The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 614: Shameless
Chapter 614: Shameless Offense
Seeing Bai Qingyan’s girlish and peaceful smile, it was so beautiful that Xiao Rongyan felt his heart beating. If possible… Xiao Rongyan wanted to keep Bai Qingyan’s smile and protect her from worries.
But Xiao Rongyan knew very well that the woman he admired was not an ordinary girl. She had great ambitions that were not above love between men and women. It was he… who seemed to be sentimental.
When Xiao Rongyan sent Bai Qingyan to the gate of Dali Temple, Quan Yu and Lu Jin were already waiting there.
As soon as he saw Bai Qingyan arriving, Quan Yu hurried down the steps to greet him. Lu Jin also quickly followed behind Quan Yu and walked to Bai Qingyan to pay his respects.
“Mr. Xiao, please send him here!” Bai Qingyan said to Xiao Rongyan with a smile.
Secretly, Xiao Rongyan still wanted to stay with Bai Qingyan for a while longer, but he also knew that if Bai Qingyan interrogated Fu Ruoxi, he didn’t know how long he would have to stay in the Dali Temple prison, so he had to say goodbye first.
Lu Jin hurriedly asked the jailer to take Bai Qingyan’s horse away and asked Bai Qingyan: “Does the Princess Zhenguo want to interrogate Fu Ruoxi alone?”
Seeing Xiao Rongyan getting on his horse and leaving, Bai Qingyan, Lu Jin, and Quan Yu walked up the steps of the Dali Temple Prison while saying, “Master Lu can wait in the next cell for a while. You don’t have to go with me to see Fu Ruoxi.”
Bai Qingyan said this to avoid suspicion.
If she avoided Lu Jin and met Fu Ruoxi alone, it was inevitable that others would suspect Bai Qingyan, who had already acknowledged the prince as his master… and would use coercion and bribery to use force on Fu Ruoxi, deliberately letting her frame the queen.
Lu Jin nodded in agreement and followed Bai Qingyan closely with a respectful attitude.
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Fu Ruoxi watched her mother being hit and killed in front of her last night. At this moment, she felt like a useless person. Her eyes were red as she leaned against the damp and moldy wall of the Dali Temple Prison, looking at the small window through which the light came in. Her tears had dried up.
Hearing the sound of the door chain, Fu Ruoxi’s fingers, which were covered in dried blood, moved, but she still looked out the window with a dejected look. The bright light with dust particles floating in it made her look like a sculpture.
Bai Qingyan looked at Fu Ruoxi, who was no longer as high-spirited as before. He did not mind the filth of the prison and knelt down on the slightly cleaner straw opposite Fu Ruoxi, as if he wanted to have a long talk with her.
She said, “The news that Old Madam Fu committed suicide in front of you in the Dali Temple prison yesterday has spread all over the capital. Today, I went to pay my respects to Old Madam Fu. Before I even entered the house… I heard the eldest wife of the Fu family scolding Madam Fu with harsh words in front of General Fu’s two legitimate sons.”
Upon hearing this, Fu Ruoxi clenched her fingers, thinking of the guilt she felt for not visiting when her mother wrote to her about the funeral of the Bai family. Then she remembered that at the Anping camp, Bai Qingyan cut off one of his arms but did not kill him… just to help him save the Fu family.
Fu Ruoxi then propped herself up with one arm, knelt down in the direction of Bai Qingyan, and kowtowed: “Princess Zhenguo spared my life in Anping Camp and saved the entire Fu family. Fu Ruoxi would like to thank Princess Zhenguo for this!”
“General Fu, you don’t have to thank me. Perhaps I did something unnecessary this time… I still couldn’t save the entire Fu family. I also let Old Lady Fu die in such a tragic way and let Madam Fu be humiliated.” Bai Qingyan looked at Fu Ruoxi with eyes as deep as a clear pond. “Bai Qingyan, I regret it.”
Speaking of Old Madam Fu, Fu Ruoxi couldn’t help but burst into tears again.
