The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 133: Unswerving
Chapter 133 Unwavering Commitment
Today, the Emperor has decreed that the funeral of the King Zhenguo, who was posthumously conferred the title Duke of Zhenguo, and all the lords and sons of the Bai Mansion will be held today. The body must be buried before the sun rises.
At the end of the Yin hour, everyone in the Bai Mansion gathered in the front hall.
When Nanny Qin helped Dong, whose eyes were red and swollen, into the mourning hall, several ladies and children had already arrived.
“Fifth brother’s wife, it’s snowing today and the roads are slippery and difficult to walk on. You are in heavy body, so don’t go.” Dong said to Fifth Madam Qi, who had a bulging belly.
Qi gently held her abdomen and choked up as she spoke, “My child and I… have to see the hero of the Bai family off to his last journey!”
Afterwards, the eldest princess, dressed in white and leaning on a tiger-headed cane, also came over, holding Nanny Jiang’s hand.
“Mother……”
“grandmother……”
Everyone bowed and saluted.
“Mother, are you going too?” asked Mrs. Dong.
The eldest princess nodded and looked at Bai Qingyan, but she saw that Bai Qingyan lowered his head and did not look at her, nor did he come forward to support her like he usually did. She could not suppress the sadness in her heart, and she said: “Send my Bai family man on his last journey, I can hold on!”
Dong sighed, then cheered up and said, “Butler Hao, open the door!”
“Open the door…”
Butler Hao roared, and with the creaking of the wooden door, the six red-lacquered doors of the imposing Duke Zhenguo Mansion, which were hung with white lights and plain clothes, opened all at once.
But Dong never imagined that outside the gate of the Duke of Zhenguo’s Mansion… there would be so many people holding lanterns gathered!
There were also young and old officials from noble families. They stood quietly in the snow, right in front of the black-painted and gold-lettered door of the Duke of Zhenguo’s Mansion.
No one told them the time of the funeral procession at the Duke of Zhenguo’s Mansion, so they came here early to wait… wanting to see off this loyal and heroic man.
Dong saw her younger brother Dong Qingyue in military uniform, standing at the front with several generals from the imperial court. He wore mourning cloth on his head and held a bright lantern in his hand, looking tall and handsome.
This reminded Dong of the New Year’s Eve when the people accompanied the Bai family here waiting for news, and of the fifth day when the people of the whole city held lanterns and braved the snow to welcome the Bai family’s heroes home at the South Gate together with the Bai family.
Dong’s emotions were surging and she could no longer hold back her tears.
Dong Qingyue did not sleep last night. He went back and forth between the homes of the generals in the court, appealing to their emotions and reasoning with them to ask them to come with him to carry the coffin and send King Bai Weiting off.
Seeing the door open, Dong Qingyue, who was holding a bright lantern, put down the sheepskin lantern and knelt on one knee in military salute: “General Dong Qingyue, respectfully bids farewell to the King of Zhenguo, the Duke of Zhenguo and all the young generals! The soul of the Bai family army will live forever!”
Shi Panshan, the general standing beside Dong Qingyue, knelt down with red eyes and clasped his fists: “I, Shi Panshan, respectfully send off the King of Zhenguo, the Duke of Zhenguo and all the young generals! The soul of the Bai family army will live forever!”
“I, General Jiang Ruhai, respectfully send off the King of Zhenguo, the Duke of Zhenguo, and all the young generals! The souls of the Bai Family Army will live forever!”
“I, General Zhen Zeping, respectfully send off the King of Zhenguo, the Duke of Zhenguo, and all the young generals! The souls of the Bai Family Army will live forever!”
“I, General Zhang Duanrui, respectfully send off the King of Zhenguo, the Duke of Zhenguo, and all the young generals! The souls of the Bai Family Army will live forever!”
The military officer in uniform who was riding a fast horse jumped off his horse, knelt at the back, and shouted: “General Liu Hong respectfully sends off the King of Zhenguo, the Duke of Zhenguo, and the young generals! The soul of the Bai family army will live forever!”
Second Madam Liu looked at the generals standing outside the door in the heavy snow, kneeling one by one to bid farewell to the heroic spirit of the Bai family. Finally, she could not hold back her voice and leaned limply into Bai Jinxiu’s arms, beating her chest and crying for her dead husband and her deceased son!
