incense as a medium

Chapter 20
Not only Liu Bailu couldn't figure it out, everyone here couldn't figure it out.

The grooms in the barracks of the military camp are all the pillars of the imperial court, at least they used to be, and they all look like smart people, but they can't figure out what Kang Yibang's move is.

However, more people focused on the Fifth Prince.

Among these grooms, those with high official positions include princes and grand masters like Liu Junge, former ministers of the Ministry of War, and ministers of the Ministry of Rites, and those with low official positions include former champions, censors, and small county magistrates. Ministers, but some of them actually committed serious crimes, while others were framed by others.

Kang Yibang is Concubine Kang's direct younger brother. Although Concubine Kang is favored, her fifth prince is of mediocre aptitude. Talent, those people will not be loyal to him, but if the Kang family helps these criminals reverse the case...

Everything will turn out differently.

It has been three years since the former prince was abolished, but the Holy One has not appointed a new prince for a long time. It is no wonder that Concubine Kang and the fifth prince, who have always been peaceful, can't sit still...

While preparing the meal, Liu Bailu looked at the furnishings in the tent, and listened to the whispers of the people. A large brazier was lit in the tent, with a pot of water hanging from it, and two copper basins were placed in the corner for people to eat. For freshening up, there are also some rough pottery bowls placed next to a clay pot. Could it be that there is tea in the pot?
Sure enough, someone went to the table, took a clay pot, grabbed a handful of tea leaves in the copper pot, and then hung it on the brazier to make tea. Occasionally, someone went to pick up the pot and pour tea to drink, and the tea smell overflowed in the tent. What good tea is, but it's not the low-quality tea that can be seen everywhere on the street. It seems that Kang Yibang still spent some money.

After dinner, Liu Bailu asked Liu Junge about Kang Yibang's work and rest time, and asked him to accompany him to push the carriage, but he didn't want Liu Junge to say: "Not only our family has a carriage, but other families also have it."

"How could it be?" Liu Bailu was very surprised. When she came in, there was indeed a carriage, but she thought it was hired by someone else, so she didn't think about it at all. Now it seems that she is really superstitious?Kang Yibang didn't have any other ideas?Or is it really, as those people said, to win over the courtiers for the Fifth Prince?
Liu Bailu looked around the tent, did not see Ying Mo and felt a little surprised, but didn't think too much, and only focused on the whispers of those people.

Liu Junge got up to pour tea, Liu Bailu hurriedly got up and took the pottery bowl to pour the tea and brought it over, only to hear Liu Junge say: "I only found out this morning. Not only was the meal delivered at noon, but when I came in the morning, some people were sitting The horse carriage came. We all asked each other, but for those who have inconvenient legs and feet, who are old, or who deliver meals at home are children or women, General Kang will send a horse carriage to pick them up. We have a total of There were more than 30 people, five of whom were picked up by horse-drawn carriage, but ten people who delivered the food came by horse-drawn carriage."

In this way, there are 15 people, and the carriage is a very unremarkable green shed carriage. Renting such a carriage in Xiongtang County costs [-] yuan a day.If Kang Yibang saves a bit, ten carriages can be used, five of them will pick up people in the morning, and they can run again at noon and evening.

The cost of ten horse-drawn carriages is one tael of silver a day, plus the charcoal and tea in the tent, it may only cost a few hundred pennies a day.

As a general, Kang Yibang's monthly salary is only 50 taels of silver, but he has to spend more than [-] taels to help these criminals?

Perhaps for Kang Yibang or the Kang family, the money is just a small amount, but now that the Holy One is in good health, these criminals will die of old age in the barracks for the rest of their lives. Ten years and 20 years?
Liu Bailu thinks a lot, and the people in this tent think more, but since that's the case, then it's enough to suffer like this for the time being, anyway, Kang Yibang hasn't explained the reason yet, let alone their situation, There's nothing worse than death, isn't it?

Liu Bailu went back and briefly talked to Liu Su Shi. Liu Su Shi was relieved and slightly disappointed at the same time. She could only pin her hopes on her parents, hoping that she could marry Liu Bailu back to her natal family and not have to suffer at the border.

Unexpectedly, that afternoon, the sister-in-law of the Li family and the sister-in-law of the Wang family came to propose a marriage for their son in person. The two came here one after another, each carrying four-color cakes and a few feet of clothing materials. Liu Su didn't ask What are these two people here for? These two started to quarrel.

First they exposed each other's faults, then they began to greet the eighteen generations of the ancestors of both parties, and in the end they even fought.

From the words of these two people, Liu Su also knew the reason for their visit, so she hurriedly called Bai and Qin to drive them out together.

At first, I thought it was over, but who knew that the next day, rumors spread about how hypocritical the daughter of the Liu family was, how ignorant of etiquette, even so, the sister-in-law of the Li family and the sister-in-law of the Wang family came to propose marriage at the same time.

This time, the two of them entered the door at a different time, and they didn't bring anything in their hands. They just kept praising their son for being so good, how smart and able to take care of others, and their eyes were looking around the room. Come and take a look.

