The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 1256: Obligatory
Chapter 1256: Duty
Great Zhou military camp.
Bai Jinxiu, who had been out looking for Bai Qingyu and Bai Jinse for a whole day, had just returned and was not in a very good mood.
Bai Jinxiu knelt down opposite Bai Qingqi, with a downcast expression: “Qingzhu hasn’t come back yet, I wonder if he has found Ayu and Xiaoqi!”
Xiao Ruohai, who was wet all over, shivering and pale with cold, appeared outside Bai Qingqi’s tent.
Seeing Xiao Ruohai, Bai Jinxiu was so surprised that she stood up immediately. When Bai Qingyu went to lead the Xiliang army, Xiao Ruohai also followed!
“Xiao Ruohai!” Bai Jinxiu was full of surprise and walked forward quickly. “Where’s Ayu? Where’s Xiaoqi? Did you come back together? Or did Ayu ask you to come back first to report the news? Where have you been for so long?”
Bai Jinxiu’s questions were like a string of cannonballs, and she was really anxious during this period.
Bai Qingqi took the cloak that was lying aside and put it on the trembling Xiao Ruohai. He guessed that Xiao Ruohai had come out of the city to deliver a letter for Bai Qingyu, and said calmly, “Change your clothes first, have a cup of hot tea, and then we’ll talk slowly!”
Xiao Ruohai quickly changed his clothes and came out from behind the screen. Before he could recover from the shock, Bai Qingjue, Bai Jinhua and Bai Jinzhao all came over.
After paying his respects, Xiao Ruohai sat in front of the brazier and told the two young masters and three young ladies of the Bai family everything about how Xiao Rongyan had originally sent Yue Shi to stop Bai Qingyu, as well as everything that had happened in Yunjing City. He also said that the city gates would be opened at Chou time tomorrow.
Specifically, fireworks will be used as a signal, and then the State of Yan will attack the city together with the State of Zhou.
“When I came back just now, I met the secret guard of the Ninth Prince of Yan. The secret guard recognized my identity and showed me the token. I told the secret guard about the arrangement of the Fifth Young Master and asked him to go back and tell the Ninth Prince of Yan. The secret guard told me… their people have already entered the palace, and he went back to ask for orders on when to rescue the Fifth Young Master!” Xiao Ruohai said.
“The Ninth Prince of Dayan…send someone to rescue them?”
This was beyond Bai Jinxiu’s expectations.
Xiao Ruohai nodded: “The secret guard said that there was a traitor among the Yan State, which forced the Fifth Master to take advantage of the situation and put himself in danger. The Yan State has no shirking its responsibility!”
“It’s good that the Yan State still has some conscience!” Bai Jinzhao calmed down a little, but still felt depressed.
“What about Xiao Qi?” Bai Jinxiu looked at Xiao Ruohai eagerly, “You talked for a long time, but I didn’t hear you mention Xiao Qi. Where is Xiao Qi?”
Xiao Ruohai was stunned: “Seventh Miss… didn’t she come back? Didn’t Seventh Miss go back to the Great Zhou military camp with the guard named Yue Shi who was with the deceased eldest brother-in-law?”
Bai Qingqi stared at the brazier and raised his eyes, speaking slowly: “When the guard named Yue Shi took Xiao Qi away, he was surrounded by the Xiliang army. When he fought his way out, he turned around and found that Xiao Qi was no longer on the horse. I thought Xiao Qi was captured by Xiliang!”
“I always thought so?!” Bai Qingjue looked at his third brother, his words full of anger, “Third brother, you already knew that Ayu had tricked Yunjing? Then why did you send military reports back to my elder sister? Aren’t you afraid of scaring my elder sister? My elder sister is pregnant now!”
“I only heard the news from the Ninth Prince later.” Bai Qingqi said in a low voice, “However, the Ninth Prince of Yan State sent someone to deliver a letter to my eldest sister right after that. You don’t have to worry too much. The important thing now is where Xiaoqi is!”
Bai Jinhua poured a cup of hot tea for Xiao Ruohai. Xiao Ruohai stretched out his hand tremblingly and drank the hot tea in one gulp before saying, “Seventh Miss is definitely not in Yunjing, whether she is alive or dead. If Seventh Miss has entered Yunjing, I will know it!”
“That’s outside. My third brother and I led people to the place where Ayu was captured, but we didn’t see Xiaoqi! I think… Xiaoqi must have escaped!” Bai Jinxiu couldn’t help but stood up anxiously, “But this is Xiaoqi’s first time going out so far. If Xiaoqi was left in that place… he would definitely not be able to find the way back to our barracks!”
“I’ll go find Xiaoqi!” Bai Jinzhao stood up hurriedly and rushed out of the tent.
Bai Qingqi did not stop him, after all, he was also very worried.
Although because Tianfeng Kingdom needed a large amount of furs at the beginning, the people of Xiliang hunted the wild animals to almost extinction under Bai Jintong’s operation, it is now March, and the hibernating snakes, insects, rats and ants have gradually awakened. If Xiaoqi was bitten by a poisonous snake and there was no one around, that would be really scary!
“Xiao Qi has always been smart. Even if she can’t come back, she might have found a farmer’s house to stay in, waiting for us to find her…” Bai Jinxiu said this very uncertainly.
Bai Jinse had already left Yunjing and traveled to the southern part of Xiliang for an unknown distance and for an unknown period of time. She was surrounded by fleeing refugees. She was tied up tightly and huddled in a corner of a ruined temple.
The ruined temple was full of refugees who had escaped from Yunjing. They huddled together around the dying fire in the center of the temple and fell asleep.
Bai Jinse fell off her horse. After the fall, she dodged the pursuit of the Xiliang army and fled into the deep forest. She soon lost consciousness. When she woke up, she was trapped by a family of Xiliang people and was carried forward on a wooden board.
After being in Xiliang for so long, Bai Jinse has learned a lot of Xiliang dialect, but she still can’t speak it very well, so she simply pretends that she can’t hear or speak it.
She guessed from the conversation of this Xiliang family that they fled from Suining to Yunjing. Common people were all like this. When they encountered famine or plague, they all wanted to flee to the capital, always thinking that the capital would be able to save their lives!
Who knew that when they arrived in Yunjing, Yunjing was surrounded by the Great Zhou and the State of Yan, so they took a detour and planned to continue heading south.
These hungry people had eaten most of the food on them, chewed the tree bark… and even pulled out all the grass!
During this period, they took Bai Jinse with them and only gave her a bite of grass or tree bark to eat every day. They were even very stingy with water because they were running out of food and also because they were afraid that Bai Jinse would run away.
The reason they brought Bai Jinse with them was that they planned to eat Bai Jinse when they really ran out of food and were extremely hungry.
Thinking about the Great Zhou and then looking at Xiliang, Bai Jinse knew that when Xiliang reached a point where people were cannibalizing each other, its fate was doomed.
Bai Jinse is the youngest girl in the Bai family. She grew up in the capital city. Even though she had heard stories about starving people eating each other, she never thought that such a thing would happen to her.
She knew that, not to mention that she was tied up now, even if she wasn’t… she was so hungry that she was dizzy and she couldn’t escape.
She had to eat her fill and have the strength to escape, and the other end of the rope on her body was tied to the man who was the head of the family, so she needed a sharp weapon to cut the rope.
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