The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 881: comfortable
Chapter 881 Comfortable
“Oh my madam!” Pu Liu stretched her neck to look outside, then lowered her voice and warned, “Please don’t say that again! Now, that person is His Majesty… Madam, calling him by his name like that is a big taboo! If the master and the young master heard it, it would be fine, but if someone with ulterior motives heard it, it would be a huge sin! If not handled properly, you could lose your head.”
Fang was so scared that she quickly covered her mouth. She looked outside and saw no one else was around. She threw her handkerchief in anger and said, “I just can’t change my words right now. Besides… even if she becomes the empress, I’m still her aunt! I mentioned this to Master at the beginning and wanted to find a matchmaker for that girl… If Master had agreed at the beginning, and that girl had gotten married to my second brother’s legitimate son, what would we have to worry about now? It’s all because of Master… that we missed this great opportunity in vain!”
Pu Liu looked at Fang and sighed secretly in his heart, thinking that Fang was too confused. Not to mention that the Princess Zhenguo is about to ascend the throne, even when she was just the Princess Zhenguo… Even without mentioning the Princess Zhenguo, how could a person like the eldest daughter of the Bai family be a match for Fang’s nephew?
At this point, Fang suddenly thought of something, and turned around to look at Pu Liu with bright eyes: “Pu Liu, you say… Didn’t Bai Qingyan have a physical injury in his early years and have no children? Who will she pass the throne to in the future?”
“Madam!” Pu Liu’s eyes widened. “Madam, this is not something you can worry about! Madam, please don’t put any thought into this matter. Be careful not to lose more than you gain!”
“I’m just telling you something!” The more Fang thought about it, the happier she felt. “Think about it, she was almost unable to be saved many times during the time she was recuperating in Shuoyang. This time she forced herself to go to the battle to destroy Liang. She should be… almost exhausted, right? You say… all the sons of the Bai family’s direct lineage have died, and my Ah Ping… is usually very close to her, will she…”
Pu Liu was once again shocked into a cold sweat by Fang’s wild imagination. She had long known that Fang sometimes liked to have wild ideas, but she had never expected that Fang could be so bizarre.
“Madam, please don’t say that anymore!” Pu Liu lowered her voice very low, “Your Majesty is the empress, so she can naturally pass the throne to her sister. Not to mention that Your Majesty has a concubine sister, even the legitimate daughters of the second and third branches of the legitimate branch are as close as sisters! What’s more, when Your Majesty was in Shuoyang… he saw the eighth daughter of the Bai family’s fifth wife Qi almost every day and brought her with him.”
“But they are all women, and they all have to get married…” Fang Shi finished speaking before she realized that Bai Qingyan was also a woman. She threw away her handkerchief, frowned and murmured in a low voice, “Yes! How come it’s not my Ah Ping’s turn! But my Ah Ping trained the troops for her… and defended Shuoyang for her. Is it for nothing?”
“Madam…” Pu Liu patiently advised Fang, “The young master has worked hard for His Majesty, so His Majesty has made use of him. Have you forgotten what the Bai family’s eldest lady, Madam Dong, said last time? This time, the Bai family helped Shuoyang overcome difficulties, and His Majesty will definitely reward them when he returns, but… this matter is entirely up to His Majesty. No matter what His Majesty rewards us, we will happily accept it. We must not ask for it. Asking for it… is overstepping the boundaries and losing our sense of propriety! So please don’t ask the master to ask His Majesty for anything!”
Seeing Fang biting her lower lip with a feeling of unwillingness, as if she had suffered a great injustice, and her eyes were red, Pu Liu continued: “You and the master had a rift before, and it was not easy to win back the master’s heart. Don’t push the master away again, or you will be the one who suffers!”
“Both father and son only support that person, as if they have a grudge against me. I am doing this for them… for this family!” Fang felt upset. She turned around and grabbed Pu Liu’s hand. “Luckily I have you by my side! If you hadn’t been there to talk to me and relieve my stress, I would have been so angry with them that I would have died.”
Pu Liu patted Fang’s hand and gently warned, “Madam, please remember what I said. Don’t forget yourself and say something you shouldn’t say in front of the master when he comes back, and make him angry.”
At this time, Bai Qihe was surrounded by a room full of clan elders, all of whom were asking Bai Qihe what arrangements Bai Qingyan was going to make since he would ascend the throne on June 20th. They also asked whether they needed to move their entire family into the capital city. After all, after Bai Qingyan ascended the throne, their Shuoyang Bai family would become true royal relatives.
When Bai Qingyan took action to discipline the Bai clan, those clan members who were not expelled were terrified. Fortunately, when they, their brothers, or their descendants were expelled, they did not act on impulse and follow them out of the clan. Otherwise… they would not be among the royal family now.
These expelled clan members heard the news… The Bai clan elders have already gone to the clan leader, intending to ask for a fiefdom for their clan members, and for a hereditary prince.
With a fiefdom and a title, one can live like an emperor in the fiefdom. Who doesn’t want such a good life?
These members of the Bai clan who were expelled from the clan now live in poverty and have long regretted their decision. When they heard the news that Bai Qingyan wanted to become emperor, they beat their chests in regret. Since they couldn’t see Bai Qihe, they tried every means to find Bai Qingping in the military camp and begged him to speak a few good words in front of the clan leader Bai Qihe, asking them to let them return to the clan. They would never dare to act recklessly again.
Bai Qingping was born and raised in Shuoyang. Doesn’t he understand the morals of this group of people in the clan? After being expelled from the clan, their lives were not as good as before in the Bai clan… They could rely on the prestige of the Bai family in the Duke’s Mansion in Dadu Town and live as comfortably.
Now, knowing that elder sister was going to ascend the throne, those who were expelled from the clan thought that the Bai family would become royal relatives, so they knelt down and came forward to admit their mistakes in a humble manner.
People like them cannot change their nature. In the past, they relied on the power of the Bai family’s Zhenguo Mansion in the capital to bully the people of Shuoyang. If people like them were allowed to become royal relatives, who knows how they would bully the people.
Bai Qingping had led troops in Shuoyang for so long that he was no longer the young man with no confidence, no courage, and only a lot of resentment. Those who used to be his elders or brothers stopped his horse and knelt down to kowtow and beg. Bai Qingping asked the Shuoyang soldiers to pull them away and ordered that if anyone came to the gate of the military camp to cause trouble again, they would be imprisoned and forced to work in a mine for 30 days before being released.
The soldiers were ordered to pull away the members of the Bai clan who were to be exterminated, and Bai Qingping whipped his horse and rode away.
He knew that by now the Shuoyang Bai clan members should have received the news and gone to look for his father, so he had to go back and check.
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