It’s over!
Two dead at once!
Yuan Qingyin moved her eyes stiffly and saw clearly that there was also a sword on her delicate sister's neck. Despair enveloped her like a tide and she couldn't help shedding a few tears.
"Are you the deposed concubines? Crown Prince Jiang Chengze escaped, were he hidden by you?" Two soldiers in armor asked coldly.
Yuan Qingyin gritted her teeth secretly. If she said that she was a deposed concubine, she would be killed by the sword the next second. If she admitted that she was a princess, she could live longer. No matter what, she had to survive first and make plans later.
"We are the fourteenth and fifteenth Duke of Jiang State. We have never seen Jiang Chengze, but there is a passage under his bed. You can go and investigate it, General!" Yuan Qingyin revealed the clues about Jiang Chengze without hesitation. The lives of other royal family members had nothing to do with her. All she had to do was to save her own life and her sister's life!
The two soldiers looked at each other, and after catching Yuan Jiang and Yuan Qingyin out, they told the news to others. Soon, Jiang Chengze was also caught.
Yuan Jiang quietly looked up at Jiang Chengze, who was beaten black and blue by the soldiers and looked in a miserable state, and licked her lips silently.
All the royal descendants were taken into the hall. There were more than forty princes and dukes who were captured. Yuan Jiang and Yuan Qingyin knelt at the edge on the left side, lowering their heads obediently.
The eldest princess cried out in tears: "Please spare my life, I have gold and silver, please give me a way out!"
"Eldest sister! How dare you lower yourself and beg for mercy from these bandits! Where is the dignity of the Jiang royal family?!" The prince roared in anger.
The other princes couldn't help but beg for mercy. Yuan Jiang's ears hurt a little because of the noise. Then, his chest and lungs began to ache. He couldn't help but cover his heart and cough softly.
"!!!" Yuan Qingyin's eyes widened, and he hurriedly took out a black medicine bottle from his chest, poured out a white pill and stuffed it into Yuan Jiang's mouth.
Suddenly, the chest pain gradually subsided.
Yuan Jiang's face was pale and his expression was a little confused.
Her body was weak, sickly, and extremely frail. She and Yuan Qingyin were from the same mother. Yuan Qingyin was as healthy and strong as an ox, but she was frail and sickly. Although she was protected by Yuan Qingyin and escaped a disaster in her previous life, she died of illness not long after.
In this life...
Yuan Jiang blinked slowly and took a deep breath with difficulty.
"Quiet!" The guard was furious. Seeing that his threats were ineffective, he raised his sword and shouted, "Whoever makes another sound will be killed first!"
Suddenly, there was complete silence.
The eldest prince sat on the ground helplessly and despaired, crying. The crown prince was forced to kneel on the ground, glaring at the soldiers with anger in his eyes. The soldiers rolled their eyes and said something.
Suddenly, a heavy sound of footsteps came from afar, and a tall and mighty man walked in surrounded by people.
"Your Majesty, may you be well!"
The soldiers knelt down in salute, with their heads lowered and their expressions tense and serious.
Yuan Jiang held her breath nervously as she saw a pair of gold-threaded boots. She moved her gaze upwards and saw a man wearing a black brocade robe. He had a slender and upright figure, tall and mighty, revealing fair skin and a beautiful face, with both male and female features, long eyebrows and starry eyes, lips as red as blood, and curly hair on his forehead, which was slightly parted to the sides, revealing a widow's peak.
Suddenly, Xie Guanlan's narrow, icy eyes revealed a chilling coldness. Turning his head, he met a pair of beautiful and charming fox eyes, and was stunned.
He saw a person in the crowd wearing a white silk dress, with a slender and petite figure, and red hairpins scattered on her head. Her face was very small, not even as big as his palm. Her beautiful eyes were watery and bright, with fear and innocence in them. Her red lips were as bright red as rose petals, and at this moment they were slightly open, as if tempting people to kiss her.
Xie Guanlan's Adam's apple rolled slowly.
"Your Majesty, there are a total of fifteen dukes and twenty-eight princes in the Kingdom of Jiang, all of them are here." The guarding general reported, but received no response for a long time, and did not dare to say a word, but lowered his head with a respectful look on his face.
"Madam?" Xie Guanlan murmured with his thin lips, his eyes slightly narrowed, his gaze fixed on Yuan Jiang.
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