After a while, Bai Yi came back with a food box.

No one wants to cook today, so he went out to buy ready-made food and came back to eat.

Bai Ling didn't eat much at the table, Bai Shijun asked her if she was uncomfortable, Bai Ling shook his head, "I have to get up early tomorrow morning, I will have to sleep in a while, and my stomach will be uncomfortable when I eat too much." ”

"Early riser?" Bai Yi was stunned for a moment, "Tomorrow Xiu Mu, where are you going?" ”

"I want to go see Grandpa Huang." Bai Ling replied.

"Do you want me to come with you?" Bai Yi asked, "What about Fourteen, will he go with you?" ”

"No, no, you all have your own things to do tomorrow, go about your own business." Bai Ling said softly, "From here to Emperor Jianxi's Yongling, I take the official road, I go during the day, hire a carriage to go back and forth, go in the morning and come back in the afternoon, there will be no danger on the road." ”

Although Bai Yi was a little uneasy, he was right when he thought about Bai Ling's words carefully - who wouldn't think of running away and plundering on this kind of official road?

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From Pingjing City to the Yongling Tomb of Emperor Jianxi, all the way down.

Some of the snow that had fallen on the previous sun had turned into muddy water and frozen into ice on the ground. The carriage went very slowly, and Bai Ling sat in the carriage, looking out the window in a daze.

With the feeling of parting, the inside and outside of Pingjing City became more lovely than any other season.

Most of the guards in Yongling knew Bai Ling, and she would basically come once a year during Qingming and Zhongyuan, and the emperor allowed her to come here to visit and pay tribute to the old people.

Arriving at the entrance, Bai Ling put on his cloak and got out of the car.

She walked through a long stone path lined with statues of beasts and some unmelted remnants of snow falling on them.

Emperor Jianxi's Yongling Tomb is very large, and it seems to be more empty than ever in the winter when no one is there.

Bai Ling turned at a fork in the stone path and walked to a low bungalow beside him.

Pushing open a hidden wooden door, Bai Ling stepped into the courtyard, where Qiu Shi was sweeping the snow with his neck bent.

"Grandpa Qiu," Bai Ling shouted.

Qiu Shi turned his head, first a little surprised, and then laughed, "Bai Siyao, why are you here at this time?" ”

"I got a few new good things the other day," Bai Ling smiled, "It's cold outside, let's go inside?" ”

The two entered the house.

However, even in the room, it was not much warmer than outside, and Bai Ling could not even untie his cloak, so he could only sit on a chair and gently stomp his feet and rub his hands.

"Why doesn't Si Yao remember to bring a hand stove?" Qiu Shi said this, and poured a cup of hot tea for Bai Ling.

"I was supposed to bring it," Bai Ling took the cup and warmed his hands, "...... I forgot it in the car when I got down. ”

Qiu Shi laughed.

In the past few years, Qiu Shi's whole person has lost a lot of weight, and his hair has quickly turned half white.

He looks much older than Bai Shijun now, and his whole person shows an old state.

After Huang Chongde passed away, Chen Yicong moved him into Yongling according to the usual practice - he was Emperor Jianxi's closest minister, and after his death, he naturally had to follow the emperor to serve in the underworld.

It was at that time that Qiu Shi took the initiative to go to Emperor Jianxi's Yongling to guard the emperor's spirit, and Chen Yicong agreed.

Bai Ling put the burden that he had been holding in his arms on the table, "This seems to have been brought from the north, and I basically shrunk in the house in winter, so it's useless to hold this." ”

Qiu Shi responded, and came over to unpack the burden with curiosity and looked at it, there were a few knee pads in it, which seemed to be wolf skin, and it was very soft to the touch, not prickly at all.

"Hey, but it helped a lot," Qiu Shi's eyes lit up, "It's nothing to be frozen on my body, and when my knees are cold, it can be regarded as killing me!" ”

Bai Ling laughed, "Then my father-in-law put it away, I heard that this thing can't be washed, if it's dirty, take a brush and dip it in wine to brush it-"

"Yes, I know." Qiu Shi grinned and put away his knee pads.

Whenever this happens, Bai Ling feels that the magpie father-in-law from the past has returned.

She drank tea and drank Qiu Shi while chatting about her life in the past six months - everything in Yongling is the same, Qiu Shi still felt lonely in the early years, and recently he has become more and more accustomed to it.

Every day, I get up, wash, go to the grave of Huang Gonggong nearby, sweep the floor, raise the stove to cook rice or roast the fire, and the day passes in the blink of an eye.

"That's right!" Qiu Shi suddenly remembered, he turned around and ran to the corner, lifted a somewhat old cloth cover, and took out a flat basket from underneath, "Come and taste this, what about the golden dates that Lao Yuan gave me." ”

These golden dates are in excellent condition, Bai Ling took one and tasted it, and the taste was indeed very good.

"I usually keep these good things, so that no one from above will check them, and when they see good things, they will take them for me." Qiu Shi pushed the jujube basket towards Bai Ling, "You eat more." ”

"No," Bai Ling laughed, "I still want to go see Grandpa Huang, the carriage is still waiting outside, I have to go back early later." ”

Qiu Shi was stunned for a moment, "It's also so far away here, it's late and the sky is dark, and the road is not easy to walk." ”

After a while, Qiu Shi sent Bai Ling out, but Bai Ling refused Qiu Shi's send-off, and went to Huang Chongde's lonely grave alone.

Huang Chongde's tomb was built in a grand manner.

You have to first step on a set of three-story steps, then walk a few steps forward, and then step on a set of three-story steps to see Huang Chongde's tombstone.

This is far more than the specifications of a palm print eunuch, but this is what Emperor Jianxi has planned early on.

The whole cemetery relies on this gentle slope, and after climbing the steps, there is a semi-circular platform, and Huang Chongde's grave is stacked with regular blue bricks, and sits in the middle of this semicircle.

The wind blew a dead leaf from nowhere, falling on the snow of Huang Chongde's tombstone, Bai Ling stepped forward and pinched the leaf and threw it aside.

Bai Ling placed the lower edge of his cloak on the ground and sat down in front of Huang Chongde's tombstone.

"Father-in-law Huang, I haven't seen you for half a year, I'll come to see you.

"I'm here to say goodbye to you today, it's close to the emperor's cemetery, I don't know if my mother can hear me, if not, my father-in-law will also help me say it, after all, Niangniang's tomb is next to the emperor, and I can't go in."

Bai Ling adjusted his sitting position.

"Anyway...... I'm going to leave here soon, and my father-in-law should have seen the little preparations in the past few years...... There is something I have never mentioned to my father-in-law, in fact, I have not mentioned it to anyone except Bai Yi over the years.

"I'm not from here." Bai Ling said seriously, "I don't know where the baby girl rescued by my father-in-law went back then, maybe she went to my world or something else...... I'm not sure.

"I think that since I am here to say goodbye to my husband today, I should also thank you as my true identity."

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