The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 1050: The first one
Chapter 1050 First Place
I heard that after General Guan’s wife and children were killed by people from Xiliang, he knelt outside the Bai family army camp for a whole night begging the Bai family army to accept him because he wanted revenge. Later, my fifth uncle softened his heart and accepted General Guan and made him a fireman. Perhaps it was because his wife and children were massacred… I guess my fifth uncle never did a detailed investigation of General Guan just because he made him a fireman.
“Later, General Guan’s parents also passed away. General Guan joined the army, and the Guan family was gone!” Shen Qingzhu saw the stairs ahead, held Bai Qingyan’s arm and walked down a few steps before continuing, “I couldn’t find anything in Feng County, so I took the risk and went to Xiliang to check General Guan’s name in Xiliang, Yunlan, and only then did I find something strange…”
Bai Qingyan nodded, signaling Shen Qingzhu to speak directly.
“I heard that this Yun family member named Yun Lan does exist, but he left home at the age of thirteen, saying he was going to study abroad, and he hasn’t been back to Yunjing for more than twenty years. So he is about the same age as General Guan. When the Yun family brought General Guan back to Yunjing, they lied that General Guan was Yun Lan…”
Bai Qingyan paused when he heard this and looked at Shen Qingzhu, whose figure was flickering under the swaying hexagonal palace lantern…
Shen Qingzhu nodded slightly. Because more than 20 years had passed and Yun Lan did not leave any portrait, Shen Qingzhu did not find any favorable evidence to prove that Guan Zhangning was Yun Lan.
It’s nothing that Yun Lan and Guan Zhangning are of similar age, but this Yun family boy named Yun Lan left home when he was thirteen years old and hasn’t returned to Yunjing for more than twenty years. And it just so happens that General Guan arrived in Feng County when he was thirteen or fourteen years old. Isn’t this too much of a coincidence?
Coupled with Bai Qingyan’s previous suspicion of Guan Zhangning, Shen Qingzhu already felt that Guan Zhangning had to be guarded against, so… before returning to the capital city to report to Bai Qingyan, Shen Qingzhu had already told Bai family’s third son Bai Qingqi what he had found out, asking Bai Qingqi to be careful.
“They are both thirteen or fourteen years old! Sister Qingzhu, what you mean… is this General Guan, and this Yunlan!” Bai Jinzhi also reacted.
Shen Qingzhu nodded: “But it’s just a suspicion, and I don’t have any evidence. The Bai family army has always never doubted their comrades without evidence, but… the previous battle in Southern Xinjiang taught the Bai family army a huge lesson. This time I would rather doubt my comrades than see the tragedy happen again! So before I came back, I told the Third Young Master about this.”
When Shen Qingzhu mentioned the battle in Southern Xinjiang, Bai Jinzhi clenched his hands into fists…
My grandfather had complete faith in Liu Huanzhang at the beginning, which is why the Bai family ended up like this.
As the wind blew, the bead curtains and gauze curtains hanging on both sides of the corridor swayed slightly, and the copper hooks hanging on both sides of the red-painted pillars swung and collided with the copper bells, making a crackling sound.
“Sister Qingzhu’s suspicion is correct! It’s also right to tell Third Brother. It would be best if Third Brother could give it a try. If he can really rule out General Guan’s suspicion, then our Bai family owes him something and we can make it up later! But…the Bai family and the Bai family army can’t take any more risks!” Bai Jinzhi said firmly, “After all, if we trust the wrong person…we can’t afford to lose the Bai family army of more than 100,000!”
It’s rare for Bai Jinzhi to think this way. She has indeed… grown up.
Bai Qingyan raised his hand and touched Bai Jinzhi’s head. What they had learned since childhood was that comrades-in-arms were the people who could be trusted, just like blood relatives.
Therefore, for Bai Jinzhi to doubt the generals in the Bai family army, especially the generals who had followed his fifth uncle, was like doubting his own relatives, which made Bai Jinzhi extremely conflicted.
