The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 77: lead the way
Chapter 77 Leading the Way
Bai Qingyan’s already fair face looked even paler today. His brows and eyes looked haggard, but his gaze was still firm.
“Thank you, Master Lu, for rescuing me at the Duke’s Mansion that day. After the big event in my Bai family is over, I will definitely come to thank you.” Mrs. Dong said softly.
“Madam, you are so embarrassed! It’s just a coincidence! You don’t have to worry about it.” Lu Yuanpeng was very polite today.
The sky began to brighten and the heavy snow gradually stopped.
Just when the people were about to freeze to death, the sound of horse hooves was faintly heard in the white fog.
Soon, a four-horse carriage with lights hanging from all four corners came slowly, escorted by guards holding the flags of King Xin on both sides.
Second Madam Liu’s legs went limp, and Bai Jinxiu was quick to hold her up. She held Liu’s hand tightly, tears streaming down her face.
Dong took a deep breath and subconsciously held Bai Qingyan’s hand tightly.
Prince Xin’s guards saw the lanterns at the south gate from afar, and hurriedly rode to the south gate to make way for a group of people. They roughly understood what was going on, and hurried back to the carriage, lowering their voices and saying, “Your Highness, the widow of the Bai family and the people of the capital are all at the south gate…”
Upon hearing this, Prince Xin, who was holding Meiji in his arms, lifted the curtain of the carriage and looked towards the south gate. Seeing the hustle and bustle and bright lights, he immediately shrank back into the carriage with a guilty conscience, his palms covered with sweat.
This time he only brought back the bodies of Duke Zhenguo Bai Weiting, Bai Weiting’s fifth son Bai Qijing, and the sixth and seventeenth sons of the Bai family. In order to humiliate the Bai family in front of the court officials, Prince Xin deliberately gave them the lowest quality coffins.
Prince Xin wiped his palms with a handkerchief, stared at the bronze three-cauldron incense burner, and pondered for a moment with a gloomy face, and said: “Say later that I am seriously injured and should not get off the carriage, and go directly into the city!”
“Yes, I understand!” Prince Xin’s guard nodded.
Meiji in the carriage saw that Prince Xin had a gloomy face, so she smiled and took out the fine wine that was warmed on the fire, poured a glass and put it to Prince Xin’s lips: “All the men in the Bai family are dead, they are just a group of women, why should Your Majesty care.”
It was the charming beauty who smiled at him like a flower. Prince Xin narrowed his eyes, and the uneasiness in his heart disappeared. He drank the wine in the glass from the beautiful girl’s white and slender hand.
Yes, all the men in the Bai family are dead, what waves can a group of women make?
Besides, it was his father who could not tolerate the Bai family. As the old saying goes, if the emperor wants his subjects to die, they have to die. The Bai family also died a worthy death. What is there to be afraid of? !
Thinking of this, Prince Xin leaned comfortably on the soft pillow, playing with the beauty’s small hands that looked like they were carved from white jade.
The carriage wobbled to the city gate, and Dong and the Bai family saluted the carriage of Prince Xin: “Greetings, Prince Xin.”
“Cough, cough, cough…” The sound of Prince Xin coughing came from the carriage, “This prince has tried his best, but he can only bring back the Duke, General Bai Qijing, Liu Lang and Shiqi Lang! This prince is seriously injured and it is inconvenient for him to get off the carriage, cough, cough, cough! Let the soldiers take the Duke and the others back to the Duke’s Mansion!”
After saying that, the carriage started moving.
Therefore, none of Dong’s husband and son came back. Dong’s body was swaying, and she hurriedly supported herself: “Mother!”
Looking at Dong who was so shocked that she couldn’t recover, Bai Qingyan felt a pang of pain in his heart.
Second wife Liu’s husband and two biological sons also did not come back!
When Liu heard this, she fell backwards in a daze. If Bai Jinxiu hadn’t quickly caught her, she would have fallen down. Liu burst into tears and felt like an idiot, unable to speak.
Her husband and son, were they…completely dead? !
“Seventeen! My little Seventeen!” Fourth Madam Wang could no longer restrain herself and staggered towards the smallest coffin at the back. It had snowed heavily all night and the road was slippery and difficult to walk on. Wang fell twice, got up and staggered over again. Finally, she hugged the small coffin covered with snow, her heart broken.
“Liu Lang… Mother is here! Mother is here to take you home!” Third Madam Li was supported by Bai Jintong and walked forward sobbing. She wanted to touch her son’s cold coffin and wanted to carry her son’s coffin home.
Fifth Madam Qi, who was pregnant, seemed to be able to hold her ground. She wanted to quickly walk to her husband’s coffin, but she restrained her emotions and pressed her palms hard on her abdomen, choking with tears and saying, “Sister-in-law… go back first!”
Bai Jinzhi, who was injured, was supported by his personal maid and walked towards the coffin of his brother Bai Qingming.
Dong clenched her fists tightly. Although she was filled with hatred, she still had to thank him: “Thank…thank you, Your Highness.”
Bai Qingyan clenched his fists tightly. Just like in the previous life, only his grandfather, fifth uncle, younger brother Ming, and Little Seventeen returned. But the King of Trust was seriously injured…
She watched the wheels turn and the luxurious carriage swayed past her, and smelled the faint scent of wine and sandalwood wafting from the window. She stood up and raised her sharp eyes. A corner of the carriage curtain was lifted by the cold wind, and she clearly saw the beautiful woman as delicate as a peony leaning in the arms of the “seriously injured” Prince Xin in the carriage, her clothes in disarray.
Standing outside the crowd with his fox fur coat wrapped around him, Xiao Rongyan had always had excellent hearing. He moved his ears and heard a woman’s coquettish voice in the exquisite carriage. His gloomy eyes became even colder, and he turned his head to look at the guards protecting him…
The guard understood, nodded, and left in a hurry.
Bai Qingyan turned to look at the soldiers carrying the coffin. None of them were from the Bai family’s army. They were all… soldiers under Prince Xin’s command. She clenched her hands hidden in her sleeves tightly.
Prince Xin’s personal soldiers put down the coffins, followed Prince Xin’s carriage into the city, and placed the four coffins outside the city gate.
Dong tried her best to stay dignified and calm, and not break down and cry!
She led the women of the Bai family to kneel down and kowtow, “The eldest daughter-in-law of the Bai family, Bai Dongshi, and the women of the Bai family respectfully welcome father and the heroes of our Bai family home!”
Bai Qingyan knelt down with tears in his eyes and kowtowed heavily.
The common people also knelt down and cried, calling out for the Duke. The endless cries echoed through the sky in this cloudy morning.
Dong stood up with the help of Nanny Qin and stood at the front of her grandfather’s coffin. She gritted her teeth and cried out in tears, “Carry the coffin! Spread the money! Lead the way!”
The servants of the Bai family immediately stepped forward and stood around the four coffins, carrying the coffin poles. Dong Qingyue was a rough man. With red eyes, he threw away the reins that he had been holding in his hands, stepped forward and personally carried the coffins on his shoulders, and shouted in a voice like a bell: “Lift the coffins!”
“Open the coffin!”
As the voices followed, the people’s cries became more heartbreaking.
No official is willing to carry a coffin for others, not even their own relatives!
But Dong Qingyue is different, he is also a soldier under the Duke, and the passion in his heart is still there.
Bai Qingyan took the paper money, looked deeply at the four coffins, stood alone in the front, and threw the paper money high into the air…
Bai Jinxiu followed Bai Qingyan and personally took the paper money to scatter the money to lead the way for the heroic spirits of the Bai family.