The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 513: harmless
Chapter 513: Harmless
“Cousin?!” Dong Changlan was also stunned, looking nervous, “Cousin, you are injured!”
Bai Qingyan jumped off the horse in a swift and graceful manner. She lowered her eyes to glance at her clothes and said with a smile, “I am fine with other people’s blood.”
Cui was so frightened that her face turned pale. When she heard Bai Qingyan say that, she pressed a handkerchief against her chest and felt her stomach churning. She quickly patted her chest to suppress the feeling. She couldn’t stand the sight of blood since she was a child.
“Changlan, Sister Rong…have a safe journey!” Bai Qingyan said with a smile.
Dong Changlan bowed to Bai Qingyan and helped Cui get on the carriage. Cui opened the carriage curtain with her bare hands and said to Bai Qingyan, “Cousin, please come to Dengzhou when you have time. Grandmother misses you very much.”
“Got it!” Bai Qingyan nodded.
“Tingzhen, are you really not going to Dengzhou?” Cui asked Dong Tingzhen again.
Originally, Dong Changlan and Cui wanted to take Dong Tingzhen back to Dengzhou, and wait until the New Year when the Dong family from Dadu returned to Dengzhou… Dong Tingzhen could then return to Dadu with the Dong family from Dadu, but Dong Tingzhen liked Shuoyang very much, and felt that Dong was lonely, so she was unwilling to leave.
Dong Tingzhen shook her head: “I want to stay and accompany my aunt more! I also want to go with my sister Jinzhi to see the military training in the military training ground!”
This was what Bai Jinzhi had promised Dong Tingzhen privately. When Bai Jinzhi, who had just dismounted, heard this, he hurriedly looked towards his aunt Dong. Seeing that Dong was not unhappy, he said, “It’s a small matter!”
Dong Tingzhen was reluctant to leave, and Cui did not force her. She only gave her a few words of advice, asking her not to cause trouble for her cousin.
“Aunt, cousin… Changlan is gone! Aunt and cousin, please take good care of yourselves! Write to Dengzhou often so that grandma can rest assured!”
“Brother Changlan, please take me to greet my grandmother and my second uncle and aunt!” Dong Tingzhen stepped forward and saluted to Dong Chang.
Dong Changlan nodded, bowed to Dong and Bai Qingyan, then mounted his horse and slowly left with the Dong family guards.
After watching Dong Changlan leave, Mrs. Dong took Bai Qingyan and Bai Jinzhi’s wrists and walked towards Boyun Courtyard, instructing the maid to prepare water for the two girls to bathe immediately.
Dong Tingzhen covered her lips with a handkerchief and smiled softly. She turned her head and said to her personal maid, “Let’s go prepare some food for my cousin and my younger sister. They set out early this morning to suppress the bandits, so they must be hungry now.”
“Aunt, I’m really not injured. How about… you just drag my elder sister to take a bath, and I can go back to my own courtyard?” Bai Jinzhi said with a smile, fearing that Dong would ask her to take off her clothes for inspection.
“Mother, I’m not hurt either.” Bai Qingyan also said.
Without saying a word, Mrs. Dong dragged the two back to Boyun Courtyard, and personally checked whether Bai Qingyan and Bai Jinzhi had any wounds.
After confirming that the two were safe, Dong finally breathed a sigh of relief and asked someone to go to Bai Jinzhi’s yard to get a set of clothes for Bai Jinzhi.
Behind a screen, Bai Jinzhi and Bai Qingyan were bathing separately. Bai Jinzhi whispered to Bai Qingyan, “I was so scared. I thought my aunt was going to strip me of my clothes like my mother, like a tiger, and slap me on the arm if I dared not to obey! I didn’t expect my aunt to be so gentle. Usually, my aunt is so dignified and serious. I thought she was more fierce than my mother.”
Bai Qingyan smiled and said, “I will tell Auntie San about this later.”
