The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 375: it’s too late
Chapter 375 It’s too late to regret
Bai Weiting used to sit in that seat when he returned to Shuoyang, but now it has to be left to a little girl.
Hearing the shouts of the peddlers and the sounds of naughty children chasing each other outside the Bai family ancestral hall, the clan members all looked unhappy.
The place outside the Bai Family Ancestral Hall is such a majestic and solemn place. In the past, those untouchables didn’t even dare to get close to it. But now, the entrance has become a market, messy and noisy.
“Looking at the situation, half of the people in Shuoyang City are probably gathered outside our ancestral hall!” An elder sighed.
The Fifth Master thought about how he was driven out of the ancestral home, and he became even angrier towards Bai Qingyan. He slammed the Bodhi beads in his hand onto the small table beside him and said, “Let her go! It’s just that you are too kind-hearted, Big Brother!”
“Shut up!” The clan leader opened his eyes and pointed at the fifth master and cursed, “You are the one with the most problems. If you hadn’t occupied the ancestral house and Bai Qingyan came back to ask for the house deed, would this situation have happened?!”
The Fifth Master became intimidated when he saw his eldest brother’s furious eyes. He shrank his neck and softened his tone: “So… do you really want to expel all the children from the clan?”
“I have already told you all that it doesn’t matter if they are expelled from the clan. We can just help them secretly. After all, there is nothing wrong with helping our blood relatives! But…if we don’t satisfy Bai Qingyan today and she brings the Bai family of Dadu to apologize to their ancestors and ask to be expelled from the clan, then Lord Zhou’s arrest of the children is just the beginning. The clan will suffer more misfortunes later!”
The clan leader looked at the dazzling sunlight outside the ancestral hall with a calm expression and said, “As long as we are still in the Bai clan, we can still rely on the princess who is backed by the crown prince. We can still have a say when we go to Lord Zhou to plead for mercy in the future. If Bai Qingyan leaves the clan, those opportunists in the officialdom will trample our clan to death!”
The elders who had followed the clan leader to the capital city nodded one after another. None of them had forgotten what the Grand Princess had said.
In the past, the Bai family in the capital city had placed their clan’s status too high. They had tested the Bai family several times and had made concessions several times, which allowed them to become unscrupulous.
Looking back now, some people have reflected on their mistakes. It is not that the clan is important to the Bai family of Dadu, but that the Bai family of Dadu values the Bai clan… The Bai clan is important. If the Bai family of Dadu does not value the Bai clan, the Bai clan is nothing.
But there are also people like the clan leader’s younger brother, the Fifth Master, who are still unconscious.
“Have you prepared the compensation money that I asked you to prepare, the items that the children bought back by force, and other people’s house deeds and land deeds?” asked the patriarch.
The elders nodded with reluctance.
The clan leader felt relieved. He thought about Bai Qingyan’s return today and asked Bai Qingping about it. The clan leader turned around and looked at his second son standing beside him: “How is Ah Ping?”
Bai Qingping’s father, Bai Qihe, bowed and said, “The child has been kneeling for the past few days and can’t stand up now. His mother has already asked a doctor to see him.”
The Fifth Master glared at Bai Qihe and thought to himself that Bai Qihe was a useless person. All he had done in recent years was to repair ancient books and bamboo slips. He couldn’t even control his own son, and he actually allowed Bai Qingping to go to the government to sue his cousin. He was really out of his mind.
“I’m afraid Bai Qingyan will want to see him soon. You go and call him over. If you can’t stand, just bring a stool and sit next to me.” The patriarch frowned and said.
“Yes!” Bai Qihe then stepped out of the threshold of the ancestral hall and ordered the servant waiting in the courtyard to go back and find a way to bring Bai Qingping over.
A man standing on a tree saw Lord Zhou and his group coming from afar and shouted, “Here they come! Here they come!”
Soon, Shen Qingzhu, Bai Jinzhi, Quan Yu, and Lord Zhou came to the Bai Clan Ancestral Hall with the case files and the 21 members of the Bai family who were held captive by the yamen runners.
In recent days, the descendants of the Bai clan have been living a miserable life in prison because Lord Zhou has not taken good care of them. Although they are still wearing brocade robes, they are already in a miserable state.
Bai Qingjie was pushed forward and walked in front, completely lacking the arrogance and domineering attitude he had in front of Bai Qingyan.
After these days in prison, Bai Qingjie finally came to his senses.
He had been spoiled by his grandfather and father over the years and had become too ignorant of the world. When he saw that his fifth great-grandfather occupied the ancestral home of the direct branch, and heard his fifth great-grandfather say that… most of the orphans and widows of the Bai family would have to rely on the clan in the future, and even if Bai Qingyan was conferred the title of princess, she was still the daughter of the clan and had to listen to the clan elders, he believed it.
There are rumors in the clan that Bai Qingyan has vowed not to marry in her lifetime and will rely on the clan for support and care in the future. Even if the fifth great-uncle occupies the ancestral home of the direct branch… Bai Qingyan dare not say a word.
Seeing that his grandfather did not refute the words of his fifth great-grandfather and the elders of various clans, Bai Qingjie became more convinced and acted more unscrupulously in Shuoyang City.
But he was imprisoned these days, sitting with several cousins to reflect on his mistakes. When he thought of what Bai Qing had said to them every day, he suddenly realized something.
Therefore, the reason why County Magistrate Zhou was on good terms with my father was not because of their Shuoyang Bai clan, but because of the Bai family in the capital city!
Therefore, when Bai Qingyan ordered County Magistrate Zhou to arrest them, County Magistrate Zhou suddenly turned against Bai Qiyun and refused to see Bai Qiyun.
To put it bluntly, without the Bai family in Dadu…the Shuoyang Bai family would be nothing.
Because the Fifth Master of the Shuoyang Bai Clan increasingly looked down upon the Dadu Bai Clan and became arrogant and amassed wealth, and because of the clan leader’s tacit approval and connivance, they all came to believe that the Dadu Bai Clan had to respect the clan and dared not offend the clan.
This kind of subtle influence is the most terrifying, just like a drop of ink falling into a clean basin of water, and then this fatal self-righteousness will affect the entire clan at a very fast speed.
It’s too late to regret now.
He recalled that he had heard foreign merchants coming into the city talking about how Bai Qingyan had ruthlessly dealt with the illegitimate son of the Bai family who bullied the people on the long street of Dadu. He also recalled that day when Bai Qingyan swore that if the clan leader did not agree to expel these erring descendants from the clan, she would bring the Bai family in Dadu to apologize to their ancestors and expel them from the clan.
Bai Qingjie knew that those clan descendants who had made mistakes would be expelled from the clan today, even if he was the clan leader’s grandson.
He believed that after Bai Qingyan’s commotion, his grandfather must have clearly realized that the Bai family was not someone the clan could afford to offend. If Bai Qingyan was expelled from the clan… the Bai clan would be finished.
Apart from being expelled from the clan, he also carries a life on his shoulders, and it’s unclear whether he’ll survive!
When Bai Qingjie thought of this, his legs went weak and he was pushed into the gate of the clan ancestral hall under the angry stares of the people.
No one except the Bai family was allowed to enter the Bai clan ancestral hall. Lord Zhou forced everyone into the courtyard, and the clan leader hurried out to greet them.
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