Let's go back to the time when the crowd dispersed and it was only Ouyang Xueqing, Ren Yupei, An Zhengnan and Ling Xiaochen there.
Ren Yupei smiled gently as she approached the girl. "Princess, are you okay? Do you get enough food inside?" He tried to pacify her softly because she seemed a little weird. "Do you know how worried I was when I received your distress signal?"
The last sentence was true though. He had been hanging around the place where they last parted when he suddenly hear the princess' voice inside his mind. It was echoing abruptly which caught him a little off guard.
That's because the method of communicating within minds were only what the member of the imperial family could do to their subordinates. It was a discreet way to contact them without alarming the enemy.
