The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 507: Same joy
Chapter 507 Congratulations
When Bai Qingyan raised his eyes, he met Xiao Rongyan’s deep eyes, and gently clenched the white glaze and gold-painted teacup in his hand.
The man’s eyes had a faint smile on them, and he was calm, as if he had not said anything unexpected or shocking.
Bai Qingyan lowered his eyes, the smile in his eyes deepened, his ears also turned red, he calmed down and put on a serious look, nodded and said: “Mr. Xiao is thoughtful.”
“I heard that the emperor wants to send newly recruited soldiers to southern Xinjiang. Yan… I would like to congratulate the young lady on getting what she wished for.”
Bai Qingyan put down the teacup in his hand and said to Xiao Rongyan: “Congratulations to Mr. Xiao for getting what he wanted.”
The new soldiers sent by the Emperor of Jin were trained by the Bai Family Army and may be used by the Bai Family Army in the future!
As long as the State of Jin deployed its troops on the border of Xiliang, the danger to Dayan would be resolved.
This time, both Bai Qingyan and Xiao Rongyan were able to benefit from this matter, and they were all happy.
Xiao Rongyan sat next to Bai Qingyan, looking at Bai Qingyan’s delicate and fair facial features, his heart felt hot, and it was not a pleasant feeling to not see someone for a day and it felt like a long time.
Xiao Rongyan had been bothered by Dayan’s affairs these days, and it was not appropriate for him to come to the Bai residence every day, nor break into Bai Qingyan’s boudoir at night… He was even more afraid that Bai Qingyan would not be able to explain to her mother, so he had endured it for so many days and only came to see her under the pretext of giving gifts to Bai Qingyan’s mother on her mother’s birthday.
He just felt that even just sitting together and drinking tea like this was comfortable and peaceful for him.
Xiao Rongyan had just taken a sip of tea when he saw Chuntao walk in from outside the main hall. She walked around from behind the ebony and gold-painted pillars to Bai Qingyan’s side, and whispered in Bai Qingyan’s ear with her hand covering her lips, “The second young lady sent someone to deliver the letter and she has just arrived.”
Bai Qingyan nodded and looked in the direction of Xiao Rongyan: “Mr. Xiao, please sit down for a moment. I’ll be right back.”
“No rush…” Xiao Rongyan said in a low voice.
Bai Qingyan held Chuntao’s hand and stepped out of the main hall and walked to the entrance of the corridor. The black-clad guard standing there knelt on one knee and handed over the letter with both hands: “Miss!”
Bai Qingyan took the letter and said, “You’ve worked hard. Go down and have a rest!”
After the black-clad guards left, Bai Qingyan opened the letter.
In the letter, Bai Jinxiu told Bai Qing about the progress of Prince Liang’s elixir refining.
On that day, the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess went to visit Prince Liang at his mansion. Unexpectedly, they discovered that Prince Liang was actually refining elixirs in his mansion, and that the elixirs were made with the blood of children. The Crown Prince was so angry that he fainted on the spot and was carried out by the guards of the Crown Prince’s mansion.
The guards of the Crown Prince’s Mansion rescued the dying children from Prince Liang’s Mansion and rushed them straight to the clinic in front of many people in the capital city. The incident became a huge incident and even the emperor could no longer protect Prince Liang.
King Liang was put in prison, where he confessed to the matter of refining the elixir and said that he was bewitched by the immortal master and used the blood of boys and girls to make the elixir. However, King Liang was smart enough to say that he bought these boys and girls from human traffickers. Lu Jin also found the indentures of these children in King Liang’s mansion.
Later, a human trafficker came to testify that he was the one who sold the children to King Liang, and that he also bought these children from other people.
The case was closed quickly and easily. King Liang had the children’s deeds in his hands. Fortunately, the children were still alive, but had lost too much blood.
Prince Liang violated his ancestral teachings by secretly refining elixirs and was reprimanded by the emperor, who ordered him to be confined to his palace to reflect on his actions.
