Rebirth of the Firstborn Daughter: Life is like a Dream

"What kind of weather is this? You don't need to wear so many clothes in the capital." Bai Binghui blamed.

Wei Bingyan smiled. "It's the coldest time of the year in the north. It'll be better if the rain stops and the sky clears up. Otherwise, it's really unbearable to be cold and wet."

The Sixth Prince came towards them, and just then he heard Wei Bingyan's words, "I'm afraid the rain will continue for several days. This is the case in the northern border area. The rain in early spring lasts for half a month."

Bai Binghui heard the constant cries for help.

Wei Bingyan bowed respectfully, "Your Highness the Crown Prince."

The Sixth Prince lowered his eyes and looked at her. His voice was so gentle and considerate that he didn't even notice it. "It will take two days to reach Rongcheng. You have to be patient. The people in this place don't have the habit of earth dragons."

"I'm not that squeamish. I just said it on purpose." Wei Bingyan said with a smile. She felt much better when she heard that it would take only two days to reach Rongcheng.

"Then let's go back and rest first." The Sixth Prince said, his eyes slightly dim. He could already feel Wei Bingyan's ruthlessness and resistance to him on the way. Although it was not obvious, he could feel it.

After waving goodbye to the Sixth Prince, Wei Bingyan took Bai Binghui back to the house.

Not long after, a maid brought them a heating stove and a pot of steaming and delicious mutton stew. "Master, this is what His Highness asked me to bring. Please enjoy it slowly."

How did this heating furnace come from? I didn't see the Sixth Prince using a heating furnace during the trip, and the common people in the north rarely use this either.

Bai Binghui took great pains to move the heating stove near the bed. "Oh, Madam can have a good sleep tonight. I really don't understand why the north is obviously colder than our capital. Why is it that even if we use a heated kang, there is no ground heating and even a heating stove is rarely seen."

Wei Bingyan laughed, "They have long been accustomed to it, we just haven't gotten used to it yet."

"On the way, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince took very good care of the Young Madam." Bai Binghui spoke, and only after she finished speaking did she realize that she had said the wrong thing, and she looked at Wei Bingyan carefully.

"Don't say this kind of thing in the future. If others hear it, they will misunderstand it." Wei Bingyan said with a frown.

Bai Binghui sighed, but couldn't help but say: "Young Madam, but His Royal Highness the Crown Prince treats you like that, is that right... is that right..."

"Isn't that reasonable?" Wei Bingyan asked, and then immediately smiled, "That's because you will be his right-hand man in the future, so he takes special care of us."

Is that so? It can only be like that, Bai Binghui thought.

After a night's rest, the dripping rain still showed no sign of stopping, so Wei Bingyan and the others had breakfast and continued on their journey.

It was already New Year's Day, but because of the war, the people in this place didn't seem to have any intention of celebrating the festival. The joy of celebrating the festival was not obvious. The Sixth Prince saw the ignorant faces of the civilians on the side of the road in the carriage, and his face became even gloomier.

This was a small city whose name was unclear. Wei Bingyan and the others had lunch here before continuing on their journey.

In fact, there was nothing good to eat. Due to the brutal war, merchants could not come to this place to do business. The local merchants had all fled elsewhere, and there was a sense of bleak decline everywhere.

“Even if it’s not a prosperous time, life is better than the days of war.” Wei Bingyan sat in the restaurant, looking at the sparsely populated street outside, and couldn’t help but sigh.

The Sixth Prince, who was sitting at the same table, heard this and said, "As long as the Rongdi people are not driven out of the Tang Dynasty, the people of the Tang Dynasty will not be able to live a stable life."

The Rongdi people had the opportunity to invade the Tang Dynasty's territory because of his brother, Wei Bingyan thought.

The Sixth Prince seemed to have just realized how the Rongdi people could become a powerful force in the north, and he suddenly shut up.

They left this small town and set out on the official road again. There was already an inn along the way to Rongcheng. Tonight, when it gets dark, they can only rest in the suburbs or travel day and night.

The Sixth Prince asked Wei Bingyan what she thought. Wei Bingyan didn't want to waste any more time on the way, so she said she wanted to travel day and night.

When it was late at night and everyone was asleep, the rain suddenly intensified and we couldn't go any further. We could only find an ancient temple on the side of the road to temporarily take shelter from the rain.

They entered the ancient temple holding umbrellas, only to find that there were other people inside.

Wei Bingyan and the others were stunned when they saw the people in the ancient temple.

This ancient temple is not big. The golden statue of Bodhisattva on the altar full of sacred atmosphere has disappeared. There are only a dozen or so frail starving victims with dirty and dusty faces.

When these starving victims saw Wei Bingyan and the others, their eyes were filled with the look of hungry beasts.

The Sixth Prince's guards immediately surrounded Wei Bingyan and the others, fearing that these starving victims would suddenly attack and snatch their belongings.

This was the first time they encountered famine victims on their way north.

"Everyone, get out of the way." The Sixth Prince dismissed the guards with righteous words, looked at these starving victims, and ordered everyone to take out all the food in the carriage.

Those starving victims have not eaten for three days.

The Sixth Prince called one of them to ask a question. At first, these people were wary of the Sixth Prince and others. After getting food, they relaxed their guard and hid in the corner with the delicious steamed buns to fill their stomachs.

The one called out by the Sixth Prince was a boy. While he was eating delicious steamed buns with big mouthfuls, he was looking at the Sixth Prince carefully.

"Where are you from?" The Sixth Prince tried his best to look amiable and asked the man softly.

The man swallowed the delicious steamed bun and replied, "Chigang City, fortunately we were fast, otherwise we would have been killed by the Rongdi people."

The Sixth Prince asked, "General Wei has already taken back Chigang City, why don't you go back?"

"That traitor...we won't go back and give up our lives." The man shouted, with resentment in his eyes.

Wei Bingyan paused in her heart and couldn't help but say, "General Wei is not a traitor, he was slandered. If he was a traitor, how could he take Chigang City back from the Rongdi people?"

The man said loudly: "You said that he had a treacherous plan with the Rongdi people. It was false. The Rongdi people deliberately lost."

The Sixth Prince and Wei Bingyan stared at each other, "Who told you that?"

"The whole Chigang City knows about it." said the man.

"Nonsense! There is no way that General Wei could collude with the Rongdi people. This was spread intentionally by the Rongdi people. General Wei has been injured in the attempt to retake Chigang City. How could it be false?" Wei Bingyan was so angry that her whole body was shaking. These damn Rongdi people had spread such rumors again to slander her uncle.