The third wife, Mrs. Li, couldn’t stop crying.
On the contrary, it was the fourth wife Wang, who was so heartbroken that she wanted to commit suicide by banging her head against the coffin on the day when the seventeenth son of the Bai family came back. She stood quietly in a corner with her hands folded in front of her belly. Her eyes had long lost their luster, like a puppet, not knowing sadness or joy.
Fifth Madam Qi turned around and bit her lips tightly. She didn’t dare to let go even after tasting the blood, for fear that she would not be able to control her wails.
The people standing at the door all knelt on the ground and cried, their wails shook the sky, they shouted “King Zhenguo, Duke Zhenguo”… they shouted “the Bai family were all young generals who were in their prime but died protecting the people.”
Butler Hao wiped away his tears with his sleeves, suppressed his sobbing voice, and sang loudly: “Kneel…”
The common people on the long street had already knelt down and cried inconsolably, and the people of the Bai family also knelt down slowly.
“bye……”
Bai Qingyan kowtowed with tears in her eyes and bowed… She swore to the heroic spirits of the Bai family that she would risk her life to protect the widow of the Bai family for the rest of her life.
“Bye again…”
With tears in her eyes, she kowtowed twice and bowed twice… She swore to the heaven and earth that she would make those who owed the Bai family pay with blood, and she would not be a human being if she didn’t take revenge!
“Three bows…”
She bowed her head to the ground and kowtowed three times… She swore to her grandfather that in this life she would inherit her grandfather’s aspirations, do her best to protect the people and restore peace to the world.
“Recite the sacrificial text to explain the lives of the gentlemen…”
Xiao Rongyan, dressed in fox fur, stood behind the crowd, staring silently, as if he was an outsider who could not be approached by the heavy snow.
The Emperor of the Great Jin Dynasty didn’t understand… It was true that this Duke’s Mansion, which had been guarded by a general for a hundred years, was more powerful than its master, but this Duke’s Mansion was actually the backbone of the Great Jin Dynasty!
The Bai family fell…
It means taking off the shoes and armor of the Great Jin State.
In the troubled times, various countries competed for supremacy and fought against each other. Xiao Rongyan dared to assert that once the generals of the Bai family died, the dominant Jin State would never have the chance to compete for supremacy in the world.
Looking from afar, he saw Bai Qingyan stand up and subconsciously took a step forward.
The woman’s voice was clear and sonorous, as calm as warm water passing by. It was not as deafening as the few times she spoke in public. The endless love and admiration hidden in it was touching.
The Grand Princess looked at the people outside the door whose cries shook the heavens and the earth, and the military commanders in military uniforms who came to see off the heroic hero of the Duke of Zhenguo Mansion, and suddenly she remembered the time when her father passed away. The people at that time also cried… and the officials also cried, but their cries were not as sincere and heartfelt as this one.
She clenched her hands around the Buddhist beads, then tightened and unclenched them, and she had no idea what was going on in her heart.
The Bai family… is more popular than the royal family!
It was clearly a very simple funeral, and no one was notified of the burial time, but the generals in the court, the royal family in the capital, and the most ordinary people all came. Although the momentum was not as grand as the funeral of her father, it was more tear-jerking and heart-touching than that.
She suddenly remembered what happened a few hours ago in this mourning hall… Her granddaughter said that the nobility of the Bai family lies not in their bloodline, but in their integrity, in the loyalty of living and dying for the people and the country, and in their loyalty and bravery of sacrificing their lives to protect the people!
Therefore, the people really remember the Bai family and miss the Bai family…
The foundation of the Bai family lies in serving the people and being loyal and righteous.
The eldest princess closed her eyes and thought of her husband Bai Weiting’s handwriting…Unyielding.
The voice of her granddaughter reading the eulogy rang in her ears.
“I asked my grandfather why he used the character ‘Bu Yi’ as his name. He replied that he wished to… bring peace back to the people and establish a peaceful world. He would never change his mind and would not stop until his death.”
Until the 7th, the monthly tickets will be doubled, so don’t hide it, my little ancestors!