I can tell fortunes, so I’m not easy to mess with [Cross Book]

Hearing the knock, the gate was opened, and the doorman inside poked out a head, looked forward, and then looked down, only to find the "dying" guard lying at the door, looking at himself with a mournful face.

He was surprised: "What's wrong? Are there robbers?!"

"It's not a robber." It's even scarier than a robber.

The guard said in a tearful tone, "Quick, go back and tell Lord Hou, just, just say...just say..."

"You don't need to talk about it." Bai Yiling came from behind, kicked him lightly to the side, brushed his clothes and strode into the gate of the house, "Let's go by ourselves."

Since Bai Yiling left, he has hardly been to the door of the Hou's mansion, and the people in the mansion didn't know him very well at first, but after the time traveler took over his body, he came a few times, which made his face quite embarrassing.

This time there was an incident at the door, once Bai Yiling entered again, few people would dare to approach him unwisely to seek a beating.He took Chang Yanbo and Yan Yang all the way through the front yard and walked directly to the front hall.

The layout of the Hou Mansion has been the same for so many years. Although I was still young when I left, I couldn't be more impressed by running around and playing in these places when I was a child.

Chang Yanbo and Yan Yang followed behind Bai Yiling, secretly exchanging glances, both of them felt uncomfortable.Yan Yang frowned and sighed silently, but Bai Yiling didn't look sideways and strode forward.

Before they reached the hall, they heard a commotion, apparently a group of people were enjoying their drinks.

When Bai Yiling pushed the hall door open and walked in, the cold wind from outside instantly poured in, diluting the warmth and smell of alcohol in the room.

Inside the room, Xie Fan was facing the door with his back facing the door. He was suddenly furious when he was blown by the cold wind. He threw down his cup and turned his head to curse: "Which thing doesn't have eyes..."

Before he could finish cursing, he saw Bai Yiling. At that time, most of his drunkenness was sober, he "Teng" stood up from his chair and stammered: "You, you..."

His jealousy and fear of Bai Yiling has almost become a habit. After saying these two words, he calmed down, realized his gaffe, and immediately changed his face, and said with a smile on his face: "Brother, what kind of wind is this that brought you down?" It’s blowing? I told you to go home and see your parents before, but you refused... Ah, I’ll ask someone to add some table and chopsticks, do you want to sit down and have a drink or two?”

Bai Yiling didn't speak for a moment, he swept the table hastily, and found that all the people present were a group of young people aged sixteen or seventeen, some of whom he had seen before, and they were nothing more than the sons and daughters of officials Xie Fan usually made friends with.

He just looked at it for a moment and then looked away, but the crowd was so frightened that they fell silent.Speaking of which, Bai Yiling was no more than two years older than them, but his temperament was completely different from those of these pampered young masters, and everyone was so overwhelmed that they couldn't even lift their heads, and they were secretly groaning.

——It is well known that their brothers are at odds. Even if they want to have a good relationship with Xie Fan, no one is willing to offend this evil star. If they had known that Bai Yiling would appear suddenly, they would not come even if they killed him.

Bai Yiling said indifferently: "I'm on business, so I dare not drink with you."

When Xie Fan heard the word "official", his face changed slightly, and he quietly winked at the servant who was accompanying him.One of his guests has stood up obediently, cupped his hands at Bai Yiling and said, "We idlers are just having fun and having nothing to do. It doesn't matter what time it is. Since Mr. Bai has business to do, Then we won't bother you."

Bai Yiling smiled and said, "Thank you, Mr. Wu, for making this convenient."

Xie Fan couldn't help but cast an annoyed look at Wu Hao who was talking, and thought that this guy would be ruthless!Obviously he is the master here, but every time Bai Yiling appears, he always seems to be the helpless youngest son of the Xie family.

It's been like this since I was a kid!

The eldest brother left the Hou Mansion before he could remember, but news of him would always come back. Xie Fan didn't even know what he looked like when he was a child, but he often heard other people's comments——

"Of the three sons of Lord Xie, the eldest son is the most promising", "If the third son was sent out back then, it would be more appropriate", "Xie Sanlang is not as far behind as the two elder brothers"...

Hearing such words a lot, Xie Fan's heart was filled with rejection of Bai Yiling.He's not a fool, it's fine if he can vaguely sense his mother, but to his father, although he wasn't close to Bai Yiling, the feelings of guilt and appreciation still exist.

