imperial psychologist

Chapter 215 The Mourner

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

Qu Shi saw words such as "average", "median", and "mode" written on it, and then a bunch of word calculation formulas, which seemed to be teaching arithmetic.

"What are these?"

"Back to your mother, it's the sharing I'm going to give at the Imperial Hospital later this month." Bai Ling looked at the cardboard and said softly, "After all, I've never given a lecture to a student who has absolutely no foundation before, so I'll give it to young students in the palace first." Lian and the others try to talk, so they can find the rhythm."

"I haven't lectured to such a student before," Qu repeated in a low voice, and asked curiously, "Have you lectured to others?"

"Well... I told Bai Yi about it." Bai Ling quickly took over the conversation, glanced at the expressions of the people present from the corner of his eye, and everyone seemed to accept this explanation quickly.

Sometimes it's hard to keep in mind that your body is only 11 years old.

Qu looked at the handout in Qinglian's hand, stretched out his hand and said, "Show me?"

"Your Majesty, the light here is dim, be careful that you damage your eyes," Zheng Shu said in a low voice, "It's better to go back to the house, let's light up the lamp and see."

Qinglian was about to go forward to hand in the handouts, but Bo Ling had already blocked her, "I'm afraid this is inappropriate... Your Majesty, the only handouts that can be used now are the ones in Qinglian's hands, and their homework is still waiting to be used tonight." This manuscript. If my lady is interested, I will explain it to my lady again in two days.” She said with a smile, “Try it tonight, and I found that there are many places that I stumble... Some adjustments are still needed."

After hearing this, Qu withdrew her hand, "Okay, then I will wait a little longer."

Zheng Shu watched from the side, only feeling that Bai Ling's actions all night made her look a little uncomfortable.

This girl is quite talented, and she is better than others in many things, but she is a bit too ostentatious and disobedient.

It's just a handout, so what's the point of the maids delaying the whole night for the imperial concubine to read it first?This is going to be a fight... If she met such a servant in Qu's mansion before, Zheng Shu would definitely go up and grind her temper.

It's just that Bai Ling has to do many things now, and the imperial concubine also values ​​her, so for the time being, I can only introduce her to be so willful.

……

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

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

More than a dozen guards stood guard at the gate of Chengqian Palace and waited early in the morning.After Bo Ling came out, half of them walked in front of Bo Ling and half of them walked behind Bo Ling, blocking her tightly in the middle.

Such a team is more conspicuous than Bo Ling originally expected, but after all, there are other arrangements for today's [-]th, and no one is protecting each other in secret.

The brother and sister got into the sedan chair together from the Meridian Gate, and set off for Donglin Temple. They walked for more than an hour from the departure to the foot of Dongshan Mountain. ——

I saw people kneeling all over the mountains and plains to pray for Donglin Temple. Men, women, old and young supported each other, and the crowd moved slowly upwards like dense ant dragons.

There are also a few people in the crowd who turned back the same way down the mountain, often holding a large bundle of incense in their hands-Bai Ling recognized at a glance that it was the Buddha bone incense that Mrs. Qu once brought to Chengqian Palace.

"Is there any other way up the mountain?" Bo Ling looked at the crowded mountain road, and looked at the palace servant who followed him.

"Back to Siyao, there is no more." The eunuch looked a little embarrassed, "Originally, the road up the mountain was closed because of the reconstruction of plank roads and temples in Donglin Temple. Now there are only four small roads up the mountain. Last night, people nearby they took over"

Bo Ling and Bai Yi glanced at each other.

"Then let's go up the mountain on foot," Bo Ling turned around, and casually pointed at two tall guards, "You two go up the mountain with us, and the other guards can stand by at the foot of the mountain first."

The imperial guards immediately gathered up the team and went to the nearby woods to rest and wait.The two ordered guards walked in front, and the two eunuchs who followed from the palace walked behind the two brothers and sisters.

The original stone-paved mountain road was already full of people, and there was no room for new visitors, so they could only walk up the side dirt road—even though this place was also full of pedestrians like them.

"...Are these people 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 regret in his eyes, "After all, Donglin Temple is a holy place for Buddhism in our Pingjing area...the fire last night probably attracted all the faithful men and women from the hundred miles away. "

Bai Yi frowned, and sighed incomprehensibly, "...what's so interesting about this?"

"We're here to see Master Huishi." The woman beside him suddenly interjected. Just as Bai Yi was about to ask a few more questions, the woman was pulled back to her side by the man beside her——Bai The red-clothed eunuchs and imperial guards who followed Yi Boling made their special identities self-evident.If Xiaomin Shengdou gets in touch with such a person, he doesn't know what kind of trouble he will cause himself in the future.

Bai Ling and Bai Yi also quickly understood this point, they also looked away, and concentrated on walking up without squinting.It was just that the words "Master Hui Shi" fell into Bai Ling's ears, and she quickly noticed that there were people in the crowd wearing hemp hats and filial piety.

Sure enough, when the two walked halfway up the mountain, they saw layers of garlands piled up beside the mountain gate of Donglin Temple, and the white hangings of each garland were written with "Master Huishi through the ages".

When the crowd came here, they could already hear the wailing of the crowd.

For some reason, Bo Ling suddenly recalled the night when Jiang San sent Jin Yiwei to surround his house, and the mountain people outside the city also spontaneously came to visit like this.She was pushed along with the crowd to a garland. People around her put their hands together and chanted sutras in a low voice. Many people had tears on their faces.

Bai Ling looked at it for a while, and bowed slightly to the wreath like others.

As they continued to walk up, the number of people gradually decreased. The monks who came to welcome them talked about what happened last night. The fire started in the West Guesthouse, but there were hardly any people staying there for a long time on weekdays. But by then it was too late.

Donglin Temple has closed all the mountain roads above the mountainside since last night—although the fire is extinguished, the burned temple is in danger of collapsing at any time, so Master Xuyun, the abbot of Donglin Temple, ordered the temple to be closed.If it weren't for Bo Ling holding the greeting card from the noble concubine, she would not be able to go up the mountain today anyway.

"I don't know who Master Hui Shi is?" Bo Ling asked.

"Ah, this is a wandering monk in our temple, who doesn't come back often on weekdays..." The monk's face showed a little sadness, "But my uncle happened to be in the temple yesterday, and he was the first one to gather everyone to put out the fire. As a result, I was hit by the burnt beam..."

(End of this chapter)