Chapter 158: Killing One to Warn the Hundred
Zhou Yunshu didn't get to wait for Ji Sheng's answer because Xixi ran back.
Without answering, Zhou Yunshu accepted the answer she wanted.
Because unless Ji Sheng gave up his royal status, he could not marry into the royal family.
But he will not give up, and Zhou Yunshu will not compromise.
She now has things she wants to do, things she wants to pursue, and people she wants to protect. She will not give up these to become a good wife and mother behind Ji Sheng.
If he really values his little family so much, then he should give it up and become her good husband and father.
For the sake of his handsome face and his identity as the father of the children, Zhou Yunshu was still happy to accept him.
However, he probably doesn't have this awareness.
The person who was most happy about Ji Sheng's arrival was Xixi.
She was the type who couldn't stay still, so after diligently massaging Zhou Yunshu's shoulders and back, she asked Ji Sheng to carry her to the side garden to play.
Daddy finally came to see her, and she wanted to stay with him for a while and introduce him to the new friends she met.
"Where's your friend?"
"Home."
Xixi hugged Jisheng's neck, stretched out her little hand and pointed to the small door of the side garden, and said, "Zizhen's mother is gone. His aunt wanted to be his mother, but his aunt is not good to him."
"Why is it bad?"
"I want to kill him."
Ji Sheng nodded, "Normal, because he is blocking the way of his future stepmother."
Xixi didn't quite understand, but continued to talk to herself: "But his father is very good to him, just like his father is very good to me."
"No, Daddy is the best!" She regretted, "His aunt is bad, and his daddy still wants to marry her. He is not a good daddy."
"There's a saying among the people: if you have a stepmother, you'll have a stepfather. If you have a stepfather, you might also have a stepmother." Ji Sheng said to Xixi in his arms, "You won't have a stepmother, so you can't have a stepfather either, understand?"
Xixi asked back, "But I have a father and a mother."
Ji Sheng looked at Xixi, who didn't quite understand, sighed, opened the small door to the side garden and said, "Forget it."
Daddy said forget it, and Xixi didn’t care.
She said, "Daddy, buy some candy!"
"good."
Ji Sheng originally thought that Xixi bought the candy for herself, but under Xixi's command, he took the candy and walked through the alleys, and finally stopped in front of a small courtyard with a jujube tree.
"Zaohua! Zaohua!"
Xixi's shouting did not bring out the Zaohua she was talking about, but rather an elderly woman.
The woman's face was originally very impatient, but when she saw Ji Sheng at the door and Xixi in his arms, surprise appeared in her somewhat turbid eyes.
Looking at their clothes, you can tell they are from a wealthy family.
"Young lady, come and look for our Zaohua."
Xixi nodded her little head, "We are friends!"
She has made several friends in the past few days, and Zaohua is one of them!
"Then hurry in, hurry in!"
The old woman made way, and Ji Sheng carried Xixi into the narrow yard. He immediately saw the little girl squatting behind a large basin of water next to the utility shed.
The girl looked only about two years older than Xixi. When she saw Xixi come in, she took her frozen red hands out of the clothes in the basin and subconsciously hid them behind her back. The smile on her face turned timid when she saw Ji Sheng holding Xixi.
Although they were clearly in their own home, both the little girl washing clothes in the yard and the old woman who welcomed Ji Sheng and Xixi in felt as cramped as if they were in some deep palace.
"Daddy candy!"
Ji Sheng nodded and put the candy in his hand on the dirty wooden cart next to him.
"Zaohua, this is for you to eat!"
The old woman looked at the big bag of candy and couldn't close her yellow teeth.
She walked over and hugged the candy in her arms. After opening it and taking a look, she smiled so hard that her eyes were filled with disbelief. "Thank you, sir, and thank you, young lady!"
Xixi looked at Zaohua, who seemed unhappy, and struggled to get off her father's body. Ji Sheng looked at the chicken shit on the ground, frowned, and said to Xixi in his arms, "It's too dirty. Daddy, hold me."
When Zaohua heard this, her little head drooped even lower. She looked at the chicken droppings on the muddy ground, and her gaze fell on her dirty feet in her straw sandals.
She wanted to hide it, but she couldn't.
When my mother was still alive, the family was not like this, and she was not like this either.
"Zaohua~" Xixi looked at Zaohua with her little head hanging down, and realized belatedly that she seemed sad.
"Thank you." Zaohua lowered her head and said in a muffled voice, "I still have clothes to wash, so I won't see you off."
Xixi blinked her eyes, then pinched the corner of her clothes helplessly, "Zaohua, you..."
"Go home quickly!"
Zaohua mustered up the courage to look up and said this, and the next moment the old woman's thick palm fell on Zaohua's body, which made Zaohua stagger and almost kneel in the wooden basin.
"What are you doing!" Xixi glared at the old woman and yelled at her.
Not to mention, Xixi's cold face is somewhat similar to Ji Sheng's angry face.
The old woman trembled and said flatteringly: "I, I just feel that she is disrespectful to the young lady. The young lady, please don't be angry with this money-losing thing!"
"She's not a money-loser!"
"Girls are all money losers..." The old woman covered her mouth mid-sentence and said to Xixi and Jisheng with an apologetic look, "Of course the young lady is not a money loser. I was wrong. Look at my stinky mouth!"
The old woman slapped herself in the mouth without holding back.
Xixi looked at the old woman, then looked at Zaohua who was huddled beside the wooden basin. She turned her head and buried her little face in Ji Sheng's chest, "Daddy, come home."
"good."
After leaving Zaohua's house, Ji Sheng walked slowly in the streets and alleys with Xixi in his arms. When they were about to reach the small gate of the side garden, Ji Sheng looked at Xixi who was still silent, and sat on the bluestone bench by the river.
"Daddy, Zaohua's mother died while giving birth to her younger brother. Zaohua is very sad. I want to comfort Zaohua."
But when she bought candy to coax her, Zaohua not only did not become happy, but became even sadder.
"Did I do something wrong?"
Ji Sheng hugged Xixi and said, "You did nothing wrong, but you two are not a good match and cannot be friends."
He looked down at Xixi and said, "If you really like her, Daddy can buy her and let her be your little maid to stay by your side."
Xixi was silent for a moment and shook her head.
"Why? Don't you like it?"
"Friends are different from little maids!" Although Xixi is small, she knows that friends are equal.
Ji Sheng nodded, not knowing what he was thinking.
"Friends are more troublesome. If one day she betrays you, it won't be easy to kill her if she's a friend. But if she's a maid, her life is yours."
"Does betrayal necessarily mean death?" Xixi asked.
Ji Sheng nodded at his daughter, "Yes, we must kill one to warn the rest. We can't be soft-hearted, understand?"
Xixi nodded her little head, looked at Ji Sheng and asked, "Then Daddy, can Mommy not give birth to a younger brother?"
"Can't you have me?"
"Mother will die if she gives birth to younger brothers."
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