Chapter Twenty-Six: Seeing the Small Things

"Chicken soup ravioli." Bai Yi replied quickly without saying a word.

"Oh." Bai Shijun nodded, and chewed a few more bites of rice.

The little confidence just now seemed to have suddenly dissipated, Bai Shijun didn't know where to look, and he was a little embarrassed to look at Bai Yi for a while.

After a while, he plucked up his courage again, "Which chicken soup wonton is it?" ”

Bai Yi looked at the courtyard, "Chaotian Street." ”

“…… Oh. ”

Bai Shijun nodded again, only to feel that there was something pressing in his throat, and after thinking for a long time, he suddenly thought that he could ask "how does it taste" again, but as soon as he said the first two words, Bai Yi stood up, "It seems to be Bai Ling's footsteps, I'll go out and have a look." ”

"Oh, you ——。"

Before the words "go" could be spoken, Bai Yi had already stepped out of the door of the living room.

Bai Yi's voice came from the courtyard - "Why have you been there for so long?" ”

Looking at it this way, sure enough, Bai Ling came back, Bai Shijun also put down the bowl and went to the yard to look, only to see Bai Ling holding a pot of wine in his hand, and Wei Shishi on the side was full of it, a bunch of bamboo baskets and cloth boxes were piled up to cover his face, and there were two big white geese with wings tied on his arms.

Bai Yi hurriedly stepped forward to pick up half of it, and the two of them carefully put the things on the ground together.

"It's ......"

"It's those folks just now, they didn't all follow the third master, many of them were slumping at the corner of the street, and when I came back from buying wine, they all rushed up to stuff things......" Bai Ling looked at his father and brother with some embarrassment, "A bunch of people suddenly knelt down in front of me...... I can't. ”

"Okay." Bai Shijun sighed and waved his hand, "Then take it all." It's not early, I'll count the things tomorrow morning, so let's go to bed first. ”

"Daddy......" Bai Ling shook his head, "These things have to be roughly checked first, if they are all eggs, bacon or something, it's fine, if there is anything fresh that can't be put away, you have to take a bucket and put it under the well first, otherwise it will be bad if you leave it outside overnight." ”

Bai Shijun didn't think about this layer, so he blinked, "Then, then you go to sleep first, I'll come-"

"Let's go together," Bai Ling took Bai Shijun's hand and led him and Bai Yi to stand in front of the pile of goods, "Look at this side, Bai Yi look at that side, I'll put the goose in the backyard first." ”

Sure enough, after a while, the father and son counted out a basket of loquats, a bag of fresh longan and a bag of citrus from it. The two of them also pulled a few large sheets of oiled paper from the room, wrapped them separately and stuffed them into wooden barrels, and then slowly lowered the wooden barrels down the well.

In the early spring of March, the weather has warmed up, but the well water is still so cold, and this method of preserving food is still taught by the villagers in the past.

Bai Ling put things out, holding an extra pair of chopsticks, a bowl and a teacup in his hand, and Wei Shishi sat on the ground in the courtyard, drinking as if no one was around. When the family had roughly cleaned up their things, and then turned back, there was only an empty pot and a pair of chopsticks neatly stacked on top of the clean porcelain bowl, and the person was gone.

Bai Shijun looked at Bai Ling with some uncertainty, "That person ...... him"

Bai Ling smiled, "Don't worry about him, dad should go wash and sleep, tomorrow may be another fierce battle, we have to take care of our spirits." ”

The unmanned chopsticks still poked Bai Shijun's heartstrings in the end, this Wei Fourteen, at this moment, he was probably in a corner that they couldn't see. Bai Shijun only felt a chill behind him, and he was suddenly shocked when he thought that in the future, a pair of eyes would always be staring at his children.

This night, the father and son of the Bai family didn't know how it passed. None of them could sleep except for Boling.

Bai Yi couldn't sleep in the middle of the night, so he counted the hour and went to the kitchen to prepare the rice porridge for the next day in the dark. After all, he was still young, and staying up late like this was nothing to him. But early the next morning, Bai Yi and Bai Ling both noticed that the dark blue under Bai Shijun's eyes was obviously heavier than the day before.

The family ate breakfast in silence, eating with dried radishes and pickles brought by the villagers last night. Bai Shijun put down his chopsticks several times, looked at Bai Ling and stopped talking, but he still couldn't say what he wanted to say.

The people of the palace still came when it was dawn.

The eunuch who walked in the front was round, and it was a raw face that had never been seen before. He had a very different temperament from the eunuchs who came to take over two days ago, with thick shoulders and a full chin, and even when he was not smiling, his face seemed to have a three-point smile.

This appearance is like Maitreya Buddha on the stage, which makes people feel kind at first glance.

Bai Ling was slightly blessed, and just asked, "I don't know if my father-in-law is respectful?" Behind him, Bai Shijun called in a low voice, "Bai Ling, I've seen Gonggong Qiu soon!" ”

The man folded his hands in front of him and bowed down with a smile, "Don't dare to be, my surname is Qiu, and I follow the Banzai Lord to do things on weekdays." ”

Bai Ling and Bai Yi were both stunned, and the one who came today was actually the person personally appointed by Emperor Jianxi.

Gonggong Qiu looked around, shook his head, and looked at Bai Shijun, "Imperial Doctor Bai, your courtyard is also a little broken." ”

Bai Shijun replied with embarrassment, "Father-in-law is smiling." ”

"Hey, you're in your forties, aren't you?"

Bai Shijun said sneeringly, "Yes." ”

Gonggong Qiu sighed, "The old man of the Sprinkle family heard that forty is not Huo, why are you still like a stunned young man everywhere." In the end, he has children and daughters, and he is so indifferent when he does things! ”

Bai Shijun didn't understand yet, and Bai Ling next to him had already laughed.

Father-in-law Qiu swept the dust in his hand, "Please, the sedan chairs of the three are ready outside." ”

When she went out and entered the sedan chair, Bai Ling found that the feeling under the seat was different, and as soon as she looked down, she found that yesterday's straw mat had been replaced with a soft cushion today.

Bai Ling gently stroked the smooth satin on the outside of the cushion, and it seemed that the feedback from the concubine this morning was good...... It's just that for some reason, she still feels a little uneasy.

The sedan chair walked all the way in, and Bai Ling rested with his eyes closed. After about a quarter of an hour, there was a sudden sound of gongs and drums and horns outside, and the sedan chair stopped, and she opened the sedan curtain to look out.

This place is not far from the noon gate, and Gonggong Qiu stood at the front of the sedan caravan, looking at the palace gate with his head held high, waiting quietly.

Directly in front of him, the originally empty Wumen Square was so lively today, not only was it full of onlookers, but the long queue of lile stood on both sides of the palace gate, and a mighty team was slowly heading towards the palace gate.

In the ranks, the ironclad soldiers with red tassel spears rode white horses, and in front of them there was a veteran wearing a silver helmet, who carried two long swords at his waist, his posture was straight, and his white beard was tied into a bundle with red rope, which looked very heroic and heroic.

Bai Ling was a little curious, "Who is that?" ”