The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 658: noble son
Chapter 658: Nobleman
Hearing Chuntao bow and call the fourth young lady, Bai Qingyan looked up at Bai Jinzhi who was standing beside the gauze screen painted with misty mountains and rivers. With a faint smile between his eyebrows, he called her: “Little Fourth…”
Bai Jinzhi’s tears burst out all at once, falling down in strings, wetting her clothes. She knelt on the rosewood footstool beside Bai Qingyan’s bed, hugged Bai Qingyan’s slender waist tightly, and choked with sobs and cried, “Eldest sister! You scared me to death!”
Bai Qingyan raised his hand and gently touched Bai Jinzhi’s head, saying softly: “Eldest sister is fine…”
Although she saw that her elder sister was indeed fine, Bai Jinzhi still couldn’t help but burst into tears and hugged Bai Qingyan tightly without letting go.
Seeing Bai Jinzhi coming, Bai Qingyan knew that… the news of the Wude Gate Rebellion in Dadu had spread to Shuoyang, and she had not been able to hide the fact that she was injured. She touched Bai Jinzhi’s head and said softly, “You just left Shuoyang and came to Dadu like this?”
Bai Jinzhi just cried without answering, and only looked up after she had cried enough, looking at Bai Qingyan with red eyes, sobbing and saying: “I’ll leave it to Bai Qingping! Don’t worry, elder sister… I told everyone to keep the fact that elder sister was injured a secret! Great aunt doesn’t know about it yet. When I said goodbye, I said I was worried that elder sister was injured and that we were afraid that we would conceal the news, so I had to rush to the capital to check on her…”
Bai Jinzhi did not finish the rest of her words. Although Dong was also worried about Bai Qingyan, she did not agree to let Bai Jinzhi go to the capital city alone. Who would have known that this little girl would leave a letter and ride straight to the capital city on horseback, and she was so bold as to not bring anyone with her.
Bai Qingyan took the handkerchief from Chuntao and wiped Bai Jinzhi’s tears. Since one of his arms couldn’t move, he could only tell Chuntao: “Help the fourth girl up!”
Chuntao was about to go forward to help Bai Jinzhi, but Bai Jinzhi hugged Bai Qingyan’s slender waist like a child and buried her head in Bai Qingyan: “I can’t get up! I can’t get up! I just want to hold my elder sister like this…”
Bai Jinzhi shouted and started crying again.
No one knew that Bai Jinzhi was very nervous along the way. She wanted to cry but swallowed it back.
The moment Bai Jinzhi learned that her elder sister was in trouble, she felt as if she was pushed into an ice cave, and her whole body was chilled.
Bai Jinxiu, who had just returned from decocting medicine for Bai Qingyan, had just stepped into the yard when she heard Bai Jinzhi’s voice. She couldn’t help but smile, and stepped into the upper room behind the curtain. She picked up the medicine bowl from the black lacquered and gold-painted square plate in Cuibi’s hand, walked around the screen and came in: “I heard Xiaosi crying from a long distance…”
When Bai Jinzhi heard her second sister’s voice, she hurriedly stood up and wiped away her tears with her sleeves. She saluted to Bai Jinxiu with some embarrassment: “Second sister!”
“Don’t worry, my elder sister is indeed fine. This time… it was my elder sister who set up the trap. She had no choice but to do it in order to return to Shuoyang safely! Don’t forget to tell others… just tell them that my elder sister is rarely awake and is mostly in a coma.” After instructing Bai Jinzhi, Bai Jinxiu sat by the bed and handed the medicine to Bai Qingyan, “Eldest sister, Doctor Hong said that the prescription has been changed, and the medicine will be more bitter… just bear with it.”
Bai Qingyan nodded, took the white porcelain bowl, stirred it with a spoon, looked at Bai Jinzhi and asked, “Have you come back to pay your respects to Second Aunt?”
Bai Jinzhi lowered her head and shook her head. Her mind was full of her elder sister’s serious injury. As soon as she entered the gate of Princess Zhenguo’s Mansion, she went straight to her elder sister. How could she take care of anything else?
