Rebirth: The Journey of an Heiress novel Chapter 717

Chapter 717: Chapter 714: Can’t Hold On_1

Yes, it was a secret order. He had not consulted Prime Minister Lu or any other veteran minister for fear of being obstructed. How did Bai Qingyan come to know about it?

The old retainer saw the Crown Prince’s expression and knew it wasn’t the Crown Prince who told Bai Qingyan: "If this matter wasn’t revealed by someone sent by the Crown Prince, I boldly request the Crown Prince to ask Princess of Zhen and see how she explains it."

The Crown Prince clenched his palm: "Old retainer, are you suggesting that Princess of Zhen has placed someone beside me?"

"I dare not make presumptions..." The old retainer had become shrewd now. He didn’t dare to outright state in front of the Crown Prince that Bai Qingyan was untrustworthy; he merely pointed it out for the Crown Prince to consider, "But it is indeed too suspicious that Princess of Zhen knows about this matter!"

The main hall was extremely quiet, so quiet that one could only hear the sound of fine sand falling in the hourglass beside.

The Crown Prince squinted his eyes, carefully thinking about everyone around him, guessing who Bai Qingyan might have planted by his side.

The Crown Prince thought and thought; there were only so many people around him.

Seeing the Crown Prince deeply contemplating and not speaking for a long time, the old retainer continued: "Your Highness, putting aside whether Princess of Zhen has placed someone around you! If Princess of Zhen already has the cure for the epidemic, why didn’t she bring it directly to Your Highness? Instead, she let the Bai Mansion guards take the cure first to Huayang and Qinhuai?"

"What do you mean?" The Crown Prince furrowed his brows tightly.

"Think about it... finding the cure for the epidemic and saving the people from dire straits, what a great merit that is? It is enough to be immortalized in history! Princess of Zhen could have easily sent the Bai family guards to Huayang and Qinhuai to stop Your Highness’s order to slay the infected; then, she could have had someone deliver the cure to Your Highness, allowing Your Highness to claim this merit! As the Crown Prince, you desperately need such merit before ascending the throne, letting the people know that the Crown Prince is destined by heaven and can save them from calamity! But Princess of Zhen only thinks of her Bai family’s place in history, without considering Your Highness..."

Just as the old retainer finished his words, they saw Bai Qingyan, clad in a white fox fur cloak, with a pale face and holding her chest, supporting herself on Quan Yu’s hand while stepping over the threshold of the main hall: "At the end of the fifteenth year of Qingde, a great epidemic broke out in Jiaozhou, causing national panic and the people to flee in disarray! The epidemic spread rapidly, killing nine out of ten doctors, and everyone avoided it! The Imperial Court sealed the city, and Jiaozhou was filled with graves, with skeletons piling up! It was my aunt Bai Suyi, who swore a military oath and volunteered to enter Jiaozhou’s Pengcheng and, with her medical skills, saved the people! My father led a battalion of Bai family soldiers to escort my aunt into the city, staying for ninety-six days without coming out! They eradicated the epidemic and saved the people of the world! Isn’t such a feat enough to be immortalized in history?! The Bai family’s renowned reputation is known throughout the world; do we need to seize this opportunity now for our fame?! Old retainer, your heart is much too narrow-minded."

After speaking, Bai Qingyan clutched her chest, bending over and coughing violently.

"Princess of Zhen!" Quan Yu, full of worry, supported Bai Qingyan, his eyes reddened.

Earlier, Quan Yu had planned to take some people out of the city to welcome the Princess of Zhen. But before reaching the front courtyard, he saw servants leading the Princess of Zhen into the Crown Prince’s mansion, so he quickly assisted her inside.