The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 685: self-sufficiency
Chapter 685 Self-sufficiency
When Quan Yu heard Bai Qingyan say this, he hurriedly said that he didn’t dare.
Bai Qingyan smiled at Quan Yu and said, “Eunuch Quan Yu, goodbye…”
Quan Yu bowed quickly and said, “Princess Zhenguo, please take care!”
Bai Qingyan nodded, opened the curtain, and leaned back into the car.
Quan Yu was distressed when he heard Bai Qingyan’s coughing in the carriage. He stepped aside and watched Bai Qingyan’s convoy leave with a smile on his lips. He was very happy that Princess Zhenguo could thank him so solemnly.
When he came to his senses, he found that Princess Zhenguo really did not allow the Prince’s personal guards to accompany her. Quan Yu planned to go back and talk to the Prince about Princess Zhenguo’s loyalty. Princess Zhenguo always considers His Royal Highness the Prince, but Old Man Fang cannot stand Princess Zhenguo and tries to sow discord between Princess Zhenguo and the Prince.
Quan Yu clenched his fists, stood there and watched Bai Qingyan go until the convoy was out of sight, then he got on the carriage.
As soon as Quan Yu returned to the Prince’s Mansion, he confessed Bai Qingyan’s loyalty to the Prince, saying that Bai Qingyan said the safety of His Royal Highness the Prince was more important and that he had not taken any of his personal guards with him, so he should bring all of them back to protect the Prince’s safety.
After hearing this, the Crown Prince nodded his head: “Princess Zhenguo, you really consider everything for me! This time, Princess Zhenguo was seriously injured to save me, and all the fishermen…you open the warehouse, pick out some rare treasures, and tribute tonic ingredients, no matter what Fengxiongzhijiao, Yanbi and Hongchun, pick out the precious ones and send them to Princess Zhenguo to Shuoyang, and let the Shuoyang clan know that I am behind Princess Zhenguo, and they must be respectful to Princess Zhenguo!”
“Hey!” Quan Yu knew that this was the prince giving Bai Qingyan a face, and responded with a smile, “Don’t worry, Your Highness, I will definitely get it done!”
On October 27th, Princess Zhenguo’s carriage arrived at Kongtong Mountain on her way back to Shuoyang. When they were resting and having a meal at the inn, Shen Qingzhu arrived.
In addition to returning, Shen Qingzhu also brought news about Ji Tingyu.
Shen Qingzhu, who was covered in dust, saw the flag of the Bai family, the Zhenguo Princess’s Mansion, flying from afar. She rode her horse to the post station and jumped off the horse before it stopped. She saw Lupin, who was arranging the Bai family guards at the door, and called out, “Uncle Ping!”
“Miss Shen!” Lupin smiled, “This time the eldest lady brought Yin Shuang back with her. You haven’t seen Yin Shuang for a long time, right?”
Shen Qingzhu threw the reins to the Bai family guards, and thinking of the smile in Yin Shuang’s eyes, he nodded: “I will go to see her later, where is the eldest lady?”
“Dining upstairs…”
“I’ll go see the eldest girl first!” Shen Qingzhu bowed to Lupin and ran upstairs.
As soon as Shen Qingzhu went upstairs, she saw Chuntao coming out of the house with a medicine bowl. She called out to her and Chuntao happily saluted: “Miss Shen!”
Shen Qingzhu frowned and glanced at the medicine bowl in the black lacquered square plate in Chuntao’s hand: “This is…”
Chun Tao’s eyes turned red, and she lowered her voice and said, “The eldest girl is injured.”
Before Chuntao finished speaking, Bai Jinzhi opened the door: “Sister Qingzhu!”
“Fourth Miss!” Shen Qingzhu saluted with his fists clasped. Before he could ask how the eldest lady was injured, he heard Bai Qingyan’s voice coming from inside.
“Let Qingzhu come in! Chuntao, please add another set of bowls and chopsticks!”
Shen Qingzhu and Bai Jinzhi came in together. They saw Bai Qingyan had just put down the teacup and wiped the corner of his lips with a handkerchief. His already fair complexion looked even more haggard. He had lost a lot of weight, and his facial features looked even more distinct.
