The scenery of Duke Zhong’s mansion remains the same, but the owner, Lin Pingzi, is not at home. Since Yang Heng officially came to power, Lin Pingzi, Lu Ying and other people who had been deliberately idle before were reappointed. One of them was in charge of the Imperial Forest Army, and the other was in charge of the household department.
However, after receiving the news that the Bai family had already entered Beijing, they quickly explained the affairs at hand and rushed back. Before Bai Fuling and the others packed their luggage, Lu Ying and Lin Pingzi arrived one after another.
We saw each other for more than two years. Although there were correspondences from time to time, I was not as happy as seeing each other with my own eyes. Lu Ying also stayed at the Duke's mansion that night, and everyone talked about their lives after the farewell.
Lin Pingzi and Lu Ying were dragged into the pirate ship by Yang Heng early on for their respective purposes. On the surface, they have been idle and depressed for the past two years. In fact, they have done a lot of things for Yang Heng secretly, and there is nothing to do now. It's hidden.
Lu Ying still had the calm, stable and reliable attitude of a big brother, while Lin Pingzi had changed a lot. The exaggerated demeanor of the past has been restrained a lot, and he has a more deep and mature manly demeanor.
Bai Fuling looked at her and praised secretly. Now that this guy stands out, he definitely attracts more women than before. It's amazing that he hasn't gotten married in the capital for two years! The ladies and wives in the capital are all blind, so they let go of such a good-looking, rich golden tortoise? She remembered that he was very popular before, the matchmaker just barely stepped on the threshold.
But after thinking about it carefully, I understand that in the eyes of most people in the past two years, Lin Pingzi, a young and handsome Duke, has been suspected by the emperor. Those snobs certainly wouldn't risk their daughter.
Bai Fuling looked at Lu Ying and Lin Pingzi, and the two were also looking at her. Lin Pingzi changed his face and showed a nympho, and said in admiration: "It really is the eighteenth change of the female college, cousin, you are really getting more and more beautiful, You won't lose your life if you're awesome!"
Bai Fuling raised her small face and snorted, "Sure enough, you've been in the capital for two years, and you're even dumb with your mouth. It's a cliché from many years ago, and you're ashamed to use it. No wonder you haven't been able to get a wife yet." !"
Lin Pingzi's nose was ashamed when the flattery failed, and he said resentfully: "Who says I can't get a wife, I want to marry a wife, it is the loss of all the ladies and daughters of the Qi country, okay?"
As soon as Bai Fuling stretched out her claws, she grabbed his face: "Let me see how thick your skin is!" Lin Pingzi was shocked, and hurriedly covered his face and fled. The Bai family laughed and laughed, and even Lu Ying showed a rare smile.
But when Lin Pingzi turned his back to the crowd, his brows were tightly wrinkled, and there was only sadness on his face—the white Fuling looked bright and pleasing to the eye, but in his eyes, it seemed to be a flower in full bloom, and it might be about to bloom in the next moment. Sadly falling to the branch, her appearance of premature death has not changed at all, and judging from the breath between her brows, the deadline is very close... at least half a year, at least three months.
Someone patted his shoulder hard, Lin Pingzi shuddered and turned his head away, and saw Bai Fuling standing behind him, smiling and said: "Even if you feel ashamed, you don't have to hide from people, I just don't want to shame you."
Lin Pingzi was shocked for a while, and tried hard to smile, but his heart was heavy, and the appearance of smiling was uglier than crying.
Bai Fuling has been with him for many years, and just looking at his expression, she can tell that he is really thinking about her appearance and longevity, so she lowered her voice and said, "Don't think so much, I'll tell you about it later."
Lin Pingzi thought there was a turning point, and his face suddenly turned to the moon. Putting aside his happiness, he hooked her shoulders as before and lowered his head with a smirk: "Bing Guo said that Miss and that sea pumice... hehehe..."
Bai Fuling gave him a sideways look, then shook his arm away and said, "Midget your own business, worry about yourself, you're already old, if you don't hurry up, you'll see who wants you when you grow old!"
