The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 855: trick
Chapter 855: Trick
The old woman also looked up at Bai Qingyan and cried bitterly: “The rich and powerful all try to find ways to spend money to buy the lives of their children, but what can we poor people do? The children of poor families also have lives! How can we send them to the emperor to make elixirs! Please, Princess Zhenguo, save my two grandsons. I will do anything for you! I will work like a cow or a horse… even if it means sacrificing my life! Please! Please!”
The old woman kept kowtowing.
When the young woman saw the old woman kowtowing to Bai Qingyan, she also knelt down and kowtowed, and the pebbles on the river bank were stained red.
“You two! You two!” Bai Qingyan hurriedly went to pull the young woman and the old woman.
Lin Kangle’s eyes turned red and he hurried forward to help.
Liu Hong hurriedly explained to the old woman: “You two, His Majesty summoned the children so that he could climb the Nine-Layered Platform together to seek the elixir of immortality, not… to use the children to make the elixir! How can you speculate about His Majesty like this?!”
Unexpectedly, upon hearing this, the old woman actually spat at Liu Hong and said, “You are the emperor’s good dog. You are just fooling us with these words! If the child is really handed over to you, can he come back alive? If so… why don’t you give your own child to the dog emperor!”
Liu Hong closed his eyes, stood up and wiped away the saliva with his hand. He was panic-stricken. The people now hated the emperor so much…
The common people and yamen runners who were chasing the old woman, the young woman and the two children saw from a distance that the two women and the two children were subdued by the soldiers. They pointed in the direction of Bai Qingyan and Yang Wuce and shouted loudly: “There! There! The general has caught them!”
The old woman and the young woman were so frightened that they trembled all over. They turned around and grabbed Bai Qingyan’s arms as if they were facing a great enemy…
The young woman begged Bai Qingyan again: “Princess Zhenguo! Please save my child… Save my child! I will do anything you ask me to do!”
The old woman was desperate and helpless. She looked up at Bai Qingyan and cried out at the top of her lungs: “My old man and three sons all died in the war! We only have these two children left. These two children are the hope of our whole family! You are a descendant of the Bai family. You will definitely protect ordinary people like us, right?! As long as you can protect my grandson and granddaughter, I… I am willing to die immediately! Please!”
“Mother! Grandma!”
“Mother…Grandmother…”
The two children struggled out of the arms of the soldiers who were hugging them, ran to their grandmother and mother, hugged their mother and grandmother and cried loudly.
The young woman let go of Bai Qingyan and hugged the two children tightly in her arms. She turned back in horror and looked at the yamen runners and common people who were rushing towards them. She looked at Bai Qingyan in despair and helplessness. The sadness of having no other options to protect her two children but being unable to do so was extremely heartbreaking.
When the people saw the soldiers, they gradually stopped walking. However, the yamen runners with swords bravely walked towards Bai Qingyan and Liu Hong.
Seeing the yamen runners coming, the young woman hugged the two children tightly and touched their heads with her hands. Not knowing what to do, she could only cover their ears and sob, “If Princess Zhenguo cannot disobey the order to save us, please let us go and let the three of us die together! Death… is better than having my children made into pills!”
Lin Kangle clenched his fists tightly, gritted his teeth and said nothing. How could the emperor be so… so cruel!
Bai Qingyan squatted down in front of the young woman and spoke solemnly: “Not only the Bai family and the Bai family army, but the establishment of all armies… the original intention is to protect the people!”
The yamen runner who came was very smart. As soon as he saw the flags held by the army resting in the distance, he knew that the two people in front of him were Princess Zhenguo and General Liu Hong. He saluted and said, “Thank you Princess Zhenguo and General for your help!”
As he said this, the bailiff reached out to grab the child in the woman’s arms. Lin Kangle and Yang Wuce, who was standing behind Bai Qingyan, drew their swords and put the two long swords against the bailiff’s throat.
Lin Kangle and Yang Wuce both had gloomy expressions on their faces.
Bai Qingyan said… the original intention of establishing all armies is to protect the people, which means that he promised the woman to protect the two children. What’s more, the two children are orphans of soldiers. As fellow soldiers, how could Yang Wuce and Lin Kangle watch the yamen runners take the children away?
Lin Kangle was especially angry. The emperor simply didn’t treat the people as human beings. Soldiers like them fought bloody battles… and left only a little bloodline, and they still had to make elixirs for the emperor? !
What does the emperor think of his soldiers! What does he think of human beings! What does he think of these children! Are they his livestock? He kills them at will!
The bailiff looked at the sharp blades of Lin Kangle and Yang Wuce, smiling: “No… Generals, we are also following orders! The imperial edict said… to build the nine-story platform within ten days, and to hand over 100 boys and girls aged five to ten before the fourth day of May! We are only short of these two children! Otherwise… not only will we lose our heads, but the people of Chunmu City will also lose their heads!”
The common people who came with the yamen runners knelt down one after another: “General, if we can’t hand over the boy and girl, we will all die! There is an order from above…if anyone hides a child, the neighbors will be punished! We can’t let us all die just for these two children!”
“Suqin… please be kind and spare our entire family! If you don’t hand over Hudan’er and Niuniu, my second uncle’s entire family will die with you!” Some people kowtowed to the young woman.
“Why don’t you hand over your children!” The young woman named Su Qin hugged her two children tightly, “These two children are my life! His father died in southern Xinjiang… only these two bloodlines are left! How can you be so cruel to bully us orphans and widows like this!”
“Whose children are not blood relatives? But what can anyone do if His Majesty issues an imperial decree? It’s our bad luck that our children are between five and ten years old!” Some people cried and advised the young woman, “My grandson just turned five yesterday, but he was still dragged to the government office by the neighbors who were afraid of being implicated! My grandson…just turned five yesterday!”
When that person started crying, almost all the people who came to chase the mother and her two children started crying too. Everyone had a child who was related to them and was sent to the government office!
Bai Qingyan clenched his teeth, emotions surging in his heart.
“Damn it!” Lin Kangle cursed with red eyes, “Princess Zhenguo, even if I am no longer a general, I will never give up my child!”
Liu Hong was also panicked when he saw this.
“This is definitely not what Your Majesty meant! This… might be a trick by King Liang! It must be King Liang!” Liu Hong said loudly, “King Liang is a traitor and a villain. He must have forced Your Majesty to issue this imperial decree!”
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