Chapter 16 The best policy
"Straighten your back......"
Qinglian didn't even repeat this sentence completely.
She stood there a little puzzled—what was Bai Siyao talking about...... Things, where is it so simple?
"Trust me." Bai Ling gathered the manuscript in his hand and waved his hand to Qinglian with one hand, "See you next time." ”
Qinglian came back to her senses and hurriedly waved her hand.
She stood at this end of the palace gate and watched as Bai Ling walked out with light steps and then disappeared around the corner.
What Bai Siyao said today, I always feel a little ...... It's hard to understand.
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In the afternoon, when Bai Ling returned home, there was no one at home.
The smell of food came from the kitchen, and Bai Ling went to the kitchen to see the cold food covered with a bamboo cover on the stove. I think Bai Yi and his father should have come back to eat, but they went out to the hospital again when it was a little while.
She brought a small bench and served her lunch directly in the kitchen with the already cold food, and then fetched water to wash the dishes and make a fire to boil the water.
Once you start doing housework, people's time flies. By the time Bai Ling had done all this, and it was already past the afternoon, she went back to the hall of the old house a little sleepily to rest, and barely lay on the table and squinted for a while.
On this point, the previous Boling did not have much feeling. It was only during the days in Chengqian Palace, when she once again lived a life where she could hand over most of the work to others, that she once again began to estimate how much energy an ordinary person had occupied in the time consumed in these details.
Whenever she did, she missed the microwave, the washing machine, the dishwasher, and the electric kettle—how many people were freed from household chores in an era that no one could have imagined.
Bai Ling went to the yard to fetch water and rinse his face, and then made a record of this morning's consultation alone.
It was only then that she noticed a scribbled note pressed under the candlestick on the table.
"The news from the Tai Hospital just now, we have to go to the General's Mansion again in the afternoon, so we will leave first. Meals are in the kitchen and you heat them up yourself. ”
It's Bai Yi's word.
He seemed to be uneasy, and added another sentence at the bottom of the note, "Be sure to heat it up first, don't try to save trouble." ”
Somewhat amused, Bai Ling put down the note, tucked it to the back pages of his consulting notebook, and began to write in ink. In fact, the topic of today's discussion is very clear - even the clearest topic in the consultation during this period of time, Qu has planned to take the little prince back to the palace at the end of the month to take care of it personally.
For the current Qu family, compared with a single reassurance and emotional guidance, the more urgent need may be professional parenting guidance - Jianxi Dynasty, Prince Gong, who is still alive, is the fifth child of Emperor Jianxi, none of the previous four princes lived past the age of three, and there were several children after Prince Gong, who did not live past the age of five.
Bai Ling faintly felt that this was inseparable from Jianxi's abuse of mercury, but specific matters may still need to be discussed with Bai Yi.
Although this part of the matter is tedious, it is not difficult to do in the final analysis, what really worries Bai Lingji is the detailed conversation between her and the concubine and Zheng Shu in the main hall after the consultation.
It wasn't until today that Bai Ling knew that the method of dealing with rouge in Zheng Shu's mouth before was the same as Lin Jieyu's side - but he wouldn't use such an evil method as witch Gu.
But now that Lin Jieyu is preemptive, and has been sent to the prison of Dali Temple to wait for review, at this time, to find the contact between Rouge and Chuxiu Palace, there is a bit of a sense of falling into the ground, even if the matter is true, I am afraid that it will be regarded by Emperor Jianxi as a kind of clever pressure from the bottom of the kettle.
So, today Bai Ling sat there and listened quietly for a while.
Zheng Shu carefully conveyed several ideas from the old lady's side, mainly how to pull out the poisonous weeds in the palace before taking the little prince back to the palace.
Bai Ling could see that Zheng Shu's words were a little flickering, and because of Bai Ling's presence, she omitted a lot of details-
The next strategy is to find evidence of the docking between Rouge and Chu Xiugong and confront it, and sit on his charges head-on;
The middle strategy is to ignore the truth, and directly act in secret, and transfer all the palace people who are involved with Jia Yuchun and Jiaziku, and then the recruitment of palace personnel will be personally checked by Zheng Shu - this is just a matter of the emperor's words;
As for the best policy...... Zheng Shu hesitated for a long time and didn't say anything.
But Bai Ling can more or less guess that the best strategy on the old lady's side must be to tie herself up and punish her, and no matter how bad it is, she will be driven out of the Chengqian Palace - after all, she is now inextricably linked with Prince Gong, and in the eyes of the Qu family and the Song family, it is more or less a hidden danger.
But Bai Ling didn't really care about that.
It was not the first time she had felt the malice on Old Madam Qu's side. In contrast, today's concubine directly asked her to listen to Old Madam Qu's words in the main hall, which made Bai Ling a little moved, because this was almost directly informing Old Madam Qu of Bai Ling's weight in the concubine.
When Zheng Shu transmitted the dialogue between the three people in the Chengqian Palace back to the Qu family tonight, the old lady was probably furious again.
Bai Ling scratched his head.
But what can be done about this, the rebellion and awakening in adulthood are always much more turbulent than in youth, old lady Qu...... Sooner or later, you'll understand this.
And Rouge's side......
Bai Ling put down the pen, put the whole person on the chair, and thought carefully.
Actually, there is indeed a best strategy, but she can't say it yet.
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In the evening, it began to rain again, and Bai Ling boiled two more pots of hot water for preparation, and waited at home alone for a long time. It wasn't until the rain was about to stop that she heard footsteps outside.
She immediately picked up an umbrella and went to the courtyard to open the door.
Outside was indeed Bai Yi and Bai Shijun, although they were both wearing hats, they were still covered with muddy water below their knees. The two quickly ran back to the eaves of the old house, and took off their shoes and changed their clothes.
Bai Ling brought two bowls of hot water and placed them on the table.
"How's it going today?" Bai Ling asked, "Is there any new progress over there in the General's Mansion?" ”
Bai Yi sat down and said in a low voice, "There is new news, but the progress is not counted." ”
Bai Ling looked at him with some concern, "What's wrong?" ”
Bai Yi took apart his hair with one hand, wiped the water droplets on it with a dry towel, and said in a low voice, "At noon today, the General's Mansion suddenly sent someone to the Tai Hospital, saying that he wanted to pick us up, but my father and I had already gone home at that time. So the two of us basically finished eating, and we were carried away by the adjutants last night. ”