Seeing that more and more people came to see Ms. Ren, Ms. Ren felt a little embarrassed on her face. She hurriedly gave a few instructions to Aunt Shen, and then returned to her room surrounded by everyone.
"Grandma is in good health, and my granddaughter is also very happy! Otherwise, there must be those people who like to talk and describe my granddaughter as an unfaithful and unfilial person, which would make it difficult for her to be a good person!"
Bai Yanqing helped Ren sit down and mentioned the old words again. She didn't believe that Aunt Shen herself dared to arrange those words to say to Bai Yanqing's face! If there was no one to teach Aunt Shen behind this, Bai Yanqing wouldn't believe it!
Hearing this, Mrs. Ren felt a little embarrassed on her face. She probably guessed what Bai Yanqing was thinking, so she couldn't say more. And after this experience, Mrs. Ren felt that Bai Yanqing's palace was quite deep, and she became more and more wary of her!
"My granddaughter is thick-skinned. There is something I want to ask my grandmother. I hope she won't refuse."
Seeing that Ren still didn't speak, Bai Yanqing didn't care whether she wanted to or not, so she continued talking.
"What's the matter?"
Now that things have come to light, how can Mr. Ren remain silent in front of everyone?
"I wonder what my grandmother saw that night that made her so frightened? My granddaughter is also very curious!"
Bai Yanqing doesn't believe those nonsense words of Aunt Shen. What kind of ghost-faced person is that? Why sit on Ren's bedside in the middle of the night? Why is there bleeding from all seven holes? In Bai Yanqing's opinion, Grandma Shen must be exaggerating!
Hearing this, Mrs. Ren suddenly trembled, and her face actually showed a look of fear!
"Ghostfaced Man! A Ghostfaced Man!"
I never thought that Grandma Shen was not exaggerating. It was indeed as she said, there was a ghost-faced man. But those things like bleeding from seven holes were indeed exaggerated by Grandma Shen herself.
According to Ren, she slept until midnight that night when she was suddenly awakened by something. When she opened her eyes again, she saw a man wearing a ghost mask sitting at the head of her bed.
When the man saw that Ren was awake, he took out his dagger and stabbed Ren in the chest. After all, Ren was getting older and her body was not as flexible anymore, so naturally she couldn't dodge. But the strange thing is that the tip of the man's dagger was pointed at Ren's heart, neither piercing down nor retreating, and the stalemate lasted for about a stick of incense, which frightened Ren to the point of losing control. Just stop!
Although Ren was trembling with fear, the man remained silent. It wasn't until Ren regained consciousness a little and shouted loudly to wake up Aunt Shen that the man broke the window and ran away!
So calm? He actually waited until Nanny Shen was about to enter the house before that person ran away? How confident is this person that he can travel freely in the White House?
"What is the figure of that ghost-faced man? Or what characteristics does he have? Does grandma still remember it?"
A strange feeling flashed through Bai Yanqing's heart. She always felt... something seemed a little strange, but she couldn't tell what was strange!
"Under the meager moonlight, I could vaguely see a... tall, thin man."
Although Ren didn't know what Bai Yanqing meant by asking, she still answered truthfully.
He's quite tall and thin... a man?
Thinking of this, Bai Yanqing seemed to suddenly remember something. She hurriedly said goodbye to Mrs. Ren and Bai Furong, mother and daughter, then pulled Cai Xing and ran back to her yard.
"Caixing, do you feel that... the ghost-faced man described by your grandmother is a bit... familiar?"
Bai Yanqing quickly ran back to the house, closed the door, panted, and asked Caixing in a low voice.
Caixing was stunned by Bai Yanqing's question. She thought for a long time before she finally understood what Bai Yanqing meant.
"Miss! Could it be...!"
Cai Xing also calmed down at this time!
The ghost-faced man and the masked man are the same person?
Apart from the masked man, there is no one else who can come and go freely in the White House, right?
If that's the case, then it seems that Ren's illness was not just an act.
However, this masked man has not appeared for a long time. How can we make him appear?
Bai Yanqing thought about it all day long, and until evening, when the sky was getting dark, she still couldn't think of any way to attract the man to show up.
"Miss, Cai Xing has a way to induce him to show up, but... you have to suffer a little..."
Seeing Bai Yanqing's persistence in wanting that person to show up, Cai Xing struggled for a long time before speaking hesitantly.
"Say it quickly!"
Bai Yanqing felt anxious when she saw Cai Xing grumbling, so she blurted out.
Caixing immediately informed Bai Yanqing of his idea, which was to ask Bai Yanqing to sit in the yard in the middle of the night and wait!
What kind of method is this? This is indeed quite a suffering. Bai Yanqing has always been in poor health and cannot bear the cold. Even in the hot weather, it is still a little cold in the middle of the night. This is nothing to others, but to Bai Yanqing, it is very easy to get sick.
Besides, if you just sit and wait like this, can you really wait for that person to come? If you can't wait, you won't have to suffer a night in vain!
But Bai Yanqing couldn't care so much, so she had dinner early, asked Cai Xing to prepare some warm tea, and then sent Aunt Zhao and the others to bed. Cai Xing was left alone to guard them, and the two of them sat in the courtyard, waiting boredly.
The moonlight is so beautiful tonight. It is different from the starry sky in winter. On summer nights, the breeze is cool and the moonlight is bright. The bright and clear moonlight shrouded the entire small courtyard in the moonlight, making it particularly clear and bright.
