The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 1325: Loving father and strict mother
Chapter 1325 Kind Father and Strict Mother
His grandfather always used to tell him, Abao…you are the eldest sister, so you should be more able to endure hardships, set a role model for your younger brothers and sisters, act like an eldest sister and protect them. Don’t think that just because you are a girl, you will definitely not do better than a boy. As long as you are willing to endure hardships…even a boy can’t compare to you!
Bai Qingyan also has such expectations for her daughter. She hopes that Kang Le will not feel that she should be protected by her family just because she is a girl. She wants both her daughter and son to grow up to be capable people.
Xiao Rongyan was a little surprised. He didn’t expect that the Bai family would educate their children in this way.
After a long while, Xiao Rongyan smiled and said, “I admire the Bai family’s family tradition very much. It seems that how to teach the two children in the future will depend on Abao’s hard work. Then… in the future, our family will be a loving father and a strict mother! Let me, the good father, be the one!”
Bai Qingyan couldn’t help laughing: “Okay, I’ll be the strict mother and you’ll be the kind father.”
“Once a word is spoken, it cannot be taken back! Abao is the emperor, he must keep his word!” Xiao Rongyan held the child in his arms with joy, “In the future, when our family is reunited, if they do anything wrong, I will tell Abao and let Abao teach them a lesson, and I will come out to protect them!”
“How can the regent be so calculating? I, the mother, will be the evil one, and you, the father, will be the good one.”
Chuntao, who was standing beside the red lacquered column, couldn’t help but smile softly with her hands covering her lips. She remembered that her mother once told her that when their wife had just given birth to the eldest daughter, the master was also like this. He held the eldest daughter in his arms and couldn’t let go. The eldest daughter was still a baby. The master told the woman that in the future, she should let her wife be a strict mother and he should be a kind father, so that his daughter would definitely be closer to him.
Chuntao looked at Bai Qingyan and Xiao Rongyan holding the two children together and chatting and laughing. For some reason, she thought of the deceased Bai Qishan, and her eyes became red. If the master were still alive, he would definitely be happy to see the eldest girl and her husband and two cute little grandchildren.
This was his first time in the palace, so Xiao Rongyan couldn’t stay too long. After coaxing his two children to sleep, he wanted to go back.
“This time when I enter the palace, my sister-in-law’s people are among the guards I brought with me. I can’t stay for long… I have to go back!” Xiao Rongyan held Bai Qingyan’s hands, put them on his lips and kissed them, and whispered, “But fortunately, I am in the capital, and I am finally closer to you and the child.”
Seeing this, Chuntao and Chunzhi smiled and carried the two little masters away so as not to disturb their eldest daughter and son-in-law.
“It would be great if we were in Bai Mansion. If we were in Bai Mansion, I could ask Yue Shi to transfer people to Qinghui Courtyard to look for you and the child!” Xiao Rongyan couldn’t help but sigh. When Bai Qingyan was still in Bai Mansion, it was easy for him to get in with the sharp-eyed and smart guards of the Bai family. Now that Bai Qingyan lives in this huge palace, it is not easy for him to come in without being noticed. Bai Qingyan can’t transfer people away… otherwise it will definitely arouse speculation.
“Okay…” Bai Qingyan lowered her eyes and untied the purse she embroidered from Xiao Rongyan’s belt and put it in Xiao Rongyan’s arms. “In the capital, there are many ways to meet each other. These few days, my two aunts are organizing a flower-viewing banquet. At that time, they will definitely invite the envoys from the State of Yan who are visiting the Great Zhou. Then we can meet!”
Xiao Rongyan couldn’t be allowed to take the purse out so openly, otherwise the people arranged by Queen Mother Yan to be around Xiao Rongyan would see it and report it back to Queen Mother Yan. Knowing that Xiao Rongyan had taken a purse with two geese on it when he came to the palace, they would inevitably become suspicious.
Bai Qingyan and Xiao Rongyan both knew that the merger of the two countries was their most ideal strategy for unification, but because it was too ideal, there could not be any mistakes, and if there was any accident, all their efforts would fail.
Soon, Xiao Rongyan walked out of the hall, and Yue Shi hurriedly responded: “Master!”
Xiao Rongyan, who had already put on a mask, waved to Yue Shi and said, “Let’s go!”
Wei Zhong personally sent the person to the high-level position, glanced at the Yan guards waiting below the high-level position, and seemed to see the Ninth Prince of Yan leave, so he straightened up, flicked his whisk, and turned to leave.
The Yan State guards had different expressions and looked at each other. The Regent had been in there for such a long time, and when he came out, he saw that the eunuch of the Great Zhou didn’t seem to be very respectful to the Regent. They didn’t know what had happened in the hall.
After Xiao Rongyan returned to the inn, the Yan guards saw Yue Shi coming out of Xiao Rongyan’s room in a panic, and soon he entered Xiao Rongyan’s room again with medicine.
The Yan State guards guessed that Xiao Rongyan might have been injured, so they went back and wrote a letter and had it sent back to the Yan State as quickly as possible.
Upon hearing that Xiao Rongyan was injured, Wang Hanbing hurried over to visit him.
The Minister of Revenue and other officials followed Zhong Xingxiao to visit the residence of Minister Lu of Da Zhou. Perhaps because of his humble background, Wang Hanbing was ignored by Zhong Xingxiao because he did not hold any substantial official position in the court even though he was appointed by His Majesty to come to Da Zhou.
When Wang Hanbing entered the room, he saw Yue Shi holding a black lacquered square tray with bloody fine cotton cloth and wound medicine. His face immediately turned ugly: “Did the Ninth Prince get hurt after entering the palace? How could the Emperor of the Great Zhou be so rude?”
“It’s okay…” Xiao Rongyan straightened his sleeves, sat down on the main seat, and waved his hand to signal Yue Shi to leave. “It was an accident. What’s the matter with you coming here suddenly?”
“First, I heard that the Ninth Prince was injured. Second… It was a letter from Minister Meng!” Wang Hanbing took out the letter secretly sent by Minister Meng from his chest and respectfully handed it to Xiao Rongyan. “Originally, the letter was to be delivered directly to the Ninth Prince, but the Ninth Prince was not here, and Lord Zhong also brought others to visit Minister Lu of the Great Zhou, so the letter was delivered to my subordinate. The secret of the letter is unknown to others.”
“You don’t have to call yourself a subordinate in front of me. I have never thought of accepting you as a subordinate! You are a minister of Yan State, a minister of His Majesty, so you should be loyal to His Majesty, not me!” Xiao Rongyan said, and opened the letter…
Wang Hanbing murmured with his lips. It was the Ninth Prince who saved his mother’s life. His life belonged to the Ninth Prince. He had originally intended to become the Ninth Prince’s disciple, but… it seemed that being the Ninth Prince’s subordinate was not enough just to be loyal.
Wang Hanbing felt a little disappointed. He lowered his eyes and said nothing.
What Minister Meng wrote in the letter was that he knew Meng Zhaorong was in Tianmenguan Prison, having been captured as a spy for the State of Yan. He requested that when Xiao Rongyan came to the Great Zhou to finalize the bet between the two countries, he would be kind enough to bring Meng Zhaorong back so that he would not lose his beloved daughter in his old age. As for Meng Zhaorong’s offense against the Ninth Prince, he would certainly give an explanation to the Ninth Prince when Meng Zhaorong returned to Yandu.