Chapter 4 The Princess Is a Mad Woman
Xiangying rolled her beautiful eyes and took out a wooden pendant she had prepared from her sleeve.
It was as big as a palm and was handed to the yellow-bearded man.
"I didn't know you were a captain before. I was rude. This pendant is to apologize to you." Xiangying said softly.
Yellow Beard took it with a look of disdain: "You want to get rid of me with just a piece of wood? It's not that easy!"
He still feels the pain from the kick Xiangying gave him in the chest.
"This is not an ordinary pendant." Xiangying said, motioning him to twist the wooden pendant in the opposite direction.
After Yellow Beard did as he was told, a sudden light appeared before his eyes.
I didn’t expect that the wooden shell was just a protective cover, covering a whole piece of extremely pure imperial green jadeite!
His eyes were wide open.
Xiang Ying's eyes were bright and beautiful: "Is this thing enough to make amends for my lord?"
The man with the yellow beard looked her up and down with a sinister look.
It was as if he was weighing how many treasures Xiangying still had on him. If he searched now, wouldn't they be confiscated? It would be better to leave them to him alone to search.
"Forget it this time, but next time, you won't have such an easy time." Afraid of being seen by the military supervisor, the yellow-bearded man immediately put it into his sleeves and pretended to search it casually a few times, "Let's go and search others."
After he left, Tao Xue was worried: "Princess, this yellow-bearded man is not a good person. Even if we give him something this time, he will definitely come to make things difficult for us next time."
Xiangying stared at the yellow-bearded man's back with his dark eyes: "I know, so I have other plans."
Many people had some silver and money hidden on them, and some, like Xiangying, paid bribes.
But some people are not so lucky and cannot give any money at all.
The supervisor of the Imperial Observatory is old and has many female relatives around him.
Because they had little money, Yellow Beard led the soldiers to strip the women's clothes, and they cried heartbreakingly.
The supervisor of the Imperial Observatory stepped forward to stop them, but was kicked down and barely had time to breathe.
The relatives around him cried and called for their grandfather, and the women knelt down and begged for mercy from Yellow Beard, but it was all in vain.
In the end, it was the older ladies in their family who took the initiative to step forward and use their own innocence to protect their daughters from being insulted.
Xiangying saw their clothes being torn off and they were dragged into the woods like animals by the soldiers.
The young women hugged each other and cried heartbreakingly.
There were mostly civil officials around, and when they saw this scene, their teeth bled from gritting their teeth, but they could only lower their heads helplessly.
Tao Xue's lips trembled: "Princess, he, they actually..."
Xiangying remained silent, her eyes dark and cold as she stared at the yellow-bearded man's back.
There is one more bill to be settled on him!
She restrained her expression and went to check on her youngest daughter Xiang Xiuxiu.
The little girl just woke up, but she was probably frightened. She opened her big misty eyes and hid behind her two brothers, looking dazed.
Xiangying walked over and touched her forehead and hair, and the little girl shrank back to avoid her hands.
Xiang Yuanlang pushed Xiangying away and silently protected his sister.
Xiang Yuanxiao warned in a soft voice: "One day, if you don't have money to pay off the enemy troops, you are not allowed to sell your sister, otherwise I will make you die miserably, miserably!"
The three children have too little affection for Xiangying, and they don’t believe that Xiangying will care about them.
So I misunderstood her gentle touch as a measure of value.
Facing the children's vigilance, Xiangying's face was indifferent and gentle: "Don't worry, you three are not worth much."
"You--!" Xiang Yuanxiao puffed up his cheeks in anger, and Xiang Ying reached out and pinched them without any hesitation.
Xiang Yuanxiao was about to lose his temper when he saw Xiang Ying quickly stuffing three buns into his hands.
"Take your brother and sister and eat in hiding. Don't let anyone see you."
Xiang Yuanxiao was stunned, but fortunately he reacted very quickly. He turned his back, smelled it first, took a bite himself, and after confirming that it was non-toxic, he shared it with his younger brothers and sisters.
The three little guys squatted down and wolfed down the food. Xiangying also stuffed two meat buns into Taoxue's hands.
