Chapter 18 You Threaten Me
Speaking of Bai Qinghuan's broken engagement, Bai Qingyou felt better.
"She has herself to blame."
"So, no matter what, you are already the Third Prince's. Don't think too much about it. Maybe you are already pregnant."
"Children are the foundation of your life. If you can give birth to a firstborn son, even the queen will not look down on you."
Bai Qingyou touched her belly and cursed Bai Qinghuan bitterly, wishing him a bad ending.
"You said she was the one who schemed against you. We have no evidence. We can only wait until you become famous and then we will retaliate against you."
"Go back to the house and warm yourself up, don't catch a cold."
"Give birth to the eldest son, for the future."
Aunt Zheng personally sent her daughter back and only left after she was settled.
"Bai Qinghuan, I won't let you go."
Those words just now were to comfort my daughter. Now that my daughter has entered the Third Prince's palace, it is difficult for a concubine to leave the palace. She doesn't even have anyone to use. How can she take revenge?
Let her do everything.
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Early the next morning, Bai Qinghuan got up, put on neat clothes, and ran five laps in the yard. He stopped only when he was sweating slightly.
“This body is so weak.”
It was a small yard, less than 200 meters in circumference, but she couldn't stand it.
I went back to the house and did a set of gymnastics moves that I had seen in my mind to stretch my muscles.
"Fortunately, the flexibility is still good."
Zi Yan came to report: "Miss, it's time for breakfast, and the sedan chair from the Third Prince's Palace has arrived."
"So impatient? Go check it out."
Between breakfast and watching Bai Qingyou's excitement, she decisively gave up breakfast.
You won’t starve to death if you eat a little later.
The Third Prince is quite quick. He must be afraid that he won't be able to hold on to the big tree of the Prime Minister's Mansion.
He didn't even wait for the prime minister to leave the court.
After returning to the house and changing clothes, I walked towards the door.
Bai Qingyou obviously didn't sleep well last night, and the thick makeup couldn't cover the dark circles under her eyes.
Today she is no longer wearing white, but a pastel pink dress.
Concubines are not allowed to wear bright red wedding dresses when they get married. This dress was bought by Aunt Zheng overnight. It doesn’t fit her very well, but this is the only way.
"Qingyou, you can't take your dowry with you. I've prepared three thousand taels of silver for Meixiang. You can use it when the time comes. I'll convert the dowry I've prepared for you into cash and send it to you when the time comes."
Bai Qingyou's eyes were red with grievance, but she didn't dare to cry.
"Thank you, mother. You are the best to me."
"You are my flesh and blood. If I don't love you, who else can I love?"
When Bai Qinghuan came over, Aunt Zheng was hugging her and crying reluctantly.
When enemies meet, their eyes turn red with envy. Bai Qingyou wiped away her tears and said bitterly:
"What are you doing here?"
"I came to congratulate my sister on getting what she wanted."
"Bai Qinghuan, it's all your fault that I'm like this."
Bai Qinghuan glanced at the sedan bearers outside and the nanny who was walking in, and deliberately said loudly:
"Why? Sister doesn't want to marry the Third Prince?"
Bai Qingyou's face turned red with anxiety, fearing that the people in the Third Prince's Mansion would misunderstand something. If this got to the Third Prince's ears, she would be in trouble.
He whispered fiercely: "Bai Qinghuan, just wait for me."
Once she has established a firm foothold in the Third Prince's Mansion, and once what she learned in her previous life has helped the Third Prince ascend to a high position, Bai Qinghuan will die.
Bai Qinghuan didn't care at all. Everyone can say harsh words.
"Your face is rosy, and you look like a bride. You are so beautiful, sister."
"Zi Yan, bring me the hairpin. Although my sister doesn't have a wedding and a dowry, as her elder sister I still need to give her some dowry."
A white jade hairpin that could barely be considered transparent was handed to Bai Qingyou.
Bai Qingyou felt so hurt by her words that his heart and lungs ached.
His hands clenched even more tightly: Bai Qinghuan, I must kill you!
Looking at the hairpin again, it is obviously a cheap item from a street stall.
