The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 465: regret
Chapter 465 Regret
“Keep your voice down! If others hear you, be careful of being whipped!” The noble lady who was covering her face with a round fan smiled and patted her friend with the fan, trying to hold back her laughter. “Didn’t you see that Princess Gaoyi, who loves to whip, is following her?”
Zhen Zeping’s daughter, the third daughter of the Zhen family, was unhappy when she heard the chatter of those noble ladies: “My father said that the Princess Zhenguo and the Princess Gaoyi are truly women who are as good as men, and they have inherited the character of the King Zhenguo. Apart from Bai Suqiu, the eldest daughter of the Bai family who asked to enter the city during the epidemic in Jiaozhou, the Princess Zhenguo and the Princess Gaoyi are the only ones who deserve the title of heroines!”
The noble lady sneered at the third daughter of the Zhen family, but did not respond. She just flicked her handkerchief and watched Bai Qingyan and Xiao Rongyan, followed by Bai Jinzhi and the guards, passing by the door of Yanque Tower.
“Princess of the Nation!”
Murong Li, the fourth prince of Dayan, came to participate in the poetry competition with Lu Yuanqing and Chen Zhaolu. When he saw Bai Qingyan, he called out happily, then got off his horse and saluted Bai Qingyan.
“The Fourth Prince of Yan, Master Lu, and Master Chen!” Xiao Rongyan saluted with a smile.
Chen Zhaolu and Lu Yuanqing had long admired Xiao Rongyan’s talent. At the time, Xiao Rongyan’s poem “Night Snow in Pingchuan” was famous all over the world, and his occasional articles were regarded as masterpieces. How could they not be impressed? So they were very polite to Xiao Rongyan.
“Mr. Xiao!” Several people returned the greeting to Xiao Rongyan.
“There is a poetry gathering in Yanque Tower today. If Princess Zhenguo, Princess Gaoyi and Mr. Xiao don’t mind, why not join in the fun?” Chen Zhaolu said in a gentle and polite manner with a faint smile.
Murong Li didn’t want Chen Zhaolu to disturb his uncle and aunt, so he said hurriedly, “If…Princess Zhenguo, Princess Gaoyi, and Mr. Xiao have other things to do, there’s no need to force them.”
The noble ladies upstairs looked at the popular Bai Qingyan and couldn’t help feeling jealous. They couldn’t help but think of Nandu Princess Liu Ruofu who was mistaken by the Fourth Prince of Daliang. They smiled and said, “I heard that Nandu Princess Liu Ruofu will also be there for today’s poetry competition! Nandu Princess Liu Ruofu is jealous because she saw all the young talents in the capital city surrounding the Princess Zhenguo. I don’t know how jealous she will be!”
Although the prince of Daliang recognized the wrong person, he had already proposed to Princess Liu Ruofu of Nandu, so he decided to go with the flow… and Daliang accepted her.
It was precisely because of this that Liu Ruofu was left in the capital by her maternal grandparents. They were afraid that they would have fewer opportunities to see Liu Ruofu after she married into Daliang in the future. Therefore, when Prince Xian returned to Nandu, Liu Ruofu did not leave and will also come to participate in the poetry meeting today.
“This Zhenguo Princess is really… charming. Just based on her pretty face, I wonder how many princes in this capital are willing to be her subordinates.” The fourth daughter of the Minister of Revenue Chu Zhongxing seemed to realize that her words were a bit inappropriate. She smiled and talked about the group of playboys in the capital: “Fortunately, Lu Yuanpeng and his people are not here, otherwise they would have rushed out and wagged their tails like pugs when they heard the words “Zhenguo Princess”!”
When she heard the noble lady call Lv Yuanpeng a lapdog, the third daughter of the Zhen family was immediately furious. She glared at the noble lady and shouted downstairs: “Brother Yuanqing, the fourth daughter of the Minister of Revenue, Chu, said that your Lv Yuanpeng is a lapdog!”
“You!” The fourth Miss Chu tightly gripped the handle of her fan, staring at the third Miss Zhen with a flushed face.
The third daughter of the Zhen family raised her eyebrows, turned around and walked downstairs.
“As expected of a general who comes from a military family, he doesn’t know etiquette!” Fourth Miss Chu’s eyes turned red with anger. She didn’t dare to turn around to look at Lu Yuanqing. She shielded her face with a round fan and went back to the private room from the railing.