“So this time when you go to Southern Xinjiang, be more careful with General Guan, but don’t show it…” Bai Qingyan reminded Bai Jinzhi.
Bai Jinzhi was startled, then smiled in surprise: “Eldest sister, you agreed to let me go to Southern Xinjiang!”
Bai Qingyan smiled and said, “You gave me such a valuable gift today, I’m so soft-hearted… I naturally have to let you go!”
Bai Jinzhi hurriedly bowed to Bai Qingyan: “Thank you, elder sister, for saving me! If you don’t let me go… my mother will force me to go to the fortune teller again! I really can’t stand it!”
“You will lead the troops out early tomorrow morning, so don’t accompany me… go and accompany Third Aunt.” Bai Qingyan raised his hand and touched the top of Bai Jinzhi’s head.
Bai Jinzhi responded, smiled, turned around, picked up the hem of her clothes and ran towards her mother’s bedroom. If she told her mother that it was her eldest sister who asked her to go to southern Xinjiang, her mother would definitely not stop her.
Watching Bai Jinzhi’s cheerful figure walk away, Bai Qingyan held Shen Qingzhu’s hand and followed her towards the bedroom, whispering, “Have you reconciled with your brother?”
Shen Qingzhu, who was supporting Bai Qingyan, nodded and lowered his eyes and said, “Before, I was angry with my senior brother because of Master’s death. Now that I know that Master is still alive, I have let it go…”
“This time when we come back, I will let you and Brother Ru take a good rest for a few days, and then you can go and see your master together.”
Ever since the incident in the Bai family, neither Shen Qingzhu nor Xiao Ruohai had a good rest and they have been busy all the time.
“I’d better stay with the eldest lady and wait for her orders. Now that the great cause is undecided, the eldest lady is in need of people. Qingzhu can’t leave.” Shen Qingzhu was firm in his attitude.
“The great cause is yet to be decided, but I cannot delay your marriage. Over the years… I have been thinking about you, and you no longer associate with me because of Master.” Bai Qingyan held up the hem of his clothes and walked up the steps of the corridor. “Even my mother said that it is a pity for you two childhood sweethearts.”
Shen Qingzhu lowered her eyes, just listening to Bai Qingyan’s words without refuting, until Bai Qingyan finished speaking, she said: “Ever since the eldest girl vowed to complete the ambition of the Bai family’s ancestors to unify the world, Qingzhu also swore to the gods and Buddhas… I will never get married and find another bond for myself without protecting the eldest girl to complete her great cause! If I have a bond, I can’t risk my life to work for the eldest girl! Qingzhu’s life was given by the eldest girl. For Qingzhu… the eldest girl is the first, and the rest is not important.”
Bai Qingyan paused and looked back at Shen Qingzhu. Although she always knew in her heart that Qingzhu would always put her first, when she saw Shen Qingzhu say it so solemnly, Bai Qingyan couldn’t help but feel a little sad.
Qingzhu was a skilled martial artist. If she hadn’t left a younger brother for her in her previous life, she wouldn’t have been killed by that beast Bai Qingxuan…
Bai Qingyan held Shen Qingzhu’s hand tightly and said to Shen Qingzhu: “Okay, then after we defeat the Tianfeng Kingdom and the world is at peace, I will personally hold a wedding for you and your brother!”
Shen Qingzhu just said: “I’ll take the young lady back to rest.”
After sending Bai Qingyan back to the palace, Shen Qingzhu was just about to leave when she saw Wei Zhong and Xiao Ruojiang coming over.
When Xiao Ruojiang saw Shen Qingzhu, he bowed to her first: “Miss Shen…”
Shen Qingzhu clasped his fists in return: “Did the eldest lady ask you to come back?”
Xiao Ruojiang nodded: “Maybe it’s because of the elephants outside the military camp.”
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