The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 153: broken promise
Chapter 153: Breach of Trust
After hearing what the Grand Princess said, Wei Zhong raised his eyes slightly, his sight fell on the embroidered shoes at Bai Qingyan’s feet, turned in Bai Qingyan’s direction, and bowed solemnly: “Wei Zhong greets the master!”
When Wei Zhong came in just now, Bai Qingyan observed his breath and steps carefully, and he must be a very powerful martial artist.
Wei Zhong was over forty years old and had a broken finger on his right hand, but he looked very energetic and strong. His voice was thinner than that of ordinary men and he had no beard.
She roughly guessed in her heart that Wei Zhong was probably a eunuch who entered the Bai family with her grandmother in her early years. In that case, he was not the leader of the secret guard team, but was only responsible for liaison.
“My grandmother will go to the Royal Qingan Temple on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Please ask Uncle Wei Zhong to arrange for the leader of the secret guard to meet with me.” Bai Qingyan said.
Since Wei Zhong had already acknowledged his master, he naturally only listened to Bai Qingyan’s instructions. After bowing his head, he said, “I don’t dare to bother you, master. Don’t worry, Wei Zhong will definitely make proper arrangements and no one will notice.”
After Wei Zhong left, the Grand Princess looked at Bai Qingyan, who had never come to her side, with red eyes: “Be careful when you go to Southern Xinjiang!”
Bai Qingyan stood up and saluted: “Don’t worry, grandma. If there is nothing else, Qingyan will leave first.”
The eldest princess pursed her lips, her face was filled with sorrow, and after a long while she nodded, “Abao has been the one who has worked the hardest these days, so go and have a rest!”
Seeing Bai Qingyan politely leaving the upper room, the eldest princess nodded with tears finally falling from the corners of her eyes.
“Grand Princess…” Nanny Jiang, who was holding a bowl of goat milk and red date tea, walked around the screen in small steps, raised her hand to push aside the beaded curtain and came in. Seeing the Grand Princess crying, she stepped forward and gently advised, “Since the second sister got married, the eldest sister has been working non-stop every day. Today’s event is over, and the eldest sister must be exhausted.”
As the Grand Princess did not say anything, Nanny Jiang’s eyes became redder. She forced herself to cheer up and said with a smile, “The Grand Princess does not want to have dinner. I saw that there are still some red dates that the eldest sister sent last time, so I asked someone to make a bowl of goat milk and red date tea for the Grand Princess. Would the Grand Princess like to try it? Today’s steamed cakes are not bad, so why not give you a plate of it as well?”
After a long while, the eldest princess shook her head and said, “Send it to Abao!”
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After seeing Ji Tingyu, Bai Qingyan walked to Qinghui Courtyard accompanied by Xiao Ruohai, whose wound had been bandaged.
“Xiao Ruojiang has already led his men to southern Xinjiang. Along the way, he will send people back to report the news to the young lady, and strive to grasp the situation in southern Xinjiang before the young lady arrives.” Xiao Ruohai followed Bai Qingyan half a step slowly, nodded slightly and bowed respectfully, “In addition, the matter that the young lady told us has been investigated. The staff member named Du Zhiwei in the Liang Wang Mansion blocked the knife for the Liang Wang on the day of the second young lady’s wedding, and died.”
She paused, dead? !
The white silk cloth in the corridor fluttered in front of her eyes, and she thought of the handwritten letter from King Liang.
I finally understand why King Liang made such a mistake.
The King of Liang is very good at acting and is very scheming, but he is not as good as Du Zhiwei… who has the ability to control the overall situation and set up traps.
She did feel deeply sorry for Du Zhiwei’s death. It seemed that King Liang was not destined to die. In his previous life, her second sister Bai Jinxiu blocked the knife, and in this life, Du Zhiwei sacrificed her life. So it was King Liang who survived.
If Du Zhiwei wasn’t around King Liang, she wouldn’t have to take this person so seriously.
