The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 351: proud of him
Chapter 351 Proud of Him
Shen Qingzhu felt an unbearable soreness in her throat and walked in with tears in her eyes. She saw Bai Qingyan smiling at her and said softly, “You’re back.”
Shen Qingzhu’s eyes swelled up, he knelt on one knee, and choked with sobs, “My subordinate is back.”
Bai Qingyan gently placed the silver spear in his hand against the pillar behind him, walked to Shen Qingzhu, bent down to hold Shen Qingzhu’s arms and helped her up: “It’s good that you’re back…”
Shen Qingzhu held Bai Qingyan’s arm, which was shaking uncontrollably, and actually touched the iron sandbag tightly wrapped around Bai Qingyan’s arm. With a slight force, he could feel the wetness of sweat.
She was startled and looked up at Bai Qingyan, only to see sweat dripping down Bai Qingyan’s chin.
When she heard Xiao Ruohai tell her how the young lady picked up the Sun-Shooting Bow on the way to Southern Xinjiang, her heart ached!
But she never imagined that a grown-up girl would use such an extreme method to practice shooting!
“Get up!” Bai Qingyan said.
Shen Qingzhu stood up and looked at Bai Qingyan with red eyes: “Young lady…”
“Let’s talk inside.”
“I will go and make Miss Qingzhu her favorite Dahongpao, and prepare some food for her.” Chuntao was also very happy.
Bai Qingyan took Shen Qingzhu’s wrist and walked into the house. He wiped the sweat off his face with a handkerchief, and asked as he untied the iron sandbags on his body, “Did you come back directly from Luopan Mountain?”
Shen Qingzhu knew that Bai Qingyan was worried about Bai Qingyun, so he nodded, took off his sword and put it aside, walked forward and knelt beside Bai Qingyan, and helped her untie the wet sandbag on her legs.
“Wei Gao, my loyal soldiers and I escorted the Ninth Young Master to Luopan Mountain. The Ninth Young Master asked us to come back, saying that he was worried that the eldest girl and the Seventh Young Master would have no one to use them, and that he would be safe in Luopan Mountain! We followed him forcefully, but the rules of the Sihai Pavilion on Luopan Mountain did not allow us to enter, only the Young Master was allowed to enter the mountain! So I asked Wei Gao to take the others to stay at the foot of the mountain to wait for the Ninth Young Master, and I came back alone.”
Thinking of Bai Qingyun’s legs, her throat rolled over, and she asked Shen Qingzhu in a low voice: “Ayun…are you okay?”
“Don’t worry, Miss. The Ninth Young Master… is still strong and sharp! The reason why the Ninth Young Master didn’t want to see you go directly to Luopan Mountain is that he didn’t want you to see him now and worry about him! The Ninth Young Master said that there are many talented people in Sihai Pavilion in Luopan Mountain. He went to sincerely beg Gu Yijian, the master of the Seventh Young Master, to see if Sihai Pavilion has a way to save his legs. If there is really no way, he will become Gu Yijian’s apprentice!”
“The Ninth Young Master said that even his sickly elder sister had fought in battle to support the Bai family and the people living on the border, and had suffered a lot to regain the Sun-shooting Bow! He is a man of the Bai family, his legs are broken… but his hands are still there! As long as he is not dead, he does not want to be a useless invalid who makes his relatives worry about him. The Bai family has worked together and sacrificed their lives to achieve the peaceful world, and as a descendant of the Bai family, he should also contribute! The Ninth Young Master hopes that when they meet again, his mother and elder sister will be proud of him, instead of feeling sad for him!”
Hearing this, Bai Qingyan felt a lump in his throat and his eyes immediately filled with tears.
Bai Qingyun is indeed a good son of the Bai family no matter when.
With such a man around, the Bai family…will never fall.
“You just came back, you must be tired! Go and take a rest! When you’re done, we’ll talk in detail…” Bai Qingyan looked at Shen Qingzhu’s dusty face with dark circles under his eyes, and knew that Shen Qingzhu must have rushed back day and night. “After that, there are still many things to do, and I’ll have to trouble you to do them!”
