Chapter 870 Understanding Each Other
Bai Erzheng, Qi Jue and Dan Yu, who were being talked about by Manbao, gathered together and gossiped about all kinds of things about the Guan family. Of course, it was not just about the Guan family, but also about the palace.
Bai Erlang, a country bumpkin, was stunned by all the rumors that seemed true and false.
So when he saw Bai Shan again in the afternoon, he stared at him with a very strange look. After staring at him for a while, he sighed and shook his head. After looking at him again, he sighed and shook his head again.
Bai Shan couldn't help but ask, "What are you doing?"
Bai Erlang seemed to be waiting for this question. He moved from the opposite side to Bai Shan, sat next to him, bumped his shoulder and asked, "Do you want to surrender to the King of Yizhou?"
Bai Shan moved aside in disdain and asked, "Don't guess if you don't understand. Why should I join him?"
After all, they grew up together, so Bai Erlang naturally knew that Bai Shan would not bother to lie about these things, so he frowned and said, "Then why did you go to the Guan family?"
Bai Shan perked up and asked, "What does this have to do with the Guan family?"
"Eh, don't you know? Master Guan is a retainer of the palace. I heard that the Prince of Yizhou used to trust him very much. Many people sought refuge in the palace through Master Guan and secured a good future." Bai Erlang coughed twice and said, "So I thought you were also going to seek refuge with the Prince of Yizhou. That's fine, that's fine. For some reason, I don't like the Yizhou Palace very much. I always feel that we are in conflict with it."
Bai Erlang rambled on, "Today, when I heard Qi Jue talk about some rumors about the Guan family, I was really worried that you, like those people in the rumors, wanted to befriend Master Guan and then seek refuge in the palace. I thought about it carefully. The few times we ran into the palace, none of them ended well. For example, last year when we went to the street to watch the parade, we encountered assassins. You saved Ji Hao but were still threatened by the princess's people. And there was the incident with selling flowers a few days ago..."
Bai Erlang counted on his fingers, and just as he finished, the carriage stopped. Daji lifted the curtain, and he exclaimed, "Are we there yet?"
As soon as she finished speaking, Manbao's head popped up. She climbed onto the carriage, sat down on the opposite side, and said to Bai Erlang who was still sitting there in a daze, "Get off."
Bai Erlang peeked outside and found that they had returned to the alley entrance. He subconsciously listened to Manbao getting up, but after taking two steps outside, he felt something was wrong and sat back in his original seat. He stared at Manbao for a while, then looked at Bai Shan and asked, "Where are you going?"
"Let's go find County Magistrate Tang."
Bai Erlang wanted to get off the car. He didn't like County Magistrate Tang because he would always ask about his homework while chatting, which was particularly annoying.
But thinking that these two people had been hiding a lot of secrets from him recently, he resisted the urge to go, swallowed hard and said, "I, I want to go too."
Bai Shan: "You haven't settled the matter of peeping into someone's window last time. How dare you come to my house?"
Bai Jilang wanted to get off the car even more.
Bai Shan and Man Bao were waiting for him to come down leisurely.
Bai Erlang wavered in his heart. He took one last look at the two of them, 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, thought for a moment, and said, "Okay, let's go together."
When Daji heard this, he drove away in his carriage.
The carriage stopped in front of the county government office. Bai Erlang leaned over the window and looked out. He looked back at the two of them with resentment, "You really are here to see County Magistrate Tang."
"Why would we lie about something like this?" Bai Shan asked him, "Are you going in?"
Bai Erlang scratched the side of the car and asked, "Why are you looking for County Magistrate Tang?"
Bai Shan thought for a moment and told him, "I want to talk to him about the Guan family."
Bai Erlang racked his brains but couldn't figure it out, "Why do you care so much about the Guan family?"
As they were talking, the sound of horse hooves rang in their ears. The three people in the carriage subconsciously looked out the window. It happened that the horseman had just arrived at the gate of the county government office, reined in his horse, and was looking sideways at the three little ones in the carriage.
Their eyes met, and County Magistrate Tang on his horse smiled, waved and greeted the three people with the reins.
Manbao smiled with his eyes curved, and Bai Shan also raised his hand to greet County Magistrate Tang. Bai Erlang, whose face was in the front, shrank his head and slowly shrank under the window, trying to squeeze out from between Bai Shan and Manbao.
County Magistrate Tang, who hadn't noticed Bai Erlang at first, immediately spotted him. He simply rode forward and looked at them from their window, especially the little head that had moved to the back. He smiled and said, "Erlang, long time no see. Why are you hiding?"
Bai Erlang smiled awkwardly, extended his hand and said hello, "Hello, County Magistrate Tang."
He hesitated for a while, then chose to admit his mistake and apologize, "Last time..."
Manbao interrupted him, "Last time you left without telling me, he felt that he hadn't fulfilled his duty as a good host, so he felt sorry for it."
County Magistrate Tang was skeptical, "Really?"
Bai Shan nodded, "Really." He changed the subject and asked, "Where did you come back from, Master Tang?"
County Magistrate Tang dismounted and said with a smile, "I went for a walk and passed by Guanjiazhuang and went in to sit for a while. What brought you here?"
Bai Shan and Man Bao: "...What a coincidence, we are also going to visit Guanjiazhuang tomorrow."
County Magistrate Tang raised his eyebrows and looked at them in surprise.
Half a minute later, Bai Erlang sat in the courtyard of the county government office, looking at the blue sky sadly. Behind him, the door was closed. County Magistrate Tang was talking to Bai Shan and Manbao. He still didn't know why they were so concerned about the Guan family.
Inside the room, County Magistrate Tang glanced out at Bai Erlang's back and asked, "Why did you bring him here too?"
Manbao said distressedly: "We have always played together, so there are many things I can't hide from him. Besides, Bai Er has become much smarter now."
Because the three of them grew up together and were used to each other's presence, Manbao and Baishan would not avoid Bai Erlang when they talked about things, just like they would always ignore Daji when they whispered to each other.
This is a terrible habit that cannot be broken in a short time.
Everyone is growing up, becoming smarter, and revealing something. It's okay when Bai Erlang is not interested, but once he becomes interested, he can't help but get to the bottom of it.
County Magistrate Tang smiled and asked, "What are you doing in Guanjiazhuang?"
Manbao then told her about his encounter with Guan Erlang yesterday. "I was wondering if the villa they were talking about was the same one Erji mentioned. I asked Doctor Ji about it today and found out that Master Guan used to be a retainer in the palace."
County Magistrate Tang said with a smile, "If you want to find out, just come to me. Why bother asking around?"
He confidently told them, "I went to Guanjiazhuang today and also visited Erji. The Guan family's villa is the same villa that County Magistrate Bai and his men went to back then."
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