imperial psychologist

Chapter 421 Fall of the Northern Territory
The cabinet discussions were broken up, and the officials stepped out of the room one after another.The prince sat on the high seat and continued to read the memorials piled up on the table today.

Zhang Shouzhong helped Sun Beiji to walk at the end - he still hadn't recovered from Chen Yicong's cold gaze earlier, and even wondered if he had misread it at that moment.

"Master Zhang." Chen Yicong on the high seat called out suddenly.

Sun Beiji and Zhang Shouzhong stopped at the same time and turned around slowly.

Chen Yicong still stared at the memorial with deep eyes, without looking up at them.

"Your Highness... do you have any orders?"

"From now on, whether it is the East Palace or the other places in the Inner Palace, if there is anything that needs your help to take care of, just leave it to Mr. Sun Ge." Chen Yicong said softly, "Mr. Sun Ge is now the acting chief minister. The second assistant's position is still vacant, and some things should not be messed up."

Zhang Shouzhong was stunned.

"Your Highness..." Sun Beiji said in a low voice, "The veteran is getting old, so there are some things that cannot be handled by one person, so Master Zhang—"

"Ge Lao misunderstood." Chen Yicong finally looked at them, but the expression on his face did not soften at all, "I didn't mean to blame you, I just said, who should do what, you have to know what to do."

Both Zhang Shouzhong and Sun Beiji bowed solemnly, bowed their heads sincerely to the high seat, and answered softly, "...Yes."

This all-too-familiar feeling...

Instead, Sun Beiji calmed down.

……

It was almost noon, and Bo Ling returned to his unnamed courtyard.

The aroma of food came from the duty room of the Tai Hospital next door, so she decided to wash her hands in the yard before going to Bai Yi's to grab a meal.

As a result, as soon as she entered the door, she saw two more maids in the yard.

These two girls are taller than Bo Ling, and they are 19 years old when asked. They are both old men who have worked in the palace for six or seven years, and they are good at serving ladies and concubines.

"Who told you to come?" Bo Ling asked a little strangely.

"Returning to Siyao is an order from the respect room today, so we are here."

At this time, Zhao Qi came over with a basin of hot water, and happened to hear Bai Ling's question, so he quickly replied, "Medicine, pharmacy, this is what the prince wants!"

Then, Zhao Qi and Bai Ling talked about the prince's order to replace beeswax with spermaceti in the morning.

Bai Ling was a little surprised—she had never used the nail polish sent by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. If Zhao Qi hadn't deliberately mentioned it today, she might not have noticed that there was still beeswax on the dressing table.

"Spergidium..." she repeated the word in confusion, "How do I use it?"

"You don't have to worry about this." The maid on the side smiled gently, "Just leave it to the servants."

"Another day," Bo Ling said softly, "I'll go to the next door for dinner first..."

"The food is ready." Another maid replied, "Si Yao is hungry now, so shall we serve it now?"

Bai Ling was stunned again, and Zhao Qi explained beside him at this time, "...It was also the order of the prince, and several people came to our small kitchen today."

Bo Ling went around the house in the front yard, and sure enough, he saw three strangers sitting outside the small kitchen in the back yard. They rolled up their sleeves, squatting and chatting and resting together. When they saw Bo Ling, they immediately stood up. Standing up, he respectfully called out "Pharmaceutical".

Bai Ling looked at Zhao Qi, "...Is there anything else?"

"Oh, and your house." Zhao Qi said hastily, "The prince said that the things inside are too old, so I want to change it for you... You can take a look at what you want to add when you have time-" —”

"Old?" Bo Ling raised his eyebrows slightly, "The things here were only replaced in May, and now they haven't arrived after two months of use—my sofa was newly made last month."

"In short, that's what it means." Zhao Qi explained, "If you don't change the medicine, then don't change it."

Bo Ling thought for a while, "... eat first."