Tao Xue touched it and it was still warm. She couldn't help but exclaimed in a low voice: "Princess, where did you come from?"
"It's hidden here." Xiangying pointed to his chest and made up a story.
Tao Xue believed it and stared at her princess's proud curves with wide eyes.
The eldest princess has been really wronged, woooo!
Xiangying took advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention and ate three buns, drank half a pot of water, and took a peach from the space.
She picked up a branch from the nearby bushes, turned her back, reached into her sleeve for a knife, and sharpened the branch.
She put away the knife, rolled her hair into a bun, and then inserted the branch into it.
After doing all this, Xiangying keenly felt that someone was staring at her.
But when she looked back, what she saw was still the exile team with no end in sight.
Everyone was worried about the days ahead and no one paid any attention to her.
Xiangying withdrew his gaze and saw a young girl standing in front of him.
He has porcelain-white skin, almond-shaped eyes with a hint of anger, and two girls of the same age are following behind him.
"Big sister, I heard that you bribed the captain who supervised us? You are going too far! How can we, who don't have any hidden money, survive?"
It's her again.
Xiangying recognized that the other person was the half-princess who had mocked her before.
The daughter of the favored concubine and the Shufei, the fifth princess, named Qianqian.
"How you live is none of my business," Xiangying said coldly.
"You!" Xiang Qianqian gritted her teeth. "As princesses of the Western Zhou Dynasty, we should have backbone and dignity, instead of trying to please these enemy troops. If you give us bribes, it will break the rules and make others look down on us. Give me the remaining money now and I will keep it for you."
Tao Xue quickly came over to protect Xiang Ying.
"Fifth Princess, please don't be unreasonable."
Xiangying pulled Taoxue away, a mocking sneer escaping his red lips.
"I thought you were really here to call me to task, but it turns out you have no money, so you came here with a high-sounding excuse to rob me?"
Xiang Qianqian blushed when she was told: "I didn't!"
The two princesses behind her, ranked sixth and seventh respectively, also spoke up to help.
"Big sister, you really did something wrong."
"Yes, even though we have lost our country, we cannot lose our dignity."
Xiang Qianqian accused: "Big sister, you flattered the enemy and let our last bit of dignity be trampled underfoot. Isn't this what it means when the top beam is crooked, the bottom beam will be crooked?"
"My elder sister's mother was the queen of a country, but she was so scared that she hanged herself before the enemy even entered. Unlike my mother, she stayed by my father's side until the last moment."
Xiangying raised her dark eyebrows, and a dark light flashed across her dark eyes.
Did the queen commit suicide because she was afraid of facing the enemy?
Tao Xue stood in front of Xiang Ying and helped to refute: "Fifth Princess, you can't say that about the Queen. Moreover, I heard that the Concubine Shu ran away with the emperor and took away the treasures. Isn't this even more spineless?"
"Bitch!" Xiang Qianqian's face changed, and she waved her hand to hit him, "How can you talk about my mother?"
Xiangying grabbed her wrist and squeezed it tightly. Xiang Qianqian frowned in pain: "Let go!"
Xiangying's red lips uttered a cold and arrogant tone: "You are not worthy of touching my people. Instead of criticizing me, you might as well think about why your mother didn't take you with her when she escaped."
After saying that, she pushed him away. The sixth and seventh princesses screamed and hurriedly supported Xiang Qianqian.
Xiang Qianqian managed to stand still, her face flushed as she said several times: "You, you..."
Tears fell, she was actually made to cry by Xiangying.
The Sixth Princess and the Seventh Princess escorted her away, and several noble ladies nearby also came forward to comfort her.
"Don't pay attention to the princess, she's just a lunatic."
"Yeah, haven't she done enough ridiculous things? What do you expect her to achieve?" The Sixth Princess shook her head.
While Xiang Qianqian was sobbing, she insisted: "My mother didn't mean to not take me with her, but she was afraid that I would suffer on the way to escape. She also sacrificed herself for the Western Zhou Dynasty, which is much better than the queen..."
Xiangying listened to these remarks with indifference.
But after a while, Xiang Ying heard Xiang Qianqian and the others arguing.
(End of this chapter)
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