The two talked and laughed, but in Bai Changshan's eyes, they were a bit too affectionate. He had considered letting Lin Pingzi be his grandson-in-law. Regardless of their appearance and status, they were a good match, and the two were said to be "childhood sweethearts". He has personally verified how obedient people are to her granddaughter. If Bai Fuling and Lin Pingzi marry, although it is inconvenient to marry, this life will definitely make Bai Fuling live a happy life.
It's a pity that this idea was rejected by his son and daughter-in-law early on, and now seeing the two of them talking and laughing freely, I can't help feeling helpless.
Bai Fuling pulled Lu Ying to see her two younger brothers, and coaxed her with a smile, "Little pig, come and call me brother! My sister found you the most powerful brother in the world, you are so happy."
The two little dolls had been well educated by her before they came. They looked at Bai Fuling and Lu Ying with their round eyes, and opened their mouths wide and shouted loudly: "Quack, quack!"
Bai Fuling felt ashamed at their outrageous yelling, poked their chubby little faces and corrected them forcefully: "Brother! It's my brother! Call again!"
Lu Ying laughed, Bai Fuling corrected her twice, and the two little dolls finally gave out a standard "Brother", Bai Fuling happily smacked on their faces, then hugged one of them and said to Lu Ying: "You hug me!" Look, it's soft and fun!"
Lu Ying's expression froze, and she declined, "I don't know how to hug them. What if I accidentally hurt them?" Asking him to lift the stone beast in front of the Duke's mansion is easier than holding such a delicate baby. In particular, he knew very well the importance of these two children to the foster father and adoptive mother's family, what should he do if there is any injury on his hands
Bai Fuling said disapprovingly: "Didn't you often carry me around to play?"
Lu Ying remembered the days when he first arrived at Bai's house, his expression was as gentle as water, that was the happiest day in his life...
Mu Peilan just turned her head to listen to her daughter's words, and scolded with a smile: "You have the nerve to say that Lu Ying was only a child in her teens at the time, and she was very thin, and she had to carry you around all day long, and her arm was strained. Don't dare to say anything."
Bai Fuling said embarrassingly: "I wasn't very heavy at the time..." When she was three years old, due to long-term illness and weakness, she looked like a two-year-old baby, thin and small. Although Lu Ying was suffering from long-term eating Not clothed, not warm, and skinny, but his foundation is much better than hers, and his stature is very different from Bai Fuling's. Bai Fuling never thought that he would cause such a big burden on him.
Lu Ying hesitated for a moment, stretched out her hand and patted Bai Fuling's shoulder, and defended her in a low voice: "I just went crazy and forgot to move my arms. I don't want to do Ling'er's business."
Mu Peilan sighed and said, "Just let her get used to it." Although the words were condemning and helpless, everyone could see how happy she was that Lu Ying protected her daughter like this.
That night, the whole family had a banquet in the flower hall regardless of master and servant. Lin Pingzi was dragged over by Bai Awu and the others to pour wine. He rushed in to report, saying that His Highness the Sixth Highness had heard that Bai Ge had returned to the capital, and specially sent the servants from the Prince's Mansion to inquire.
The waiter, surnamed Wen, was one of the most trusted people around Yang Heng, and he was familiar with Lin Pingzi and others. Lin Pingzi adjusted his clothes and went out to greet him.
Eunuch Wen walked into the flower hall while exchanging greetings with Lin Pingzi. When he saw Bai Changshan and the others, he went forward to salute with a very respectful attitude, and ordered the little eunuch who came with him to present a bunch of gifts.
According to Yang Heng's current status equal to the emperor, it didn't have to be like this. When Eunuch Wen goes to someone's house now, only others will salute him. He put away his indifferent and indifferent attitude towards ordinary foreign ministers, and only sat in the Duke's mansion for a while, then took his leave and left.
