The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 108: keep filial piety
Chapter 108 Keeping Filial Piety
She knew very well what Nanny Jiang said, and precisely because she knew it clearly…she was willing to try her best to restrain her murderous intent and save the bastard’s life for her grandmother.
“I will do the job of sending the mother away and keeping the son for my grandmother, so she won’t have to worry about it anymore,” she said.
“Mammy, grandma is in trouble… isn’t elder sister in trouble?” Bai Jinxiu tightly grasped the handkerchief and spoke for Bai Qingyan with tears in her eyes. “The evil creature left by my father is a disaster if he stays in the Bai family! Aren’t those words that evil creature said on the long street that day scary? If we leave him here… we don’t know when he will bring a catastrophe to the family! Will elder sister have to clean up the mess again? Elder sister’s health was not good to begin with. She worked very hard for this family. Today, elder sister was hit by a stick in front of Wude Gate. Until now, she hasn’t had a moment to rest for Doctor Hong to take her pulse. Mammy, don’t you feel sorry for elder sister, but you are here begging her to find a way to keep that evil creature?”
Bai Jinxiu’s throat was choked with sobs, and her tears flowed like broken strings: “From childhood to adulthood, even when my elder sister was injured, she never cried out in pain or felt uncomfortable. Could it be that Madam really thinks that my elder sister is indestructible and doesn’t feel pain at all?”
Nanny Jiang woke up from her dream under the lamp, looking at Bai Qingyan in panic, looking her up and down, and asked nervously with a tearful voice: “Sister, sister, can you still hold on? It’s Nanny’s fault! Nanny will ask someone to invite Doctor Hong right away!”
“Doctor Hong is guarding Ji Tingyu right now. Ji Tingyu has lost too much blood. I’m afraid…” She pursed her lips and said nothing more. Thinking of Ji Tingyu cutting off his arm that had finally stopped bleeding for the Duke’s Mansion, her eyes became sore. “I’m fine.”
Compared to Ji Tingyu, what did she get hit by a stick? !
She squeezed Bai Jinxiu’s hand and comforted her: “Executioner, please show mercy. This is many times lighter than the family law military stick. Otherwise, how can I stand here with my body?”
Hearing the sound of the bead curtain shaking and the beads knocking against each other in the room, the maids and servants counted the beads and retreated from the main room.
Nanny Jiang wiped away her tears and opened the curtain for Bai Qingyan and Bai Jinxiu. When she entered the room, she saw that Dong had already helped the eldest princess sit down at the round table.
Dong came to report to the Grand Princess about the sale of the Duke’s Mansion’s property, the causes and consequences of the matter, and how to deal with it. Dong explained it very clearly. The Grand Princess knew that Dong and Bai Qingyan were planning for the Duke’s Mansion’s widow to return to Shuoyang in the future, and she had no objection. On the contrary, she felt that Dong and Bai Qingyan were very decisive, and she was not worried that they would be bullied by the clan after returning to Shuoyang.
After talking to Mrs. Dong, she felt a little relieved. Just as she was about to have her meal, she heard what Nanny Jiang said outside the door.
The eldest princess and Dong stood in the room and listened for a while before coming out from behind the pearl curtain.
The eldest princess closed her eyes and fiddled with her Buddhist beads with her fingers. The silver hair in her temples shone brightly under the candlelight, making her face look even more haggard.
“Abao…” The eldest princess stretched out her hand wrapped with Buddhist beads to her, her eyes red.
As soon as she moved to the side of the Grand Princess, she was hugged by her. The Grand Princess closed her eyes and tears flowed like a spring. She gritted her teeth, opened her eyes and said loudly: “Let someone take my name card and ask the imperial physician to come and check on Abao.”
This is what she heard just now. She looked at the eldest princess and said, “Grandma, I’m fine. You don’t have to worry.”
“Just listen to your grandmother!” Mrs. Dong was already very anxious, her eyes were red, and the handkerchief in her hand was almost torn by her. “Why are you trying to be so strong in front of your family?!”
Today, she only knew that the eldest princess took the children to beat the drum to report the incident. Seeing that the children came back safe and sound, she thought everything was going well. Who would have thought that her daughter was hit by a stick in front of the Wude Gate? How come no one came back to report it? !
If she had known that her daughter was hit by a stick, how could she let her daughter work so hard!
“It doesn’t matter where you are! You have been like this since you were little. No matter where you are hurt or injured, you never cry out in pain! You have to make a small problem into a big one, and only admit it reluctantly after being discovered!” The eldest princess said sternly, “If you don’t want grandma to worry, let the imperial physician take a good look!”
After the matter of inviting the imperial physician was settled, the eldest princess hardened her heart and said, “If that evil creature wants to leave, let him go. Our mansion does not have such a lowly son.”
Because Bai Qingxuan was the evildoer of Bai Jinxiu’s father, Bai Jinxiu felt guilty: “Grandma…”
The eldest princess opened her red eyes, and said firmly with dignity and dignity: “Without this evil creature, our mansion can still count on the child in the belly of the fifth son’s wife. Even if that child is a girl, does it mean that our mansion’s girls can’t support the Bai family?! Sit down and have dinner! Nanny Jiang sent someone to the mourning hall in front to call the children back to have dinner.”
Glancing at the table full of vegetarian food, the eldest princess said in an unquestionable tone: “Although we have to observe mourning, the children are still growing up. How can they not eat meat like an old woman like me?!”
“Grandma, we are in mourning…” Bai Jinxiu said with red eyes.
“How can you have the energy to keep vigil without eating meat? How can you have the energy to support our Duke’s Mansion? Filial piety is in the heart, not in these empty things. It’s all for the living to see… What’s the point of you keeping vigil! Abao is weak, Jinxiu got married and needs to take care of her body for the future, and your sisters are still young. If you really keep vigil for three years, will your bodies still exist? You are healthy and safe, this is the greatest filial piety to your grandfather and your father! This matter is not open to discussion. If others talk about it… it’s me, an old woman, who is using filial piety to force you to eat!”
The eldest princess perked up and said to the maid beside her, “Tell the kitchen to make noodles with chicken soup for the children, add some pickled bamboo shoots, matsutake mushrooms, and two eggs! Steam two plates of ham that the kitchen prepared before the New Year! Starting tomorrow, the broth in the kitchen must not be cut off. Just say it was me who said so!”
“My dear child, I know you are filial, but your grandmother is right!” Mrs. Dong patted Bai Jinxiu’s hand, “Your grandfather and his family are gone, and we can’t let your health be ruined just because of filial piety! Listen to your grandmother!”
After persuading Bai Jinxiu, Dong instructed the maid: “Make a bowl of noodles for the second uncle, and serve it with some refreshing side dishes. The second uncle has been helping out at the Duke’s Mansion these past few days, and he has been working really hard.”
There couldn’t be anyone left in the mourning hall, so Bai Jintong and Bai Jinzhi brought their three younger sisters over, and their mother and aunts all stayed in the mourning hall to keep vigil.
After the meal, the wet nurse took the fifth, sixth and seventh girls back to rest. The Grand Princess personally watched the imperial physician take Bai Qingyan’s pulse. Only after hearing the imperial physician say that Bai Qingyan had no internal injuries did the Grand Princess feel relieved.