The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 373: Don’t blame
Chapter 373 Don’t Blame
For those who did not sign the indenture, Gu Lao broke their legs and threw them out of the ancestral home, and spread the word… If any family in Shuoyang City dared to employ these people and their families, they would be going against the Princess Zhenguo’s Mansion!
Not only that, Gu Lao also carried out a major purge of the old women, maids, and slaves who had signed the indentures. Some were beaten to death, some were sold, and all the matchmakers and human traffickers in Shuoyang City were notified that the Bai Mansion would buy a new batch of maids and servants. The movement was huge and the speed was very fast.
Gu Lao made up his mind to clean the ancestral home thoroughly inside and out before Bai Qingyan and his group returned.
It just so happens that today is the day when all the matchmakers and human traffickers in the city bring their people to the ancestral home. Gu Lao thought that since the eldest girl is back, if she is free, it would be a good opportunity to let her take a look.
Gu Lao, along with his steward and loyal servant who had returned from the capital city with Lupin last time, stood outside the ancestral home with its magnificent gate, waiting for Bai Qingyan to arrive.
Seeing the princess’s carriage slowly approaching from afar, Gu Lao was filled with joy and quickly walked down from the high steps with his crutches and a group of stewards and loyal servants.
Many curious people also stopped and looked at the four-horse carriage, which was rare in Shuoyang City.
The carriage stopped, and Gu Lao walked to the side of the carriage with his cane. Seeing Chun Tao helping Bai Qingyan get off the carriage, he knelt down with his cane and kowtowed: “This old servant respectfully welcomes the princess…”
The Bai family’s steward and loyal servants who followed Gu Lao also stepped forward and kowtowed: “Welcome, Princess!”
Even though Bai Qingyan has instructed everyone in the Bai Mansion to still call her the “Big Miss”, there are so many people watching here, and this is in Shuoyang, so etiquette cannot be abandoned!
Otherwise, if even the loyal servants of the Bai family were impolite to Bai Qingyan in public, wouldn’t those people in the clan have an excuse to be disrespectful and look down on their eldest daughter?
How could Bai Qingyan not know Gu Lao’s intention? Gu Lao was helping her establish her authority.
She walked up to Gu Lao and helped him up: “Everyone, please stand up. Gu Lao is the elder and you are doing this kind of honor… I am sorry to bother you.”
Gu Lao smiled and asked in a low voice, “Did you have a safe journey, young lady?”
Banditry has been rampant recently, and when Gu Lao heard that Bai Qingyan and Bai Jinzhi had returned alone, he was really worried for several days.
“Don’t worry, old man. We have two teams of guards from the Prince’s Palace accompanying us. The journey will be safe.” Bai Qingyan turned his head and looked at the magnificent vermilion lacquered red door of Shuoyang’s ancestral home.
There are six gates with vermilion lacquered red pillars, two stone lions taller than humans standing on both sides, red walls, green tiles, embroidered doors and carved eaves.
After so many generations, the Bai family has renovated and expanded the ancient ancestral home to make it more and more magnificent. Although it cannot be compared with the princes and nobles in the capital city, it is rare in Shuoyang City.
“Miss, are you coming back this time to take care of the clan’s affairs?” Although Gu Lao is old, he is smart and clear-headed. He was supposed to leave Dadu and return to Shuoyang on May 1st, but Bai Qingyan came back at this time, it could only be to take care of the clan’s affairs.
“To be honest, you said you wanted to open an ancestral hall and change the clan leader.” Bai Qing said.
Gu Lao paused, then nodded. The current patriarch was indeed becoming less and less like a human being. His behavior and temperament were exactly the same as his deceased mother.
Gu Gu grew up with Bai Weiting since childhood and knew the clan leader’s mother very well. The concubine’s daughter of a wealthy family had learned a lot of bad habits that made people look down on her. If she had not been engaged since childhood and the previous clan leader was not recorded in the name of the legal mother later, the Bai family would never have allowed her to become the wife of the clan leader.
