Hu Du hurriedly said, "A daughter is fine too. If it's a daughter, I'll find her the best consort when she grows up and spoil her like the brightest moon on the grassland!"
Looking at the beauties sent by the various tribes of the Northern Desert, Shangguan Bing'er couldn't help but feel a pang of sadness. Just as her father had said, from the moment she became a princess, her life had been dedicated to the peaceful coexistence of the two nations. If, by divine blessing, she could truly live with her beloved, that would be the best, but if not, she would always put her country first.
Shangguan Bing'er knew that although Hu Du had accepted those beauties for her sake, he had never actually visited any of them. She was happy, at least in his heart, she was truly important. But this situation couldn't last long. Hu Du was also an ambitious man, and to achieve his ambitions, he needed the support of various tribes. And the foundation of their trust lay in these women.
Taking advantage of Hu Du's current feelings of indebtedness towards Shangguan Bing'er, Shangguan Bing'er took the opportunity to say, "Khan, I never expected to be with you like this. I know you have your difficulties, and I can't always be the only one by your side, so I won't fight or care about anything. There's just one thing: Liang is my hometown. Without Liang, we wouldn't be where we are now."
How could Hu Du not know what Shangguan Bing'er meant? "Don't worry, since I have agreed to join forces with Wang Yanzhou, I will not change my mind at the last minute. You have to have confidence in me, understand?
"……Um."
In the past, Hu Du only thought that Shangguan Bing'er and he got along very well, but he never expected that this woman really had the talent to be a princess of the Great Desert: "Bing'er, thank you for understanding me."
Shangguan Bing'er smiled and said, "I am your wife. I know you have me in your heart, and I also know your helplessness. You don't have to apologize to me. As long as you don't abandon me in this life, that's enough."
...While the peace talks were in full swing, the land of South Vietnam, although not affected by the war, was still in turmoil.
The Huangfu family's ancestral home is nestled among the rolling mountains in the southern corner of South Vietnam. More specifically, the family isn't in the mountains; the mountains are within their home. The Huangfu family's ancestors purchased these rolling mountains from the royal family of South Vietnam, erected boundary markers at their foothills, and through their hard work and reputation, transformed this land into a truly their own, a home that no one else dared to covet.
Deep within the mountains, there lay an extremely dense forest. The trees within were all over a hundred years old, and totems imbued with the Huangfu family's unique characteristics could be seen everywhere. In the center of the forest stood a large, ancient mansion. This was Hong Yu's home, and it was also where the successive heads of the Huangfu family and their families had resided.
The most famous place in this generation, besides the owner's residence, is the rose garden that is always spring-like. I wonder if the owner of this rose garden was a flower god in a previous life, collecting a wide variety of roses from all over the world, and they are able to live in peace here.
The Rose Garden, a place rarely visited by anyone, welcomed its first guest of the new year today: "The Patriarch."
After hearing someone talking, the white-haired old man who was hunched over weeding in the garden slowly stood up and looked in the direction of the voice. "Hey, isn't this Xiao Ningzi? I haven't seen you here for a long time. How come you are free today?"
After Huangfu Ning found the old patriarch's location, he carefully walked over through the rose bushes. "My kid has recently become obsessed with collecting ancient coins. He couldn't persuade his mother, so he thought of going to the black market to see if he could find some that he would like as a gift."
Seeing that it was a rare occasion for guests to come, and the sun was gradually getting hotter, the old patriarch packed up his things and prepared to go into the house while saying, "Your boy, as I recall, should be around eleven. It feels like I haven't seen him for a long time."
Huangfu Ning said helplessly, "That child is getting more and more naughty as he grows up. I don't know if he will be able to take over my position in the future."
The old patriarch laughed and said, "Haha, they say like fathers like sons, so don't worry about it. Besides, your son is at least obedient. My granddaughter didn't even come home on New Year's Eve, and her parents don't know how to take care of her all day long. I'm just an old man, and I've been both her father and mother since she was a child."
Speaking of Huangfu Huijue, Huangfu Ning hadn't seen him at the New Year's Eve family dinner. He had wanted to ask about it, but fearing others would think he was trying to get close, he didn't dare to say, "Huijue has been in Liang for quite some time. There's a war going on there now. I don't know what he's been thinking about that won't let him come back."
The old patriarch knew that this person was teasing Huangfu Huijue and Shi Zairong, so he smiled and said, "This child is very stubborn. Once she promises something to others, she must do it. After all, she is grown up, so it would be good for her to go out and gain some experience."
Huangfu Ning helped the old man put away the weeding tools and the weeds he had already pulled, then he said, "Master, I came here today because I have something I want to discuss with you."
The old patriarch smiled and said, "If you have nothing to do, you would like to come and see me, an old man, right? Come in and talk. I just got some new tea and I'll share it with you."
Huangfu Ning quickly smiled and said, "Look at what you said. If it wasn't something serious, how could we disturb your peace?"
He was speaking the truth. The old patriarch was a man who liked quietness, otherwise he wouldn't have sent so many people out of the mansion, leaving only enough people to clean and cook. "I'm just teasing you, tell me."
Huangfu Ning took the teacup from the old patriarch with both hands, feeling somewhat flattered. He said, "It's like this. When I was at the black market, I found someone collecting large quantities of puppet threads."
The old patriarch paused for a moment, then leisurely sipped his tea. "There's quite a bit of puppet threads scattered around that haven't been recovered. But if we don't manage them properly, these things, which are as precious as gold and silver to us, will become useless waste to others."
"The Patriarch is right."
Huangfu Ning ran over to tell him this with eager eyes, probably thinking it was related to the previous incident of the missing Life-Prolonging Gu: "Some time ago, yes, someone's Life-Prolonging Gu was lost, right?"
Huangfu Ning said, "According to the master, it belongs to Abin's family. But I heard from them that it was left on the mountain and they are looking for it now."
The old patriarch raised his hand slightly and said, "I think there's no need to look for it anymore. Let those who are looking for the poisonous insects come back and follow the people who are collecting the puppet threads. If it was stolen by outsiders, that's fine, but I'm afraid someone has disregarded the ancestral family rules."
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