When sending Bai Yiling away, Xie Taifei was eager to save his wife, and because the other two sons were still young, he really had no choice.Men don't have as much affection as women, and they are worried, and it's okay for the first few years when they are sent away, but as Bai Yiling gradually becomes promising, his regret gradually shows.

Therefore, if the father really wanted to support the Yongding Marquis Mansion, it would not be impossible for him to pass on the position of son to Bai Yiling.

The second elder brother has a position in the army, so he can survive without the Marquis Mansion, but Xie Fan has been attached to his parents since he was a child.If something like this really happened, wouldn't he be a joke?

So every time Xie Fan saw Bai Yiling, he would feel a kind of hostility and vigilance spontaneously, as if the other party was going to take away his important things at any time - but he didn't have the ability to resist.

Just like now, just now, this group of people were obviously still sitting at their banquet chatting and laughing happily. When they saw Bai Yiling coming, they were immediately afraid of what they looked like. When Wu Hao started, everyone stood up and said goodbye. Before half a stick of incense, the audience was full There is not a single one left in the prosperous retreat.

Xie Fan stared at Bai Yiling, there was no need to pretend that no outsiders were around, and he gritted his teeth and said, "What business do you have to drive away my guests? Could it be that I killed people and set them on fire!"

He was full of grievances, and felt that Bai Yiling was going to take away his glory and wealth, but he never thought that the other party was the child who was treated unfairly, and he deserved it in the first place.

Bai Yiling ignored him, and said plainly, "Kuoda, Junshi, sit down."

After he said this to Chang Yanbo and Yan Yang, he also found a clean chair and sat down, and naturally told the servants next to him: "The smell of alcohol is too strong in this hall, the banquet is withdrawn, and the incense is taken away." Come on. By the way, I want Junshan Yinzhen for another pot of hot tea."

The servant made a confused promise and went, Xie Fan was furious.

Only then did Bai Yiling say: "People from the Northern Inspection Department have come several times to ask about the fourth prince's distress. May I ask why you avoided seeing him? If I hadn't personally brought people in today, I'm afraid we would not have seen Xie San." Where is the son?"

Xie Fan was angry at first, but Bai Yiling's tone was harsh, which immediately made his tone sink, and he frowned and said, "That's because they didn't catch up well. I'm not your subordinate, so why should I obey your orders? You have already praised me with your own mouth, but if you ask someone to come to your door and ask me like this, it’s like I’m cheating, how can I save my face?”

Bai Yiling said slowly, "Oh, didn't you cheat?"

Xie Fan's heart skipped a beat, and he said angrily: "There is a limit to your six relatives' denial! Will His Royal Highness King Yi cooperate with me to bully the emperor?"

——Yes, this is the key point for Bai Yiling to clarify this matter.

He wasn't jealous of Xie Fan's superficial contribution, but ever since Lu Xie told Xie Fan that the person who saved him was Xie Fan in the Palace of Qinzheng, Bai Yiling had always been skeptical.

As far as he knew, although Xie Fan appeared to be a little clever, he was spoiled and spoiled, his personality was not calm and alert enough, and his ability to respond to danger was extremely insufficient.If he was really captured by the assassin, he was lucky not to be slaughtered, and he could be distracted to notice which prince fell into the ditch and come back to rescue him, which is even more inconceivable than a little fox turning into a living person.

What's more, he was also at the banquet at the time, and the assassins dealt with Lu Qi ruthlessly, pointing at the vitals, how could they be treated differently by Lu Xie's side, and he only suffered some minor injuries Escorted back to the base camp to sacrifice to heaven?

It can't be said that Lu Qi's personality is particularly annoying - although Bai Yiling doesn't want to deny this point.

With the above-mentioned unreasonable things, no matter how he thinks about it, he feels that this is not right, but although Bai Yiling has a strong wrist, he is not a reckless person. This matter involves the prince, and there is no real evidence, so he suppresses his doubts in his heart and chooses Xie Fan serves as a breakthrough point.

Sure enough, after testing it out, the kid panicked.

The two of them were talking about something important here, when they suddenly heard a commotion from outside, as if someone had come back, Bai Yiling frowned slightly, feeling annoyed to see more people in this family, Xie Fan's palm was There was a thin layer of sweat.