“Miss, do you mean to make a bigger noise?” Gu Lao followed Bai Qingyan slowly with the help of a cane and asked carefully.
“There are the Bai family’s ancestral precepts, the Bai family’s family rules, and even the clan rules. If we follow the rules, I’m afraid that more than half of the clan members will be expelled today, including the clan leader’s family…” Bai Qingyan paused and stood in the yard, saying, “If the clan members don’t agree, I will take the Bai family to apologize to their ancestors and expel them from the clan, cutting off the loss in time.”
“The clan members rely on nothing more than the Bai family of Dadu. In the past, it was the King of the State, and now it is you, the Princess of the State!” Gu Lao laughed softly. No one knew the clan members’ minds better than Gu Lao. “They will never abandon you, the Princess, for the sake of the clan leader! And I heard that… the prince sent someone to support the eldest girl when she came back this time. So the clan members would not be willing to and would not dare to lose a big tree like you.”
As he spoke, Gu Lao bowed respectfully to Bai Qingyan and said, “I have been in the Bai family all my life, managing the accounts all my life, and carefully keeping the accounts that are sent back to Shuoyang every year. If you can use it for me this time, please don’t hesitate to do so.”
What Gu Lao meant by this was that if there was any need to reconcile accounts… then he could be called over.
In the past, the clan leader secretly embezzled most of the money that the Bai family sent back to Shuoyang. When the Bai family found out, they turned a blind eye, thinking that it was hard work for the clan leader to take care of the clan members.
Gu Lao, however, felt that this was a huge handle. After all, when it came to the generation of the grandson of the Zhenguo State, his descendants were numerous. Gu Lao was still thinking that in the future, the position of the patriarch would still be in the hands of the legitimate branch, so there must be a good reason to dismiss the patriarch.
Later, all the grandsons of King Zhenguo were gone, and Gu Lao thought that these accounts were useless. Unexpectedly, today the eldest girl wanted to depose the patriarch, so he took out these accounts to help the eldest girl.
“That time, it was hard for Gu Lao.” Bai Qingyan said with a smile.
Gu Gu looked at the reserved and gentle Bai Qingyan in front of him, and his eyes couldn’t help but turn red. Everyone said that all the men in the Bai family had died, and the Bai family was going to fall!
However, their eldest daughter shouldered the heavy burden of the Bai family. She spoke passionately about the loyalty of the Bai family at the state banquet, borrowed coffins from the world on New Year’s Eve, risked her life to seek justice for King Zhenguo and the Bai family, and went to the Wude Gate to hear the news… and forced the emperor to deal with Prince Xin.
I ask, who in the world can have such courage? !
Only most of them are girls from the Bai family!
Gu Lao tossed and turned sleeplessly day and night all the time the eldest girl went to southern Xinjiang, praying that the King of Zhenguo, the Duke of Zhenguo and the generals of the Bai family would protect Bai Qingyan and bring her back safely.
But their eldest daughter not only returned safely, but also returned in glory, defeating Xiliang and forcing Southern Yan to retreat. Their eldest daughter achieved the wish that all the men in the Bai family failed to realize during this trip to southern Xinjiang.
Ancient…and proud of it.
If anyone says again that women are inferior to men, Gu Lao would be the first to disagree.
“It’s not hard! I, an old man, am very happy to be able to contribute to the Bai family and the young lady.” The old, wet eyes looked at Bai Qingyan, “If King Zhenguo was still alive, he would definitely… definitely be happy to see such a young lady!”
Gu Lao couldn’t hold back his tears as he spoke. He quickly turned sideways and wiped his tears with his sleeve, and covered them up with a low laugh: “When people get old… they have this habit of crying when the wind blows. Don’t blame me, young lady.”
The third update is here! Daily rolling around asking for monthly tickets!
PS: Thank you for your concern. I took medicine and went to bed early yesterday. Although I am still coughing today, I feel much better than yesterday! I will try the little recipes that my ancestors suggested! Muah!