The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 157: bold
Chapter 157 Boldness
Nanny Tong came in with small steps, bowed and said, “Miss, Xiao Ruohai is here, please see me.”
“please……”
She took off the ring and put it back into the wooden box, and asked Chuntao to keep the box safe, as she was going to take it to southern Xinjiang.
As soon as Xiao Ruohai entered the room, he bowed and then told Bai Qingyan that the emperor had issued an edict to confer the title of a superior first-rank lady on Bai Jinxiu.
“I don’t know who first mentioned the Crown Prince’s benevolence and righteousness, but now the people are all praising His Royal Highness the Crown Prince’s benevolence and righteousness and His Majesty’s kindness, saying that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has lived up to his loyal subjects and is willing to treat the loyal subjects’ widows well!”
She raised her eyebrows slightly in surprise: “You want to use the Bai family to gain the reputation of benevolence and righteousness, this is not like the mind of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince! His Royal Highness the Crown Prince…I am afraid you need someone capable.”
She had just borrowed the Crown Prince’s prestige to get some benefits for her second sister, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince borrowed her Bai family to strengthen his own prestige without suffering any loss.
For the emperor, this imperial edict was originally what she had requested, but if he issued the edict earlier, he could do her and the people a favor before going to war. Why wouldn’t the emperor be happy to gain both fame and fortune?
It can be considered as…mutual benefit.
Xiao Ruohai nodded and said, “The people I sent to follow him said that the prince, who has not yet moved out of the Prince Qi’s mansion, returned home in a short time, and then hurried out of the mansion and into the palace, and then the decree came down!”
Sure enough, someone gave the King of Qi a tip, and the timing for issuing the imperial edict was extremely good.
Xiao Ruohai continued, “Now the whole Qi Wang Mansion is in great joy. I heard that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince rewarded Mr. Qin generously after returning home. It must be this Mr. Qin who gave His Royal Highness the Crown Prince some advice. Now Mr. Qin is a guest of honor in the Crown Prince Mansion. After asking his name in detail, I learned that Mr. Qin’s name is Qin Shangzhi.”
Qin Shangzhi…
No wonder.
She pursed her lips. She never expected that in this life, Qin Shangzhi would eventually be by the prince’s side and become his aide.
Qin Shangzhi is a man of great talent. I just hope that the prince will not let Qin Shangzhi down in this life!
She also hoped that one day they would not stand on opposite sides of each other. It was not that she was afraid of being an enemy of Qin Shangzhi, but that she just felt pity for Qin Shangzhi.
Du Zhiwei is a real villain with deep scheming and vicious means, and he is hard to guard against. However, Qin Shangzhi is different from Du Zhiwei. Qin Shangzhi is smart and skillful but has a kind character and is a real gentleman.
“If Mr. Qin is really valued by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, we will definitely meet him during this trip to Southern Xinjiang. Just be careful!” She looked at Xiao Ruohai and whispered, “Brother, the trip to Southern Xinjiang is very tight. Are you ready?”
“Don’t worry, young lady. We have already sent out our men in several groups. They will follow the army along the way and will not attract attention.”
Xiao Ruohai didn’t say anything about his remaining concerns, but that there were too few experts… The risk of the young lady’s trip to southern Xinjiang was still too high.
Chun Xing came in through the curtains and leaned over to say, “Miss, the Madam is coming to Qinghui Courtyard.”
She nodded and said to Xiao Ruohai, “Thank you for your hard work, brother!”
Hearing Bai Qingyan’s words, Xiao Ruohai hurriedly said that he dared not and hurriedly retreated.
After seeing Xiao Ruohai off, she was afraid that her mother would find out the sandbags she wore around her legs and arms all day, so she asked Chuntao to untie them and hide them, and she went out in person to bring her mother, Mrs. Dong, in.
As soon as they entered the room, Dong grabbed Bai Qingyan’s hand and asked the others to leave. With red eyes, she pulled her daughter to the inner room and poked her daughter’s forehead with her slender fingers: “How dare you!”
