Chapter 626: Changes

This kind of family division didn't sound very brotherly or respectful, and it didn't sound very good, but those who knew, knew that this eldest brother had truly done his best for his younger illegitimate siblings and those concubines. Apart from the Tianshui Earl title and the Tianshui Earl Mansion, Bai Lang had divided the rest of the family property equally among them. He could be considered generous. And those younger siblings didn't move out; it seemed their respective mothers still wanted to take them and live in the Earl Mansion until they came of age...

Bai Lang didn't bother with them, but the drill ground was a bit more lively. "Eh? It seems they aren't completely useless. It's rare that my cheap father's reproductive ability was decent, and the children born were actually taught well." Bai Lang watched as these little guys also ran to the drill ground in the morning to move stone locks, draw soft bows, and practice basic skills with wooden swords and spears, and not just the boys, the girls were practicing too.

"It is a military family, and the family style hasn't fallen. Just looking at this is ten thousand times better than those two Duke mansions." Among the nobles, there were many playboys, and they were the cowardly kind of playboys; there were almost no wicked youths who hunted with hawks and horses. Bai Lang went out on the street this day and saw one, a fat young man directing his servants to punch and kick several commoners, and this guy even went up and gave a few kicks himself.

"So hollow. But looking at this face, it vaguely resembles that Jia Baoyu a little." When Bai Lang was wandering around, he was wearing ordinary commoner clothes. He stopped the servants' punches and kicks, "Don't hit them; if you beat them to death, you'll have to go to the officials and face a lawsuit. Besides, they are just a few commoners, how did they offend you?" Bai Lang waved his hand behind him, signaling the commoners who had been beaten black and blue to leave—judging by their temperament, they should be honest commoners, not ruffians.

This young man was also a blockhead, "Dare to stand up for them? What kind of thing are you! Beat him!" So, together with the servants, they were all knocked to the ground by Bai Lang in a few moves. Bai Lang grabbed the guy's cheek with one hand and pulled him up from the ground, ignoring his screams of pain, "Which family's scion are you? You don't even know how to look at people? The Five Cities Military and Horse Department won't be here for a while, if I just run away... Hehe, I'll break your limbs first, where will you find me? Hahahaha."

This guy shouted that he had the guts to kill him, he, the Overlord Xue, had never been afraid of anyone! Bai Lang laughed loudly, "So it turns out you're a down-and-out family. I heard your family couldn't make it and went to the Rongguo Mansion to seek refuge, why didn't you go to your uncle's house?" Although Xue Pan was a fool, he wasn't an idiot. As soon as he heard this, he asked who he was. Bai Lang didn't want to talk to him anymore, threw Xue Pan to the ground, and walked away.

Bai Lang had already inherited the title, and now he should be called the Little Earl. This generation of the Tianshui Earl was probably the strongest in history. Although it was a three-year mourning period, the Emperor issued a decree that he only needed to observe it for three months. Nobles could always do this, and Bai Lang also received a visit from the Vice Minister of Rites this day. With the help of the old family servants, he received this Vice Minister quite properly. After a conversation that was as empty as a paper without a donkey, the other party finally stated his purpose.

"Proposing a marriage?" Bai Lang felt it was truly unexpected, and the object of the marriage proposal also surprised him so much that he almost exploded and blew up the entire Tianshui Earl Mansion. "The daughter of the late Salt Inspector Lin Ruhai? The daughter of the Rongguo Mansion Jia family's legitimate daughter? This must be her grandmother asking for the Emperor's favor, right?" Bai Lang never expected that the one proposing the marriage to him was the Jia family's old grandmother, and the one promised to him was actually Lin Daiyu? What about this wood-stone marriage? Giving him a sick jar? A little girl who would kick the bucket in her teens.

However, behind this was the Emperor's intention. The Emperor wanted to find a wife for the Tianshui Earl—both the Rongguo Mansion and the Ningguo Mansion were options, but most of the Jia family girls of similar age were illegitimate, and the daughter of his former beloved official—Lin Ruhai, whose life was not granted by heaven—appeared in his field of vision—her mother was the Jia family's legitimate daughter, and she herself was an orphan. The Emperor also felt it was necessary to compensate a little, and plus, the Jia family's Matriarch also loved her late daughter, so she loved Daiyu by extension and hoped she would have a good home.

Originally, she had a good relationship with her legitimate grandson, the most favored Baoyu, but neither Lady Wang nor Jia Zheng himself were interested in this—Lady Wang's favorite was actually her own sister's daughter, the Xue family's Miss Baochai. Perhaps she also felt that her sister-in-law had been sharp and mean back then, and she was full of anger, and the relationship between the two Jia brothers and their sister was probably not very good either. Now the Tianshui Earl's family had no elders, and the one standing tall was the young legitimate son, which was definitely a good match.

Bai Lang didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but he also felt it was quite fun. What would happen if he destroyed the wood-stone predestined relationship? Just thinking about it made him feel it was quite fun. So it wouldn't hurt to get engaged. Using this as an excuse, Bai Lang went to the Rongguo Mansion. As soon as he entered the door, he heard a group of people running around in a panic; it was that troublemaker making a scene. "Aha, I guess he heard that Sister Daiyu was promised to someone else, not to him, so this Baoyu started making a scene. I guess his father is going to hit him with a big board again."

Bai Lang entered the Jia Mansion and was, of course, received by the head of the Jia family, "I heard that Daiyu's health is not very good, so I came to see. My Tianshui Earl family is a military family, and we have quite a few methods for strengthening the body that we can try." Bai Lang was also blunt, clearly stating that if Daiyu was weak, she couldn't enter the Tianshui Earl's house; his family wanted a strong woman, at least not one who would make the descendants' bloodline lack vitality, right?

Daiyu was now a young girl and also knew her fate, coming out with a pale face. "Looks like she's about to die," Bai Lang thought to himself. He said directly to Daiyu, "Can you move this stool? How many times can you move it? Let me see. By the way, I have a method here that must be practiced every day, and at least a pound of fresh meat every day, and there must be two eggs, otherwise, I'm afraid you won't live past eighteen. Your vitality was damaged from birth, and you were sickly when you were young. Don't take tonics anymore; that stuff is useless, you are too weak to receive tonics, you still have to eat meat and eggs and exercise your body."

Bai Lang reached out and held Daiyu's hand, and the Matriarch was already panicked just hearing that Daiyu wouldn't live past eighteen, so she didn't care when she saw Bai Lang grab Daiyu's hand. Bai Lang also saw Wang Xifeng; the one who handled things in front of the Matriarch was mostly this person. "Hands are cold, pulse is slippery and weak. If you don't do as I say, you will really die. And your temperament is too thoughtful and worried, with depression in your heart; these are all signs of a short life." There was a chill in Bai Lang's words.

"Now that we are engaged, I can't just let it go. I will first help you disperse the depression in your heart and pull out some of the sick and cold energy." Just as he finished speaking, a jade-faced young man rushed in from outside, and Bai Lang shook his arms, his upper body clothes sliding off directly, revealing a bear-like upper body with developed muscles and fat... ===== CHAPTER 627 =====