The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 854: Descendants of the Bai family
Chapter 854 Descendants of the Bai Family
Seeing Bai Jinxiu’s indifferent look, Ren Shijie said again: “A counselor has his own integrity. Since I have chosen my master, I will never betray him! A scholar can be killed but not humiliated! Madam Qin insulted me like this, it would be better to kill me!”
Ren Shijie was indeed not lying. He acknowledged Murong Yan, the ninth prince of Dayan, as his master and would never betray his master.
“I won’t kill you right now.” Bai Jinxiu looked at Ren Shijie with an icy gaze. “But you have to understand that this is an emergency period. If you dare to make any unusual moves, the Bai family guards… would rather kill you by mistake than let you go!”
As soon as Bai Jinxiu finished speaking, the royal secret guards who had followed Bai Jinxiu to escape from the capital city took a rope and tied Ren Shijie up tightly.
“Take a quick rest for an hour, and then we’ll continue on to Yuanping!” Bai Jinxiu took a deep look at Ren Shijie and pointed the whip at him, “Knock him out to avoid any trouble!”
“Mrs. Qin!”
As soon as Ren Shijie shouted, he was knocked unconscious by the royal secret guards.
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On the first day of May, Bai Qingyan, Liu Hong and Lin Kangle led their troops and marched quickly to the outside of Chunmu City on Chunmu Mountain.
Bai Qingyan and Liu Hong had already received the news that Prime Minister Lu was imprisoned, and the emperor issued an order to abolish the position of prime minister and establish a cabinet. The Prince of Liang had already taken over the palace and forced the emperor to issue an order to hand over the state affairs to the Prince of Liang and to arrest the prince. Therefore, their marching speed was increased, and the soldiers followed behind them at a quick pace, sweating profusely.
The sun is scorching hot, hanging high in the sky.
Fortunately, on the official road, there were green willows on the left and a rushing river on the right, which dispelled the summer heat for the soldiers who were rushing on the road.
Bai Qingyan, who was riding in the front, saw from afar an old woman leading a boy of eight or nine years old, and a young woman holding a girl of five or six years old in her arms, running forward for their lives. The old woman’s shoes fell off, and she didn’t dare to stop even with one of her feet bleeding, as if there was a tiger chasing her from behind.
Seeing the army not far away, the old woman suddenly cried out in despair, hugged the gasping boy beside her and fell to the ground crying bitterly.
The young woman holding the little girl was stunned for a moment, her face determined, she held the little girl in one hand and pulled the boy with the other, looked warily at the rapidly marching army, and without saying a word rushed towards the direction of the fast-flowing river.
Bai Qingyan didn’t know what was going on, but he could see that if the young woman rushed into the river with her two children, even if they knew how to swim, they would be swallowed by the turbulent water. He turned to Yang Wuce and said, “Go stop them!”
Yang Wuce took the order and led ten light cavalrymen to rush towards the young woman who was holding the girl and leading the boy… and running towards the river.
Seeing this, the old woman opened her eyes wide, screamed, and rushed towards the cavalry, opening her arms to stop Yang Wuce. The young woman looked back in panic at the soldiers running towards them, screamed, and sped up towards the river.
Seeing the old woman rushing towards the galloping horse with the determination to die, Bai Qingyan could not sit still and rushed out with his horse’s belly.
“Princess Zhenguo!” Liu Hong was worried about Bai Qingyan’s health and raised his hand to signal the army to stop. He saw Bai Qingyan jumped off the horse and threw the old woman to the ground to protect her, thus preventing the old woman from hitting Yang Wu’s horse’s legs.
Before Liu Hong could hear clearly what the old woman who was beating and scolding Bai Qingyan was saying, he saw people chasing after him with hoes and ropes, as well as yamen runners with swords, in the distance.
Liu Hong saw that the cavalry led by Yang Wuce had stopped the young woman. Two cavalrymen dismounted and held the two children in their arms. Unexpectedly, the young woman scratched Yang Wuce like crazy, and the two children screamed and cried, kicking and biting the soldiers who rescued them.
Liu Hong quickly ordered Lin Kangle to order the army to rest for a while, and then he rode over to check.
Bai Qingyan turned her face away, avoiding the old woman’s hand that was grabbing her, and restrained the old woman with one hand.
As soon as Liu Hong got off his horse, he heard the old woman crying and cursing: “You are all running dogs of the dog emperor! The dog emperor wants to live forever and wants to kill our two children! Why our two children! Why doesn’t that damn dog emperor just die! Why don’t you just die!”
Bai Qingyan’s pupils narrowed. The Prince of Liang was plotting a rebellion and the civil strife had not yet been resolved, yet the Emperor had actually begun to forcibly conscript children?
Liu Hong’s face turned pale. Although he hadn’t figured out what was going on, he had the same idea as Bai Qingyan. The civil strife was not yet resolved… and the emperor started to conscript children?
Yang Wuce had the young woman escorted towards Bai Qingyan, holding two children who were crying for their mother.
Lin Kangle, who was watching the situation from afar, couldn’t help but rush over.
The young woman cried uncontrollably, her clothes soaked with sweat, her hair disheveled, and she looked miserable. It seemed that she saw that Bai Qingyan was a woman, and without waiting for him to get closer… the young woman knelt down on the ground, crawling towards Bai Qingyan on her knees, her tears flowing like broken strings, crying bitterly: “Girl! Girl… please, I beg you to let my two children go! I will work like a cow or a horse to repay you, girl!”
Yang Wuce clasped his fists towards Bai Qingyan and said, “Princess Zhenguo, General Liu, they have stopped us!”
“Princess Zhenguo!” When the young woman heard the name of the Princess Zhenguo, her eyes widened and she looked at Bai Qingyan in shock, “You are… a descendant of the Bai family of the Duke Zhenguo’s Mansion? You are the Princess Zhenguo, Bai Qingyan, who protects the people?!”
Bai Qingyan nodded: “Sister-in-law, you get up first…”
The woman was sure that Bai Qingyan was a descendant of the Bai family, and she burst into tears. She tightly grasped the hem of Bai Qingyan’s silver armor and kowtowed to him: “Princess Zhenguo, please save my two children! When I was a child, my grandfather and father always told me that the Bai family… and the Bai family army are the most protective of ordinary people like us! Now the emperor has issued an order to capture our two children… and use the children’s lives to make pills for him! My father-in-law and the father of the two children… were all Jin soldiers who died in southern Xinjiang! These two bloodlines are the only ones left in the family!”
Lin Kangle, who had just dismounted, heard this, widened his eyes and looked at Bai Qingyan.
Bai Qingyan tightened his palms, his chest burning with anger. The soldiers fought and sacrificed their lives for their country, and shed their blood, but in the end… the dog emperor wanted to use the blood of these soldiers’ children to prolong his life and make elixirs for him!
She then recalled the New Year’s Eve of the fourteenth year of Xuanjia, when the news that her grandfather, father, uncle and brothers had all died in the battle was sent back, and Prince Xin wanted to trample the orphan of the Bai family to death.
The young woman burst into tears when she reached this point: “Princess Zhenguo, please have mercy on my two children! The county magistrate bought children from a human trafficker to replace his own flesh and blood, and many wealthy families followed suit…”
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