The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 1338: help
Chapter 1338 Assistance
Xile and Kangle are just two kids who can only play with bubbles. Bai Wanqing finds them boring. She would be very happy if she could pick a playmate to enter the palace.
“You can pick any number you want!” Bai Qingyan said with a smile, “As long as our Xiao Ba is happy.”
“No, I’ll just pick one, lest I pick too many and if I don’t pick the one from the Qi family, I’m afraid the cousins from the Qi family will resent my grandmother.” Bai Wanqing shook her head sensibly, indicating that she would only pick one.
Bai Wanqing is a spoiled girl, but like Xiaoqi, she is also very precocious. She can see many things even if the adults don’t say them.
“Sister, whose baby should I choose so as not to cause trouble for you?” Bai Wanqing asked crisply.
Perhaps because of her fifth aunt Qi, Bai Wanqing knew from a young age that her eldest sister had a very hard life, and she didn’t want to add any trouble to her.
Bai Qingyan looked at Bai Wanqing, whose eyes were shining black, and felt so distressed that he whispered, “Xiao Ba can choose whoever he likes. He won’t cause trouble for his elder sister. Just follow your heart.”
After hearing what her elder sister said, Bai Wanqing smiled with her eyes curved into little crescents and responded sweetly.
Bai Qingyan touched the little girl’s bangs. Although Bai Wanqing was still young, a child’s eyes were actually the purest. She knew clearly who was trying to please her with ulterior motives and who could really play with her.
Xiao Ba is still young, and without the love and care of his biological father, his fifth uncle, it is inevitable that Bai Qingyan will love him more.
I remember that before Uncle Five went to the battle, he was wearing a suit of silver armor, and his jade-like brows were filled with a warm smile. He held Aunt Five’s hand and told her to take good care of herself and the child, saying that Aqi had been too calm since childhood. If he wanted Aunt Five to give birth to a lively and lovely daughter, he would definitely cherish her and teach her everything he knew.
Now that the daughter that Uncle Wu had high hopes for has been born, the Uncle Wu, who was once a young man… and a brilliant, elegant, gentle and self-contained figure in the capital, will never come back.
Thinking of his fifth uncle, Bai Qingyan touched the top of Bai Wanqing’s head again, and couldn’t help but recall that his fifth uncle once played chess under the hundred-year-old ginkgo tree in the Bai Mansion, just to protect the ginkgo tree and prevent the Bai family’s boys from practicing swords under the ginkgo tree. He also remembered that his fourth uncle lost the game of chess to her. She despised his fourth uncle for being a bad chess player and didn’t want to play chess with him. So his fourth uncle came to the ginkgo tree to play chess with his fifth uncle. His fifth uncle always smiled and looked at his fourth uncle who regretted his move without getting angry.
Bai Qingyan smiled and said to Bai Wanqing, “When I’m done with this busy period, I’ll have time to teach Xiaoba how to play chess, okay?”
When Bai Wanqing heard this, her eyes lit up immediately: “Okay!”
She had heard from her mother a long time ago that her elder sister was a tough opponent in chess…
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Bai Wanqing is young, and she has been looking forward to the flower banquet for a long time since she heard it was going to be lively. She was also smart enough to prepare palace maid clothes that were similar to her size, intending to test the character of those young girls who wanted to be her study companions tomorrow.
The flower banquet was organized by the Bai family’s third wife, Li, and the fourth wife, Wang. The third wife, Li, was the main person in charge, and the fourth wife, Wang, gave the orders.
But even so, with the reputation of hosting the first flower banquet in the palace, after receiving the invitation, Fourth Aunt’s maternal family, the Wang family, immediately sent Wang Liu, who was now the head of the family, to the palace to inform Fourth Aunt that they wanted Fourth Aunt to find a way to invite the prime-age girls from Wang Liu’s family, as well as the younger sister and daughter of the illegitimate son who was adopted by Fourth Aunt’s mother, to the palace.
Before, Wang Liu wanted to marry her daughter to Bai Qingjue, saying that it was a closer relationship between cousins. Bai Qingyan’s fourth aunt had always been weak, and she just said that Bai Qingyan had the final say on the matter, after all, Bai Qingyan was the king now.
However, Wang Liu felt that Bai Qingyan was famous for respecting her aunts. Anyway, Wang’s old mother was in the hands of the couple, so it would be easy for them to control her. So she believed that her daughter was already Bai Qingjue’s legal wife.
Even Wang Liu’s daughter regarded herself as the legal wife of King Zhongguo Bai Qingjue, and always acted like a princess and pointed fingers at others. Although she could not be said to be arrogant and domineering at the various banquets attended by the young ladies of various families in the capital city, she did not take others seriously.
Although the Fourth Lady was the legitimate daughter of the Wang family, her weak character was developed by following Old Lady Wang. When Old Lady Wang married into the Wang family in her early years, her mother’s family was in decline and she was not liked by her mother-in-law. Later, she gave birth to a legitimate eldest daughter, a girl, which made her mother-in-law very unhappy. She had not been pregnant for many years and was used to being humble in front of her mother-in-law. It was at that time that the Fourth Lady Wang always compromised in a soft voice, not wanting to make mistakes that would be picked on by her grandmother and punished by her mother.
Later, Old Lady Wang gave birth to a legitimate son with great difficulty. Just when her life was getting better, the child was about to die again. Later… under the coercion of Wang’s grandparents and clan members… Old Lady Wang had no choice but to register the son of her favorite concubine as her own legitimate son. The concubine became rampant, and life became even more difficult for them, mother and daughter.
It was not until later that Old Lady Wang heard that the Grand Princess wanted to marry off her sons when they returned from the frontier that she became interested and went to Bai Qingyan’s grandmother, the Grand Princess, to ask for help. The Grand Princess was impressed by Wang’s patience and non-competitive nature, and her own son also later fell in love with the shy and introverted Wang, so the matter was settled.
Now that Bai Qingyan has ascended the throne, Wang’s status has also risen, and she even lives in the palace. However, her mother is still in the control of that illegitimate son. Wang is always worried that the illegitimate son will be unfilial to his mother, so she helps him whenever she can. Over the years, this couple has become a little greedy.
Thinking that his daughter’s marriage to Bai Qingjue was a sure thing, the illegitimate son of the Wang family, who was registered under the name of his stepmother, began to set his sights on Bai Qingyan’s other brothers, especially Bai Qingyan’s younger brother Bai Qingyu, and wanted to find a way to force his own sister’s daughter into marriage.
In the eyes of this illegitimate son, the reason why the Bai family asked Wang to become the fourth wife was because the Bai family was already a top noble family in the capital at that time. Now that Bai Qingyan has ascended the throne and is in power, he is above everyone else. Even if it is to prevent his younger brothers from usurping power, he will not find powerful in-laws for his younger brothers. On the contrary, a small family like theirs has the opportunity. In this case, it is better to keep the benefits within the family.
Furthermore, hearing that Bai Qingyan’s younger brother, King Zhenguo Bai Qingyu, had been disfigured, even her sister’s daughter would be considered a good match. And if a younger girl in the family was chosen by the eighth daughter of the Bai family as a study companion, it would be a great honor.
When Wang Liu heard her husband’s wild idea, she thought he was a fool in her heart, but she still responded respectfully on the surface.