The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 275: Divorce
Chapter 275 Divorce
Bai Jinzhi sat in the pleasure boat, eating some snacks while looking at Dong Changyuan who was talking to his elder sister at the bow of the pleasure boat. She lowered her voice and asked Dong Tingzhen, “Why has cousin Changyuan become so thin? Is it because of too much pressure from the imperial examination?”
Dong Tingzhen nodded randomly: “Brother Changyuan didn’t do well in the exam this time, so he must be feeling stressed! I hope my cousin can comfort Brother Changyuan!”
“My eldest sister can definitely help me out! What my eldest sister says makes the most sense!” Bai Jinzhi stuffed the snack into his mouth.
Standing at the bow, Dong Changyuan stared at the lake and said, “Knowing that my cousin has returned safely, Changyuan is relieved! But… now that envoys from various countries have come to the capital, it is expected that an envoy will propose marriage to my cousin at the emperor’s birthday banquet tomorrow. Changyuan is afraid that the emperor will casually assign my cousin to someone else, so I beg Brother Changsheng to let me meet my cousin. As long as my cousin nods, I will go to find my aunt. If the emperor really arranges a marriage… my cousin will have something to refuse! If my cousin meets a man she likes in the future, Changyuan will ask the elders to cancel the engagement.”
Dong Changyuan had no intention of coveting Bai Qingyan. When he learned that Bai Qingyan had won a great victory in southern Xinjiang, he knew that the gap between him and Bai Qingyan was something he could never catch up with.
Bai Qingyan looked at Dong Changyuan who didn’t even raise his head and asked in a low voice: “But because of my marriage, my second uncle and second aunt had a quarrel?”
Dong Changyuan didn’t expect that Bai Qingyan had guessed it. He looked up at Bai Qingyan in surprise, then frowned and looked away.
It is true.
Although Bai Qingyan had little contact with his cousin Chang Yuan, he did not believe that this cousin would be trapped by love.
So Bai Qingyan guessed that it might be because of her affairs that caused the conflict between her second uncle and second aunt, which distracted Dong Changyuan.
“My mother wanted to arrange a marriage for me with my cousin from my maternal grandparents, but my father and grandmother disagreed. They wanted to… wait for my cousin to come back from southern Xinjiang! Later… news of what happened in southern Xinjiang came back, and my mother…” Dong Changyuan felt that what his mother said was hard to say, so he pursed his lips and continued, “My mother’s words were not nice. She felt that my father and grandmother were partial and wanted to delay my lifelong event by making me wait for my cousin. It was so chaotic that my father was furious… and wanted to divorce my wife.”
Dong Changyuan’s mother, Cui, said some unpleasant things, saying that Bai Qingyan’s burning and killing of surrendered prisoners was against the will of heaven and cruel. She also said that Old Lady Dong was biased and insisted that her own grandson wait for her granddaughter. Did she have to wait until Old Lady Dong’s granddaughter was sure that she didn’t want Dong Changyuan before allowing Dong Changyuan to discuss marriage? If Old Lady Dong and her husband insisted on humiliating her son like this, she would take her son back to her parents’ home.
Dong Qingyue was so angry that he wanted to divorce his wife.
In short, it was a mess.
Therefore, Dong Changyuan performed very badly in this examination and was deeply shocked and never recovered.
Bai Qingyan didn’t expect that her affairs would cause such a mess in her grandparents’ family.
“That cousin Changyuan insisted on meeting me… Could it be that he heard something from my uncle?”
Dong Changyuan nodded and said, “I heard that the envoy from Daliang asked my uncle whether my cousin was engaged.”
A prince from Daliang is coming this time, and Dong Changyuan is afraid that if Bai Qingyan is really begged away by the prince of Daliang, and the marriage is not to Bai Qingyan’s liking, his grandmother and father will blame his mother in the future.
