In a hurry to travel, King Youguli brought only a few hundred people with him.
Most of them stayed at the gate of the palace, and less than ten people followed King Youguli into the palace.
Before leading Prince Youguli to pick up Princess Changning, Helian Hulin specifically instructed his men to entertain the "friends" from the Huyan tribe brought by Prince Youguli.
"In front is the side hall where Princess Changning is..."
The further you go, the more dilapidated the surroundings become, and there are still some traces of burning and unrepaired things on the palace road.
There was a hint of mockery in King Youguli's eyes, and it was unclear whether he was mocking the Helian tribe for not being able to afford to repair the palace, or mocking the great Princess Dayong for being worthy of living in such a shabby place.
With a creaking sound.
The gate in front was pushed open.
Several barbarian palace servants who were sitting in the courtyard and lazing around seemed not to react to someone coming in. They stood up slowly. When they saw Helian Hulin standing outside, they were startled and hurriedly bent over and said, "This servant greets the Second Prince."
Helian Hulin frowned and asked, "Where is Princess Changning? Call her out quickly."
"The princess has been lying in bed for many days..."
Noticing the unfriendly looks of Helian Hulin and the Right Guli King beside him, the palace servant lowered her head and said, "I will go inside and wake up the princess."
In the dark night, the heavy palace door was pushed open from the outside.
There seemed to be a bit of a rotten smell coming out from inside, and it was not difficult to guess that this door must be tightly closed. Princess Dayong and the Dayong maid inside had not breathed the fresh air outside for who knows how long.
The barbarian palace servant trotted in and called for people.
I could vaguely hear a series of not-so-polite urging voices coming from inside.
But outside the side hall, no one felt anything was wrong.
Just like the high and mighty Princess Dayong, she should be inferior to others in front of them!
Even if someone comes to visit in the middle of the night, you should still come out to greet them.
Even if the palace servants treat you rudely, you should endure it.
After a while, just when King Youguli was about to lose his patience, the barbarian palace servant who had just entered walked out nervously with his head lowered.
"Second Prince, Princess Changning has not gotten out of bed in the past few days. She spends more time sleeping than awake. I really can't wake her up..."
Helian Hulin frowned again and looked at Prince Youguli with some embarrassment, "Prince, look..."
"What are you looking at? I've already told you that even if someone dies, you won't be held responsible. Why are you people from the Helian tribe so slow in doing things?"
"If you delay the Chanyu's business, watch out for your heads!"
King Youguli waved his hand and ordered, "Since the princess can't walk by herself, I will personally invite her out."
"Someone come!"
Two Huyan warriors walked out from behind King Youguli. They didn't care that the bedroom in front was where the women rested, and strode directly into the hall.
Soon, a man came carrying Princess Changning, who was so thin that only a bag of bones was left.
As he walked out of the hall, he was followed by two terrified-looking maids from Dayong.
"You can't treat the princess like this. She's weak and can't stand it..."
"Please, let the princess go. If this continues, someone will die..."
The two maids had tears in their eyes.
King Youguli's gaze couldn't help but pause on them for a moment.
The women of Dayong were born petite, and this look of pear blossoms in the rain was quite unique. No wonder that Zuo Guli Wang loved to kidnap the women of Dayong and torture them.
"Ha. Since you are so worried about your princess, take her away with you!"
After sending Princess Changning back to his brother, he can take the remaining two little maids back home to play with!
King Youguli’s face was full of malice.
The two Dayong maids were so frightened that they shrank their shoulders, lowered their heads, and trembled continuously.
When King Youguli saw how frightened they were, his expression became even more interested.
"This beast." Wei Yunlan gritted his teeth and whispered in an abandoned room next to the bedroom, which was full of debris.
"Don't be impulsive." Yu Shisan tightly held Wei Yunlan's arm and whispered in her ear: "When the plan starts, he will be the first to die. He won't be able to jump for two days."
In other words, the entire Huyan tribe.
There aren't many good days left!
…
It was sunny for two consecutive days.
The snow in the north finally melted completely.
In order to speed up their journey, King Youguli and his entourage rode fast horses to the Helian tribe, but on their way back, they had to add three more carriages to the team.
It was not that Prince Youguli was sympathetic and afraid that the fragile Princess Dayong would be "broken apart" by being carried on horseback, but he himself had diarrhea and could not ride a horse, so he had to ask Prince Helian II for the troika.
He sat in one carriage, one carried Princess Changning, and the other was given to his useless guards, in case of any accidents on the road.
However, no matter how big the accident was, it could not be as serious as when thirty or forty people out of a hundred people in the team suffered from diarrhea and collapsed at the same time before setting off.
Prince Youguli was a little suspicious that the Helian tribe had played tricks, but he heard from the witch doctor that his brother had left to treat Princess Changning that they had accidentally inhaled a poisonous powder...
"Have you smelled anything rusty lately?"
King Youguli couldn't remember what strange smell he had smelled, but based on the witch doctor's description, he remembered a poisonous powder that smelled of rust and salty.
Not only did he know about that thing, he had also obtained a small amount of it. It was a long-lost item that came from the hands of the old Khan of the Qiulin tribe.
King Youguli, who originally had some doubts about the Helian tribe, immediately turned his attention to Qiulin Nanxing in his heart.
His mind has always been more delicate than that of King Zuo Guli.
He immediately understood why Qiu Linnanxing attacked him.
The real second prince of their Huyan tribe was still in Dayong, and the one brought back by Qiulin Nanxing was a fake. Now that no one was confronting him, Qiulin Nanxing could still say that he was deceived, but if the second prince was sent back safely by Dayong, if he had really done something bad to the second prince, he would not be able to hide it.
Even if he favors Qiu Linnanxing, the second brother is the prince's biological son after all!
No father can tolerate his son being ruined by the schemes of others.
Qiu Linnanxing is probably the person who least wants the two sides to exchange hostages smoothly...
In this case, it would be perfectly reasonable for him to use the poison powder on himself and force his team to delay their journey.
As for when the poison powder was used?
King Youguli himself couldn't figure it out, but he knew that Qiulin Nanxing had previously investigated scorpion poison on behalf of his brother and had stayed in the Tuoba and Helian tribes for a period of time. It was not surprising that he left people here.
The carriage sped across the grassland.
Prince Youguli was lying in the carriage, thinking about how to file a complaint against Qiulin Nanxing after seeing his brother.
Little did he know that while he was thinking these things, the "contents" of the two carriages behind him had already been changed.
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