The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 850: stopgap
Chapter 850: Stopgap Measures
“Your Highness, don’t think so badly…” Ren Shijie didn’t know how to persuade the prince, and his voice was dry and weak.
“My father is now fully devoted to refining elixirs and seeking immortality. His son… doesn’t matter to him anymore. My father… doesn’t want me as his son anymore.”
Ren Shijie pursed his lips, but ultimately said nothing.
When the Crown Prince of Jin heard the news, his first concern was not that the King of Liang was behaving in this way, fearing that it would lead to a situation where the officials forced the people to rebel, thus causing chaos in Jin, but that the emperor no longer wanted him as his son.
Such a prince, such a royal family…
Ren Shijie felt that it would be a joke if the world was ruled by such cowardly people as the Jin royal family.
“Mr. Ren, please go out! I know you want to comfort me…” The prince’s voice was a little sad, “but I want to be alone for a while.”
He thought that Mr. Fang, who was the most loyal to him, abandoned him and even betrayed him at the most critical moment!
He thought that the father who treated him best also abandoned him at the most critical moment.
The prince has never been so sad…
But the prince had indeed misunderstood Mr. Fang. At this time, Mr. Fang was being tortured in prison and was unrecognizable. No matter how others tortured him about where the prince was, he claimed that he didn’t know, and even if he knew, he would not tell.
Ren Shijie came out of the room and closed the door for the prince. He noticed that Prince Liang had begun searching for the prince and Bai Jinxiu in Dadu City. It seemed that he had begun to suspect that the prince had not left the city.
Ren Shijie still has to find a way to contact Bai Jinxiu to save the prince’s life…
The Bai family should be the one that wants to save the prince’s life the most at this time. After all, Princess Zhenguo has already become the prince’s disciple. If the prince dies… and Prince Liang, who has a grudge against the Bai family, succeeds to the throne, the future of the Bai family will be worrying.
Ren Shijie did not dare to delay and immediately sent someone to contact Bai Jinxiu.
When Bai Jinxiu learned that the prince was in low spirits, she hesitated for a moment, then sent someone to inform Bai Qingyan that she had decided to lead the Yuanping army to attack the capital city on May 3rd, nine days later, in order to delay time and ask her elder sister to return quickly.
Then he sent someone to call over the only two royal secret guards left by his side. He took the emperor’s handwritten edict, changed his clothes, went out through the back door of the rouge shop, and went straight to the small courtyard where Ren Shijie placed the prince.
Seeing the prince with red eyes trying to cheer himself up, Bai Jinxiu took out the emperor’s edict and handed it to the prince: “Your Highness… His Majesty’s handwritten edict, His Majesty is still waiting for Your Highness to lead the troops to rescue! Your Highness must not be so decadent, it is in vain His Majesty’s earnest expectations of Your Highness the Crown Prince.”
Having said that, Bai Jinxiu knelt on one knee and presented the imperial edict to the prince.
The prince was stunned when he saw the imperial edict. He wiped his face with his hand, stood up with the help of the armrest of the chair, walked to Bai Jinxiu, picked up the imperial edict, and hurriedly unfolded it to read.
When the prince saw that it was the emperor’s handwritten edict, and that it ordered him to immediately take the edict out of the city to mobilize troops for assistance, before the prince had time to look at the date, he heard Bai Jinxiu speak…
“Xie Yuchang had sent out the imperial edict a long time ago, but for the sake of caution, I didn’t know where Mr. Ren and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince were hiding, so… I was unable to hand over the imperial edict to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in time. But Jinxiu guessed that His Majesty must have thought that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had left the city to mobilize reinforcements, so he pretended to hand over the affairs of state to King Liang! The imperial edict in your hand is His Majesty’s handwritten imperial edict!”
The prince gently stroked the seal and words on the imperial edict, not realizing that his tears had already welled up. He smiled and looked up at Bai Jinxiu: “Father has not given up on me! Father is just a temporary measure…he pretended to hand over the affairs of state to Prince Liang! I know it! I know it! Father is such a proud and arrogant person, how could he tolerate a villain like Prince Liang to debase him!”
“But…” The prince suddenly clenched the imperial edict, “How can I go out now? How can I use the imperial edict to mobilize troops?”
“Don’t panic, Your Highness. This morning, King Liang ordered an attack on the palace. This means… my elder sister will be back soon, otherwise King Liang wouldn’t be so anxious!” Bai Jinxiu said slowly to the prince, “I guess… King Liang ordered the Minister of Works to build the Nine-Layered Platform within ten days in the name of the imperial decree, and also ordered all places to send a thousand boys and girls to the capital within ten days. It should be that Your Majesty has set a deadline with King Liang in order to delay time. After ten days… King Liang will probably ascend the throne!”
“But it takes too long to get back to Dadu from Daliang…” The prince choked up and felt fear in his heart, “What if the Princess Zhenguo can’t come back within ten days?”
“I have the same concerns. After all, my elder sister cannot come back alone. She must bring troops back! But it is difficult to control the marching time with a large army. But my elder sister will do her best.” Bai Jinxiu nodded, “So, we must also buy time for my elder sister to come back!”
The prince rolled up the imperial edict and held it in his hand, looking at Bai Jinxiu as if he was looking at his backbone: “What should I do? Madam Qin, please give me some advice.”
“The prince needs to be patient and wait for a while! I will arrange for the imperial guards at the gate of the capital city as soon as possible. After that, I will find a way to send the prince out of the capital city first. Then… we will go straight to the Yuanping camp and lead the Yuanping army back to the capital city to rescue the emperor, so as to buy time for my elder sister and General Liu to lead their troops back to the capital city!”
The prince nodded: “Thank you for your hard work, Madam Qin!”
“Please be patient and wait for a few days, Your Highness. Jinxiu will arrange for Your Highness to leave the city as soon as possible!” After Bai Jinxiu saluted the prince, she was about to leave, but was stopped by the prince.
“I have something else I need your help with, Madam Qin!” The prince actually bowed solemnly to Bai Jinxiu.
Bai Jinxiu quickly dodged the prince’s greeting and respectfully clasped her fists towards him: “Your Highness, just tell me what you want to do!”
“Now that Madam Qin has made all the arrangements and we can leave the city, can you… ask Madam Qin to send the Crown Princess and the little grandson, and… Hongmei out of the city first, and send someone to take them to settle down first, and we will go to Yuanping. Otherwise, if we leave them in the capital, they will be in danger if they are found by King Liang!” said the prince.
There is no problem sending the Crown Princess and the little grandson, but Hongmei…
Bai Jinxiu still told the Crown Prince about her doubts: “Your Highness, I have no choice but to escort the Crown Princess and the little prince, but… this Hongmei, I suspect she is Fan Yuhuai’s or King Liang’s woman!”
“No!” The prince smiled faintly, “Hongmei’s background… I have already found out everything. Madam Qin, please don’t despise Hongmei’s background. I… like Hongmei very much.”
Bai Jinxiu frowned slightly, but still agreed and left respectfully.
Before Ren Shijie sent Bai Jinxiu away, he turned back and glanced at the prince in the room…
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