256 Farewell Tonight
256 Farewell Tonight
Except for this unpleasant episode, the wedding banquet went very smoothly, the man's family welcomed the family to pick up the county lord Yingluo, Princess Antai instructed the chief manager to send the guests off, and personally sent Mu Peilan's mother and daughter out, and said apologetically in a low voice: "I didn't think about inviting Ling'er into the palace before, and Ling'er's reputation was affected." I will definitely handle this matter carefully and will never let those people continue to talk nonsense. ”
Mu Peilan nodded, she had just heard the maid next to her briefly mention that someone was spreading rumors that were unfavorable to Bai Poria that her daughter was said to be like a vixen, and no mother could be happy, but she was not a person who liked to complain afterwards, and she was now thinking more about how to calm down the matter.
Bai Poria pulled her mother's sleeve and said to Princess Antai: "Even if I don't go to the palace, those people will make up other things, what they want to deal with at all is the emperor and my grandfather and brother-in-law, Aunt Yunmei, don't blame yourself." ”
They all thought of this truth, but when Bai Poria said this, Princess Antai was still moved, touched Bai Poria cocos's hair and praised: "Our Ling'er is a good girl." ”
The two mothers and daughters said goodbye to Princess Antai and returned to the Guogong Mansion, and Mu Peilan immediately sent someone to inform Qianxiaolou's people to investigate the source of the rumors as soon as possible. In the evening, Bai Changshan and his son came back from the banquet, and Qian Xiaolou had already delivered the results.
The whole thing starts with Ma Tang, the general of Zhenbei who was sent to Beiguan City before. Ma Tang happens to be the son of Mrs. Ma today, Miss Ma's brother, no wonder they are so excited to find Bai Poria's bad luck.
In April, after the emperor handed over power to Yang Heng, Yang Heng learned from the Bai family about the current situation in Beiguancheng, and Ma Tang was immediately transferred back to the capital by a holy edict.
It's only been a year since the good days, and before the benefits have been enough, he has returned to his original form, and the loss in Ma Tang's heart can be imagined. Fortunately, during his time in Beiguancheng, the barbarians did not harass the border because of the relationship between the thorn fruit and the spear, although he had no military exploits or mistakes, so he was only idle and had no punishment.
Even so, it is enough for him to be depressed, Beiguan City is indeed inferior to the flower world in the capital, but in Beiguan City, he can share the soup and drink the meat of the Bai family, and nominally he is the local leader, even if his subordinates Zhenbei Jun looks down on him in their hearts, they are polite on their faces. There are many powerful people in the capital, he is an idle official, he has no money and no power, not to mention how sad his life is.
The point is that he is a member of the four highnesses, and several princes, including the four highnesses, have completely turned their faces with Yang Heng for the sake of the throne, and now that Yang Heng has ascended the throne as the emperor, what good fruit can he, the party of the four highnesses, eat?
Before the Sixth Highness was established, as one of the core cadres under the political enemies of the people, he would never want to turn over in this life.
Ma Tang was depressed, lingered in the wine shop every day, and couldn't help complaining a few words when he was drunk, these words fell in the ears of people with a heart, and soon gave birth to several wonderful gossip versions, the core characters are Bai Poria and Lu Ying.
Some say that Lu Ying has self-respecting troops and wantonly amassed wealth in Beiguan City, some say that Lu Ying befriended barbarians and collaborated with the enemy and betrayed the country, and as for Bai Poria, it is even more ugly, saying that she is a water-based Yang Hua, has an ambiguous relationship with Lu Ying, and the marriage contract with the master of the martial arts alliance has not been completed, and she went to hook up with the barbarian chieftain, plus it is rumored that during Yang Heng's ascension to the throne, Bai Poria once entered the palace to live, what did she do in the few days of this small stay? It can't help but make people think about it.
Bai Changshan's high-profile comeback has aroused the envy of many people, and the princes who opposed Yang Heng are now only under semi-house arrest, they are unwilling to fail and have no ability and courage to rebel, so they can only find ways to find Yang Heng's unhappiness.
Such rumors once wiped out Yang Heng, Lu Ying, Bai Changshan and others who made them hate so much, and they were naturally willing to help spread them.
In order to expand their influence, the four princes united with several other brothers, and through the mouths of their cronies' subordinate daughters, they hyped up all kinds of rumors that were unfavorable to Bai Poria in the circle of dignitaries in the capital.
Bai Changshan and Bai Chou also heard some rumors when they went to the banquet today, and the faces of the two fathers and sons were not very good-looking. The family invited Lu Ying over overnight to discuss, and decided to use the same method as last time, if the rumors could not be quelled, then make more efforts to make things bigger, make the water as mixed as possible, and make everyone think that these rumors are false, then it can no longer constitute harm.
Bai Guo was the most excited, and went to Bai Qian early the next morning, and decided to dig up the gossip of the ladies and ladies who said that Bai Poria was right and wrong, and then make their reputation stink.
Bai Poria, as a party, looks like she doesn't care about everything, as long as her grandfather and Lu Ying are not affected, she is a person who is about to hang up, what does she care about her reputation?
However, this incident finally disrupted their family's plan to return to Beiguan City, if Bai Poria left the capital at this time, she was afraid that she would have to sit down and confirm her affair, in the eyes of others, this is obviously a weak heart to avoid the limelight.