Bai Fuling was used to Yang Heng being the same age, so he didn't think it was a big deal, but Bai Changshan knew that it was Yang Heng showing his sincerity and importance to him, and he had a little more affection for him.
After eating a banquet until late at night, everyone went back to their rooms to rest. When Bai Fuling returned to the room, she saw a pot of epiphyllum on the small table by the window. The jade-white and graceful flowers were blooming in the night wind, and the fragrance was overflowing. Fascinating.
Ding Xiang and Bai Guo, who followed her into the room and planned to wait for her to take a bath and go to bed, couldn't help admiring when they saw her.
This is the Duke's Mansion, and it is extremely difficult for outsiders to bring such a large pot of flowers in without disturbing anyone, so Bai Guo only thought it was Lin Pingzi trying to make Miss happy, and did not consider other possibilities at all.
"Huh? Where's Little Lihua? Sneaked out to play?" Bai Guo looked around, found that the evil cat was not there, and immediately relaxed.
Bai Fuling stretched out her finger and gently touched the delicate and white petals, knowing that it was probably sent by Gansui... He must be in the capital, and he will come to the door tonight on the 19th. I don't know where the little raccoon flower was taken by him? If the little raccoon flower was here, this pot of epiphyllum would probably have become a residual flower by now.
In the past, Bai Fuling must have been very worried about the safety of the little raccoon, but now... Gan Sui has no time to please her, and she will definitely not hurt the little raccoon, so she is not in a hurry to find the cat, just to be comfortable Take a bath, then go to bed.
Sure enough, not long after she fell asleep that night, a certain big devil sneaked in without a sound, and found that she was still asleep, so he took off his coat, shoes and socks, lay down beside her and hugged her tightly.
Taking a deep breath of the fragrance of the beauty in his arms, Gan Sui complained in a low voice, "Why did you take so long to come to Beijing, I kept you waiting."
Bai Fuling leaned on his arm and said lazily, "Don't you have a lot of things to do?"
Gan Sui was very dissatisfied with her unimportant attitude, but he held back his anger and lowered his head to kiss Bai Fuling's face.
Bai Fuling couldn't bear the disturbance, so she had no choice but to bury her face in his arms, wrapped her arms around his waist and didn't speak.
"In the capital, I only need to wait for the kid's enthronement ceremony to be completed, and then I can leave. After a few months at most, I won't have to worry about other things, and then I will only be busy with your marriage." Gan Sui was in a good mood because of her proactive approach Get better quickly.
"A few months?" Bai Fuling repeated in a daze, without further words.
A few months later, she will probably have been buried in the coffin...
Gan Sui couldn't see the complicated expression on her face, and whispered his plan in her ear: "Would you like to hold the wedding in the capital or in Baili Mountain? Haizhou is also good...Wuhuashan Wulin League is also fine."
The last sentence is cautiously tentative. Since that incident, Wulin League has become a "forbidden place" that Bai Fuling doesn't want to mention. Calculating ideas. He very much hoped to find out what she was thinking, but he was afraid that if he really found out, he would be unbearable, so he could only try it out occasionally.
"I haven't forgiven you yet!" Bai Fuling's voice was vague.
"You will forgive me one day!" Kansui seemed to be swearing, "You will stay with me for the rest of your life, and I will treat you so well that you will never want to leave me again!"
Bai Fuling didn't answer, she opened her mouth and bit his chest hard.
On the second day, there were many stewards from the families of honorable courtiers outside Duke Zhongguo's mansion who came to visit Bai Changshan with posts. Lin Pingzi invited Bai Quer to sit in the town and replied politely to each of them. Many stewards took advantage of the opportunity to deliver posts, and secretly asked the servants of the mansion for news.
The servants in Duke Zhong's mansion are all carefully selected, and all of them are from the small village managed by Baishu outside the capital. It is difficult for others to get useful information from them. It's a disappointment.
However, I don't know how many pairs of eyes in the capital looked at Bai Changshan before returning to the capital. Eunuch Wen personally came to the door to give gifts and greetings. The fool knew which way the wind was going to blow next.
