The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 720: stupid or not
Chapter 720: Stupid or Not
Bai Qingyan’s hand holding the teacup tightened, frowned and asked, “Who took the prince there?”
Didn’t Old Fang give any advice? Even though Old Fang was a mean person, he would never let the prince do such a thing… carrying the prostitute back to the palace before he ascended the throne. If the censors caught hold of this… it would be disastrous.
Bai Jinxiu was startled: “This… I haven’t checked it carefully.”
Bai Qingyan closed the lid of the cup and said, “Who took the prince there? This matter needs to be investigated carefully! The prince couldn’t have gone to a place of brothels all of a sudden! Have you checked the origins of the person who was carried into the prince’s mansion?”
Bai Jinxiu nodded, pulled out a thin piece of letter paper from her sleeve and handed it to Bai Qingyan: “This is sent to check. The girl who entered the prince’s mansion is called Hongmei and she is a prostitute.”
Bai Qingyan put down the teacup in his hand, took the letter and unfolded it. It recorded Hongmei’s background in detail. It seemed that her background was very clean. It was said that she was sold to a human trafficker because of her poor family. Unexpectedly, the human trafficker saw that Hongmei was clean and beautiful, so he had evil intentions… and sold her to a brothel.
But Hongmei was extremely stubborn and would never sell her body. The brothel madam saw that Hongmei was pretty and had spent a lot of money to train her in music, chess, calligraphy and painting, and was afraid that the girl would hang herself, so she had no choice but to let her sell her art instead of her body.
Unexpectedly, the prince in disguise took a fancy to Hongmei. After a night of good times, the prince sent someone to carry Hongmei into the prince’s mansion, and naturally identified the person who redeemed Hongmei, but did not reveal that the person who redeemed her was the prince.
Bai Jinxiu heard Bai Qingyan’s chuckle and asked, “Does elder sister think there is a problem?”
“Which brothel madam is so kind that she would let a girl sell her art instead of her body?” Bai Qingyan thought of what happened to his sister in his previous life and his eyes became darker. “Go check if that brothel madam is really a kind person and see if she has any other prostitutes besides Hongmei. Then we will know whether this Hongmei… was deliberately arranged by someone or if she really caught the prince’s eye by coincidence.”
“Okay, I’ll send someone to investigate it right away!” said Bai Jinxiu.
“How is Fu Ruoxi recently?” Bai Qingyan asked Bai Jinxiu.
“Although Fu Ruoxi made great contributions during the Wude Gate Rebellion, she is now unemployed and her residence is inevitably deserted. However, I followed my elder sister’s instructions and secretly took care of the Fu Mansion, so no one dared to cause trouble for the Fu Mansion.” When Bai Jinxiu mentioned the Fu Mansion, she inevitably thought of Dong Tingfang, who was engaged to the eldest son of the Fu family. “Elder sister, my cousin Dong Tingfang from the Dong Mansion came to see me a few days ago…”
“Ting Fang?” Bai Qingyan was quite surprised. After thinking for a while, he asked, “Does she… want to cancel the engagement with the eldest branch of the Fu family?”
Bai Jinxiu nodded, “That’s right. Cousin Tingfang wanted me to ask my mother to help her break up the engagement with the Fu family, but I refused. If it was the eldest aunt of the Dong family who came to her, Jinxiu would definitely ask my mother for help. Cousin Tingfang is a daughter of the Dong family… She definitely didn’t bypass the aunt of the Dong family and let my mother break off the engagement.”
“Tingfang is not an unreasonable girl, how could this happen?” Bai Qingyan asked as he sat up slightly.
“Cousin Tingfang said that the eldest aunt of the Dong family values the reputation of the Dong family… They don’t care about the marriages of these concubines. At the beginning, the niece of the eldest lady of the Fu family didn’t want to marry the eldest son of the Fu family, so she framed her. When the eldest aunt of the Dong family found out, she didn’t seek justice for her. She just said that she had been embraced by the eldest son of the Fu family, and she had to either marry him or beg for mercy with a white silk ribbon!”
