The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 1: rebirth
Chapter 1 Rebirth
Bai Qingyan finished drinking a bowl of bitter medicine, wiped his mouth with a handkerchief, and sat against the head of the bed, staring at the white jade porcelain vase with red plums in it.
She was clearly dead, but when she opened her eyes she found herself back on the fourteenth day of the twelfth lunar month of the fifteenth year of Xuanjia.
She remembered that on the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, her second sister Bai Jinxiu got married, and the prince of the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery came to pick her up half an hour early. The seventeen sons of the Duke of Zhenguo had all gone to the battlefield in southern Xinjiang, and the cousins who were arranged by the elders to block the door gathered in a remote corner of the backyard to fight crickets and gamble for money. No one blocked the door, causing Bai Jinxiu to leave an hour early.
Just one hour in advance, the wedding procession encountered people who were trying to rob and kill King Liang. When Bai Jinxiu heard that King Liang was about to be assassinated, she tried to protect him, but she herself died on the knife.
Thinking of King Liang…
Bai Qingyan closed his eyes, tightly clenched the bed sheets beneath him, and his breathing became unstable.
All she could think of was the indifferent, playful look in King Liang’s eyes before his death, and his frighteningly sharp facial features.
He knelt in front of Bai Qingyan, who was covered in blood and so weak that he couldn’t even lift his head, and said a lot.
He said how he teamed up with his grandfather’s deputy general Liu Huanzhang to kill all the men in the Bai family, how he used his grandfather’s handwriting on the military book given to him by Bai Qingyan to forge a letter to prove that the Bai family was collaborating with the enemy and treason, and how he forced the orphans of the Bai family to death…
In her previous life, she was so foolish as to believe that King Liang had unparalleled love for her, and that the reason he ascended to a high position was to overturn the verdict on the Bai family. She was willing to serve him like a beast of burden, follow him into battle, win him military merits, fulfill his reputation as a god of war, and help him ascend to the throne of crown prince.
But not only did he kill her grandfather, father and her brothers, he even spared her sisters. Thinking of how her seven sisters all died tragically at the hands of King Liang, Bai Qingyan felt blood rushing to her heart and her stomach ached like a churning sea. She wished she could tear that heartless beast King Liang to pieces alive.
“Miss…” The eldest maid Chuntao gently called Bai Qingyan, holding the money box and whispered, “The medicine prescribed by Mr. Hong is good, but it’s too bitter! Miss, have some candied fruit to change the taste in your mouth.”
Bai Qingyan picked up a ginger plum and put it into her bitter mouth, looking intently at Chuntao who had put a soft pillow behind her. Chuntao was the daughter of her mother Dong’s wet nurse. She had been working for her since she was a child and was loyal to her.
“Second Miss, the snow is so heavy and the road is so slippery, how did you get here?”
The cautious and flattering voice of the housekeeper sweeping the yard was heard.
In the warm room, Chunyan, who was about to bend down to light the charcoal fire, put down the fire tongs in her hand, lifted the curtain and went out to pay her respects, saying in a bad tone: “Second Miss.”
Bai Jinxiu, the second daughter of the Bai family, stepped onto the steps, untied her cloak, and asked Chunyan, who was bowing to her, softly, “Is my eldest sister feeling better?”
“Thanks to the second young lady, the eldest young lady is doing well! The second young lady will marry into the loyal and brave marquis’s mansion tomorrow. There are so many things waiting for the second young lady. If the second young lady doesn’t hurry up and prepare, why would she come to our Qinghui Courtyard in the heavy snow?”
Chunyan was unhappy and spoke with sarcasm.
Originally, it was the eldest daughter of their family who was betrothed to the son of Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery. However, because the eldest daughter was injured when she followed the Duke to the battlefield at the age of sixteen and was left with a chronic illness, it became difficult for her to have children, so the one betrothed to the son of Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery became the second daughter. How could Chunyan accept this?
Chun Tao glanced outside the partition when she heard the voice, gathered the quilt for Bai Qingyan, and asked, “Eldest Miss, the Second Miss is here to see you, are you happy to see her?”
She clenched her fists and remembered that King Liang said in her previous life that the reason he spared her life was because Bai Jinxiu blocked a knife for him on the day she got married. Before she died, Bai Jinxiu begged King Liang to protect Bai Qingyan well in this life and not to let her down.
Her heart ached, and she ordered in a hoarse voice, “Go and greet the second young lady.”
