Chapter 9 The Way of Man
Although the Great Zhou Dynasty was not as open as the previous dynasty, it was no longer a stubbornly closed era.
Of course, this is a privilege only for the favored ladies.
Bai Jinghao has always been transparent in the house, and it is impossible to ask Qin Rou for permission for this.
But in order to indulge her so-called private meeting, Qin Rou instigated the mother-in-law guarding the door to deliberately release water.
Bai Jing walked generously in the back alley of Baifu, the alley was quiet, and she leaned on the corner of the corner at the corner and waited.
"Miss, it's almost time, aren't we going yet?" Er Kite's face was anxious.
"What's the hurry, there's still half an hour."
Bai Jing looked at the front of her, the narrow alley was empty and empty, and the sky was still a little stuffy, she raised her hand and fanned it with a brocade handkerchief.
This gesture ...... Erkite looked away.
After a while, she couldn't help it, pulled down her master's hand and said, "Miss, pay attention!" I knew that the slave maid came out with a fan. ”
Bai Jing laughed brightly, opened her lips and asked, "Did you bring something?" ”
Hearing this, Er Kite took out the paper bag from the cuff slowly, and when he handed it over, he had some scruples, and reminded: "Eldest Miss, this is the cartilage powder that the second lady specially asked someone to find, I heard that after taking it, the whole body will soon be powerless to be at the mercy of others, if there are enough medicines, the personnel will be unconscious, and there will be no consciousness." ”
Bai Jinghao stretched out her hand to take it, and was just about to open it to take a closer look, when she was stopped and said, "Miss, be careful, this thing smells and is easy to work." ”
Bai Jing pinched the powder in the paper bag, "That's all there is left?" ”
Er Kite nodded vigorously and replied, "This thing is rare, and the second lady didn't have much weight when she gave it to me." Last time, because it was added to the medicine bowl, and the second lady also wanted to trick you to the lotus pond, the amount was relatively small, and the rest was here. ”
"Done. Since Bai Jinyao specially found it, it is best to use it on her. Bai Jinghao's tone was decisive, and she confirmed again: "Did you tell her that it was Youchu?" ”
"The slaves and maids are all according to your orders, the second lady attaches great importance to His Royal Highness the Taisun, maybe she will go to the Yuelao Temple in advance."
"Later, I will send Bai Jinyao into the Fumen Restaurant, and you will go back to the Yuelao Temple to talk to His Royal Highness, and say that the family rules in the house are strict, and I can't go out, so I will live up to his good intentions."
Er Yuan was puzzled: "You tricked the second lady into going to the Yuelao Temple in advance, and prepared this medicinal powder, isn't it to better meet His Highness?" Miss, do you want to reject His Royal Highness? The words are full of incredulity.
Bai Jinghao said in a complicated tone: "In the past few days, he has asked Imperial Doctor Lu to send various rewards without telling everyone, and in his eyes, I am just a woman who can easily teach him privately, so he will write to me at will to ask me to go out." Do you really think I'm going to have a secret relationship with him, Er Kite? ”
To tell the truth, Er Yuan really thought so in his heart, but at this moment, seeing his master's serious face, he whispered: "You are like this, aren't you worried that His Royal Highness Taisun will blame?" ”
"With his status and status, he can't fight with me. If I really have a relationship with him, not to mention that the eldest lady and the second lady in the palace want to jump to their feet, even the queen and the crown princess in the palace will not allow it. Erkite, you don't just look at His Royal Highness Taisun treating me well and think that he really likes me, right? ”
Er Kite nodded honestly and said innocently: "Isn't it? ”
Bai Jing scoffed, "For men, this is at most an affair, otherwise it wouldn't be so sneaky." I'd be too stupid if I did, and sooner or later I'd become someone else's joke. ”
Bai Jing is very rational in this matter of getting along with Liu Mao, and it is impossible for him to really fall into it after reading a few of his letters of affection.
Er Kite is even more afraid in her heart, the eldest lady can even use His Royal Highness the Grand Sun casually, it's just too bad, but fortunately, she surrendered early and couldn't afford to provoke her.
In order to show herself, she asked again: "Then how will the slave maid take the second lady to Fumen Restaurant?" ”
At this moment, two young men walked from not far away. The two of them, one tall and one fat, were both dressed in the plain cloth clothes of ordinary people, and it was very out of place to appear in such a large area of official residences.