Bai Changshan had been an official in the capital for decades, and he had a wide range of contacts, old students, colleagues and subordinates too many to count, no matter how deliberately he kept a low profile, some entertainment was inevitable.
However, Bai Fuling found that although grandpa would occasionally show fatigue, he quickly planned all kinds of important things to be done after his reinstatement. She felt that it was right to let grandpa return to the capital to shine, and grandpa was far away in the capital. , She has something, it's easier to hide the news for the time being.
When the two younger brothers grow up, they can hold his clothes and act coquettishly. Even if he knows the news of his death, the time of grief will be shorter.
In addition, she also found an opportunity to tell Lin Pingzi about herself. Lin Pingzi couldn't accept it for a while, so he decided to resign from all positions and concentrate on studying family photos at home. He had to find a solution. Bai Fuling persuaded her After persuading him again, Lin Pingzi insisted on his point of view, almost talking out of words.
"Life and death are destiny. I have borrowed these fifteen years from the Bodhisattva. It is useless to try to force it. I have already lived enough and have no regrets. The more you can't let me go, the more sad it will be for me. Even if you die, you will feel uneasy." Bai Fuling said with a wry smile.
Lin Pingzi thumped the sandalwood desk in the study room. For the first time in his life, he said harshly to Bai Fuling: "Everyone is happy if you survived. Why did you give up hope so early? Since you can borrow it for fifteen years, why don't you borrow it for fifteen years?" Can’t we borrow another fifty or one hundred years?”
Bai Fuling was stunned for a moment, the king of Hades wants you to die on the third watch, how can you keep him until the fifth watch, not to mention that she can't see the judge of the king of hell and Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva at all, even if she wants to ask, there is nowhere to ask...
Moreover, Lin Pingzi was right. She never thought about how to save her own life. From the first day she entered this world, all she could think about was how to complete the rescue before the 18-year-old deadline. man's grand project.
She had never seen Lin Pingzi speak so harshly with a dark face, let alone yell at her. Bai Fuling was silent for a while, and said sullenly: "I really didn't think about how to live a few more years. From the beginning, I was Preparing for that day, I did everything I wanted to do, it really gave me another fifty years to live, I don't know how to live my life…”
Lin Pingzi was speechless, with a look of hatred on his face: "You can marry that sea pumice you like, and you can have children. How can you not know how to live? What do you usually say about us? You let us alone Individuals should learn a skill well, learn how to make money and how to live a life, support their parents and have children, do more good deeds, and strive to live happily and happily, how about yourself?"
Bai Fuling turned her head and thought for a while, then said softly; "Get married and have a child... I never thought of living a life like this..." This is the truth, even if she intends to borrow seeds from Haifushi to give birth to a child, it is just to leave a place for her parents. Think about it, let them have something to sustenance, instead of imagining like ordinary people, multiplying, inheriting incense, enjoying family happiness, or tossing with the person they love the most to form a crystallization of love.
"Are you willing to let go of your parents who treat you like an adulterer?" Lin Pingzi was at a loss for words.
"I can't let it go. But if I want to stay, I'm going against the sky. I'm afraid I'll have to pay a very high price. I don't want to drag them into the water. There's always a feast that never ends. Pingzi, my parents and I have already accepted the reality. You don't need to bother me anymore. Fate is fate, there is fate and then there is fate, fate is already predetermined, and fate is born because of fate, even if I ruin my face now, what should come will still come." Bai Fuling calmly said .
If her parents hadn't given birth to two younger brothers, she would definitely be terribly embarrassed about this now. Fortunately, her parents now have a new focus, and she sometimes wonders if the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva specially bestowed divine grace on her to make her feel at ease, and reversed the fate of her parents being childless for life.
One can't be too greedy, she is already very satisfied to be able to be like this now.
Lin Pingzi didn't know this truth, but he still had a little luck in his heart. Hearing this, he slumped down on the chair, like a frost-beaten eggplant, listless and lifeless.