She turned around and looked at Xiao Ruohai, who had changed into clean clothes: “Thank you for your hard work, brothers!”
“It’s my duty to do things for the young lady!” Xiao Ruohai hesitated for a moment, but still lifted the hem of his shirt and knelt down to kowtow. “Today, I fought with Liang Wang’s guard Gao Sheng. I wanted to recruit him for the young lady, but I didn’t expect to cause the deaths of three brothers. I hope the young lady will forgive me.”
Bai Qingyan never blamed Xiao Ruohai.
She helped Xiao Ruohai up and said, “Brother Ru had already guessed that the emperor would want my life during the trip to Southern Xinjiang, so… he wanted to have a few more capable people around me to protect me. Brother Ru was eager to recruit talents… He just wanted to bring me back unharmed and live up to my father. I understand.”
Xiao Ruohai remained bent over with a respectful attitude. When Bai Qingyan mentioned her father, he bent even lower, with his red eyes lowered, and said nothing.
“Brother, go back and have a rest. After Fifteen sends grandmother to the Royal Qingan Temple, we will prepare to go to Southern Xinjiang.” She whispered.
“Send the young lady back to Qinghuiyuan, and I will return.” Xiao Ruohai insisted.
She didn’t stop him and nodded.
Xiao Ruohai stood not far from Qinghui Courtyard and watched Bai Qingyan enter Qinghui Courtyard before turning around and leaving.
When Bai Qingyan entered the room, Chuntao took off her cloak for her and whispered, “The Grand Princess just sent Nanny Jiang to say that the young lady didn’t eat well at night, so the Grand Princess sent someone to bring her goat’s milk red date tea and snacks.”
She stood in front of the stove, stretched out her hands to warm the fire, her eyes swept across the goat milk and red date tea and the fragrant plum blossom steamed cake on the small table. After a moment of silence, she finally let him leave.
The Wei Zhong whom Bai Qingyan met just now was his grandmother’s man, and Bai Qingyan didn’t plan to use him.
Lupin is a very prestigious person in the White Family Guard, so he has to be left to his mother.
As for the Dark Guard…
The third sister Bai Jintong will be travelling far away soon. Although someone has been sent to accompany her, the more masters with superb martial arts skills she has around her when she is away from home, the better they will be able to protect her.
Chun Xing came in through a thick felt curtain, bowed and saluted, and asked, “Miss, do you have any water?”
After these busy days, the Bai family members were buried, and King Liang was imprisoned… The energy in her heart was gone, and she felt exhausted.
“Prepare some water.”
After hearing what was said, Chun Xing bent down and went out to ask the maids and old women to prepare water.
That night, Bai Qingyan slept very uneasily…
She dreamed of her grandfather, father, uncle and younger brothers on the battlefield in southern Xinjiang.
She dreamed that blood flowed like a river, broken limbs were everywhere, and there were roars of bloody battles everywhere. The sparks from the collision of weapons brushed past her eyes, but she didn’t dare to blink.
She stared at the dark mass in the sky in the distance without blinking. Tens of thousands of sharp arrows were coming at her at high speed like a swarm of locusts, whistling through the wind. She stepped on the muddy water made of blood and soil and rushed towards the figure who was constantly hacking and killing the enemy on the mountain of corpses: “Daddy! Daddy, run!”
She had just crawled to her father’s side, before she touched his armor, she heard a “swish” sound passing by her ears. Her father suddenly turned around and protected her in his arms, pressing her down. In her ears was the sound of a sharp arrow piercing through the armor and into the flesh.
She opened her eyes wide in fear, looking at her father who was livid and gritting his teeth. She grabbed his chest protector tightly, tears streaming down her face: “Dad! Dad!”
“Abao, Daddy once thought… when the world is at peace, he would take you, your mother, and Yu with him to travel around the country, write poetry, and live the most ordinary life of an ordinary family! But Daddy is going to break his promise to your mother, and he can no longer protect you.”
The bald author has all his hair falling out. I hope it’s not too much to ask for a monthly ticket! T~T