Chapter 82: Cai Jing is sick
Cai Jing is sick.
Bai Sheng accompanied Li Qingzhao in a carriage and just came to Bianhe Street, and before he saw where Cai Jing's mansion was, he heard that Cai Jing was sick.
The illness of the first powerful minister of the Great Song Dynasty was definitely a big deal, and it could be seen only from the parked vehicles that stretched for miles on the side of the road. If it weren't for the fact that there was no Mercedes-Benz BMW and Lamborghini in the Northern Song Dynasty, Bai Sheng would have thought that there was an auto show on this street.
"Let's not go forward in our carriage, right?" Bai Sheng stopped the coachman, there was no way, the carriage they were riding in was too shabby, walking in the middle of this luxury carriage, giving him the feeling that he drove Alto into the Audi parking lot, and it was better to walk in.
Li Qingzhao has never disobeyed Bai Sheng's wishes, and immediately got out of the car with him, and the two walked side by side along the street, Bai Sheng asked the two "old drivers" who were chatting - the coachman who parked on the side of the road, and at the same time inquired about the location of Cai Jing's mansion, he also heard about Cai Jing's illness.
That's right, Li Qingzhao came to find Cai Jing, in addition to accepting Cai Jing's invitation to report for duty, she also wanted to intercede for her father, because she heard a bad news shortly after arriving in the capital last night, just half a month ago, his father Li Gefei was dismissed by the emperor and was about to be exiled.
Originally, she shouldn't have known about this matter so quickly, after all, she only arrived home in the middle of the night last night, but she had a conflict with her husband Zhao Mingcheng last night, causing her to go back to her parents' house immediately, and when she arrived at her parents' house, she knew that her father was degraded, so she was even more dissatisfied with Zhao Mingcheng, and he didn't mention anything about such a big thing.
The reasons for her conflict with her husband are also complicated.
First of all, as soon as Li Qingzhao entered the house, he found that her husband had taken a concubine behind her back, and he was sleeping in the concubine's room. Of course, Li Qingzhao was angry.
Secondly, Li Qingzhao planned to arrange Bai Sheng, Pan Jinlian, and Yan Poxi to live at home, but Zhao Mingcheng disagreed.
Li Qingzhao repeatedly stated the various dangers that Bai Sheng experienced when escorting her all the way, and even used Guan Yunchang as an analogy to escort the imperial sister-in-law to ride alone for thousands of miles, in order to show Bai Sheng's kindness to her protection.
But Zhao Mingcheng said, "I don't think Bai Sheng is Guan Gong, and I'm not Liu Bei!" means that Bai Sheng can't be as loyal as Guan Gong, guarding the fish and not stealing fish;
The husband and wife couldn't talk about everything, Li Qingzhao went back to her parents' house in a fit of anger, and as a result, she heard what happened to her father, and she originally planned to rest for a few days to come to see Cai Jing again, where can she wait quietly? The next morning, she called Bai Sheng to accompany her to Cai's house.
At this time, Li Qingzhao had already recovered his original appearance, and his beautiful face attracted the attention of the "old drivers" on the side of the road. Even though the men in this era are very reserved and will never stare directly at a woman from a good family who they don't know, but Li Qingzhao's face is too beautiful, and no one can control his eyes.
Walking beside Li Qingzhao, Bai Sheng was reluctant to take his eyes off her face, he was not coveting her beauty, but pity her body. Even though the dark circles outlined by sleepiness and worry were like the eyeshadows painted by women in later generations, which added to her beauty, Bai Sheng only saw her haggardness.
"Sister, you haven't slept all night, have you?"
Last night, Bai Sheng also heard the quarrel between their husband and wife, and felt very embarrassed because of this.
He didn't want to live in Li Qingzhao's house, but he didn't have any money. The price of the inn in Bianliang is very high, and it already costs a lot to arrange for Guo Sheng and others to live in two vulgar guest rooms, if he opens a room to settle himself and Pan Yan's second daughter, he still needs to ask Li Qingzhao for money, he is really embarrassed to do so.
