The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 1024: without exception
Chapter 1024 No Exceptions
Not to mention… since the empress ascended the throne, all the new policies she has implemented are beneficial to the country and the people. Apart from the fact that she is a woman… she is clearly a wise ruler!
Sun Wenyao was unwilling to do this from the bottom of his heart, but he could not disobey the order from his superiors.
At this time, Bai Jinzhi was just as Bai Qingyan had expected. Li pressed her and applied layer after layer of unknown ointment. She had long forgotten about Sun Wenyao.
Taiwei Lu, who had finally taken a break to soak his feet and drink herbal tea, heard about the commotion caused by Bai Jinzhi’s entry into the city. He put down his teacup and fanned himself with a palm-leaf fan. He sighed and said, “Princess Gaoyi is very impetuous, which is completely different from the Bai family. I just don’t know which family will be so unlucky in the future…”
When the words came to his lips, Taiwei Lu suddenly changed his tone: “Who would be so lucky to have such an upright daughter-in-law like Princess Gaoyi?”
Lu Jinxian, who was soaking his father’s feet, smiled and picked up the cup of herbal tea and said, “No matter whose family it is… this is a great honor and we have to accept it happily. I heard that Mrs. Bai’s mother brought her second grandson here. I guess she knew that County Lord Gao Yi was going back to the capital, so she wanted to strengthen the relationship.”
General Lu nodded, fanning himself leisurely with a palm-leaf fan. Anyway, his family had no desire to marry into the royal family, so as long as it wasn’t from their family, it would be fine. After all, their family had the troublesome Lu Yuanpeng, who made a “buzz…buzz” sound all day long. The buzzing made General Lu’s head buzz, and if there was another Princess Gaoyi, he really couldn’t handle it.
“Speaking of which, your majesty’s sisters…except for the second young lady of the Bai family who has already married Qin Lang, the third, fourth, fifth and sixth young ladies of the Bai family are all of about the age. We should also pay attention to your majesty’s sisters in the court. After all, your majesty has a close relationship with his own sisters!”
“Father, what do you think of our sister Lang as a match for the third son of the Bai family?” Lu Jinxian had his eyes on Bai Qingqi, who was the most stable of all the men in the Bai family. “Why not mention it to His Majesty some other day! The third son is getting old, and our sister Lang is definitely a good helper. Even if she can’t compare to a woman like His Majesty, she can still be called a female Zhuge Liang!”
Seeing that his father was silent and seemed to be thinking about something, Lu Jinxian said again: “Dad, I’m not bragging, just think about Sister Lang’s character… If our Sister Lang married the third son of the Bai family, wouldn’t she be able to share the worries of His Majesty!”
“Sister Lang is an ambitious child. Now that His Majesty has opened a school for girls and given students special preferential treatment, truly talented students can take exams every month and get the qualification to take the imperial examination before February next year. She is eager to join her father and brothers in the imperial court and will not be willing to get married at this time! Let’s wait and see! The fate of these children… is decided by God! Don’t be impatient…”
General Lu was calm and composed. He always felt that his son-in-law or daughter-in-law would not escape from him in this world and he would not get them even if he begged for them!
On September 29, King Hancheng and General Zhao Sheng arrived in Dadu with envoys from the Dongyi Kingdom to meet the Empress of the Great Zhou and pay tribute.
The envoys of the Dongyi Kingdom, like the envoys of the Yan Kingdom, brought up the beautiful legend that the two countries had a friendly relationship for generations when they once paid tribute to the Liang Kingdom. Now that they have submitted to the Great Zhou, they also hope that the Queen of the Great Zhou can continue the good legend and ask the princess to marry the Dongyi Kingdom. Now Bai Qingyan has no daughter, but he has a younger sister, so the envoys of the Dongyi Kingdom have come specifically to ask for a concubine for their prince.
Before Bai Qingyan could speak, Liu Rushi stepped forward with a smile and said, “Yan State had previously offered the position of empress and future crown prince as a betrothal gift to form an alliance with our Great Zhou, but Your Majesty did not agree. Now a small vassal state of Dongyi actually asked the sister of the Empress of our Great Zhou to be the crown prince’s concubine.”
Bai Qingyan smiled and spoke slowly: “Whether it is the position of empress or the position of Crown Prince’s concubine, my sister…the women of my Great Zhou will never marry outside the country, without exception! This is not targeting the Dongyi, please tell the king of your country when you go back.”
The current Great Zhou has the confidence to do so and will never engage in a marriage alliance.
Since ancient times, women who were married off to foreign countries were far away from their relatives and friends, and far away from their hometowns. Once they were married far away… even if they could gain respect from their husbands, they would never be able to live a comfortable life as if they were living close to their parents. Therefore, the Great Zhou Dynasty would never have marriages with foreign countries.
Bai Qingyan’s words made many ministers in the court feel relieved. Generally speaking, if the emperor had no daughter or did not want his daughter to marry far away, he would confer a title on the daughter of a minister or a relative, and give her a decent marriage to marry off the royal daughter. But who would really be willing to let their daughter marry far away…
Those who value family affection would be afraid that their daughters would suffer if they married far away, while those who value interests… also understood that if their daughters married far away, at least in the political situation at that time, they would not be able to help the family.
Liu Rushi’s harsh words made the Dongyi envoys ashamed, and Bai Qingyan’s words gave Dongyi enough face. The Dongyi envoys quickly responded and retreated obediently.
But the words of the Dongyi envoy stirred up a huge wave. Instead, it was Bai Qingyan’s aunts and the noble families in the capital city who started to have concerns. After all, the boys and girls of the Bai family had grown up.
Men should get married when they are old enough and women should get married when they are old enough. It has been like this since ancient times.
It was fine that Bai Qingqi, Bai Qingjue, Bai Qingyun, Xiaowu, Xiaoliu, and Xiaoqi were not here, but the newly returned Bai Jinzhi had become a hot commodity, with everyone staring at her…
Just now, after returning from meeting her cousin with her mother, she immediately ran to Bai Qingyan and begged him to assign her to southern Xinjiang as soon as possible. She wanted to find her brothers and sisters.
“Eldest sister, look at how my mother dressed me up!” Bai Jinzhi walked back and forth in front of Bai Qingyan’s desk. She glanced at Bai Wanqing in Bai Qingyan’s arms, shook the ruby necklace around her neck, and pointed at Bai Wanqing and said, “I’m almost as flamboyant as Xiao Ba!”
In the military camp, Bai Jinzhi always wore tight clothes, and she had long been accustomed to it. Now, she was asked to wear a girl’s dress, not to mention so many hair accessories on her head, but also such a heavy collar around her neck. It was simply torture!
Bai Wanqing was not very happy. She pouted and stared at her fourth sister with her big watery eyes: “Fourth sister, you are such a monkey! Fourth sister is so showy! Xiao Ba is fine!”
The little girl can’t speak clearly, but she holds a grudge! She hasn’t forgotten that Bai Jinzhi said she looked like a monkey.
“Our Xiao Ba is doing fine…the most beautiful!” Bai Qingyan touched Bai Wanqing’s head.
The little girl rubbed Bai Qingyan’s palm with a smile, glanced at Bai Jinzhi, and sat in Bai Qingyan’s arms with a brush to paint.
Bai Jinzhi was not angry with her eighth sister. She knelt down in front of Bai Qingyan’s desk and said, “Eldest sister, you have to think of a way for me! I really don’t want to stay in the capital city anymore. Let me go back to the barracks!”
Second update, continue to ask for monthly tickets…