"Mom once said that if your father has ruined you, he will divorce you and no longer want you to be his wife. He gave you Li'er, but now he is going to give happiness to others. What about Mom's respect for Dad? Does Mom still like Dad?"

I didn't expect that she would ask me this question.

I really couldn't imagine that she could ask this question.

Looking back at the time when I married Pei Yuanxiu, everyone was asking whether I should marry or not, whether I could marry, whether I could marry, or not, but she was the only one who asked me if I like it or not.

And now, she is asking me again whether she still has love for his father.

My daughter doesn't seem to care about worldly views, nor does she have too many shackles and shackles. She attaches great importance to feelings...

However, it seems that feelings are too seriously considered.

I thought about it and shook my head at her: "Mom doesn't love him, just like he doesn't love her."

Her eyes flashed, and a hint of panic and nervousness appeared in her eyes. She asked again: "Then, do you hate him?"

“…”

I thought about it, but still shook my head.

This time, the light in her eyes became obviously chaotic.

Perhaps, because when this daughter appears in front of me, she is so naughty and ignorant, and she is innocent and ignorant. Maybe, because I want to make up for the lack of maternal love over the years, I have always cared for her carefully, and unconsciously regarded her as the little girl when I first met.

But, she has really grown up.

I wanted to use words to perfunctory her, but when I lowered my head, I could see her clear but serious eyes. What was shining in it was the maturity and wisdom of this age, but there was a kind of almost reckless innocence. I put myself in my shoes and thought about the unknown happiness she had experienced in the past two days, and silently endured the torture, and if I was perfunctory, I could not speak out.

If you have to perfunctory her, you can no longer do it.

I said seriously: "Li Er, my father and I have experienced a lot of things at the beginning, and we have also had a lot of things. But now, my mother has married your father, and your father is also giving happiness to others. There is no love or hatred between us."

"..." Li'er hesitated for a moment before asking, "Then, my mother doesn't love and hate her father anymore, so what else is there?"

I smiled and said, "There is still Li'er."

"Then, what about Li'er? How could my mother neither love her father nor hate her father?"

Looking at her big eyes, I thought for a while and said gently: "Li Er, the feelings between people are not only love and hate. In addition to love and hate, there are many other emotions. Admiration, admiration, confidant, disgust, hatred, contempt... There are too many, and even the relationship between people will not be just love or hate. Let me tell you for now that when you grow up in the future, you will naturally understand."

She said, "Mom, isn't Li'er old enough?"

I smiled and stroked her head, but did not answer her question, but just said softly: "Mom, I hope my mother will never grow up."

“…”

She was obviously confused by me, but she seemed to understand something and lowered her head and thought for a long time.

When she raised her head again, she asked me another question: "Where are mother and dad?"

“…”

"At that time, I asked my mother, and she said, you might fall in love with my dad. Now—"

My heart was stabbed suddenly by a red needle, and the forgotten pain once again surged into my heart. Suddenly, the blood on my face faded away, leaving only a sad and pale pale left.

I took a deep breath, suppressed the hidden pain in my heart, and said, "Li'er, why do you keep asking these questions today?"

She was stunned for a moment and was about to say something, I said again: "You said you are already old. In fact, even if your father did not show up, you should be a famous lady with your father. Li'er, you should know what it means to be an inappropriate lady to a girl."

“…”

I smiled faintly: "Li'er, you have to know that you are embarrassed."

After hearing what I said, she seemed to feel something and lowered her head.

I said, "Today is the last time you asked these questions. Don't ask them again in the future."

“…”

"When you should understand, you will understand even if you don't want to understand, but when you don't understand, you won't understand even if your mother says it."

Maybe it was because I said a little heavy, or maybe she realized the meaning of these questions, her face turned slightly red. After a while, she said silly: "Actually, Li'er doesn't want to ask these things clearly, I just--"

"Just what?"

She looked up at me, and her expression looked like a frightened little cat, and said carefully: "Mom, Li'er wants to ask her to agree to something."

"..." I frowned.

Although Li'er was not growing up by my side, she had been reunited for so many years after all. I also understood that she grew up in pampering when she was a child. There was no word "seeking" in her world, but now, she carefully said the word "seeking" to me.

I immediately realized something.

"Can I accompany me across the river tomorrow?"

“…!”

This question seemed like a heavy stone suddenly dropped in my deliberate calm heart lake, which immediately caused violent waves and ripples.

I took a deep breath: "You want your mother to accompany you across the river? Why?"

As soon as I finished asking, I saw her slightly lowered eyes.

