporary miracle doctor, and the medicine was cured.

So everyone happily sent off this Zhan Shi together in the second half of the night, and the courtyard of the Bai family returned to its former tranquility.

After that, Bai Ling told his father and brother about the discovery in Prince Gong's Mansion that night, and Bai Shijun and Bai Yi became serious for a while.

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Bai Ling simply tied a ponytail, and then began to tidy up the room, before putting all the clothes away, he heard Bai Yi shouting outside, "Come to dinner".

She answered, but her eyes fell on her wooden bed.

Bai Ling stepped forward and leaned down to drag out a stack of manuscripts from under the bed - it was the "Psychological Handout" handed to her by Qinglian herself, at that time she only felt that it was good to have a backup in her hand, where did she know that the manuscript in her hand now has become a real one-of-a-kind.

It's still a little dangerous to put it at home, and I don't know when there will be a group of searchers like Yuan Zhen at home not long ago.

Bai Ling thought for a moment and put the book in her cloth bag - she was going to start a new job from today, and she had a lot to prepare besides this.

After breakfast, Bai Ling went out with his father and brother, and after being here for so long, this was the first time he had followed them - according to Bai Yi's words, they would be half colleagues in the future.

Bai Ling's consultation room is in the palace - in fact, the place is on the edge of the duty room of the Tai Hospital, and it is only a dozen steps away from it.

However, on weekdays, Bai Shijun and Bai Yi are both on duty in the Tai Hospital outside the palace. Only when it is the turn to enter the palace on duty, sometimes it is the night shift, sometimes it is the day shift, and it does not exactly coincide with the time of Bai Ling.

Bai Ling and his father and brother parted at the door of the Tai Hospital, and then, accompanied by several servants specially sent by Prince Gong's Mansion to help, entered the palace with the plaque rewarded by Emperor Jianxi.

It is fitting that the plaque that reads "Zhenshan Liufang" is hung on the gate of this courtyard.

The place assigned by Emperor Jianxi to Bai Ling was a two-entry courtyard.

The house was very old, but it was very tidy, and Bai Ling looked at the empty left and right wings, one could be used for sand tables and mold racks, and the other was better lit and could be arranged as an ordinary consultation room.

The main house is used as a place for daily office.

In the consultation room, Bai Ling instructed the palace people to move the position of the furniture, and then pulled out a list of his own and asked the palace people here to go to the Internal Affairs Office to collect them—most of them were cotton and silk of various colors.

The tables and chairs in the palace all exude an awe-inspiring righteousness, faintly revealing the majesty of the royal family, so Bai Ling decided to cover them with some light-colored tablecloths.

Bai Ling also wanted to make a small sofa that was softer - after all, in the consultation room, people don't need to stand and sit together, just sit comfortably.

But she described it for a long time, and the palace people couldn't understand what she wanted, so Bai Ling finally realized that this kind of custom furniture probably needed to be made by her master carpenter.

Instead, she added a number of pillows to her list—square, cotton-stuffed, about an arm's length pillow.

The palace man took the list handed by Bai Ling, read it at a glance, and then he looked up and said, "Bai Si...... Belch...... Kashiwa ......"

He was a little unsure what to call Bai Ling, and as soon as he opened his mouth, it was "Bai Si Yao", but yesterday Emperor Jianxi had already made a decree, and Bai Ling was no longer a medicine minister, but a former psychologist.

But what should you call this official position?

"Keep calling me Kashimi." Bai Ling said softly, "I'm used to hearing it too. ”

"Eh, okay." The man nodded, "Yesterday, Gonggong Huang said, when Bai Si Yao comes today, let you think of a name for this small courtyard." ”

"Name?" Bai Ling was a little puzzled, "Didn't this courtyard have a name?" ”

"I can't say no, but that was a long time ago." The man said softly.

"What was it originally called?"

"Tushi Palace."

Bai Ling didn't hear clearly, "Tou...... What's in the pocket? ”

The man lowered his eyebrows and replied, "It seems to be a place where immortals refine pills." I heard Gonggong Huang say that ten years ago, the emperor originally wanted Zhang Shenxian to set up an alchemy furnace here, so that Zhang Shenxian would be adjacent to the imperial doctors in the Tai Hospital, and in his spare time, he could also teach some immortal experience to the doctors in the Tai Hospital. ”

Bai Ling's eyebrows moved slightly.

Let Zhang Shenxian teach the experience to the imperial doctors......

This one...... The doctors probably couldn't bear it.

"Did the doctors agree?"

"Nope." The palace man replied softly, "The slave maid also listened to what Huang Gonggong said, and the emperor first told the Qin court envoy about this matter privately, but the Qin court envoy bought a coffin and put it at home when he went back, and then His Majesty gave up." ”

Bai Ling was a little surprised, "Didn't you give Zhang Immortal Lidan Furnace again?" ”

"Stand," the palace man said softly, "On the southeast corner of the palace, a Xuanxiu Hall was specially built for Immortal Zhang." ”

Bai Ling was stunned for a moment, and she suddenly realized that she had been to that Xuanxiu Palace. It was the night Lin Jieyu stabbed Jia Yuchun to death, where Yuan Zhen took her.

What a majestic palace...... Bai Ling's eyes narrowed slightly.

"It's also for this reason," the palace man continued, "that our place is connected to the duty room of the Tai Hospital, and there is a small door in the east wing that can directly enter the west wing of the Tai Hospital's duty room, which is locked from our end on weekdays. After a while, the slave and maid can take the medicine to see it. ”

As he spoke, the palace man put a bunch of keys in Bai Ling's hand, "In addition to the key to the small door, there are many keys to the drawers and cabinets of the medicine study on it, except for the slave and maid of the gate, there is a backup here, and the others are all unique." ”

"Okay, I know, I'll think about the name of the courtyard first, and I'll talk to you when I have an idea," Bai Ling looked at the little eunuch beside him, "What's your name?" ”

"The slave and maid are right." Seeing Bai Ling's somewhat surprised look, he added, "The slave maid entered the palace at the age of seven, and was assigned to the Tushi Palace at that time, and has been staying here ever since. ”

"No wonder." Bai Ling nodded, "What's your real name?" ”

This time, the people of the palace were stunned for a moment, "My real name...... Is the medicine asking me for my name? ”

"Before you entered the palace, why did your parents and siblings call you?"

"The slave's surname is Zhao, she has no name, and she is the seventh in the family, so she is called Zhao Qi."

"It's easy to remember." Bai Ling said softly, "What is the Tao, ascending to immortal...... It's not something we mortals can think about. From now on, you can use your real name. ”

"Huh." Zhao Qi nodded as if he didn't understand.