The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 1343: take the time to summon
Chapter 1343: Taking the Time to Summon
Fan Yugan’s despicable appearance made people want to beat him, but they couldn’t, and the Yan State’s Minister of Revenue, who was a man of good character, was so angry that he almost died.
It is said that when a scholar meets a soldier, he is unable to explain himself. This time when he came to the Great Zhou… the Minister of Revenue of the Yan State truly experienced that when a scholar meets a shameless and talented soldier, he is truly unable to explain himself.
Bai Qingyan also understood why Liu Rushi wanted Fan Yugan after reading the records of the negotiations between the two countries from the Honglu Temple sent by the eunuch. In addition to sympathizing with Fan Yugan, it was probably because Fan Yugan was thicker-skinned than the literati who claimed to be gentlemen. This was not to belittle Fan Yugan, but when the two countries were arguing, Fan Yugan, who was willing to lose face and put aside his noble character, could indeed make the other party so angry that they were fuming and confused.
General Lu did not come to the flower banquet today… He was still in the Honglu Temple with Lu Fenglang, Fan Yugan and other court officials who were negotiating with the State of Yan, discussing the matter of gambling with several important envoys of the State of Yan.
Therefore, in addition to Xiao Rongyan, there were only two or three unimportant people in the Yan State envoy group.
Lu Fenglang was the person Liu Rushi specifically requested, but he didn’t say a word from beginning to end yesterday. However, he did make a lot of records. Bai Qingyan was still looking forward to what surprise Lu Fenglang could bring her today.
The singing and dancing had stopped. Fourth Madam Wang, with Buddhist beads wrapped around her hands, was about to drink tea from a teacup when Wang Liu, who was sitting diagonally behind her, gently tugged at her sleeve, signaling her to take this opportunity to go forward and talk to Bai Qing about the marriage between King Zhong of the Kingdom, Bai Qingjue, and her daughter, and try to ask for a marriage to be granted, and she would feel at ease.
Fourth Madam Wang glanced at the high platform and saw Wei Zhong covering his lips and whispering something in Bai Qingyan’s ear. She was extremely panicked. In fact, she didn’t want her niece from her mother’s family to marry her own Ajue, but…if she didn’t agree to Wang Liu, she was afraid that her mother would have a hard life at the hands of this black-hearted couple.
Bai Qingyan opened the letter sent by Bai Qingqi.
Bai Qingqi said in the letter that the Tianfeng Kingdom wanted to send an envoy to make peace with the Great Zhou.
For a moment, she couldn’t figure out what the Tianfeng Kingdom was planning.
In order to prevent any disaster from happening, Bai Qingqi sent Cheng Yuanzhi to the passage between Tianfeng Kingdom and Xiliang to seal it off, but he had no intention of attacking Tianfeng Kingdom. Why did Tianfeng Kingdom want to send envoys to repair the passage at this time?
Bai Qingyan put the letter down and whispered to Wei Zhong that after the banquet was over, she should invite General Lu, Minister Shen, and Minister Dong to her study to discuss important matters.
Just as Bai Qingyan finished speaking, he heard the sound of porcelain breaking coming from the hall. He looked in the direction of the sound and saw Nanny Guan kneeling beside Fourth Aunt, wiping her clothes with a towel.
Wang Liu was looking at Fourth Madam Wang with a poisonous look in her eyes. When she saw Bai Qingyan looking in that direction, she quickly retracted her gaze and pretended to be concerned and said, “Why are you so careless?”
Nanny Guan’s eyes were full of desire to eat that black-hearted lady alive, but thinking of her own old lady, she was afraid that if she angered them, the couple would secretly torture their old lady, so she forced herself to hold back.
Fortunately, the sound of stringed instruments rang out again, and the dancer had already entered the hall, so not many people paid attention to this little episode.
Nanny Guan personally came behind Dong and Bai Qingyan and said that Wang’s clothes were wet and she had to change.
Bai Qingyan nodded, and did not ask Nanny Guan for details. He just glanced at Wang Liu and her daughter, who were sitting there obediently, and the young girls behind her.
She tilted her head and told Chuntao: “Go ask Lingyun and Lingxiu who are with Fourth Aunt what’s going on.”
Chuntao nodded, gave some instructions to Chunzhi, and left to ask the Fourth Madam’s personal maid.
Wang Liu’s niece seemed to notice that Bai Qingyan was looking at them, so she quickly reached out and pulled her aunt’s sleeve, and whispered the matter to Wang Liu. Wang Liu was shocked and looked up quickly. Seeing that Bai Qingyan seemed to be looking at her, she clenched her hands nervously and gave a smile in Bai Qingyan’s direction that she thought was appropriate.
Bai Qingyan, however, looked indifferent. He shifted his gaze and noticed King Han Cheng who was sitting beside him with a serious expression.
She smiled and said to King Hancheng: “Is today’s wine and food not to King Hancheng’s taste?”
Upon hearing this, King Hancheng was so shocked that he quickly stood up and saluted Bai Qingyan, saying, “Your Majesty, it’s not that the food and wine today are not to my liking, it’s just that… I am worried about something. After today’s banquet, please take the time to summon me. I have something to report!”
King Hancheng was the third prince of Daliang and he surrendered voluntarily, so Bai Qingyan conferred him the title of King Hancheng and kept him in the capital city to prevent anyone in the old Daliang from harboring ulterior motives and attempting to rebuild Daliang. However, King Hancheng was not a courtier of the Great Zhou after all. He only had an honorary title without real power and could not attend court.
Bai Qingyan nodded: “Okay…”
Seeing that Bai Qingyan agreed to the summons, King Hancheng breathed a sigh of relief, kowtowed respectfully again, and knelt back in his seat.
Not long after, Bai Qingyan saw his fourth aunt coming back, and Chuntao followed her in.
Chuntao knelt quietly behind Bai Qingyan and whispered that Wang Liu threatened her aunt to use Bai Qingjue’s military achievements to ask Bai Qingyan for an imperial decree to grant marriage, and then to raise the status of her daughter, who was Bai Qingjue’s “fiancée”, and make her a princess or something.
“That Wang Liu said that since His Majesty can confer a title of Xiangxie County Princess, King Zhong has made great contributions, and it is only natural for the future princess to be conferred a title of County Princess.” Chun Tao couldn’t help getting angry when she said these words, “This Wang Liu also used Old Lady Wang to threaten the Fourth Madam. Nanny Guan said that the couple are good at acting. Everyone outside says that they are filial, but every time the couple makes a request that the Fourth Madam doesn’t agree to, they make things difficult for the old lady behind her back.”
“Later, when the Fourth Madam returned to her mother’s home, she also said that she wanted to bring the old lady out, but Old Lady Wang knew that the Wang family would fall if she left, so she refused. Old Lady Wang has felt guilty all her life for not having given birth to a son for the Wang family and her husband. She felt that she had let down her deceased husband and the Wang family. The old lady was afraid that the matter would get out of hand and affect the reputation of the Wang family, and that she would not be able to face her husband in the underworld in the future, so she had to endure the couple. The old lady also persuaded the Fourth Madam not to care about her, as she would not live for many more years.” Chuntao frowned, “But with the Fourth Madam’s personality, how could she really let go of the old lady? She is the Fourth Madam’s biological mother.”
The couple was also afraid that if Old Madam Wang died, they would have nothing to do with Wang, so they fed Old Madam Wang with the best tonics all day long, and asked doctors to check Old Madam Wang’s pulse every morning and evening. In the eyes of outsiders, this was a filial piety that even their own son could not match.