Seeing Shen Qingzhu frowning, Bai Qingyan motioned for Shen Qingzhu to sit down: “It’s not time to eat yet! Let’s eat together and take a short rest, then we’ll set off.”
Shen Qingzhu nodded and sat down at the round table with Bai Jinzhi, his eyes inevitably falling on Bai Qingyan again.
“It’s okay this time. I designed the injury myself to reduce the suspicion of the emperor and the prince so that I can return to Shuoyang safely!” Bai Qingyan looked at Shen Qingzhu, who had darkened a little, and smiled, “It’s rare to see you darker.”
Seeing that Bai Qingyan was in good spirits, Shen Qingzhu did not ask any more questions and said to Bai Qingyan, “Now the new recruits trained in Niujiao Mountain have gradually become regular. According to the way the eldest lady trained the guards, we can form a small team by combining the strengths of the soldiers and making up for their weaknesses! Ji Tingyu led people to rob the new recruits, and it was also effective. In order to avoid attracting too much attention, he only brought back one batch. Now the number of soldiers hidden in Niujiao Mountain is still expanding, but what I mean is… that the soldiers who are brought into Niujiao Mountain later can be trained in the ordinary way. It is not necessary for all of them to do so. It is too time-consuming and labor-intensive!”
Bai Qingyan asked: “What did Ji Tingyu say?”
The soldiers were led by Ji Tingyu, so Bai Qingyan naturally followed Ji Tingyu’s ideas.
“Ji Tingyu also meant the same thing, but in the end we still need to ask the eldest lady for her permission.” Shen Qingzhu said.
Chuntao added a set of bowls and chopsticks for Shen Qingzhu, then went out and stood guard outside the door, not allowing anyone to approach.
Bai Qingyan just nodded and said, “Leave it to his soldiers, he can make the decision!”
“Do you know where Ji Tingyu is now?” Bai Qingyan picked up the chopsticks and put a piece of steamed ham in honey on Shen Qingzhu’s plate.
“When Ji Tingyu left, he took a cage of pigeons raised in Niujiao Mountain and sent a letter back. I sent someone back to find Manager Liu… Manager Liu has quickly arranged for people to transport food in these three directions.” Shen Qingzhu took out the bamboo tube containing the letter that Ji Tingyu sent back by carrier pigeon from his chest and handed it to Bai Qingyan, “Here!”
Bai Qingyan took a look at these crudely made but extremely tiny bamboo tubes, opened them, and poured out the tiny letters inside. There were only two words on them: Maoshan.
The other bamboo tube had a completely different color from the previous one, and it said…Longping Mountain.
The last bamboo tube contains Huweiling.
These three places are where Ji Tingyu hides his troops. They are not too close, but not too far away either, so Ji Tingyu can still take care of them.
“Ji Tingyu even sent someone to deliver a message back, saying that food would be in short supply in the first year, and he needed the eldest girl to find a way to deliver it, but… as long as he could survive next year, he would be self-sufficient!”
Bai Jinzhi added a chopstick of food, frowning: “Don’t we have a carrier pigeon? Why did you send someone back to deliver the message? What a hassle!”
Bai Qingyan looked at Bai Jinzhi, who was blinking her clear eyes, and smiled with pursed lips.
Shen Qingzhu smiled at Bai Jinzhi and said, “Fourth Miss, you don’t know that although it is possible to deliver simple information by relying on the habit of pigeons to find their nests and not get lost, pigeons are animals after all. Animals have a natural instinct to avoid harm, so they may not be faster than people delivering letters. In addition, pigeons are easily captured by eagles, and letters are easily lost, robbed, or replaced! When the eldest girl was young, she also wanted to train pigeons to deliver military reports. After repeated tests, it was found that they were not very reliable, so they were abandoned later.”
Bai Jinzhi thought about it and felt that Shen Qingzhu was right. He looked at his eldest sister and said, “No wonder I remember that when I was a child, my eldest sister raised pigeons for a while, but then she stopped raising them.”
Second update, I’m still begging for monthly tickets, my dear ancestors! It’s the 30th… Hold on! There’s still tomorrow!