The people who were watching were wondering which high-ranking official in Chang'an City was being demoted and punished here, and was going to suffer another punishment.

They saw many imperial guardsmen coming here on official business.

But today, until the team finished its journey, no prisoners were seen being escorted.

What's going on? Everyone started talking about it.

"Are you going to take someone back to Chang'an City?"

"I don't know. Look at the flag. It's the Southern Prince Sang Yu. The Southern Prince is here, so there must be something big going on."

"Yes, the Southern King is here, so something big is bound to happen."

"We haven't heard of any border intrusions here."

Everyone followed the army to the Yazhou County Office and waited outside to see what was going on.

The county government bowed and nodded as they welcomed Sang Yu, Xiao Yuehan, and Shen Keyan into the government office.

Zi Sangyu said to him, "I am here to take Xiao Yuetong, the youngest daughter of the former Prime Minister, Xiao Wenyu, back to Chang'an."

The county magistrate took the letter Zi Sangyu handed him, read it and said, “It’s just that Xiao Wenyu’s family is far away in the desert a hundred miles away.

I will order someone to bring him back right away.”

Xiao Yuehan said, "I want to go together." The county magistrate said, "Princess, no, the location there is very remote.

It is surrounded by a desolate desert with no human habitation and the climate is even worse than ours.

It is summer now, hot and dry. If you encounter sandstorms, you will be unable to travel and will be trapped there, which is very dangerous.

Your Highness and Princess, just wait here. I will send someone to pick you up tomorrow."

Xiao Yuehan said firmly: "I told you, I'm going."

The county magistrate couldn't make up his mind, and he looked at Zi Sangyu timidly.

Zi Sangyu glared at him and said, "Didn't you hear what the princess said? We all have to go."

He said, pointing to the team behind him.

Braving the sandstorm and scorching heat, the army finally arrived at the prison where the exiled prisoners in Yazhou were held.

According to the procedure, the prison sent Xiao Yueyue out.

The moment Xiao Yuehan saw Xiao Yueyue, she was thinking, is this Xiao Yueyue? This must be wrong.

Xiao Yueyue couldn’t be so thin. The little girl lying on the stretcher in front of her was so small.

But the warden gave her a sign that clearly recorded Xiao Yueyue's information. She knew she was right just from the fact that she was Xiao Wenyu's youngest daughter, Xiao Yuetong.

At this time, she kept coughing. The jailer who sent her out told her, "She can't eat. She vomits everything she eats. She has been coughing for a long time."

She looked at the terminally ill Xiao Yueyue and tears fell from her eyes.

When this little girl was in the Xiao Mansion, she was exploited by the Bai family.

The young girl was deceived into wanting Xiao Yuehan's sister to go home, and she was led into a trap step by step, where she was subjected to inhuman torture.

What does she know? Xiao Yuehan now only feels heartache for the little girl in front of him, without a trace of blame or resentment.

She didn't want to stay here for a moment, so she carried Xiao Yueyue into the carriage and set off immediately.

She and Shangguan examined Xiao Yueyue's body and they both came to the same conclusion.

Severe malnutrition can lead to slow development, not just slow development.

During the two years in Yazhou, she has been regressing, with every part of her body undergoing degenerative changes.

But at this moment Xiao Yuehan saw that her exposed body was covered with scars.

Xiao Yuehan immediately rolled up her sleeves and took a look. Why were there so many scars?

The old wounds and new scars overlapped each other, which was shocking and unbearable to look at.

Xiao Yuehan asked Zi Sangyu: "Why don't even children get spared in this prison?"

Zi Sangyu's face was also filled with sorrow.

He looked at the scars on Xiao Yueyue's body and said, "Here, regardless of age or gender, you have to work every day, and it's all physical labor.

Here, being beaten and starved is a common occurrence, and generally no one has a chance to get out of here alive.

I really don't know why Xiao Wenyu was so kind as to inform you of Xiao Yueyue's illness.

Otherwise, if she is still here like this, she won’t survive.”

With tears in her eyes, Xiao Yuehan cleaned Xiao Yueyue's wound and applied medicine powder. When she picked up one of her arms, she found it was red and swollen. She looked for the wound, but there was none.

Is it a fracture? She gently pinched the red and swollen arm. Xiao Yueyue groaned softly and opened her eyes in pain. She looked at her sister in front of her silently without saying a word.

Did she not recognize her sister? Both parties just watched silently.

After a while, tears rolled down Xiao Yueyue's eyes, indicating that she still recognized her beloved sister.

Xiao Yuehan gently held her in her arms and said softly, "Yueyue, sister is here to take you back to Chang'an.

We are not suffering here anymore, you are suffering.”

Xiao Yueyue sobbed softly in her arms.

Xiao Yuehan looked at the little person in her arms and felt that she looked like a little girl.

But somehow she gives people the feeling that she has grown up and is very sensible.

This made her even more heartbroken.

Seeing that she groaned when he touched her arm, Xiao Yuehan asked her, "Does your arm hurt?"

She nodded.

So Xiao Yuehan and Shangguan checked her arm together, and found that her left arm was broken.

Xiao Yuehan immediately set her bones, bandaged them, and fixed them with a splint.

She kept crying while doing all this.

Xiao Yueyue just lay there in silence, and even endured the pain of bone setting without saying a word.

It can be seen that she has suffered too much inhuman torture in the past two years, and she seems to have become numb to the pain.

Xiao Yuehan took the bowl of porridge that Li'er brought over and fed her. She swallowed the porridge with difficulty.

Seeing that she was in a difficult situation, Xiao Yuehan became suspicious, thinking that she had never heard her speak since she met her. She gently pried open her lips and took a look.

Oh my god! Her mouth was full of bloody bubbles.

What's going on? She turned around and looked at Zi Sangyu, who obviously saw it too, and yelled, "Stop the car!"

Zi Sangyu grabbed the convoy that had just left and watched Zi Sangyu and his party leave. The warden of the cavalry shouted, "What's going on in Xiao Yuetong's mouth? What did you do to her?"

As he spoke, he took the sword that Ye Chun handed to him.

The warden looked at Zi Sangyu who suddenly turned around and answered innocently, "Your Highness, what did I do? I didn't do anything."

"Why is Xiao Yueyue's mouth full of blood bubbles?"

The warden was stunned for a moment and said, "I don't know. They are all working in groups, and the people below are in charge."

Then he said to the jailer beside him: "Go and call the leader of Xiao Yuetong's group."

Not long after, a middle-aged man also in prison clothes came over with his back bent.

He obviously knew Zi Sangyu, because the prisoners here were all high-ranking officials who had committed crimes and their entire clans were implicated and sent here.

Zi Sangyu looked at him and asked the warden: "Is he a prisoner or a team leader?"

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