Chun Tao responded by coming out of the main room, folding her hands and politely greeting the second young lady, and then she said, “The eldest young lady just drank the medicine, and her complexion has improved a lot. I was specially asked to come and greet the second young lady. Please come in, second young lady!”
Chuntao personally opened the curtain for the second girl, Bai Jinxiu.
Bai Jinxiu entered the house and was greeted by the warm air. She was afraid that the cold would pass through Bai Qingyan, so she stood in front of the brazier at the entrance to warm herself up before walking around the screen and heading into the inner room: “Eldest sister…”
Seeing Bai Jinxiu’s beautiful face again, shame and guilt surged in her heart. It was her indecisiveness in dealing with King Liang that made Bai Jinxiu think that she was in love with King Liang. She risked her life to protect this evil beast who forced the entire Bai family to death. She felt guilty towards Bai Jinxiu and the Bai family.
Chuntao asked the maid to bring a stool to Bai Jinxiu and put it beside the bed. Without waiting for Bai Jinxiu to sit down, Bai Qingyan, with a bitter taste in his mouth, waved at Bai Jinxiu with red eyes: “Jinxiu… come here!”
Bai Jinxiu held up the hem of her jacket and skirt and sat down on the edge of Bai Qingyan’s bed. She felt that Bai Qingyan looked as gloomy as an old man. She held Bai Qingyan’s hand with a worried look in her eyes: “Eldest sister, is it because of tomorrow…”
Without waiting for Bai Jinxiu to finish, she shook her head and choked up, “Jinxiu, I hope you can promise me that no matter what happens in the future, you must protect yourself, understand?”
“Eldest sister?” Bai Jinxiu was confused.
“You promised your elder sister!” She held Bai Jinxiu’s hand tightly.
Seeing Bai Qingyan’s unstable breathing, Bai Jinxiu nodded hurriedly: “Jinxiu understands, elder sister!”
Bai Jinxiu has a lot of trivial matters to attend to before she gets married tomorrow, so she just sat with Bai Qingyan for a while and then got up and left.
After seeing Bai Jinxiu off, Bai Qingyan sent away all the maids and lay on the bed. He thought about everything about Prince Liang and the Bai family one by one, and felt as if it was a dream and his whole body was cold.
Since the death of the second sister Bai Jinxiu, the Bai family has been gradually pushed into the abyss.
God has a good will and allows her to return to the day before her second sister gets married. No matter what, she cannot let Bai Jinxiu and the Bai family be like in her previous life.
Bai Jinxiu is getting married tomorrow, so she has to be fully prepared. In case those useless cousins start a cricket fight, there has to be someone to take over.
There was also the assassination of Prince Liang on Chang’an Street. When the case was closed in the previous life, it was said that it was a spy from Southern Yan who carried out the assassination.
But now that I think about it carefully, why would the Prince of Liang, who was known to be cowardly and incompetent, be worthy of being assassinated by the spies from Southern Yan who went through so much hardship to sneak into the capital?
Furthermore, we have to send a reliable person to southern Xinjiang. If there is a chance to save grandparents and father, that would be great. If not… we must obtain evidence first and not give King Liang a chance to frame the Bai family.
She couldn’t hide the fact that all the sons of the Bai family might be killed in southern Xinjiang from her grandmother, so she had to prepare her grandmother in a gentle way in advance.
This way… when the battle report from the front is transmitted back to the capital, my grandmother won’t die from the shock.
As long as the Bai family still has grandmother, His Majesty’s aunt, they will not be as passive as in the previous life.
Bai Qingyan was still weak and had been thinking too much. She felt tired and was half asleep. She dreamed of her grandfather, father, and her seventeen brothers.
She dreamed that her grandmother was holding her and her mother’s hands in tears when she was dying, saying that she was useless… She couldn’t hold on and had to go to her grandfather first when the Bai family was in the most difficult time! She entrusted the responsibility of protecting the widow of the Bai family to her mother Dong and Bai Qingyan, hoping that they would not let her down.
“Grandma!” she exclaimed, sitting up suddenly with her chest heaving violently.
Seeing that she was still on the bed in Qinghui Courtyard, her heartbeat, which was about to burst out of her chest, gradually calmed down. Her snow-white undershirt was soaked with cold sweat, and her tears also soaked the embroidered pillow.
She closed her eyes, thinking of the scene in her dream just now. She dared not delay any longer… everything had to be arranged as soon as possible.
She forced herself to cheer up, lifted the quilt and called out in a hoarse voice: “Chun Tao…”
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