"Who asked you to be so kind?"
He swung his hand hard and knocked the hairpin to the ground, breaking it into two pieces.
"Oh, my sister has become the concubine of the Third Prince. Don't you care about your sister's things?"
"Well, I wish you peace, sister, and have a safe journey. Take care of yourself."
These words don't sound like sending off a bride, but rather like sending someone on their journey.
Bai Qingyou walked up to the nanny and got into the sedan chair angrily. Meixiang, her personal maid, quickly followed.
The nanny felt that this concubine was not very sensible. At least she should maintain the superficial sisterly harmony.
Although this Miss Bai had bad intentions, she had the support of the Marquis of An Ning's Mansion, and Concubine Bai was being too impatient.
Shouldn't he rely closely on his stepmother and step-sister to help him consolidate his position and gain a firm foothold?
Although she was a concubine, her stepmother never showed up, which showed that their relationship was not very good.
There is no one of promise in her aunt's family either.
This most talented woman, she must have used all her brain power on writing poetry, right?
She expressed her pessimism. Anyway, she would tell the Third Prince everything that happened here truthfully. In her heart, she did look down on Concubine Bai.
After seeing her sitting firmly, he told the sedan bearer: "Lift the sedan."
Aunt Zheng cried like a tearful person and wished she could cut Bai Qinghuan to pieces with a knife.
Bai Qinghuan saw a group of people coming in from outside the door and turned back to his own yard.
Aunt Zheng looked at the empty door again and was about to go back.
"Zheng."
Aunt Zheng pretended not to hear and trotted away as if she was escaping.
But even though the Bai clan leader was already in his seventies, he ran up to her at the speed of light and blocked her way.
"Zheng, when will you give us the money? The clan is still waiting for us to build a school."
Aunt Zheng had already cried and was feeling unhappy, so she became even more angry when she saw them.
“No money.”
"Who are you kidding? This is a huge prime minister's mansion, and Chang Hao is a top official. You say you have no money?"
"If you don't believe me, go check in the accounting office."
"Humph, that's not just a false account you made on purpose. I won't believe it."
"Believe it or not."
Aunt Zheng didn't have the patience to deal with them. She still had to go to the store to inspect it. If the store could be turned from loss to profit, it would help alleviate the current difficult situation.
And Qingyou, the Third Prince's mansion must be spending money like water. Three thousand taels may seem like a lot, but in fact, it's too much to spend.
Money is needed everywhere.
These old guys still come to ask for money, thinking that the money in their prime minister's mansion came from the wind.
Seeing that she was determined to kill him, the clan leader became cold in his tone.
"When Lu was the housekeeper, he gave the clan two hundred taels every month, but you don't give any more as a housekeeper. What's the logic behind this?"
"You are far inferior to Lu."
"If you don't give it to us, we will go out and tell Prime Minister Bai that he didn't even want to build his own clan school and didn't support his own children. We supported him with the efforts of our entire clan when he took the imperial examination. He is ungrateful."
Saying that she was not as good as Lu, Aunt Zheng was almost angry to death: "Are you threatening me?"
"Yes, even if you don't care about the life and death of the Bai family, we can still risk our reputation and see if he, the prime minister, has a good face."
"Also, he favors his concubine over his wife and lets his concubines run the household. Even the Qi family can't do that, so how can they help His Majesty handle government affairs?"
"Someone, get them out."
The Bai clan leader's eyes widened: "You dare?"
"See if I dare."
"Hit me."
The servants naturally knew who to listen to, so they picked up sticks and started beating them.
The people from the Bai family who followed over saw that the situation was not good, so they carried the clan leader and ran out.
"Help! Someone is killing someone in the Prime Minister's Mansion."
The patriarch trotted all the way to the door and sat down on the ground.
"God damn it, Prime Minister of Dongxi Country, our entire family has spent all our wealth to support your studies. Now that you are a high-ranking official, you don't care about our lives. You are so ungrateful."
When Bai Changhao came back from court, he heard the wailing and his face instantly turned as pale as the bottom of a pot.
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