The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 254: metropolitan city
Chapter 254 Metropolitan City
Bai Qingyan clasped his fists and bowed to the prince: “Protecting the prince is my duty. The prince is too polite.”
The prince’s gratitude grew stronger and stronger. Bai Qingyan was not greedy for credit at all. He thanked her for her trouble in arranging the matter of the divine deer, but she pretended not to know.
The prince tightly grasped the sachet in his hand. Since Bai Qingyan had taken so much trouble for him, he accepted the favor and would definitely repay her double in the future…
“But how do we bring this divine deer back to the capital city?” the prince was troubled.
“Your Highness can hand this matter over to General Zhang Duanrui. Your Highness is frightened, so just get in the carriage and rest!” Bai Qing said.
The prince nodded and called Zhang Duanrui to deal with the matter of the sacred deer. He took a deep look at Bai Qingyan who was riding a horse and galloping away, looking so heroic. A smile appeared on the corner of his lips.
“Your Highness!” Elder Fang stepped forward and bowed to the prince. His face was pale and he asked in a low voice, “Your Highness, are you injured anywhere?”
The prince shook his head and said, “Don’t worry, Mr. Fang. I am not hurt.”
“Bai Qingyan is so bold! If anything happens to His Highness, she won’t be able to afford it even with a hundred heads!” Old Fang gritted his teeth, and cold sweat broke out on his back when he thought of the critical moment just now.
Qin Shangzhi, who was following behind, lowered his eyes. He had finally resisted the urge to argue with Elder Fang, and then he heard the prince speak unhappily: “Elder Fang, please don’t say that about General Bai! General Bai always has a plan for what he does!”
Qin Shangzhi’s eyebrows jumped.
This was the first time that Qin Shangzhi had heard the prince disagree with what the old man said in all the time he had followed the prince.
Mr. Fang was also very surprised.
“You guys go first!”
After saying this, the prince got on the carriage.
The messenger ran forward to tell Bai Qingyan, who was leading the team at the front, that the prince and his men had already boarded the carriage and that the soldiers had also returned to their ranks. Bai Qingyan nodded, pulled the reins and shouted, “Let’s go!”
The messenger rode his horse at full speed, galloping along the winding dragon-like team and shouting the order: “Move out!”
Bai Jinzhi followed Bai Qingyan with a fast heartbeat, her palms were sweaty. She was almost scared to death when she saw the giant deer rushing towards her elder sister. “Elder sister, are you hurt?”
Bai Qingyan raised his hand and touched the top of Bai Jinzhi’s head and said with a smile: “No, don’t worry!”
After she finished speaking, she raised her eyes and looked up the hill. After her brother Xiao Ruojiang finished this matter, he would go to find Ajue without stopping. She hoped that her brother’s injuries could be healed.
On March 12, the 16th year of Xuanjia, the crown prince returned to the capital from southern Xinjiang. Passing by Yuqing Mountain, a white deer beast descended from the sky, which the Jin regarded as a good omen. The beast submitted and accompanied the team to Dadu.
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March twenty-fifth.
Dadu City, Baifu.
It was still dark, and the maid was sweeping the courtyard, while servants were going in and out of the corner gate.
Smoke was already curling above the quaint and elegant Bai Mansion. Maids and servants from each courtyard, who had received hot water, came in and out of the kitchen in an orderly manner, tiptoeing along the corridors to return to their respective courtyards, their faces full of joy and activity.
Today, the eldest and fourth daughters who went on an expedition to southern Xinjiang are coming back.
After a great victory in the battle of Southern Xinjiang, no one in Dadu dared to speak out anymore. All the men of the Bai family died in Southern Xinjiang, and the Bai family no longer had a place to stand in Dadu.
Even the girls in the Bai family are as capable as men!
This victory gave the Bai family a great boost.
