Chapter 110 Immortality
Chapter 110 Immortality
Chun Tao, who had been waiting at the gate of the courtyard, and Bai Jintong's personal maid, Dan Zhi, hurriedly opened their umbrellas when they saw the two girls coming out, and hurried in to pick them up.
Bai Jintong took the umbrella from Danzhi's hand, propped it on Bai Qingyan's head and said, "You two go back, my elder sister and I will go for a walk..."
"Give me the lamp." Bai Qingyan took the lamp from Chuntao's hand.
The two sisters walked towards the Yifeng Pavilion while talking along the snow-fallen bluestone road.
"I heard from my grandmother that I have arranged for you to choose a few stories about your life experience. Have you chosen?" she asked.
"I've chosen. I picked the name of Cui Fengnian. I think it sounds good. Besides, the Cui family was originally a businessman, but it fell into decline more than ten years ago. The Cui family also has a grandmother who is both blind and unconscious. No one else can." As for suspecting that my identity is fake."
She nodded: "The people selected by Uncle Ping, after the work is done, I think I will let them follow you and obey your orders."
"Sister, my grandmother has given me a lot of people!" Bai Jintong said.
She paused, turned her head and looked at Bai Jintong: "Those people were given by my grandmother, and they must be used. You can use them well, but some things... need to be handled by someone who only obeys your orders. Your subordinates You can't live without your own people!"
Bai Jintong pursed her lips, wondering if the elder sister was implicitly telling her to beware of her grandmother.
"Don't think too much, I just don't want to make grandma sad." She led Bai Jintong and continued to walk forward, "Grandma is old after all, she would rather see that it is Taiping who is respected and supported by the Duke's Mansion and the royal family." Facade, if you do something beyond grandma's expectations, grandma will not ignore it. You need to keep in mind that grandma is our grandmother and the eldest princess of Dajin."
"I know Eldest Sister, I will definitely let my grandmother see what she wants to see." Bai Jintong said.
Lu Ping's subordinates knew that they could be handed over to the back, there were only a few dozen in total, and he carefully selected the ten most strict-mouthed ones, and took the roster to report to Bai Qingyan.
Bai Qingyan handed the roster to Bai Jintong: "You will use these people in the future, are you going to meet them?"
"I don't worry about the person Uncle Ping chooses, so I won't go to see him. There will always be time to see him." Bai Jintong said.
She nodded, looked up at Lu Ping, her eyes were dark, and she spoke very steadily: "It's a bandit, so don't show any flaws, and don't deliberately save the life of Bai Qiyun and his party. After the incident, you don't have to Back and forth, scattered in two ways. All the way straight to Wudaopo, in the name of my father, Mr. Liu Zhengyu of Liujiabao was invited out of the mountain. All the way, he pretended to be an ordinary merchant housekeeper and went to Shuoyang before the incident happened, and bought Shuoyang white tea for the young owner Cui Fengnian to go to sea for trading. Buying and selling. From now on...they will all follow the orders of the third girl."
"Yes!" Lupine nodded.
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It was already midnight, outside the gate of the Longevity Courtyard, Mammy Jiang holding an umbrella listened to the report from the woman in the outer courtyard, gave a purse as a reward, and hurried into the upper room with the hem of her jacket and skirt.
The gray-haired eldest princess closed her eyes, leaning against the pillow of auspicious and wishful double flowers at the head of the bed, covered with a purple brocade quilt of rich and noble flowers, fiddling with Buddhist beads in her hands, the curtain had not been put down yet, half of her body was hidden by the candlelight Not into the shadows.
"Princess Dachang..." Mother Jiang walked to Princess Dachang and lowered her voice, "Second Master's concubine has settled down in Zhuangzi, and all the words that should be said have been passed on. Now that they are mother and son during the New Year's Eve He has nowhere to go, and even though he has the promise from the Eldest Princess to keep him safe, and because he is the only blood in the Duke's Mansion, it is more beneficial for him to go to Zhuangzi to settle down first, as long as they live in Zhuangzi , that woman will definitely not come out alive.”
The eldest princess sighed: "Don't let Ah Bao know about this!"
Hearing this, Mother Jiang's eyes turned red again: "Actually, Eldest Sister didn't think of that bastard's life at all."
Moisture dripped from the corners of the eldest princess's closed eyes: "I didn't want to prevent Abao from taking the life of the second son's concubine, I didn't want Abao to get the dirty blood of that pickled woman on his hands! Abao is so young. This child...has done too much for this family, let me, an old lady buried in the soil, do the things that are harmful to Yin and virtue!"
Mother Jiang knelt beside the eldest princess's bed in response, and gently held her hand: "This old slave knows that the eldest princess still loves eldest sister the most!"
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In the early morning of the second day, as expected by Bai Qingyan, Bai Qiyun took 450,000 taels of bank notes and led the troops out of the city, heading back to Shuoyang.
Before leaving, Bai Qiyun told the two brothers from the common clan that they would go to the Duke's Mansion for one more day today, and they must leave for Shuoyang tomorrow.
Before noon, the emperor's four decrees were sent out from the imperial city one after another. The content made most of the people knelt down and kowtowed, shouting that the emperor is wise.
In the first decree, the emperor ordered the head of the Dali Temple to arrest Qin Dezhao, the loyal and brave Marquis, and strictly investigate the case of grain and grass in southern Xinjiang.
The second decree, Liu Huanzhang colluded with the enemy and treason, ransacked his family and exterminated his family.
The third decree is that King Xin's staff will be demoted to the common people and exiled in Yongzhou forever, and he will not be able to return to the court forever.
The fourth decree is to posthumously confer the title of Zhen Guogong as the town king, and posthumously confer the posthumous title of Zhen Guogong's son as Zhen Guogong.
The Eldest Princess personally led the widow of the Bai family to kneel at the door to receive the imperial edict. The two concubines who hadn't left turned pale with shock and looked at each other, full of panic.
The emperor chased the Duke of Zhen as the king of the town, which means that the emperor not only did not intend to dislike the Duke's mansion, but also wanted to give him grace!
Feng Wang ah! Wang with a different surname! Although it is posthumous... it is an unattainable honor!
Bai Qingyan, who was kneeling in front of the coffin, put a stick of incense on Lord Zhen Guo, kowtowed solemnly, and when he looked up again, his eyes were hazy with tears, and his heart was sore.
"Grandfather! Father! The traitor Liu Huanzhang ransacked his family and wiped out his clan, and King Xin was demoted as a commoner and exiled in Yongzhou, never to return to the court! The heavens will finally return my Bai family man's innocence, my Bai family man...everyone is a loyal gentleman worthy of the common people! Although the bodies of the Bai family are dead, their spirits live forever! Uncles and brothers, you can rest in peace!"
She kowtowed heavily.
The sisters of the Bai family knelt behind Bai Qingyan with tears in their eyes and kowtowed.
When the people outside the Duke's mansion heard the word "rest in peace", they beat their chests and cried bitterly. The great grief hidden in their hearts was contagious, and their cries shook the sky.
In this life, she finally did not allow her grandfather to bear the words "willful use of the army" and be humiliated and buried, leaving behind a lifetime of infamy.
But even... What's the use of chasing the title of prince? ! Can the loyal son of her Bai family survive? !
She will never entrust the life and death of the Bai family, and the honor and disgrace of the Bai family, in the hands of others.
She wants power! Take advantage!
Let the Bai family no longer be a fish on the chopping board.
The emperor's punishment for Xinwang this time is heavier than what the emperor told her in the hall before.
She dared to conclude that the emperor had made up his mind to let her go to the southern border, so... he made such an overture, even a concession and a compromise.