"mother!"
Seeing Shen Ningsi's actions, the first ones to change their expressions were the children.
Even Gu Xiuwen was instantly panicked.
"mother!"
Gu Xiuwen no longer looks calm at all. He is no different from an ordinary teenager.
"Mother, put the knife down first. Believe me, I will never let you suffer any injustice!"
Gu Xiuwen's face flushed with anxiety. "None of us will leave your side, even if Gu Hong forces us to do so!"
The way Gu Xiuwen looked at Gu Hong was no different from the way he looked at an enemy.
Gu Xiuwen's voice was icy. "General Gu, of course you can use your power to force us all to follow you to the capital, but General Gu, you'd better be mentally prepared. Wu'er and I will definitely not let you off easily."
"Gu Xiuwen!" Gu Hong roared.
Gu Xiuwen was just talking back, but Gu Xiuwu just rushed over and said, "I'll kill you!"
There were bloodshot eyes.
Gu Xiuwu had never resented his lack of strength so much before, as he now had no way of making his mother do things according to her wishes.
"Didn't you just go to the battlefield and gain some fame? You think I'm incapable of that? Give me ten years, and I'll trample you under my feet!"
He was like a mad calf, aiming at Gu Hong's stomach and charging at him.
Several children were glaring at him. Gu Hong had never imagined such a scene. He looked calm on the surface, but in fact he didn't even notice Gu Xiuwu's actions.
Gu Hong groaned after being hit in the abdomen by the full force of the little boy, and took two steps back while holding his stomach.
"I've been waiting for you for ten years!"
Gu Hong's eyes were full of hostility, "What? Just because she, Shen Ningsi, accompanied you for a year, have you forgotten that it was me who raised you?"
Gu Hong was really angry.
The fact that all the children stood on Shen Ningsi's side only proved that he had really done something wrong. Gu Hong didn't want to accept it, nor was he willing to accept it.
"You really did raise us."
Gu Hong's words finally calmed Gu Xiuwen down a bit. He looked at Gu Hong with sorrow in his eyes.
It is true that they stand on Shen Ningsi's side, but that doesn't mean they have no feelings for Gu Hong.
"You did raise us, but General Gu, you already have the ability to make a living. Your life won't change at all with or without us. But it's different for mother."
Gu Xiuwen took a deep breath and said, "This is a woman who needs our protection. She is different from you."
I don’t know when it started, but Shen Ningsi has occupied an extremely important position in Gu Xiuwen’s heart, even though Shen Ningsi looks like she doesn’t need anyone’s protection.
Even when putting a knife to her neck, Shen Ningsi did it without any panic. Gu Xiuwen also wanted to stay with Shen Ningsi and use his own strength to support her.
"You only see my strong character and that I'm different from ordinary women. Why don't you think about how I became what I am now?"
Gu Xiuwen chuckled. "Since you know that you and mother have such a fate, and it's only because you buried her father, you should know that when mother faced the matter of burying her father, she never thought of solving it all by herself, but instead sold herself."
Yun'er was still young at that time, and even now she is the type of person who doesn't remember anything.
But Gu Xiuwen and Gu Xiuwu were different. They clearly remembered what Shen Ningsi looked like when Gu Hong brought her home.
Following behind Gu Hong, she was like an ordinary young wife, without her own opinions and not knowing how to do anything.
But what is Shen Ningsi like now?
Gu Xiuwen asked Gu Hong, "But now, have you ever seen mother wanting to cling to anyone?"
Gu Hong was stunned. He had never thought about these things before.
It was indeed like this. When he saw Shen Ningsi again, this woman had become someone who could stand on her own. At first, he thought it was his fault, perhaps because he had never understood Shen Ningsi. Now it seems...
"Dad, you really had no choice but to leave us. The imperial court was recruiting soldiers, and it seemed that an ordinary person really had no way to deal with it. But what did you do after you came back?"
Hearing Gu Xiuwen mention these things again, Gu Hong was speechless.
Indeed, his appearance caused Shen Ningsi a lot of trouble. Isn’t Shen Ningsi injured now because Wang Qiang knows his identity?
“…”
Even Gu Yuner stopped crying. She just blinked her big eyes and stared at Gu Hong blankly.
Shen Ningsi didn't say anything and looked like an ordinary harmless girl, but only when you saw the dagger in Shen Ningsi's hand could you know how angry she was.
"Put down the knife." Gu Hong said.
Shen Ningsi didn't make any move.
Gu Xiuwen and Gu Xiuwu both stood in front of Shen Ningsi at the same time, staring at Gu Hong with murderous eyes.
Gu Hong clenched his fist and asked, "Would I hit her?"
He didn't know what the sour feeling in his heart was, Gu Hong only knew that he wanted to tear everything within his sight into pieces!
"General Gu, I've told you, my request is very simple. As long as you can let these children stay with me, I don't want anything else."
Shen Ningsi whispered, "You are now a great general who commands great power and is extremely handsome. I'm sure many girls in the capital admire you. Why would you bring us along as a burden?"
Shen Ningsi did not hesitate to belittle himself in order to dissuade Gu Hong from taking them away.
"General Gu, although you are a military commander, since you have entered the imperial court, you should know how much a relationship with your parents can bring."
Shen Ningsi just laughed softly, "It's naturally impossible for ordinary officials to marry their daughters to you. These young ladies are not even willing to accept the position of co-wife if they follow you without any status. If you want to bring our family with you, what position will you leave for your future wife?"
Shen Ningsi raised her chin slightly, "General Gu, even if I, Shen Ningsi, am of low status and have no family background to rely on, I will never be willing to be a concubine."
"If you insist on using this status to humiliate me, even if I try my best, I will make sure you have no place to stand in the capital. The young lady you marry will be humiliated. Why bother doing something that will hurt both of you?"
She indeed had no romantic feelings for Gu Hong, but she had An An and Kang Kang by her side, and her Shen Ningsi's child absolutely could not be born out of wedlock.
If she had to become a bastard who was criticized by others, she would rather declare to the public that she was a widow and that An An and Kang Kang had no biological father.
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