Chapter 1250: YeXi Secondary sea (2/2)

In the past, she had a part in their bustle, but that was no more. The most lively part of her present life was to have the fortune to keep living.

Baili Qiyu gave a start. He had never seen his younger sister lose her temper.

“Minxiang, you know what father and big sister’s tempers are like. Could I have stopped them?” Baili Qiyu retorted.

“You know what the emperor’s temper is like too. What could I ever say?” Baili Minxiang asked.

“You can go bed Esteemed Empress! As long as she shows her grace, the emperor will too!” To Baili Qiyu and the rest of the Baili Clan, Baili Minxiang was their last hope.

“Little sister, this is brother begging you. Go to the palace right now! It’ll be too late when it’s morning court tomorrow!”

Baili Minxiang shook her head. “As expected, none of you understand her! Big brother, Esteemed Empress won’t see me.”

“You!” Baili Qiyu was furious. “Little sister, do you know that Xiao An was conferred as Junwang? This time, we were schemed against by the Xiao Clan! Go tell Esteemed Empress that the Xiao Clan’s partially responsible for inciting the mobs too! They were the ones to instigate our big sister!”

Baili Minxiang sat there unmoving, her expression wooden.

Baili Qiyu was almost insane with frenzy, but it was then that Baili Yuanlong regained consciousness to look blankly at Baili Qiyu. “You, you...what did you say?”

“Father’s awake!” Baili Minxiang went to take his pulse, but Baili Qiyu pushed her hand aside.

“Conferred as wang...who, who was conferred as wang?” Baili Yuanlong fixated on his son.

Baili Qiyu was reluctant, but he had to speak in the face of his father. “Father, the emperor auctioned off all of the crown prince’s presents. Xiao An gave a large sum of silver to please His Majesty, so His Majesty conferred him as Junwang.”

Baili Yuanlong was startled by the news. It took him awhile before he recovered enough to ask, “Xiao An...Xiao An got to sit in the secondary seats? Who...who else was there?”

“Father, of the two secondary seats, one went to Xiao An while the other was left empty.”

Baili Yuanlong seem to recall something before his gaze seized up. He suddenly cried out, “Master, this old official was wrong! I was wrong! This old official—”

Before he could finish, his eyes widened and he spat out a mouthful of fresh blood. Then his hands fell limply down as he stopped breathing altogether.

“Father!” “Father!”

Baili Minxiang and Baili Qiyu were both taken aback. Baili Minxiang threw herself at her father and burst into sobs. “Daddy! Daddy…”

Baili Qiyu fell to the ground and lost his wits.

Daddy...is dead?!

He remained there numbly until he finally pulled himself off the floor and ordered his subordinates to report the death to the palace.

Currently, Long Feiye and Han Yunxi had just finished dinner with the rest and hadn’t gone to bed. Gu Qishao was very resistant to losing his bet against Gu Beiyue and even accused the other of cheating by teaching Rui’er to pick the stamp on purpose. Nobody knew whether this was true, but Gu Qishao held the boy in his lap and asked him multiple times. Rui’er refused to answer.

Mu Linger dearly wanted to try betting again. Since Long Feiye and Han Yunxi, Tang Li and Ning Jing, had no results from their bet, Han Yunxi proposed they bring out the 66 items again so Rui’er could pick one anew. Rui’er only rolled his eyes at his mother’s back. Heaven knows what he was thinking, but he cooperated with the game.

Since it was an all-new bet, everyone placed their wagers on different things and kept the same terms for the losers as before. Little Rui’er stared blankly at the 66 items while the adults wrote down their guesses on paper and handed it to Zhao mama. As a new participant, Mu Linger glanced at Qi gege and grinned.

“Qi gege, I want to bet against you too!”

Gu Qishao’s heart was full of doubts. This lass hadn’t bothered him at all in the banquet hall, which wasn’t strange. He assumed that she would pester him immediately afterwards and ask him about his whereabouts, but she didn’t. Her attitude seemed to show that nothing had happened between them at all.

This behavior made Gu Qishao even more uneasy.

“Qi gege, do you have the guts?” Mu Linger pressured him.