After the crowd dispersed, Qu walked to the cardboard where Bai Ling had been standing, and Zheng Shu brought a candle and placed it in front of Qu's eyes.

Qu saw that words such as "mean", "median", "mode" and so on were written on it, followed by a bunch of verbal calculus, which seemed to be teaching arithmetic.

"What are these?"

"Hui Niangniang, it's what I'm going to talk about in the hospital later this month." Bai Ling looked at the cardboard and said softly, "After all, I have never given a lecture to students who have no foundation before, so I will give Qinglian a trial lecture in the palace first, so I can find a rhythm." ”

"I've never lectured to a student like this before," Qu repeated in a low voice, asking with some curiosity, "have you lectured to anyone else?" ”

"Well, I told Bai Yi." Bai Ling quickly took over, glancing at the expressions of the people present, and everyone seemed to quickly accept the explanation.

It can be difficult to keep in mind that your body is only eleven years old.

Qu Shi looked at the handout in Qinglian's hand on the side, stretched out his hand and said, "Show it to me?" ”

"Niangniang, the light is dim here, be careful to see your eyes bad," Zheng Shu said in a low voice, "It's better to go back to the house, let's light the lamp and look again." ”

Qinglian was about to step forward and hand over the handouts, but Bai Ling had already blocked her, "I'm afraid it's not appropriate for Niangniang, the only handout that can be used now is Qinglian's handout, and tonight's homework is still waiting for this manuscript." If Niangniang is interested, I will tell Niangniang again in two days. As she spoke, she smiled and said, "Try to talk tonight, and sure enough, there are many existing places that need some adjustments." ”

When Qu Shi heard this, he withdrew his hand, "Okay, then Bengong will wait." ”

Zheng Shu watched from the sidelines, and only felt that Bai Ling's actions all night made her look a little unpleasant.

This girl is a little talented, and her means in many things are better than those around her, but she is a little too ostentatious and disobedient.

It's just a handout, what does it matter if the palace maids delay one night and let the concubine read it first? This is even a matter of contention, if she met such a subordinate in Qu Mansion before, Zheng Shu must have gone up to sharpen her temperament.

It's just that many things have to be done by Bai Ling now, and the concubine also values her, so she can only be allowed to be so arbitrary for the time being.

Early the next morning, Bai Ling packed his bags early.

The sedan chair in the palace had stopped outside the noon gate, and Bai Yi was already waiting there.

More than a dozen guards waited at the gate of the Chengqian Palace early in the morning. After Bai Ling came out, they walked half in front of Bai Ling, half behind Bai Ling, and kept her in the middle.

Such a team was more conspicuous than Bai Ling had expected, but after all, there were other arrangements for today's fourteenth, and no one was secretly protecting each other, so it was good to make such a momentum that no one should enter.

The brother and sister got on the sedan chair together from the noon gate, went out to the Donglin Temple, walked for more than an hour from the foot of the Dongshan Mountain, and waited for the two to arrive at the destination, respectively, from the sedan chair, only to show that the scene in front of them was really staggering

I saw that the mountains and fields were full of people who came to pray for Donglin Temple, men, women and children helped each other, and the crowd was like a dense ant dragon, slowly moving upward.

There are also a few people in the crowd who turn back to the mountain by the same route, often holding a large bundle of cedar in their hands, and they can recognize it at a glance, which is the Buddha bone incense that Mrs. Qu once brought to the Chengqian Palace.

"Are there any other ways up the mountain?" Bai Ling looked at the crowded mountain road and looked at the palace people who had followed him alongside.

"Back to the medicine, it's gone." The eunuch's expression looked a little embarrassed, "Originally, the road up the mountain had been sealed because of the rebuilding of the plank road and temple in Donglin Temple, and now there are only four paths up the mountain, which were occupied by the nearby people last night."

Bai Ling and Bai Yi glanced at each other.

"Then let's walk up the hill as well," Bai Ling turned around and casually nodded to two guards who looked tall, "You two go up the mountain with us, and the other guards can be on standby at the foot of the mountain first." ”

The guards immediately gathered their ranks and went to the woods to rest and wait. Two guards who were ordered to take the lead walked in front, and two eunuchs who had followed from the palace walked behind the two siblings.

The old stone-paved mountain path was already full of people, and there was no room for new visitors, so they had to go up the dirt road on the side, even though it was full of pedestrians like them.

"These people are all going to Donglin Temple?" Bai Yi looked at the crowd and asked the eunuch behind him in a low voice.

"yes." The eunuch replied, with a little pity in his eyes, "Donglin Temple is the holy place of Buddhism in my Pingjing area after all, and there was a fire last night, I am afraid that it has attracted all the good men and women of the hundred and ten miles." ”

Bai Yi frowned and sighed incomprehensibly, "What's so nice about this?" ”

"We're here to see Master Hui Shi." The woman on the side suddenly interjected, and as soon as Bai Yi wanted to ask a few more words, the woman was pulled back by the man beside her, and the red-clothed eunuch and the Praetorian Guard who followed Bai Yi and Bai Ling all made their special identities self-evident. If Shengdou Xiaomin has any contact with such a person, he doesn't know what kind of trouble he will cause to himself in the future.

Bai Ling and Bai Yi also quickly understood this, and the two of them also withdrew their gazes and concentrated on walking up without squinting. It was only the words "Master Hui Shi" that fell into Bai Ling's ears, and she quickly noticed that there were people in the crowd who came wearing linen hats and filial piety clothes.

Sure enough, when the two of them walked halfway up the mountain, they saw layers of garlands piled up on the side of the mountain gate of Donglin Temple, and the white curtain of each wreath hanging down read "Master Hui Shi through the ages".

When the crowd walked here, they could already hear the mournful voices of the crowd.

Somehow, Bai Ling suddenly remembered the night when Jiang San sent Jinyi guards to surround his house, and the mountain people outside the city had also come to visit him like this. She was pushed by the crowd to a wreath, and people on all sides folded their hands and chanted in whispers, many with tears on their faces.

Bai Ling looked at it for a while, and bowed lightly to the garland like someone else.

Continuing to walk up, the number of people gradually decreased, and the monks who came to greet them talked about the events of last night, the fire started in the West Guest House, but there was basically no one in that area on weekdays, until the fire broke up, and everyone appeared, but it was too late at that time.

Donglin Temple has closed all the mountain roads above the mountainside since last night, although the fire has been extinguished, but the burned temple is in danger of collapsing at any time, so the presiding officer of Donglin Temple, Master Xuyun, ordered the temple to be closed. If it weren't for Bai Ling holding the prayer post from the concubine, she wouldn't have been able to go up the mountain today.

"I wonder who Master Hui Shi is?" Bai Ling asked.

"Ah, this is a wandering monk in our temple, and he doesn't come back much on weekdays," the monk had a little sadness on his face, "but Uncle Shi happened to be in the temple yesterday, and he was also the first person to ask everyone to put out the fire, but he was hit by the burned beam."