The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 356: kill someone
Chapter 356: Killing People
On April 22nd, Lupin returned from Shuoyang.
Ji Tingyu had told Lupin everything he needed. In order to avoid attracting attention by purchasing in the capital, Lupin sent people to other places to purchase in batches.
The two men agreed that when the Bai family delivered the second batch of furniture and other items on April 26, they would meet at Niujiao Mountain and then let Ji Tingyu pretend to rob them.
In this way, Ji Tingyu can get what he urgently needs, and the bandit problem can be made bigger, giving Bai Qingyan a legitimate excuse to train his troops.
When Lupin and Bai Qingyan reported what happened during their return to Shuoyang, Bai Jinzhi also hurried over. Bai Jinzhi heard that the clan leader had come to Lupin with desperate means and even offered him treasures, and he felt very proud.
“It’s too late to give in now!” Bai Jinzhi sneered.
“I have accepted all the money and property sent by the clan leader. They are just right for this purchase.” Lupin looked up at Bai Qingyan, who had a calm expression, and clenched his fists, saying, “There is one more thing I need to report to the eldest lady. After the eldest lady and the fourth lady left that day, Lord Zhou arrested the clan members who went to cause trouble! Then, on the evening of the day when the clan leader and his men set out for the capital city… several clan members got drunk and went to ask Lord Zhou to release them. Lord Zhou did not agree, so they smashed things in the street and shouted that if Lord Zhou had the ability, he would arrest them all. The fifth master’s illegitimate grandson pushed a little girl selling flowers off the bridge. The girl’s mother jumped into the river to save her, and the result was…”
“The result?” Bai Qingyan’s eyes were cold.
Lupin whispered, “In the end, the girl’s mother rescued her and put her on the boat, but she herself…”
Bai Qingyan’s palms tightened, and she thought of the flower-selling girl named Ya Niang whom she had met in Shuoyang City before. She remembered that the girl had a pair of bright and clear black eyes, was very sensible, not greedy for petty gains, and had a deep affection for her mother.
“Is that little girl… called Ya Niang?” Bai Qingyan asked.
Lupin nodded.
Bai Qingyan felt a surge of anger in his heart, his eyes filled with murderous intent: “Then what? What did County Magistrate Zhou do?”
“The clan leader’s grandson, Bai Qingping, went to report to County Magistrate Zhou and asked him to arrest the person. County Magistrate Zhou had already locked the person up. Originally, Bai Qingping wanted to take the little girl named Ya Niang back to the Bai family to take care of her, but the little girl resisted and was unwilling. So Bai Qingping sent the little girl to the neighbor’s house next door and gave the neighbor money to take care of the little girl on his behalf.”
Lupin’s voice was heavy. He did not say that before he came back, he also gave a bag of silver to the kind old neighbor lady. After all, it was the White clan who did the wrong thing, and Lupin felt vaguely guilty in his heart.
Bai Qingyan tightly grasped the teacup in his hand, and the white jade porcelain made a slight cracking sound.
She pressed down the teacup, her knuckles turning white, her heart boiling with anger.
How come the Bai family has produced so many people who are worse than pigs and dogs!
She closed her eyes, it was obvious that if the patriarch made the wrong choice it would bring disaster to the entire clan.
“Mute girl? Is that… the girl selling flowers?” Bai Jinzhi also had not forgotten the girl who refused to take money from Xiao Rongyan.
Seeing Bai Qingyan nod, Bai Jinzhi was furious: “The clan members are not only rampant, but also stupid! My elder sister has warned them once in Shuoyang, but they still dare to be so ignorant and even dare to kill people!”
“If there is one scum in the clan, it is his own fault. If there are two scums… we can barely call them useless. But if there are more scums… then it is the fault of the clan leader!” Bai Qingyan’s eyes were gloomy and cruel, “This clan leader must be replaced.”
“Grandfather shouldn’t have cared about the clan leader’s face. He should have let any one of them, whether it was my second uncle, my father, my fourth uncle, or my fifth uncle, return to Shuoyang and take over the position of clan leader. Maybe we could have saved the Bai family and the clan wouldn’t have been rotten to the core! What kind of idiots have come out of the clan!”
Bai Jin’s heart was beating wildly because of her childishness. If she wasn’t in Dadu and out of reach, she would have beaten those dogs and pigs in the clan so badly that they wouldn’t even recognize their own mothers.
“In addition to considering the clan leader’s face, grandfather also valued the promise to the emperor too much. In order to realize the emperor’s false ambition of “unifying the world”, he left no way out for the Bai family and took all his descendants to the southern border for training, in order to train brave generals for the emperor to use in the future.”
Bai Qingyan raised his eyes and looked at Lupin, suppressing his anger and making arrangements: “Uncle Ping, send someone back to Shuoyang immediately to tell Magistrate Zhou what I mean. No one from the Bai clan should be tolerated. If he dares to be partial, he will be against me. I, Bai Qingyan, will not let him off easily. No one from his clan will ever be able to enter the government again. Give Ya Niang’s mother a respectful burial, send someone to take good care of Ya Niang, and bring Ya Niang to the ancestral home after returning to Shuoyang.”
“Yes!” Lupin clasped his fists and said yes.
“Eldest sister asked Uncle Ping to say this to Magistrate Zhou. Is she going to clean up the clan in advance?” Bai Jinzhi frowned and asked, “But if eldest sister returns to Shuoyang and the left prime minister Li Mao takes action, what will we do if eldest sister is not around?”
Bai Qingyan tapped his hands on the table and said, “With your second sister and grandmother in Dadu City, there won’t be any trouble. I originally wanted to wait until mother and aunts returned to Shuoyang before cleaning up the clan, but now it seems that we can’t wait.”
She grew up with her grandmother, the Grand Princess, and she knew better than anyone what her grandmother was capable of.
Li Mao’s move was just a test, and my grandmother could handle it.
Bai Jinzhi was still worried. Her second sister Bai Jinxiu was now pregnant, and her grandmother… Bai Jinzhi no longer trusted her from the bottom of her heart.
She clenched her fists and said, “Eldest sister, why don’t I go back to Shuoyang? After all, I have the status of a county lady, so it’s reasonable! Otherwise, I really don’t feel at ease in Dadu.”
Bai Qingyan gritted his teeth and shook his head: “The Shuoyang Bai clan’s affairs are more urgent. If we continue to indulge the clan, I don’t know how many more people will be in trouble! Besides… Li Mao wants to test me. If I’m not here, he may not take action. Xiao Si, go back and prepare. Return to the clan on April 24th.”
“Sister, why don’t you wait for Twenty-Six and join the team escorting the furniture and other belongings?” Bai Jinzhi asked.
“On the 26th, Uncle Ping has other important things to do besides escorting the furniture and other things. We will be a burden if we follow him. We will leave in advance and take the guards with us to deal with the clan affairs. Then we will return to Dadu with the guards and Uncle Ping to pick up mother and the aunts.”
Bai Qingyan made up his mind, stood up and said, “I’ll go tell my grandmother and mother, Xiao Si, you go back and pack and prepare.”
In the Changshou Courtyard, the Grand Princess was already filled with anger after hearing Bai Qingyan’s talk about the Shuoyang clan. She fiddled with her Buddhist beads and said, “While the Shuoyang Bai clan is making a big fuss this time, you can go back and deal with it with thunder and lightning!”
My dear friends, the bald author has a fever today, my whole body aches, and my head hurts badly. I insisted on sitting in front of the computer for a whole day, but I was too uncomfortable to write. I will only update one chapter for now, because I feel too uncomfortable… For the remaining two chapters today, the bald author will try his best to update before noon.