Because he knew that most of the people who came back were their parents.

Marquis of Yongding Xie Taifei has been away on business for the past few days and is not in the capital. He happened to be returning home today, and Mrs. Marquis of Yongding went out to meet him in a carriage.

What Xie Fan is most afraid of is his own father. Compared with the unlimited doting of his grandmother and mother at home, the way Yongding Hou Xie Taifei disciplines his son is more of a strict father type.

He was away from home, and he hadn't heard of the fact that Xie Fan framed Bai Yiling at the banquet but was ridiculed. In addition, Xie Fan made a contribution later, this matter could have been covered up under the deliberate concealment of Mrs. Yongdinghou.

But now, Bai Yiling, who hadn't been here for hundreds of years, just came!After the two met, what if he told his father about it... Xie Fan thought of this possibility, felt pain in his body, and couldn't help shivering.

He had just seen Bai Yiling coming to the door, and he had hinted that someone would call his grandmother to come and deal with it, but the old lady happened to go out to offer incense, and she was not in the mansion, so she definitely couldn't save him.

How to do how to do?

Xie Fan was so desperate that he almost wanted to scratch the wall. He felt that this moment was very long, but in fact, very soon, the Yongdinghou couple had already entered through the gate.

They are all in the capital, Bai Yiling has seen Xie Taifei quite a few times, and the unhappiness of retiring his marriage happened not long ago, but his biological mother, Mrs. Hou, Fu Min...hasn't seen each other for nearly three or four years.

Fu Min is already a mother of three children, but she is still beautiful and charming. She is wearing a deep red snow fox cotton-padded jacket with a long skirt embroidered with patterns of clouds and water. The hairpin curled up, and followed Xie Taifei's side.The husband and wife were whispering something as they walked, with smiles on their faces, obviously in a good relationship.

Of course, if it's not good, how could there be such a thing as changing the medicine with the eldest son?

Neither of them expected Bai Yiling to be here, they were shocked when they saw him, and stopped in their tracks.Fu Min was talking to her husband in a low voice, but she didn't say the next sentence, and subconsciously grabbed Xie Taifei's sleeve.

Yan Yang glanced at Bai Yiling's face, stepped forward and cupped his hands, and took the initiative to break the embarrassment: "Master Xie, madam, the North Inspection Department would like to ask you to cooperate with the investigation of the Fengshui Xiedu assassination case that happened a while ago, so I waited specially Come to the house."

He paused for a moment, but swallowed the polite words of "Sorry for bothering me", raised his hand and said, "This is our Commander, Mr. Bai."

Bai Yiling also cupped his hands in a perfunctory manner, and he didn't bother to say anything, and said, "You two do it yourself, we'll leave after we finish asking the questions that Third Young Master should ask."

"Xia'er, oh, it's you who's back!"

Fu Min seemed to have recovered from a trance just now, lifted her skirt, hurriedly walked towards Bai Yiling, and grabbed his hand.

She held her hand very hard, as if she wanted to prove something, and there seemed to be tears in her eyes: "Mum, I haven't seen you for a long time, you have grown taller."

Compared to her excitement, Bai Yiling just glanced at the other party lightly, and called out: "Ma'am." Then there was no more to say.

Fu Min was startled, felt his indifference, paused, and let go of her hand. Everyone saw it now, it wasn't her mother who treated her son harshly, but her son's disobedience and refusing to recognize him.

Xie Taifei was furious, and without even thinking about it, he scolded: "What kind of attitude? This is your mother!"

His tone was stern, and he took two steps forward at the same time, his face looked very scary.Bai Yiling still stood on the same spot, looking at him indifferently, the father and son's eyes met, after a while, Xie Taifei slowly relaxed his body, with a somewhat dejected expression on his face - he should have understood that he could never do anything to this son.

He supported his wife, and said in a low voice, "What do you want to ask, please ask in another place."

Everyone moved to Xie Taifei's study room, Bai Yiling's patience was exhausted, and after sitting down, he said straight to the point: "Mr. Xie, you said that King Yi and you were captured by the same group of assassins, so you can get it in time. Seeing him in distress and being rescued, then I don't quite understand one thing."

Xie Fan said: "What, what?"

