The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 760: rival
Chapter 760 Strong Enemy
The old eunuch Feng Yao served the tea and then stepped aside to serve with his head lowered…
Murong Yu smiled as he looked at Bai Qingyan, who was acting like a man, and said, “This time, I have to thank Miss Bai for saving my life.”
“Emperor Yan is so polite…” Bai Qingyan picked up the teacup, took a sip and then asked, “I wonder what the Emperor Yan wants to meet with you about this time?”
“Miss Bai claimed to be ill, but she still came to see me… It shows that she doesn’t look down on me. If Miss Bai doesn’t mind… You can call me Brother Yu. I also dare… Treat Miss Bai as your own sister and call her Ah Yan. Is that okay?”
When Murong Yu spoke to Bai Qingyan, he did not use “I” but “I”, because he did not want Bai Qingyan to treat him as the emperor of another country.
Seeing Bai Qingyan was slightly surprised, Murong Yu smiled and said, “I have a younger brother named Yan… I call him A Yan. Since I regard Miss Bai as my sister, I want to call Miss Bai A Yan. I wonder if it is offensive?”
Bai Qingyan did not act pretentiously and shook his head: “Brother Yu specially asked Yue Shi to invite me here this time. I think there is something else. Please don’t hesitate to talk about it, Brother Yu.”
“I came to see Ah Yan because I have something to ask!” Murong Yu had a slight smile on his face, showing his gentlemanly demeanor. “My physical condition cannot be hidden from Ah Yan, and I will not live long. Dayan… my son Murong Li is precocious, but not capable of shouldering the burden of Dayan, so… I want to pass the throne to my younger brother Murong Yan, and I would like to ask Ah Yan… not to abandon me, and to marry me to be my Queen of Yan.”
As he spoke, Murong Yu straightened his back and bowed towards Bai Qingyan with his fists clasped.
His mother had long passed away, and his elder brother was like a father to him. Murong Yu wanted to arrange a lifelong event for A Yan before he passed away.
Moreover, Murong Yu also firmly believed that only if Murong Yan succeeded to the throne could he lead Dayan to unify the world, fulfill his mother’s last wish, and bring peace to the people of the world.
Murong Yu once learned that during the Jin State Imperial Examination cheating case, someone had intentionally led the Jin State students… to call Bai Qingyan a traitor to the country. Bai Qingyan’s mentor, Mr. Guan Yongchong, personally defended Bai Qingyan in front of students all over the world and said that Bai Qingyan said that the battlefield was… mountains of bones exposed in the wilderness, graves everywhere with nowhere to bury them, thousands of acres of fertile land left uncultivated, and corpses buried for thousands of miles without a trace of birds.
She said that she was willing to use all her remaining energy, even at the cost of her own life, to return peace and prosperity to the people.
Such a mind and such ambition are exactly the same as his younger brother Murong Yan.
The most precious things in life are to have a lover and a confidant.
Bai Qingyan is his younger brother A Yan’s confidant and also A Yan’s sweetheart, so… Murong Yu must come this time.
“To be honest with you, Brother Yu, Murong Yan and I have decided to spend our lives together, but not right now.” Bai Qingyan did not hide it from Murong Yu and told him frankly, “I want to compete with Murong Yan, each relying on our own abilities, to see who… can conquer the Central Plains.”
Murong Yu was stunned. He didn’t expect Bai Qingyan to want to conquer the Central Plains. His ambition… was so big.
After a while, Murong Yu spoke: “The path Ah Yan wants to take will be more difficult than Ah Yan’s. First… the people of Jin still have the surname Lin. Second… Ah Yan is a woman. Of course… I don’t mean to look down on women. My mother, Empress Ji, is a woman. Dayan also became strong in my mother’s hands. But this world… lacks fairness to women. For example, Xiliang… If the emperor of Xiliang was assassinated and left behind a son, then the Yunjing Rebellion would not have happened, and the prince could have inherited the throne naturally. But… the female emperor of Xiliang had such a hard time sitting on the throne.”
“Just because it’s difficult doesn’t mean it’s impossible. What’s easy to do in this world? Is it difficult to unify the world? It’s difficult! But someone has to do it!” Bai Qingyan’s eyebrows are clear and his eyes are firm. He knows very well what his future holds, but he still has to move forward courageously.
Murong Yu hadn’t seen a woman like this for a long time. He had seen such a look in his mother’s eyes when he was young.
But later, my father gradually woke up, and my mother became the docile woman she once was, thinking that when my father woke up completely, she could hand over the heavy burden on him.
Murong Yu often recalled his mother these days. He always thought…A Yan fell in love with Bai Qingyan because Bai Qingyan was a person with great ambitions and a similar personality to his mother.
But now, looking at Bai Qingyan in front of him, he realized… Bai Qingyan was different from his mother.
If it were his mother, she would have agreed to marry A Yan by now and accomplish the great cause of unifying the world together with A Yan.
But… Bai Qingyan knows exactly what he wants, and doesn’t seem to be burdened by emotions.
“If you marry A Yan, you will work together and achieve your great cause.” Murong Yu asked Bai Qingyan with a smile, “And…if you finally get Jin State, and all other states are destroyed, with only Jin State and Dayan remaining, will you and A Yan still fight? Will you let the people of this world suffer from war because you and A Yan both want to unify the country?”
The question from Emperor Yan was very hurtful.
After all, whether it is the Bai family or Dayan, the unification of the world… is all for the purpose of returning eternal peace to the people.
But if only Jin and Yan are left, should the people be left to suffer from the war?
“Brother Yu, you are so arrogant. Last year, Great Yan was still in a remote corner, and it was not until we recovered Southern Yan that you even dream of dominating the world.” Bai Qingyan said this calmly without any intention of looking down on others, but it still caused Feng Yao, the eunuch beside Murong Yu, to look up at Bai Qingyan.
Murong Yu just smiled faintly.
“Brother Yu, have you ever thought about asking Murong Yan about this?” Bai Qingyan calmly picked up the teacup, “I don’t think so. In Brother Yu’s eyes, this is a huge problem. Whether it’s me… or Murong Yan, we want to unify the world for peace. If there are only two countries left… should we stop the war and become one country, or continue fighting? If we continue fighting, it will not only hurt the friendship between Murong Yan and me, but also hurt the people of the world. If we become one country, who should be the emperor? Who will be willing to do it?”
“Brother Yu said that he doesn’t look down on women, but today… whether it’s the words of the Lin family of Jin, or the question of unifying the people and letting them go through war, they all have the intention of persuading me to surrender to Yan, and to use the words of friendship to force me to bow down. Brother Yu wants me to conquer the world for Yan… is that right?”
Bai Qing spoke calmly, not angry or annoyed: “If it was Murong Yan who said this, he would never ask me! Because Murong Yan is the one who really doesn’t look down on women. He and I are in love with each other, and we regard each other as friends, and we also regard each other as rivals who can compete with each other! My Bai family has assisted the Lin family for hundreds of years. If the monarch of the Lin family is virtuous, my Bai family will be the right-hand man. If the monarch is unkind… With my Bai family’s kindness to the people, why can’t we replace them if we want to take over the world?”
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