The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 327: fight
Chapter 327 Fighting
After Bai Qingping finished yelling at the top of his lungs, tears were streaming down his face.
He didn’t know whether these tears were for himself or for the corrupt Bai clan.
Looking at this room full of greedy and spineless elders of the Bai clan, he didn’t know why the once kind elders had become so unrecognizable, with such ugliness in their hearts that it was unbearable to look at them.
This Bai family is no longer the Bai family that he once was proud of.
The Bai clan is very far away from the Bai family in Dadu.
The Bai family in Dadu inherited the aspirations and character of their former Bai ancestors, but the Bai family in Shuoyang… was rotten from the beginning, starting with their patriarch, and it was rotten to the root.
Bai Qingping could foresee that in the near future, Princess Zhenguo would definitely abandon the Bai clan, which was parasitic on the Bai family of Dadu like a maggot, but still showed off its power to the Bai family of Dadu.
“Aping! How dare you talk like that? Get out of here!” Bai Qingping’s mother scolded.
“You are exaggerating, kid. Abandoning the clan? I have never seen anyone abandoning the clan in my life. Even the powerful prime minister would never dare to abandon the clan and be criticized! What do you know, little kid!” The fifth master glared at Bai Qingping and asked Bai Qingping’s mother, “How do you usually teach your children?”
“In this world, there are only descendants who are abandoned by their clans. How can there be people who abandon their clans?” someone echoed.
Bai Qingping closed his eyes, and felt a sense of sadness that everyone was drunk with. He said in a hoarse voice: “Those in high positions and with great power cannot abandon their clans because they hope that their clan members can pass the imperial examinations and become officials, and have more blood relatives in the court… and can trust their backs with help. And the descendants of the family with low positions cannot abandon their clans because they hope that the clan members will take good care of them.”
“But what about our Shuoyang Bai clan? In the court, the clan has no officials… In recent years, we have completely relied on the prestige of the Dadu Bai family, not to mention being able to help the Dadu Bai family in the court. Although the Dadu Bai family is now full of orphans and widows, the eldest daughter Bai Qingyan and the fourth daughter Bai Jinzhi are both princesses and county ladies. Even if they leave the Bai clan, no one dares to bully them! But dare the Bai clan say… Without the Zhenguo Princess and Gaoyi County Lady, can they still live as recklessly in Shuoyang City as before?”
“Over the years, the King of Zhenguo has been lenient, but our clan, whether elders or juniors, are all blinded by greed! Where does the Bai clan get the confidence to think that the Bai family in the capital city needs to rely on our clan to survive?”
“Bai Qingping, how dare you!” The Fifth Master slammed the table. “Are you crazy? How do you talk to your elders? Is this how your teacher taught you etiquette and filial piety?!”
Bai Qingping didn’t even look at the fifth elder of the clan, but just looked at the clan leader and said loudly: “I have heard from you, grandfather, that when my great-uncle, King Zhenguo, wanted to take all the clan children who were fifteen years old to the battlefield for training, no family was willing to do so, and they used all kinds of means to prevent the children in the clan from going!”
“Later, the clan said that they wanted the children to concentrate on the imperial examinations. The King of Zhenguo also rebuilt the clan school for the clan and invited teachers with great knowledge. However, looking at the huge Bai clan, there has never been a tribute student. Are the descendants of the Bai family not smart enough?”
Bai Qingping shook his head: “No… No! It’s because the descendants of the Bai family relied on the Bai family to live too well, so they lost their motivation and ambition! This kind of laziness, greed, and complacency is contagious!”
“The originally studious and ambitious descendants of the Bai family saw their unlearned cousins living a comfortable life, and saw the king and his family of the Dadu Town fighting on the battlefield with their blood and lives. Their own descendants died on the battlefield, but were skinned and sucked of blood by the clan members. Who would be willing to become the second king of the town and let the whole family be exploited by the clan like this?!”
Bai Qingping shouted until his face turned red and his neck became thick. He had been holding these words in his heart for a long time.
But normally, his father wouldn’t let him say these words, because saying them would be considered disobedience to his elders!
Today, if he were to be like his father and see through all these things but not speak out, he would have no choice but to watch his clan commit suicide.
“Grandfather, uncles and aunts, you should all put on airs and go to the Bai family in the capital to demand an explanation and compensation!” Bai Qingping said weakly, “You are just letting the descendants of the Bai clan do whatever they want and commit evil! You are destroying the entire Bai family!”
After saying this, Bai Qingping turned around, held the servant’s hand, and left with his legs sore and weak after kneeling for a day and a night.
“Brother! Look at what Bai Qingping has been taught!” The Fifth Master turned around and looked at the clan leader angrily, “Do you still have your elders in your eyes? Do you still have your grandfather in your eyes?”
The patriarch was unusually silent, and actually began to seriously consider his grandson’s words.
Indeed, no matter how powerful one is, there is no precedent of abandoning one’s clan.
But descendants cannot abandon their clan. This is not a law, although it has never happened before… but it does not mean that Bai Qingyan will not do so.
What’s more, Bai Qingyan was the one who burned and killed tens of thousands of surrendered prisoners from Xiliang, which shows how courageous and decisive he was.
Thinking of the consequences if Bai Qingyan abandoned the clan, the clan leader clenched his crutch tightly.
He gritted his teeth and said, “Old Five, your whole family must move out of the ancestral home today and go back to your own house!”
The fifth master was startled: “Brother! You are my dear brother…”
“I told you to move out immediately, but you didn’t even listen to the clan leader?” The clan leader looked at the fifth master with a sharp gaze.
The fifth master shrank his neck and smiled bitterly: “Brother…I lost the bet on my house…”
“Asshole!” The clan leader was so angry that his heart ached, and his cane kept knocking loudly. “When you begged me to redeem the house, what did you promise?! Didn’t you say you would never gamble again?!”
The Fifth Master spoke hesitantly, “I was thinking that since Bai Weiting and his family are not coming back, the ancestral house will be empty anyway. We are also descendants of the Bai family, so why can’t we live here?”
The clan leader was so angry that he almost couldn’t breathe. He covered his chest and said, “If you still want to save your grandson, get out of the ancestral house! This time I will personally take the title deed of the ancestral house to the capital city. Even if I have to sacrifice my reputation, I will ask Bai Qingyan to release those children.”
“Then where will my big family live?” asked the fifth master.
The clan leader was extremely disappointed with his useless brother: “How much money have you got in these years? Do you really think I don’t know? Four days ago, you seized the farm with hot springs and hundreds of acres of fertile land from the Wang family! I don’t care whether you move to the farm or buy a house! Anyway, get out of the ancestral home before the first day of May!”
The clan leader made the final decision and ordered everyone to pack up. He would personally go to Dadu early the next morning.
It’s not that there are no people who understand, it’s just that those who understand find that they can’t explain it clearly, so they just live a life of drunkenness and dreams together, like Bai Qingping’s father.