The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 670: Frighten the snake
Chapter 670: Alerting the Snake
“Okay, then I won’t bother you anymore. Goodbye!” Lupin stood up and walked out of the yard.
Li Mingrui sat there without moving until Lupin left the yard. The old man guarding the yard came out to check and reported to Li Mingrui that Lupin had gone far away. Only then did Li Mingrui say, “Come out!”
The door of the inner tile-roofed house was opened, and the white-clad counselor of the Li Mansion walked out.
Li Mingrui picked up the teacup and took a sip, then asked, “What do you think?”
“Since the Princess Zhenguo has ordered this, you might as well follow her instructions and make proper arrangements for Wang Qiulu. You can also support Wang Qiulu, find him a wife and have children, to prevent the Princess Zhenguo from taking out those letters in the future…”
Li Mingrui looked up at the strategist in white with a faint smile on his face, and his mind suddenly brightened.
Marry a wife and have children for Wang Qiulu, and keep his wife in his hands. In the future…if Princess Zhenguo takes out the handwritten letters between his father and the second prince, he can let Wang Qiulu bite back at Princess Zhenguo and say that Princess Zhenguo deliberately framed their Li family because he found out that Princess Zhenguo saved the traitor Wang Qiulu.
“But both Emperor Tan and Lord Shoushan are masters with extremely high attainments in calligraphy. Once they read the letter and identify it, they will know it is not a forgery.” Li Mingruo frowned.
“In this case, we need to start arranging our own calligraphy masters. If in the future… the Princess Zhenguo really takes out the letter, it would be best if we have someone to prove that the letter is fake!” The white-clothed counselor smiled and said, “Also, as long as the young master keeps his composure and obeys the Princess Zhenguo’s orders in the next few years, the Princess Zhenguo will never waste her useful chess piece.”
The white-robed strategist picked up the teacup in front of him that Lupin had not touched just now, poured out the water, and took the teacup in his hand to examine it carefully: “Mr. Shoushan and Mr. Tan, the old imperial teacher, are not young anymore. How many years can they last? It won’t be long before they are buried in the ancestral tomb. What are you afraid of, young master?”
Li Mingrui chuckled and nodded: “In that case, I’ll trouble you to plan the layout!”
“Don’t worry, sir. I will carefully select the people who will go to rescue Wang Qiulu. No matter what, they will be related to the Princess Zhenguo and leave traces of the Princess Zhenguo’s Mansion!” said the white-clothed strategist with a smile.
“It’s better to be careful!” Li Mingrui looked at the counselor in white. “This is the first thing to do after surrendering to the Princess Zhenguo. If the Princess Zhenguo finds out about it and accuses me of trying to frame her, that would be bad.”
“Don’t worry, sir. I will be careful!” said the strategist in white.
Not long after Lupin and his party reached the long street, the White Family Guards caught up with Lupin on horseback and said to him, “There was another person in the room. As soon as you left, that person came out. But what he said… I didn’t hear it because he was too far away.”
Lupin nodded and instructed: “In the next few days, keep a close eye on Li Mingrui and the person who came out of the house, and find out who that person is!”
“yes!”
After Lupin went back to report to Bai Qingyan, Bai Qingyan suddenly looked up at Lupin behind the screen and said, “You said… Li Mingrui moved Qiu Shan’s maple tree to the yard?”
“That’s right!” Lupin heard that Bai Qing’s tone was wrong and asked, “What happened to the maple tree in Qiushan?”
“The maple trees on the hills are green and fragrant…” Bai Qingyan narrowed his eyes.
Lupin recalled Li Mingrui’s action of getting close to the incense burner and sniffing the incense, and nodded: “That incense seems to be green wood incense. I don’t know much about spices.”
Bai Qingyan leaned on the hidden bag and placed the book in his hand on the passionflower satin quilt on his legs: “Chun Tao, send someone to call Wei Zhong who is beside grandma!”
When it comes to verifying past events, Wei Zhong is better than Lupin.
Chun Tao said yes and sent someone to call Wei Zhong. Lupin frowned and asked, “Miss, is there something wrong?”
It’s not that there’s anything wrong with it, it’s just that Qiushan Red Leaves and Qingmuxiang have always been Du Zhiwei’s favorites.
Lupin said that there was a tattered lantern with the word “Du” written on it hanging at the door of the house. Coincidentally, there was a maple tree moved back from Qiu Mountain planted in the yard, and green wood incense was lit. This was more like Du Zhiwei’s style.
Li Mingrui… Du Zhiwei, Bai Qingyan wanted to find out what the relationship was between Li Mingrui and Du Zhiwei.
At first, Du Zhiwei was the counselor of the Second Prince. Li Mao surrendered to the Second Prince. Could it be that Li Mao’s eldest son studied under Du Zhiwei?
“Uncle Ping, don’t worry about it. I was just curious about something, so I asked Wei Zhong to check it out!” Bai Qing said frankly, “I will check the military rations in the northern border these days. If you have any instructions… I hope Uncle Ping can help.”
“Don’t worry, young lady!” Lupin bowed to Bai Qingyan.
Lupin knew that Bai Qingyan intended to train Bai Jinzhi, so he naturally did his best to assist Bai Jinzhi.
At this time, Bai Jinzhi was lying on the railing of the rockery pavilion in the yard, staring at the ginkgo leaves that fell all over the ground in the yard.
Bai Jinse, who had just come out of Miss Lu’s yard, saw her fourth sister with a sad face, looking as if she was in a trance. She said something to the maid beside her, then picked up her skirt and walked towards the rockery pavilion.
Bai Jinzhi was so absorbed in his thoughts that he didn’t notice someone approaching him until Bai Jinse raised her hand and patted Bai Jinzhi’s shoulder, and then Bai Jinzhi came back to his senses.
“Fourth sister, are you here to enjoy the autumn scenery?” Bai Jinse teased Bai Jinzhi deliberately. She looked in the direction Bai Jinzhi had just been looking at and saw that the hundred-year-old ginkgo tree in the Bai residence was covered with golden color, which was very beautiful. She smiled and said, “It’s just that it’s not a sunny day today. If the sun shines like that, it will be a golden and beautiful sight.”
When my brothers were all here, they loved practicing swordplay under the ginkgo tree. My fifth uncle loved ginkgo trees, so he felt bad and drove all my brothers away. He would sit under the tree playing chess all day long and guard the tree to prevent my brothers from practicing swordplay there, for fear that the tree would be damaged.
“I’m not in the mood to appreciate the ginkgo trees!” Bai Jinzhi turned around dejectedly, leaning his boneless back against the red painted railing, and casually fiddled with the gauze curtain that was hooked to the pillar by the copper hook. “My elder sister asked me to investigate the fact that sand and gravel were mixed into the military rations in the northern border, and gave me silver… The people in our mansion are at my disposal, but I just don’t know where to start!”
Seeing Bai Jinzhi’s irritable look, Bai Jinse was about to speak, but when she thought that this was a test from her eldest sister to her fourth sister, she pursed her lips and smiled softly, “Fourth sister… you are a princess now. If you go to the Ministry of Revenue to inquire, I’m sure the Ministry of Revenue won’t dare to hide anything.”
Bai Jinzhi looked up at Bai Jinse and said, “I’ve thought about this, but I don’t have a proper name to go to the Ministry of Revenue to investigate, otherwise I would alert the enemy!”
“Fourth sister is afraid of alerting the enemy!” Bai Jinse couldn’t help laughing.
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