"Dad, can't you stay?" Xixi hugged Ji Sheng's neck and looked at him eagerly.
Finally, her father and mother were by her side, and she didn't want anyone to leave.
But Ji Sheng looked at Xixi and shook his head, "Daddy has something to do and must leave."
Xixi lowered her head in disappointment and leaned in front of Ji Sheng.
Ji Sheng comforted him in a low voice: "Daddy will come again."
"real?"
Ji Sheng nodded.
After comforting Xixi in his arms, he looked at Zhou Yunshu, who had been sitting at the round table since he came in, "I will try my best to come back before your delivery period."
Zhou Yunshu thought of him who had no news from her previous life, raised her eyes and said, "Don't force it."
Zhou Yunshu thought about it carefully. What happened in her previous life was a warning to her. She would take it as a warning, but she would not be coerced by it.
Otherwise, why should she be entangled with the events of her previous life, while Ji Sheng could be cleared up?
Sometimes she even wanted to go back and see Ji Sheng's reaction after learning that he had one body and three lives, and see if he regretted it...
But it’s so tiring to always look back.
She just wants to live her life now.
"There is no force." Originally, Ji Sheng did not intend to explain to Zhou Yunshu, after all, he had never explained it to her before.
But this time Ji Sheng felt that if he didn't explain it again, he and Zhou Yunshu would only drift apart.
She was already disappointed with herself.
"This time I will lead troops to reinforce King Qi when I go back. After the prince was unable to recruit people, King Qi's people counterattacked fiercely in the court. It would be okay if we lose this battle, but if we win, I will be the target of public criticism."
Who would have thought that one day winning a battle would become a bad thing, but even so, he still had no intention of losing.
He wants to build momentum for himself, win the hearts and minds of the people for himself, and pave the way for the future.
Ji Sheng smiled and looked at Xixi in his arms, and continued: "When the battle is won, that is when they unite to kill me, I will take the first step to get myself out of their sight."
Being in front of others all the time will only make him a target for his so-called brothers.
"You don't actually have to tell me."
Ji Sheng did not reply to Zhou Yunshu's words. He took out two pairs of gold bracelets inlaid with rubies and sapphires from his arms and placed them on the round table.
"I don't know if I can come back to see you and the children. These two pairs of bracelets are for them." Ji Sheng said warmly while looking at Zhou Yunshu's belly.
"I have one too, mother!" Xixi said with a smile.
Ji Sheng hugged his daughter and said to Zhou Yunshu: "We can't celebrate your birthday together this year, so I prepared a birthday gift in advance and sent it to you together with the supplements."
"Wei Zhong and the others are also in the river now. If you want to use it, just ask. If you don't want to use it, just leave it to dry."
"There is also the list I prepared for you before. Because I never thought that you would bring your children to Haizhou, the people on it do not correspond. I will prepare a new one for you..."
"Ji Sheng."
Zhou Yunshu looked at Ji Sheng in front of her and curled her fingers, "We and..."
"When you took Xixi and left the palace, the palace's warehouse was empty."
Zhou Yunshu: "..."
Ji Sheng never mentioned it, so Zhou Yunshu automatically ignored it, but she didn't expect Ji Sheng to mention it at this juncture.
"Yeah?"
Ji Sheng nodded: "It's not very strange."
"Although Prince Wei's Mansion is not a fortress, it is not a place where a child can come and go at will, let alone a warehouse that is guarded at all levels."
Zhou Yunshu tilted her head, "So you think it's me."
"In addition to the items in the warehouse, your dowry has also disappeared."
"Everyone in the palace saw what I took when I left," Zhou Yunshu retorted.
Zhou Yunshu dared to do this in the first place because even if Ji Sheng was suspicious, he had no evidence.
Ji Sheng smiled and said: "I just think that Zhenbei Palace is Zhenbei Palace after all. Under the hands of my grandmother and grandfather, there are indeed many strange people and strangers."
Zhou Yunshu did not explain.
"If possible, could you lend me this person?"
Zhou Yunshu: "..."
"I want to find an opportunity to move the Ministry of War's warehouse."
Zhou Yunshu: "...You are overthinking it. It really wasn't me who did it."
"All right."
Zhou Yunshu changed the subject, "Why did you suddenly think of moving the War Ministry's warehouse?"
"I can't pay for the war myself." Ji Sheng said: "It costs money to raise troops, not to mention that the northern border will need to recuperate."
Zhou Yunshu heard that Ji Sheng had taken responsibility for recuperating in the north, but she didn't think that he was selfless and dedicated to the country.
"You want the north." Zhou Yunshu said affirmatively.
Ji Sheng nodded unabashedly, "Since I conquered the North again, it belongs to me."
Ji Sheng's expression turned cold unconsciously, "I am already twenty-three. The other princes have their own fiefs, but we don't."
"I don't think he would even think of giving me a fief. I'll just take it myself."
"The entire northern territory?" Zhou Yunshu looked at Ji Sheng.
"The whole North."
The prince's fiefdom is only one state, but the northern territory is not.
Although collectively referred to as the Northern Territory, the Northern Territory used to have thirteen states, but now there are seven states. It occupies almost a quarter of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
Ji Sheng was talking about the entire Northern Territory at this time, but Zhou Yunshu intuitively knew that his ambition would not stop at the entire Northern Territory.
Otherwise, he would not have gone to the northwest after the Northern Territory had just been settled by him. I am afraid that the several states that had previously separated from the Northern Territory were also within the Northern Territory in his mind.
In other words, what he is planning is not just the northern border.
Grandma said that the world was going to be in chaos.
"Don't worry, I won't let anyone find traces of you mother and daughter. I will..."
"Don't worry about this, we will protect ourselves."
Zhou Yunshu understood one thing after she died in childbirth in her previous life. She must never put her life in the hands of anyone, no matter how powerful that person seems to you.
"Yunshu, I..."
Zhou Yunshu looked at Xixi who had fallen asleep in Ji Sheng's arms. She put her finger to her lips and whispered to Ji Sheng, "She fell asleep."
Ji Sheng lowered his eyes, his eyes were gentle when he saw Xixi's sleeping face.
He stood up, hugged Xixi, carefully placed her on the bed, and covered her with a quilt.
When he turned around and saw Zhou Yunshu looking at their father and daughter, he took a few steps to Zhou Yunshu's side and held her hand.
Zhou Yunshu wanted to withdraw her hand, but Ji Sheng held it tighter.
"open."
"I'm leaving tomorrow."
"You said it."
Ji Sheng's lips moved slightly, but finally he opened his mouth and said, "Don't marry again."
This time Zhou Yunshu didn't speak, just looked at him quietly.
"At least don't marry again while I'm alive."
Ji Sheng hugged Zhou Yunshu, who was somewhat resistant, lowered his head and whispered in her ear: "Otherwise, I don't know what I would have done."
