The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 1218: compromise
Chapter 1218 Compromise
After sending the military doctor away, Wei Zhong smiled and said, “Your Majesty, after the Yan general came back, he wanted to come and see the Ninth Prince, but was stopped by Yue Shi. However… the Yan general wanted to see his own prince, and we can’t always stop him. According to your majesty’s opinion, should we move the Ninth Prince to the courtyard next door?”
“Don’t move yet, let’s wait until he wakes up!” Bai Qingyan sat beside the bed and gently held Xiao Rongyan’s hand.
“Yes!” Wei Zhong responded.
At noon, Xiao Rongyan slowly opened his eyes.
The dull pain in the wound made him gasp for air. He suddenly thought of Jiangzi City. He sat up suddenly, holding his wound, and pulled aside the bed curtains…
The heavy curtains hanging from the beams had been hung on both sides by gilded copper hooks. Through the landscape nanmu screen, Xiao Rongyan saw Bai Qingyan sitting in the main seat, giving orders to the Bai family guards. She seemed to notice that Xiao Rongyan had woken up, so she glanced inside the screen and said to the Bai family guards, “Go!”
“yes!”
The Bai family guards took the order and retreated.
“Wei Zhong, bring the medicine in!” Bai Qingyan stood up holding up her skirt and walked towards the screen.
Bai Qingyan walked around the screen and saw Xiao Rongyan sitting on the bed, covering his wound. His face was still very pale and his back was slightly hunched.
She stood beside the screen, her mind full of the questions Xiao Rongyan had asked her before he fainted. Her hand holding the hem of her skirt tightened unconsciously, and she gave Xiao Rongyan an ugly smile and walked towards him: “Does the wound still hurt?”
Xiao Rongyan breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Bai Qingyan was safe and sound. Then he remembered that he had already arrived in Gyantse City and sent Yue Shi to chase the Xiliang deserters.
“Not bad.” Xiao Rongyan answered in a hoarse voice, then he gathered up his open undergarment and tied the belt, then stood up and took the frost-colored dress with auspicious cloud patterns that was placed on the bed beside him and put it on himself.
Bai Qingyan stood there and looked at Xiao Rongyan. Although he didn’t say anything, she could sense that Xiao Rongyan was angry.
Xiao Rongyan seemed not to care about his injuries, and asked, “Is Yue Shi back? Did he destroy the main force of Xiliang?”
“We captured some prisoners, but failed to capture old General Cui Shanzhong. I think General Cui Shanzhong will try to fight against Great Zhou or Great Yan next.” Bai Qingyan saw Xiao Rongyan buttoning his clothes with one hand and reaching for the mask, so he took it for Xiao Rongyan first.
“Thank you.” Xiao Rongyan took the mask and thanked Bai Qing, then said, “Xiliang suffered heavy casualties this time. General Cui Shanzhong may need to regroup and protect Yunjing. Jiangzi City is safe for the time being!”
He looked at Bai Qingyan with deep eyes, and while adjusting the straps of his mask, he said, “The refugees from Xiliang know that Dazhou will take them in, so they will definitely flock to the cities that Dazhou has conquered. Now Dazhou has a rule for taking in refugees from Xiliang, so you don’t have to worry anymore! You are the emperor of Dazhou, so in order to avoid complications, it is better for you to return to Dadu as soon as possible!”
After saying that, Xiao Rongyan was about to put on the mask.
Bai Qingyan raised his hand and gently grasped Xiao Rongyan’s wrist holding the mask, stopping him from putting on the mask, and asked in a low voice: “Where are you going?”
“Let’s go to Gufeng…” Xiao Rongyan stared at Bai Qingyan’s eyes, “I have discussed Yunjing’s tactics with the Great Zhou army before. I estimate that the Great Zhou army is only two or three cities away from Yunjing. I have to lead the troops there as soon as possible. Maybe… I can enter Yunjing earlier.”
“Your injuries are quite serious and your high fever has just subsided. Are you risking your life by traveling a long distance at this time?” Bai Qingyan tightened his grip on Xiao Rongyan’s strong wrist.
Hearing this, Xiao Rongyan looked at Bai Qingyan quietly, as if he wanted to see through her heart.
As their eyes met, Bai Qingyan’s palms tightened, and he actually felt guilty and at a loss.
The man’s mature and deep voice was accompanied by a self-deprecating low laugh. His tall and upright figure approached Bai Qingyan half a step, and his figure enveloped her. He raised his hand to touch her cheek, smiled lightly, and touched his forehead with Bai Qingyan’s. He spoke softly and measuredly: “You said it… as if you care a lot.”
Xiao Rongyan’s voice was gentle, but her heart felt like it was stung by a scorpion.
She held Xiao Rongyan’s wrist tightly, and did not rush to explain. She just said seriously: “A Yan, I care!”
Xiao Rongyan said “hmm” perfunctorily, kissed Bai Qingyan’s lips gently, then let her go, stroking the corner of her lips with his thumb, looking at Bai Qingyan calmly, and pressed his lips down again.
Their noses touched, and Bai Qingyan saw that Xiao Rongyan’s extremely long and dense eyelashes were half-closed. The previous heart-pounding tension was gone, and his heart instead felt a dull pain.
Wei Zhong, who was about to come in with medicine, vaguely saw the silhouettes of the two people standing together, and hurriedly retreated. After thinking for a while, he asked someone to take the medicine to the small kitchen and simmer it over the fire.
She responded to Xiao Rongyan’s kiss and loosened her hands that were tightly clasping Xiao Rongyan’s wrists. She wanted to hug Xiao Rongyan but was concerned about the injuries on his body, so she could only clasp her hands on his solid shoulders and stand on tiptoe.
Because of Bai Qingyan’s response, Xiao Rongyan couldn’t help but turn the light kiss into a deep kiss. His teeth were pried open, and his breath invaded her heart and lungs strongly, causing her body to retreat again and again…
She cared about Xiao Rongyan. If she didn’t…how could she become his wife?
She seemed to want to prove it with this kiss.
The two of them had mixed steps and Bai Qingyan’s heel hit the footstool, causing him to fall backwards. Xiao Rongyan put one hand around Bai Qingyan’s waist and used the other hand to support himself on the bedpost of the carved wooden bed. The two of them were bound to fall onto the bed.
Bai Qingyan was still in shock, and when she looked up she saw Xiao Rongyan staring at her deeply.
Just as she stood firm and was about to ask about his injury, Xiao Rongyan held up her cheek and pressed his lips down again, this time only lightly.
Xiao Rongyan stroked her face with his thumb and whispered, “I’m leaving now. You should return to Dadu as soon as possible.”
“Ayan, you are angry…”
He nodded slightly to comfort Bai Qingyan, his pale lips showing a gentle smile: “I understand, you don’t have to explain, we already had an agreement, if you get angry it will make me look unreasonable! You are an ambitious girl… a girl with the world in your heart. You are wise and intelligent, skillful, iron-blooded, and sometimes cruel, but you care about the people and the Bai family. For your family, your brothers and sisters, you can give up everything. I knew all this when I first fell in love with you.”
All along, Xiao Rongyan thought that he and Bai Qingyan were the same kind of people.
But it was not until he heard that Gyantse City was under siege, and until he led his troops on horseback, and until the spies kept reporting that Bai Qingyan had not lit the signal smoke, that he realized that he was probably different from Bai Qingyan.
Once she sets her mind on a goal, she will never give up until it is achieved. She has her own principles and persistence, and will never compromise even a little bit because of him… or because of their unborn child.
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