251 Life and death

The scenery of the Zhongguo Mansion is still the same, but the owner Lin Pingzi is not at home. Since Yang Heng officially took power, Lin Pingzi, Lu Ying and other people who had been deliberately idle before have been used again, one of them is responsible for managing the Royal Forest Army, and the other is in charge of the household department, and they are all too busy to touch the ground.

However, after getting the news that the Bai family had entered Beijing, they quickly explained the affairs at hand and rushed back, and Bai Poria and their luggage had not been completely packed, so Lu Ying and Lin Pingzi arrived one after another.

After more than two years of separation, although there was correspondence from time to time, they were not as happy as seeing each other in person, Lu Ying also stayed in the Guogong Mansion that night, and everyone talked about their life after saying goodbye together.

Lin Pingzi and Lu Ying were pulled on the thief ship by Yang Heng early for their own purposes, and in the past two years, they have been idle and depressed on the surface, but in fact, they have secretly done a lot of things for Yang Heng, and now there is nothing to hide.

Lu Ying is still the calm and stable and reliable big brother posture, Lin Pingzi has changed relatively greatly, the previous coquettish and exaggerated style has been much more restrained, and he has a little more deep and mature husbandly bearing.

Bai Poria looked at it and secretly praised, this guy is standing up now, there are definitely more women who are fascinated than before, and he hasn't talked about marriage in the capital for two years, it's amazing! The ladies and ladies in the capital are blind, and they actually let go of such a big golden turtle with excellent sales and rich wealth? She remembered that he was very popular before, and the matchmaker just didn't close the threshold.

But after thinking about it carefully, I understood that in the eyes of most people in the past two years, Lin Pingzi, a young and handsome grandfather, was suspicious of the emperor, and as His Royal Highness lost power and became a promising idler with an unknown title, those snobs in the capital naturally refused to risk their daughters.

Bai Poria looked at Lu Ying and Lin Pingzi, these two people were also looking at her, Lin Pingzi changed his face to show a look, and sighed in admiration: "Sure enough, it's the eighteenth change of the female college, cousin, you are really getting more and more beautiful, and you don't lose your life!" ”

Bai Poria raised her little face and snorted: "Sure enough, you have been in the capital for two years, and you are even stupid with your mouth, this is a cliché many years ago, and you are embarrassed to take it out and use it, no wonder you still can't get a wife!" ”

Lin Pingzi's ass didn't touch his nose, and he said stupidly: "Who said that I can't get a wife, I want to marry a wife, it's the loss of all the young ladies and daughters in Qi Kingdom." ”

As soon as the white Poria stretched out his paws, he went to pull his cheek: "I'll see how thick your skin is!" Lin Pingzi was shocked and hurriedly hid his face and fled. The Bai family laughed loudly, and even Lu Ying showed a rare smile.

It's just that when Lin Pingzi turned his back to everyone, his brows were tightly twisted, and only sorrow was left on his face - the appearance of the white poria was bright and pleasant, but in his eyes, it seemed to be a flower in full bloom, and it might fall from the branches in the next moment, her early death did not change in the slightest, and from the breath between the eyebrows, the limit was very close...... Half a year at most, three months at least.

I don't know who slapped him the shoulder, Lin Pingzi trembled and turned his head, and saw Bai Poria standing behind him, and said with a smile: "Even if you are ashamed, you don't have to hide from people, I just don't pull your face." ”

Lin Pingzi was frightened for a while, trying to pull out a smile, but he was in a heavy mood, and the appearance of laughing was more ugly than crying.

Bai Poria has been with him for many years, and when he saw his expression, he knew that he was really worried about her face and Yangshou, so he lowered his voice and said, "Don't think about it so much, I'll tell you more when I get back." ”

Lin Pingzi thought that there was a turnaround, and his face suddenly turned cloudy, and he hooked her shoulders like before, bowed his head and said with a wicked smile: "Bai Guo said that Miss is with that sea pumice stone...... Hey, hey, hey......"