Er Yuan was subconsciously a little scared, took a few steps back and whispered, "Miss, why don't we go back to the house first?" She looked at the two and weren't good people.
Bai Jinghao finally moved, but left the wall and walked towards them.
The two men looked at each other, and the tall man first clenched his fists and spoke: "May I ask if it is the eldest lady of the Bai family?" ”
Bai Jing nodded well, and asked rhetorically to confirm: "The second brother ordered you to come, right?" ”
"Yes, the second master let us listen to the eldest lady's orders tonight."
Bai Jing has been in the boudoir for a long time, and of course she needs manpower to go out to find a job. She turned around and took the money bag that had been prepared a long time ago from Er Kite's hand, "This is today's reward, I will work hard for you later, I don't know what to call the two of you?" ”
"My name is Zhu Si, and he is Liu Wu. Miss, don't be polite to us, the second master said, after the matter is completed, invite our brothers to drink, our whole family's lives are saved by the second master, and we don't need these. The tall man pushed the money bag forward, his tone resolute.
Er Kite suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, I know, my own people! She finally understood why the eldest lady asked her to send a letter to the second young master yesterday, and she dared to find a helper.
Bai Jinghao insisted: "Take it, the second master's wine will be drunk as usual, you will do things for me, this is hard-earned money." ”
Zhu Si and Liu Wu looked at each other, and then accepted it.
Bai Jinghao handed over the medicine bag and the white handkerchief earlier, and asked, "Which of you runs faster?" ”
The chubby Liu Wu immediately replied: "Me! Miss, don't look at me as five big and three thick, but I run very well, when I used to be a pickpocket on the street, I chased after me for most of the capital, and I can easily get rid of people. ”
Er Kite was surprised: "Pickpocket, pickpocket? He hurriedly looked back at his master.
Liu Wu was afraid of scaring them, so he corrected: "At that time, the livelihood was not good, and there was no way, but now it has been improved, and it is still the job that the second master found for me." ”
"Second brother really knows me, and I just need to be quick-sighted. Then you'll steal something for me later. Bai Jing said with a smile.
Liu Wu responded quickly: "Okay, the eldest lady just orders." ”
With them by his side, Bai Jinghao felt a little more relieved after leaving the Baifu range.
She offended Bai Jinyao fiercely about the lotus pond last time, and when she was at home, Qin Rou's mother and daughter had scruples and didn't dare to harm her openly. But now that she knows that she is outside, even if she has the arrangement of Fumen Restaurant, what if Qin Rou and the others regret it and directly find someone to kill her?
After drowning and being reborn from the lotus pond, Bai Jing was extremely sorry for his life.
Tonight is the Qixi Festival, there is a lantern market, the owner of the first restaurant in Beijing also set up a special station, inviting talented and beautiful people to guess lantern riddles and couplet poems, which is very lively.
The ladies of the noble family stay in the boudoir on weekdays, and if they want to be famous, they can only use this kind of festival activities, so they flock to it.
Bai Jinghao couldn't help but smile when she passed by the poetry platform, Bai Jinyao's name as the first talented woman in the Great Zhou Dynasty was obtained in this way.
Er Kite followed beside her, looked at the undisguised master and asked in a low voice, "Miss, do you really not wear a hat?" Isn't that too conspicuous? ”
Bai Jinghao said to the other party's scruples, "Are you afraid that my appearance is too good and cause a commotion?" ”
Er Kite was speechless.
Zhu Si and Liu Wu, who were following behind, looked at each other and laughed silently.
Bai Jinghao calmly walked through the poetry platform and went straight to the Yuelao Temple.
The front of the Yuelao Temple was particularly lively, and she found Bai Jinyao under the Yuelao tree as she wished.
Because she wanted to meet His Royal Highness Taisun privately, she only followed Hua Sui alone.
Bai Jing sneered, she was really bold for her lover.
She beckoned behind her and pointed out Bai Jinyao to Liu Wuzhiren, "Do you see that girl in a pink skirt and a hat?" You go over and grab her jade pendant, grab it and run, but don't run too fast, just attract the maid to chase her out. ”
Liu Wu was very serious and repeatedly recognized Bai Jinyao's face, and replied: "This matter is not difficult, Miss don't worry." After answering the sound, he walked towards the old moon tree.