bookcurios Chapter 140: Roasting the Little Companion on the Fire
Chapter 140: Roasting the Little Companion on the Fire
Nan Sheng hadn't seen Bai Jintong come back to study for a long time, and she didn't see Sister Xiangxiang come back until school was over. When she asked, she found out that Sister Xiangxiang was still standing in Kunning Palace.
I've been standing for the whole morning!
How could the Queen be so evil?
Why do you treat your sister like that?
She knew that it was impossible for her to please the Queen, so she ran to the Cining Palace to find the Queen Mother.
"Grandfather, please save my sister~
My sister came with me to the palace in the morning. As soon as she arrived at Chongwen Pavilion, she was called by the nanny beside the queen. My sister has been standing at the gate of Kunning Palace for two hours.
In Chongwen Hall, only the elder sister is kind to Shengsheng, but when the elder sister is in trouble, Shengsheng can't help her...
Wuwu... My legs will break if I stand like this... What on earth did I do wrong...
Is it because my sister saved Shengsheng?
Woohoo... Then Shengsheng, next time..."
"Don't talk nonsense. Okay, stop crying. I'll ask Mammy to go and see what's going on."
The Queen Mother heard what Nan Sheng said, and the nanny beside her also confirmed that it was indeed the Queen who asked Bai Jintong to stand at the gate of Kunning Palace for two hours.
The Queen was indeed being a little unreasonable.
As far as she knew, the Bai family still didn't know that the prince was insisting on marrying Bai Jintong. This was very strange, and it didn't look like Bai Jintong was seducing the prince or anything.
What the Queen is doing now is of no use at all and may even discourage the meritorious officials.
After all, the Bai family won honor for the Long Kingdom during the Wanshou Festival and won two pieces of land. They shouldn't treat them like this now.
It is now mid-March and the midday sun is very scorching. Even a man can't stand being under the sun, let alone a little girl.
The Empress Dowager waved for Nanny Gui to come over and whispered some instructions to her.
“Take someone to take a look, and tell the queen in private not to make things too embarrassing, as it goes against her demeanor as the mother of a country. Send the white girl back properly, and find an imperial physician to take a look at her, so that she doesn’t really do anything bad.
If she doesn't let him go, she will say that I asked her if she could bear the responsibility for affecting Mr. Bai's research on gunpowder."
"Yes."
Nanny Gui took the order and left.
The Queen Mother felt very distressed when she saw Nan Sheng crying so sadly.
"Okay, the old man asked Madam to go.
Girls shouldn't cry at every turn. If there is a problem, we should find a way to solve it.
If you have something to ask of us, it would be good to come to our ancestors.”
This child has grown up under my care, and I like Nan Sheng's intelligence very much.
"Well, thank you, ancestor!"
Nan Sheng nodded obediently.
She cried pitifully on purpose, otherwise the Queen Mother might have ignored her request for help.
As soon as Nanny Gui left, the Grand Princess entered the palace and came to the Cining Palace.
She entered the palace because her son sent someone back home to tell her to come and find a way to save Miss Bai.
"Grandma~"
Nan Sheng felt very aggrieved when she saw her grandmother.
"Grandma knows everything."
The eldest princess touched her granddaughter's head lovingly. She knew how much her granddaughter liked the white girl.
She saw that the queen was getting worse and worse as she got older. Now she only cared about her mother's family. She wanted to turn the royal family directly into her Ning family!
What a big ambition!
"Mother, Miss Bai was called by the Queen to stand in line for the entire morning, which is really inappropriate.
The Emperor did not agree to let the Crown Prince marry Miss Bai. This was the Crown Prince's wishful thinking. However, the Queen took her anger out on the girl, which was really unreasonable. The Bai family still doesn't know about that.
Now that she's making such a fuss, people will know about it."
"Okay, don't say any more. After all, she is your sister-in-law and the mother of a country. If she knew, she would definitely make things difficult for you.
I have already asked Nanny Gui to take the girl out of the palace."
"Mother is wise!
Isn't this just something I said in front of you~"
A child with a mother is a treasure. They are all the eldest princesses of their grandmothers, but they are like little girls in front of the empress dowager.
Bai Jintong thought that the Queen called her over to scold her to stay away from the Crown Prince or something, but she ended up letting her stand there?
Is it to intimidate her or simply to disgust her?
Hit me if you dare!
She stood for a whole morning under the scorching sun. If she wasn't in good health, she would have probably fainted.
Wouldn't she feel dizzy thinking about this?
Otherwise the queen would probably make her stand until night.
He felt dizzy all of a sudden, his Qi and blood were flowing backwards, his face soon turned pale, his eyes rolled back, and he fainted.
Nanny Gui came over and saw this scene.
He quickly went forward and picked up Bai Jintong from the ground.
"White lady? White lady?"
"Your Highness, Miss Bai fainted. When she fainted, Aunt Gui, who was beside the Queen Mother, happened to come over and saw her, and picked her up."
When the Queen heard that the Queen Mother had sent someone over, she felt very uncomfortable.
That old fool has to meddle in such a small matter. She wants to see what the empress dowager asked Nanny Gui to do.
As for the fainting of the girl from the Bai family, she didn't take it seriously at all.
But she was just the daughter of a minor official, and even if she died, it was the result of her wishful thinking that she deserved.
"You should shield Miss Bai from the scorching sun. Miss Bai's father, Lord Bai, is currently in the critical period of researching gunpowder. If anything happens to Lord Bai's daughter and affects the critical period of his gunpowder research, you will all be in big trouble."
When the young palace maids saw that it was Nanny Gui who was beside the empress dowager, they knew that what she said was what the empress dowager meant, and they hurried over to block the sun for Bai Jintong.
Upon seeing this, Nanny Gui went to see the Queen and repeated what the Queen Mother had instructed.
The queen's face looked so ugly that ink could drip out of it.
No matter how unwilling she was, she had no choice but to let Nanny Gui take the person away.
"Thank you very much, Madam Gui, for making this trip."
"I dare not. This is what the old slave should do."
Nanny Gui pretended that she couldn't tell the Queen's tone and took the still unconscious Bai Jintong to the Cining Palace first.
On the way, I met Princess Fenglin who came to pay her respects to the Queen Mother.
Bai Jintong seemed unconscious, but in fact, he was clearly aware of what was happening around him.
I was surprised that the princess and the prince of Fenglin Kingdom had never returned to Fenglin Kingdom. They were waiting for an opportunity halfway and then turned back.
Nanny Gui took Bai Jintong to the Cining Palace in a hurry. However, the news that Bai Jintong fainted due to the torture of the Queen soon spread in the palace.
Feng Ming naturally knew it too.
I felt heartbroken right in front of the emperor and the prince.
"Miss Bai is smart, brave and resourceful. Your country doesn't want her, but this prince is exactly what he wants.
Fenglin Country is willing to use 10,000 dan of grain and 10 miles of red makeup to ask for Miss Bai Jintong to be the Crown Princess. I hope the Emperor will grant this!"
"no!
Miss Bai is the one this prince has set his eyes on, and Miss Bai can only be this prince's princess!"
Without even waiting for the emperor to speak, Long Qingkai stood up and started arguing head-on with the Crown Prince of Fenglin Kingdom.
Nan Mingyu's face was frighteningly gloomy.
These two people deliberately put the little tutor on the spot!