The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 715: build momentum
Chapter 715: Building Momentum
“Yes…” Butler Hao responded, bowed and went ahead to make arrangements.
As soon as Bai Qingyan arrived at the front hall, the guard brought her the first prescription written by Doctor Hong. Before she could even get on her horse, she heard Mr. Min Qianqiu calling her.
“Princess Zhenguo…”
Bai Qingyan turned around and saw Mr. Min wearing a cloak and holding up the hem of his long gown as he walked up the steps. He hurriedly saluted Mr. Min Qianqiu: “Sir.”
Bai Qingyan still looked sickly, with pale lips and face, no color at all, and a thin body.
Min Qianqiu glanced at the twenty guards ready to go outside the gate of the Bai Mansion. They were all mounted on their horses, each wearing a cloak, and it was obvious that they were going on a long journey.
Min Qianqiu bowed to Bai Qingyan, looked up and saw Bai Qingyan’s frail appearance, frowning, “Did the Princess Zhenguo go to the capital to persuade His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Jin because the Crown Prince of Jin wanted to kill the plague victims of Huayang City and Qinhuai City?”
Bai Qingyan nodded: “That’s right, Doctor Hong has developed a prescription to treat the epidemic, and I have sent people to deliver it to Huayang City and Qinhuai City at full speed, but I made my own decision in this matter… I still need to go to the Prince’s Mansion in person to persuade and explain.”
Old Mr. Min Qianqiu nodded and watched Bai Qingyan being helped onto the horse.
Old Mr. Min Qianqiu had been staying at the Bai Mansion for a long time because he was going to write a biography of the Bai family. He knew that Bai Qingyan had almost died twice since the beginning of winter.
Seeing that the simple action of being helped onto the horse made Bai Qingyan’s chest heave violently. She covered her chest with her hands, looking very uncomfortable, but gritted her teeth and galloped out on the horse.
Old Mr. Min Qianqiu felt indescribable feeling in his heart.
In order to save the people of the two cities…this girl, who was not even as old as her granddaughter, disregarded her own life and even dared not to sit in the carriage, wanting to ride a fast horse to the capital.
Once, Mr. Min Qianqiu read the eulogy written by Bai Qingyan to the heroic spirits of the Bai family.
There is a passage like this…
The disciples were born at different times, and there were differences in age, but their aspirations were the same, with no difference in length. If someone asks what I want in life, I will answer… a peaceful world with tranquility and peace!
Old Mr. Min Qianqiu raised his hand and gently stroked his beard: “The Bai family knows how to teach their children! The Bai family, the Duke of Zhenguo Mansion of Jin State, is a century-old military family. It really deserves the title of…Zhenguo.”
That afternoon, the news that Princess Bai Qingyan dragged her “dying body” to the capital city to save the people of Huayang and Qinhuai cities spread in Shuoyang.
Some people claimed that they saw with their own eyes Princess Zhenguo being helped out of the Bai Mansion and then helped onto a horse. Her face was pale and she looked very thin.
The rumors became more and more intense, and there were even rumors that Bai Qingyan was determined to save the people of the two cities at the cost of his last breath.
But no matter how bizarre the rumors were, the four words “Princess Zhenguo” indeed had extremely important weight in the hearts of the people of Shuoyang… and in the hearts of the refugees in the treatment centers outside the city.
It’s not because she is a god of death, not because she is invincible, but because she is full of glory but disregards her own life and runs for the lives of the people.
Mrs. Dong sat upright in the main hall, listening to the news coming in from outside about Princess Zhenguo’s efforts to save the people, and her heart gradually calmed down.
Since her daughter insisted on going to the capital city by herself, then… as a mother, she could only use this incident to make her daughter famous, just like when her daughter was in the capital city, she deliberately pushed the Bai family’s reputation to the top, making the emperor afraid to take action against the widow and orphans of the Bai family!
Now, Dong also wants to use this method to prevent the prince from harming her daughter.
Dong was not stupid. The prince’s order to massacre the people of the two cities was definitely not an open order, but a secret order. But how did her daughter know this secret order… Wouldn’t the prince think more about it? Even if the prince trusted his daughter, wouldn’t the advisers around him have doubts?
Although Bai Qingyan is extremely intelligent, as a mother, Dong must do her best to keep her daughter safe.
Mrs. Dong had a vague feeling in her heart that her daughter… was definitely not someone who would willingly submit to a mediocre person like the prince. Shuoyang was training troops ostensibly to suppress bandits, but in reality, her daughter did it to seize military power.
Mrs. Dong rested her elbows on the armrests of the chair. If one day her daughter really had such thoughts, today she would use Huayang City and Qin Huai City to build momentum for her daughter… She would surely be able to win the hearts of her daughter in the future.
“Butler Hao, it’s not enough to just stay in Shuoyang City…” Dong looked at Butler Hao calmly, “Send someone to spread the news! The wider the better…”
Butler Hao clasped his fists and said yes, and would go out to make arrangements.
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Bai Qingyan hurried all the way, and in order to pretend, she sent the Bai family guards to the prince’s mansion before her to inform the prince that she had sent people to deliver Doctor Hong’s prescription for treating the epidemic to Huayang City and Qinhuai City, and that people were on the way to Dadu City to meet the prince. She asked the prince to show mercy to the people infected in the two cities.
Prince’s Mansion.
The prince was stunned for a moment when he heard from Bai Qingyan’s guards that Bai Qingyan had sent people to Huayang and Qinhuai to stop the prince from issuing orders to strangle the infected. He asked the kneeling Bai family guards, “Where is the Princess Zhenguo now?”
Mr. Fang tightened his hands on his knees, tightly grasping the hem of his clothes, and turned to look at the prince, but the prince did not notice anything unusual…
The matter of strangling Huayang City and Qin Huaicheng was a secret order issued by the prince. Not many people knew about it. How did Bai Qingyan know about it?
“Your Highness, we should be reaching the capital city soon… Our eldest girl rode all the way on horseback without taking a rest. She was trying hard to come to Your Highness and plead for mercy. If she hadn’t been unable to hold on, she would have come with me!” said the Bai family guard.
When Quan Yu heard this, his heart rose to his throat. Considering Princess Zhenguo’s current condition… She was riding a horse in the heavy snow, was she going to die?
“Quanyu!” The prince turned to Quanyu and said, “Take your men out of the city immediately to welcome the princess!”
“Yes!” Quan Yu hurriedly responded and walked out of the main hall of the Prince’s Mansion, asking someone to prepare a carriage to go out of the city with him to welcome the Princess.
The prince looked at the Bai family guards kneeling in the center of the main hall and asked, “Can the prescription of Doctor Hong really cure the plague?”
“Your Highness, I dare not deceive you. Our Doctor Hong has saved many people suffering from the plague with this prescription, so the eldest lady asked someone to send the prescription over quickly…” the Bai family guard said again.
Hearing this, the prince nodded: “Okay, you’ve worked hard too, go and take a rest!”
“I’ll take my leave…”
Elder Fang narrowed his eyes and watched the Bai family guard leave. He then turned to look at the Crown Prince and said, “Your Highness, don’t you think this is a bit strange? Your Highness, the Crown Prince, gave the order to kill all the infected people. That was a secret order. The Zhenguo Princess is far away in Shuoyang. If it wasn’t for Your Highness, the Crown Prince, how did she know about it? Your Highness, don’t you think it’s strange?”
When Elder Fang said this, the prince was stunned and suddenly looked towards Elder Fang…
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