(5)
After the feast, there was spare time and loneliness.
The huge house seemed particularly empty after the tidying up. In addition to the master and the young master, there were more than twenty servants, but they still couldn't fill the emptiness here.
Bai Feng wakes up at a similar time every day, sooner rather than later, and then a maid sees him practicing his sword in the courtyard.
After sword practice, it was supposed to be time to take a shower, change clothes, and get ready for the trip. However, today some things were delayed for a long time.
"What did you just say?" Bai Feng said, shirtless, standing in the courtyard looking at a maid on the corridor.
The sky was gray and raindrops began to fall.
"If the young master likes a beauty, I will meet a young lady..."
"No, it's the previous sentence."
After hearing this, the maid's legs went weak, and she fell to her knees on the ground, begging for mercy and saying: "Master, I was too talkative for a moment, I shouldn't have mentioned what happened last night! I know I was wrong, Master, please forgive me!"
Bai Feng waved to another maid and said: "Bring me a whip, move quickly!" He took the soft whip, then ordered the maid's arms to be held down, and continued: "Xiao Aima didn't teach you anything. Is there something that should be said and something that should not be said?”
"Master, please spare your life! Master, I know I was wrong!" She opened her eyes wide and was extremely frightened.
Bai Feng replied coldly: "Take off your clothes so that you don't have to spend money to buy new ones if they are damaged." He walked behind the maid and whipped out the whip with all his strength, and a line of flesh and blood suddenly appeared on the maid's delicate and white back. dripping.
"ah!!!"
"Xiao Auntie, is this the servant you discipline?" Bai Feng looked sideways at an old woman who seemed ordinary. She took a robe and put it on Bai Feng thoughtfully.
She bowed calmly and replied: "If the young master is displeased, I can personally punish him. I won't worry about the young master."
"Are you too kind to them, or is this how the Queen told you? Being so arrogant and rude, if it were a distinguished guest at a certain banquet, the outcome would be beyond my control." There was something in Bai Feng's words. , and then prepared to torture.
Fine cotton raindrops fell on the petite body, but sharp thorns were inserted into the back.
"Master, please spare my life..." The maid was in so much pain that she couldn't scream.
After a moment, Yu Ke came over with his sword in hand and shouted: "Stop!"
Bai Feng didn't respond and continued to whip. Unexpectedly, Yu Ke suddenly swung his sword and cut off the whip.
She pointed her sword at Bai Feng and continued to question: "Brother, what on earth are you doing? You were not like this before!"
"How dare you point a sword at me?" Bai Feng said with a mocking smile: "In the past? What do you mean by the past? Did you see her suffering and think of yourself in the past? Not enough to eat, not warm enough to wear, you have to suffer every day Scolding and beating you, that pitiful, powerless you?"
He slowly walked to Yu Ke.
"what are you up to?"
He raised his hand to remove the sword tip, bent down and slowly and methodically found "a bunch of copper coins" from Yu Ke's body, like a waist ornament.
Bai Feng took one of the copper coins and kept it, leaving only one.
"Remember this day, the first time you drew a sword against me with murderous intentions." Bai Feng threw down the broken whip and waved his hands to ask the servants on the left and right to take the injured maid down.
"You are about to be free." He looked at Yu Ke and said: "Drive out that slave who talks nonsense, give her enough travel expenses, and let her go back to her hometown to do a small business. It is best for such a troublesome thing to go as far as possible. How far...and so is the woman in front of me."
Bai Feng was talking about Yu Ke.
"If this woman also wants to leave, please make arrangements for Auntie Xiao as well. There is no need to ask me any more."
Yu Ke immediately refused and said loudly: "Don't even think about it! As long as I am here for a day, I will never let you do whatever you want!"
After speaking, the girl sheathed her sword and walked away.
"You are so sentimental." Bai Feng mocked casually, and then Xiao Aimai asked: "Master, this is already the tenth servant you have driven away..."
"What, do you have any objection? She dares to be rude to me today, and she will dare to be rude to the adults in the palace tomorrow. Will you be responsible then?" Bai Feng said: "That's it. Remember to pay enough for the travel expenses. She can get as far away as she wants, I never want to see her again."
Aunt Xiao had nothing to say.
After bathing and changing clothes, Bai Feng went out as scheduled and happened to meet Tong Yun and Yu Chiying outside the mansion.
They stood under the eaves to take shelter from the rain, their bodies wet.
"What are you doing here?" Bai Feng asked.