The chirping of insects in various corners of the courtyard, accompanied by the chirping of cicadas on the branches in the distance, echo each other, composing a happy song of summer night.
Bai Yanqing was immersed in it unconsciously. She rested her elbows on the stone table and supported her chin with her palms. She raised her head and looked at the moonlit sky in the distance, her thoughts drifting far away.
Ever since Bai Yanqing and Cai Xing returned to Bai Mansion, there have been countless bad things happening every day in the past few months. How can there be such leisure and leisure that Cai Xing and she can sit for a while and rest their minds?
Bai Yanqing didn't know how long it had been since she and Cai Xing sat so quietly, looking at the moon, listening to the chirping of insects, sipping tea and smelling the fragrance of flowers.
Summer flowers are always the ones that bloom most vigorously. They fade away from the heat of the day and smell particularly fresh and pleasant at night.
…
As everyone knows, some people are admiring the moon, some are admiring flowers, and some...are admiring people!
"Master, do you want to go over?"
In the shadow of the trees in the distance, two figures emerged from inside.
"She has been waiting for so long, but it doesn't seem appropriate to go!"
The man chuckled. This girl was quite persistent. She waited until early in the morning and was still waiting.
Without waiting for the person behind him to reply, he flew away.
Just when Bai Yanqing was drowsy, a faint hint of incense scent drifted across the tip of her nose, from far to near, from shallow to deep. She opened her eyes suddenly and stood up suddenly. Because she stood up too hastily and too quickly, her knee hit the stone bench without noticing, and she grimaced in pain.
When Cai Xing saw this, he felt terribly distressed and hurried back to the house to find medicine.
"You can't wait to see me that much?"
A familiar male voice came to Bai Yanqing's ears.
"Who wants to see you? I just want to ask you something."
Bai Yanqing looked at the air and rolled her eyes. This person is really as... narcissistic as ever!
"Same!"
The man laughed.
Why does he say that wanting to ask him something is equivalent to wanting to see him?
At that time, Caixing appeared at the right time with medicinal oil, which relieved Bai Yanqing's embarrassment.
However, Bai Yanqing had the nerve to ask Cai Xing to apply medicated oil for her when her foreign husband was here, so she had to endure the pain and talk to the man.
"That ghost-faced man, is that you?"
"yes."
The man was quite cheerful and did not deny it, but admitted it directly.
"Why?"
Bai Yanqing was puzzled, he was so good, why did he want to scare the old lady of the Bai family? Isn't he not hostile to the Bai family? If you really want to target the Bai family, you can scare Bai Jingxuan, the owner of the Bai family. Why scare an old man? There is no benefit to be gained.
"you guess!"
The man's joking tone made Bai Yanqing extremely unhappy: I guess? I can guess what else I'm asking you to do?
"If you like to talk, don't say it. If you don't say it, forget it."
Bai Yanqing didn't have to get to the bottom of it and ask for a clear answer. All she needed to know was that the ghost-faced man was him. As for the rest, she didn't bother to ask.
"You will know later."
Seeing that Bai Yanqing stopped asking questions, the man gave it up. This little girl is not an ignorant person, she is quite interesting.
after? What future can she have with him? Bai Yanqing's eyes rolled to the sky.
Bai Yanqing had always known that she was going to be a candidate for the palace, so even though this masked man would take advantage of her with his words from time to time, she could not bear to talk to him.
Bai Yanqing knows better than anyone else that her future lies in that huge palace. Her mind was as clear as a mirror. From the moment she returned to the White House, she could no longer make her own decisions about her future. Once she enters that huge cage, she will never have a peaceful life like this moment in her life.
"Oh, in the future? How can there be a future? In the future... I will be locked into that palace with iron walls!"
Bai Yanqing laughed at herself, not caring what the person behind her was thinking.
"It's already the seventh lunar month!"
Bai Yanqing couldn't help but sigh again.
Yes, it is already the seventh month of the lunar calendar. According to the previous emperor's decree, after the Mid-Autumn Festival on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, she will enter the palace to participate in the election together with other women from major aristocratic families.
Life goes by so fast!
Before entering the palace, she had to do everything she needed to do before she could rest assured!
"Everyone is flocking to that palace that combines glory, wealth, fame and wealth, but you are still not happy!"
Seeing Bai Yanqing's sadness, the man couldn't help but joked.
"Do you think I can come out after I go in? Can I still visit my relatives all the time? Can I get together with them every day? Can I live in peace and joy without intrigues?"
Glory, wealth, fame and fortune are just passing clouds to Bai Yanqing. What she wants is just an ordinary and ordinary life. She can see her family all the time, her grandfather, uncle, and cousin.
Bai Yanqing is actually very lazy. She just wants to lie down every day. She doesn't want to participate in the intrigues in the harem and the intrigues between women. She just wants to win the heart of one person and live forever.
"Whatever you want can come true."
When the man saw the little girl in front of him, her brows were wrinkled into a rag in distress, he opened his mouth to comfort her.
"Do you know what I want? Can you achieve it?! Can you keep me from entering the palace? Can you keep the Bai family and the Ji family safe for generations to come? Can you make the person I marry in the future only marry me? Bai End of life?"
Bai Yanqing said disdainfully, this person is really arrogant, and everything she wants can come true.
"I swear."
The man raised his finger and swore in a decent manner.
Bai Yanqing was amused by him. He was really arrogant. Did he think he was God?
