Aunt Jiang had been waiting for Bai Qingyan at the gate of the Duke's Mansion early. The test of Bai Qingxuan's character was approved by the eldest princess. After all, if all the men in the Duke's Mansion in Nanjiang really died, it would only be the case.
With the eldest princess here, this son has a great chance of inheriting the title of Duke of Zhenguo.
People's hearts are separated from each other. It's not like I grew up in the Duke's mansion. I can't feel at ease if I don't try the eldest princess.
The eldest princess sitting on the soft couch listened to what Bai Qingxuan did, and the hand that plucked the beads kept shaking. If it weren't for Bai Qingyan's presence, the hundred-year-old reputation of the Zhenguo Palace would have fallen into the mud today.
He often called the Duke of Zhen Guo even the emperor would not dare to offend... He wanted to kill the nine tribes. If these words reached the emperor's ears, he was afraid that he would make the emperor suspicious of the Bai family.
The eldest princess closed her eyes: "A Bao did a great job! This boy is violent by nature, and I'm afraid it will take some time to educate him... Let him be watched first, and he should be detained in the house to prevent him from getting into trouble.
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After all, my grandmother was old. Even if she knew Bai Qingxuan was a bad guy... she still couldn't bear to send him back to Zhuangzi.
She was dissatisfied, but she still nodded in agreement, obviously unwilling to say any more.
After coming out of Changshou Yuan, Bai Qingyan noticed two snowmen half as tall as a man piled under the lamp at the entrance of the courtyard. The snowmen's mouths were made of peanuts and made into a curved smile.
Thinking of the peanut that hit Bai Qingxuan's knees and forced Bai Qingxuan to kneel down in front of Manjiang Tower today, Bai Qingyan clenched the stove tightly and lowered her eyes, feeling uneasy in her heart.
Xiao Rongyan was so skilled, but why... why did he help her?!
She remembered that in her last life, she went on an expedition with the King of Liang, and the armies of the Jin Dynasty and Yan Dynasty faced each other. Bai Qingyan planned to capture Xiao Rongyan alive, but he only killed Xiao Rongyan's forward general Yue Quanyong.
Yue Quanyong once said...if Xiao Rongyan had not been seriously injured, injuring his heart and lungs, with Xiao Rongyan's martial arts ability, they would definitely not have fallen into Bai Qingyan's trick but could not escape. It seems to be true.
Seeing Bai Qingyan looking at the snowman in a daze, Aunt Jiang smiled and said, "This is what the fifth and sixth sisters made for the eldest princess today!"
Bai Qingyan nodded: "Mom, please go back and serve your grandmother. There is no need to send me off."
Aunt Jiang opened the curtain and came in. She was a little dazed when she saw the eldest princess. She walked lightly to her side and gently squeezed her shoulders.
The eldest princess looked in the direction of the partition and asked Aunt Jiang in a low voice: "Aunt... Do you think A Bao blames me for asking her if she had any rebellious intentions that day? Now A Bao is not as affectionate as before in my place.
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"Don't worry, eldest princess! You raised me personally, don't you know about eldest sister's filial piety?" Aunt Jiang smiled and spoke for Bai Qingyan, "There are too many things happening in our house these days.
After all, the eldest sister is still a child, and it is inevitable that she is not capable of doing what she wants. The eldest princess only wants to feel sorry for the eldest sister, so why do you want a child to coax you back?"
Hearing what Aunt Jiang said, the eldest princess closed her eyes tiredly and exhaled for a long time, then laughed softly: "You're right, it's my fault. You can find the set of imperial jade chess pieces in my warehouse soon.
Send them to Abao tomorrow morning, she likes to play with them."
"I will serve the eldest princess in a while, and the old slave will go to the warehouse to find it. Tomorrow morning Tianxiufang will come to deliver new clothes and jewelry to the girls in the palace for the New Year's Eve banquet. When I turn around, the old slave will give the chess pieces to the eldest sister.
Send it away." Nanny Jiang said.
The eldest princess nodded and fiddled with the beads again: "What will Wei Zhong say when he comes back from visiting the secret guards today?"
