Rebirth: The Journey of an Heiress novel Chapter 40

Chapter 40: Chapter 40: The Young Noble_1

Bai Qingyan closed her eyes, and it took her a while to calm down. She picked a piece from the chess box.

Chun Tao and Chen Qingsheng bought flour figurines. After chatting briefly downstairs, they hurried upstairs to serve their young lady.

“Big Miss, I bought many flour figurines, and I got one for you too! Look…” Chun Tao bent over with a bright smile, holding a small figurine in front of Bai Qingyan. “Big Miss, look at this general on horseback. Doesn’t he look like you? So majestic!”

Bai Qingyan looked at the small figurine of the general on horseback in Chun Tao’s hand, a mix of feelings swirling in her heart. _{frёewebnoѵēl.com}

Nowadays, her body needed a few more years if she wanted to don armor and go to battle again.

Night fell upon Lincheng. After the Bell Tower lit its lanterns, each shop followed suit, lighting the long street with red lanterns, enveloping Dadu City, covered in white snow, in a warm glow.

Tea houses and restaurants were brightly lit and prosperous, their doors busy with people coming and going, bustling with noise.

Chen Qingsheng saw an elmwood carriage painted with the Bai family’s emblem of the Duke of Zhen. After passing the city gate inspection, it slowly made its way down the long street, rushing towards Manjiang Tower.

Chen Qingsheng rushed upstairs, lifting his hem, and informed Bai Qingyan, who was eating wontons, “Big Miss, the carriage has entered the city!”

“I know; you may go!” She lifted her spirits, pressing her lips with a handkerchief, and ordered, “Chun Tao, open all the partitions.”

Chun Tao responded and pushed open all the carved flower partitions that separated the corridor on the second floor.

This cousin, though she hadn’t faced him in her previous life, she’d heard plenty about his deeds. The reputation the Bai family had accumulated was utterly squandered by him.

Bai Qingyan picked up a teacup, gripping it tightly in her hand, her eyes sharp and cold.

In this lifetime, this cousin had not yet fallen into King Liang’s grasp. She didn’t know his character.

If he had a good nature, then she would guide him onto the right path with all her heart.

If he was inherently malicious, she would seize the opportunity to trample on him to enhance the Bai family’s reputation. That way, he would still have contributed to the Bai family in some way.

“Miss, your cloak!” Chun Yan brought the cloak to drape over Bai Qingyan.

Chun Tao replaced the charcoal in the silver-plated plum blossom hand warmer and handed it to Bai Qingyan.

She held the hand warmer, standing under the hot red lanterns in the corridor. Seeing Chen Qingsheng talking to Lu Ping downstairs, she looked towards the distant carriage of the Duke of Zhen, her eyes clear.

Inside the carriage, a beautiful woman lifted the curtain with her hand, gazing at the brightly lit Dadu City outside the window, her heart pounding in awe of the bustling scene.

“Son, we’ve finally… entered Dadu City!” The woman looked back at her son, who lay on the long seat in the carriage, his head propped on one hand, chewing a straw. “Once we enter the Duke’s Mansion, your name will be under the second wife’s name. You will become a young master of the Duke’s Mansion! They say there are seventeen young masters in the Duke’s Mansion, and you will be the eighteenth!”

Kneeling on the carriage, Bai Qingxuan glanced at the child protected in the old woman’s arms, who was crying in fear, then jumped down from the carriage.

The coachman, holding his bleeding head, knelt to make way for Bai Qingxuan, afraid of being affected.

Bai Qingxuan walked towards the old woman and child. Looking down from above, his smile was eerie and sinister.

“Boy… cough cough cough… the boy was picking herbs for me. Cough cough… afraid that the wheels would crush the medicine wrapped in cowhide paper, he offended you. Please forgive him…” The frail old woman was about to leave with her grandson, but as soon as she stood up, Bai Qingxuan kicked her down. The child in her arms fell to the ground and rolled away. The old woman, panicking, called out the child’s name but was unable to get up before Bai Qingxuan mercilessly stomped on her back. She spat out blood and coughed violently.

The dirty-faced child, holding the herbs, cried loudly, “Grandmother! Grandmother!”

Bai Qingxuan used all his strength to stomp on the old woman. Leaning down with a face like a demon, he said, “Because the little master picked herbs for you, I have to get hurt for nothing? Who gave you the gall! I am a young master of the Duke’s Mansion. If I’m injured, your life and that of your entire family wouldn’t be enough to compensate!”

Bai Qingxuan’s eyes were blood-red and violent, scaring the onlookers around them into stepping back.

Bai Qingyan, having descended to the last step, heard Bai Qingxuan’s words, and her anger flared. How could she have thought of guiding such a being onto the right path?

Bai Qingyan, face dark with rage, called out, “Chen Qingsheng!”

Chen Qingsheng, who had some martial skills, immediately understood when he saw Bai Qingyan’s stern expression. In three moves, he had Bai Qingxuan pinned against the carriage.