The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 241: Uninterested
Chapter 241: Unfair
“Bai Qingyan, I treat you as one of my own, so I won’t beat around the bush when talking to you! Although the case of the King of Liang forging a letter of collusion between the King of Zhenguo and the Prince of Nanyan has been proven, shouldn’t you avoid suspicion and stay away from Nanyan? Why did you send your foster brother to Nanyan? Or… your foster brother went to Nanyan secretly and you didn’t know about it?”
Bai Qingyan suddenly understood.
“Your Highness, are you suspicious of me?” Bai Qingyan spoke calmly without any anxiety or annoyance.
The prince looked angry at the lack of resistance and raised his voice: “If I doubted you, would you still be standing here talking to me? If my father asks me this question later, will you answer like this? Are you going to hide it from me?!”
A young eunuch walked into the room with small steps, bowed and said, “Your Highness, General Bai’s foster brother is here…”
“Send him in!”
When Xiao Ruojiang heard that the prince had summoned Bai Qingyan to him, he was afraid that he had something to ask, and Bai Qingyan did not wait for him to go first to avoid suspicion. So he had to quicken his pace and come over, in case the prince asked something and he and Bai Qingyan gave different answers. He almost ran over while putting on his clothes.
Xiao Ruojiang breathed heavily, lowered his eyebrows and walked in quickly, knelt on the ground and kowtowed, pretending to be panic-stricken, and said in a soft voice: “I, a humble citizen, pay my respects to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!”
Seeing Xiao Ruojiang kneeling and kowtowing, he seemed to be intimidated by his power as the crown prince, and trembled even when he spoke. The crown prince felt a little relieved. He was afraid that he would be stubborn and he really wouldn’t be able to get anything out of him.
The prince showed his full aura and glared at Xiao Ruojiang who was kneeling on the ground and curled up: “I want to ask you, what were you doing in Nanyan a few days ago? Who ordered you to do it?”
Xiao Ruojiang was frightened by the prince’s last loud words and raised his head to look in the direction of Bai Qingyan.
“I’m asking you a question, why are you looking at General Bai?!” the prince said angrily.
Xiao Ruojiang immediately bowed his head to the ground, not daring to raise his eyes even a little: “I…I…”
Bai Qingyan sighed: “Your Highness, my brother is timid and this is his first time meeting Your Highness. I hope Your Highness will forgive me for my impoliteness. Since Your Highness wants to know…”
She paused, clasped her fists and saluted the prince: “This concerns Yan’s reputation, Your Highness, please ask the attendants to leave.”
Xiao Ruojiang knelt and stared at his knees. He understood the meaning of Bai Qing’s words. It was about reputation… He wanted to use the reputation of the eldest girl as an issue.
When the prince heard this, he raised his eyebrows and gestured to Mr. Fang and Quan Yu to go out.
Soon, only Bai Qingyan, the prince and Xiao Ruojiang were left in the hall.
“Brother, don’t be afraid… His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is protecting me, otherwise you and I would not be here to plead with the Crown Prince at this time, and we would probably be taken back to Dadu!” Bai Qingyan whispered to comfort Xiao Ruojiang.
When the prince heard Bai Qingyan’s words, he felt inexplicably relieved and said, “Just tell me the truth!”
“Your Highness, I went to Nanyan on the orders of my eldest daughter. I went to look for the wealthy businessman Xiao Rongyan!” Xiao Ruojiang’s voice was filled with fear, and he hurriedly raised his head to explain, “But Your Highness, my eldest daughter has absolutely no private relationship with that Xiao Rongyan! I hope Your Highness can understand! It was that Xiao Rongyan who pestered our eldest daughter!”
Xiao Ruojiang finished speaking in a hurry, then lowered his head and kowtowed, seeming very scared.
The prince’s eyebrows twitched. Xiao Rongyan? !
Since he parted with Xiao Rongyan in Wanping City, he went to Pingyang City and there has been no news of him since then. Xiao Rongyan actually went to Nanyan! Xiao Rongyan… likes Bai Qingyan? Is he pestering Bai Qingyan?
The prince looked towards Bai Qingyan who was standing under the lamp, his brows relaxed…
No wonder, Bai Qingyan’s appearance is indeed extremely stunning and eye-catching. Heroes have loved beauties since ancient times, but…isn’t the beauty that Brother Xiao likes a little too tough!
Who can afford to burn and kill tens of thousands of beauties in Xiliang?
“That Xiao Rongyan is simply a playboy! He first sent a horse to our eldest girl… that horse Ping An. Because the fourth girl liked it, our eldest girl kept the horse for her. He also sent letters to our eldest girl, and the words in it… were full of obscene words!” Xiao Ruojiang seemed to be very annoyed when he said this, and his voice became much louder. “The eldest girl burned the letter in front of the messenger! But Xiao Rongyan’s men actually sent it! The eldest girl couldn’t stand being harassed by Xiao Rongyan, so she ordered me to go to Nanyan to find Xiao Rongyan and make it clear to him that our eldest girl vowed to never marry! Even if she marries… she will never marry a playboy like him! And he is a lowly businessman!”
It turned out to be a romantic affair!
“Your Highness, Yan… originally thought that Mr. Xiao and Your Highness were on good terms, so I didn’t want to make things too awkward, so I sent my brother! I didn’t expect such a misunderstanding to happen! To be honest with Your Highness… my brother is very timid and is extremely cautious in doing things. If he really went to Nanyan to do treason, no one would be able to discover his whereabouts!”
Bai Qingyan looked at Xiao Ruojiang and added, “Just like this expedition to Southern Xinjiang, it was my brother who set out to Southern Xinjiang first and single-handedly found out where the Xiliang granary was, but the Xiliang people were unable to find it.”
The prince’s eyes lit up and he looked at Xiao Ruojiang who was kneeling on the ground with his head lowered. Bai Qing was right, the more timid a person is, the more cautious they will be!
This time, Bai Qingyan went with him to the southern border, and he only brought his foster brother with him. He thought that Bai Qingyan had no assassins by his side…but it was because when the seventeenth son of the Bai family went to the battlefield, all the assassins of the Bai family went to protect the seventeenth son!
It turns out that Bai Qingyan’s foster brother actually has such ability.
“Yan has another foster brother. Your Highness should have seen him when we went to war. He was the one who figured out the deployment of the Xiliang army camp in the battle of Jinghe. He should be in Tonggu Mountain now to prevent Xiliang from planting secret stakes in Tonggu Mountain before the handover with our Jin garrison.”
Rather than being questioned by the prince in the future, she might as well give him an explanation now.
“The Bai family really has many talented people!” The prince couldn’t help but sigh.
“Now the Bai family only has two brothers to serve. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince knows how to appoint the right people, and there are many talented people around him…” Bai Qingyan lowered his eyes to hide his smile, “Whether it’s Mr. Fang, Mr. Qin, or Mr. Ren, they are all outstanding people with unparalleled wisdom and strategy.”
If someone else said this, it would inevitably be suspected of flattery, but when it came from the mouth of the stern Bai Qingyan, the prince felt very pleased.
But Bai Qingyan is a little tactless! He praised the person… shouldn’t she also give her two brothers to him?
Forget it, the Bai family is tough and they are not the kind of people who curry favor with the powerful. And even if Bai Qingyan really dared to send these two people to him, he would not dare to really send these two people to do anything important.