Among the women present, Bai Mingwei was undoubtedly the one with the highest status and the most experience before being abducted.
But even when she was in the capital, she was not qualified to attend palace banquets and meet those real nobles.
Bai Mingwei didn't know what Princess Changning looked like, but she knew that the princess's mother was Concubine Xian, and her maternal family was the Xuguo Mansion. Among the families that had been exiled to Beiguan with them, there was the Wei family, which had a close relationship with the Xuguo Mansion.
Even when leaving the capital, Duke Xu's Mansion specially sent people to see the Wei family off.
"Princess, do you remember your cousin's sisters?" Bai Mingwei didn't know who was older between Wei Yunlan and Princess Changning, so she just tested him vaguely.
While asking this question, he stared closely into Princess Changning's eyes.
Princess Changning was slightly stunned, and then she reacted, "Cousin's sister, you are talking about... Yunlan?"
The last bit of doubt in Bai Mingwei's heart was dispelled. Respect and gratitude appeared on her face. She took the lead and knelt down at the door, "I pay my respects to Princess Changning..."
"Stop paying attention to these empty formalities!"
Princess Changning closed the door behind her and asked hastily, "Do you know what the Helian tribe wants you to perform at the palace banquet tonight?"
Everyone's pale faces and desperate and numb eyes have already given the answer.
At this moment, a head wearing a golden crown suddenly emerged from a piece of light gauze and loose long hair.
Princess Changning was startled and took a half step back, with her back against the door.
Bai Mingwei glanced at Helian Hulin who suddenly stood up, and hurriedly explained to Princess Changning: "Princess, this is the second prince of the Helian tribe, Helian Hulin."
Princess Changning's fear faded a little as she looked at the northern barbarian man wearing a golden crown, and then at the gentle Dayong woman wearing a red veil beside him. Her eyes were filled with tenderness and obvious panic. She guessed, "Then you are the eldest daughter of General Bai of the Northwest Army, the eldest daughter of the Bai family, Mingwei?"
Princess Changning heard a lot about the Bai family from Yu Qi.
In addition to the eldest daughter Bai who was stranded in the northern barbarians, the Bai family also has a fourth daughter who suffered a head injury and still cannot remember clearly.
There is also the sick wife of General Bai, and the old lady Bai who is still gritting her teeth and struggling to keep the family together...
The families of the loyal ministers who died fighting for Dayong have ended up in their current situation. Her father, who is unable to express his feelings in words, feels guilty towards them.
Dayong felt ashamed of them.
"The princess actually knows my name." Bai Mingwei's eyes were full of surprise.
Although her father was respectfully called "General Bai", he was just a small fourth-rank guerrilla general in the Northwest Army. Even in the northwest border, there were still several mountains above his head, not to mention in Beijing, where he was not worth mentioning at all.
"General Bai is a righteous man, and Miss Bai is also a heroine." Princess Changning praised her generously.
The fact that Miss Bai disregarded her own safety at this critical moment and firmly stood with others to fight for a chance of survival for everyone deserves such admiration.
"Princess, you are too kind." Bai Mingwei twitched the corner of her mouth modestly, looked out of the quiet house, retracted her gaze, and asked Princess Changning with a little expectation: "Princess, I wonder what we should do now?"
Dozens of expectant eyes fell on Princess Changning at the same time.
Princess Changning clenched her fist at her side and poked it directly on the bloodstain that had not yet subsided, causing a sharp pain. But this pain was far less than the deep sorrow that was welling up in her heart at this moment.
At this moment, she hated her own powerlessness.
Faced with such a predicament, she was not a bit better than her father. She was equally weak and incompetent, unable to give a way out to the people she was supposed to protect!
With her lips trembling slightly, Princess Changning uttered three words in embarrassment under the expectant gazes of many people.
"I'm sorry..."
"I can't save you from this place."
Princess Changning bit her lower lip and continued to speak with difficulty, "I brought kerosene and flint with me when I came here today."
The room suddenly became quiet.
Through Princess Changning's guilty eyes, everyone seemed to understand the helplessness in her heart at the moment.
Princess Changning was unable to save them from here.
Kerosene and flint are needed to set a fire.
The princess came here secretly, risking being blamed by the Shanyu, in order to send them off with dignity...
Bai Mingwei clenched her palms, "Princess, we have fallen to this point because of the barbarians and the inaction of the officials of Huangzhou. It has nothing to do with you. You don't need to blame yourself for it."
"We are very grateful that you came to us."
Having said that, Bai Mingwei and the Dayong women beside her, who were wearing light gauze, could not help but reveal despair in their eyes.
Even Princess Changning, who was following the Northern Barbarian Chanyu, couldn't save them. Does that mean they really have no way out today?
If they are all dead.
To die after inhuman torture and abuse, and to die with dignity.
It seems that the latter is much stronger.
There was a tragic look in everyone's eyes, and a determination after thinking everything through. "It is better to die with dignity than to live in humiliation."
"Princess, please give us one last..."
Before she finished her words, Helian Hulin, who had finally come to his senses, interrupted her with a horrified look on his face: "Why are you dying? Wei'er, you can't die!"
Helian Hulin grabbed Bai Mingwei's sleeve and glared at Princess Changning fiercely, "How can you be like this? It's fine if you can't save people, but how can you persuade people to die?"
"Second Prince." Bai Mingwei stopped him softly, and pulled Helian Hulin's hand that was holding her sleeve, signaling him to say less.
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