The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 380: disappeared
Chapter 380 Disappeared
It would be fine for others, but his son, grandson, and his younger brother, because they have been too unruly in recent years, if they are punished according to the family rules for their crimes, they will probably be beaten to death!
Seeing that the clan leader was still hesitating, Bai Qingyan turned around and added fuel to the fire: “Xiao Si, prepare the military stick and long whip!”
The clan leader felt his heart tighten at Bai Qingyan’s words. He closed his eyes and forced himself to be ruthless.
“A person who does such evil things is not worthy of being a descendant of the Bai family. Why not… expel him from the clan and hand him over to Lord Zhou for disposal. What do you think, Princess?” the clan leader asked tentatively.
As long as the family rules are not enforced and the person is still alive, the worst that can happen is that after Bai Qingyan leaves, he will find another way… spend some money to save his grandson and son. If there is any other way, he will naturally save his brother’s family.
“Dad!” Bai Qiyun knelt down in front of the clan leader, “Dad, I am your son, the future clan leader! Dad, you can’t expel me from the clan!”
“Brother! Are you crazy?” The fifth master’s eyes widened in shock, “I am your biological brother!”
“You can’t do that, Chief! You can’t expel us from the clan!”
Half of the tribe members knelt on the ground and cried and begged, but the tribe leader remained unmoved: “Why didn’t you think of this day when you did evil things?”
Bai Qingping stood there and looked coldly at his clansmen who were now kneeling on the ground begging for mercy, then raised his head to look at his father Bai Qihe who was almost inaudibly shaking his head.
My father had long ago warned the clan about the consequences of this, but every time he mentioned it, my grandfather would punish him by beating him. Later, my father stopped saying it and just hid in his square courtyard, devoting himself to repairing the rare copies of the ancient bamboo slips.
Across the six gates of the Bai Clan Ancestral Hall, inside the Bai Clan members were crying incessantly, while outside the Shuoyang people were filled with excitement.
The clan leader looked at his son’s shocked and begging expression, and he hardened his heart. He pushed away his son’s hand that was tugging at his clothes, and said righteously: “I am the clan leader of the Bai clan. It’s OK if I don’t know these things! Even if I know, I will never condone you to continue to use the power of the Bai family to harm the people! It will tarnish the Bai family’s century-old reputation!”
When the tribesmen saw that their leader was even going to abandon his own son, they felt deeply disappointed.
“Don’t beg me! The clan leader is now focused on trying to please the Princess Zhenguo. How could he care about the lives of us clan members? He even expelled his son and brother from the clan. How could he care about us?!”
I don’t know who among the tribesmen who were kneeling on the ground and begging said this.
Those members of the tribe who were about to be expelled from the tribe had suppressed their grief and indignation, and finally found an outlet to vent their anger. The Fifth Master was even more cruel to his own brother. They were brothers from the same mother, but he didn’t care about his brother’s life or death and wanted to expel him from the tribe as well.
The fifth master stood up with the help of his son. He stared at the clan leader with red eyes and shouted, “In the beginning, we…were all imitating Qi Yun. You didn’t tell us that we were wrong, but condoned us. Now you want to expel us from the clan! You are such a good clan leader! A good brother!”
The clan leader stared at his ignorant brother with a pair of gloomy eyes. All these things happened because the fifth master occupied the ancestral house. Otherwise, how could the clan have so many problems? !
Moreover, if he were to be dealt with according to family rules and regulations for what he had done, he would probably lose his life.
As the clan leader, he couldn’t say this, but these idiots didn’t even think about it. If they were really dealt with according to the family rules, would they still be alive? They were simply ungrateful and dared to blame him!
“Since the clan leader has made a decision, let’s deal with it as soon as possible!”
Bai Qiyun knelt forward and tried to beg, but heard Bai Qing say, “Have someone stop them. The person who was expelled from the clan leader… please trouble Eunuch Quan Yu to send someone to help Lord Zhou take him to jail and wait for Lord Zhou’s decision.”
Quan Yu immediately agreed.
Lord Zhou also hurriedly said: “Don’t worry, Princess, I will handle it impartially.”
The clan leader picked up a pen and crossed out the names of these clan members amid his son’s hysterical cries. For every name crossed out by the clan leader, the guards and yamen runners from the Prince’s Mansion would take one away. If anyone was not in the ancestral hall or courtyard, they would be arrested at the door.
Soon, the large courtyard of the ancestral hall, which was originally crowded with clan members, became less crowded.
There were only four elders with their sons and daughters, standing there with their backs straight. They probably had done nothing wrong and were not afraid of ghosts knocking on their doors. They even felt secretly happy and relieved that they had not indulged their sons and daughters in bullying the people.
Bai Qingping glanced at the few remaining clansmen in the courtyard, and looked at Bai Qingyan with eyes full of admiration.
Only by using such a thunderous method, while removing the parasites in the clan, and shocking the rest of the clan, can the clan be completely cleansed…
In fact, as the princess who guards the country, Bai Qingyan doesn’t need to worry so much. Leaving the clan directly is the cleanest, most efficient and time-saving way.
But Bai Qingyan did not do so. Bai Qingping was grateful from the bottom of his heart that Bai Qingyan did not give up the clan.
The clan leader put down his pen with trembling hands, unable to suppress the anger in his heart, and asked Bai Qingyan: “Are you satisfied with this, Princess?”
Bai Qingyan did not answer the clan leader’s words, but turned his head to ask the Bai family guard beside him: “Is Gu Lao here?”
Not only the clan leader, but also the remaining clan elders were a little nervous. Why wasn’t it over yet? Should we continue?
“My lord, Gu Lao has been waiting outside for a long time.” A guard from the Bai family came forward to report.
“Let Gu Lao in!” Bai Qingyan picked up the teacup and said calmly.
Soon the elderly Gu Lao came back, leaning on a cane in one hand and holding a bamboo account book in the other, followed by the clan manager who was in charge of the clan’s accounts. The manager followed Gu Lao timidly, his whole body trembling.
When the patriarch saw the clan manager Bai Yong and Gu Lao appear here together, he suddenly felt a chill down his spine and had a sense of crisis.
“Young lady, fourth young lady…” Gu Lao said after bowing to Bai Qingyan and Bai Jinzhi, “This old servant has checked with Bai Yong, the manager of the ancestral property, the silver that our Bai family in Dadu has sent back to Dadu over the years, the rewards we have received, and the clan fields and shops we have purchased for the clan, as well as all kinds of income and expenditure details.”
The patriarch had been holding on for a whole day, and his already exhausted body was shaking because of his panic, so he staggered back a step.
“Grandfather!” Bai Qingping stretched out his hand to support the patriarch and almost fell to the ground with him.
The clan leader held his grandson’s hand tightly, knowing that Bai Qingyan was coming for him.
“These account books in my hand are the silver that disappeared and did not appear in the ancestral property, and the imperial gifts sent back from Dadu. Even the clan fields and shops purchased for the clan are not the amount reported to our Dadu Bai family! And the income and expenditure of these charity fields and shops are even more wrong! Every year, the clan leader complains to King Zhenguo about how poor many families in the clan can’t make ends meet. King Zhenguo feels sorry for the suffering of the clan members, so he asks me to allocate money to the clan! This money has never appeared in the clan accounts!”
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