Mu Peilan was reluctant to leave the capital, and she still had the hope in her heart that the capital was very close to the Mt. Manga, and maybe the Jizo King Bodhisattva would give her daughter another grace to continue to live well.
Bai Poria didn't say anything, but she vaguely felt in her heart that she would probably not survive that day, but she didn't want to go against her parents' wishes in the last days.
Fifteen years ago, the day of the manifestation of the king of the earth was the ninth day of the first month of November, a few days before Bai Poria's third birthday, the three members of the Bai family discussed and decided to leave the capital on the third day of the first day of November, and temporarily lived under the banner mountain, and deduced that Bai Changshan was a family planning to go to Haizhou to avoid winter, if Bai Poria could be safe, then everything was easy to say, if it didn't work, he would hide from Bai Changshan first, and send his daughter back to Baili Mountain for burial.
These days, Gan Sui sneaked to the Guogong Mansion almost every night to find Bai Poria, and the people around him also noticed it more often, but the white clown couple now only thought that their daughter liked it, and simply ordered Bai Guo and others who were waiting by their daughter's side to cheat.
Not long after the rumors broke out, there were several major cases in the capital, and a total of eight houses and farms outside the city caught fire in the middle of the night, burning all the people in the courtyard to death, and no one survived! The total number of casualties in the eight fires is outrageous, more than 300 people!
There were no wounds on the deceased's body, and no signs of arson could be found at the scene, but everyone thought it was strange.
Are the people in the house really sleeping so dead? None of them escaped? Moreover, the nearby residents remember that almost all the people who enter and leave these houses and farms are young and strong men, and there are no old and weak women and children, so it is said that the ability to escape should not be weak.
The Five Cities Terracotta Division repeatedly checked for a while but could not find any clues, so they had to deal with the accident of the fire.
Several princes suddenly became surprisingly honest, and they closed their doors to no one at home, and all kinds of rumors against the Bai family quickly disappeared cleanly.
According to the news sent by Qianxiaolou afterwards, the eight mansions and farms were all the secret mansions of several princes, and they were all occupied by their henchmen and dead soldiers.
It's so spicy, it doesn't have to be said that it's Gansui.
Yang Heng knew about this, and smiled bitterly at Lie Dang, they had also asked Gan Sui to subdue and clean up the remnants of the secret forces of several brothers as soon as possible, but Gan Sui had been too lazy to do it.
Unexpectedly, this time a few brothers would not die to provoke Bai Poria's head, Gan Sui even saved the discussion, and killed him directly, refusing to leave a single mouth, no wonder his brothers were frightened.
The adults of the Bai family frowned, feeling that Gan Sui's actions were too extreme and ferocious, Bai Changshan was a little difficult to accept, Bai Chou and Mu Peilan were also murderous characters back then, and their resistance to Gan Sui's behavior was relatively small, and they even secretly applauded.
Bai Poria was speechless, everything was normal when Gan Sui met her these days, and she naively thought that he didn't know these things. Now I only hope that these more than 300 lives will not be counted on her head.
Gan Sui's methods are excessive, but I have to say that the effect of doing so is immediate.
That night, Gan Sui visited the Guogong Mansion as usual, Bai Poria looked at him and stopped talking, Gan Sui rarely saw her like this, and asked with a smile: "What's wrong?" Something you want to say to me? ”
"Yes! But you won't necessarily listen to ......," Bai Poria said helplessly.
"Tell me about it?"
"I told you not to kill people at will, will you listen?"
Gan Sui said with an innocent face: "When did I kill people at will?" ”
Bai Poria glared at him: "You want to tell me that the last few fires have nothing to do with you?" ”
Gan Sui grabbed her waist and hummed: "I did it, but it was instructed by Yang Heng!" ”
"You're going to listen to him?!" Bai Poria disdained his behavior of pretending to be young and cheating at his age, and stretched out her finger to poke the tip of his nose as she spoke.
"I'm glad to hear it, and I hear it occasionally." Gan Sui grabbed her finger and put it to her mouth, and bit it when she opened her mouth.
The itchy and numb feeling came from his fingertips, and Bai Poria was gnawed by him on his fingers as a snack, and said slowly: "I don't want you to kill people, especially I don't want you to kill people because of me, it's not good for you to kill more." ”
Gan Sui smiled: "You care about me? ”
"Yes, I care about you, will you listen to me?" White Poria looked at him fixedly.
"If you marry me, I'll listen."
White Poria didn't speak.
Gan Sui bit her finger hard: "How long are you going to be angry with me?" ”
Bai Poria said quietly: "Until the day I die." ”
Gan Sui was depressed for a while and became happy: "Okay! It turns out that you plan to keep me in mind for the rest of your life. ”
White Poria gave him a big white eye.
Gan Sui suddenly said, "I'm leaving tomorrow, and we won't see each other until Chinese New Year's Eve at the earliest." ”
Bai Poria was stunned for a moment, staring at him blankly, as if she couldn't believe her ears - he was leaving tomorrow and would not come back until Chinese New Year's Eve......
She had thought about the two of them saying goodbye countless times before, but she never imagined that this day would come so soon.
She is not destined to survive this year......
Tonight turned out to be the day they said goodbye!