Chapter 208 - 163. Entrusting the Orphan
On Anxi Street, Chen Ji walked home alone, carrying a shoulder pole from which hung two wooden buckets full of water; the buckets swung up and down but didn’t spill a drop.
He pondered the information provided by Jin Zhu, feeling a heavy haze hanging over Luocheng City, suffocatingly oppressive.
If the Liu Family really rebelled, the first thing they would probably do was to sacrifice the "Eunuch Party" of the Ritual Supervision, and he, a mere little spy under the Ritual Supervision, would surely be the primary target.
This time, many would die.
Just as he returned to the Medical Hall, he saw Princess Bai Li dressed in clean clothes, sitting atop the wall and smiling as she waved at him, "Chen Ji, Chen Ji, help me with the ladder."
Chen Ji bent down to place the shoulder pole on the ground and moved the ladder over to her.
As Bai Li descended the ladder, she curiously asked, "Did you help clean the tiles on this wall? There’s not a speck of dust."
Chen Ji steadied the ladder and grunted in affirmation, "I saw your white clothes rubbing against the dirt when you climbed the wall, so I wiped it clean."
Lowering her head to glance at her clean trousers, Bai Li looked up with a smile and said, "Thank you!"
When the Princely Heir’s head appeared over the wall, Chen Ji curiously asked, "I haven’t seen the little monk for a long time, where is he?"
The Princely Heir boasted, "Father said him staying in Luocheng would lead him to pick up bad habits, so he sent him to the Imperial Capital’s Imperial Observatory to study under Deputy Director Xu Shu."