At the request of the censor, Lord Lu almost turned the Prince of Liang’s mansion upside down, but he did not find the bodies of the children who were missing. Instead, he found a lot of bodies in the Wang family’s house in Jiuqu Lane. When the woman saw the incomplete body of her son, she went crazy.
Mr. Wang left a confession letter and committed suicide with his entire family out of fear of punishment. There was no evidence to prove his guilt and no way for him to defend himself, so in the end the case was closed. Prince Liang was not implicated much, but the Wang family took the blame and no one in the family was spared.
All the surviving children found in the Wang family of Jiuqu Lane were sent back to their respective homes, and the Wang family was ransacked.
The “playthings” that were rescued from Wang Kun, the son of the Wang family, were also sent to the charity hall.
The emperor originally wanted to investigate who set the fire at Wang’s house in Jiuqu Lane, but the house was burned so thoroughly that nothing could be found. According to the older children who were rescued, those people wanted to kill them and then the fire started.
The people were talking about it behind his back, saying that the arsonist was acting in the name of justice, otherwise none of the children would have survived.
Bai Jinxiu felt uneasy. She originally thought that the Wang family’s home in Jiuqu Lane had been burned down and all the family members had been imprisoned, so she withdrew the personnel who were watching the Wang family. Unexpectedly, someone else took advantage of the opportunity and sent the bodies of the children to the Wang family in Jiuqu Lane.
In her letter, she also mentioned Bai Qingxuan who was sent to the Wang family in Jiuqu Lane. Bai Qingxuan was also rescued. Probably because he was trapped in the bottle and could not move, one side of his face had been burned and he had a high fever that would not subside. The doctor who went to the charity hall for treatment said that whether he would live or not depended on God’s will.
After reading the letter, Bai Qingyan stood in the corridor and pondered it carefully. He felt that this matter… was the work of the emperor. The emperor wanted to protect King Liang…
The Prince of Liang’s mansion is guarded by secret guards sent by the emperor. Their people are reluctant to get close to him for fear of being discovered and alerting the enemy. Prince of Liang is under the emperor’s surveillance… naturally he has to act as if he is powerless, stupid, incompetent, and has no one to rely on.
Only the emperor… had the ability and motive to send the bodies of the children to the Wang family in Jiuqu Lane under the noses of the people sent by Bai Jinxiu to monitor the Liang Palace and the people sent by the Prince’s Mansion to keep an eye on the Liang Palace.
Or maybe, King Liang went to Shangmo Study and asked Xiao Rongyan’s people for help?
After all, the more chaotic the Jin court was, the more beneficial it was to Dayan. For Xiao Rongyan, it was more useful to keep King Liang alive than dead.
Bai Qingyan quickly rejected his idea. No matter how powerful Xiao Rongyan’s men were…it was impossible for them to carry the bodies of those children in and out of the Prince Liang’s Mansion surrounded by the Emperor’s secret guards.
Bai Qingyan listened to the increasingly irritating sound of cicadas and became more and more disappointed with the Jin court.
In this case, the emperor should know that Prince Liang used children to make elixirs, but the lives of these children were like grass to the royal family, worthless, just like the Bai family… To the emperor, they were worthless when they were of no use, and he even wanted to get rid of them as soon as possible.
When the wind blew, the gilded copper hooks and copper bells made extremely subtle knocking sounds, the gauze curtains in the corridor swayed, and the lush ancient trees with their dense branches and leaves rustled.
Bai Qingyan only felt soreness in his eyes.
The people are the foundation of a country, and the emperor probably forgot this after he ascended to the throne.
Children are the future of the country!
There must be quite a few people in the capital who can see that this matter is strange, and the noble families always follow the direction of the royal family.
Now that the emperor is protecting Prince Liang who makes elixirs, I wonder how many noble families will follow suit and start making elixirs and taking them. By then… when making elixirs becomes a trend among the nobles in the capital, the emperor will be able to legitimately arrange for Prince Liang to continue making elixirs for him.
Second update! Happy February, my dears! This month is still a month for monthly tickets! If you have monthly tickets… there will be extra and explosive updates!