imperial psychologist

Chapter 692
It was almost dawn and it was still dark.

In the half-dream and half-awake state, Bo Ling heard a slight noise from Li Yiru's side.

She didn't make a sound, just frowned and opened her eyes, and saw that Li Yiruo got up in his middle coat, sat down lightly at the table, and carefully lit the candle on the candlestick at the corner of the table.

A corner of the room lit up.

Bo Ling didn't make a sound, but turned slightly sideways, looking at Li Yiru's back.

The boy added water to the inkstone on the table, and slowly grinded it with an ink stick.After a while he put down the ink stick, dipped the pen in the ink, and started writing at his desk.

The light outside the window gradually brightened, and Bai Ling's previous drowsiness gradually dissipated. She heard Li Yiru sniff from time to time, and raised his left hand to wipe his face several times, guessing that he was probably still sad about Mu Cheng's matter.

Bo Ling thought for a while, then sighed softly, Li Yiru turned around when he heard the sound, and saw Bo Ling was sitting up propped up on the floor.

"Second brother is awake?" Li Yiru's eyes were red, "...I'm bothering you?"

"No, I didn't sleep well." Bo Ling said softly, "Woke up so early, what are you writing?"

"...It's nothing, just remember what happened in the past half month," Li Yiru turned his head back, looking down at the rice paper covered in lower script in front of him, "I'm afraid that in two days, I won't be able to remember some things clearly .”

"If I can't remember clearly, it means it's not important." Bo Ling said softly.

Li Yiru put down his pen and turned around again, "Do you believe what happened last night?"

"Are you talking about Brother Mu?"

"Ah."

Bai Ling sighed softly, and lay down again. She thought for a while, "Brother Mu's skill, it's not very difficult to slaughter the former magistrate's family during the Lantern Festival, but..."

"But what?"

"The first time I saw Brother Mu, it was outside that hacker's lodge." Bai Ling said softly, "At that time, the bodyguard with the scar on his face blocked my way, and Brother Mu thought that person was blocking the road for robbery. , so he stepped forward and directly grabbed the bodyguard's arm."

"It's so!" Li Yiru was taken aback.

Bo Ling looked at the gloomy ceiling in the room, "Actually, I have always felt that Brother Mu is quite contradictory along the way."

"contradiction……?"

Bai Ling looked over, "I felt that he had a lot of grievances against the 'superior' several times before, do you remember? I even joked about this with Brother Mu, which made him a little unhappy at the time."

Li Yiru narrowed his eyes slightly, recalling with some difficulty, but he couldn't remember this incident.

"...It doesn't matter, it's just a feeling of some minor details." Bai Ling whispered, "Later in the mine in Huizhou, when that old Xu was about to set fire to the warehouse, Brother Mu insisted on reporting to the authorities...I probably That's when I really believed he was a cop."

The more Li Yiru heard it, the more he couldn't bear it, "...I never believe that Big Brother Mu is such a villain. There must be a misunderstanding."

The young man stood up, walked a few steps to Bai Ling and sat down, "Second Brother, is there any way to restore Brother Mu's innocence?"

Bo Ling raised his arm and rested it casually on his forehead.

"I also feel that there is something hidden behind this matter, but..." She looked at Li Yiru, "No matter what the method is, in the end, Brother Mu needs to stand up and confront.

"The water of Prince Qinyuan's remnants is very deep. I'm afraid even if he is innocent, he won't be able to tell if he comes out and rolls around." Bo Ling said softly, "Brother has always been cautious in doing things. Since he chose this path, He must have his own reasons."

Bai Ling sighed softly and said with a smile, "Maybe he doesn't care about his innocence, as long as he can be reunited with his wife and daughter."

Li Yiru frowned, "Will you?"

"Yes," Bai Ling said in a low voice, "taking advantage of the turmoil in the northern border and the scattered household registration, find a place to live in an isolated mountain forest, just like the old woman we met by the Anjiang River. Living away from the world in the mountains, and then come out for activities in peacetime... Isn't it good?

"If you change your name, you can start your life from the beginning," Bo Ling folded his hands behind his head, "I hope Brother Mu can go to Zhuozhou safely, and don't expose yourself along the way."

……

In the afternoon of the next day, Bo Ling and Li Yiru packed their luggage and left Tunlongpi with Chang Sheng's lieutenant Wang Meng.Wang Meng was ordered by the army to take eight thousand elites to Yanzhou—that is, the one adjacent to Zhuozhou among the four states in the north.

Because the bandit suppression operation in the pass has not yet ended, Chang Sheng still has to sit in Tunlongpi, so he will not go with Wang Meng and others.

For some reason, Chang Sheng seems to have full confidence in this year's war. For example, he came to the conclusion a month ago that in the early winter of this year, the real battlefield between Zhou and Jin should be in the Zhuo and Yan areas.

That's why he left Jingzhou directly, and first led troops to guard the rear of Zhuozhou, and sent Chang's army to clean up a group of bandits in the pass first.

Bo Ling was originally surprised by Chang Sheng's appearance in Tunlongpi, but after hearing Wang Meng explain the reason, she felt even more worried.

Although she had never had a confrontation with the gold thief, she had heard in Pingjing that Jingzhou, where Chang Sheng was stationed, was facing the headquarters of the Arslan Department.

At the time of autumn and winter, Chang Sheng left Jingzhou as a guard... Is this too risky?

However, almost before the few people left, the first battle report came from Jingzhou, and it was also the first victory.

It turned out that it was a few left behind troops from the Arslan base camp in the north of Jingzhou. When they learned that Chang Sheng had gone south to Zhuozhou, they thought there was something to be gained, so they took advantage of the night to sneak attack and test.

Zhou people pretended to be defeated for days, and the gold thief really thought that the defense of Jingzhou City was empty.Just at this time, the spies reported that new grain had recently been transported to the camp of the garrison outside Jingzhou City, and it would be sent into Jingzhou City in the near future to relieve the winter grain shortage of the people in the city.

The gold thief was overjoyed, and decided to take advantage of the victory to pursue it, finding the right time to come out with all his strength—the result was that they were all surrounded and suppressed by the Chang family army who had been lurking for many days, wiped out more than [-] enemies, and captured horses and swords.

So Berlin admired.

After Chang Sheng listened to the report, there was no disturbance, but his face was serious, and he ordered the Jingzhou defenders not to take it lightly and continue to defend the city.

That afternoon, Chang Sheng sent Wang Meng and Bo Ling all the way on the road. It was not until the gate of the city that Bo Ling realized that there were seven deer hunters in gray and white cloaks accompanying them.

The seven of them stopped at the gate of the city on horseback. When they saw Li Yiru, they kicked the horse's belly and trotted over. At this time, they did not shy away from being seen by the officials.

The red-haired man who had started a chase with Bo Ling on the roof the night before stopped beside Li Yiru.

All the deer hunters were tightly wrapped in their cloaks, and Bo Ling glanced sideways a few times, but he couldn't see the hair color under their cloaks at all.

Under the sun, although their pupils looked lighter than Zhou people's, they were still brown like most Zhou people. Although they had red hair, their eyebrows were black.

"Just send it here," Wang Meng cupped his hands to Chang Sheng, "Leave the rest to the subordinates."

(End of this chapter)