Lu Yuanqing is different from Lu Yuanpeng. He has a cold face and doesn’t care about anything, but anyone who offends him will have a bad ending. He will deal with people without saying a word and holds a grudge.
The third daughter of the Zhen family came downstairs and bowed to Bai Qingyan and Bai Jinzhi with a smile: “Congratulations, Princess, congratulations, Princess!”
“Thank you, Third Miss!” Bai Qingyan returned the greeting.
“Thank you, Third Miss!” Bai Jin said with a smile.
“Will the princess and the county lady also come to the poetry reading?” asked the third daughter of the Zhen family.
“I have to go back to Shuoyang tomorrow and I need to go back to the mansion to prepare. I will not join in the fun today. Fourth Prince, Young Master Chen, Young Master Lu, Third Miss, goodbye!” Bai Qingyan clasped his fists.
Bai Jinzhi followed suit and bowed before saying goodbye.
“Yan has something else to do, so he won’t join in the fun!” Xiao Rongyan also said goodbye and left.
The third daughter of the Zhen family looked at Bai Qingyan’s heroic figure as he left: “I’m so envious! I also want to go to the battlefield to fight like Princess Zhenguo and Princess Gaoyi!”
The lights outside the Yanque Tower were dazzling. The halo of light from the red silk lanterns made the third daughter of the Zhen family’s face look red, which was very beautiful.
Lu Yuanqing glanced at the noble lady who was leaning on the railing and laughing upstairs, and asked the third daughter of the Zhen family: “You just said…the daughter of Minister Chu Zhongxing laughed at my Yuan Peng?”
The third daughter of the Zhen family came back to her senses and nodded vigorously: “The fourth daughter of the Chu family!”
Lu Yuanqing nodded, and with a stern face, he walked towards the Yanque Tower with Chen Zhaolu and Murong Li.
In Lv Yuanqing’s eyes, no matter how stupid Lv Yuanpeng is, he is still his younger brother. He can say… he can scold! But others cannot say a single thing about his younger brother.
Xiao Rongyan sent Bai Qingyan and Bai Jinzhi back to the Bai Mansion, where a plaque with the words “Princess Zhenguo’s Mansion” was already hung. He asked Yue Shi to present a gift box and bowed to say goodbye.
Although the two of them swore an oath by high-fiving that they would talk about love again after the world was unified, vows are only vows and the feelings between a man and a woman cannot be controlled freely.
“I won’t see you off, Mr. Xiao!” Bai Qingyan said to Xiao Rongyan while standing under the bright lights in the Princess Zhenguo’s Mansion.
“After Miss Bai and the fourth lady went in, Yan…left.” Xiao Rongyan smiled warmly.
Bai Jinzhi smiled secretly, cleared his throat and said, “Then goodbye, Mr. Xiao!”
Bai Qingyan’s ears turned slightly red. She nodded to Xiao Rongyan, turned around and walked into the Princess Zhenguo’s mansion.
“Go back!” Xiao Rongyan said with a smile.
Bai Qingyan had just returned to Qinghui Courtyard to change clothes when news came from the Dong Mansion.
After Dong Qingping returned home, he told Dong Tingzhen that he had already told the emperor to ask Prince Liang to send a matchmaker to the Dong residence, and he would definitely agree. He also begged the emperor not to let Prince Liang use Dong Tingzhen’s personal ornaments to publicize, otherwise the other girls in the Dong family would have no chance of living.
After Dong Tingzhen knelt down to thank Dong Qingping, he vowed that King Liang would never do that.
Dong Qingping also told Dong Tingzhen that after Dong Tingzhen married Prince Liang, she would no longer have to return to the Dong Mansion… He and Song would just pretend that they had never given birth to a daughter named Dong Tingzhen.
Dong Tingzhen cried very sadly, but she was unable to change the decision of Dong Qingping and Song.
The bright moonlight reflected on the mirror-clear bluestone floor in the corridor. Bai Qingyan, dressed in a white training suit, sat on a stone bench and wiped the silver spear in his hand, as if he saw his past self in Dong Tingzhen.
She felt sorry for Dong Tingzhen, but was also angry at her for not fighting for it. She was afraid that Dong Tingzhen would disregard everything for King Liang. Even though her uncle had said that, she still didn’t change her mind and wanted to be with King Liang.
In the future… when she finds out that she was used and deceived by King Liang, she will not know how regretful and painful she will be.
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