Bai Poria glanced at him, shook off his arm and said: "Be nosy, worry about yourself, you are old, if you don't hurry up, people will be yellow to see who wants you!" ”

The two talked and laughed, but in Bai Changshan's eyes, they were a little too affectionate, he had considered letting Lin Pingzi be his grandson-in-law, no matter how they looked and identified, they were quite a match, and the two were said to be "childhood sweethearts", to what extent these people in the Bai family were obedient and obedient to her granddaughter He had verified it with his own eyes, if Bai Poria and Lin Pingzi got married, although it was inconvenient to get married, but this life would definitely make Bai Poria live a smooth life.

It's a pity that this idea was vetoed by his son and daughter-in-law early on, and now looking at the two of them smiling and laughing, they can't help but be secretly helpless.

Bai Poria pulled Lu Ying to look at her two younger brothers, and smiled and coaxed: "Good little pig, come and call my brother!" My sister has found you the most powerful brother in the world, you are so happy. ”

The two little dolls had been educated by her before they came, and the two pairs of round eyes looked at Bai Poria and then at Lu Ying, and opened their mouths wide and shouted loudly: "Quack, quack!" ”

Bai Poria was embarrassed by their ridiculous screams, poked their chubby little faces and corrected them vigorously: "Brother! It's my brother! Call again! ”

Lu Ying laughed, Bai Poria corrected it twice, and the two little dolls finally made a standard "brother", Bai Poria happily took a bite on their faces, and then picked up one of them and said to Lu Ying: "You hug and see, it's soft and fun!" ”

Lu Ying's expression froze, and she excused herself: "I won't hug it, what if I accidentally hurt them?" "It is easier for him to lift the stone beast in front of the gate of the Guogong Mansion than it is to hold a delicate little doll. In particular, he knows the importance of these two children to his father-in-law's family, what can he do if there is any injury on his hands?

Bai Poria said disapprerovingly: "Didn't you often take me around to play back then?" ”

Lu Ying remembered the days when he first arrived at the Bai family, his expression was as soft as water, it was the most lively day of his life......

Mu Peilan just turned her head to listen to her daughter's words, and scolded with a smile: "You are embarrassed to say that Lu Ying was only a teenager at that time, and she was very thin, and she had to carry you around all day long, and she didn't dare to say anything when her arm was strained." ”

Bai Poria sneered: "I wasn't very heavy at that time...... "When she was three years old, because of her long-term illness, she looked like a two-year-old baby, thin and small Hu Chai stick, although Lu Ying was thin and skinny because she couldn't eat enough for a long time, but her foundation was much better than her, and her height was very different from Bai Poria Cocos, and Bai Poria didn't expect that she would cause him such a big burden.

Lu Ying hesitated for a moment, reached out and patted Bai Poria on the shoulder, and defended her in a low voice: "It's me who forgot to move my arms when I was crazy, and I didn't do Ling'er's business." ”

Mu Peilan sighed: "You just get used to her." Although the words were condemned and helpless, everyone could see that she didn't know how happy Lu Ying was to protect her daughter like this.

That night, the family drank and feasted in the flower hall regardless of the master and servant, Lin Pingzi was pulled over by Bai Awu and they poured wine, and several members of the Bai family sat around to eat, and only then served the first dish, and the housekeeper outside hurriedly ran in to report, saying that His Royal Highness heard that Bai Ge had returned to Beijing, and specially sent the inner servants in the prince's mansion to inquire.

The waiter's surname is Wen, and he is one of the most trusted people around Yang Heng, and he is familiar with Lin Pingzi and others, and Lin Pingzi dressed up and went out to greet him.

Gonggong Wen walked into the flower hall while greeting Lin Pingzi, and when he saw Bai Changshan and the others, he stepped forward to salute, his attitude was very respectful, and he ordered the little eunuch who came with him to send a bunch of gifts.