Those villains who had looked down on the weak because of the death of the men of the Bai family would never have thought that the Bai family would actually turn the tables in the hands of their eldest daughter. The servants of the Bai family felt proud when they thought of how those villains almost dropped their jaws when they heard the news of the eldest daughter of the Bai family’s victory in southern Xinjiang.
Originally, Third Madam Li wanted to go to the outskirts of Dadu with Madam Dong today to welcome Bai Qingyan and Bai Jinzhi.
But Dong said that Bai Qingyan was now too popular, and there were many different opinions in the capital city about Bai Qingyan’s burning and killing of surrendered prisoners in southern Xinjiang, with mixed reviews.
They should just meet him at the doorstep of their own home; it would be too conspicuous to meet him at the gate of the capital city.
Although she said so, as a mother, Dong… knew that her daughter had been fighting on the front line, and her heart was in her throat. Now that her daughter has returned triumphantly, she naturally wishes she could fly to her daughter and see if she is okay.
She tossed and turned almost all night long. She got up early and told the kitchen to prepare the dishes that Bai Qingyan and Bai Jinzhi liked. Then she sat in the front hall and listened to the servants outside reporting any news at any time. Dong was so nervous that her handkerchief was covered with sweat from her palms.
The third wife, Mrs. Li, arrived not long after. The fifth wife, the fourth wife and the second wife all came to the front hall waiting for Bai Qingyan and Bai Jinzhi.
The third wife, Mrs. Li, could not sit still and stretched her neck to look outside again and again.
“Third brother’s wife, don’t worry. Our servants are at the South Gate. They will come back to report when they see someone! Besides, the victorious army must first go to the palace to see His Majesty before coming back!”
Li had experienced this before, but this time… she was really anxious.
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The south gate of Dadu City.
Lu Yuanpeng came on horseback with the dandies in the capital city and carrying wine, wanting to welcome the triumphant army at the South Gate, to take a look at the white deer mythical beast, and more importantly, to welcome the elder sister of the Bai family.
To be honest, when he first heard the successive victories from Southern Xinjiang, he thought it was all the credit of the Crown Prince, Zhang Duanrui, Shi Panshan, Zhen Zeping and others.
Who would have known that later on, news came that the situation became critical as soon as the Crown Prince led his army to Wanping, and it was Bai’s sister Bai Qingyan who led 50,000 troops to support the Jin army and defeated the Xiliang army of more than 100,000.
Only then did Lu Yuanpeng know that the elder sister of the Bai family who had claimed to be ill had also gone to southern Xinjiang!
He couldn’t imagine that the elder sister of the Bai family, with all her martial arts skills lost and her frail and sick body, could actually defeat the feared commander Yun Poxing of Xiliang.
Bai’s elder sister, a girl, went to southern Xinjiang to protect the country and the people, shedding her blood, but he, a man, Lu Yuanpeng, was hiding in the capital! He was immediately ashamed and excited, and summoned his good friends in the capital, and together they prepared to go to southern Xinjiang with swords in hand. However, as soon as they left the city, they were captured by their elders.
Lu Yuanpeng was the one who proposed to go to southern Xinjiang. He was whipped twenty times by his grandfather and was locked up at home to reflect on his mistakes. It was not until the war situation in southern Xinjiang was stabilized and Xiliang asked for peace that his grandfather released him.
Knowing that the army would arrive at the capital today, Lu Yuanpeng specially called his friends to come to the South Gate together.
When Lu Yuanpeng arrived, many people in the capital city had already gathered at the south gate, discussing the war in southern Xinjiang, the white deer mythical beast that had never been seen before, and the Princess Li Tianfu from Xiliang who came to marry, and King Yan Li Zhijie.
“Here it comes!”
Riding on a tall horse, Lu Yuanpeng vaguely saw the fluttering flags in the distance and was extremely excited.
When we saw the long army in the distance like a black dragon, the heart-stirring and orderly sound of horse hooves made people’s hearts surge like drumbeats.
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