The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 1367: paving
Chapter 1367 Paving the Way
“Yes!” Zeng Shanru responded with a smile. He always knew that the eldest girl was the same as before.
Zeng Shanru followed Bai Qingyan’s advice and sat down on the cushion. Seeing Bai Qingyan admiring the precious sword, she smiled and said, “By the way, Miss, Shanru wanted to take two months off, but her boss didn’t approve it. So she had no choice but to come to you and ask for a favor through the back door…”
“What’s the matter that brings you to me?” Bai Qingyan joked with Zeng Shanru with a smile.
“A few years ago, I was ordered to take care of the rice fields and there were some problems. Shanru wanted to go and take a look, help deal with it, and then come back.” Zeng Shanru smiled and said, “Including the time for round trip, it will take at least two months. I hope the young lady will allow it.”
“Yes…” Bai Qingyan raised his eyes and looked at Zeng Shanru, “You are an expert in managing farmland.”
Bai Qingyan put the precious sword aside and said, “Shanru, do you prefer to refine weapons now, or do you prefer farming?”
“Zeng Shanru is the eldest lady’s subordinate. She will like whatever the eldest lady wants her to like!”
“I know you are loyal and capable. No matter what you do, you will do it well! But our Bai family is no longer in danger, so we don’t need you to force yourself. Even if you like farmland, there is nothing wrong with it. If you can increase grain production and promote your methods, you may even get a title.” Bai Qingyan had actually guessed in her heart that Zeng Shanru liked farming. She smiled and said to Zeng Shanru, “In the past, you were wronged to protect the Bai family. Now that you are the eldest lady sitting in this position, if I still don’t have the ability to protect you to do what you like, then this emperor is in vain. If you really like it… go for it!”
Upon hearing this, Zeng Shanru bowed heavily to Bai Qingyan, raised her head and smiled, and whispered, “Then, about my mother…”
“Don’t worry, Nanny Tong will think I need you to come over!” Bai Qingyan was amused by Zeng Shanru’s appearance, “Not to mention you, I’m also afraid of Nanny Tong.”
“Thank you, young lady…” Zeng Shanru smiled and kowtowed. The person he feared most in his life was his own mother. Even though he was so old now, his mother came up to him and twisted his ears without saying a word. It really… frightened Zeng Shanru. “But, if I leave, who will be responsible for the weapons?”
“Now that the Great Zhou is full of capable people, are you still worried that there is no one to take charge of the weapons?” Bai Qingyan said with a smile, “Don’t worry, if there is really no one, I will not let you go, and… if it can increase food production and promote the method, it will also be a good thing for our Great Zhou.”
“Yes!” Zeng Shanru was extremely grateful and kowtowed to Bai Qingyan repeatedly, “Shanru will definitely live up to the young lady’s trust!”
Looking at Zeng Shanru’s appearance, Bai Qingyan knew that Zeng Shanru really liked to work hard on farmland.
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After Bai Qingping handed over the Shuoyang affairs to Shen Yan’an, he set out from Shuoyang and arrived in Dadu City on June 17. Outside the city, he met his father Bai Qihe and Pu Liu who had come to greet him. After handing Bai Qihe the letter that his sister asked him to bring to him, he hurried into the palace to see Bai Qingyan.
Now, Bai Qingping’s mother Fang has been divorced and sent back to her mother’s home, but Pu Liu stayed and is now Bai Qihe’s aunt, helping Bai Qihe manage the affairs of the house.
Fang originally intended to keep Pu Liu in the Bai family in order to let her help her children. However, she didn’t expect that Pu Liu would become Bai Qihe’s aunt at a speed that Fang could not have imagined, and she was also pregnant. This made Fang, who was far away in her mother’s home, grit her teeth.
Fang’s daughter was also a person who could not keep her cool. When she learned that Pu Liu was pregnant, she became furious and treated Pu Liu as an ordinary servant. She fought with her and almost caused Pu Liu to have a miscarriage. She was sent back to her hometown in Shuoyang by Bai Qihe. From then on, without Bai Qihe’s order… she was not allowed to leave the house.
Upon learning that her daughter was sent back to her hometown in Shuoyang, Fang hurried over and begged Bai Qingping to see her daughter. After listening to her daughter’s crying, Fang hated Bai Qihe and Pu Liu even more, especially Pu Liu… She said that the bitch had risen to fame overnight and then showed her fangs and claws to attack her daughter. She also cursed Bai Qihe for being an ungrateful man for abandoning his children with his new love.
No matter how much she cursed, Fang was still worried about her child after being divorced, so she thought that even if she was divorced by Bai Qihe, she must find a new mistress to suppress Pu Liu, so as to prevent that scheming bitch Pu Liu from ruining her child after giving birth to a son!
Fang felt that this method was not reliable. She also needed to prevent Bai Qihe’s new wife from giving birth to a child. Only in this way could her child be safe. In fact, not only Bai Qihe’s new wife, but all the women around Bai Qihe had to be childless. Only then could Bai Qihe’s heart always be on his own child.
Thinking of this, Fang began to urge her daughter to write a letter to Bai Qihe, admitting her mistake and proposing to be humble, saying that her daughter had reached the age to be discussed for marriage after all, and asked Bai Qihe to show mercy. She also said that before, Pu Liu was her mother’s most trusted personal maid, and she could not accept that she had suddenly become her father’s concubine. Now that she has calmed down and received the punishment, she can accept it, and she is willing to go back and apologize to Pu Liu.
After reading the letter, Bai Qihe felt that his daughter had realized her mistake. After all, she was his legitimate daughter who he had held in the palm of his hand since she was a child. After thinking about it, Bai Qihe sent someone back to Shuoyang to bring his daughter back that day.
But Bai Qihe didn’t know that her daughter, under the instigation of Fang, hated her father Bai Qihe for not caring about her because he had a new lover. This time she returned to Bai Qihe with a heavy responsibility to make sure that her father would never be able to have children again.
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In the palace, Bai Qingyan saw Bai Qingping and felt that although Bai Qingping was darker and thinner, he had grown taller. He waved his hand to signal Bai Qingping to sit down: “Don’t kneel. There is no need to be polite among family members. I have left you in Shuoyang for so long. Now that you are in the capital, I plan to let you be the military equipment supervisor in charge of weapons first.”
Since Bai Qingyan said he would go first, Bai Qingping would not be allowed to stay in the Military Equipment Prison for a long time. However, Bai Qingping did not intend to just hang around in the Military Equipment Prison and wait for Bai Qingyan to promote him. Since his elder sister had paved the way for him, he had to work harder.
“Don’t worry, sister. Qingping will do it well!” Bai Qingping said with a fist salute.
In fact, Bai Qingping had no complaints about Bai Qingyan keeping him in Shuoyang. After all, Shuoyang was the root of the Bai family and the Shuoyang Army. When Bai Qingyan ascended the throne, Shuoyang naturally needed someone trustworthy to look after her. Bai Qingping understood all this.
Bai Qingyan smiled and nodded, and told Chuntao to bring a plate of snacks to Bai Qingping, and asked, “Have you met your father?”