Bai Yiling looked at him and said, "The assassins didn't kill King Yi because he was a member of the Lu clan and wanted to use him to sacrifice to heaven, so why didn't they kill you? What's the use of them taking you away?"

He asked this tricky question, no one had asked it before, and it was really difficult to answer. Hearing this, the Yongdinghou couple also looked at their youngest son.

Xie Fan murmured for a moment, then said after a while: "I don't know either, they didn't say anything."

Bai Yiling said: "Oh, I didn't say... Then when you were escorted, were you in front of King Yi or Queen Yi? Can you see him along the way?"

This question can be answered, Xie Fan heaved a sigh of relief, and his voice became louder: "There are not many people who brought us out of the plum garden, and the mountain road is very narrow, and these people are all walking forward in a long line. I am the last one, the fourth prince is pushed and pushed in front, I can see him, but he can't see me."

He recalled that the expression and tone at this time did not seem to be lying: "The assassin holding me was seriously injured, so he fell behind. He pushed me a short distance away and fell down dead. I took the opportunity to hide at a bend in the mountain road, and after that I saved the fourth prince."

After he finished speaking, Bai Yiling was silent for a while, then said flatly, "Thank you Fan."

Xie Fan was taken aback.

Bai Yiling said: "Only you and King Yi know what the situation was like at that time. If you two insist on this kind of statement, I have nothing to refute, but there is something I want to tell you in advance."

Xie Fan frowned and said, "What?"

Bai Yiling said coldly: "If your words are half false, it is a crime of deceiving the emperor. Don't think that making friends with a prince is a big deal, the emperor is the one who decides everything. Forgot everything, just a few days after the tragedy happened, I just had so much fun here, I don’t know what to say! You and I have no objection to Zhezi on Yushitai, please remember to make a clear relationship with me when the time comes. What an embarrassment!"

His words were cold and ruthless, and his tone was extremely contemptuous. Even Yan Yang and the two of them trembled when they heard it, and the three people in Yongding Hou's mansion suddenly changed their colors. Before Xie Fan could speak, Xie Taifei said angrily: "You wolf-hearted Nie Zhan, are you still speaking human language?"

Trembling with anger, he pointed at Bai Yiling and said, "I know you have resentment in your heart, but after so many years, how can you hold grudges like this? Your younger brother has made meritorious service and is favored by His Highness King Yi. You should Just be happy for him! Is it good to not see others like this?"

Seeing him yelling and cursing like this, Chang Yanbo couldn't bear it any longer. He took a step forward at the same time as Yan Yang, stood behind Bai Yiling, and said angrily: "Mr. Please be careful with your insults!"

Bai Yiling didn't turn his head back, and patted Chang Yanbo comfortingly with his backhand, and said calmly: "Why do people feed pigs? It's because they want to eat its meat. See for yourself whether there is any good point in your son's whole body that can attract others to win him over. That's all, farewell."

He actually compared him to a pig!Xie Fan was so angry that he was about to jump up, but Bai Yiling waved his hand, led the people out two steps, stopped again, turned around and said, "By the way, eagles like to eat rotten meat, but owls don't like it." .I am not interested in the position of the son of your family, and I will put away those clumsy methods of framing people in the future, otherwise the next time it will not be as simple as kowtow!"

After Bai Yiling left, the relaxed and happy atmosphere in the Yongding Hou Mansion for the past few days disappeared.Xie Fan pursed his lips tightly, still immersed in the anger of being humiliated just now, when a low voice came from behind him:

"Little bastard, don't kneel down yet!"

Xie Fan suddenly came back to his senses, seeing his father with a livid face in front of him, and suddenly realized that the last few words Bai Yiling said before he left were exposing the scandals he had done before, and his heart suddenly "thumped", Quickly knelt down and said, "Father, listen to your son's explanation."

Xie Taifei looked at him with a sneer and said, "Don't shout, I naturally want to listen to your explanation. Hear how my son bravely saved His Royal Highness Yi Wang, and what good deeds you did in the plum garden!"

It was only then that Xie Fan realized that what Xie Taifei said just now in front of Bai Yiling was just for the sake of face, and he was actually doubting that he had saved Lu Xie.And when he framed Bai Yiling at the banquet, there were so many eyes watching him together, even if he didn't say anything now, Xie Taifei could easily find out, and I'm afraid he would be punished even more severely.

