imperial psychologist

Chapter 43
After nightfall, the dreary air of the day turned into a sudden night rain.

Bo Ling knelt behind the rockery in the Imperial Garden with a heavy incense burner on his head, and couldn't help shivering when the wind blew up.

The ground on all sides soon became wet, and Bai Ling closed his eyes, silent and patient.

However, after a long time, she didn't feel a trace of night rain falling on her head.

Bo Ling raised his head strangely, and then saw an umbrella over his head at some point—Wei Shishi was standing behind her for an unknown how long.

"...Thank you." Bo Ling said weakly.

There is hazy rain and fog all around, and the spring drizzle is cold and humid with a hint of cold.

Except for the two people under the umbrella, there seems to be only the sound of rain in the world.

Wei Shishi said softly, "They are clearly trying to make things difficult for you, so why should you prove your sincerity to them?"

"It's not all for them." Bai Ling whispered with his eyes closed, "The situation is complicated everywhere now, I don't know the overall situation, and it's true that I don't want to act rashly... How long have I been kneeling?"

"It's almost five hours."

It rained harder again.

The wind blew the rain curtain into a slant, and Wei Shishi also slightly tilted the angle of the umbrella, but the accumulated water on the ground still increased, and soon soaked the corners of Bai Ling's skirt and shoes and socks.He took off his cloak and draped it over Burling's shoulders, temporarily protecting him from the wind.

"Have you been around this afternoon?"

"Ah."

"It's getting late, you should find a place to rest first." Bo Ling took a deep breath, opened his eyes and looked ahead not far away, "...I'm not all for that old lady and Lord Qu. This It's about time, I think, it should be... soon."

Wei Shishi didn't understand, but just looked at Bai Ling with a slight frown.

"Listen..." Bo Ling looked at the end of the stone path obliquely ahead.

Although there was interference from the sound of rain, both of them did hear a slight sound of footsteps.There were about three or four people who came, and they obviously came straight to this side.

Without any further explanation, Fourteen took his cloak and umbrella and hid in the night again.At the same time, a gentle lantern appeared not far away.

"Young lady...be careful where you step."

"How far is it?"

"It should be in this area."

There were a few light coughs and the sound of back rubbing in the rain curtain.

"Ma'am?" Bai Ling called out in a low voice.

Hearing Bai Ling's voice, Baoyuan was the first to react. She asked the maidservant behind to hold an umbrella for Qu Shi, and after holding an umbrella herself, she searched for the place where the sound was just made. Sure enough, she saw it behind the rockery. Burling with a censer on his head.

Baoyuan said loudly, "Here he is! Found it!"

Saying that, Baoyuan strode forward, knocked down the censer that Bo Ling held above his head with one hand, and quickly wrapped Bo Ling in a dry and soft blanket.

"Letting you, a little girl, hold the incense burner here, committing a crime... Really a crime! How could they figure it out..." Baoyuan's voice was so low that only Bai Ling could hear it.

Footsteps from behind slowly approached.

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, a clear white light flashed, and a faint thunder sounded from the distant sky.

Bo Ling saw that two palace servants were supporting Qu Shi, one on the left and one on the right, and another was holding an umbrella for her behind. They walked around the rockery slowly and appeared in front of him.

Qu's pace is very slow, in the past few months, she has hardly stepped out of Chengqian Palace.From the palace to the imperial garden, the short distance of hundreds of steps has never been as far as it is today.

It wasn't until she saw Bai Ling wrapped tightly in a blanket by Bao Yuan that she breathed a sigh of relief.

Qu gently broke away from the hand of the palace man beside him, and supported a raised white rock on the rockery beside him.

"Give me the umbrella." Qu said softly.

The three palace servants were startled and looked at each other, "But... Your Majesty..."

"give me……"

Qu Shi stretched out his hand, and the palace man behind him had no choice but to carefully put the umbrella handle in the noble concubine's hand.

"You three, go to the intersection and wait." Qu said in a low voice.

The three palace servants still didn't move, looking at them with some embarrassment, Baoyuan raised her head and said sharply, "Are you deaf? Your Majesty calls you to go, I'm here to serve you!"

Only then did the palace servants step back and salute, put up their umbrellas again and went away.

Under the rockery, only Bo Ling, Bao Yuan and Qu's were left.

Qu looked down at Bo Ling, and Bo Ling also looked up at her.

The noble concubine's face was pale and weak, her cheeks were slightly sunken due to thinness, making her cheekbones look higher than others, and she looked older, but her eyes, which were always sleepy and gentle, still had a faint luster.

Qu Shi took a deep breath, making his eyes a little colder than before.

"It doesn't feel good to kneel in the rain." She said coldly, her voice a little hoarse due to the smoke in the daytime.

"Going back to your mother, I'm not feeling well." Bai Ling replied.

Qu frowned slightly, "The day before yesterday I told you to leave the house honestly, why didn't you do what I said? You want to involve all three of your family's lives in my illness like today... Don't you think that since I look kind-hearted, I can do whatever you want?"

At the end, Qu Shi was obviously a little angry, and his voice was still trembling slightly.

"Niang Niang..." Bao Yuan looked at Qu's family at a loss. She was still thinking about the heavy rain outside Chengqian Palace just now, and insisted on coming here to see the situation of Bai Ling, but now she really met her. How could it be that he was reprimanded like this?
Even Baoyuan had rarely seen such a lady in the past. She stared blankly at the angry Qu, not knowing what to do for a moment.

Bo Ling still looked into Qu's eyes, and said softly, "Ma'am, I don't have the slightest intention to take advantage of you—"

"What you say and say will not hurt me in the slightest, but what is the difference between what you are doing now and what they are doing!"

Qu's voice was full of sorrow, and she tightly held Shi Yan beside her to prevent herself from slipping due to loss of strength.

Bao Yuan was taken aback, "Ma'am, Miss Bai Ling really doesn't want to see you in trouble..."

Qu sneered, she took another deep breath, fixed her eyes on Bai Ling, her voice almost growled, "Which one of them really hopes that nothing will happen to me? My mother is for the family The rise and fall of my brother is for his own future... As for you, it is to save the lives of your own family! You say it so righteously... But who really cares, what do I think?"

"But—" Bao Yuan wanted to say something more, but Bai Ling had already stretched out his hand to hold her forearm.

The client's suicide signal is a blockbuster in any consultation. When the other party has raised such a topic, it is the crisis moment of the consultation.

For consultants, the more such moments are, the more important it is to keep calm.

Because in every moment of crisis, there is an opportunity to rebuild trust.

(End of this chapter)