“Changyuan…” Bai Qingyan called Dong Changyuan softly, “I have vowed to never marry and stay in the Bai family! This matter was caused by me. I will write to my grandmother and uncle and tell them what I mean! Uncle and aunt are a couple who have been through thick and thin together. Don’t take their angry words to heart. You should prepare well for the palace examination. Otherwise, if this matter really affects your future, the rift between uncle and aunt will definitely grow bigger and bigger.”
Dong Changyuan trembled slightly, straightened his back and looked towards Bai Qingyan.
She smiled faintly at Dong Changyuan: “If cousin Changyuan can win the first place in the palace examination, my aunt and uncle will definitely reconcile with each other in the face of the happy event. Cousin Changyuan will find an opportunity to discuss this matter with my uncle and aunt, and we can just talk it out.”
“But cousin, what about you? What if Daliang asks for your hand in marriage? What if His Majesty grants a marriage?”
“The emperor would rather marry a princess than let me marry into another country, and I swore not to marry before… Everyone in the capital knows that the emperor will not force anyone to do anything.” Bai Qingyan comforted Dong Changyuan.
Dong Changyuan pursed his lips, thought for a moment, and bowed to Bai Qingyan: “It was Changyuan who was thinking wrong before. Thank you for your enlightenment, cousin.”
“Cousin Changyuan is well-read and talented. Although his performance in the imperial examination was not satisfactory, I firmly believe that he will be able to win the palace examination.”
Dong Changyuan listened to Bai Qingyan’s gentle voice, raised his head and looked at Bai Qingyan. Seeing Bai Qingyan’s eyebrows with a very faint smile, he nodded and said, “I will definitely live up to my cousin’s expectations.”
Today the weather was fine and sunny, and even the fourth prince of Daliang, Wei Qiheng, came to cruise the lake, hoping to meet a beautiful lady from a prominent family and have a fleeting romance with her. However, the romantic, handsome and romantic fourth prince came on horseback and met several ladies… but none of them caught Wei Qiheng’s eye.
Wei Qiheng, the fourth prince of Daliang, was leaning on the railing of the pleasure boat, feeling bored. He found feeding the fishes with fish food very boring. When he raised his eyes lazily, he saw the Dong family’s pleasure boat passing by.
Wei Qiheng looked straight into the pleasure boat that passed by them, but before he could see clearly… he saw the stern of the pleasure boat passing in front of him, and a young man standing at the stern of the pleasure boat suddenly appeared in front of him. Wei Qiheng was stunned, and his eyes followed the thin figure who was talking to the young man.
Willow branches swayed on the lake, ripples were created by the breeze, and the thin wide sleeves of the woman in the pleasure boat fluttered. From a distance, she looked like a fairy who was about to ascend to heaven, so beautiful that it seemed like a painting or a poem, and yet not real.
“Is that… is that Princess Liu Ruofu of Nandu?” Wei Qiheng turned around and shouted to the guards and boatman, “Quick, quick, quick! Chase after that pleasure boat behind! Quick!”
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When Bai Qingyan returned to the Bai family, the plaque of the Princess Zhenguo’s Mansion had already been hung at the entrance of the Bai mansion.
The news that she was conferred the title of Princess Zhenguo spread like wildfire, and people came to her house to give her congratulatory gifts one after another.
When they were in Qinghui Courtyard, Nanny Tong was leading the maids to change the gauze in the room. The weather was getting warmer, and changing to light-colored gauze would make the room look cooler.
Dong had already sent people to deliver the gifts from various mansions to Qinghui Courtyard. When Nanny Qin was helping Chuntao register all the gifts into the warehouse, she opened the gift box sent by Prince Yan Li Zhijie, only to find a ring in the exquisite mahogany brocade box with a letter inside.
Nanny Qin was startled when she saw this, and hurriedly took the mahogany brocade box to Bai Qingyan with Chuntao.
Bai Qingyan put down the brush in her hand and said, “Mammy, let me see it…”
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