The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 335: handwriting
Chapter 335
Chuntao walked in small steps to the clan leader, bowed, took the house deed from the clan leader’s hand, and handed it to Dong in a proper manner.
The clan leader’s face turned slightly red, probably because he didn’t expect Bai Qingyan to directly hand over the house deed to Dong.
Seeing this, an elder of the clan hurriedly interrupted and said in a flattering manner: “The Fifth Master is only staying in the ancestral house temporarily. When we set off… the Fifth Master has already moved out of the ancestral house and has cleaned it up. Please rest assured, Princess.”
“Thank you for your hard work, elders.” Bai Qingyan nodded to the elders and asked slowly, “You elders came in a hurry, and grandma didn’t know yet. Should I send someone to inform grandma?”
“We dare not disturb the eldest princess, but our clan has something to ask the princess!” After the clan leader’s eyes briefly met with the elders, he spoke softly, “We hope that the princess can say a word to Lord Zhou, the magistrate of Shuoyang County, and ask Lord Zhou to raise his hand and release all the cousins of the princess’ clan from prison.”
Mrs. Dong raised her eyebrows. She wondered why the clan members were so humble this time, without the previous airs of being superiors… They didn’t act like they were on an equal footing with the Duke of Zhenguo, Bai Weiting. It turned out that they wanted to ask a favor of others.
She lowered her eyes and drank tea, and roughly guessed that this must be the work of her daughter Hui Shuoyang.
Seeing that Bai Qingyan didn’t say anything, his fingers tapped on the table from time to time. An elder of the clan was afraid that Bai Qingyan would not agree, so he hurriedly said: “Half of our descendants have been arrested, and the people in the clan are in a panic. We hurried to Dadu to ask the princess to talk to Magistrate Zhou! As long as the princess talks to Magistrate Zhou, then Magistrate Zhou will definitely not dare to detain our descendants anymore.”
Without waiting for Bai Qing to speak, Dong put down the teacup heavily and glanced at the clan elders.
“My fellow elders, this is really interesting. Our children were arrested, but instead of telling us what crime they committed, they asked my son to go back to Shuoyang and use his status as a princess to pressure County Magistrate Zhou to release them! Just one sentence and County Magistrate Zhou will release them? That’s really easy! How can the laws of the Great Jin Dynasty be treated so carelessly and recklessly? Could it be that my son, a mere princess, is above the laws of the Great Jin Dynasty?”
Bai Qingyan sat beside Dong with a cold and indifferent expression, sipping his tea slowly, with no intention of speaking.
The clan leader tightened his grip on the crutch, secretly regretting that he had handed over the house deed so early. If he had known, it would not be too late to give them the house deed after Bai Qingyan agreed to release them.
At this point, the clan leader could only smile and say, “Princess, no matter what, we are all blood relatives from the same clan. You can’t write two Bai characters with one stroke! In the future, most of the Bai family will return to Shuoyang. They are all women, so they will definitely need help from the clans, right? Clans, clans… The reason why they are clans is that people from the same clan look out for each other and support each other. You help me and I help you!”
The elders sitting below the clan leader quickly said, “Yes, and those children are all cousins of the same generation as the princess. Now that the Bai family of Dadu has no male heirs, in the future, whether the Bai family of Dadu is recruiting a son-in-law, marrying off, or adopting a son from the clan, they will always need the support of the clan brothers, right? Besides… in the future, when the princess’s cousins have a promising future and win fame, they will naturally remember the princess’ kindness.”
Mrs. Dong sneered and said in a tough manner: “Elders, please stop talking about irrelevant things here. You can’t write two white characters with one stroke. Two characters can’t be written with one stroke! If you want my son to help you, you should first make it clear…what crime did the clan members commit! You can’t just talk about it. Even if the clan members killed people and robbed goods, my son will have to bear the consequences for them.”
Bai Qingyan remained silent, and the Dong family was too strong. The clan leader had never been treated like this in the Bai family in Dadu, so his face darkened. “My cousin Wei Ting and Qi Shan just left, and you, Dong family, turned against the clan. Aren’t you afraid that my cousin and Qi Shan’s souls will be disturbed?”
It would have been fine if the clan leader didn’t mention his grandfather Bai Weiting and his father Bai Qishan, but once he did, Dong’s anger was like being poured with a spoonful of oil, the flames suddenly soared, and a pair of sharp phoenix eyes looked in the direction of the clan leader.
“On that day, my Bai family suffered a great loss. All the men in the family died for the country in Southern Xinjiang. However, the clan sent Bai Qiyun, saying that my father and Qishan had promised to do this and that for the clan. They forced us, an orphan and a widow, to spend all our family wealth to collect enough money. When Bai Qiyun offered incense… he offered incense three times in a row, but my father and Qishan refused to accept Bai Qiyun’s incense! At that time… you were not afraid that my father and Qishan’s souls would be disturbed, so what should I be afraid of?”
When this matter was mentioned, the elders all looked unhappy and avoided looking.
Dong was indignant in her heart, but she was also unforgiving in her words: “Snatching the mouths of mud swallows, sharpening the tips of iron needles, scraping the golden Buddha’s face to search carefully, looking for peas in the quail’s crop, chopping the tender meat from the legs of herons, and scraping the fat from the stomachs of mosquitoes. This is truly written for the Shuoyang Bai clan! It’s really hard for you to squeeze out all the silver… How can you think of how to make the best use of my Dadu Bai family’s resources?”
When Bai Qingyan heard his mother’s angry words, he lowered his eyes to hide the smile in his eyes.
The clan leader’s face turned red after hearing what Dong said. He gritted his teeth, looked at Bai Qingyan, and said earnestly, “The Bai clan prospers together and suffers together! The cousins are imprisoned… It’s not good for Princess Yu’s reputation either!”
“So, the reputation of Zhenguo Princess condoning the Shuoyang clan’s disregard for human life… is good to hear?” Bai Qingyan put down the teacup and spoke slowly, “Robinsoning women, beating innocent people to death, seizing other people’s ancestral property, forcing a shop to buy a few taels of silver, forcing the shopkeeper to death, colluding with the government to frame the victim in order to obtain the secret medicine formula handed down from others, which one of these was not done by the descendants of the clan?”
One elder panicked and tried to defend himself by saying, “These are just nonsense from the people. This is absolutely not the case!”
“So, I caught Bai Qingjie doing evil in the street, and he claimed that he had the support of Princess Zhenguo, and also said… Princess Zhenguo had an affair with the prince and was the future queen. Was that just nonsense?” Bai Qingyan looked in the direction of the clan leader with a bone-chilling gaze.
Bai Qingjie is the grandson of the patriarch.
When Mrs. Dong heard that the offspring of the Bai family in Shuoyang had tarnished her daughter’s reputation, she was furious. She smashed the teacup in her hand and stood up: “Madam Qin! Call Lupin to bring the guards over and kick these ungrateful bastards out!”
Dong tolerated the bullying of their orphan and widow and the attempt to seize their property! But Dong could not tolerate others bullying her daughter and using her daughter’s reputation to justify their evil deeds!
All along, she has been holding back and unwilling to fall out with the clan, but today… she must do so!
She wanted to let everyone in Dadu City and even the whole world know that the Bai family in Dadu City and the Shuoyang clan would be sworn enemies from today on!
Otherwise, not only would his daughter’s reputation be ruined, but if the emperor heard about it, he would probably think that the Bai family was trying to compete for the position of queen.
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