Rebirth: The Journey of an Heiress novel Chapter 157

Chapter 157: Chapter 156: No Communication_1

“Eldest Young Lady, the wind is strong outside. Return inside!”

She gripped Bai Jinxiu’s hand tightly, unsure when they would meet again after this farewell. Both sisters’ eyes turned red.

“Go,” she murmured.

Bai Jinxiu nodded and turned to look at Mrs. Liu, who was wiping her tears with a handkerchief. She solemnly bowed to Mrs. Dong. “Auntie, please take good care of my mother.”

“Good child, get up!” Mrs. Dong helped Bai Jinxiu up and patted her hand. “Don’t worry!”

Mrs. Liu worried about her daughter, but when she thought of how Bai Qingyan had earned a high-rank title for her daughter through military achievements in the South, and even asked the Crown Prince to escort Bai Jinxiu back to the Marquis of Loyalty and Courage’s Mansion, her gaze naturally fell on the frail Bai Qingyan. Her heart felt as though it was being twisted.

It was the dangerous battlefield of the South. The Bai family men had all been buried there. What if Bai Qingyan did not return? How could she have peace for the rest of her life?!

“Mother, I am leaving now!”

After speaking, Bai Jinxiu turned and boarded the carriage. She gave her elder sister one last deep look before bending down to enter the carriage.

That day, the second lady of the Bai family, Bai Jinxiu, was escorted back to the Marquis of Loyalty and Courage’s Mansion by the Crown Prince, along with the third and fourth young ladies of the Bai family. The people were amazed by the Bai family’s upright integrity.

They said that couples were like birds of the same forest, but when disaster struck, they would fly separately. If other husbands’ families were in trouble while the wife was at her mother’s house for a funeral, it would be expected for her to stay there to avoid trouble. Not to mention, Bai Jinxiu had narrowly escaped death at the hands of her husband’s two younger sisters and had been carried out of the Marquis’s mansion horizontally.

Yet, after the Bai family funeral, Bai Jinxiu resolutely returned to the Marquis of Loyalty and Courage’s Mansion. Her quality should be exemplary.

When the two ladies of the Marquis’s Mansion heard that Bai Jinxiu was escorted back by the newly appointed Crown Prince, and that the Crown Prince referred to her as his cousin and instructed the soldiers guarding the mansion to take good care of Bai Jinxiu and her people, they were terrified. Especially the younger second lady, who huddled shivering on her bed. No matter how Nanny Wu comforted her, it was useless.

“What should we do now!” The younger second lady of the Qin family shivered uncontrollably in the corner of the bed, teary-eyed, looking at Nanny Wu. “Now that Bai Jinxiu has returned, we… we might not survive!”

Nanny Wu held a bowl of chicken porridge, tears streaming down her face. “Don’t be afraid, Second Young Lady! We are not afraid… The Bai family values their reputation, she wouldn’t dare harm you!”

“It’s precisely because the Bai family values their reputation! It’s well known! Before, my younger sister and I…” The eldest young lady of the Qin family couldn’t continue, tightly hugging her younger brother, and choked. “Father is dead, and we three siblings have no protector. She must have returned for revenge! If only mother were here, she would surely protect us!”

While the few masters and servants of the Qin family’s second young lady’s boudoir were panicking and clueless, another Imperial Edict arrived. The two ladies of the Qin family nearly fainted.

An imperial envoy stood outside the Marquis of Loyalty and Courage’s Mansion with the Imperial Edict, conferring Bai Jinxiu the title of a high-ranking lady.

It was said that the Crown Prince, after escorting Bai Jinxiu back to the mansion, worried that she might be bullied, immediately went to the palace to plead with the Emperor, resulting in this honor.

The people praised the Crown Prince’s noble act and the Emperor’s deep affection. They remembered how Bai Jinxiu had narrowly escaped death in the Marquis’s Mansion, linking it to Qin Dezhao and the South’s grain case. They believed that Qin Dezhao had long colluded with King Liang and Liu Huanzhang to plot against the Bai family men. Otherwise, how could they have dared to harm the newly wed second lady of the Bai family so blatantly?

Qin Dezhao, the Marquis of Loyalty and Courage, even in death, was cursed by the world. King Liang’s reputation was no better. For his personal gain, he sabotaged the pillars of Jin, resulting in loyal souls burying their lives in the South. Jin had to humbly send envoys to seek peace with Nanyan and Xiliang. What a shame!