"We..." Before Tong Yun finished speaking, Yu Chiying rushed to speak: "I'm here to apologize today, Mr. Bai."
"apologize?"
"Yes, please accept my gift." Yu Chiying said as she looked around and saw someone watching, so she couldn't help but be more cautious.
Naturally, Bai Feng noticed the clues quickly, so he asked Tongyun, "Tongyun, don't you have to be on duty today?"
"I...I'm sick, my stomach hurts. Ouch!" Tong Yun held his stomach and held on to the wall, as if he really had malaria and couldn't walk even half a step.
"You guys come in first." Bai Feng led the two of them to the front hall and continued the conversation.
"Mr. Bai, I was impulsive last night, and I shouldn't have treated you like this." Yu Chiying brought the gift up again, but Bai Feng deliberately refused to accept it, and just asked the servant to take the gift away first, and then asked.
"Is your sincerity worth this little thing?" Bai Feng said, "You should know what I want most."
"What?" Yu Chiying didn't know how to continue and looked at Tong Yun helplessly.
Based on his understanding of Bai Feng, Tong Yun replied: "Mr. Bai, Yingmei is just a 'mud-legged girl'. She is neither noble nor beautiful. How can a noble person like Mr. Bai condescend to be friends with her?"
"No matter how high or low you make friends, just treat them with sincerity." Bai Feng responded truthfully: "I have heard that the women of the Yuchi family will have 'gongshu sand' on their bodies. If Miss Yuchi is willing to let me take a look at such a strange thing, All previous grievances have been wiped out."
"What? Where did you hear about it, young master?" Yu Chiying asked puzzledly.
"You don't have to ask." Bai Feng smiled meaningfully: "How about it, are you willing or not?"
Tong Yun was also surprised and asked: "Mei Ying, do you really have such a thing?"
As of now, I still don’t care whether there is or not.
Yu Chiying nodded resolutely, choosing to completely trust the man in front of her.
"Follow me to my room."
Tongyun, who looked down upon all sentient beings in front of outsiders and had no regard for anyone, finally couldn't sit still anymore. He said to Bai Feng: "Mr. Bai, is this too much? Considering that we have known each other before, Will you let her go?"
"What are you afraid of?" Bai Feng comforted her: "Since Shou Gongsha is with me, I cannot tarnish her reputation."
Yu Chiying quickly got up and followed Bai Feng into the house to talk.
After a while, Yu Chiying returned with the finished jade and walked out of the mansion with Tong Yun.
Tong Yun hesitated and didn't know what to say, and asked Yu Chiying: "Do you... really have palace guard sand?"
"How can I have that kind of thing!" Yu Chiying walked faster and faster, dripping with sweat.
"What!" Tongyun chased after him and asked, "You didn't? Then... isn't Bai Feng treating you right?"
"What nonsense are you talking about!" Yu Chiying found a nearby tea shop spread out along the street, and then she regained her breath and continued: "I told Mr. Bai that my brother did not want to meet him. Ha, in fact, what my brother said It’s ‘I don’t want to be associated with such people’, but I don’t think Mr. Bai is as dissolute as ordinary people think.”
"Tell me, did that kid do something to you just now!" Tong Yun's mood hadn't calmed down yet, so he asked: "I felt something was wrong with you last night. I thought Bai Feng was just out of character and said some crazy things. I scared you so that I wouldn’t be ill-willed towards Yingmei... The way he looked just now made him want to eat you!"
"He didn't do anything to me." Yu Chiying took out a letter from her body very calmly: "He just secretly stuffed this letter into me."
"Trust? That's it." Tong Yun breathed a sigh of relief.
"Do you want to see it? If you take a look, you will be my 'accomplice'." Yu Chiying opened the envelope and took a peek herself.
"We want to watch it together, who is afraid of whom?"
The two of them read quickly over tea. It turned out that Bai Feng wanted to read all the official documents and cases related to "Taiping Dao" from Dali Temple. He had no choice but to ask Yu Chizhen. However, Yuchizhen refused, so he had to read it from Dali Temple. My sister Yu Chiying found a way.
"I always have a hunch." Yu Chiying's tone suddenly became serious, "What Mr. Bai wants to do will have an impact on all of us in the future."
Tong Yun knocked on her forehead and joked: "Are you stupid for settling accounts at home every day? How can you have so many premonitions? It's just a favor for a friend. I can help if I can. Those bastards on Taiping Road, I I can’t stand it anymore.”
They looked at each other and smiled, as if they had regained the tacit understanding they had when they were childhood sweethearts.
