The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 514: Bow your head and admit your mistake
Chapter 514: Admit Mistakes
Bai Qingping lowered his eyes, still sitting on the chair in a proper manner, but his fists were quietly clenched. He said calmly: “I didn’t go with them when the bandits were suppressed, so I don’t know the details.”
“You don’t know, but the prefect’s son Shen Yancong who hangs out with you all day must know!” Bai Qiyun complained about Bai Qingping’s ignorance, “Why don’t you ask? That’s more than 400,000 taels of silver!”
“If the four hundred thousand taels of silver notes are found, the Princess will either use the money to train troops and suppress bandits, or, as she said before, use it to repair the clan ancestral hall, purchase clan land, and so on! Now that my uncle has been expelled from the clan, I wonder what the purpose of asking for this money is?”
Bai Qingping was extremely disgusted with Bai Qiyun’s behavior, but he couldn’t show it, so his words were inevitably a little harsh.
Bai Qiyun was speechless for a moment: “Why are you talking to uncle?”
Bai Qingping’s grandfather waved his hand to signal Bai Qiyun to calm down, and said to Bai Qingping: “This money was originally for the clan, but it was robbed from your uncle. Your uncle always thinks about this matter and feels guilty about the clan… So I want to ask, what’s wrong with this, and why do you talk to your uncle like this?”
“I think he just follows Bai Qingyan around and does a few things for Bai Qingyan… and then he thinks he’s capable!” Bai Qiyun glared at Bai Qingping.
Bai Qingping was not angry. He stood up and bowed to his grandfather, saying, “My sister risked her life on the battlefield to win the title of Princess of the Nation. She was magnanimous and forgiving. She did not care about how the clan had oppressed the orphans and widows of the Bai family in Dadu. She allowed my grandson to work with her and protected and supported the Bai clan members. Grandfather should be content and have a sense of shame. He should not think about things that do not belong to him!”
“How dare you!” Bai Qingping’s grandfather’s face instantly turned blue with anger. “You have no sense of shame, you are not a human being. Are you calling me a non-human?!”
“I dare not! I just think that grandfather is old…Now my uncle has been expelled from the clan, but my father is still the clan leader! I hope grandfather can save some face for my father and not let others think that our Bai family, the Shuoyang clan leader, are all people who forget their principles when they see profit!”
After saying that, Bai Qingping bowed to his grandfather and turned to walk out the door.
Bai Qiyun was so angry that his chest heaved violently: “Father! Look at Bai Qingping! He doesn’t even take you seriously…”
Bai Qingping, who had just stepped out of the door and opened the curtain to leave, paused and turned his head to Bai Qiyun in the room and said, “I advise uncle not to be greedy. Otherwise, the princess may spare uncle because my father is still the clan leader. But if uncle goes too far, the princess is definitely not a soft-hearted person.”
After saying that, Bai Qingping strode out of the yard.
“Dad! Look at what Bai Qingping has become!” Bai Qiyun jumped up from his chair, pointing in the direction of Bai Qingping and yelling at his father.
Bai Qingping’s grandfather was silent, tightly clenching the cane in his hand. He knew that his grandson had always been the most sober one in the Bai clan, even more sober than him, the previous clan leader.
Bai Qiyun had originally been thinking about the more than 400,000 taels, and he also felt that the more than 400,000 taels originally belonged to the Bai clan. Since his younger brother Bai Qihe is now the clan leader, if he finds it back, he will naturally hand it over to the clan leader. Then he can let Bai Qihe give him some, which will not be in vain for his hard work in getting it back from the Bai family in Dadu.
But looking at Bai Qingping’s attitude now, even if the silver is to be returned… I’m afraid he will have to deliver it personally to Bai Qingyan so that Bai Qingyan can use it to train his troops.
“That’s enough! Let’s go back…” Bai Qingping’s grandfather propped himself up with his cane and said to Bai Qiyun, “Don’t think about the silver anymore.”
“Dad! Dad, are you going to abandon your son too?” Bai Qiyun was panicked for a moment.
Ever since his younger brother Bai Qihe became the clan leader, Bai Qiyun has been worried that he would be abandoned by his father. After all… Bai Qihe is also his father’s son.
Without getting an answer from his father, Bai Qiyun stared at his father’s back with a pale face, feeling extremely anxious.
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At 10 p.m. on July 28, there was a knock on the side door of the mansion of Left Prime Minister Li. When the gatekeeper opened the door, she saw seven heads neatly laid out on the stone steps. She was so frightened that she screamed and fainted.
Another old woman in the gatehouse who heard the noise rushed out, fell to the ground in fear, used her hands and feet to back away, got up and rushed to the inner courtyard.
Left Prime Minister Li Mao was practicing calligraphy in his study when the blue-robed and white-robed strategists from the mansion hurried over and asked to see him at the door of his study.
Li Mao finished writing the last stroke, put down the purple-hair brush in his hand, wiped the ink stains on his hands with a wet towel, and admired his calligraphy: “Please come in, gentlemen!”
As soon as the two entered the room, the blue-shirted counselor said, “Something happened to the left prime minister! The head of the man we sent to Shuoyang was sent back!”
Li Mao was startled, he looked up at his two advisers, his face changed drastically, and he suddenly remembered the time when his son’s legs were broken.
“It must have been Bai Qingyan who discovered it.” Li Mao gritted his teeth, threw the handkerchief on the table, and frowned. “I told you so many times to be careful! How come you were still discovered? What the hell are you doing?”
Fortunately, Bai Qingyan only sent the head back to him as a warning, instead of sending the letter directly to the Prince’s Mansion…
Thinking of this, Li Mao’s throat rolled, and he hurriedly said, “Quick! Send someone to watch the gate of the Prince’s Mansion to see if there is anything unusual in the Prince’s Mansion!”
If she really angered Bai Qingyan this time, and she didn’t want to be caught, why not just get rid of him? !
This time it was Li Mao who was rash. He was not someone who was used to having others hold a hold over him. He was used to being in control. Anything beyond his control would make him feel like a thorn in his back, making him restless and unable to sleep all night.
That’s why he sent people to Shuoyang and had his people contact the people of the Shuoyang clan, trying to find… or even create something to hold against Bai Qingyan.
“Could it be that the expelled Bai clan members told the Princess?” the white-robed strategist pondered.
“If the Bai family was really so united, how could the ancestral home be occupied?” The green-shirted strategist shook his head.
“Send someone to Shuoyang to admit his mistake to the Princess Zhenguo!” The white-clothed strategist made a prompt decision. Thinking of the fact that Bai Qingyan had broken the leg of Li Mingtang, the youngest son of the Left Prime Minister, he suddenly felt a chill down his spine.
The white-robed strategist had a strong feeling that Bai Qingyan was definitely not a good person. If he pissed Bai Qingyan off, even if Bai Qingyan would not kill Zuo Xiang this time, he would still make him suffer.
If Bai Qingyan knew about the dirty tricks planned by their people and the Shuoyang clan, it might even cost Zuo Xiang’s life.
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