Maybe it was God's will.
Xiang He had scars on her chest, abdomen, and thighs. The assassin girl named "Yu Qi" also had scars on these parts of her body, and her height was almost the same as Xiang He's.
After confirming that Yu Qi was from Dayong, Changning decided to protect her.
Holding back the pain, Princess Changning switched their clothes and watched helplessly as the northern barbarian soldiers threw Xiang He's body to the group of wolfhounds with murderous eyes.
In just a moment, only bones remained.
Princess Changning later ordered people to collect the bones, burn them to ashes, and put them in the white jade bottle at the head of her bed.
"The palace has been heavily guarded these days. When the Chanyu comes to inspect the various tribes in a few days, he will be away and the palace will be much more relaxed. You can find a chance to leave then."
Princess Changning pointed to the white jade bottle on the bedside and said, "When the time comes, please take her back with you."
"I am useless. I can't even protect a complete corpse for her. I can only send her home in this way. Her home is in the manor of Fenghuangling in the suburbs of Beijing. You can hand over the ashes and these two ingots of gold to Tong Mama at Wutong Manor in Fenghuangling."
"I've got that." Yu Qi took a deep look at the white jade bottle on the bedside and replied solemnly.
Just then, hurried footsteps were heard outside the hall.
Xianglian, who had just left, came back and ran in with a panicked look on her face, "Your Highness, this is not good."
"What happened?" Princess Changning frowned slightly.
"Chanyu...Chanyu has just sent someone over, please come over!"
A trace of astonishment appeared on Princess Changning's face, and then her complexion turned visibly pale, and she seemed to have lost her life in an instant.
Xianglian was so anxious that she almost cried out, "Your Highness, what should I do?"
Chang Ning bit her lip, a look of determination flashed in her eyes, "Let's go, since the Chanyu has summoned us, there is no reason for us to disobey."
"Xianglian, Xianghe, you guys stay here, you don't have to follow me."
Princess Changning called two palace maids who were guarding outside the palace to support her.
Looking at Princess Changning's thin but strong back.
For a moment, Yu Qi even felt that he saw in her the state of a warrior who knew he was going to fight a battle that was doomed to fail, but still wanted to fight and was ready to die bravely.
"How could this be..." Yu Qi seemed to be muttering to himself.
Xianglian's eyes were red. She withdrew her gaze, met Yuqi's puzzled eyes, and sighed deeply.
"You don't know, every time Her Highness sees the Chanyu..."
She couldn't finish her words. The unfinished words turned into a sigh again. Xianglian wiped the moisture from the corners of her eyes and said through gritted teeth: "Forget it, you will understand when Your Highness comes back."
"I won't say any more. I'll go get some hot water and some medicine. If you have nothing else to do, go back to your room and lie down. Don't walk around or it'll arouse suspicion."
Yu Qi vaguely understood the meaning of Xiang Lian's words.
Turning his head to the side, his worried gaze seemed to want to penetrate through the walls and fall into the main hall of the palace in the southwest.
Princess Changning was gone for two full hours.
When she went there, she was supported by palace maids, but when she came back, she was carried back on a stretcher.
The palace maid who carried Princess Changning directly sent her back to the couch in the palace, and told Xianglian who was waiting beside her, "Pack your mistress's clothes and luggage."
"The Chanyu has ordered that Princess Changning should be brought along on this inspection tour of the tribes."
The more Xianglian listened, the more frightened she became. However, she had no time to worry about what would happen next. The princess's condition was the most worrying at the moment.
“Your Highness!”
As soon as the palace maid left, Xianglian rushed to the bedside and looked at Princess Changning's pale face. She finally couldn't hold back her tears.
"Your Highness, how are you..."
"Okay, I'm still alive, why are you crying?" Princess Changning opened her eyes and smiled weakly.
That smile was uglier than crying.
Yu Qi always considered himself to have a cold and hard personality, but at this moment he couldn't help but feel a soreness in his eyes. His heart felt like it was being pricked by needles, with a sharp and dense pain.
"Your Highness, please be patient." Xianglian ordered all the palace maids in the room, except herself and "Xianghe", to leave first, and then gently lifted the quilt covering Princess Changning.
In an instant, a series of horrific red marks were exposed to the air.
If you look closely, you can see that some places are not just red marks, but the skin has been torn and the blood is seeping out.
Yu Qi clenched his fists and stabbed his palms with his fingertips. "How dare Hu Yanxiong!"
Huyan Xiong is the title of the current Northern Barbarian Chanyu, the leader of the Huyan tribe.
"I'm going to kill him." Yu Qi's eyes were bloodshot and murderous intent was evident throughout his body.
But just as he turned around, he heard Princess Changning's stern voice stop him.
"Stop!"
"Princess, you..."
As soon as Yu Qi opened his mouth, he was interrupted by Princess Changning: "You can't go. He is surrounded by many secret guards and has extraordinary martial arts. Even if you can beat him, two fists can't beat four hands. Don't show off your courage...hiss."
"Princess, please say less for now." Xianglian was applying medicine to Princess Changning. It was impossible not to feel pain when the ointment touched the wound.
Every time the pain came, it not only hurt Princess Changning, but also hurt the hearts of those close people who accompanied Princess Changning as she grew up and got married.
While applying the medicine, Xianglian couldn't help but curse the two rulers of Beiman and Dayong in her heart.
To curse the Northern Barbarian Chanyu was naturally to curse him for his ferocity and cruelty, for having done such a cruel thing to the princess.
To curse Emperor Xiaoming of the Yong Dynasty is to curse him for being incompetent, weak and biased, and unworthy of being a father!
Almost all the places on her body covered by clothes were smeared with medicine. Xianglian gently wrapped the thin blanket around Princess Changning, and then, at the princess's signal, helped her sit against the head of the bed.
Yu Qi had calmed down by then, and she knew in her heart that the words "kill him" were just impulsive words. The mission was above everything else. Whether she could kill the Northern Barbarian Chanyu was another matter. Before receiving this order, she could not act on her own and disrupt all her plans.
But precisely because of this, she hated her own powerlessness, and even more so hated Dayong's inaction after the princess was humiliated.
"The princess endured humiliation and sacrificed a lot for Dayong."
"But you don't deserve this."
"What's the right or wrong?" Princess Changning smiled bitterly. In this world, apart from her mother and the relatives who were connected by blood to Duke Xu's mansion, who else would care whether she lived a good life?
Father?
It's not like I haven't asked for help before.
As early as the first time she was tortured, she had managed to hand over a letter to her father asking for help to the envoy. But not long after, she received her father's oral instructions, asking her to learn to be patient and think more about the virtuous concubine and the Xu Guogong Mansion in the capital.
Only if she stays in the Northern Barbarians and serves as a good princess married to a foreign country, can her mother and her maternal grandfather's family live a stable life in the capital.
The emperor is threatening her!
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