"Oh~"
Seeing that the princess' tone had become heavier, Xiaolu had no choice but to lie back on the floor feeling aggrieved, while Bai Yaoyao continued to force herself to sleep.
Perhaps General Ji knew that they would have to travel further the next day, so after the drum sounded, the camp returned to silence. It was not until the next day when they broke camp and set off that Bai Yaoyao was awakened by the shaking carriage with slightly darkened eyes.
"Ahhh~ It seems like they didn't even call us for breakfast."
Xiaolu was still very sleepy, but he still forced himself to tidy up the bed on the floor.
"Forget it, forget it. If we don't have breakfast, we might as well just sleep and don't bother collecting it." Bai Yaoyao said this and lay back in the quilt.
They slept until noon. After they got up, they found that there was no lunch. When they asked the soldier holding the horse, the answer they got was that there was no lunch today.
The girl gritted her teeth, the bitterness in her heart almost turned into tears from the corners of her eyes. What was there to not understand? These soldiers had eaten too much barbecue last night, and had porridge in the morning to relieve the greasiness. Naturally, they didn't need to eat lunch. This was just enough to make up for the distance they had to travel after getting up late this morning.
Bai Yaoyao, who hadn't even had breakfast, could already feel her body starting to get weak. She was sweating coldly and her limbs were weak. She felt very uncomfortable and thought she would fall to the ground in the next second.
After Bai Yaoyao and Xiaolu struggled for a while without any results, they finally hid back in fear because the sedan chair was shaking violently due to the wheel running over a rock and almost fell off the car.
"Princess, I have some sesame cakes here, would you like some?"
Xiaolu found a package from somewhere and it contained a few sesame cakes, but they had become cold and hard due to the passage of time.
"I'll try it."
Bai Yaoyao was so hungry that she wanted to stuff anything edible into her mouth. She took a strong bite and the extremely dry multi-grain cake entered her mouth. The taste was very average. It could only be said to be edible, and this was based on her feelings. If it were her original self, she would have vomited it out long ago.
"Lu'er, how come you have whole grain cakes? Can't you even afford white flour cakes?"
“I didn’t buy this.”
Xiaolu swallowed hard and said, "This was stuffed in by an old lady when I got married. There were many other things, but they were all put away by the soldiers. Only this multi-grain cake is still here."
It turned out to be the case.
Bai Yaoyao then remembered that although her original body had a very arrogant and domineering personality and suffered from a strong princess syndrome, this was only directed at the nobles. She was very fond of standing up for the common people and often caused chaos in the imperial capital because she saw the common people being treated unfairly.
This resulted in the original body having a very bad reputation among officials, but a very good reputation in the eyes of the "peasants", and people even gave her gifts when she got married.
"It seems that although the original body has many shortcomings, a bad temper, plays tricks on people and looks down on others, he is still a good person at heart."
Bai Yao reluctantly ate a multi-grain cake which made her throat sore and her cheeks sore from chewing. After making her stomach feel better, she went back to bed to sleep. One multi-grain cake was already the limit for her delicate body. If she ate more, she might get diarrhea.
They slept until night, and Xiaolu fell asleep somehow. It was only when Bai Yaoyao smelled the meat that she opened her eyes in a daze.
"Lu'er, you didn't tell me that dinner was ready. I'm starving."
"Ah, is dinner ready?"
Xiaolu was also hungry, so she quickly got up, tidied her clothes, and took the princess and her special bowl to get dinner.
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"Princess~"
Bai Yaoyao heard Xiaolu's aggrieved voice before the people arrived, and she felt something was wrong. Sure enough, the car curtain was lifted, and Xiaolu came in and brought two bowls of soup with not much base left. When Bai Yaoyao reached out to touch it, she found it was still cold!
"When I went there, they had finished eating and had even turned off the fire. All that was left in the pot was this cold soup."
Xiaolu's expression was very ugly. She knew that the princess would definitely suffer a lot of injustice on this trip, but she never expected that it would come so quickly and with so many means.
It's like they don't see them as human beings at all.
"Forget it, it's cold, so be it."
Bai Yaoyao had suffered a lot before. After these few days of hardship, she was lucky to still have something to eat. Judging from General Ji's expression, if she had to travel a few more days, she wouldn't even have anything to eat.
"Princess~"
The little green-eyed girl watched the princess gulp down the soup in the bowl, and inexplicably felt a sour nose.
She had served the princess for more than ten years and had never seen the princess being hungry, cold, or rested. But now the princess was not only eating what was left over by others, but also eating thin soup without even a few vegetable leaves.
The princess, who had been lively before, now became timid under the sword.
"Lu'er, why are you crying? Isn't it just a little hardship?"
