imperial psychologist

Chapter 26
"Chicken soup wonton." Bai Yi quickly replied without saying a word.

"Oh." Bai Shijun nodded, and chewed a few mouthfuls of rice sullenly.

The little confidence just now seemed to be gone suddenly, Bai Shijun didn't know where to look, and for a moment he felt a little embarrassed to look at Bai Yi.

After a while, he mustered up his courage again, "Which chicken soup wonton is it?"

Bai Yi looked at the yard, "On Chaotian Street."

"……Oh."

Bai Shijun nodded again, feeling as if something was pressing in his throat. After thinking for a long time, it suddenly occurred to him that he could ask another question, "How does it taste?" But just after he said the first two words, Bai Yi stood up , "It seems to be the sound of Berlin's footsteps, I'll go out and have a look."

"Oh, you--."

Before the word "Go" came out, Bai Yi had already stepped out of the living room door.

Bai Yi's voice came from the yard - "Why have you been here for so long?"

Looking at it this way, it really was Bo Ling who came back, and Bo Shijun also put down his bowl and went to the yard to have a look. He saw Bo Ling was holding a jug of wine in his hand, and Wei Shishi was holding it full, a pile of bamboo baskets, cloth, etc. The boxes were piled up to cover his face, and there were two big white geese with tied wings on his arms.

Bai Yi hurried forward to pick up half of it, and the two of them put the things carefully on the ground together.

"This is……"

"It's from those folks just now. They didn't all follow the third master. Many of them were stinging at the corner of the street. When I came back from buying wine, they all rushed to stuff things..." Bo Ling looked at it with some embarrassment. Father and elder brother, "a group of people suddenly knelt down in front of me...I can't help it."

"Okay." Bai Shijun sighed and waved his hands, "Then put it all away. It's getting late, and I'll check things tomorrow morning, so go to bed first."

"Father..." Bai Ling shook his head, "I have to check these things roughly first, if they are all eggs, bacon, etc., it's okay, if there is any fresh food that can't be kept, I have to put it in a bucket and put it in the well first." Go down, or it will break if you leave it outside overnight."

Bai Shijun didn't think about this layer, so he blinked his eyes, "Then, you go to bed first, I'll—"

"Let's go together," Bo Ling held Bai Shijun's hand and led him and Bai Yi to stand in front of the pile of goods, "Look at this side, Bai Yi look at that side, I'll put the geese in the backyard first .”

Sure enough, after a while, the father and son counted out a basket of loquats, a bag of fresh longan and a bag of oranges.The two also tore a few large sheets of oil paper from the house, wrapped them separately and stuffed them into the wooden barrel, and then slowly lowered the wooden barrel down the well.

In the early spring of March, the weather has turned warm, but the well water is still so cold. This method of preserving food was taught by the folks in the former village.

Bo Ling came out with his things, and took an extra pair of chopsticks, a bowl and a teacup in his hand. Wei Shishi sat on the ground in the courtyard, drinking like no one else was around.After the family had tidied up their things roughly, and looked back, there were only empty pots and cups left, a pair of chopsticks neatly stacked on top of clean porcelain bowls, and no one was there.

Bai Shijun looked at Bai Ling uncertainly, "That man..."

Bai Ling smiled, "Don't worry about him, Dad will go wash up and sleep too, tomorrow may be another fierce battle, we have to keep our spirits up."

After all, the unmanned bowls and chopsticks still poke at Bai Shijun's heartstrings. This Wei Shishi is probably hiding in a corner that they can't see.Bai Shijun only felt a chill behind his back, and when he thought that from now on, his eyes would be fixed on his children forever, he was suddenly startled.

This night, the father and son of the Bai family didn't know how they got there.They couldn't sleep with anyone but Berlin.

Bai Yi couldn't sleep in the middle of the night, so he counted the time to lie down until Yinshi, and went to the kitchen in the dark to prepare rice porridge for the next day.After all, he is still young, so staying up late like this is nothing to him.But early the next morning, both Bai Yi and Bo Ling noticed that the dark blue under Bai Shijun's eye sockets was obviously heavier than the day before.
The family ate breakfast in silence, and took the dried radish and pickles sent by the villagers last night.Bai Shijun put down his chopsticks a few times, looking at Bai Ling hesitant to speak, but he still couldn't say what he wanted to say.

The people in the palace still came when it was still daylight.

The eunuch walking in the front was round and round, with a face he had never seen before.He has a very different temperament from the eunuch who came to pick him up two days ago, his shoulders are thick, his jaw is full, even when he is not smiling, there seems to be a three-point smile on his face.

This appearance, just like the Maitreya Buddha on the stage, makes people feel kind at first glance.

Bo Ling was blessed for a while, and just asked, "I don't know your father-in-law?" Behind him, Bo Shijun called out in a low voice, "Bai Ling, meet Eunuch Qiu soon!"

The man folded his hands in front of him, bowed with a smile on his face, "I don't dare, my surname is Qiu, and I usually work with Long Live Lord."

Bo Ling and Bai Yiju were startled, the person who came today was actually appointed by Emperor Jianxi himself.

Eunuch Qiu looked around, shook his head, and looked at Bai Shijun, "Doctor Bai, your yard is too broken."

Bai Shijun responded with embarrassment, "My father-in-law laughed."

"Hey, you are in your forties, right?"

Bai Shijun said embarrassingly, "Yes."

Eunuch Qiu sighed, "I've heard people in the Sa family say that you're not young at forty, why are you still walking around like a stunned young man? After all, you are a man with sons and daughters, and you are so indiscriminate in your actions of!"

Before Bai Shijun could understand, Bai Ling beside him had already laughed.

Eunuch Qiu swept the whisk in his hands, "Please, the sedan chairs for the three of you are ready outside."

After leaving the door and entering the sedan chair, Bo Ling noticed that the seat felt different. As soon as she lowered her head, she found that yesterday's straw mat had been replaced with a soft cushion today.

Bo Ling lightly stroked the smooth satin outside the cushion. It seems that the concubine's feedback this morning was good... But for some reason, she still felt a little uneasy.

The sedan chair walked quickly all the way, and Bai Ling rested with his eyes closed.About a quarter of an hour later, there was a burst of gongs, drums and horns outside, the sedan chair stopped, and she opened the curtain of the sedan chair to look out.

It's not too far from the Meridian Gate. Eunuch Qiu stood at the front of the sedan chair, looked up at the palace gate, and waited quietly.

Right in front of him, the Meridian Gate Square, which was originally empty, was very lively today. Not only was it full of onlookers, there were also long lines of ritual and music standing on both sides of the palace gate, and a mighty team was slowly approaching the palace gate. go.

In the team, iron armored soldiers with red tasseled spears were riding white horses, imposing. In front of them was a veteran wearing a silver helmet. The man was tall and straight with two long swords on his waist, and his white beard was covered with red The ropes are tied into a bundle, which looks very heroic and heroic.

Bo Ling was a little curious, "Who is that?"

(End of this chapter)