This passage of text that I memorized backwards when I was an undergraduate, in other words, it is not difficult to understand that when a person is faced with the inevitable possibility of bias and has to choose the lesser of two evils, he would rather "return to the mountain with the tiger" than "kill three thousand by mistake".

It's a pity to miss the "Tiger", but there are always thousands of ways to re-verify and recapture, but if there is a manslaughter and the wrong conclusion is carried out as correct, then all subsequent efforts may be completely worthless because of this behavior.

Admittedly, this is just a statistical law applied to writing, and it is probably extremely absurd to extend it directly to reality, but Bai Ling looked at this short piece of manuscript and suddenly felt that he had found a very important support in this difficult left-right struggle.

In the opposite direction of intuition and evidence, she eventually chose to believe the former with some trepidation.

But it may also not be intuitive at all

Maybe she just didn't want to see these two sisters die because of her own words when the matter is not confirmed

Maybe she just can't harden her heart and be determined to stop even at the expense of the innocent......

Or is it something that is engraved in her bones, some kind of modernity weakness?

Bai Ling was not sure, but it was strange that once the choice was made, the next thing to do came to mind.

At this time, the door rang, and it was the people who came to tell her to go to the main hall to reply. Bai Ling answered, briefly recounted what he had seen and heard last night in his mind, looked at the manuscript in his hand for the last time, and walked out quickly.

……

In the main hall, Qu Shi had already changed into a light summer coat, and he was not lying down or sleeping in a daze as before. Bao Yuan sat at her feet, sewing a new dress in her hand, Qu Shi leaned on the soft pillow to read, looked down from time to time, and said a word or two of suggestions for Bao Yuan to adjust.

Zheng Shu walked in from outside at this time, she brought the peeled fruit, and placed the fruit bowl and bamboo sticks on the low table in Qu's hand.

Behind her, followed Bai Ling, who was full of sleepiness but forced to endure without yawning.

Waiting for the other palace people to retreat, Qu couldn't help laughing, "What good things are there in the Scroll Division, which can make you look underground all night." ”

Bai Ling saluted and rubbed his eyes a little helplessly, "Back to Niangniang, there is no way." The old man who led the way at the bottom of the book division told me that the files of those people I retrieved would be recorded, and I was afraid that there would be implications after this incident, and then someone would see something from my file transfer records, so I took out the files of all the people in the Chengqian Palace and read them carefully. ”

Bao Yuanyuan snorted and laughed, "You are careful!" ”

Zheng Shu was about to laugh, but suddenly remembered something, and frowned slightly, "Have you read everyone's?" ”

“…… Yes, because I read that the handwritten edict brought by the lady before, the reason why I want to check the palace people's files is because our own inner palace roster is polluted by water, and the mother wants to allocate some rewards to the palace people's families after the flower viewing party, and I need to take the original to do a verification, so as not to have false reports and false positives. ”

Bai Ling raised his eyes, with a somewhat serious and frank look in his eyes, "So I checked everyone's files, including Granny Shu and Sister Baoyuan...... It's a bit of a faux pas. ”

Bao Yuan was also stunned for a moment, then looked up at Qu Shi and said with a smile, "Niangniang, the slave maid looks at Bai Ling, this girl is really bad, last time she asked the slave maid what her surname was, the slave maid didn't tell her, she took advantage of this time to go to the Register Division for personal gain!" ”

Zheng Shu also glanced at Qu Shi, but Qu Shi who was sitting there was still smiling like Fang Cai, so it can be seen that he didn't think this matter was so inappropriate.

It's just that she suddenly thought that even her bottom was turned over by the little girl in front of her, Zheng Shu was still a little awkward, she thought about it, and could only frown and sigh, "Just read it, but out of the Archives Division, you have never seen any files next to it." ”

"Hmm." Bai Ling nodded, "I understand. ”

"Granny Shu doesn't have to be so close to the enemy...... Qu Shi smiled and soothed, "Bai Ling's mouth has always been very strict. ”

"It's always good to be careful." Zheng Shu hurriedly nodded in response, and then looked at Bai Ling, "Then do you see any clues?" ”

"Yes, I'll say it one by one." Bai Ling said softly.

During this trip to the Book Division, in addition to discovering the background of Qinglian and Chulan, she also noticed that a person was the father-in-law who had come to listen to her and Bai Yi on behalf of Emperor Jianxi before, Jia Yuchun.

Among the more than a dozen new palace people, seven of them were recommended by him, four of whom Bai Ling had no impression at all, and two of them should be relatively old mothers-in-law from their age, and the other two were in their early twenties who had served the old lady in the palace before, and they had also served several beauties.

And the remaining three people are Qinglian, Chulan and Rouge.

That's where it gets interesting.

Although these people are of different ages and have very different past experiences, when comparing all the files in one place, Bai Ling found that they all have a common feature that they have all spent a period of time in the Jiazi library, as little as half a year and as long as five or six years.

It's a pity that Bai Ling didn't have the authority to check the files of the eunuchs, otherwise she really wanted to see what the connection was between this Jia Gonggong and Jiaziku.

Zheng Shu frowned after hearing this, and suddenly seemed to be startled as if she remembered something, "...... The one in Chuxiu Palace, did he also spend more than half a month in the Jiazi library before? ”

Bao Yuan was slightly stunned, and immediately gasped...... Wasn't Lin Jieyu the weaving lady of the A-word library from the beginning?

Seeing that Zheng Shu and Bao Yuan were both surprised, Bai Ling couldn't help asking, "What?" ”

"It's the forty-second year of Jianxi," Bao Yuan replied quickly, "At that time, a new batch of Shu brocade from the southwest was received in the Jiazi Library, which was waiting for the Lord to be used as a reward, but when I sent it, I found that the pattern violated the taboo in our palace...... I remember that at that time, almost all the embroidery girls in the scarf and hat bureau were sent to add needles and threads to Shu Jin, and change their appearance, but in this way, there were still not enough people, and it was not good to recruit other embroidery girls from the people with great fanfare, so the deputy envoy of the Jiazi library slapped his head, and moved a group of people from the teaching workshop to come to work, and proposed a temporary name called the weaving lady. ”

Speaking of this, Bao Yuanling raised her eyebrows, "As a result, I came to Chuxiu Palace, and I don't know what means I used to seduce Long Live Lord, so I only entered the palace for half a month, and I directly became a waiter!" ”

"Bao Yuan," Qu frowned, his tone unusually stern, "don't talk about people like that behind your back. ”。