Liu Su didn't want to offend her neighbors, so she patiently listened to people's stories, but Liu Su could bear it once or twice, but after more times, her patience was exhausted. At that time, she refuted a few words, and the sister-in-law of the Wang family left awkwardly. Liu Su thought she had given up on it, but who knew that a few days later, everyone in the entire Xiongtang County heard that Miss Liu's family can make money. A pair of skillfully embroidered embroidery is worth hundreds of taels of silver, and everyone is rushing to their door to propose marriage.

The threshold of Liu's house was almost broken, Liu Su simply asked Xiang Bo to close the door, the person who came to the door in person, was rejected, and Xu returned, but the matchmaker simply moved a stool and sat at the door of Liu's house.

Although Liu Bailu had nothing to do with it, seeing her mother being disturbed like this made her very annoyed.

"Miss, take a rest." Shuang Jiang glanced at the Arhat bed behind him, there were 1 people who wanted to lie on it and sleep, but who made his lady still practice calligraphy?
Liu Bailu glanced at the sky, then looked at the Buddhist scriptures being copied, and kept writing: "There are still two pages, let's rest later."

"Yes." Shuang Jiang had no choice but to continue to cover his mouth and yawn, and then went to cut the lantern flowers.In the other rooms of the Liu family, oil lamps are used, and candles are only lit when there are guests, but only Liu Bailu here uses high-quality candles.

Mrs. Qin wanted to light candles in her own room on the grounds that Liu Zongze wanted to study, but was rejected by Liu Junge on the grounds that "the son of a criminal minister cannot be an official". He told Mrs. Qin that Liu Zongze only studied during the day It's okay, if you don't take the scientific examination anyway, you don't have to worry about it like that.

After writing the last word, Liu Bailu put down the pen to move his wrist, Shuang Jiang hurriedly stepped forward to help Liu Bailu squeeze his shoulders, and then went out to wash his feet and put it in the bedroom.

Since she was searched while bathing at night last time, Liu Bailu changed her bathing time to the afternoon, and now she brought food to Liu Junge and was exhausted all the way. Taking a bath just relieved her fatigue, so she only needed to wash her feet at night.

I don't know if it was intuition or because I was frightened by Qi Peiyun. As soon as she entered the bedroom today, Liu Bailu sensed that something was wrong. She turned her head and said to Shuang Jiang: "Go to sleep, you don't need to serve here."

"Yes." Shuang Jiang was eager to go to bed quickly, and he bowed his knees and resigned without a doubt.

Liu Bailu glanced around the room, especially the roof and the bathroom. No one came to the bed and sat down. She was a little puzzled, could it be that person didn't come?Is it my own illusion?But where did this faint fragrance in the room come from?

Doubts are doubts. After a long day of exhaustion, Liu Bailu also wanted to take a rest earlier, so she bent down to take off her shoes. Suddenly, the hairs on her back stood on end. She turned around suddenly, and saw the girl behind the bed curtain When he was human, apart from a little surprise, there was no other expression on his face: "Why are you here again?"

Seeing Liu Bailu's frown and disgust, Qi Peiyun held his heart sadly and said, "Is that why you don't welcome me?"

Being molested like this, Liu Bailu, who was supposed to be furious, couldn't laugh or cry: "You broke into the women's boudoir, so you are so righteous? Do you often break into the women's boudoir?"

This sentence seemed to hit Qi Peiyun's sore feet, his eyes flickered and he said: "Well, I came today to borrow some books from you."

Saying that he jumped off the bed, Liu Bailu stepped aside quickly, and saw him take out a cloth bag from his pocket, and said, "I've finished reading all these books, you can find me some more."

Qi Peiyun quickly opened the package, shook the top sheet of paper, there were several books listed on it, Liu Bailu took a look, frowned and said: "I don't have all these books here, I have to go Elder brother, second younger brother, and father's study. Can you wait a little longer?"

Qi Peiyun nodded and said, "Then I'll come back tomorrow."

Liu Bailu nodded subconsciously, noticing something was wrong, and quickly said: "Don't hide on my bed anymore."

After saying this, she still felt that something was wrong, but Qi Peiyun had already turned around and ran away. Liu Bailu chased after her, only to see the bathroom window shaking there. She said for a long time: "I He shouldn't have been allowed to come here! Why did he agree to help him find books? Oh! He still hasn't returned the silver ticket!"

Liu Bailu stomped her feet resentfully, tore the piece of paper to shreds, turned around and went to wash her feet. After washing her feet, she thought about it and was afraid that Qi Peiyun would not come in tomorrow to get the books and mess around. No matter how many hooligans and hooligans there are, it will be too late to say anything if they really make a fuss.As for the bank note, she just put it in the book and give it to him, I believe he will understand it after reading it.

She picked up the shreds of paper, put them together one by one, wrote down the title of the book written on them, and threw them into the charcoal basin to burn.

Just when Liu Bailu was about to take off his clothes and take a rest, Qi Peiyun went back and forth. He scratched his head and looked at Liu Bailu who was full of anger, and said: "You don't need to pay attention to those people, it's just a momentary curiosity. , It will subside in a few days. By the way, that Kang Yibang is not a good person, you'd better stay away from him."

After finishing speaking, Qi Peiyun left without waiting for Liu Bailu's answer, but Liu Bailu became puzzled, he had no relationship with Kang Yibang, why should he stay away from him?

(End of this chapter)