The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 590: first and last
Chapter 590 Beginning and End
Before Bai Jinxiu finished her words, she heard Chuntao’s voice from outside the partition: “Miss, Nanny Jiang brought Wei Zhong here and said she wants to see you for something very important.”
Bai Qingyan raised his head and looked out the window, vaguely seeing Wei Zhong following behind Nanny Jiang.
“Sister, let’s talk about it later…” Bai Jinxiu said as she picked up the teacup.
Bai Qingyan nodded and said, “Go and let someone in!”
Soon, Nanny Jiang brought Wei Zhong in. After bowing to Bai Qingyan and Bai Jinxiu, Wei Zhong bowed and said, “Master, last time Miss Lu saw the Queen and General Fu meeting privately, I was on your side and looked into the past affairs of General Fu and the Queen! I never thought that I would find out…the Queen and General Fu were engaged in the past, but it was only said by their elders in private, and they never exchanged tokens! Not many people know about it.”
Engagement?!
Bai Jinxiu opened her eyes wide and looked at Bai Qingyan. Seeing that Bai Qingyan was calm, she also calmed herself down.
“At that time, the current emperor was still the crown prince. The former crown princess had passed away for two years… His Majesty had not remarried. Later, at a palace banquet, the 15-year-old queen played the former crown princess’s best song by chance, and the late emperor intended to grant her a marriage. The queen’s mother’s family got wind of it early, so the queen went to the Fu family to find General Fu, hoping that General Fu would ask her to marry him before the imperial decree came down. However, General Fu felt that the Fu family was too low-class to be worthy of the queen, and he did not dare to compete with the crown prince for her, so he did not ask for the queen’s hand in marriage.”
Bai Qingyan didn’t expect that General Fu and the Queen actually had such a relationship. But to put it this way…is General Fu feeling guilty about the Queen, or is he in love with her?
I think, later on… maybe because the Queen had become the Queen, both the Fu family and the Queen’s mother’s family would suppress the matter and keep it secret.
But how did Wei Zhong find out about the old things that the two families wanted to bury?
“How did you find out? Is there any witness?”
“My Lord, I sent someone to pretend to be a merchant… to the brokers in the capital city, and paid them money, saying that they were looking for my father’s younger sister who was forced to be sold. I looked through the records of the sale of servants and slaves in the Queen’s mother’s family, and happened to see that the year the Queen married His Majesty and became the Crown Princess, the Fu family bought a lot of servants and followers, and the Queen’s mother’s family sold a lot of maids. I checked and found the old people in the Fu family and the old people in the Queen’s mother’s family. I asked both sides… and found everything.”
What Wei Zhong said was extremely simple, but it was not so easy to accomplish. This shows that Wei Zhong was indeed a capable person.
Bai Jinxiu already knew that the baby in the Queen’s belly was not in the right month. When she thought about how Lu Ninghua had caught the Queen and Fu Ruoxi having a secret meeting, she did a careful calculation… and immediately broke out in a cold sweat.
The Queen and Fu Ruoxi, are they together?
Fu Ruoxi was escorted back to the capital this time.
During this period of time, so many things happened in the capital city that she had not had time to finish telling her elder sister, let alone ask her what was going on with Fu Ruoxi. Could it be that Fu Ruoxi was going to rebel… for the queen?
“Where are the people?” Bai Qingyan asked again.
“After I asked, the person did not make a fuss, but I know where the person is. If the young lady wants to see him… I will bring him to her within half an hour!” Wei Zhong said.
“Okay, you did a great job on this matter. Thank you for your hard work!” Bai Qingyan finished talking to Wei Zhong and looked at Nanny Jiang. “Nanny Jiang, please take Wei Zhong downstairs to rest! If you need anything, I will send Chuntao to call him.”
Nanny Jiang nodded and saluted, then left with Wei Zhong.
Chuntao escorted Nanny Jiang out of Qinghui Courtyard. Before she turned around, she saw Qingshu, the head maidservant of Second Madam Liu, coming in one after another with maids carrying pots and water.