This is not the same concept as him taking Li Qingzhao's money and spending generously on the road, the escort task has been completed, and the nature of spending other people's money has changed, even if it is "borrowed", will Li Qingzhao let him "pay it back"? .
In addition, there was another important reason why he followed Li Qingzhao home, because he wanted to put aside Wanyan Wulu like rubber candy, Wanyan Wulu carried a lot of gold and silver, in the inn where Guo Sheng lived, he opened a room for herself and Bai Sheng, and stated that she could live in the same room with Pan Yan's second daughter, but how could Bai Sheng accept her hospitality? He directly agreed to Li Qingzhao's proposal and blocked Wanyan Wulu from the gate of the Zhao family.
"Well, it's okay, sister is not sleepy. ”
"Don't worry too much, it's useless for us to be in a hurry. ”
Bai Sheng couldn't help but comfort Li Qingzhao.
In fact, he really didn't want to come to Cai's mansion, he killed Cai Jing's grandson, and came to hang under the noses of others, isn't this a lantern in the toilet? But he couldn't stand Li Qingzhao's insistence, so he had to follow her.
Li Qingzhao looked at Bai Sheng sideways, his eyes were full of apology: "Brother, I'm sorry, my sister can't help you find a master to learn martial arts." ”
She had promised before that when she arrived in the capital, she would find the head of the 800,000 forbidden army to come in and teach Bai Sheng martial arts, but now that she had a falling out with her husband Zhao Mingcheng, she could no longer ask her father-in-law Zhao Tingzhi to come forward for help, and her father was dismissed from office.
"It's okay, sister. I have a plan for myself. ”
Bai Sheng is telling the truth, since he deceived Yue Fei into learning two red fists, he didn't plan to look for Wang Jin again, and if he wanted to find Lin Chong. As for how to find Lin Chong and learn boxing, the plan has already been prepared.
In addition to looking for Lin Chong, he also had to try to find Huang Shang and understand the tadpole texts that Li Qingzhao couldn't translate.
Although the yellow dress is not so easy to see, there is no need to rush it. The most important thing at the moment is to find Shi Qian, the Great Xia Dragon Sparrow in Shi Qian's hand is too important! It is far superior to the existence of the Golden Bird Mountain Opening Axe - even Li Qingzhao, who translated "Great Xia Dragon Sparrow", does not know where this divine sword is. In this world, only he Bai Sheng knows.
Lin Chong, Huang Shang, and Shi Qian, these three people correspond to the Red Fist! Great Xia Dragon Sparrow Sword Technique! Divine Soldier Great Xia Dragon Sparrow! This is the main reason why he is determined to stay in Bianliang City.
At the gate of Cai's mansion, there were sixteen house slaves standing on the left and right, eight on each side, all with their chests and stomachs, and they looked out of the door with their eyebrows and angry eyes, as if they had a grudge against the people of Bianliang.
There is a table on the left and right sides of the door, and behind the table there are two bookkeeper-like figures, and there is a large wooden sign under the table on the left, which reads "Sign-in Office" and "Gift Receiving Office" on the right.
Isn't this a blatant solicitation of bribes? No one sued?
Bai Sheng followed Li Qingzhao to the sign-in desk, watched Li Qingzhao stretch out his slender hand and pick up the wolf hair on the table, dipped it in the ink in the inkstone, and signed her name.
Bai Sheng looked at the dense names on the sign-in book, most of which he had never heard of, but there were also a few names that were more familiar, such as Gao Yu, Liang Shicheng and others, and he also noticed that in front of Li Qingzhao's three fly-headed Xiaokai, the ink of a name called "Xiao Feng" had not dried.
Li Qingzhao finished signing, but did not immediately put down the brush, but looked at Bai Sheng, that means do you want to sign too? In her mind, Bai Sheng should also sign, so that she and Bai Sheng will become two guests who come together, and it is an equal relationship, but if Bai Sheng does not sign, then Bai Sheng can only enter Cai's mansion as her follower.
"No, I'm your bodyguard, what do I sign?"
Of course Bai Sheng can't sign, firstly, he can't write calligraphy, and secondly, how dare he leave his name in the sign-in book of Cai Jing's house?