The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 377: kowtow thank you
Chapter 377: Kneeling in Thanks
As for the lives lost, Bai Qingyan also said that he would let Lord Zhou give justice to the deceased later.
Bai Qingyan opened an ancestral hall to punish the Bai clan members who bullied the people of Shuoyang, and the news that some victims had already taken back their ancestral homes or received equivalent compensation spread throughout Shuoyang City like wings.
Those victims who originally did not believe that Bai Qingyan would really punish the Bai family members spread the news.
Soon more victims came, including a gray-haired old man who came with the tablets of his son and daughter-in-law, begging the Princess Zhenguo to give them justice.
More and more people gathered in front of the Bai family’s door. Those who received compensation were all grateful to Bai Qingyan and kowtowed to express their gratitude.
The faces of the clan elders whose grandsons were involved became more and more ugly. Even those clan members who did not do evil things on weekdays and lived their own lives behind closed doors were frightened when they saw this scene. They turned around and glared at their good-for-nothing children, as if asking whether their sons and grandsons had caused any trouble outside.
The commotion in the Bai family ancestral hall was so loud that even the women who had been waiting for news at home could not sit still and rushed over. They stood in the courtyard of the ancestral hall, holding back their tears, and anxiously looked at their own children.
The descendant of the Bai family who pushed the mute mother into the river was the grandson of the clan leader’s younger brother, the Fifth Master. He was so scared that he kept shouting, “Grandfather, help me! Grandfather, help me… I don’t want to be exterminated from the clan!”
“Grandfather, clan leader! We won’t dare to do it again. We have already paid back what we owe. Even if my brother and I are still bad guys, we have never killed anyone!”
“Grandfather, please beg the clan leader to forgive me!”
As soon as the fifth master’s grandson pleaded, the other descendants of the Bai family who were kneeling in the yard began to beg for mercy.
The clan leader looked at the pile of case files and bamboo slips next to Lord Zhou, then looked at Bai Qingyan who had an indifferent expression, and had a bad premonition in his heart.
One of the elders couldn’t stand it anymore and looked at the clan leader: “Clan leader, look… we have paid back what we owe, can we not expel the clan? They really know they were wrong this time and have learned a lesson, why don’t you talk to the princess and let it go… for the sake of our same clan!”
Bai Qingyan remained calm and said, “These Bai family members have bullied the people and made countless mistakes! Clan leader, what do you think… should we deal with them according to the Bai family rules and regulations, or let Lord Zhou handle it?”
The clan leader shuddered. The Bai family’s family rules and regulations were much stricter than the law. If they were to be punished according to the Bai family rules and regulations, after hundreds of beatings, none of these children would survive!
It would be better to expel them from the clan temporarily, wait until the relationship with Bai Qingyan is eased, and then ask Lord Zhou to show leniency to them. These children may still have a chance of survival.
“Father! When have any of our Bai family’s children ever suffered such hardships? Ah Jie is still so young, he has been to prison, and he has paid back what he owes. The dead cannot be brought back to life… Didn’t we just compensate for the money? Why do you have to be so ruthless?” Bai Qingjie’s mother looked at her son who was kneeling on the ground and couldn’t even cry, and cried to the clan leader, “Our Bai family is a family of founding heroes. We have made countless military achievements over the years. Can’t such merits protect the safety of the Bai family’s descendants?”
Bai Qingyan raised his eyes, his gaze was fierce and frightening.
“Bullshit!” Bai Jinzhi was so angry that he cursed. He pulled out the long whip from behind his waist and whipped it in the air. The sound broke through the sky and the momentum was so overwhelming that it scared the woman who was begging for mercy.
“Going to jail is considered suffering? My seventeenth brother was only ten years old, but he went to the battlefield and sacrificed his life for the country. He followed my uncle to protect the people with a sword and swore to never retreat. He was beheaded and his stomach was filled with tree roots and soil! Are these pigs and dogs more miserable than my seventeenth brother?! Can they be younger than my seventeenth brother?!”