Chun Tao smiled and greeted Qing Shu, then quickly walked to the corridor and said to the inside of the house, “Miss, the Second Madam has sent someone to bring hot water for you to bathe.”
“Wait outside. I want to talk to the second young lady.” Bai Qingyan said in a deep voice, and then looked at Bai Jinxiu, “Go on, the emperor is worried about what will happen after the dragon baby in the queen’s belly leaves the table…”
“After the Emperor left the table, Concubine Qiu also got up and left. Then someone who claimed to be Concubine Qiu’s eunuch came to call Aunt Lu, saying that Concubine Qiu had a headache and asked Aunt Lu to come and give her acupuncture. I was restless during the table, and after thinking carefully, I felt that the eunuch’s expression was not right, so I hurried to find Aunt Lu. Who knew that the eunuch was so skilled, and that’s when the incident happened…”
Bai Jinxiu didn’t want to go into detail about the process, fearing that it would cause her elder sister to worry, so she just said, “But fortunately, she is safe now!”
“Grandmother, do you know about this?” Bai Qingyan asked.
Bai Jinxiu shook her head: “Aunt Lu knows the seriousness of the matter. This matter involves the stable situation that my eldest sister has worked so hard to plan, so Aunt Lu did not dare to tell my grandmother about this matter, but only told me quietly! My grandmother thought that the queen wanted to kill her because Aunt Lu saw her meeting Fu Ruoxi. Considering that the queen was pregnant with a legitimate son, she threatened the queen with Prince Xin so that the queen would not dare to act rashly again.”
“Aunt Lu is weak, and although you are pregnant, you were once very skilled. I also specifically told Yin Shuang to stay with you. The eunuch who can hurt you must be very skilled…” Bai Qingyan paused, and saw Bai Jinxiu tightly grasping the handkerchief, his face changed drastically, “Where is Yin Shuang?”
Bai Jinxiu’s eyes were red. “Yinshuang lost an eye to protect me. Doctor Hong said that she was always sleepy due to head injury. Now I asked her to go with me to see my brother. Today, my elder sister came back and Yinshuang came with her. She sat in the corridor with pine nut candy in her hand and said she wanted to wait for my elder sister. But before my elder sister came back, Yinshuang couldn’t hold on and fell asleep again…”
Speaking of this, Bai Jinxiu couldn’t hold back her tears.
When Bai Qingyan heard that Yin Shuang was holding pine nut candy and waiting for her, her eyes suddenly became sore and she stood up and said, “I’ll go see Yin Shuang.”
“Eldest sister, once Yin Shuang falls asleep, no one can wake her up.” Bai Jinxiu stood up and said in a choked voice, “Eldest sister, you are exhausted. After you take a bath and wait for Yin Shuang to wake up, it will not be too late to see you again.”
Bai Jinxiu did not try to persuade Bai Qingyan, and followed Bai Qingyan to the lower room to accommodate Yin Shuang.
On the big bunk bed, Yin Shuang was sleeping soundly with an eye mask on one eye. The little girl’s originally round face had become much thinner. Her hand exposed outside the quilt was still tightly holding the bag of pine nut candies that she was going to give to Bai Qingyan.
“Cui Bi thought that Yin Shuang loved to eat pine nut candies, so she made an eye mask for her overnight. It was embroidered with pine nut candies, and Yin Shuang liked it very much.” Bai Jinxiu’s eyes were red when she said this, but no matter how much she liked it… she couldn’t get Yin Shuang’s eyes back.
Bai Qingyan lowered his eyes, gently pried open Yinshuang’s hands, took out the pine nut candy and placed it next to her pillow, tucked in the corners of the quilt for her, and gently touched Yinshuang’s eye mask with his fingers. His eyes were already wet and red.
Shen Qingzhu has no relatives except her adoptive father, General Shen Kunyang. She treats Yin Shuang like her own sister.
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