Chapter 160 Winning a Battle is a Bad Thing
"Daddy, 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 either of them 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 against Ji Sheng.
Ji Sheng whispered comfortingly: "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, and said, "I will try my best to come back before your due date."
Zhou Yunshu thought of him who had disappeared without a trace in her previous life, raised her eyes and said, "Don't force it."
Zhou Yunshu thought about it seriously. What happened in her previous life was a warning to her. She would take it as a warning, but would not be swayed by it.
Otherwise, why should she be entangled in the things of her past life, while Ji Sheng can be cleared of them?
Sometimes she even wanted to go back in time and see Ji Sheng’s reaction after he learned that he had three bodies, and see if he regretted it...
But it’s too tiring to always look back.
She just wants to live her life now.
"No compulsion." Originally, Ji Sheng didn't intend to explain to Zhou Yunshu. After all, he had never explained to her before.
But this time, Ji Sheng felt that if he didn't explain, he and Zhou Yunshu would only drift further and further apart.
She was already disappointed in herself.
"This time I will go back with troops to reinforce the King of Qi. After the Crown Prince became incapacitated, the King of Qi's people launched a fierce counterattack in the court. If I lose this battle, it will be fine. If I win, I will become 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 of the people, 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 will be the time when they unite to kill me. I will be the first to make myself disappear from their sight."
Being in front of people 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 respond to Zhou Yunshu. He took out two pairs of gold bracelets inlaid with red and blue 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 looked at Zhou Yunshu's belly and said softly.
"I have one too, mother!" Xixi said with a smile.
Ji Sheng held his daughter in his arms 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 here along with the supplements I prepared for you."
"Wei Zhong and the others are also in the river now. If you need them, just tell them. If you don't want them, just leave them alone."
"Also, the list I prepared for you earlier doesn't match the names because I didn't expect you to bring the children to Haizhou. I'll prepare a new one for you..."
"Ji Sheng."
Zhou Yunshu looked at Ji Sheng in front of her, curled her fingers, "We and..."
"When you took Xixi away from the palace, the palace treasury was empty."
Zhou Yunshu: “…”
Ji Sheng never mentioned it, so Zhou Yunshu automatically ignored it, but she didn't expect Ji Sheng to bring it up at this juncture.
"Yeah?"
Ji Sheng nodded: "It's not very strange."
"Although the Prince of Wei's mansion is not an iron wall, it is not a place where scoundrels can enter and exit at will, let alone the warehouses that are guarded by layers of security."
Zhou Yunshu tilted her head, "So you think it's me."
"Besides the things in the warehouse, your dowry also disappeared."
"Everyone in the palace saw what I took when I left," Zhou Yunshu retorted.
The reason Zhou Yunshu dared to do this was because even if Ji Sheng had suspicions, he had no evidence.
Ji Sheng smiled and said, "I just think that the Zhenbei Palace is the Zhenbei Palace after all. Under the command of my grandmother and grandfather, there are indeed many extraordinary people."
Zhou Yunshu did not explain.
"If possible, could you lend me this guy?"
Zhou Yunshu: “…”
"I want to find an opportunity to move the warehouse of the Ministry of War."
Zhou Yunshu: "...You think too much, it really wasn't me."
"All right."
Zhou Yunshu changed the subject, "Why did you suddenly think of moving to the warehouse of the Ministry of War?"
"I can't afford to fight a war myself," Ji Sheng said. "Maintaining an army is expensive, not to mention the fact that the northern border will need to recuperate."
When Zhou Yunshu heard that Ji Sheng took the responsibility of recuperating the northern border on himself, she did not think that he was selfless and devoted to the country.
"You want the North." Zhou Yunshu said in affirmation.
Ji Sheng nodded without hiding anything. "Since the northern border has been reconquered by me, it is mine."
Ji Sheng's expression unconsciously turned cold. "I'm already twenty-three. The other princes have their own fiefdoms, but we don't."
"I don't think he'll ever think of giving me a fiefdom, so I'll just take it myself."
"The entire northern border?" Zhou Yunshu looked at Ji Sheng.
"The entire North."
The prince's fiefdom only covers one state, but the northern border is not one of them.
Although it is collectively called the Northern Border, there were thirteen states in the Northern Border before, and there are seven states now. It occupies almost a quarter of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
Ji Sheng was talking about the entire northern border at this time, but Zhou Yunshu had a hunch that his ambition would not stop at the entire northern border.
Otherwise, he would not have gone to the Northwest right after he settled down in the North. It is likely that the several states that had previously separated from the North were also within the North in his mind.
In other words, he was not just after the North.
My grandmother said that the world was going to be in chaos.
"Don't worry, I won't let anyone find you and your daughter. I will..."
"Don't worry about that, we will protect ourselves."
After Zhou Yunshu died of childbirth in her previous life, she understood one thing: never put your life in the hands of anyone, no matter how powerful that person seems to you.
"Yun Shu, I..."
Zhou Yunshu looked at Xixi, who had fallen asleep in Ji Sheng's arms at some point, and put her finger to her lips, whispering to Ji Sheng, "She's asleep."
Ji Sheng lowered his eyes, and when he saw Xixi's sleeping face, his eyes were gentle.
He stood up, held Xixi, carefully put her on the bed, and covered her with a quilt.
When he turned around and saw Zhou Yunshu looking at them father and daughter, he walked a few steps to Zhou Yunshu's side and held her hand.
Zhou Yunshu wanted to pull her hand back, but Ji Sheng held it even tighter.
"open."
"I'm leaving tomorrow."
"You said it."
Ji Sheng's lips moved slightly, and finally he opened his mouth and said, "Don't get married again."
This time Zhou Yunshu didn't say anything, just looked at him quietly.
"At least don't marry again while I'm still alive."
Ji Sheng embraced the somewhat resistant Zhou Yunshu and whispered in her ear, "Otherwise, I don't know what I would have done."
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