“Hey, hey, hey! Eldest sister…sisters are not allowed to tell the elders about their private conversations!” Bai Jinzhi shouted hurriedly.
After the two of them came out of the bath, Bai Jinzhi and Bai Qingyan sat on the soft couch by the window. While their maid twisted their hair, they drank the pigeon soup that Dong had asked Nanny Qin to bring, and the snacks that Dong Tingzhen brought.
Bai Jinzhi looked up at Bai Qingyan who was concentrating on drinking soup, and said, “Eldest sister, I will take the two people who were captured alive to Dadu to deliver a message to the Crown Prince! The results of the first anti-bandit campaign must be known to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.”
“You don’t have to go, I will arrange someone else to go. I have a more important matter for you to do.” Bai Qingyan said as he raised his hand to signal the maid who was twisting her hair to go out.
Bai Qingyan put the soup spoon aside, wiped the corners of his lips with a handkerchief, and then said, “Eldest sister wants you to take care of the Bai clan member who was expelled from the clan… Bai Qiyun.”
Bai Jinzhi was stunned and looked at Bai Qingyan with confusion.
“Bai Qiyun is colluding with people from the Left Prime Minister’s Mansion and wants to deal with our Bai family. You don’t have to worry about the Left Prime Minister. Think about how to get rid of Bai Qiyun without letting the former clan leader… and the people who were expelled from the Bai family fight to the death with our Bai family.” Bai Qingyan emphasized the key points and reminded Bai Jinzhi, “The Wu steward beside Bai Qiyun can be used, but you can’t trust everything he says. You figure out what to do, don’t rush into it with whips or knives. It doesn’t matter if you make mistakes, just treat it as practice.”
She always followed her elder sister’s orders, and when she was asked to do something, she didn’t know where to start and was a little panicked.
Bai Jinzhi opened her mouth and wanted to ask Bai Qingyan where to start, but she saw that Bai Qingyan just looked at her without any intention of giving any advice. She pursed her lips again, feeling even more confused.
“Xiao Si, it’s okay… It doesn’t matter if you can’t do it well. It doesn’t matter whether you deal with Bai Qiyun or not. It’s just for you to practice.”
“Then… I’ll try!” Bai Jinzhi’s palms were full of sweat. This made Bai Jinzhi more nervous than when he was in the capital city and was beaten with a stick if he couldn’t recite what he had learned yesterday.
Bai Qingyan smiled and nodded: “In addition, there are Xiaowu and Xiaoliu. Starting tomorrow, you will take them to practice horseback archery.”
Bai Jinzhi liked this and nodded with a smile: “Don’t worry, elder sister! This matter will be handled well!”
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On the afternoon of the day when Bai Qingyan and his team went to suppress the bandits, Bai Qingping was called over by his grandfather.
When Bai Qingping opened the curtain and entered the upper room, he saw his uncle Bai Qiyun, who had been expelled from the clan, was also there. He bowed to his grandfather and uncle.
“Aping, there’s no need to be so polite. Please sit down… Grandfather has a few words to ask you!” Bai Qingping’s grandfather was leaning on a shiny black ebony cane, his face full of a kind and warm smile.
Bai Qiyun was also smiling, and it was rare to see him showing such a warm expression to Bai Qingping.
“I heard that these days, you have used many brothers in the clan to do things for the Princess Zhenguo, and they have done a pretty good job?” Bai Qingping’s grandfather asked slowly and leisurely.
The maid came in through the curtain, served tea, and left.
“That’s right. If grandfather is interested in this matter, you might as well call father over. Father knows more about this matter than I do.” Bai Qingping said respectfully.
Bai Qiyun looked at his father and eagerly signaled him to ask the serious questions quickly. It seemed that if his father didn’t ask, he would ask in the airs of an uncle.
Bai Qingping’s grandfather took a sip of the teacup and asked casually, “I heard that the Princess Zhenguo took the new soldiers to the mountains to suppress the bandits early this morning. Did they find the banknotes that the bandits stole from your uncle?”
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