The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 293: heartless
Chapter 293 Cruel
When Bai Qingyan returned to Qinghui Courtyard, changed his clothes, and returned to the Fifth Madam’s courtyard, the Fifth Madam Qi had already moved out of the delivery room.
Nanny Jiang also looked after the child and took a carriage back to the Royal Qing’an to report to the Grand Princess.
At this time, Madam Five was leaning against the head of the bed, drinking lactation-stimulating soup in small sips.
Liu looked at the sleeping child, stepped on the red wood stepping stone and sat down beside the bed, then glanced at the lactation-inducing soup in Qi’s hand: “Sister-in-law, are you really planning to feed the child yourself?”
Although she had just given birth, Qi was in good condition. She looked at her little daughter sleeping beside her with a smile, her eyes full of love.
This was a gift from God to her. Although her husband and two sons were gone, God gave her a lovely daughter.
“Well! After all, I only have this one child in my life, so I want to do it myself.” Qi’s eyes were red, she lowered her eyes and drank two sips of the almost tasteless soup, frowned slightly, and drank a few more sips despite the discomfort.
Hearing from the maid outside that the eldest, second, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh girls had all arrived, Qi handed the soup bowl in her hand to Nanny Zhai and wiped her mouth with a handkerchief.
Bai Qingyan bowed, sat on the bedside and looked at the sleeping Eighth Sister nestled beside Fifth Aunt. She smiled and asked Chuntao to place the solid gold lock inlaid with gemstones that she gave to Eighth Sister next to the child. With a look of pity in her eyes, she said softly: “Little Eight… I am your eldest sister. Thank you for coming to the Bai family safely.”
Bai Jinxiu also smiled and presented her gift. She stood by the bed and looked at Xiao Ba seriously: “Xiao Ba is so pretty!”
“I think my nose is similar to Fifth Aunt’s!” Fifth Miss Bai Jinzhao smiled and looked at her twin sister Bai Jinhua, “Don’t you think so?”
The seventh girl, Bai Jinse, took a look and said, “I think his mouth looks like Uncle Wu’s!”
“Why do I feel like it’s a little monkey!” Bai Jinzhi looked at it for a moment and came to this conclusion.
The third wife, Mrs. Li, stepped forward and poked her daughter’s head, glaring at her fiercely: “All babies are like this when they are born. Xiaoba is much prettier than you were when you were born! When you were born, you were wrinkled and black, and you looked like a monkey!”
“Mother, you are talking nonsense!” Bai Jinzhi’s face turned red.
When the third wife, Mrs. Li, saw Bai Jinzhi’s angry look, she couldn’t help but cover her lips with a handkerchief and laughed.
Bai Qingyan raised his head with a warm smile in his eyes.
Fifth Madam Qi looked at Bai Qingyan, who was smiling calmly and gently, and whispered, “I want to name the child Bai Wanqing… I hope that Xiaoba will be as tough and strong as her elder sister! And as outstanding as her brothers.”
She was startled. Her brothers were indeed very outstanding, but she didn’t expect that in the eyes of Fifth Aunt, she was actually a powerful person…
Mrs. Dong raised her hand and touched Bai Qingyan’s head: “Your fifth aunt told us about this before you and Xiao Si came back.”
Bai Qingyan nodded, looking down at Bai Wanqing who was smacking her lips: “If Aunt Wu thinks it’s good, then it’s good!”
Bai Jinxiu smiled and bent over to tease Bai Wanqing, who was smacking her lips: “Little Wanqing, I am your second sister!”
“I’m your fourth sister!”
The seventh girl, Bai Jinse, who was lying on the bed, couldn’t help but touch the newborn’s pink and tender face with her fingers and said with a smile: “I’m finally not the youngest!”
The haze that had been hanging over the Bai family seemed to be dispelled because of Xiao Ba’s arrival. In the bright and warm light in the room, there were rare laughter and joy from the Bai family.
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Early the next morning, the news that the fifth wife of the Bai family, Qi, had given birth to a daughter spread throughout the capital.
The first people to arrive were the fifth wife Qi’s family. Not only did Qi’s two sisters-in-law come, but even Qi’s brother came in person.
However, Qi’s brother did not enter the courtyard of the fifth wife Qi, and was entertained by housekeeper Hao in the front yard.
Not long after, Old Lady Qi wiped her tears with a handkerchief and tucked in the corners of the quilt for Qi, letting her daughter have a good rest. She then came out of the upper room with her two daughters-in-law and Dong.
Old Madam Qi smiled and took Dong’s hand, and said to her, “Madam, I have a few words to say to you. I wonder if I can go to your place and ask for a cup of tea?”
Mrs. Dong has always been smart, so she can see that most of what Old Lady Qi wants to say… is still related to the Fifth Madam, Mrs. Qi.
“The old lady is our elder, so how can you be so polite when asking for tea? I’m so happy that the old lady Qi can do us the honor of visiting my place.” Mrs. Dong’s voice was gentle, neither humble nor arrogant, with the intimacy that a junior should have.
Dong smiled and took Old Madam Qi and the two daughters-in-law of the Qi family to her place. After Nanny Qin served the tea, Old Madam Qi did not drink it. She was very humble and asked Dong to send the people around her away.
In this way, Dong could already guess that the mother of her fifth brother’s wife, Qi, probably wanted to ask her for a letter of divorce.
After all, all the men in the Bai family are dead now, and the eldest sister-in-law is like a mother…Except for the eldest princess, only Dong has this power.
Only Mrs. Dong and Old Madam Qi were left in the room. Nanny Qin entertained Old Madam Qi’s two daughters-in-law for tea in the outer room.
Old Madam Qi burst into tears before she could say anything: “Madam, to be honest with you… I came to you with such an old face because I want to ask you for a letter of release from my marriage!”
Sure enough, Dong kept smiling and waited for Old Lady Qi to continue.
“It’s not that I’m cold-hearted. I only have one son and one daughter. My daughter is my youngest and has been my dearest since she was little. I never mentioned this before because she was pregnant with the Bai family’s child. Now that my youngest daughter has given birth to a daughter for the Bai family, I wonder… can the Bai family let her go home?”
Before, Dong’s mother, Old Lady Dong, had wanted Dong to return to her parents’ home. All mothers in the world miss their children, and Dong, as a daughter and a mother, could understand Old Lady Qi very well.
She asked in a low voice: “Old Lady, is this what the fifth brother’s wife meant?”
Although she knew that this was not what her fifth brother’s wife meant, Dong still asked.
Old Lady Qi shook her head: “That silly girl doesn’t want to, but… she is still young, is she going to have to stay like this for the rest of her life? Isn’t this going to kill me as a mother? Before I came here, I had already discussed it with her brother. We don’t want the dowry she brought from the Bai family. If you are willing to hand Wanqing over to our Qi family to raise, our whole family will thank you on our knees!”
“If the Bai family is unwilling to hand Wanqing over to our Qi family, then my daughter’s dowry will all be left to my poor little granddaughter! If my granddaughter still respects our Qi family in the future… we can still be relatives. I will treat that child as my own flesh and blood and repay her everything I owe her! If she doesn’t want to recognize me as her grandmother, then… just treat me as if there has never been a grandmother as cruel as me!”
When Old Lady Qi said this, she felt more and more sorry for her newly born granddaughter, and her crying was intermittent and extremely heartbreaking.
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