The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 965: long face
Chapter 965 Long Face
As he spoke, Lu Yuanpeng felt so aggrieved that tears started to fall.
He wiped his tears with his sleeve and said, “Weng Weng, you have to teach my brother a lesson! He almost delayed the promotion of a captain of a thousand men of our Lu family!”
General Lu originally wanted to teach his grandson a lesson, but seeing that his grandson was a hopeless case, he decided to give up the idea as he thought that he had good luck.
Forget it, children and grandchildren have their own destiny. Letting Lu Yuanpeng retain this stupidity may be a good thing for the Lu family.
Compared to worrying about Lu Yuanpeng, General Lu is more worried about Bai Qingyan’s visit to the Imperial College to meet the students tomorrow.
Commandant Lu put the ruler in his hand aside, sighed deeply, and sat down on the chair.
“Weng Weng…” Lu Yuanpeng called out in a very low voice. Seeing that General Lu looked unhappy, he said guiltily, “Do you want me to ask someone to get a doctor for Weng Weng?”
“Kneel here properly!” General Lu glanced at Lu Yuanpeng, stood up and walked out of the ancestral hall.
As soon as General Lu came out of the ancestral hall, he saw Lu Jinxian, as well as Lu Yuanpeng’s father, Mr. Lu San, and his mother, Madam Lu San, hurried forward. When Lu Yuanpeng’s mother saw the ruler in her father-in-law’s hand, tears suddenly fell from her eyes, and she couldn’t help complaining in her heart… When Yuanpeng came back, he was so dark and thin that he looked unrecognizable. How could the father-in-law be so cruel to beat the child!
Lu Yuanpeng’s mother dared not speak, she could only cry in grievance, and Lu Yuanpeng’s father could not help but complain in his heart that his father was too strict with Lu Yuanpeng! That child has been spoiled since he was a child, but at least he is now a captain of the Bai family army, which is also a face for the Lu family!
As soon as General Lu saw the expressions of his third son and daughter-in-law, he knew what they were thinking. He threw the ruler in his hand into his son’s arms and ordered that no one was allowed to enter the ancestral hall to see Lu Yuanpeng. He then called his eldest son, Lu Jinxian, and the two of them slowly left along the corridor.
“Father, I heard that His Majesty plans to erect a monument on the bank of the Jing River for the soldiers who died in the battle of Southern Xinjiang during the Xuanjia years.” Lu Jinxian whispered to General Lu, “Today, my son heard someone from the Ministry of Works mention this.”
“For the Bai family army?” asked General Lu.
“It’s for all the soldiers who died in battle in southern Xinjiang. I heard… Your Majesty wants the monarchs and people of the Great Zhou to remember forever the soldiers who died for the country and the people from generation to generation.” Lu Jinxian said.
General Lu knew that Bai Qingyan came from a military family and was also a soldier who fought on the battlefield. It was reasonable for him to be willing to erect a monument for the dead soldiers.
“If you feel that this matter is inappropriate, then go and speak to His Majesty. Our current empress is not the Emperor of Jin. She has an open mind. You can speak directly to her about everything. You don’t have to discuss with your father how to deal with it!” General Lu stopped walking, stood under the lamp, and said to Lu Jinxian earnestly, “I am old. In the future… the court of the Great Zhou will be the court of His Majesty and you ministers. You must always understand what kind of person the monarch you are loyal to now is, and you must always learn how to get along with your monarch, so that you can better contribute to the country and serve the people.”
General Lu is already old, and even if he returns to the position of general… and is respected as the emperor’s teacher, he knows that he does not have much time left to serve in the court.
Taiwei Lu was actually very envious of his son and grandson, as they were luckier than him… Although they met an empress who became a new empress late in life, her character and mind were truly beyond compare. Her openness and honesty sometimes even caught Taiwei Lu off guard.
But after getting along with them, General Lu couldn’t help but sigh. When he was young… he entered the official career with full of enthusiasm. His dream was to meet such a monarch. Even if he was not a wise monarch, at least he had a heart that served the people and was upright. There was no need for officials to spend a lot of time trying to figure out the monarch’s mind, as long as officials worked hard to enrich the country and strengthen the people.
But he had dedicated most of his life to the Emperor of Jin, and the ability to guess his master’s intentions and to handle matters in a tactful and roundabout way had become ingrained in his bones, and it would be difficult to change.
His sons and grandsons were lucky to meet such an emperor, so… he didn’t want them to learn his bad habits.
He only hoped that before the day he retired from the court, he could take a look at the court that he had imagined before he entered the official career.
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Early the next morning, the news that the Empress of the Great Zhou was going to the Imperial College had spread.
When the King of Hedong heard about this, he ordered his men not to interfere in the matter anymore and to withdraw their hands cleanly and efficiently without leaving any traces.
Now that everything has become a foregone conclusion, what King Hedong has to do is to hide the traces of his actions to the greatest extent possible, so as to avoid being caught by Bai Qingyan, otherwise he will have difficulty surviving.
Now, both he and the Shuofang King’s families are in Bai Qingyan’s hands. Whether they can survive… and how they can survive, all depends on Bai Qingyan’s decision.
The indignant students of the Imperial Academy gathered together, lit lamps and discussed for the entire night. They wrote down all the questions they wanted to ask Bai Qingyan after meeting him today, and waited for the Si time.
It was just dawn when Bai Qingyan left the palace early.
Last night, Bai Qingyan and Bai Jinxiu sat under the lamp and had a long conversation until late at night. Bai Jinxiu had already agreed with Qin Lang to take Wang Ge’er to Hancheng. She also knew that things were urgent in Hancheng… After all, Bai Jinzhi was impulsive, and she was afraid that Bai Jinzhi would do something irreversible again.
After Hancheng surrendered and the war was over…it was necessary to use gentle means to win over the hearts of the people instead of being too forceful.
So Bai Jinxiu agreed with Bai Qingyan last night to set off for Hancheng early this morning. Bai Qingyan gave orders overnight, ordering Lin Kangle to lead his troops to Hancheng with Bai Jinxiu, and to exchange defense with Bai Jinzhi and Zhao Sheng back to the capital.
After a long talk with Bai Qingyan, Bai Jinxiu went to see her mother again. She had hardly slept all night, so when she left the city, she took a carriage with Wang Ge’er and Qin Lang to join Lin Kangle’s army camped outside the capital.
Bai Jinxiu didn’t expect Bai Qingyan would come to the outside of the city to see her off. When she heard Cuibi say that the person on the eastern hillside seemed to be Bai Qingyan, she hurriedly lifted the window curtain of the carriage and looked up the hill. Sure enough, she saw her eldest sister in tight clothes, riding a white horse, with only Shen Qingzhu by her side.
Bai Qingyan stood with his back to the light, holding the reins, quietly watching Bai Jinxiu’s convoy going further and further away.
The bumpy carriage did not stop. Bai Jinxiu looked at Bai Qingyan standing in the early morning glow and could not help but waved at Bai Qingyan.
She had once seen her elder sister off here, and now… her elder sister was standing there to see her off.
She hoped that this time when she left the capital, she could also bring different changes to the Bai family and the country when she returned, just like her elder sister did.