Bai Erzheng and Qi Jue, who were being talked about by Man Bao, got together and gossiped about various things about the Guan family. Of course, not only the Guan family, but also the palace.
Bai Erlang, a country bumpkin who came from the countryside, was stunned for a while while listening to various rumors that seemed true or false.
So when Bai Shan met again in the afternoon, he stared at him with a very strange look. He stared at him for a while, then sighed and shook his head. After another look, he sighed and shook his head again.
Bai Shan couldn't hold it back and asked first, "What are you doing?"
Bai Erlang seemed to be waiting for this question. He moved from the opposite side to Bai Shan, sat with him, bumped him with his shoulder and asked, "Do you want to join the King of Yizhou?"
Bai Shan moved aside in disgust and asked, "Don't make random guesses if you don't understand. Why should I seek refuge with him?"
After all, they grew up together. Bai Erlang naturally knew that Bai Shan would not bother to lie about these things, so he frowned and said, "Then why are you looking for the Guan family?"
Bai Shan perked up and asked, "What does this have to do with the Guan family?"
"Hey, don't you know? Mr. Guan is a retainer of the prince's palace. I heard that he used to benefit from the king's trust. Many people came to the prince's palace through Mr. Guan and found a good future." Bai Erlang coughed twice and said:
"So I thought you also wanted to join the King of Yizhou. If not, that would be fine. If not, that would be fine. For some reason, I don't like the King of Yizhou's palace very much. I always feel that we are in conflict with it."
Bai Erlang rambled: "When I heard Qi Jue talk about some rumors about the Guan family today, I was really afraid that you, like those people in the rumors, wanted to make friends with Mr. Guan and then join the palace. I thought about it seriously.
, we ran into the palace several times but nothing good happened. For example, last year when we went to the streets to watch the parade, we met an assassin. You saved Ji Hao but you were threatened by the princess's people, and there was the flower selling incident a few days ago..."
Bai Erlang counted on his fingers. After counting, the carriage stopped. Daji opened the curtain and let out a sigh and asked, "Are we here?"
As soon as she finished speaking, Man Bao's head popped up. She climbed onto the carriage, sat down on the opposite side, looked at Bai Erlang who was still sitting blankly and said, "Get off the carriage."
Bai Erlang glanced out and found that he had returned to the entrance of the alley. He subconsciously listened to Man Bao getting up. He took two steps out but felt something was wrong. He sat back to his original position and stared at Man Bao for a while.
, looked at Bai Shan again and asked, "Why are you going?"
"Let's go find Magistrate Tang."
Bai Erlang wanted to get off the bus. He didn't like Magistrate Tang because he always talked and asked about his homework, which was very annoying.
But thinking that these two people had kept many secrets from him recently, he suppressed the urge to go down. He swallowed and said, "I, I want to go too."
Bai Shan: "The matter of peeping at someone's window last time has not been settled yet. How dare you come to the door?"
Bai Erlang wanted to get out of the car even more.
Both Bai Shan and Man Bao were waiting for him to go down in a leisurely manner.
Bai Erlang was wavering in his heart. He glanced at the two of them for the last time, gritted his teeth, closed his eyes, and shouted: "I, I dare!"
Bai Shan and Man Bao looked at him in surprise. After a while, they looked at each other. After thinking about it, they said, "Okay, let's go together."
When Daji heard this, he drove the carriage away.
The carriage stopped in front of the county government office. Bai Erlang lay down at the window and looked out. He turned back to look at the two of them resentfully, "You really came to see Magistrate Tang."
"Why are we lying about this kind of thing?" Bai Shan asked him: "Can you get in?"
Bai Erlang dug at the wall of the car and asked, "Why are you looking for Magistrate Tang?"
Bai Shan thought for a while and then told him, "I want to talk to him about the Guan family."
Bai Erlang couldn't even think of it, "Why on earth do you care so much about the Guan family?"
As they were talking, the sound of horse hoofbeats sounded in their ears. The three people in the car subconsciously glanced out of the car window. It happened that the man on horseback had just arrived at the gate of the county government office, reined in the horse, and was looking sideways at the carriage.
There are three little ones inside.
Their eyes happened to meet, and Magistrate Tang, who was on the horse, raised his smile, held the horse rope and raised his hand to say hello to the three of them.
Man Bao smiled with crooked eyebrows, Bai Shan also raised his hand to say hello to Magistrate Tang. Bai Erlang, who had his face in the front, shrank his head and slowly shrank under the window, about to get away from Bai Shan and Man Bao.
Squeeze out the middle.
Magistrate Tang County, who didn't notice Bai Erlang at first, saw him immediately. He simply rode forward and looked at them from their window, especially the little head who had moved to the back. He smiled and said: "Erlang, long time no see."
Yeah, what are you hiding from?"
Bai Erlang smiled awkwardly, stretched out his hand to say hello: "Hello, Magistrate Tang."
He struggled for a while, but chose to admit his mistake and apologize, "Last time..."
Man Bao cut him off and said, "Last time you left without saying a word. He didn't even think about fulfilling his duty as a landlord, so he's sorry."
Magistrate Tang was suspicious, "Really?"
Bai Shan on the side nodded, "Really." He changed the subject and asked, "Where is Mr. Tang coming back from?"
County Magistrate Tang dismounted and said with a smile: "I went out for a walk. I passed by Guanjiazhuang and went in to sit down. Why are you here?"
Bai Shan and Man Bao: "...What a coincidence, we are also going to Guanjiazhuang as guests tomorrow."
Magistrate Tang raised his eyebrows at them in surprise.
Half a quarter of an hour later, Bai Erlang was sitting in the courtyard of the county government office, looking sadly at the blue sky. Behind him, the door was closed. Magistrate Tang was talking to Bai Shan and Man Bao. He still didn't know why they wanted to go there.
Then pay attention to the Guan family.
In the room, Magistrate Tang looked out at Bai Erlang's back and asked, "Why did you bring him here too?"
Man Bao said distressedly: "We have been playing together, so we can't hide many things from him. And Bai Er has become a lot smarter now."
Because the three of them had grown up together and were accustomed to each other's presence, Man Bao and Bai Shan would not avoid Bai Erlang when talking, just like they would always ignore Da Ji when talking in private.
This is a terrible habit that can never be broken.
And everyone is growing up, getting smarter and smarter, and showing something. It's fine when Bai Erlang is not interested, but when he is interested, he can't help but dig into it.
Magistrate Tang smiled and asked, "Why are you going to Guanjiazhuang?"
Man Bao then told about his meeting with Guan Erlang yesterday, "I was wondering if the other courtyard they were talking about was the other courtyard that Er Ji mentioned. I asked Doctor Ji about it today, and then I found out that Mr. Guan used to
He is a retainer of the royal family."
Magistrate Tang smiled and said, "If you want to inquire, just ask me. Why bother asking around?"
He confidently told the two of them, "I went to Guanjiazhuang today and also went to see Erji. The other courtyard of the Guan family is the same courtyard where Bai County ordered them to go."