Li Qingxun rolled his eyes. "I was picked like a commodity. Should I be happy about being chosen? This is not worth being happy about."
She doesn't want to be a man's embellishment.
Tuoba Yu showed admiration on his face: "Qing is a weak country, and you, a weak woman, have no right to refuse. Wait obediently, I will take you into the palace soon."
Li Qingxun turned his horse around and left without looking back.
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The peace treaty was signed, and Li Qingxun returned with the team. When they reached Jiangnan, two imperial edicts came from Yanjing City.
Emperor Qing issued an edict to send the sixth princess to the Kingdom of Yue as a marriage partner, and the seventh princess to the Kingdom of Yelang as a marriage partner.
The eunuch chief had an indifferent attitude. After reading the imperial edict, he handed it to Li Qingxun: "Seventh Princess, the wedding party has arrived. Please set off as soon as possible."
Li Qingxun raised an eyebrow: "When did I become the seventh princess?"
She was clearly ranked sixth.
However, the imperial edict confused right and wrong and gave her the title of "Seventh Princess".
The chief eunuch smiled wryly: "Please forgive me, Seventh Princess. I am just following the orders of the Emperor and the Empress."
Li Qingxun received the imperial edict.
She asked the palace maid Yuan'er and found out the whole story. It turned out that after signing the treaty in Liangzhou City, the Crown Prince of Yue, Tuoba Yu, decided to marry the Sixth Princess of Qing.
When the news reached the imperial palace in Yanjing City, the emperor and empress were horrified. They never expected that Tuoba Yu would actually take a fancy to Li Qingxun who was just there to make up the numbers.
The queen cried so hard that she couldn't speak. If Li Qingxun was allowed to marry in Yue, then the only one who could marry in Yelang would be Li Qingling. The queen loved this daughter the most and protected her like a treasure. How could she bear to see her daughter marry far away in Yelang?
She consulted the emperor.
The emperor actually felt sorry for Li Qingling, so he secretly made some arrangements and swapped the sixth princess with the seventh princess, and even changed the records in the royal jade book.
In the end, the princess who went to marry the Yelang Kingdom became Li Qingxun.
"What a good plan." Li Qingxun threw the imperial edict aside and went upstairs to sleep.
Li Qingxun didn't care, but Li Qingling felt tormented. Li Qingling felt guilty and took the initiative to go to Li Qingxun's house.
Li Qingling's eyes were red. She held Li Qingxun's hand with guilt and said, "It was our father and mother who were wrong in this matter... I am really sorry for you. But we are weak women. We can only let them control our fate. There is nothing we can do."
"I will give you half of my dowry, and I will also give you all the money I have saved over the years. Sixth sister, I am really sorry."
Li Qingling couldn't raise her head due to guilt.
The emperor of Yelang was incompetent and over sixty years old. If Li Qingxun married him, she would surely die early.
Li Qingxun stroked his chin and asked her, "How much money have you saved?"
Li Qingling was stunned.
At a time like this, she still cares about material things!
Li Qingling reported the amount of money she had, and Li Qingxun's eyes lit up. As expected of the most favored princess of Qing, she had accumulated a lot of wealth at the age of seventeen or eighteen.
Li Qingxun happily accepted the money and dowry sent by Li Qingling, counted the people and horses for the marriage, and embarked on the journey southward.
The Yelang Kingdom was far away, and there were many wild beasts and floods along the way, and they would pass through many barbarian tribes. In order to ensure the success of the marriage, the court sent Prime Minister Zhang Hean to escort them.
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The marriage party left the territory of Qing State and walked through the ancient and desolate fields. The marriage party, including guards and servants, numbered nearly fifty people.
Most of the servants who were arranged to marry were from poor families and were not valued in the palace. Li Qingxun knew that when he was away from home, he must not treat these people as low-ranking servants.
She and Zhang He'an played the good cop and the bad cop respectively, and with the help of money and a reward and punishment system, they managed the group of people escorting the bride very well.
The journey was long and it would take at least half a year to reach Yelang. Li Qingxun was bored on the road and often asked Zhang Hean to serve him in the carriage.
The palace maid Yuan'er was also in the marriage team.
She watched Prime Minister Zhang enter the princess's carriage. More than an hour later, Prime Minister Zhang came out in dishevel.
Yuan'er was confused.
She gently reminded Li Qingxun: "Princess, we are going to Yelang to marry... How can you and Prime Minister Zhang hang out together every day? It is really inappropriate!"
Li Qingxun rubbed his waist: "It's a long journey, and I have to taste the tender beauty in my arms."
Yuan Er: ...
Later, when Yuan'er saw Prime Minister Zhang and Li Qingxun's love, her heart gradually became numb.
When going out, without the Emperor of Qing watching over her, the princess is the leader of the team.
The princess can do whatever she wants.
These poor people who accompanied the bride had only a way forward but no way back.
But Yuan'er found it hard to understand that Prime Minister Zhang, such a respectable and steady gentleman, would willingly submit to the princess. All the princess needed was a glance and Prime Minister Zhang would take the initiative to come forward.
It's unbelievable.
The marriage team continued to move south, passing through many barbarian tribes along the way. In order to ensure the safety of the team, Li Qingxun drew designs and made a number of simple composite bows, and also used herbs to extract some healing herbs.
Even the weak Yuan'er can use a compound bow easily.
The team moved south, and although they encountered several tribal attacks, they did not lose many men.
In the carriage, Li Qingxun was lying on the small table, holding a brush and drawing a picture of weapons. Zhang Hean was grinding ink for her, and his dark eyes swept across the weapon picture on the paper, with a bit of doubt in his eyes.
"Axun, where did you learn how to make weapons?" Zhang Hean asked.
Li Qingxun didn't even raise his head: "Don't ask, I won't answer."
Zhang Hean didn't dare to ask any more questions.
If he insists on finding the truth, he will be kicked off the bed by the princess tonight. Li Qingxun is such a woman, daring to act and take responsibility, without any restraint, she is her own sun.
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