imperial psychologist

Chapter 499 Long time no see
Bai Ling was a little surprised, and several other people who were resting in the yard also surrounded him.

"Where did you hear that?" Burling asked.

"It was mentioned when the bustard was chatting with Master Wu, and I was right there at the time..." Ai Songqing ran a little anxiously, and was a little out of breath at the moment, "It is said that this night show is specially for Mr. Lin Ordered by one of my concubines."

"A concubine?" Bai Ling repeated softly.

"That's right...not right, concubine is not counted as a concubine, she has no status.

"This person surnamed Lin is a businessman, and he is an old friend of our bustard. He can't go back to Pingjing a few times a year, and he hasn't even been at home for the New Year's Eve this year, but... he will be back in a few days.

"His little concubine was sold from our bustard a few years ago, and Mr. Lin bought her a house in the south, and he liked it very much.

"This time when Mr. Lin came back, he also hid it from his wife and planned to stay in that concubine's house for three to five days before going home.

"The request of 'don't sing in the opera house, just want to hear the voices of newcomers' was also made by this little concubine. This Lin Daguan is really generous, so let's go to the temporary group of people like us. For one night of singing, he just paid 300 taels for the deposit..."

"Oh my god!" The others exclaimed, "So many?"

"Yeah, I don't know how much the bustard negotiated with him in private...it must be much more than this deposit!"

"So..." Bai Ling suddenly thought of something, "The one who picked someone behind the screen that evening may be that little concubine?"

"That's right! The bustard said in the afternoon that she chose the person herself. Even if we don't sing well, it's not the responsibility of Baihuaya Liyuan. Originally... just to have fun and have a lively night."

After hearing that they were going to sing an opera for the female relatives, the people around them breathed a sigh of relief—many of them would invite an opera troupe to sing at their home during the holidays. This similar scene Let everyone relax a little bit.

"Actually, there's nothing to be afraid of," one person said, "Buddhist told me that we won't be allowed to touch flesh and blood for the first three months."

The others also laughed and agreed.

At midnight that day, they were taken by Turtle Claw to take a bath in the outside bathhouse—this is still the rule, the bathhouse in Liyuan is not open to them, and they still have to wait for most of the guests to leave before going to the outside bathhouse. The last soup of hot water.

In February, the weather is gradually warming up, but the nights are still very cold.The Turtle Claws were waiting outside with their whips in their hands—they didn't wait, but sat and played cards together, looking up from time to time from the corner of their eyes.

With the lessons learned from the previous escape and killing, the girls really had fewer thoughts about escaping.

After taking a bath, Bo Ling wrapped his hair in a towel from the pear orchard, and sat outside waiting with his dirty clothes in his arms.

In the lights at night, Bo Ling saw a gnat beside his feet at some point.

She was startled instinctively, stood up abruptly, and took two steps aside.

But when she looked over there again—the scorpion was gone.

Bai Ling became a little flustered, she was wearing straw sandals today, and she didn't even have socks, but it was dark all around, and the swaying shadows in the wind and grass were like long insects in the dark, making people uneasy.

She repeatedly looked at the ground at her feet, and suddenly found a man in a brocade robe behind her. Before Bai Ling looked up, the man grabbed her hand and pulled her into a nearby dark alley.

Just as Bo Ling was about to scream, he heard a familiar voice——

"It's really you...you didn't die!"

She raised her head, and in front of her eyes was a face trembling slightly with surprise.

Bai Ling froze for a moment—she was too familiar with this face.

It's Zeng Jiuyan!
Zeng Jiuyan was about to shed tears, he held Bo Ling's shoulders tightly with both hands, and thousands of words came to his mind for a moment, but he couldn't say anything.

Bo Ling only felt her eyes heat up, and she held Zeng Jiuyan's extended hand, "Long time no see..."

"Long time no see...how come you are here?" Zeng Jiuyan asked with a sore nose, "Did you get rescued and then sold to this kind of place?"

Burling shook his head.

Zeng Jiuyan pulled Bo Ling's wrist again, turned around and was about to take her out, "Which family are you from now, take me there, I will redeem you—"

"Wait!" Bo Ling's hand suddenly clasped Zeng Jiuyan's wrist tightly, "Jiuyan, stop!"

Zeng Jiuyan stopped in doubt, "...you don't have to worry about money, I can afford it no matter how much it is."

"No." Bo Ling shook his head, "You can't redeem me."

"Why?" Zeng Jiuyan turned around again, "I know this place better than you, even if your bustard is hard to talk to, I can find a way to take you out, you believe me!"

"I believe you, but I was not sold here... It was the emperor's will that I was exiled here."

"...What?" Zeng Jiuyan suspected that he had heard wrong.

"I stabbed Chen Yicong." Bai Ling reached out and patted his left shoulder, "here."

Zeng Jiuyan's eyes widened.

He frowned thoughtfully—he understood many things at once.

Why did Chen Yicong suddenly become seriously ill after the New Year's Eve and couldn't go to court early? Why did everyone go to the palace to say hello? Except for Sun and Zhang in the cabinet, he didn't see anyone else...

"I didn't die. Throwing into the lake was just a cover-up for Chen Yicong. During that time, I was locked up in the palace. Even though I'm out of the palace, I'm still wearing a sinful body. I don't know how many eyes are staring at me. .”

Hearing this, Zeng Jiuyan felt a turmoil in his heart, and felt nauseated for a while.

He clenched his fists and forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart.

Zeng Jiuyan paced left and right in the dark alley, then took a few deep breaths, looked at Bo Ling, "...then you came in from Jiaofangsi, didn't you?"

"Yes." Bo Ling nodded, "What is the way out for the girls who come out of the Jiaofang Division here, does Jiuyan know?"

Zeng Jiuyan nodded, "Usually wait until mid-May, and a platform will be set up here, and those girls will be brought out one by one to bid."

"Is it also a direct seller?"

"Yes, people who come out of the Jiaofang Division are also divided into three, six, and nine grades. The background of your situation is more complicated, and Baihuaya dare not stay. Usually, they are sold directly—it's just that the tooth in the middle of May Shopping malls are special, because the backgrounds of people who can buy there are not simple, and most of them can afford high prices."

"How tall?"

"Look at the people," Zeng Jiuyan said softly, "I went to see the excitement a few times, and there are very few people with less than a thousand taels. If the two sides really rob each other, there are many people who can smash ten thousand taels of gold."

Hearing this, Bo Ling was really relieved.

"Really rich."

As she guessed——the reason why the bustard only let them work during this time, but never let them work in Fireworks and Willow Lane, was probably due to this consideration.

"Then I should be fine for the past few months..." Bai Ling said softly, "Jiu Yan doesn't have to worry about me."

(End of this chapter)