Shen Qingzhu didn’t force herself and nodded: “Okay…”
When Chun Tao came in with the red robe, she was surprised to see Shen Qingzhu was leaving. “Miss Shen, why don’t you sit down for a while? Nanny Tong has already prepared the banquet.”
“Let Qingzhu rest first, and tell the nanny to prepare the dinner in the evening.” Bai Qingyan said.
“Yes!” Chun Tao hurriedly opened the curtain for Shen Qingzhu and said, “I will take Miss Shen…”
Bai Qingyan watched Shen Qingzhu leave Qinghui Courtyard through the window, lowered his eyes to look at his bleeding palms, slowly clenched his hands into fists.
How different she is from her brother!
When she was injured, she was pampered. Her brother lost both legs, but he still did not lose his fighting spirit and did not forget the aspirations of the ancestors of the Bai family!
A faint smile flashed through her red eyes. Now both siblings were working hard, and she hoped that the next time she met Bai Qingyun, she would be able to make her brother proud instead of… sad.
Bai Jinzhi knew that Shen Qingzhu had returned, so he hurried to Bai Qingyan, but Shen Qingzhu had already gone back to rest.
Bai Jinzhi sat beside Bai Qingyan holding an embroidered cushion, watching Chuntao twisting Bai Qingyan’s hair while saying, “I heard that the emperor’s headaches have been getting worse recently, and only the massage technique of Concubine Qiu can help the emperor relieve some of the pain. The Imperial Hospital is helpless. Imperial Physician Huang originally recommended that Doctor Hong see the emperor, but I don’t know why the emperor is reluctant to do so!”
“But I wonder what else it could be, isn’t it because Doctor Hong is from the Bai family, so the emperor is somewhat wary of him. Now the emperor agrees, but Madam Hong has also left Dadu.” Bai Jinzhi gloated.
Bai Qingyan raised his eyes from the book in his hand and looked at Bai Jinzhi: “Where did you hear these words?”
“I heard from Dr. Huang’s granddaughter, Huang Jia’s Arong, that I secretly went to see how lively my cousin Changsheng’s wedding was this morning. I happened to run into Huang Jia’s Arong, who was also in mourning like me. Arong also went to watch the fun secretly!”
Bai Jinzhi picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea. “We sat in the teahouse for a while. Ah Rong said that the palace sent someone to Huang Imperial Physician’s house yesterday evening and asked Huang Imperial Physician to invite Doctor Hong to the palace. But Huang Imperial Physician said that Doctor Hong had left Dadu a few days ago and was traveling. Now no one knows where he has gone! Ah Rong was also wondering why the emperor didn’t come to our house directly to invite Doctor Hong, but had to go to Huang Imperial Physician’s house.”
If the news came from Dr. Huang’s residence, it would be credible.
The emperor has a headache, and only Concubine Qiu’s massage technique can relieve it…
Bai Qingyan tapped his palm with the book. He had never heard of the emperor having a headache before.
Moreover, the emperor’s frequent headache problem…seems to have started after Concubine Qiu entered the palace.
She lowered her eyes and thought for a while, then turned to look at Bai Jinzhi: “Xiao Si, find a chance to tell Ah Rong casually that our grandmother’s adopted daughter, Miss Lu, has extremely superb medical skills. There are difficult and complicated diseases in our house that the servants and old women have been unable to cure for many years, and Miss Lu has cured them all.”
Bai Jinzhi’s eyes lit up. This was a task assigned to her by her elder sister. She nodded, “Don’t worry, elder sister! It just so happens that Ah Rong left in a hurry and left the handkerchief she lent me here. I’ll wash it and send it to Ah Rong tomorrow.”
She nodded, and after her hair was dry, she asked Nanny Tong to tie it into a bun casually, and then went to Changshouyuan.
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