Princess of the Jurchen Empire 7

 - What do you want? - Wang Li asked the kidnapper, - let the woman go, take me hostage!
 - Stop!  - the kidnapper shouted, - one more step and the woman will turn into a corpse!  I'll kill her and the baby!
 - Well, - the giant lowered his tone to calm the kidnapper, - you see, my hands are empty, I step back.
 - No, you will also go with me, but from behind, at a distance!
 Why do you need this woman?
 -I do not need her!  She's just a maid! I need a girl!  See, she's the only one with long hair!  She also wears a ribbon of imperial house flowers!
 “No,” the woman who was taken hostage suddenly screamed, “this is my daughter and she is not a princess!”
 -Don't lie, and don't twitch! You're just a servant! Stop yelling, otherwise I'll kill you right away!  I don't need you, I need a girl! - and the kidnapper tried to snatch the child's hand from the mother's hands.  However, he was not very comfortable doing this because he continued to hold the knife at the woman's throat.
 Wang Li finally understood the situation.  The woman who was now held hostage returned from a neighboring village just at the moment when it was decided to take the remaining inhabitants of the empire to a secret city.  By this time, the priest who cut the children's hair had already left, and the girl's hair remained uncut.  The woman and the girl were from a noble family.  The heiress of the family was not used to walking with bare hair, but the escape, as you know, lasted several days, the fugitives wandered through the taiga, dusty roads, burning fields and gloomy thickets, there was no time for hairstyles.  Gradually, all hairpins, hairpins and ribbons were lost.  The girl suffered and cried, her hair was tangled and clung to the branches. The rest of the fugitives looked reproachfully at the girl's mother, but she could not do anything, the daughter suffered and complained loudly.  Finally, at one of the micro halts, the princess, who woke up from the crying of the girl, touched the giant on the shoulder
 - Sir, I have a ribbon, my hair will not grow soon, so give the ribbon to this girl!  I feel sorry for the girl!
 The giant gratefully accepted the gift.  The mother braided the girl's braid, secured it with her hairpins, and finally her daughter calmed down.
 This is probably why the spy made the wrong decision, he thought that the girl was a princess, and the woman was a servant or maid of honor.