The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 710: to shake
Chapter 710 Shake
Qi smiled and said to Bai Wanqing in her arms: “This is our little eight’s first Little New Year!”
Qi’s personal nanny pulled the thick hood of Bai Wanqing’s head closer, fearing that she would get cold: “Madam, please come into the house and warm up, don’t let our eighth sister get cold…”
Qi responded and carried Bai Wanqing up the high steps of the corridor. The maids and nurses hurriedly bowed and opened the curtain.
As soon as Bai Wanqing arrived, she was held in Bai Qingyan’s arms. The little girl couldn’t speak yet, so she stood up shakily with the help of the small table on the couch, then sat down again. She pouted but didn’t cry. She crawled to Bai Qingyan, helped Bai Qingyan stand up, and reached out for the jade hairpin on Bai Qingyan’s head.
Bai Jinzhao and Bai Jinhua were so in love with the fair, tender and chubby Bai Wanqing that they squeezed behind Bai Qingyan, covered their faces with their hands and played hide-and-seek with Bai Wanqing. When they saw the two sisters’ identical faces appear in front of them, Bai Wanqing lay on Bai Qingyan’s shoulder and giggled, with her saliva flowing onto Bai Qingyan’s shoulder.
Bai Qingyan did not despise her either. He skillfully held Bai Wanqing in his arms, wiped her little mouth with a handkerchief, and then took a piece of soft dessert and put it next to Bai Wanqing’s mouth. The little girl held the dessert and started to chew it, and the dessert was covered with her saliva.
“Oh, Xiaoba is drooling too much now…” Bai Jinhua took out a handkerchief and bent down to wipe the saliva of the little girl.
Bai Wanqing snatched Bai Jinhua’s handkerchief and leaned in Bai Qingyan’s arms, looking very cute and adorable.
“Ah! Sister, look, Xiao Ba snatched my handkerchief!” Bai Jinhua widened her eyes.
“You were the same when you were little!” Fourth Madam Wang said with a smile, “When you were this old, you liked to snatch your second sister’s handkerchief, and once you got it, you looked very proud just like our little Eight.”
“No way!” Bai Jinhua turned to look at the Fourth Madam, Wang, “Mother must have remembered it wrongly. It must be the Fifth Sister! We look exactly the same. Mother must have remembered it wrongly.”
Bai Jinzhao, who was eating snacks, looked up. There were snack crumbs around his mouth, and he looked innocent and cute.
Fifth Madam Qi smiled with her hands covering her lips: “Just look at how powerful our Xiaoliu is…it must have been this little devil who snatched the brocade handkerchief back then.”
The family had a lively and cheerful New Year’s Eve dinner, and it was not until the hour of midnight that Bai Wanqing fell asleep in Bai Qingyan’s arms. The fifth lady, Mrs. Qi, then asked the wet nurse to hold Bai Wanqing and leave first. Seeing that it was getting late, the fourth lady, Mrs. Wang, also got up and returned to the yard with her two daughters.
Only the third wife, Mrs. Li, drank two more glasses of rose honeydew tonight. She looked at the falling snow outside the window and missed her daughter Bai Jinzhilai who was fighting outside. She burst into tears and was full of worry: “I don’t know if Xiao Si received the winter clothes I sent her. I don’t know if she ate well and slept well, or if she was injured. That heartless little girl… every time she sent a letter back, she didn’t even ask if her mother was okay! I’m afraid… I’m afraid that she will be like A Bao, only reporting good news but not bad news, and we don’t even know if she was injured.”
A mother worries when her son is away from home, let alone Bai Jinzhina is on the battlefield.
Dong handed the handkerchief to Li and whispered to comfort her: “Don’t worry, Abao has arranged people around Xiao Si. If Xiao Si is really injured, the people around Xiao Si will send a letter back!”
Li wiped her tears with a handkerchief and whispered, “When Xiao Si was at home, I always despised her for being useless and not being a lady from a wealthy family. But now that the child is really gone… I feel so empty inside! If she doesn’t want to learn to be a lady from a wealthy family, then don’t do it! As long as she can come back safely, I will never force her to learn anything she doesn’t want to learn.”
Without Bai Jinzhi’s cheerful voice, this New Year’s Eve seemed quite lonely, not to mention Third Aunt… Bai Qingyan missed Bai Jinzhi very much, and she was very worried about him. Her voice was a little hoarse, “Third Aunt, it’s Abao who is sorry for you and Xiaosi…”
Li came back to her senses and realized that she was making Bai Qingyan feel uncomfortable. She wiped her tears with a handkerchief and said, “Hey! Third Aunt just drank a few glasses too much. Don’t take it to heart! I’m sorry… your third uncle should come and tell you! All the sons of our Bai family are gone. Abao and you, the eldest sister-in-law, are struggling to support the Bai family. Third Aunt is not someone who doesn’t know the importance of things. I’m very happy that Xiao Si can be used and can share the burden of the Bai family like her brother! It’s just that I can’t help but miss her!”
Hearing the crackling sound of sparks exploding in the brazier, Li looked at Bai Qingyan with a sad face, stretched out her hand to hold Bai Qingyan’s hand, lowered her eyes and gently stroked the back of Bai Qingyan’s hand, and said solemnly: “From last year to today, this year feels like a lifetime. The remaining orphans and widows of the Bai family can return to Shuoyang smoothly from the capital city. Abao… you have worked hard! Third Aunt knows everything in her heart!”
Bai Qingyan’s eyes were red and wet, and he looked at his third aunt with a smile.
Not long after, the personal nanny beside the third wife Li also helped Li leave and go back.
Only Dong and Bai Qingyan, mother and daughter, were left in Meixiang Pavilion. Dong was also very sad… She didn’t even dare to make clothes for Ayu, let alone send them to her, for fear that others would know that Ayu was still alive and bring danger to her.
Mrs. Dong smiled and held her daughter’s hand, smiling without saying anything. She only prayed that God would bless her children to live well and peacefully in this life, and she would be satisfied.
“Mother, this is the sweet soup that Nanny Tong and the cook made recently. It tastes good. Abao knows that you don’t like sweet things, but today is New Year’s Eve, and a year of hard times has passed. Abao hopes that you can have a sweeter life every day in the future. Mother, please try it.” Bai Qingyan smiled and pushed the soup bowl in front of Dong.
Dong nodded with a smile, tears falling down her cheeks: “Okay!”
May every day be sweeter…
In fact, as long as her children are still around, Dong will feel happy no matter how hard life is.
“I don’t know if the person my mother sent to Dengzhou to deliver the New Year gifts is on the way back.” Bai Qingyan hopes that the person who went to Dengzhou to deliver the New Year gifts can bring back some news about Ayu for her and my mother.
Mrs. Dong raised her eyes and looked at Bai Qingyan. She knew why Bai Qingyan was thinking about the person who went to Dengzhou to deliver the New Year gifts, and said with a smile: “The person I sent to deliver the New Year gifts is my dowry manager. He has not returned to Dengzhou for many years. I promised him to come back after the first month of the year in Dengzhou.”
Before the steward set off, Dong reminded him to pay more attention to the news from Nanrong.
Mrs. Dong…also hoped that the steward could bring back news about her son, even if it was just a few words.
The snow in Shuoyang City was falling heavier and heavier, covering the Bai family’s ancestral home with its ancient and heavy green bricks, blue tiles, red railings and vermilion paint.
In the deep courtyard, the snow falls slowly and heavily.
No matter how snowy the wind was outside the window and how cold the wind was, the bright lights in the Meixiang Pavilion were not affected at all.
Just like the Bai family today, the wind and snow can no longer easily shake them.
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