Chapter 166: Sister, I’m here to take you home.

Chapter 166

One day, Lei Dan opened up the path and the Da Xia army marched forward swiftly and vigorously like a hot knife through butter.

Moreover, because the Da Xia army was disciplined, they did not kill the surrendered soldiers or disturb the common people along the way.

As a result, later on, many city garrison commanders, clearly knowing they could not win, simply surrendered without putting up meaningless resistance.

This move directly infuriated the rebel king Mou Ru.

In mid-November, the weather on the plateau was already very cold. The Da Xia army finally arrived at the Tubo royal court with 200,000 troops surrounding the city walls.

Mou Ru was finally afraid and proposed peace talks with the Da Xia crown prince.

Jing Yan pretended to accept the peace talks but actually activated a covert team to rescue the Mingyang Princess before formally besieging the city.

The covert team only knew the general area where the Mingyang Princess was held but did not know the exact location.

Therefore, they searched the entire area thoroughly but did not find anyone.

They guessed Mou Ru must have also been afraid of Da Xia's covert actions and moved the princess to another location. Gét latest novel chapters on nov(e)lbj/n(.)c/om

Jiang Yuqing had to take action personally.

She had never seen the Mingyang Princess and was afraid of rescuing the wrong person. So she asked the covert team to paint a portrait of the Mingyang Princess.

Who would have thought the covert team had terrible painting skills and the final product was barely recognizable as a woman. On top of that, the Mingyang Princess's birth mother passed away early, and Jiang Yuqing had also never met her, so there was no way to make a facial mold either.

Left without a choice, after sneaking into the city, she could only slowly spread out her spiritual awareness to search little by little.

The Tubo royal court was not very big but also not very small. Because she did not want to miss any clues, Jiang Yuqing searched very carefully, consuming a lot of spiritual power.

After searching meticulously for over two hours, she finally saw a woman locked in a small dungeon underground in the royal palace.

The woman was extremely skinny, dressed in traditional Tubo women’s clothing.

But her skin was obviously much whiter than other Tubo women, and her facial features were softer.

She quietly sat facing the wall with a dignified yet indifferent demeanor on her face. Jiang Yuqing was not sure if this was the Mingyang Princess so she decided to approach for a closer look.

It took almost no effort for her to enter the dungeon.

After entering, she immediately set up an isolating barrier and wrote a note wrapped around a small rock which she tossed in front of the woman.

Hearing the sound, the Mingyang Princess was startled, then bent over to pick it up.

In the dim oil lamp light, she opened it to see a small poem written in Da Xia’s language: “I’m from our hometown, I know of hometown affairs. The spring grass grows green every year, has the princess returned or not?”

The Mingyang Princess was immediately emotional, tears streaming down her face, murmuring: “You’re from our hometown, you should know of hometown affairs. In days to come at the gauze window, the cold plum blossoms.”

Confirmed, this was the Mingyang Princess. Plum trees filled the entire Fragrance Pavilion where the Mingyang Princess lived before getting married.

Jiang Yuqing felt it would be bad to suddenly reveal herself and it would be hard to explain too much. Now that she confirmed this was the Mingyang Princess, she decisively waved her sleeve, using spiritual power to knock her unconscious and pull her into the spirit dimension.

To prevent the Tubo people from discovering she had gone missing, Jiang Yuqing was extra kind-hearted and cut out a small paper person, turned it into the likeness of the Mingyang Princess.

After some thought, she also took off the Mingyang Princess’s outer clothes and put them on the “princess”, perfectly disguising things.

And so, Jiang Yuqing secretly rescued the Mingyang Princess from the underground palace dungeon without anybody knowing.

When she returned to the Da Xia military camp, Jing Yan was anxiously awaiting news.

The Mingyang Princess smiled: “Good girl, having you by his side is Yan’s blessing.”

Jiang Yuqing looked up at Jing Yan and smiled: “It’s also my blessing.”

After over ten years living on the harsh plateau, the Mingyang Princess’s health was already tremendously depleted. And suffering consecutive major blows, her condition now was disastrous.

After only talking for a short while, she was already exhausted and somewhat unable to carry on. Jiang Yuqing quickly helped her lie down to rest.

She then used the opportunity of taking her pulse to cast a few Spring Returning techniques to help her body regain vitality internally.

After the Mingyang Princess fell asleep, the two exited the tent. Jing Yan asked her: “How is eldest sister’s condition?”

Jiang Yuqing shook her head: “I used Spring Returning techniques on her. But you should know, physical wounds are easy to heal while psychological ones may never recover in this lifetime.”

Jing Yan held her hand as they walked side by side under the starry sky. He sighed: “The previous dynasty brought such great calamity to this land that when Da Xia was founded, it was in utter shambles with wounds all over, possessing nothing.

Internally, bandits and pirates ran amok everywhere while externally, the Xiongnu and Tibetans eyed us covetously like tigers watching prey, besieged by troubles internally and externally without cease.

Several generations of our ancestors sacrificed themselves without regard for themselves, working vigorously to govern this land until the reign of my father Emperor when Da Xia finally showed some promise.

Therefore, when Tubo proposed marriage, although Father Emperor was reluctant, for the sake of peace between the two countries, he still married my eldest sister to them, in hopes that Tubo and Da Xia would get along forever.

But things rarely go as one wishes. Tubo eventually still became a place of right and wrong, and in the end made my eldest sister suffer.

Jiang Yuqing patted the back of his hand: "When a country is backward, it will get bullied. This is not your fault." Then,

she held her head high and said: "Rather than wallowing in self-blame and unable to pull yourself out, you might as well start now to govern Da Xia into the strongest country.

That way, I'd like to see who still dares to talk loudly to us."

Jing Yan raised his hand and pinched her straight little nose, chuckling softly: "You're right, my crown princess!"

Seeing that he finally smiled, Jiang Yuqing finally relaxed: "Let's go tell everyone the good news!"

"Alright."

Hearing that the Mingyang Princess had been rescued by the Crown Prince's "guards", the generals were relieved.

They were afraid that tomorrow when attacking the city, that scoundrel Mou Ru would take the princess hostage to threaten them.

If that happened, they would be in an awkward position whether they attacked or not.

Now that the princess has been rescued and returned, the generals have been completely freed from worry.

At dawn tomorrow, if Mou Ru surrenders obediently then fine, but if not, they will send him straight to heaven with artillery shells.

Damn him!

Everyone wanted to pay their respects to the princess, but Jing Yan stopped them: "My eldest sister is extremely exhausted, she is already asleep. Her attendants have been rescued, there is no rush to pay respects tomorrow."

Hearing this, they agreed it made sense, so they held off for the time being.

That night, Jiang Yuqing sat on a stool by Mingyang Princess' couch, meditating the whole night. Surprisingly, she did not wake up either. This would be good for her recovery.

The next day at dawn, Mingyang Princess finally awoke. There was a moment of blankness after opening her eyes.

Then suddenly sitting up in bed, touching the new Da Xia clothing she had not worn for a long time, she suddenly covered her face and laughed.

Realizing last night was not a dream after all.