“Bai Qingyan has a question. Does the letter that the Queen sent to Anping Camp to threaten General Fu say… Your Majesty will not live long, and asks General Fu for help and to support Prince Xin to ascend the throne?” Bai Qingyan did not beat around the bush with Fu Ruoxi and asked the question he wanted to ask most.
Fu Ruoxi tightened her hands on her knees, pursed her lips and remained silent.
“Could it be that even though Old Lady Fu sacrificed her life, she still couldn’t make you realize your mistake? You still want to protect the Queen?” Bai Qingyan said very impolitely, “You were threatened by the Queen with Old Lady Fu, so you had no choice but to wield a knife against His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. It can be said that… you did it to fulfill your filial piety! The Crown Prince and I both respect you as a filial son!”
“But you are so despised today!” Bai Qingyan stared at Fu Ruoxi, his voice calm, “Old Madam Fu risked her life to protect the safety of the whole family, but because of love, you refused to speak up and explain the cause and effect of this matter, putting the whole Fu family in danger! This is unfilial to Old Madam Fu who risked her life to buy a way out for the Fu family!”
“Because of love… you let your wife and children be blamed and accused, and they may even die with you. What have your wife and children done to you? Your two children have just started their lives! You are unjust to your wife and children!”
“It’s still because of love that you concealed from His Majesty the fact that the Queen had asked you to lead troops to force the palace and support Prince Xin’s ascension to the throne. This is disloyalty!”
“The Queen is already His Majesty’s wife, and you are also a husband and a father. You still have feelings for His Majesty’s wife. This is shameless and rebellious! Fu Ruoxi… such an unfaithful, unfilial, unrighteous, and shameless person, I regret having mercy on you and sparing your life. I might as well have chopped off your head at that time, and let the Fu family go clean today.”
Fu Ruoxi clutched the clothes in front of her knees tightly and cried bitterly with her head tilted back.
Bai Qingyan’s voice was clear and gentle, but it was powerful. Every word he spoke stripped away the last bit of dignity that Fu Ruoxi had left, and Fu Ruoxi could hardly hold on.
“Fu Ruoxi, do you know that the Queen wants to support Prince Xin to ascend the throne? Why did she look for you… and not her own brother?” Bai Qingyan felt that what he had just said was not cruel enough, and was not enough to break Fu Ruoxi’s love for the Queen. He sneered, “Because if you lead troops to force the palace to rebel and fail… it has nothing to do with the Zhong family. It is not the Zhong family that will be executed… but the Fu family. This… is the Queen’s love for you.”
Fu Ruoxi’s throat was churning. The three words “impossible” were rolling in her throat, but she couldn’t utter them. She just opened her eyes wide with bloodshot eyes.
“Do you know… why the Queen is so anxious to push the deposed Prince Xin to the throne?” Bai Qingyan raised his hand and pointed at the wall behind Fu Ruoxi, then pointed at his ear, and then said, “The Queen is pregnant with a legitimate son. In less than ten months… there is a 50% chance that she will give birth to a prince. Isn’t a legitimate son with a clean background more suitable for ascending the throne than Prince Xin? As long as the legitimate son is born, if the prince makes a mistake, there will be many courtiers who support the legitimate son to enter the East Palace. Why can’t the Queen wait? Because the Queen… is falsely pregnant and can’t give birth to a child.”
Fu Ruoxi’s eyes were bloodshot and her fists were clenched tightly.
“Let’s take a step back and say that even if the child is not yours, as the Queen threatened you to do, just treat it as yours. At least there is a real child in your belly. As long as the child is born a boy… Your Majesty is already old, the Crown Prince made a mistake, and the legitimate son smoothly entered the East Palace, and the Queen ruled the country from behind the curtain. Isn’t that good? The Queen can force General Fu to rebel and force the emperor to abdicate. General Fu thinks… Will the Queen be someone who is willing to push her son to the throne and then live out her years in peace?”
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