Bai Jinzhi thought of Little Seventeen, and her heart ached and her blood boiled. How could any of the Bai family’s children have ever suffered such hardship? What kind of hardship… could be comparable to that of her Seventeenth Brother? !
“Our Bai family’s military achievements…are they worthy of being used by a shameless villain like you to plead for pigs and dogs?! It is true that the Bai family is a family of founding heroes, and it is also true that they have made countless military achievements over the years! But those were all military achievements made by the men of our Bai family who sacrificed their lives on the battlefield! They risked their lives…Is it just to let you rely on our Bai family’s virtue of sacrificing their lives for the people, bully the people, and take human lives lightly?!”
Bai Jinzhi’s every word was precious: “If you want military merits, why didn’t you go to the battlefield in Southern Xinjiang to earn military merits when my grandfather, uncles, and brothers died on the battlefield? Instead, it was my eldest sister from the Bai family in Dadu who was seriously injured for the country in her early years and risked her life to go to Southern Xinjiang to defeat Xiliang and Nanyan and save the border people of Jin from the dire situation! Among the countless military merits of the Bai family… which one of you sitting here has contributed?! You dare to pull the merits onto yourselves to exonerate these pigs and dogs! Shame on you!”
The clan leader looked at Bai Jinzhi, then his gaze fell on Eunuch Quan Yu. He suppressed his anger and said confidently, “We in the Bai family are of the same blood, and we are all the same…”
Bai Qingyan glanced in the direction of the clan leader with her beautiful eyes, her eyes became colder and colder: “Since we are of the same blood, you should know… The Bai family has been on the battlefield for generations, fighting in the sea of fire and swords, and we don’t seek military merits. We will never make mistakes based on our merits, and we will not be so shameless as to try to offset our mistakes with our merits! In the Bai family’s ancestral hall… The ancestors of the Bai family are above, and the heroic spirits are above! Most of the Bai family, the direct descendants of the Bai family… have followed the great ancestor to fight for the country until now, and there are hundreds of tablets… Which one died of old age, which one did not sacrifice his life for the country?! Live for the people, die for the country, these six words are the inheritance of the Bai family, and most of our Bai family has done it! But the clan elders standing here today, ask yourself, which of your family has done it?”
Bai Jinzhi looked at the people outside the ancestral hall who were involuntarily moving towards the main gate of the Bai family ancestral hall. He remembered his elder sister who had listed the Bai family’s achievements in front of the Bai family’s gate in Dadu, making those treacherous villains who intended to frame the Bai family feel guilty and making the people excited… to protect the Bai family.
I remembered the people’s support when my eldest sister beat the drum to force Prince Xin to be killed. I remembered what my eldest sister said… In the past, the Bai family was clumsy in words and deeds, and never expressed their loyalty and righteousness, so they were forgotten.
I think of the tremendous power brought by the people’s support in the capital city.
Bai Jinzhi clenched the whip in his hand, looked at the descendants of the clan kneeling in the courtyard of the ancestral hall, and shouted confidently: “My grandfather went to the battlefield at the age of sixty, taking away all the men of the Bai family. Even a ten-year-old boy like my seventeenth brother fought hard and died in the battlefield! Their sacrifices… were never for you pigs and dogs?”
“The Bai family in Dadu are not fearless of death. All of us in the Bai family were born and raised by our parents. Some of us are eager to return home, but every good son of our Bai family has never forgotten the teachings of our ancestors and is willing to fight to the death to protect the people! This is because the Bai family regards the people of Dajin as their own flesh and blood, because there is no one to protect the tens of thousands of people in the border areas, and because they are ashamed of the empty reputation of defending the country and paying taxes to support the people!”
Bald author: Xiao Si has gradually grown up…
Xiao Rongyan: Xiao Si has grown up. When will I have more roles?
Bald author: Actually, it is your wife who is devoted to her career. Do you believe it?
Xiao Rongyan: …
Well, I still have to come and ask for monthly tickets!