And I immediately understood and regretted asking this sentence.

Why else? She already knew that it was her father. She also felt the fatherly love passed down from her biological father for the first time. This child who left her parents not long after she was born. Even with Pei Yuanxiu's doting and Han Ruoshi and Han Zitong's care, she was not by her biological parents after all. She could not have no shortcomings, nor could she have no desires.

She hopes that I can cross the river and accompany Pei Yuanhao with her.

Thinking of this, a sourness immediately surged in my heart, but my brows gradually frowned.

Accompany her across the river and be with Pei Yuanhao?

Li'er said, "It's enough for one day. Can you play with me with your father?"

“…”

Looking at her longing look, I almost felt weak and I was about to agree, but rationally I was pulled back.

I can forgive others, but it does not mean that I will forget the pain so quickly. I will never forget the more than two years I was imprisoned in the cold palace by Pei Yuanhao, nor will I forget the days and days of hiding in the water pagoda, nor will I forget the days by Chang Qing, and I will never forget the days I was afraid of seeing him every day, and every day is like walking on thin ice.

I can't forget who made me escape from such a life.

He paid almost his life and ruined half of his face. Now he wanted me to cross the river to meet Pei Yuanhao, which was undoubtedly a sheep entering the tiger's mouth. Although he seemed so peaceful and gentle every day now, as long as he had that thought and a command, I would fall into the predicament again.

I can't spend the second half of my life like that!

I thought about it and said tactfully: "But mother--"

But before I finished speaking, Li'er spoke timidly: "Dad may be leaving."

"……What?"

"Dad, he might be leaving."

"He's leaving?"

"Yeah." She nodded, her eyes seemed to be slightly red, and she said, "After shopping today, my father took me to the restaurant to have some snacks, and I also heard a storytelling book. While we were sitting on the second floor drinking tea, we suddenly heard a loud noise downstairs. It seemed that someone was throwing something, crackling, and it was scary."

My heart skipped a beat.

Li'er said, "I thought I was singing a martial arts drama downstairs."

"Then Pei--your dad, how is he?"

"He? He just sat there and had tea, it was nothing."

“…”

"The storyteller was frightened. Later, he asked someone to take a ingot of silver to reward him, asking him to tell the story well."

“…what later?”

"Later, Lord Wu came up with a very ugly face. He asked him to 'move' and the two walked to another compartment to speak. Actually, I heard that Lord Wu said that someone was injured and seemed to have said something--'a great crisis', and he asked him to return to Beijing quickly. Mom, returning to Beijing is to go back to Beijing, right?"

"Someone was injured? Who was injured?"

"I don't know either, but it seems that it should be his guard."

"..." I frowned.

Li'er's description is not very clear, but I already understand it completely.

Pei Yuanhao was assassinated today!

However, the people who assassinated him were obviously not well prepared, so they listened to books on the second floor, and the assassin was only seen downstairs, and was captured after a fight. Wu Yanqiu came up to ask Pei Yuanhao to move, obviously because he had been ordered to not reveal his identity in front of Li'er. Just like when I was amnesia and those days he spent in Yangzhou Prefecture, he asked Pei Yuanhao to return to Beijing, obviously realizing the seriousness of the problem.

Yangzhou Prefecture was where Liu Qinghan took it back, and the imperial court itself actually appeared again!

What does this mean?!

Wu Yanqiu said "there are many crises" and asked him to return to Beijing, which means that he is going to return to Beijing!

He is leaving!?

Although I don’t know what his purpose was to come to Jiangnan, his presence in Yangzhou did cause too much crisis to many people in the south, and even the entire Central Plains became unstable. Otherwise, why would there be assassins appear in Yangzhou, which had been clearly recovered by the court? If he wanted to leave, he could indeed restore the peace he had before.

But--

Will he really leave?

We have been guessing before what purpose he had for going south, but now he has almost nothing. Could it be that he is really just going to sea to make a vain for the "non-existence" Flang machine artillery, and now he is going to return to the capital empty-handedly?

I was a little stunned for a moment.

If I think about it carefully, I really couldn't imagine, nor could I see that he had other purposes for going south.

Besides, he is now the Lord of Wancheng, and his identity is different from his previous prince. Even when facing the dragon and tiger den of the Resurrection Medicine Shop, he dared to go to the life and death agreement with Changmingzong in Hongye Temple, but now everything is different.

If there were assassins in Yangzhou, as Wu Yanqiu said, there were indeed many crises, and he should not stay outside the imperial city anymore.

Then, maybe he is really leaving.
Chapter completed!