Before she reached the steps of her main room, she suddenly felt a dull pain in her abdomen. Bai Ling was so painful that she couldn't speak, and stood there for a while.

"Medicine? What's wrong with you?"

The pain subsided quickly, and Bo Ling shook his head, "...Maybe it's because I'm too tired these days."

She sat alone at the table, and the lunch was very rich. Bo Ling asked Zhao Qi to go to the next door and ask Bai Yi and Bai Shijun to come over.

The three of them sat around and ate together. During the dinner, the two maids stood by and served, but the family of three was not used to it.

On this day, Berlin did not go for a routine afternoon walk.She sat in the room for a while, then went back to lie down--she did feel a little uncomfortable.

This time, Bai Ling slept for a long time, but she didn't sleep well—intermittent dreams kept breaking into her mind, and when she woke up, it was dusk outside the window.

Bo Ling looked at the window in a daze.

The maid raised the curtain and came in briskly with a porcelain bowl, "Si Yao, you're awake."

Bai Ling frowned suddenly, "Who let you in?"

"I... I'm here to deliver the medicine—"

"My bedroom, without my order, no one can easily break in." Bai Ling's voice suddenly turned cold, "Didn't Zhao Qi tell you?"

The maid froze there, immediately put the porcelain bowl aside, knelt down and kowtowed to apologize.

"Forget it," Bo Ling said softly, "I will remember it from now on."

The maid responded repeatedly.

Bo Ling supported his head and said to himself, "Why... have I slept for so long..."

The maid hesitated, and did not leave the room immediately, but looked at Bai Ling on the bed with some difficulty.

"What?" Bo Ling looked at her, "Is there anything else?

"You, Siyao...you..." She walked to Bai Ling's bed, lowered her voice, showing a little shyness on her face, "You Guishui is here."

"Guishui..."

"It's...menstruation," the maid said softly with her eyes full of water, "every girl has to come, most of them come at the age of twelve or thirteen, a little later, at the age of fifteen or sixteen There are also...Si Yao's 11-year-old is considered early, but it's normal."

Bo Ling only felt that his fingers were cold.

She actually forgot about this... Only now did she realize that today's dull pain and laziness are actually so familiar.

"Seeing that you are in a deep sleep, the servant put a cushion under you first. The servant has already made a special trip to the House of Internal Affairs in the afternoon and brought some menstrual events... Will the medicine be used? Do you want the servant? Teach you."

Bai Ling was silent for a moment, then nodded.

Yes, sooner or later... sooner or later.

Childhood is over.

It's time to grow up again.

……

In July, there is fire, in September, clothes are granted, and in October, the Jin people invaded aggressively.

One after another urgent message came from the front line.

Jingzhou is urgent!
Fuzhou urgent!
Yanzhou is in a hurry!
Zhuozhou is in a hurry!
In just two days, the city of Zhuozhou was destroyed and the whole city was slaughtered.

Under such circumstances, Chang Sheng directly led the defense of the remaining three cities and ordered to fortify the walls and clear the fields.

Soldiers fought on the front line, while the rear gathered people from the countryside and villages day and night to enter the city. Then the soldiers of the Zhou Dynasty burned all the fertile fields in the countryside around the northern border, and burned all the grain that could not be harvested in time.

After an arduous and bloody battle, the remaining three cities, like three stone piers standing in the torrent of cavalry, stood firmly on the border of Great Zhou.

However, once Zhuozhou was broken, there would be no more dangerous mountains to defend - facing the entire fertile and peaceful Great Zhou Plain, the iron cavalry of the Jin people drove straight in and looted all the way to the border between Chuzhou and Qinzhou. Seeing An Jiang galloping, he finally stopped killing.

There are thousands of miles of scorched earth, mourning is everywhere, and ten rooms are empty.

The evil results of the 20 years of inaction and inaction during the first [-] years of the Jianxi Dynasty are finally swallowed today by the millions of innocent people in the north of Jian'an River.

——End of this volume——

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