The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 676: miss you
Chapter 676 Miss You
Bai Jinxiu did not talk any more with the Grand Princess. After paying her respects, she took Cui Bi and hurried to Qinghui Courtyard.
When she entered the room, she saw her elder sister sitting beside a small soft table by the window drinking milk. She was not at all dying as Bai Jinxiu had thought.
On the small table stood a bright lamp covered with an eight-treasure colored glass cover, and beside it was an ancient book. The eldest sister’s ink-black long hair was casually tied up with a wooden hairpin, without a single piece of jewelry. Her brows were calm, and she scooped yogurt with a small silver spoon and brought it to her mouth. She did not look at all like a dying woman due to serious injuries, and Bai Jinxiu felt relieved.
“Eldest sister…” Bai Jinxiu bowed and walked to Bai Qingyan. She pulled the velvet blanket covering Bai Qingyan’s legs, sat down next to Bai Qingyan, and took out a silk handkerchief and handed it to Bai Qingyan who had just finished drinking the milk. “Eldest sister, I was scared to death!”
“Didn’t I ask someone to tell you not to worry?” Bai Qingyan took the handkerchief and wiped his lips with a smile, looking at Bai Jinxiu, “Why did you leave Wang Ge’er and come back again!”
“If you hadn’t come back, I wouldn’t have known Xiao Si was so capable and could figure things out so quickly.” Bai Jinxiu was referring to the issue of military rations in the Northern Frontier.
Chun Tao came in with hot tea, served Bai Jinxiu tea and then left, not hindering the two sisters from talking: “Second Miss, have some tea!”
Bai Jinxiu nodded to Chuntao, took the teacup, lowered her eyes and said, “Eldest sister, there is another piece of news. Liu Ruofu… committed suicide in prison. Prince Liang and Liu Ruofu were imprisoned together. I don’t know what he said to Liu Ruofu. I heard from the jailer… Liu Ruofu cried and hit the wall and died. After Lord Lu Jin arrived, Prince Liang still cried and begged to see Your Majesty, saying… Before Liu Ruofu died, she admitted that Prince Xian entered the palace under the pretext of saving the emperor in order to help him take the throne. When Liu Ruofu gave birth to a prince, he would kill him and take his place.”
When Bai Jinxiu heard this, she felt very upset and felt very sorry for Liu Ruofu…
No matter what, since Liu Ruofu was going to marry King Liang, King Liang, as a man, should protect his wife. But not only did he not do that, he also added insult to injury after Liu Ruofu’s death, eager to clear himself. It was really too cold-hearted and despicable.
“After the Wude Gate Rebellion, Prince Liang should not be able to die while the emperor is still alive. But once the prince succeeds to the throne… the first thing he will do is probably to take Prince Liang’s life. There is no need to rush and don’t dirty your hands.” Bai Qingyan said.
Today, Prince Liang’s methods are becoming more and more despicable, but in Bai Qingyan’s opinion, after the Wude Gate Rebellion, it is very unlikely that Prince Liang will make a comeback.
Bai Qingyan never dirty his knife for people who are not worthy.
Especially now that Prince Liang is alive, he will try to regain the emperor’s trust, and the prince will also be wary of Prince Liang. When the two of them are entangled, others will not notice the Bai family’s small movements.
Therefore, even if one hates King Liang now, King Liang is still needed to fight with the Crown Prince in this capital city.
“Sister, after this vomiting of blood, should we delay our return to Shuoyang?” Bai Jinxiu secretly hoped that Bai Qingyan could stay a little longer.
Bai Qingyan shook his head: “I’d better go back to Shuoyang as soon as possible. I haven’t been back for a long time, and there are many important things I can’t let go of. It’s not convenient to move around in the capital city. Not to mention that the prince just arranged a lot of secret guards around the Bai Mansion to apologize for the crown princess. I am even more restricted in doing things.”
Bai Jinxiu nodded and did not force Bai Qingyan to stay.
“Don’t come to see me off on the day we return to Shuoyang. We sisters have a long time to spend together… Taking good care of Wang Ge’er is the most important thing.” Bai Qingyan reminded Bai Jinxiu, “Besides, if you come to see me off, Xiao Si and I… will inevitably feel uncomfortable.”
Bai Jinxiu hesitated for a moment and replied, “Okay, I’ll listen to you, elder sister.”
The next morning, Bai Qingyan woke up to the sound of birds singing. She raised her hand, drew aside the bed curtain and looked out the window. The faint morning light passed through the shadows of the trees, and mottled golden light sprinkled on the window, swaying in the wind. She vaguely saw a birdcage hanging under the corridor, with two birds chirping and flapping their wings inside.
“Chun Tao…”
Hearing Bai Qingyan calling her, Chuntao responded and went into the upper room with a group of maids, holding washbasins and other utensils.
Chun Tao pulled aside the heavy curtains hanging from the sandalwood scale and came in. She then lifted up the two layers of brocade curtains embroidered with oleander and butterflies and hooked them on the gilded bronze hooks. She lifted the bed curtains, bent down to help Bai Qingyan up, with a gentle smile in her eyes: “The girl is awake!”
The maids filed in, bent over, and handed over nectar water for rinsing the mouth and salt for cleaning the teeth…
Bai Qingyan sat on the edge of the bed, looking weak, and Chuntao helped him rinse his mouth.
After she covered her lips and spit out the mouthwash, she heard the clear chirping of birds outside. She took the handkerchief and wiped the corners of her lips, then looked out the window: “Why are there two more birds under the corridor?”
Chun Tao placed a hot towel in a copper basin filled with hot water, wrung it dry and handed it to Bai Qingyan: “That was sent by Mr. Xiao, saying it was for the eldest lady to entertain her. The fourth lady heard the clear and pleasant chirping of these two birds, so she asked to hang them under the corridor of Qinghui Courtyard. But I don’t think the two birds are anything special, their feathers are not bright, and they can’t speak, but their voices are clearer. If the eldest lady doesn’t like it, I will ask someone to take it away.”
When he heard that it was sent by Xiao Rongyan, Bai Qingyan’s lips curled up slightly and said, “Bring it in later so I can have a look!”
“good!”
After Bai Qingyan had his breakfast, Chuntao helped him walk around the room for a while, then he sat down on the couch by the window and drank the bitter medicine. Just after he rinsed his mouth, Chuntao ordered someone to bring in the two birds hanging under the corridor.
Bai Qingyan wiped her mouth with a handkerchief and asked Chuntao to put two birds with ordinary feathers on the small table in front of them. She looked at them carefully and noticed that the legs of one of the birds were of different thicknesses. She sent Chuntao out to make tea, put some bird food in her hand, opened the birdcage, attracted the bird into her palm, and touched it carefully… there was indeed something wrapped around the bird’s legs.
Bai Qingyan took off the extremely narrow yellow silk cloth, put the bird into the cage, and unfolded it…
There are only two words on it: “Miss you”.
The corners of Bai Qingyan’s lips couldn’t help but rise, and his heart felt as if he had eaten honey.
Hearing Chuntao coming in, Bai Qingyan hid the silk cloth in his sleeves, looked at the birds chirping in the cage, and said to Chuntao: “Let these two birds go!”
“Don’t you like it, young lady?” Chuntao placed the teacup in front of Bai Qingyan and picked up the birdcage.
“It’s not that I don’t like them. They should be free. Why lock them up in cages?”
Chuntao responded, carried the birdcage to the yard and opened it, and the two birds with clear and pleasant voices immediately flew out.
It was a clear autumn day with not a single cloud in the sky. The two birds flapped their wings and disappeared over Qinghui Courtyard.
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