Except for this unpleasant episode, the wedding banquet went very smoothly. The bride's family's welcoming team took Princess Yingluo away in a mighty way. Princess Antai ordered the manager to see the guests off, and she personally sent Mu Peilan and her daughter out, apologizing in a low voice. Said: "The matter of inviting Ling'er into the palace before, I was ill-considered, and it hurt Ling'er's reputation. I will definitely handle this matter carefully and never let those people continue to talk nonsense."
Mu Peilan nodded. She had just heard a maid beside her briefly mention that someone was spreading rumors against Bai Fuling. Her daughter was said to be a vixen. No mother would be happy, but she is not a person who likes to complain afterwards. , she is now thinking more about how to calm down this matter.
Bai Fuling tugged at her mother's sleeve, and said to Princess Antai: "Even if I don't go into the palace, those people will make up other things. What they want to deal with is the emperor and my grandfather and righteous brother, Yun Mei Auntie, don't blame yourself."
They all thought of this truth, but Princess Antai was very moved by Bai Fuling's words. She stroked Bai Fuling's hair and praised: "Our Ling'er is a good girl."
The two mother and daughter bid farewell to Princess Antai and returned to the Duke's Mansion. Mu Peilan immediately sent someone to inform the people in Qianxiaolou to investigate the source of the rumor as soon as possible. In the evening, when Bai Changshan and his son came back from the banquet, Qian Xiaolou had already delivered the results.
The whole thing started with Ma Tang, the Zhenbei General who was sent to Beiguan City before. Ma Tang happened to be the son of today's Mrs. Ma, Miss Ma's brother, no wonder they were so excited to find Bai Fuling's bad luck.
After the emperor handed over the power to Yang Heng in April, Yang Heng asked the Bai family about the current situation in Beiguan City, and Ma Tang was immediately transferred back to the capital by an imperial edict.
It's only been a year since the good times, and the benefits have not been enough to return to the original shape, and the loss in Ma Tang's heart can be imagined. Fortunately, when he was in Beiguan City, the barbarians did not harass the frontier because of the euphorus. Although he had no military achievements and no faults, he was just idle without any punishment.
Even so, it is enough for him to be depressed. Beiguancheng is indeed not as good as the world of flowers in the capital, but in Beiguancheng, the Bai family can eat meat and he can share soup. In name, he is the top leader of the local area. Zhenbeijun looked down on him in his heart, and he was polite on his face. In the capital city, there are as many dignitaries as dogs. He is an idle official with no money and no power, not to mention how sad his life is.
The point is, he belongs to the lineage of the Fourth Highness, and several princes, including the Fourth Highness, had turned against Yang Heng long ago for the sake of the throne. What good fruit to eat
The Sixth Highness has not yet arrived, and as one of the core cadres of his political opponents, he will never even think about standing up in this life.
Ma Tang is depressed, hangs around the wine shop every day, and complains a few words when drunk. These words fall into the ears of those who care, and soon produce several wonderful gossip versions. The core characters are Bai Fuling and Lu Ying.
There are those who say that Lu Ying is self-respecting and amassing money wantonly in Beiguan City, and those who say that Lu Ying befriends barbarians, collaborating with the enemy and traitorous country, and those who say that Bai Fuling is even worse, saying that she is promiscuous, that she has an ambiguous relationship with Lu Ying, and that her marriage contract with the leader of the martial arts alliance has not been concluded. , went to hook up with the barbarian chief, and it was reported that during Yang Heng's ascension to the throne, Bai Fuling once stayed in the palace for a short time, what did he do during the short stay? It can't help but make people think about it.
Bai Changshan's high-profile comeback has aroused the hatred of many people. The few princes who opposed Yang Heng are only under house arrest now. They are unwilling to fail and have no courage and courage to rebel, so they can only try to make Yang Heng unhappy. .
This kind of rumor wiped out Yang Heng, Lu Ying, Bai Changshan and others who made them hate it, so they were naturally willing to spread it.
In order to expand their influence, the fourth prince united with several other brothers, and through the mouths of his confidantes and subordinates, they spread all kinds of rumors unfavorable to Bai Fuling in the elite circle of the capital. Even if Bai Changshan and the others knew about it, it would be inconvenient for them to deal with it.
Bai Changshan and Bai Chou also heard some rumors when they went to the banquet today, and the faces of the two father and son were not very good-looking. The family invited Lu Ying over overnight to discuss, and decided to use the previous method. If the rumors cannot be quelled, then they should work harder to make things worse, and make the water as messy as possible, so that everyone thinks that these things If the rumor is false, it can no longer cause harm.
Bai Guo was the most excited, and went to see Bai Qian early the next morning, and decided to dig out the gossips of those wives and ladies who talked about Bai Fuling's right and wrong.
As the person involved, Bai Fuling acted as if she didn't care about anything, as long as her grandfather and Lu Ying were not affected, she was a person who was about to die, why did she care about her reputation
However, this incident disrupted their family's plan to return to Beiguan City. If Bai Fuling leaves the capital at this time, I'm afraid that her romantic affair will be confirmed. In the eyes of others, this is obviously a guilty conscience and she wants to avoid the wind head.