"Don't tell other people about this, I don't want them to start worrying about me now." Bai Fuling confessed. If possible, she hoped that Lin Pingzi would not know that she had already made her parents very sad, and she didn't want to drag others into the water anymore.
Lin Pingzi nodded his head desperately, as a promise.
Yang Heng's enthronement ceremony was going on in full swing, and at the same time, he spent a lot of energy on the personnel arrangements in the court. Some officials who had previously relied on the other princes were swept away in batches. Over the past years, they have been doing disaster relief on the Ning'an River on the surface, but they have not given up their grasp of various personnel information in the important places in the capital.
He deliberately showed his loopholes, making all the brothers think that the throne is hopeful, and he was also exiled by the emperor in disguise, so everyone rushed to use all their strengths to seize the top of the mountain, and because of the long-term suppression of the eldest prince and the second prince, the other princes can grasp the contacts With very limited resources and great opportunities in front of them, cronyism is unavoidable, each scrambling to fill key positions with their cronies and newly recruited officials.
After the New Year's Eve rebellion two years ago, there were many vacancies in the court. For a while, the civil and military affairs of the court were exchanged. Competing with each other, causing stumbling blocks and complaints to do everything possible, making the court a mess.
Under such circumstances, the pigtails left by these officials are naturally not small. Yang Heng has been sending people to observe secretly and collect evidence materials, which are now in handy.
First, all the officials of the Ministry of Officials were replaced with new members, and Bai Changshan was hired to temporarily manage the affairs of the Ministry of Officials, and then the performance appraisal of the Beijing officials who had not yet been approved due to the emperor's serious illness was transferred for re-examination, and all incomplete evaluation materials were sent back for re-verification .
Everyone knows that Yang Heng wants to sweep out those officials who take advantage of the chaos, but now that he is the next leader appointed by the emperor himself, and the enthronement ceremony is about to be held, this time he chose such a good excuse , what can they do
The point is that Yang Heng has a very high prestige among the people and is supported by Princess Antai in the palace. He is justifiably the heir appointed by the emperor himself, and Bai Changshan leads a group of veterans and important ministers to support him. Overwhelmed the other princes.
Everything he did in the past few months was based on righteous principles, which made it impossible for people to refute.
No one would be willing to be easily deprived of the things they once owned. There are obvious ones and some secret ones. In just a few months, Yang Heng has been assassinated more than 20 times, saving himself from danger every time.
Yang Heng himself had no objection, Gan Sui, who promised to protect his safety, was getting impatient, especially after Bai Fuling arrived in the capital, he wished he could go to the Duke's Mansion every night to spend the night, why would he be in the mood to mess with the assassins
So he couldn't bear it anymore, walked up to Yang Heng and suggested directly: "There are those who can be thieves for a thousand days, but there are no ones who can guard against thieves for a thousand days. If it's not convenient for you to deal with those wastes publicly, why don't I do it and kill the grass and roots!" The waste in his mouth It refers to the other princes. Yang Heng shook his head and said: "The imperial court is not a world, and the method of assassination is not the way of the emperor. I can't just find someone to kill someone who doesn't like it, and the court will be completely messed up."
"What is the way of the emperor? In the final analysis, it is nothing more than success and failure. Don't you want to kill them? Instead of wasting time and energy looking for fair reasons to deal with them, it's better not to talk nonsense. As long as there is no proof, who can kill them?" What are you talking about?"
Yang Heng knew that he was not persuaded, so he was not in a hurry to get angry, so he changed the subject and said, "Maybe the father's condition can be controlled?"
Gan Sui smiled coldly and said, "Don't worry, in his current situation, it won't be a problem for him to survive for three to five years. You can safely pretend to be your filial son and grandson."
Looking at him, Yang Heng suddenly felt a little lucky. Fortunately, he was not keen on the throne, otherwise it would be a terrible thing to be an enemy of such a bloodthirsty and too powerful cold-blooded demon king. There is a lingering haze...