Bai Yaoyao wiped Xiaolu's eyes, and said happily with the idea of slowly changing her original personality in her heart: "You are a princess, but I am so delicate that I can't bear the slightest hardship."
Xiaolu really wanted to say no, but was afraid of upsetting the princess.
Bai Yaoyao, who was very perceptive, saw through Xiaolu's thoughts at a glance: "I'm not stupid. My father and mother love me, so I'm naturally a little pretentious. If I don't act like a spoiled child because someone is protecting me, why would I act like a spoiled child here?"
"Anyway, we'll be in the imperial capital tomorrow. When we get there, I'll act coquettishly with the empress and make sure these people look good."
"Well! We must make these people look good!"
Chapter 4 Arrival at Huangtiandu
The night is dark and the sky is full of stars.
Rays of moonlight shine through the thin clouds onto the huge city crawling underground. Looking into the distance, everywhere is brightly lit and the scene is prosperous.
The palace located in the very center of the city was extremely bright. Palace lanterns were hung on every pillar. The pale yellow light illuminated the palace rooms so brightly that even the jade trees and branches in the circle looked like mist.
In an exquisitely built study, a woman in a yellow casual dress was processing memorials. Her delicate face was embellished with facial features, and she looked pretty and cold and murderous. Her tall body and every move revealed a strong imperial aura. Ordinary people would probably be unable to straighten their backs when seeing her.
Sitting next to the woman was a tall woman in a red dress, who also looked strong and gentle, waiting quietly to the side and grinding ink.
Suddenly, the woman's hand, which had been writing, stopped.
"Where is the princess of Qi country?"
"Your Majesty, we should have reached Changzhou City in the south."
"Oh?"
Di Muxi was a little surprised. "So it should arrive tomorrow. How come the journey is so fast?"
Hong Zhu continued to work, grinding ink while saying, "Since entering the southernmost gate, General Ji rushed here at the speed of an emergency march."
Di Muxi nodded with satisfaction. It seemed that Ji Pingxia still remembered the order she gave.
"The princess of Qi country is not feeling well. It is said that she has been vomiting for two days in a row."
"Wouldn't that be wonderful?"
Di Muxi sneered, but before she could be happy, some experiences from her memory that had terrified her for nearly a decade suddenly flashed before her eyes.
"Boom!"
The ink pen, which still had some ink on it, was thrown heavily onto the table, and some ink splashed onto the memorial.
"No more writing!"
After leaving these words, Di Muxi stood up and left with a grim look on his face, while Hong Zhu followed him, thinking about something in his mind.
Rumor has it that Princess Qi's marriage was specifically requested by His Majesty, and he was willing to give up some other compensation for this.
It seems there is a big connection.
However, the private affairs of the imperial family do not allow an outsider like her to speculate. She only took care of His Majesty for a while because she felt pity for him when he just returned to the country. Now that she is in her current position, she dare not make random guesses.
Haishi.
After washing up, Di Muxi did not go to the bedroom of his most beloved Concubine Chi, but went to sleep in his own bedroom.
The maid lit sandalwood, closed the doors and windows, drew the bed curtains, and put on a comfortable ice silk dress and a quilt woven from the same ice silk. Despite being extremely comfortable, Di Muxi could not fall asleep. His mind was full of the image of Princess Qi. No, it should be said that it was the image of Princess Qi in her childhood.
After successfully defeating the Qi army, what she cared about was not the compensation for the land and silver, but the Princess Qi, whom she had hated for twelve years. During this period of time after the successful marriage, she had difficulty falling asleep at night, and even if she fell asleep, she would be pulled into the torture in her dreams.
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Seventeen years ago, the eight-year-old Di Muxi was not called Di Muxi, and she didn’t even have a name. She was just the least favored daughter in the Dahuang Palace. When the national strength was exhausted, she was thrown directly to Daqi, a place where she was unfamiliar with, as a hostage.
When Emperor Muxi was born, his mother died of complications during childbirth. Therefore, the current empress regarded him as the calamity that killed the queen and despised him. Naturally, no one liked him and everyone in the palace kept their distance from him. Finally, a beautiful woman took him in and raised him because of his beauty. She gave him a nickname, Mu'er.
Perhaps it was because of this title of beauty that Mu'er was taken in because only women of the seventh rank had different ideas about the throne. However, she suffered unequal treatment in the palace and was eventually sent to the cold palace because of a frame-up. When Mu'er was seven years old, she was directly frozen to death in the snow by a concubine favored by the empress in the name of a collision.
No one knows what Mu'er's expression was when she saw her mother, who had always taken care of her, frozen into an ice sculpture.
No one knew how Mu Ershi managed to survive in that devilish palace.
She struggled and barely managed to hold on for a year. When she was eight years old, who should be sent to Qi State as a hostage became a point of discussion in the court. Behind every legitimate daughter stood some forces who were betting on her. Only Mu'er, who was lonely, hated by the empress and loved by no one, was the first to be sent away.