After all, the Dong family is Bai Qingyan’s maternal uncle’s family, and Bai Jinxiu is not willing to speak ill of Dong’s aunt in front of Bai Qingyan, so she omitted Dong Tingzhen’s complaints about the Dong family’s first wife, Mrs. Song: “Cousin Tingfang said that the status of the Dong family’s concubines is low, and she really had no other choice but to come to me for help.”
In fact, Bai Qingyan already knew most of the ins and outs of the matter between Dong Tingfang and the eldest son of the Fu family.
It was just that the niece of the eldest lady of the Fu family didn’t want to marry the eldest son of the eldest house, so she designed to frame Dong Tingfang, and Dong Tingfang went along with it. Who could have expected that the Fu family would suffer such misfortune and the eldest house would also be ostracized.
Could it be that Dong Tingfang originally thought that the eldest branch of the Fu family was a good match, but now feels that the eldest branch of the Fu family is not a good match and wants to make other plans?
“Miss…” The servant of Qinghui Courtyard pushed open the curtain and entered the room. After bowing through the nanmu jade bird screen, she said, “Miss, the eldest lady of the Dong family is here with her three cousins!”
Bai Qingyan knew that the news of him vomiting blood in the Prince’s Mansion had probably reached the Dong Mansion, and his aunt and Ting Zhen could no longer sit still.
“Eldest sister…” Bai Jinxiu stood up and tried to help Bai Qingyan to lie on the bed. “Although my aunt and cousins from the Dong family are not outsiders, the fewer people who know about this kind of thing, the better.”
Bai Qingyan nodded, lifted the white velvet blanket on his legs, and lay down on the bed with Bai Jinxiu.
Bai Jinxiu had someone bring a few more braziers and placed them near the bed. She then stood up and went outside Qinghui Courtyard to greet Dong family’s eldest wife, Mrs. Song, and three cousins of the Dong family.
Seeing Mrs. Dong, Mrs. Song, accompanied by Mrs. Liu, coming in, Mrs. Liu was pretending to be serious and wiping her tears with a handkerchief. Bai Jinxiu hurried forward to pay her respects.
“How is my cousin?” Dong Tingzhen hurriedly stepped forward, held Bai Jinxiu’s hand and asked.
Dong Tingzhen’s eyes were red, obviously she had cried on the way here.
“My elder sister is fine now, don’t worry!” Bai Jinxiu’s eyes were also red and wet. She patted Dong Tingzhen’s hand, stepped aside, and invited her mother Liu and Dong’s wife Song to go into the upper room.
Mrs. Song, the wife of Dong, came in, untied her cloak, and went into the inner room. Seeing Bai Qingyan supporting herself with her slender arms and trying to get up with the help of a maid, Mrs. Song hurriedly stepped forward and held Bai Qingyan down: “Don’t get up! We are family, so don’t pay attention to these empty formalities!”
Bai Qingyan lay down, his pale lips slightly opening and closing as he breathed faintly: “Aunt, I’m sorry that Abao can’t get up to greet you…”
Dong Tingzhen looked at Bai Qingyan, held up her skirt and stood behind Song. Seeing Bai Qingyan’s pale and thin face, her eyes became more and more wet and red: “Cousin…”
“It’s okay!” Bai Qingyan smiled at Dong Tingzhen, “I’m sorry for making you worry!”
Mrs. Song, the wife of the Dong family, held Bai Qingyan’s hand, turned around and secretly wiped away her tears: “Tell me, are you stupid? Why did you take the arrow for the prince? Don’t you know what your body looks like? If your grandmother knew about this… wouldn’t it cost her her life?!”
If it weren’t for someone very close, he would never say this to Bai Qing.
When the prince is in danger, only his relatives would think that Bai Qingyan’s safety is more important than the prince’s safety.
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