Fu Min said: "Fan'er, what does your elder brother mean? If you get into some trouble and hide it from your parents, who will help you when something happens?"

Xie Fan's lips trembled, he hesitated for a while, and then told the story with trepidation.

"So the fourth prince was not saved by you at all, you just met on the way?!" Xie Taifei's voice changed, whether it was fear or anger, "You dare to make up such a credit!"

Xie Fan argued: "It's not that I want to make up nonsense, it's that after I met His Highness King Yi, we talked very speculatively, so we made friends. Yi and King Yi said it, and after they went out, they said that I saved him. Said there was no loss, but it was a great achievement for me, so the two of us agreed... He is a majestic prince, so how could he try to plot anything against me! It's just a show of favor."

Xie Taifei angrily went up and kicked him hard. At this moment, he felt that Bai Yiling's scolding words just now were no longer true: "Do you have any brains after all? Then why should he show kindness to you like a majestic prince!"

Xie Fan was so frightened that he trembled all over, and hurriedly dodged behind his mother with his head in his arms. He looked as useless as he could be, and said anxiously: "Father! Father, stop beating! Even Bai Yiling can't ask about this matter, as long as Yi His Royal Highness knows that as long as we bite to death and don't say anything, no one will know! The Holy Majesty has already rewarded me!"

This is the trouble, the matter has already spread, if something happens, there is no room for recovery!

Xie Taifei was furious, and when he remembered the other thing Xie Fan said about framing Bai Yiling just now, he couldn't bear it any longer. He took out a horsewhip from behind the desk, pulled Xie Fan over, and slapped him several times.

He scolded angrily: "You really know how to take advantage of things. It's fine if you don't have the skills, and you still learn those insidious tricks! My own brother dares to frame you. Do you think your brother is as worthless as you? If it's your turn, I'm afraid the Hou Mansion will collapse the next day!"

Fu Min was originally sitting on the side, but when she saw this scene, she suddenly stood up from the chair, feeling extremely distressed, she opened her mouth, originally wanting to stop her husband's behavior, but after a moment of hesitation, she finally did not speak.

Xie Fan felt pain and fear at the same time, but a wave of resentment arose in his heart. This resentment was not only aimed at Bai Yiling, who made him unlucky, but also at the parents in front of him.He and his second elder brother have obviously been the ones who have been filial to their knees since childhood. Every time Bai Yiling sees his family, he doesn’t look good. He just said that, Xie Taifei didn’t move a finger of him, and now he is beating himself because of Bai Yiling’s matter. , mother is not stopping.

He felt extremely sad, feeling that his parents were too eccentric, and he had no one who really loved him.

——Xie Fan obviously didn't consider the possibility that Xie Taifei couldn't beat Bai Yiling at all, and he didn't think he deserved to be beaten.

Seeing that Xie Taifei hit his son a few times, Fu Min vented his anger a bit, and took the right time to grab his sleeve and persuade him: "Husband, the child is still young, so he has to be taught slowly, don't hit him anymore."

If she hadn't been very doting on her son, Xie Fan wouldn't have become so worthless, but Xie Taifei was always reluctant to blame his wife, so his arms dropped when she hugged her.

Back then he promised Fu Min that he would never take a concubine, but the two had nothing to do after three years of marriage, which made the old lady of the Hou Mansion, Xie Taifei's mother, very unhappy, and Xie Taifei was in a dilemma between his wife and mother.

Knowing his difficulties, Fu Min tried various herbal medicines that were beneficial to conception regardless of his health, and finally gave birth to Bai Yiling in the fourth year, and became pregnant again in the fifth year, giving birth to twin brothers Xie Xi and Fan.

She suffers from cold poisoning, which is also caused by these herbs. Whenever she thinks about it, Xie Taifei will feel soft-hearted. The child is hard-won, and it is completely understandable to pamper her a little bit, but what should I do now in this situation? Woolen cloth?

He looked at Xie Fan on the ground with snot in his eyes, and then thought about Bai Yiling who had just walked away, feeling disappointed and exhausted. He has lived a long life and his family affairs are a complete mess.

Xie Taifei sighed: "You are still persuading me, he really got into a big disaster this time."