What others thought was a place of hardship was a good thing for the skinny Mu'er. No matter how hard it was, she should be able to have enough food, right? She would not be cold in the winter in the warm Daqi, and she should have a quilt to cover herself with, right?
But unfortunately, after arriving at the Da Qi Kingdom after a bumpy journey, Mu'er accidentally knocked down a little girl. She was still attracted by a man she had never seen before and did not care, thinking it was an accident. However, she did not expect that this little girl was the culprit who created her five-year magic cave.
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"Ah, hoo!"
The strong feeling of suffocation woke Di Muxi up suddenly. He half straightened up and touched his chest in shock, only to find that his clothes were soaked with cold sweat.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, you are having a nightmare again."
The several female eunuchs who had been keeping watch for her skillfully wiped Di Muxi's body, changed her into the dress that had been prepared long ago, and washed the entire set of dragon bed that was stained with sweat. The whole process took less than a quarter of an hour.
"Your Majesty, have some tea."
Di Muxi took the teacup and drank it all but his thirst was not quenched. He was still frightened by his previous dream.
"Why is this cup so small? Bring me a bigger one."
"Yes."
Soon, a large porcelain cup was brought over. Di Muxi took it and drank from it in big gulps. He didn't care even though a lot of liquid flowed out from the corners of his mouth and dripped onto his clothes.
"Send an order, have General Ji speed up the process, and keep the arrangements for welcoming Princess Qi simple today, and cancel all arrangements for taking a concubine."
After saying that, before the female eunuch left, Di Muxi added: "When you get there, just wash yourself and bring it to my bedroom."
"I want to see how beautiful this rumored number one beauty is."
"We also need to see if this princess is still as vicious as she was before."
The last sentence was not spoken aloud, but it was what the empress thought in her heart.
………………
"So hungry~"
Bai Yaoyao lay limply on Xiaolu, feeling very uncomfortable with the emptiness in her stomach.
He drank some cold soup last night, and this morning he started on the road before daybreak, without eating at all, and even sped up as if he was marching to a war. Bai Yaoyao was shaking so much that she almost got motion sickness again.
"Princess, would you like to eat some whole-grain cakes?" Xiaolu suggested.
"Uh... let's forget it."
That multi-grain pancake was really irritating to the throat. Bai Yaoyao was so hungry last night that she forced herself to eat half a pancake. As a result, her throat started to ache slightly when she woke up this morning.
This body is so delicate!
The frailty is comparable to that of the previous world, but they are not of the same concept. One is caused by being spoiled, while the other is caused by congenital frailty.
"I don't know what happened to the 'me' in the last world, whether I'm still alive, and whether my mother is sad."
Somehow, when thinking about these things, Bai Yaoyao didn't have much drastic emotional fluctuation. She didn't even notice it herself. She simply treated it as an event that flashed through her mind.
"Hey, Princess, look, we're here!"
In the carriage which was gradually moving at a steady speed, Xiaolu opened the curtains and pointed in surprise at the plaque on the city wall outside - Huangtiandu.
This is the name of the imperial capital of Dahuang.
"What a chuunibyou name..."
Bai Yaoyao muttered softly, looking at the sky outside. It seemed that it was not even noon yet.
The civilians who were originally entering and exiting the city gate could not help but look at the luxurious convoy stretching for hundreds of meters with curiosity, especially when they saw Bai Yaoyao's face casually swaying in the car window, they exclaimed in surprise, causing Bai Yaoyao to quickly ask Xiaolu to pull down the curtains.
"It really is a country of women, all of them are women."
Although they passed through many towns along the way, they basically did not stop. At most they just made a fire and cooked. Bai Yaoyao still had to follow her original personality and would not walk far because she disliked the dirty ground. Therefore, she rarely saw such dense crowds of civilians, especially all of them were women, many of whom had pretty faces.
Of course, the one Bai Yaoyao saw with the largest proportions was a female with a sturdy back and strong arms. No one knew how she trained such well-developed muscles, but she must be from a wealthy family.
Soon, the convoy entered the city. Perhaps because they had been prepared in advance, the convoy had an unimpeded passage through the inner and outer cities and would soon enter the imperial city.
During the whole process, Bai Yaoyao would quietly lift a corner of the curtain from time to time to look around for a moment.
The layout and decoration of the town are somewhat similar to those of ancient Blue Star, but not exactly the same. For example, the characters are different. However, it is not difficult for Bai Yaoyao, who inherited the memories of her original body, because the characters of these countries are different, but they all come from the same origin and have many similarities. They are also ideographic characters similar to the Chinese language on Blue Star, so they are very easy to understand.
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