According to Yang Heng's status now equivalent to the emperor, it didn't have to be like this, and whoever Gonggong Wen went to now, only others would give him a salute, but Yang Heng's attitude was there, and Gonggong Wen naturally didn't dare to be self-conscious, and he put away his indifferent attitude of ignoring the general ministers on weekdays, and only sat in the Guogong Mansion for a while, and then said goodbye and left.

Bai Poria and Yang Heng are not used to it, they don't think there is anything about it, but Bai Changshan knows that Yang Heng is expressing his sincerity and attention, and he has a good impression of him.

A feast to eat all the way to late at night, everyone went back to the room to rest, Bai Poria returned to the room and saw a pot of epiphany on the small table by the window, the jade white graceful flowers are blooming in the night breeze, the fragrance is overflowing and intoxicating.

Lilac and Bai Guo, who followed her into the room and planned to serve her to bathe and sleep, couldn't help but admire when they saw her, and Bai Guo snorted: "Pingzi's ability to coax girls is becoming more and more refined!" ”

This is the Guogong Mansion, and it is extremely difficult for outsiders to send such a large pot of flowers in silently without alarming anyone, so Bai Guo only thought that Lin Pingzi was happy for Miss Lin, and did not consider other possibilities at all.

"Huh? What about the raccoon flowers? Sneaking out to play? Bai Guo looked left and right, and found that the evil cat was not there, and immediately relaxed.

Bai Poria stretched out her fingers and gently touched the delicate white petals, knowing that this was most likely sent by Gansui...... The other person must be in the capital, and he will come to the door on the nineteenth tonight. I don't know where the little raccoon flower was got by him? If the little raccoon flowers are there, most of the epiphany in this pot has become a remnant flower by now.

In the past, Poria must have been very worried about the safety of the little raccoon, but now...... It was too late to please her, and she would definitely not hurt the little civet flower, so she didn't rush to find the cat, took a comfortable bath, and then went to bed.

Sure enough, not long after she fell asleep that night, a certain big devil sneaked in silently, and found that she was not asleep, so he had to take off his coat, shoes and socks inch by inch, lie down beside her and hold her firmly.

Taking a deep breath of the fragrant breath of the beauty in his arms, he complained in a low voice: "Why did it take so long for you to enter Beijing, let me wait." ”

Bai Poria pillowed his arm and said lazily, "Don't you have a lot of things to do?" ”

Gan Sui was very dissatisfied with her unhurried attitude, but he couldn't hold back and kissed Bai Poria for a while.

Bai Poria couldn't bear to be disturbed, so she had to bury her face in his arms, wrap her waist around him and not speak.

"This side of the capital only waits for the kid's enthronement ceremony to be completed, and then I can leave, and in a few months at most, I won't have to be busy with anything else, and I will only be busy with your and my family affairs at that time." Gan Sui's mood quickly improved because of her initiative to be close.

"A few months?" Bai Poria repeated a little dazedly, and there was no follow-up.

A few months later, she was probably buried in the mortuary......

Gan Sui couldn't see the complicated expression on her face, and whispered in her ear about his plan: "Do you like to hold a wedding in the capital or in Baili Mountain, Haizhou is not bad...... Wuhuashan Wulin League can also be. ”

The last sentence has a cautious sense of temptation, since that incident, the Wulin League has become a "forbidden place" that Bai Poria is unwilling to mention, and he is not sure whether Bai Poria is forgiving him now, or if he has other ideas and calculations. He really wanted to find out what she was thinking, but he was afraid that if he did, he would be unable to bear it, so he could only test it by chance.

"I haven't forgiven you yet!" Poria cocos' voice was muffled.

"You'll forgive me someday!" Gan Sui seemed to be making a bet: "You will be with me for the rest of your life, I will be very good to you, so that you will never want to leave me again!" ”

Bai Poria didn't answer, opened her mouth and bit his chest.

The next day, outside the Zhongguo Mansion, there were many stewards from the families of the noble courtiers who came to send posts to visit Bai Changshan, and Lin Pingzi invited Bai Bian'er to sit in the town and replied politely one by one. Many stewards took the opportunity to deliver the post and secretly inquired about the news from the people in the house.

