Chapter 1037 Mrs. Bo’s dilemma

"Although Dad is very sad about what happened today, it is a good thing to think about it from another perspective. In the past, we had no relationship with the old house at all, and we were always worried about being implicated by Bai Yibo. Now that the matter has been revealed, the old lady even asked The liquidation fee can be considered as a collection for us." Bai Ruozhu continued.

Zhang Liliang and the others nodded silently, which might be a good thing.

"But if the old man and the old lady have no one to take care of them in old age, others will always talk about us. The saying that giving a favor is greater than raising a favor is enough to crush us to death. So now I have no objection to rescuing Bai Yibo. With him, Since our biological son is here, we don't have to worry too much. As for whether the Bo family will take care of them, that is a matter between the Bo family and the old house." Bai Ruozhu said again.

Bai Zepei frowned slightly, thought for a while and said, "The old lady is not an easy person to talk to. She costs five thousand taels. You used a token to block her back, but she will definitely not give up."

Bai Ruozhu raised her eyebrows, "I will give her a liquidation fee. Dad doesn't like to owe others. As for how much, I haven't decided yet, it depends on her performance."

Guizhi listened a little indignantly and said, "Why does my foster father owe them anything? They took a thousand taels from me and didn't give it to my foster father to study. Who owes it to whom?"

Bai Ruozhu shook her head, "It's difficult to settle the accounts of the past. It's okay for the old man to refuse to acknowledge him alive or dead. What outsiders value is filial piety, and the children you care for must also be filial. Since the old lady wants to settle the accounts with us, we won't have any contact with each other. We still have to give what we should, at least to silence others."

She sighed as she spoke, "And with dad's temperament, if he doesn't give me that money, he won't be able to rest assured for the rest of his life."

Bai Yihong is kind-hearted after all. Even if he blames Bai Fu and Liu, even if he has hatred in his heart, he will still think of them for raising him and is willing to do his best to repay something.

"Even if I don't have any objection to what you said, it's just a matter of father's acknowledgment." Bai Zepei said with a straight face.

Everyone looked at him in confusion, and he said unhurriedly: "There must be a reason why Bai Yuanqing left his hometown and refused to go back. If the family is reliable, he can give the old man a sum of money and ask him to send his children. Returning to the family and ensuring that the old man can get some money for sending the child back, this matter is not a problem. However, he did not ask the old man to tell his father about it, and said that he would have to wait until his father passed the examination. I am afraid that there is something wrong with this. There’s a lot to write about.”

"It's very likely that Bai Yuanqing's family values ​​literary talent, and even if he doesn't pass the examination, he won't be able to establish himself in the family. I remember that Bai Yuanqing also failed the examination. Maybe that's why he refuses to return to the family. And my father has no fame, so what's the point of finding that family? use?"

Bai Ruozhu understood what her second brother was thinking. He also felt sorry for his father. He was afraid that if his father really recognized his relatives, he would be heartbroken a second time, which would be unnecessary.

"These things were mainly said by the old lady, but how much of it was the old man hiding from her, and what she knew was wrong? So I still want to find a chance to find out." Bai Ruozhu thought for a while and said.

Bai Zepei's frown deepened. He seemed to be very repulsive to finding relatives. Bai Ruozhu could only say that there was no rush in this and we would talk about it later.

After a night of silence, Bai Ruozhu went to the Bo Mansion again the next day. The Bo family's stewards and guards treated her several times more enthusiastically, and looked at her with eyes full of gratitude. It could be seen that they were very loyal to Bo Qun, so Only then would he be grateful to her for saving Bo Qun.

When they arrived at the main courtyard, they saw that Jing Sheng had already arrived. Jing Sheng went over to salute Bai Ruozhu and called her "teacher" respectfully. Fortunately, this was not the first time he called her, and Bai Ruozhu was not as awkward as before.

"Teacher, I reported this to the emperor yesterday. The emperor asked why you were in Bo's house. I said maybe you were a guest." Jing Sheng leaned over and whispered.

The Bo family's search for a distant relative was not publicized with much fanfare. Bo Qun and Mrs. Bo were also afraid that the Bai family would misunderstand that they saw Jiang Yichun as a popular figure around the emperor, so they deliberately tried to please him.

The Bai Ruozhu family did not live in the Bo Mansion after they came to Beijing, and they also did not mention this matter to anyone, so the emperor did not know that the Bai family had some relationship with the Jingping Hou Mansion.

Of course, now Bai Ruozhu's family and Jingping Houfu are not even remotely related by blood.

Why did the old lady tell Bai Yihong's life experience? Wasn't she afraid that Bai Ruozhu's family would take advantage of her?

"It's okay. I'll explain it when I go back to the palace to see the Queen Mother." Bai Ruozhu said.

Jing Sheng nodded without saying anything more and directly talked about Bo Qun's condition. He had just gone to check on Bo Qun. He had no fever the night before and his health was recovering well. He could get out of bed in a few days. .

At this time, Mrs. Bo walked out quickly and said with an apologetic look: "Why are you talking in the yard when Ruozhu is here? Come in quickly and have a cup of tea. Dr. Jing will come with you."

Mrs. Bo said and took Bai Ruozhu's arm. Her attitude was very affectionate, but she didn't mean to be pretentious at all, which made Bai Ruozhu feel very cordial.

The two walked into the house. Mrs. Bo's voice was a little lower and she said, "Yesterday, the third young master bumped into you and was punished according to the family law. Don't take it to heart. In the final analysis, it was me who failed to discipline the bastard."

Bai Ruozhu suddenly remembered that in the novels she had read before time travel, the mistress who wrote about house fighting often praised the killing of concubine children. She became curious, would Mrs. Bo do this?

"Family method? Could it be that you beat your back with a cane?" Bai Ruozhu asked a few more questions intentionally.

"Exactly, after twenty beatings, he is now recovering in the house and can't go out to mess around." Mrs. Bo's voice was a little lower, and her expression was a little embarrassed.

At this time, Bo Qun's coughing sound came from the room. Mrs. Bo immediately became nervous, let go of Bai Ruozhu's arm, and rushed into the room quickly.

Behind him, Jing Sheng said mysteriously: "Teacher, are you afraid that you don't know about the concubine in the Bo family?"

Bai Ruozhu raised her eyebrows. She really knew too little about Beijing.

"When the Queen Mother was still alive, she gave Lord Bo the precious concubine Jing, who was the concubine of the Queen Mother's mother's family. The third young master of the Hou Mansion was the daughter of that Jing family. Although the Queen Mother has passed away, the Jing family is still An old-school and famous family. It is said that the Jing family and the third young master have close ties with the Jing family, but Mrs. Bo's natal family is much weaker." Jing Sheng said carefully.

Bai Ruozhu remembered that Bo Qun was granted the title of Marquis after his military exploits on the battlefield, and he even received a marriage grant from the late emperor. But after his marriage, he never went to the battlefield again, and was only responsible for some military affairs in Beijing.

The emperor was afraid that his ministers would rise too quickly, so he always had ways to suppress him. It seems that the late emperor was very worried about Bo Qun marrying into a military general's family, so the daughter of Mrs. Bo who was married to a civil servant of the Xie family was also the daughter of a royal censor.