Mu Peilan didn't want to leave the capital, she still had hope in her heart, the capital is very close to Banzhuan Mountain, maybe the Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha would bestow divine grace on her daughter to continue to live well.
Bai Fuling didn't say anything, but she had a vague feeling in her heart that she probably wouldn't survive that day, but she just didn't want to go against her parents' wishes in the last days.
Fifteen years ago, the day when Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva appeared was the ninth day of November. A few days before Bai Fuling's third birthday, the three members of the Bai family discussed and decided to leave the capital on the third day of November and temporarily live at the foot of Banzhuang Mountain. Chang Shan reasoned that the family planned to go to Haizhou for the winter. If Bai Fuling was safe and sound, then everything would be easy to say. If not, he would hide Bai Changshan first and send his daughter back to Baili Mountain for burial.
These days, Gan Sui sneaked into the Duke's mansion almost every night to look for Bai Fuling, and the people around him noticed it too often, but the Bai Chou couple only wanted their daughter to like it, so they simply ordered Bai Guo, who was by her side, to serve her. Waiting for others to pretend to be ignorant.
Not long after the rumor broke out, several major cases occurred in the capital city. A total of eight houses and farms outside the city caught fire in the middle of the night, burning all the people in the yard to death, and no one survived! The total number of casualties in the eight fires was ridiculously higher, more than 300 people!
There were no wounds on the body of the deceased, and there were no traces of arson at the scene, but everyone thought it was weird.
Did the people in the room really sleep like this? No one escaped? Moreover, the nearby residents remembered that almost all the people who entered and exited these houses and farms were young and strong men, and there were no old or weak women or children. Normally, the ability to escape should not be weak.
The Wucheng Bingma Division repeatedly checked for a long time but could not find any clues, so they had to deal with it as a fire accident.
The princes were suddenly surprisingly honest, all of them closed their doors at home and saw no one, and all the rumors that had been directed at the Bai family quickly disappeared completely.
According to the news sent by Qianxiaolou afterward, the eight houses and farms are the secret houses of several princes, and all the people living in them are their confidantes and dead men.
Needless to say, it is kansui to start with such a spicy dish.
Knowing this, Yang Heng smiled wryly at Lie Dang. They also asked Gan Sui to subdue and clean up the remaining forces hidden by the brothers as soon as possible, but Gan Sui had been too lazy to do it.
Unexpectedly, this time the brothers were so desperate to provoke Bai Fuling, Gan Sui didn't even have to discuss it, and went straight to kill them, refusing to keep a single one alive, no wonder his brothers were scared out of their wits.
The adults of the Bai family frowned, feeling that Kansui's behavior was too extreme and fierce, Bai Changshan was a little hard to accept, Bai Chou and Mu Peilan were also people who killed people without blinking an eye, and their resistance to Kansui's behavior was relatively small in their hearts. secretly applauded.
Bai Fuling was very speechless, when Gansui met her these few days, everything was normal, she naively thought that he didn't know these things. Now I just hope that these more than 300 lives will not be counted on her head.
Kansui's methods were extreme, but it has to be said that the effect of doing so was immediate.
That night, Gan Sui visited the Duke's mansion as usual, and Bai Fuling watched him hesitate to speak. It was rare for Gan Sui to see her like this, so he asked with a smile, "What's the matter? Do you want to tell me something?"
"That's right! But you might not listen..." Bai Fuling said helplessly.
"tell me the story?"
"Will you listen to me telling you not to kill people at will?"
Gan Sui said innocently, "Since when did I kill people at will?"
Bai Fuling glared at him: "Are you trying to tell me that the recent fires have nothing to do with you?"
Gan Sui grabbed her waist and snorted, "I did it, but Yang Heng ordered it!"
"Will you listen to him?!" Bai Fuling despised his behavior of pretending to be young at such a young age, and poked the tip of his nose with her finger while talking.
"I'm happy to hear it, and I will listen to it occasionally." Gan Sui grabbed her finger and put it to his mouth, and he opened his mouth to bite.
The itching and numbness came from his fingertips, and Bai Fuling gnawed on his fingers as a snack, and said slowly: "I don't want you to kill people, especially I don't want you to kill people because of me. More murders are not good for you." it is good."
Gan Sui smiled and said, "Do you care about me?"
"Yes, I care about you, will you listen to me?" Bai Fuling looked at him firmly.
"You marry me, I will listen."
Bai Fuling didn't speak.
Kansui bit her finger hard: "How long are you going to be mad at me?"
Bai Fuling said softly, "Until the day I die."
Gan Sui was depressed for a while and then became happy again: "Okay! So you plan to always remember me in this life."
Bai Fuling gave him a big white eye.
Gan Sui said suddenly, "I'm leaving tomorrow, and we won't see each other until New Year's Eve at the earliest."
Bai Fuling was taken aback for a moment, and stared at him blankly, as if she couldn't believe her ears - he was leaving tomorrow and only coming back on New Year's Eve...
She had thought about the scene of the two farewell countless times before, but she never thought that this day would come so soon.
She is destined not to survive this year...
Tonight turned out to be their farewell day!