The servants in the Zhongguo Mansion were all carefully selected, and all of them were from the small village managed by Baizhu outside the capital, and it was difficult for others to listen to useful information from their mouths, and they all returned disappointed.

However, there are many pairs of eyes in the capital that looked at Bai Changshan before returning to the capital, and Gonggong Wen personally came to the door to send gifts and greetings, and the fool understood which way the wind was going to blow next.

Bai Changshan has been an official in Beijing for decades, has a wide range of contacts, his protégés are old, and his colleagues and subordinates are too many to count, no matter how deliberately low-key he is, some entertainment is inevitable.

However, Bai Poria found that although her grandfather occasionally showed fatigue, she quickly planned all kinds of big things to do after her reinstatement, and she felt that it was right to let her grandfather go back to the capital to shine, and her grandfather was far away in the capital, what did she have, and it was easier to hide the news for the time being.

When the two younger brothers grow up, they can hold the corners of his clothes and be naughty, even if he knows the news of his death, the time of sadness and grief can be shorter.

In addition, she also found an opportunity to tell Lin Pingzi about herself, Lin Pingzi couldn't accept it for a while, and she wanted to resign from all her positions to concentrate on studying family heirlooms at home, and she had to find a way to crack it.

"Life and death are fate, I have borrowed from the Bodhisattva for the past fifteen years, and it is useless to be reluctant, I have lived enough, and I have no regrets, the more you can't let go of me, it will only make me more sad, and I will die uncomfortably." Bai Poria smiled bitterly.

Lin Pingzi slammed the sandalwood desk in the study, and for the first time in his life, he said to Bai Poria in a rough voice: "Everyone is happy if you survive, why did you give up hope early?" If you can borrow for fifteen years, why can't you borrow another fifty or a hundred years? ”

Bai Poria was stunned for a moment, the king of Hades wants you to die in the third watch, how can you keep people until the fifth watch, not to mention that she can't see the judge of Hades and the Bodhisattva of the king of Hades now, even if she wants to, she has nowhere to beg......

Moreover, Lin Pingzi is really right, she really never thought about how to renew her life, from the first day she came to this world, all she thought about was how to complete the grand project of saving 10,000 people before the age of eighteen.

She had never seen Lin Pingzi speak so fiercely with such a dark face, let alone scream at her, Bai Poria was silent for a while, and said sullenly: "I really haven't thought about how to live for a few more years, from the very beginning, I have been preparing for that day, I have done everything I want to do, let me live for another fifty years, I don't know how to live......"

Lin Pingzi was speechless, and said with a look of hatred: "You can marry the sea pumice stone you like, you can have children, how can you not know how to live, what do you usually say about us?" You let us learn a skill, learn how to make money, learn how to live, support our parents and have children, do more good deeds, and strive to live happily, what about yourself? ”

Bai Poria thought about it sideways and said softly; "Becoming a biological child...... I didn't want to live like this...... "This is true, even if she intends to borrow sea pumice stone to give birth, in order to leave a thought for her parents, so that they can have some sustenance, not want to be like ordinary people, multiply, inherit incense, enjoy family fun, or toss a love crystallization with the person she loves the most."

"Are you willing to let go of your parents who treat you as your life?" Lin Pingzi was out of words.

"I can't give it up. But if I'm going to stay, it's going against the sky, I'm afraid it's going to be a big price, and I don't want to drag them into the water. There is no feast in the world, Pingzi, my father and I have accepted the reality, so you don't have to work for me anymore. Fate is fate, first there is fate and then there is phase, fate has long been doomed, phase is born because of fate, even if I ruin my face now, what should come is still coming. Bai Poria said calmly.

If it weren't for her parents giving birth to two younger brothers, she would definitely be desperate for this now. Fortunately, her parents now have a new focus, and she sometimes wonders if it was the Jizo King Bodhisattva who gave her a special grace in order to reassure her, reversing her parents' lifelong childless fate.

People can't be too greedy, and she is very satisfied to be like this.

