When Lin Xixue woke up again, she only felt that she was pillowing on a soft pillow, and there was a faint and elegant fragrance lingering in her nose.
She opened her eyes and saw Bai Qing lowering her head, looking at her with interest, and said vaguely: "Ah Qing... Good morning..."
"Pfft--" Bai Qing couldn't help laughing, and said angrily: "Look what time it is now."
Lin Xixue then rubbed her eyes, but she saw the moon rising over the east mountain, and wisps of breeze passing through the eaves, bringing with it the crisp sound of wind chimes.
"Open your mouth." Bai Qing said softly.
Lin Xixue also opened her mouth obediently, and Bai Qing stuffed a clear blue pill into her mouth.
As soon as the elixir was taken into her mouth, it turned into cold currents that rushed towards the sky. She suddenly felt the sea of consciousness becoming clear, and all the dark and violent thoughts in her heart suddenly dissipated.
This feeling was quite similar to when she absorbed the moonlight dew spit out from the jade bottle.
"This is the Snow Soul Pill?!" Lin Xixue couldn't help but be pleasantly surprised when she felt that the effect was several times that of the Gushen Pill.
Bai Qing smiled and said: "Yes, there are still a few bottles in stock in Tingxue Tower, and I have looted them all. In addition to these pills and prescriptions, there are also many methods for cultivating spiritual consciousness. I also brought them out. Maybe
It will be helpful to you.”
"Aqing...Thank you very much."
Bai Qing didn't speak, she just looked into Lin Xixue's eyes and responded with a smile.
"By the way, how on earth did you break the ice outside Tingxue Tower? I heard from Xiao Xu that the ice on top was extremely strange and dangerous." Lin Xixue suddenly became curious.
"Hehe, well..." Bai Qing reached out and pinched Lin Xixue's face, "What do you think?"
"You pinched my face!"
"You're already awake, how long do you plan to rest on my legs?"
"Sleep a little longer."
"You...forget it..." Bai Qing paused, as if he wanted to say something, but after a moment of silence, he added: "Then you have to remember it carefully, and sleep on my lap.
Don’t forget what it feels like to go to bed.”
"Huh? Why, you won't give me a pillow in the future?"
"It depends on your performance?" As he said this, Bai Qing suddenly laughed again, and Lin Xixue also laughed.
But Lin Xixue was keenly aware of the glistening color in Bai Qing's eyes reflected in the moonlight.
"You cried?"
"Um?"
"There is light in your eyes."
"Those who have no light in their eyes are dead." Bai Qing said angrily.
"Why have you suddenly become so sharp-tongued after I haven't seen you for half a month?"
Bai Qing rolled her eyes at her, pulled out her knees, and urged: "Okay, get up when you've had enough pillows. There are still things to deal with, Mr. An Guogong of Yunzhou!"
"Ahem," Lin Xixue stood up and twirled her hair in embarrassment when Bai Qing called herself this, "You are quite well informed, but what do you mean when you say you have something to deal with?"
Bai Qing spread her hands and said, "What else could it be? I heard that the emperor wanted to make a woman the Duke of An Guo, and all the civil servants were kneeling in front of the palace gate."
Lin Xixue said indifferently: "I don't think it's a big deal. If these rotten scholars are willing to kneel, just let them kneel. Anyway, my knees are not mine, and if they break, it has nothing to do with me."
Bai Qing quickly corrected her: "That's true, but Xiaoxue, you have to manage your own territory soon, so you'd better not get too stalemate with these civil servants."
"It's easy to hide from open guns, but hard to guard against hidden arrows. If these civil servants are gossiping behind your back and portray you as a person who cannot distinguish between right and wrong, black and white, how can anyone dare to defect to you?"
"Well -" Lin Xixue pondered for a moment, then replied: "If someone really believes in the one-sided words of these civil servants, how can they be considered real talents?"
"However, if this group of people really talks nonsense behind the scenes and affects the 'popular sentiment', it is indeed an extremely dangerous thing."
Lin Xixue still remembers what the Confucian saint Lu Er told her about the incredible consequences that common people's common understanding will have in this world.
"Forget it, in that case, would A-Qing come with me to meet these rotten scholars?"
"take me?"
"Huh?" Lin Xixue was a little confused.
Bai Qing gently tapped the tiles under her feet, making a clear clicking sound, and said: "I thought you would find the owner of the library, Cheng. I think she trusts you very much, and
Someone who is familiar with the situation in Jingyun City is much more suitable than me!"
Lin Xixue could hear the sourness in Bai Qing's words, and hurriedly explained: "Well... I cooperated with Hall Master Cheng before, but it was not because you were not around. I had to find a trustworthy force.
"
"Oh, so that's it?" Bai Qing raised a smirk on her lips and said, "Then it should be okay for me to relay these words to Master Cheng, right?"
"Ah this..."
"It's only been half a month since we last met, tsk tsk!"
"Thankfully, I tried my best to get the elixir for you, but I didn't know you were fighting side by side with other sisters." Although there was a hint of sullenness on Bai Qing's eyebrows, there was more of a smile that she couldn't hide.
She stuck her head out and leaned forward, their faces almost touching.
Lin Xixue was forced to take half a step back and stepped on the edge of the eaves. She almost missed the step and half of her body was stretched out of the eaves.
Seeing that there was no way to retreat, she had no choice but to switch from defense to offense, picked up Bai Qing by the waist, and then jumped up on her toes.
Bai Qing was held in her arms, turned her head to her ear, and softly laughed and cursed: "Huaxin!"
Covered in the moonlight, Lin Xixue held her as she moved between the houses. In a blink of an eye, she was outside the palace gate, and then she put Bai Qing down.
Although it has fallen into the night, the lights are brightly lit in front of the palace gate at this moment. All civil servants, all dressed in official uniforms, sit in rows and kneel in front of the palace gate without saying a word.
Lin Xixue narrowed her eyes and glanced at the group of civil servants with some disdain, then took Bai Qing's hand and flew over the towering palace wall, heading straight to the imperial study.
The emperor was pacing back and forth in the study at this moment, obviously a little worried. When he saw Lin Xixue coming, he couldn't help but be overjoyed.
"Miss Lin, you're finally here..." The emperor came forward with a frown on his face, "You insisted on not wearing men's clothing, so I had no choice but to draft the decree truthfully. The civil servants were furious. They were already in front of the palace gate.
I have been kneeling for several hours."
Lin Xixue just nodded indifferently and replied: "I saw it, let's go and meet them."
The emperor gave a few instructions to the eunuch holding the lamp beside him, and the eunuch quickly ran out of the palace. After a while, someone carried out two sedans, one gold and one purple.
There are many guards and palace people in front and behind the sedan, especially the purple sedan, where there are palace maids holding barriers to the left and right.
Lin Xixue understood that this barrier was specially prepared to prevent the female family members in the sedan from being peeked at. Although she was not happy, she no longer had to worry about these details at this moment, so she pulled Bai Qing onto the sedan.
After a while, I heard a eunuch shouting: "Long live the thousand-year-old, come to the palace gate! Get up the sedan chair!"
Not long after, they arrived at the palace gate. As the palace gate slowly opened, the originally silent civil servants seemed to have rehearsed countless times in advance, shouting in unison: "Your Majesty, please think again!"
Lin Xi got off the sedan chair, walked to the emperor, and said with a smile: "It's really not easy for these civil servants to shout slogans so unanimously."
"..." The emperor remained silent.
"It seems that as a Chinese civil servant, you have a lot of collusion with party members?" Lin Xixue said the key point, "How about you, take this opportunity to let me help you get rid of a few culprits who are forming cliques for personal gain...