imperial psychologist

Chapter 24 A good man

There was a choppy reply from the crowd.

Wei Shishi took Bai Ling's hand and said to the crowd, "Dear fellows, please step aside."

The crowd split into two sides in silence. A few Jinyi guards holding torches followed behind Wei Shishi and Bai Ling, and followed them into the alley. The door of Bai's house was tightly closed, and Wei Shishi stepped forward and knocked on the door. .

"Oops! Stop knocking! Go away! I really can't take your things! This is for your own good!"

Hearing Bai Shijun's voice, Bai Ling couldn't bear it any longer, and whispered, "Father, it's me."

Bai Shijun inside was also taken aback, and quietly opened the door a crack, seeing that it was really Bai Ling standing outside, he quickly opened the door—then saw the faces of those Jinyi guards reflected in the firelight.

Especially Wei Shishi's face, which was as pale as paper, looked like a ghost under the firelight.

Bai Shijun gasped, stretched out his hand and pulled his daughter into his arms, patted his back gently to comfort him, and looked blankly at the villagers around him—everyone had fear and expectation on their faces.

Now Bai Shijun was completely confused, he couldn't understand what was going on.

Wei Shishi looked at Bai Shijun, "Master Bo, do you know all these people standing outside?"

Bai Shijun nodded, "Yes, these are all my former patients."

Wei Shisi casually pulled over a tall and thin boy beside him, "Who is this?"

Bai Shijun was a little puzzled, and looked at Wei Shishi with a little hostility, "Who are you?"

Bo Ling in his arms raised his head, and pushed Bo Shijun's chest with a crying voice, "Father... answer truthfully."

Bai Shijun said "Oh" several times, then frowned, and said to Wei Shishi again, "This is the third child of Fang Yuangui's family in Fangjiazhuang. Just come to me and have a look, I grabbed some dried papaya, Huoxiang leaves and galangal, and after eating for a month, it will be fine."

The young man nodded repeatedly, put down the things in his hands, and kowtowed to Bai Shijun a few times, "Yes, it's me! Doctor Bai still remembers me!"

Wei Shisi looked sideways, then pointed to a fat woman holding a baby girl in the crowd, "What about this one?"

Bai Shijun glanced at Wei Shishi, looked at the woman and said, "This is Mrs. Jiang from Shibalibao. Her siblings have been in poor health after giving birth. They asked me to prescribe a few nourishing prescriptions... now they are better." Yet?"

The fat woman touched her nose and nodded repeatedly, "It's hard for you to remember! People are much better, much better!"

After identifying three or four people in this way, Wei Shishi turned his head and looked at the clerk who had been taking notes, "Have you written them all down?"

The scribe nodded again and again, "Return to my lord, it's all recorded in the book."

Wei Shishi then said to Jiang San, "Go back and send someone to verify the identities of the people I mentioned just now, and then verify with Bai Shijun's description just now, and you will know whether these people are telling the truth or not. gone."

Jiang San's face was slightly condensed, but he also solemnly accepted the confession made by the scribe who pressed the red handprint, and said yes.

Wei Shishi added, "Also, those who were arrested will be released tonight. If they are injured, they will be subsidized according to their injuries."

Jiang San was slightly stunned, "But the truth has not been found out—"

Wei Shishi said in a low voice, "Do as I say, and I will bear the burden afterwards."

Jiang San could only nod, "Yes."

Wei Shisi thought for a while, and then said loudly, "It's past Xu time, and everyone can't go home tonight. Let's follow this lord to the post in the west of the city for a night."

The peasants were silent, and Jiang San immediately shouted, "Are you all fucking deaf, answer!"

At this moment, a young woman lowered her head and murmured, "...My lord, we still have something we haven't handed over to Doctor Bai..."

In the light of the fire, the woman uncovered the blue cloth of the bamboo basket in her hand, which was filled with eggs, and all of them were washed clean.Dancing fire flashed in the woman's eyes, she took a few steps forward, and knelt down to Bai Shijun, "Grandfather, we also heard that you were in great trouble in the city, so let's come and see Look at you. You are the one who treats the emperor's empress, you must not look down on these things of ours, but at least it is a little thought, you—"

A voice in the back row suddenly shouted, "Bo En Gong! I am a hunter from Dongshantun last year, and I brought you two wolf skins!"

This voice immediately opened everyone's eyes.The people who were originally surrounded by the back row were now desperately pushing forward, and everyone scrambled to report the things they brought.

"I have twenty catties of new rice from this year's winter rice here, and Doctor Bai will accept it!"

"Doctor Bai, this is a specially pickled wild goose mushroom! The mushrooms are both big and fresh!"

……

Bai Linghuan glanced at the noisy crowd, and she saw Bai Yi also walking towards this side from the entrance of the alley step by step.

Their eyes met, and they realized one thing almost at the same time.

Just as Bai Shijun knew nothing about them, they were equally unfamiliar with his father's years.

Bai Ling's eyes dimmed.

Bai Shijun is not just an ordinary good man, he is almost a holy good man, but this may be worse.

"Okay! Alright!" Bai Shijun felt his ears were buzzing, and couldn't stand it for a while, so he quickly opened his hands and told everyone to be quiet, "Listen to me, I appreciate everyone's kindness! But Right now, I'm still a half-criminal, and if you send me anything, you'll be implicated!"

The woman who delivered the eggs took a step forward, "Master Bai, I'm not afraid of getting involved! One is one, two is two, there is always a reason for everything! You are like a Bodhisattva, and you will never do anything outrageous!"

"Yep!"

"Nonsense!" Bai Shijun sternly said, "Everyone listen to me! Everyone go, everyone go!"

The enthusiastic crowd just now suddenly became dignified again. Everyone looked at Bai Shijun with hope and concern. The woman came up and took two eggs from her basket.

"Where's the little brother who said he carried the rice just now?"

A voice in the crowd kept saying "excuse me" and "excuse me". After a while, a strong man stood in front of Bai Shijun with a burlap bag on his shoulder.

Bai Shijun bent down, and pinched the corner of his front hem with one hand, "Excuse me, give me a catty or two of rice..."

The man untied the rope that sealed the bag without saying a word, and dumped it into the "rice bag" that Bai Shijun made temporarily——

"Hey, it's too much, that's enough! Hey, enough, enough! The clothes are broken for a while!"

Half of the strong man's rice fell in one fell swoop.

Bai Shijun carefully pocketed the rice, and then raised his head, half persuading, half pleading, "Okay, folks, you come, I know, you are thinking of me, but you can't really help anything like this , On the contrary, you and I will be implicated, and I will not be able to argue at that time. Go back, go back!"

The strong man who had poured rice just now also raised his hand, and said to the folks behind him, "Listen to Doctor Bai! Listen to Doctor Bai!"

In the crowd, everyone responded to each other, Jiang San was impatient, he shouted, "Okay! Come with me!", and the crowd reluctantly moved towards the entrance of the alley.At this moment, a voice came from the alley, "What's wrong, what's wrong, get out of the way! Let me in!"

Jiang San's expression was not good, and he stepped forward and said, "Master Zheng, you are here."

The person who came was wearing a red official uniform, which is the color of official robes enjoyed by all Beijing officials and officials above the second rank. He had a smile on his face, "Third Master! I heard a message overnight that there are troublemakers gathering here If you make trouble, come here quickly, are these all troublemakers?"

"Damn!" Jiang San didn't look at him, walked straight out, waved his hand, and greeted his group of people, "Let's go!"

(End of this chapter)