Chapter 804: Forced to take off the vest
"Mom, is this true?"
The second master asked the old lady with a shocked look on his face.
The old lady nodded weakly.
Then she asked the maid to help her walk back.
However, after taking just a few steps, his body began to stagger and he almost fell.
"Old Madam!" the maid screamed in fear.
When the Bai family members saw this, they were all shocked and rushed over.
"mother!"
"grandmother!"
“…”
The old lady closed her eyes, waved her hand, and said, "I'm fine."
Tang Bao was about to step forward to check the old lady's pulse, but Xuanyuan Jin grabbed her arm.
"There is a palace doctor in the Bai Mansion." Xuanyuan Jin said lightly.
As soon as Xuanyuan Jin finished speaking, the Second Master urgently ordered, "Go call the palace doctor!"
A housekeeper agreed and ran quickly towards the outer courtyard.
At this time, Zhang Cheng strode over, bowed and whispered to Xuanyuan Jin: "Master, things have changed..."
Zhang Cheng paused here and gave Xuanyuan Jin a strange look.
Tang Bao immediately said: "Brother, go and do what you want, I'll go find Sister Ning."
Xuanyuan Jin frowned slightly and glanced at everyone in the Bai family.
The Bai family members surrounded the old lady with worried looks on their faces, but no one paid attention to Tang Bao and Xuanyuan Jin.
Xuanyuan Jin instructed Tang Bao: "You and the emperor's sister go to find your fifth brother together. Don't run around and don't meddle in other people's business!"
At the end, he emphasized his tone.
Tang Bao naturally knew that the trivial matters Xuanyuan Jin was talking about were referring to the affairs of the Bai family.
Naturally, she wouldn't wade into this muddy water.
Are you stupid?
"Don't worry, brother. I'm just a little girl from the country. I don't know anything and naturally I won't meddle in other people's business!" Tang Bao said confidently.
"Yeah." Xuanyuan Jin touched Tang Bao's head and said in a coaxing tone, "Be good, I'll come find you later."
"Okay! Go ahead..." Tang Bao waved at Xuanyuan Jin.
Only then did Xuanyuan Jin leave with some concern.
Tang Bao saw Xuanyuan Jin turn the corridor and walk towards Princess Huaning.
"Stop!" A member of the Bai clan looked at Tang Bao and asked, "The old lady and the eldest lady have always treated you with great courtesy and favor. Don't you have any gratitude at all?"
As soon as this person finished speaking, someone else immediately chimed in, "The gift the old lady gave you at the banquet at the Bai Mansion that day was incredibly rare and precious. They say one should repay a favor with another. Now that the Bai family has run into trouble, they're just asking you to ask the Empress Dowager for a favor, and you won't even bother?"
When this person finished speaking, his tone was full of accusations and accusations, as if Tang Bao was an ungrateful villain.
Following the words of these two people, many members of the Bai family looked at Tang Bao with condemnation in their eyes.
Even Bai Shuqing and Bai Shuan are the same.
Tang Bao blinked, with a cute expression on her face, and said, "But, when I came to the Bai family for the banquet that day, I also brought a gift."
Therefore, there is no need for moral kidnapping or anything like that.
"What kind of gift can you, a little girl from the countryside, give?" Someone said disapprovingly, "Just a few sachets or purses or something."
"That's right, the old lady gave you a blood jade bead necklace. I wonder how many of that kind of things you need to buy!" There was a hint of jealousy in someone's tone.
"Perhaps it's thoughtful of you to give me the old hens you raised at home..." Someone said with a hint of ridicule in his tone.
Tang Bao blinked her eyes. Was she being beaten by the Bai family?
Shi Liu angrily shouted, "You guys just didn't dare to say a word in front of the Third Prince! As soon as the Third Prince left, you immediately accused and ridiculed our young lady. This is simply too much! Aren't you afraid that our young lady will tell the Third Prince? No! There's no need to tell the Third Prince, we can tell the Queen Mother directly!"
After Shi Liu finished speaking, she looked at Tang Bao and said, "Miss, let's go see the Queen Mother and tell her that the Bai family bullied you!"
As soon as Shi Liu finished speaking, the wings of the Bai family, which had been puffed up, drooped down.
The scene of Xuanyuan Jin and the Queen Mother supporting Tang Bao that day seemed to be vivid in his mind.
"Miss Su, you misunderstood. We absolutely have no intention of bullying you!"
"That's right, we just want to plead with Miss Su to ask the Empress Dowager for mercy..."
“Yes, yes…”
The person who originally blamed Tang Bao hurriedly explained.
Tang Bao thought about it and said in a fair and just manner: "Since you all feel that I took advantage of the old lady that day, why don't we exchange the gifts back! I will return all the gifts you gave me, including those from the old lady, the first lady, the second lady, and other people in the Bai family."
"Of course, you, the Bai family, must return the gift I gave me, so that neither of us can take advantage of the other."
Do you think it’s fair?
"Although I'm young and from the countryside, my parents have always taught me not to covet other people's things, let alone take advantage of them!"
"Come to think of it, I didn't eat any of your Bai family's food that day, nor did I even drink a sip of the Bai family's tea. I ate vegetarian food in the Empress Dowager's courtyard, so I only remember the Empress Dowager's kindness."
After Tang Bao finished speaking, her eyes fell directly on the old lady.
When those people accused her just now, the old lady didn't say a word.
Now I can't continue to pretend I didn't hear it, can I?
Of course not!
The old lady glanced fiercely at the surrounding Bai family members and shouted angrily, "How dare you say such words? You have brought shame upon the Bai family!"
Everyone in the Bai family was naturally dissatisfied when they were scolded by the old lady.
A little girl from the countryside must have never seen such a blood-jade bracelet.
Even if you say you want to return it, you must be reluctant to do so in your heart.
Bai Shuxiang, the second daughter of the Bai family, was surprised when she heard others say that her grandmother actually gave the blood jade bracelet to Tang Bao.
You know, before she got married, she asked her grandmother for that bracelet as a dowry, but her grandmother was reluctant to give it to her.
Now, after hearing what the old lady said, she immediately said, "Grandma, since this little girl Su wants to exchange the gift back, then go ahead and exchange it. Could it be that the gift she gave to our Bai family is some rare treasure?"
The old lady: "..."
Aren’t they rare treasures?
Tang Bao said, "Oh, they are not rare treasures, just two bottles of health pills and two bottles of anti-aging cream. The health pills are often taken by the Empress Dowager and the Emperor, and the anti-aging cream was used by Princess Ning of the capital."
Bai Shuxiang: “…”
Everyone in the Bai family: "..."
Those people in the Bai clan may not know the effectiveness of the anti-aging cream used by Princess Ning, but Bai Shuxiang, as the wife of the Crown Prince of Yongning Marquis's Mansion, knows it.
As for health-preserving pills, when the Empress Dowager and the Emperor are mentioned, they become their signature dish.
"Impossible!" Bai Shuxiang was stunned for a moment before she said firmly, "How could a little girl like you from the countryside possibly have something like that?"
"Why can't I have it?" Tang Bao said strangely: "Those things were originally made by me."
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