Seeing Bai Jinzhi like this, Bai Qingyan knew that Xiao Si didn’t go, so she said, “Go and greet Second Aunt and change your clothes! Chuntao, tell the kitchen to prepare some food for Fourth Miss!”
Bai Jinzhi responded, wiped her tears with her sleeve, lowered her head to greet Bai Qingyan and Bai Jinxiu, and left the upper room.
She stood under the corridor and let out a long sigh. Fortunately, her elder sister was fine. Bai Jinzhi never dared to think about what she would do if her elder sister was gone!
Fortunately, my eldest sister is fine.
Bai Jinzhi quietly wiped away her tears with her sleeve, then took a deep breath, clenched her fists, looked up at the sun, squinted her eyes and revealed a faint smile, then she cheered herself up and went to pay her respects to the Second Madam, Mrs. Liu.
Bai Jinzhi greeted the Second Madam and went back to take a bath and change clothes. Unexpectedly, he fell asleep in the bathtub. Liu was at a loss whether to laugh or cry, so she had to ask the nanny to pull Bai Jinzhi out, change the clothes for the dazed Bai Jinzhi, and have someone wring out his hair before letting Bai Jinzhi sleep on the bed.
Huang Arong, the granddaughter of Imperial Physician Huang, heard the news that Bai Jinzhi had come to the capital city, and she went to Bai’s residence that afternoon to play with Bai Jinzhi.
Ever since Bai Jinzhi returned to Shuoyang, Huang Arong has fewer playmates. Huang Arong is straightforward and active. In recent years, the daughters of various families have grown up and most of them have been confined at home to practice needlework. Apart from Bai Jinzhi, there is no one else who can play and have fun with Huang Arong.
Huang Arong excitedly told Bai Jinzhi some interesting things about the capital that Bai Jinzhi didn’t know, and Bai Jinzhi’s eyes widened as he listened.
“That bunch of playboys just followed Lu Yuanpeng and Sima Ping to join the army. But they couldn’t hold on for less than three days after leaving the capital… They couldn’t hold on any longer and wanted to come back! But that’s the army… not their own home. I heard that the general leading the team was fierce, so he just whipped them. Those playboys were so delicate and fragile, how could they withstand the whip! They were beaten by that bunch of playboys… their faces were all covered with blood!” Huang Arong exaggerated.
“What happened next? What happened next? Was Lu Yuanpeng’s face beaten like a cat? Did he make a fuss about coming back?” Bai Jinzhi’s eyes lit up.
“You are wrong this time!” Huang Arong said with a dry mouth. She deliberately kept the secret, slowly picked up the teacup and took a sip, then sat down next to Bai Jinzhi and said, “Later, I heard from the old man that… these new recruits had just arrived in the northern border, and His Majesty wanted to transfer them to the southern border. So… every family tried to get their own sons back to the capital! Only Lu Yuanpeng… when he heard that he was going to the southern border, he was determined not to leave! Sima Ping also followed him!”
“Isn’t Lu Yuanpeng afraid of being whipped?” Bai Jinzhi thought thoughtfully.
“Maybe he deserved a beating!” Huang Arong grabbed a handful of melon seeds. “After that, there was no news. But I heard those playboys who returned to the capital complain that the army rations were not good for human consumption. The rice was mixed with sand, which could break your teeth, and the rice was so coarse that it would scratch your throat if you swallowed it!”
Bai Jinzhi’s brows tightened: “Is there sand mixed in the rice?”
“That’s right!” Huang Arong shook her head. “I guess these young masters are so used to the pleasures of the capital that they can’t endure hardships. They are exaggerating. They say that they can spit out a few grains of sand after eating a mouthful of rice. If that’s true… How could Lu Yuanpeng, a young master who is so delicate, persist? He would have come back a long time ago! It’s obvious that they came back in disgrace and couldn’t save face, so they said this on purpose to save face for themselves!”
Bai Jinzhi felt that the group of dandies who played with Lu Yuanpeng, although they were spoiled, were used to being shameless and would never tell such a lie for the sake of face.
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