"Wei Zhong said that although the secret guards were raised in the eldest princess's village and were never used, the captain of the secret guards, Wan Ruozhong, still followed the rules and still took an apprentice from each person. After testing the person's moral character, he taught Wan what he had learned throughout his life.
If Wei Zhong is asked to send a message again, the newly formed secret guards will be available and are waiting for the eldest princess's orders." Mother Jiang said.
The eldest princess closed her eyes and thought for a moment before saying: "On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the guards will return to the city. Send two to protect A Bao, but... don't let A Bao know."
Aunt Jiang was startled and quite surprised, but she didn’t ask any more questions and just bowed her head and said yes.
Letting the secret guards protect Bai Qingyan secretly was both protection and surveillance. The eldest princess was still afraid that Bai Qingyan would turn against her.
There was a little moisture in the corners of the eyes of the eldest princess. She recalled that when her father was still alive, she remembered Yin Yin who had asked her to look after the Zhenguo Palace for the Jin Dynasty royal family. She remembered that the eyes of her granddaughter, who she had raised by herself, were full of resentment, and her whole body felt like fried oil.
General fire.
No one knows that the eldest princess is also suffering as much as Coptidis. On the one hand, she has to fight to the death to protect the blood relatives of the Bai family, and on the other hand, she has to do her best to protect the Lin family royal family. She is really in a difficult situation.
In the past few days, the eldest princess has been thinking about whether flesh and blood relatives are more important than the Lin family, but she still hasn't figured it out to this day.
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When Bai Qingyan came back from the eldest princess, Chuntao changed her into practice clothes and tied sandbags on her arms and thighs.
While practicing, she carefully took stock of the life of Xiao Rongyan in her previous life.
It seems that this year, when the Emperor held a banquet for ministers and their families in the Emperor's Palace, Xiao Rongyan, as a guest of Prince Qi's Mansion, was also at the banquet. However, he had a secret meeting with Prince Qi's concubine and maid during the banquet, and was discovered.
The king's concubine and his maid identified themselves as Wei Xizuo on the spot, and Xiao Rongyan was also arrested and imprisoned for severe interrogation.
In the previous life, the Bai family was in trouble. Bai Qingyan didn't know when Xiao Rongyan came out of prison. He also didn't know whether Xiao Rongyan had injured his heart and lungs in prison, or whether he had become like her after being injured during his several near-death escapes.
A useless person who has lost all his martial arts skills.
Bai Qingyan closed her eyes, her whole body steaming with heat in the cold wind. Perhaps it was because both of them had lost their martial arts skills in the previous life and shared the same illness, so she actually felt a bit of sympathy for Xiao Rong.
Thinking back to Xiao Rongyan's help in her previous life after she saw through King Liang's face, she inevitably felt compassion.
The maids who came out of the small kitchen filed out carrying boiling water in buckets. Under the leadership of Chunyan, they lowered their heads and quickly stepped into the main room, pouring hot water into the bathtub.
"Girl, the time has come!" Chuntao stepped forward quickly and supported Bai Qingyan, "The water is ready, girl, let's take a bath!"
Bai Qingyan used Chuntao's strength to stand up, but his legs were obviously not as soft as mud when he first started practicing.
After coming out of the shower, Bai Qingyan spread out the rice paper, dipped it in ink, picked up the pen...hesitated for a moment and put the pen back.
Bai Qingyan used Chengxintang paper as a tribute sent by the eldest princess, and the ink was also a tribute, making it easy for Xiao Rongyan to see the source of the news.
She told Chuntao to get ordinary white linen paper and ordinary ink used in accounting offices, then changed her left hand to hold the pen and started writing...
After writing, Bai Qingyan blew the ink dry, folded it and handed it to Chuntao: "Take it. Early tomorrow morning, give this to your cousin and ask him to find a way to deliver this letter the day after tomorrow...before New Year's Eve."
In the hands of the housekeeper of Xiao Mansion in the south of the city, he was told to be careful and don't let anyone find out his identity."
Xiao Rongyan had helped her a lot in the past, but she had never repaid him in return. Now she would help if she could.