She knew her mother was talking about the southern Xinjiang incident. She took Dong’s arm and helped her sit on the bed. She asked in a low voice, “After Jinxiu left today, A’niang also got on the carriage and went out. Did she go to her uncle’s house to borrow someone?”
What can Dong do? !
The prince mentioned the trip to southern Xinjiang when he came to the house, which showed that his daughter’s trip to southern Xinjiang was a foregone conclusion and could not be changed. All Dong could do was to protect her daughter as much as possible. So after sending Bai Jinxiu away, Dong immediately ordered someone to harness the carriage and borrow a assassin from the Dong family to accompany her daughter to southern Xinjiang, at least to protect her life.
However, the matter between Abao and Dong Changyuan that Mrs. Dong had discussed and decided upon had to be put on hold.
“The son of a wealthy family should not sit in the hall, the son of a hundred gold pieces should not ride a horse. All the men of the Bai family died in southern border. You know that you are the eldest in the family! And you swore in front of your grandfather’s spirit that you would support the Bai family! How dare you take advantage of the situation and seek luck?!” As Dong said this, tears fell from her red eyes. There was anger and heartache in her eyes.
She looked at A-niang with sore eyes. She held A-niang’s arm tightly. A-niang always showed off her knowledge when she was angry…
My mother was very knowledgeable and my father was always left speechless and apologized repeatedly.
She suddenly remembered when she was young, under the shade of the cherry tree, her father was scolded by her mother until his face turned red and he left in a huff. But a few breaths later, he came back with a cup of tea in his hand to apologize to her mother, smiling and whispering: “My wife, I was wrong.”
She rested her chin on her mother’s shoulder, suppressed the emotions in her heart, and whispered in the tone of her father: “Mother, Abao is wrong!”
Dong stared at her, and couldn’t hold back her tears any longer, so she hugged her in her arms and held her tightly.
“Mother, I have to go to Southern Xinjiang. If I want to protect the Bai family… it is not enough to rely on the people’s support! Only by holding the military power can we truly make the royal family fear and be terrified, and only then can we truly protect the Bai family.”
She was open with her mother and said frankly, “I slept for two days and dreamed of my father and Ayu… I don’t want anyone else in the Bai family to suffer the same fate as my father and Ayu! On a small level… I want to protect my mother, aunt, and sisters! On a big level… I want to inherit my grandfather’s legacy!”
“Mother, a person only lives for a few decades, but the reason why the noble families can live forever in this world… and not be annihilated in this long time is not only the continuation of family bloodline, but also the inheritance of character and faith! We, the descendants of the Bai family… can bear the will and character of the Bai family, and only then can the Bai family be truly passed down! If the family aspirations do not exist, sooner or later it will be swallowed up by time and forgotten by time.”
Listening to her daughter’s soft voice, Dong’s anger disappeared, leaving only worry and sadness. She should have been a pampered daughter, but now she had to shoulder the responsibility of a male family.
Her daughter has great ambitions. As a mother, can she really stop her at all costs?
Mrs. Dong bit her lower lip tightly, grasped her daughter’s hand tightly, and hugged her tightly: “This time, the one hundred warriors your uncle brought from the Dong family will go with you to Southern Xinjiang, and they will only obey your orders! Your uncle has sent a fast horse back to Dengzhou, and the remaining troops will catch up with you and will find a way to contact you…”
It is not a new thing for aristocratic families to keep assassins. The more prominent the family, the more assassins they have. Only aristocratic families can afford to keep those assassins. To put it bluntly, the assassins are the private soldiers of the aristocratic families.
My uncle handed the Dong family’s private soldiers into her hands.
“Mother, I will not let my grandmother and uncle down for their trust!” she whispered.
“Your grandmother and uncle are just like your mother, they just hope you can come back safely!” Dong’s throat choked with sobs, it was rare to see her showing such a fragile expression in front of her daughter, “Mother has already lost your father and Yu, mother can’t live without you, do you know that?”