The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 444: clean up
Chapter 444: Eradicate
“The emperor started taking the elixir, and his favor to King Liang grew stronger day by day…” Bai Jinxiu linked the two things together, and immediately figured out the key point, “Could it be that King Liang presented it to him?”
At this time, Wei Zhong spoke up at the right time: “Before the Prince of Liang went to Yanwo to provide disaster relief, he dismissed a large number of servants in the mansion, leaving only the cleaners and a few who usually served him. The rest were sent away! Now the Prince of Liang’s mansion is protected by the secret guards sent by His Majesty himself. It is like an iron barrel, so it is difficult to get information.”
Bai Qingyan paused as he picked up the teacup. The emperor sent secret guards to protect Prince Liang’s mansion?
Just because he presented the elixir to Prince Liang, the emperor valued Prince Liang so much? Or… he valued Prince Liang’s mansion!
If it was for the purpose of protecting Prince Liang, it would be fine to send secret guards around him, but why did they have to protect Prince Liang’s palace?
Could it be that the emperor did not dare to openly violate the ancestral ban on royal descendants from touching elixirs, and ordered Prince Liang to refine the elixir in Prince Liang’s Mansion?
“Have you checked the purchasing situation of Prince Liang’s Mansion during this period?” Bai Qingyan asked.
Neither Wei Zhong nor Bai Jinxiu had thought of this. Wei Zhong was the first to confess: “It was my negligence!”
“Pay special attention to check whether Prince Liang’s Mansion has purchased items such as Sanhuang, saltpeter, and rosin.” Bai Qingyan said.
Bai Jinxiu nodded: “Leave it to me, I should be able to find out quickly.”
“If the emperor really touches the elixir…” The eldest princess shook her head, “I’m afraid he won’t live long. But the emperor is keeping this a secret. Anyone who tries to persuade him will be suspected by the emperor of planting spies around him.”
As the eldest princess, she couldn’t go to persuade him. She was the eldest princess of the Great Jin Kingdom… She was the emperor’s aunt, but in the eyes of the emperor, she was also a member of the Bai family!
Although the Bai family has handed over all the military power that made the emperor uneasy, the emperor is still not at ease with the Bai family… and is on guard against her granddaughter Bai Qingyan. If she, Bai Qingyan’s grandmother, tries to persuade him again at this time, even if the emperor will not do anything to the eldest princess, he will definitely want to cut off the source of the problem and kill Bai Qingyan or even all the orphans of the Bai family.
Instead of doing this, it would be better to let the emperor do it himself! It would be better to let the prince succeed to the throne as soon as possible. At least the prince… trusts Bai Qingyan.
Bai Qingyan said that he was not worried about who should be asked to persuade the emperor, but was just worried that the emperor would die too early, which would add to the variables.
“The reason I called you here before you entered the palace, in addition to telling you this, is to tell you to be careful of King Liang!” After the Grand Princess finished speaking, she said to Wei Zhong, “Bring the man up here!”
Wei Zhong nodded and turned to leave the yard.
Bai Jinxiu looked at the eldest princess, puzzled: “Grandmother?”
“Ever since Prince Liang admitted that he asked the maidservant beside Abao to put the letter that was supposedly a copy of your grandfather’s handwriting… into your grandfather’s study to save Prince Xin, I have been thinking about Prince Liang every day! I always feel that Prince Liang is not so stupid that he doesn’t even know what treason is. He did this to put the Bai family to death!” The eldest princess was inevitably frightened when she talked about this, and she couldn’t help but fiddle with the Buddhist beads in her hand. “I asked Wei Zhong to find out why Prince Liang treated the Bai family like this, and finally found some clues.”
As soon as the Grand Princess finished speaking, Wei Zhong came in carrying a young man whose legs were so weak that he could not stand up straight.
The man had no beard, fair skin, and was missing one arm.
As soon as he entered the room, he saw Bai Qingyan, who was dressed in silver armor and had a murderous aura, and then saw the majestic Grand Princess. His knees went weak and he knelt down, trembling. Wei Zhong grabbed him by the back of the collar and dragged him in front of the Grand Princess, Bai Qingyan, and Bai Jinxiu.
The man knelt hurriedly and kowtowed heavily in the direction of the Grand Princess, not daring to raise his head.
“Who are you?” Bai Jinxiu asked, staring at the man kneeling on the ground.
“I…I am the servant who serves tea to the Prince of Liang in his mansion. In the past, I followed Eunuch Tong Ji and obeyed his orders. Later…after Eunuch Tong Ji died, His Royal Highness the Prince of Liang dismissed the servants in the Prince of Liang’s mansion, and I was transferred to serve the Prince of Liang. I replaced Eunuch Tong Ji and served the Prince of Liang!”
The eunuch tried to raise his eyes, but when he saw the hem of Bai Qingyan’s silver armor, he was so scared that he buried his head in the ground and confessed honestly: “One day, this servant… In order to let His Royal Highness Prince Liang know that I have a good relationship with Eunuch Tong Ji and that he would look up to me, I secretly burned paper for Eunuch Tong Ji so that Prince Liang would see it, and then told Prince Liang that this servant and Eunuch Tong Ji have a very good relationship.”
“Who would have thought… I actually bumped into the King of Liang and the man in black. He said that he had a blood feud with the Bai family, and that the King of Zhenguo overturned the case for the censor Jian Congwen and intended to force Concubine Tong to death, so the Second Prince had no choice but to rebel! If it weren’t for the King of Zhenguo’s meddling… the current crown prince should have been the Second Prince, why would the Second Prince rebel back then! The man in black said… all the men of the Bai family of the King of Zhenguo died, so why did the King of Liang want to kill the entire Bai family! The King of Liang said, because… because the Princess Zhenguo is not dead yet, the glory of the Bai family is still there! He wants the Bai family to be destroyed and their reputation to be ruined before he can vent his hatred, so he is cooperating sincerely!”
When the eunuch said this, he was filled with anxiety and his whole body was shaking, as if he was still very scared.
“I knew I had heard the great secret of King Liang, and I wanted to flee quickly, but I didn’t expect to alarm King Liang! I had no choice but to follow my previous words and said that I wanted to secretly burn paper money for Eunuch Tong Ji! But King Liang said that since I have such a good relationship with Eunuch Tong Ji, as close as brothers, why not go to the underground to accompany Eunuch Tong Ji, so that Eunuch Tong Ji will not be lonely!”
“Then the guards around King Liang knocked me unconscious. When I woke up, I was already on the carriage. They took me to the tomb of Eunuch Tong Ji and wanted to bury me alive next to him. I tried to escape… and the guards drew their swords to kill me. I had no choice but to jump into the river to escape. That’s when I lost my arm! It was thanks to Lord Wei who rescued me from the river and arranged for a dead body to replace me. Otherwise… I would have been dead!”
The eunuch finished speaking in a shrill, sobbing voice, raised his eyes to look at Bai Qingyan, happened to meet Bai Qingyan’s scrutinizing gaze, and quickly lowered his head.
“Who is that man in black? Did you see him clearly?” Bai Qingyan asked.
“No…” the eunuch said hurriedly, “However, I heard King Liang call that man Prince! He said…Please rest assured, Prince, I am sincerely cooperating with you!”
Prince?
Bai Qingyan lowered his eyes and stroked the teacup in his hand, thinking carefully.
Bai Qingyan eliminated several princes in Dadu who cooperated with King Liang. The royal blood with great ambition and ability in Dadu were regarded as threats and eliminated as early as when the emperor first ascended the throne!
Chapter 2! Keep rolling around and begging for monthly tickets…