The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 540: Favor
Chapter 540 Human Relationship
The white horse under her crotch neighed in surprise, raised its hooves and galloped away, leaping out of the encirclement of the Southern Rong soldiers and leading the troops to retreat.
Under the mask of the Ghost-faced General, his eyes were wide open, and the skin on his neck exposed under the mask showed faint signs of burns. From the corner of his eye, he saw the deputy general beside him pointing an arrow at Bai Qingyan. He grabbed the deputy general’s arm… The arrow flew out and shot straight into the heavy shield protecting the Ghost-faced General.
“General?!” The deputy general turned around and looked at the ghost-faced general in confusion.
The ghost-faced general’s throat rolled over, and after a while, his sharp dark eyes looked at the deputy general and said seriously: “Retreat! We cannot confront Jin for the time being. If we force Jin and Dayan to the Northern Rong side, it will not benefit us in the Southern Rong. Besides, the princess of Dayan who was married to the emperor was shot by my arrow, so she will definitely not survive! Retreat!”
“General, you are right!” The deputy general nodded and shouted loudly, “Retreat!”
Bai Qingyan heard the Nanrong army sounding the retreat and turned to look at the Nanrong army. He saw a man wearing a ghost mask and general armor sitting on a tall black horse. He had an upright posture, and looked cold and reserved. Inexplicably, Bai Qingyan felt familiar. It could be said that he was familiar… but also very strange.
Bai Qingyan wanted to see what was going on, but the general wearing the ghost mask had already turned his horse around and led the Nanrong soldiers to retreat.
After turning around, Bai Qingyan frowned, thinking that he would definitely find out the origins of Nan Rong, the ghost-faced general, when he returned.
Dong Changlan brought Xiao Rongyan and his party back to Dengzhou City. At this time, Princess Mingcheng had fainted. Xiao Rongyan held Princess Mingcheng all the way. Dong Changlan held Princess Mingcheng’s neck and walked quickly into the palace, shouting loudly to call the palace doctor and the doctor from Dengzhou City over.
Princess Mingcheng was placed in the side room, and the court doctor hurriedly stopped her bleeding.
The guards who followed Xiao Rongyan, the soldiers who accompanied Princess Mingcheng to her wedding ceremony, and a nanny and a maidservant beside them were all put under custody.
Xiao Rongyan understood that this was as it should be. The first thing the State of Jin did after rescuing the princess of Dayan was to arrest the Yan soldiers and the maidservants and nannies who had accompanied the princess to the wedding and interrogate them to find out the cause of the incident.
Yue Shi and Xiao Rongyan’s guards had experienced this before, so they naturally knew how to respond.
Xiao Rongyan followed Princess Mingcheng and bowed to Dong Changlan: “Thank you, Brother Changlan, for saving my life!”
Dong Changlan ordered someone to prepare clean clothes for Xiao Rongyan, and personally took him to the guest room to change clothes. On the way, he asked, “Brother Xiao, why are you in Dayan’s wedding procession?”
Although Dong Changlan also had doubts about Xiao Rongyan, Xiao Rongyan was the benefactor of the Bai family after all, so Dong Changlan naturally had to be more polite to Xiao Rongyan.
“After finishing my business in Rongdi this time, I remembered Brother Changlan’s invitation to Dengzhou. I originally wanted to come by to see if I could contribute to the trade that Brother Changlan mentioned so that I could get more profits in the future. Who would have thought that I would encounter the Southern Rong Army and the wedding escort team entangled. I was too greedy. I wanted to help rescue the Princess of Dayan so that the Northern Rong Imperial Court would owe me a favor and it would be more convenient for us to do business in the future. Who would have thought that I would almost die there. Thanks to Brother Changlan and Miss Bai for coming in time!” Xiao Rongyan said and bowed to Dong Changlan again, “Thank you Brother Changlan and Miss Bai for saving my life!”
“Brother Xiao, you can’t do this!” Dong Changlan helped Xiao Rongyan up, “Brother Xiao, go take a shower and change clothes first. If father knew that Mr. Xiao was here, he would definitely be happy.”
Xiao Rongyan nodded with a smile, bowed again, and followed the servants of the Dong Mansion into the guest room to wash and change clothes.
When Bai Qingyan’s envoy arrived, he asked the Bai family guards to go back to Dong’s house to treat their wounds. Without even having time to change his armor, he took Lupin and went straight to the place where the Dayan marriage team and the Dayan princess’s maid were detained.
While they are being held separately and haven’t figured anything out yet, this is the easiest time to get information out of them.
Apparently Dong Qingyue and Bai Qingyan had the same idea, and they met at the gate of Dengzhou camp.
“Uncle, I will go and interrogate the maids and nannies around Princess Mingcheng, and you will interrogate the others!” Bai Qingyan said.
Dong Qingyue nodded.
Lupin followed Bai Qingyan and just as he pushed open the door of the barracks which was heavily guarded, he saw the nanny and the maid hugging each other and backing away.
Seeing that it was the female general who came, the nanny realized that there was a killer in Jin State, the eldest granddaughter of King Zhenguo. When she saw Bai Qingyan’s age, she guessed Bai Qingyan’s identity and knelt down and kowtowed: “Thank you, Princess Zhenguo, for saving my life. I don’t know how our princess is doing. Please show mercy and let me and Xi Que take care of our princess!”
As the old nanny spoke, she burst into tears and grabbed Xi Que, the palace maid who was almost frightened beside her, and made her kneel down.
Bai Qingyan could see that the old nanny was really worried about Princess Dayan’s condition, so she said, “Don’t worry, the doctor has gone to see Princess Dayan. Before I let you go to serve Princess Dayan, I have a few things I want to ask you and this palace maid. Please answer truthfully, otherwise I will not dare to let you go to serve Princess Dayan.”
“Princess Zhenguo, please ask. I will tell you everything I know.”
When the maid saw the nanny kowtow, she quickly followed suit and kowtowed: “I know everything… I will tell you everything I know!”
Seeing this, Lupin brought a chair over to Bai Qingyan.
“Dayan is sending its princess to marry the Rongdi people. Since it has already sent envoys to Jin to ask for passage, why not go directly to the Northern Rong through the territory of Jin, but instead go around the territory of the Southern Rong. What a waste of effort?” Bai Qingyan sat down on the chair and asked calmly.
“To answer the princess, we are just servants… we know nothing about the route. For the princess’s safety, except for Lord Peng who leads the bride’s escort, even the personal soldiers who escort the princess don’t know! Moreover, the route was decided by our Majesty before departure. If the princess doesn’t believe it, she can send an envoy to Yan, and our Majesty will certainly give a reply to the State of Jin!” the nanny said hurriedly.
What the nanny beside Princess Mingcheng of Dayan said was quite reasonable.
Bai Qingyan asked again: “Tell me how you encountered the Nanrong army?”
“I was accompanying the princess in the carriage to read the local chronicles that recorded the customs and habits of the Northern Rong people. General Peng, who came to escort the bride, suddenly ordered us to turn around and retreat. Who knew that before we could retreat, the Rongdi people came from all directions with flags and horses, surrounded us, and then there was a melee. I and Xi Que had been protecting the princess and hiding in the carriage. Then suddenly the man in white rushed in. He said his surname was Xiao and his name was Xiao Rongyan. He said he was an old friend of our Ninth Prince and came to save Princess Mingcheng! Later, when the carriage could not hold, Mr. Xiao wanted to take the princess away. When she got off the carriage, the princess was shot in the neck by an arrow…”
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