Lin Pingzi didn't know this truth, but he still had a trace of luck in his heart, and when he heard this, he sat down on the chair in a dejected manner, like an eggplant beaten by frost, wilting and losing his spirit.

"Don't tell anyone else about this, I don't want them to start worrying about me right now." Bai Poria explained. If she could, she hoped that Lin Pingzi would not know, she had already made her father very sad and didn't want to drag others into the water anymore.

Lin Pingzi nodded unexpectedly, which was regarded as a promise.

Yang Heng's enthronement ceremony was in full swing, and at the same time he spent a lot of energy on the personnel arrangements between the DPRK and China, some officials who had previously relied on several other princes to ascend the throne were swept away in batches.

He deliberately exposed the loophole, so that a group of brothers thought that the throne was promising, and he was also expelled and exiled by the emperor in disguise, so everyone was in a hurry to use all their resources to seize the mountain, and due to the long-term suppression of the eldest prince and the second prince, the network resources that other princes could grasp were very limited, and the great opportunity was placed in front of them, and nepotism was inevitable, and they rushed to stuff their cronies and newly recruited officials to key positions.

After the Chinese New Year's Eve rebellion two years ago, there were many vacant official positions in the DPRK, and for a time, there was a great change of blood in the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, and the new officials were unevenly appointed.

In this case, the pigtails left by these officials are naturally not small, and Yang Heng has always sent people to secretly observe and collect evidence materials, which now comes in handy.

First of all, all the officials of the Ministry of Officials were replaced with a new team, and Bai Changshan was invited to temporarily take charge of the affairs of the Ministry of Officials, and then the performance appraisal of Beijing officials who had not been approved due to the emperor's serious illness was transferred out for re-examination, and all incomplete assessment materials were sent back for re-verification.

Everyone knows that Yang Heng wants to sweep out those officials who took advantage of the chaos, but now that they are the next leaders appointed by the emperor himself, and the enthronement ceremony is about to be held, this time they have picked such a good excuse, what can they do?

The point is that Yang Heng has a very high reputation among the people, has the support of Princess Antai in the palace, and is the heir who is justifiably ordered by the emperor himself, and Bai Changshan leads a group of old ministers and important ministers to support him.

In the past few months, everything has been done with the general truth, which makes it impossible to refute it.

No one would be willing to be easily deprived of what they once had, the bright ones cannot, and the dark ones are not, in just a few months, Yang Heng has been assassinated more than 20 times, and the danger has been saved again and again.

Yang Heng himself has no opinion, and Gan Sui, who promised to protect his safety, is impatient, especially after Bai Poria arrives in the capital, he can't wait to go to the Guogong Mansion every night to spend the night, where is he still in the mood to toss with the assassins?

So he couldn't bear to walk up to Yang Heng and directly suggested: "There are a thousand days to be a thief, there is no thousand days to prevent thieves, if you want to deal with those few wastes publicly, why don't I do it, cut the grass and eradicate the roots!" The waste in his mouth refers to the rest of the princes. Yang Heng shook his head and said: "The court is not a river and lake, and assassination methods are not the way of the emperor, I can't find someone to kill him if he doesn't like him, so the court will be completely chaotic." ”

"What is the way of the emperor, in the final analysis, it's just a matter of becoming a king and defeating a coward, don't you want to kill them? Instead of wasting time and energy to find an upright reason to clean them up, it is better not to say any nonsense, as long as there is no proof of death, who can say anything about you? ”

Yang Heng knew that he could not persuade him, and he was not in a hurry to get angry, so he changed the topic and said, "Father's condition may be controllable?" ”

Gan Sui smiled coldly and said: "Don't worry, his current situation will not be a problem for three or five years, you can pretend to be your filial son and grandson with peace of mind." ”

Yang Heng looked at him and suddenly felt a little lucky, fortunately he was not keen on the throne, otherwise it would be a terrible thing to be an enemy of such a murderous and too powerful cold-blooded demon king, but for some reason, there was always a haze lingering in his heart......