The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 228: Xie Baijiajun
Chapter 228: Thank You Bai Family Army
Bai Qingyan nodded after hearing what Qin Shangzhi said, and clasped his fists to the prince, saying, “Then, please send someone to retrieve the remains of my Tiger Eagle Camp warriors, and see what Xiliang has to say about it!”
“No!” Old Fang paused as he stroked his beard, and looked at the prince hastily, “No matter what, Qiushan Pass still belongs to Xiliang. It is inappropriate for Jin to send people to investigate. We in Jin don’t even have enough time to cover up this matter… How can we go and ask for the body? Wouldn’t that be admitting to Xiliang that we sent people to investigate Qiushan Pass? Prince, think twice!”
When Qin Shangzhi heard Mr. Fang start to contradict him, his brows furrowed and he immediately didn’t want to talk anymore. Anyway, as long as Mr. Fang opened his mouth, the prince would definitely listen to him, so there was no point in him saying more.
Bai Qingyan glanced at the old man Fang who was pretending to be calm, lowered his eyes and replied: “Old Fang is right to worry. His Highness originally instructed us to come back quietly. It is us who are useless… and have failed His Highness!”
Seeing Bai Qingyan kneeling on one knee with deep remorse, the Crown Prince motioned Quan Yu to help Bai Qingyan up, and said slowly: “General Bai, there is no need to blame yourself! It was originally because Li Zhijie was making excuses in the peace negotiation tent and even accused me of arranging a maid… He insisted on renewing the peace negotiation. It was prudent for me to go to Qiushan Pass to investigate. Besides, how could I know… that there was actually a group of martial artists wearing Jin costumes hiding in Qiushan Pass who could join forces with the Xiliang defenders!”
Bai Qingyan was helped up by Quan Yu and looked at Elder Fang with a very respectful attitude: “I wonder if Elder Fang has any good ideas?”
Seeing Bai Qingyan’s respectful appearance, Old Fang felt quite pleased with himself and became even more arrogant. He stroked his beard in a deep manner and looked at the prince sideways: “In my humble opinion, it is better to use stillness to overcome movement! We should strengthen our defenses to protect the prince’s safety and see what Xiliang Yan Wang Li Zhijie wants to do!”
The prince thought for a moment and nodded: “What do you think?”
“We don’t know Xiliang’s intentions at the moment, so this is fine! But… you can’t let the bodies of the elite soldiers of the Tiger Eagle Camp of Jin not be able to return home, right?”
Zhang Duanrui was a soldier. After all, the brothers in the Tiger Eagle Camp were comrades who had fought bloody battles with them on the battlefield. How could he just leave their bodies behind? This would chill the hearts of the Jin army soldiers!
Old Fang raised his eyebrows and looked down at Zhang Duanrui, asking loudly, “Could it be that a few bodies are more important than the reputation of our Jin State?”
The way Mr. Fang asked this question made several generals in the tent look at him sideways, with dissatisfied and indifferent eyes.
“What do you scholars know?!” Zhen Zeping stood up excitedly and said through gritted teeth, “Heroes of the country sacrificed their lives for the country! Are their lives as cheap as grass?! Are their bodies worthless?! Are they not born by their mothers and raised by their fathers…”
“Yes, everyone is born by parents! But for the great reputation of the Great Jin, I would gladly grind my old bones into dust. As a soldier… is your awareness even lower than that of an old man like me! Born as a Jin citizen… I should serve the Jin State! What’s a mere skeleton?!” Old Fang stood at the highest point of morality, full of energy.
Zhen Zeping opened his eyes wide: “Bullshit!”
“You! A gentleman can be killed but not humiliated! How dare you, a brute, humiliate me like this… Your Highness the Crown Prince, are you just going to watch?!” Old Fang was so angry that he almost fainted, his face flushed red.
“Alright, alright! Let me think about this matter again!” The prince was woken up from his sleep, his mind was a mess, and Zhen Zeping’s rough voice gave the prince a headache, “General Bai is injured! Go back and bandage your wound and rest for a while!”
“Yes!” Bai Qingyan bowed respectfully before leaving the prince’s tent.
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In the wounded camp, Bai Qingyan looked at the wounded soldiers from the Tiger Eagle Camp who were with her to rescue people and saw that they were all safe. She stood for a long time in front of the bed of Xiao Ruojiang, who had taken medicine and fell asleep. She clenched her fists slightly and turned to the military doctor and said, “Take good care of him.”
The military doctor looked at the wounds on Bai Qingyan’s body and armor and said, “General, I’m afraid your wounds need to be treated as well! This is a female medical officer who recommended herself. Her medical skills are really good. Let her take a look at you!”
The veiled female medical officer stepped forward and saluted Bai Qingyan, looking up at him and saying, “General!”
“Thank you!” Bai Qingyan nodded to the female medical officer.
Pulling the curtain, the female medical officer carefully took off Bai Qingyan’s armor and clothes, her pupils trembling slightly…
She had never seen a woman with as many wounds as Bai Qingyan. As far as she could see, there were wounds everywhere! Some were old, some were fresh and had not healed yet, and some were wounds from the past few days that had scabbed over and cracked.
The female medical officer looked up at Bai Qingyan, who was sitting on a chair with a calm expression and without blinking. Thinking of Bai Qingming, the brave general of the Bai family army who died protecting the people of Feng County, her eyes couldn’t help but become red.
She was a broken flower who was defiled and disfigured by the Xiliang Army. She wanted to kill herself, but the brave General Bai Qingming jumped off his horse and wrapped her body with his cloak. He looked at her with scorching eyes and said, “The soldiers of the Bai Family Army are fighting bloody battles on the front line! Is it for us to kill ourselves after the people we protect with our lives are saved?! Staying alive! Staying alive is more important than anything else! Only if you stay alive can you live up to the virtue of the tens of thousands of soldiers of the Bai Family Army who sacrificed their lives!”
So, she gritted her teeth and survived.
The female medical officer gently used a fine cotton cloth dipped in hot water to clean the edge of the wound. She couldn’t help but whispered, “General, my father is a doctor at Cao’an Hall in Feng County. The people of Feng County are lucky to have the Bai family’s young general Bai Qingming risk his life to protect them. They are able to survive! I thank the Bai family’s young general on behalf of the people of Feng County! Thank you, Bai family army!”
This is why she took the risk to come to Youhua Road!
The generals of the Bai family died to protect the lives of the common people, whose lives were worthless. When she heard that the eldest daughter of the Bai family, who had been seriously injured and lost all her martial arts a few years ago…the little Bai Shuai of the Bai family army, rushed from Dadu to the border to lead the troops to kill the enemy and protect the territory and the people after the generals of the Bai family died in battle, her blood suddenly boiled.
She thought that Xiao Baishuai was a woman, and most military doctors would not be able to examine and treat her carefully after she was injured. As a woman with medical skills, she could definitely help Xiao Baishuai, so she left a letter to her father and came to Youhua Road secretly.
Bai Qingyan looked at the girl in front of him with red eyes and drooping eyelashes filled with tears, and suddenly thought of his aunt, his aunt Bai Suqiu… She was a student of Doctor Hong. Doctor Hong once said that his aunt was better than his teacher. Her medical skills had far surpassed his, and she had more passion to serve the country than him.
She couldn’t help but feel fond of the little girl in front of her, and asked in a low voice: “How old are you? What’s your name?”
“I’m sixteen, my surname is Ji, and my name is Langhua.” Ji Langhua’s hands moved gently and quickly, and he tried to open his eyes wide to prevent himself from crying. “My life… was given by the Bai family army and General Bai Qingming.”
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