Jiang Jiuniang was unaware that she was being secretly watched. Sitting in the carriage, listening to the Emperor Emeritus recount his experiences along the way, she felt much better knowing that she had helped many people.
"When I get back, I will hold a Buddhist ceremony for them so that they can leave in peace."
The retired emperor exhaled. The "them" he referred to were the comfort women who died for him and the people who accompanied him.
Jiang Jiuniang nodded and said, "The deceased are gone, but we must not forget their living relatives. Your Majesty cannot forget the living."
"Of course, of course, I've considered it all."
The Emperor Emeritus nodded repeatedly. He had been unable to sleep these past few days. He could see those bloody scenes whenever he closed his eyes, and he would wake up from nightmares every time. Exhaustion and guilt overwhelmed him, leaving him with no peace.
As a member of the royal family, he had long since witnessed countless deaths and injuries. Some of his subordinates had died for him before, but he felt nothing. He even thought it was a blessing for these people to die for him. But now, all he felt was guilt.
The dog patted his hand considerately and said, "Grandpa Emperor Emeritus, this is not your fault. Don't blame yourself anymore. The fault lies with those bad people. You are also a victim."
He remembered that the retired emperor used to laugh a lot, but recently he hadn't laughed much, and when he did, it was full of bitterness, and he looked very haggard.
In his heart, the Emperor Emeritus had always been a very good elder who had always treated him well, so he naturally didn't want to make the Emperor Emeritus too sad.
The Emperor Emeritus gently stroked his forehead and said, "Good child, I know."
Consort Liu sat silently to the side, her heart filled with anxiety. Even though the Emperor Emeritus kept saying he didn't mind and that it was fine to pretend nothing had happened, she still felt uneasy and had a feeling that trouble was about to occur.
The journey back to the capital was long and tedious, but fortunately, the retired emperor was not entirely useless. A person who could be an emperor was not lacking in knowledge. He was responsible for checking Gou'er's homework every day and then teaching Gou'er. In this way, the time passed quickly.
The most heartwarming thing is that Xiangxiang can now call him "Dad".
The first thing he said was "Daddy," which moved Lu Baichuan deeply. He cherished him so much that he held him in his arms and no one could take him away.
If it weren't for the strong wind while rushing to catch the train, and Lu Baichuan's fear that his daughter would get hurt, he would have carried her while rushing to catch the train.
But why did Xiangxiang call him "Daddy" first? Gou'er was very puzzled and quietly asked Jiang Jiuniang, "Mother, why do you always teach my little sister to call me 'Daddy'?"
Logically, shouldn't the younger sister be taught to call her mother?
"If your dad likes it, we'll indulge him!"
Jiang Jiuniang smiled meaningfully.
The dog didn't quite understand at first, but a few days later, it realized what its mother's meaningful smile meant.
After learning to call her "Daddy," Jiang Jiuniang taught her daughter to say words like "stinky" and "hungry." So, the little one started ordering her father around: "Daddy, stinky!"
It's time for him to poop; let Lu Baichuan take care of it.
"Daddy, I'm hungry!"
This is to have Lu Baichuan make the milk.
At this moment, Jiang Jiuniang was lying there comfortably, while Lu Baichuan was busy and overwhelmed but was still grinning foolishly on the side.
Dog: ...
Sure enough, no one can escape their mother's tricks.
The Emperor Emeritus and Consort Liu hadn't expected this kind of thing to happen. People are selfish, and usually in this situation, the parents would be secretly competing to see whose child would call first. But Jiang Jiuniang did the opposite, exhausting Lu Baichuan.
Fortunately, Jiang Jiuniang was still very kind-hearted and didn't make Lu Baichuan do everything. Sometimes when Lu Baichuan was taking care of the children, she would take the initiative to catch the train. Apart from the cold weather, there was nothing else wrong.
The further north they went, the colder the weather became. Because they were in a hurry to get back, they mostly took shortcuts, so it was difficult to find a guesthouse to stay in. As a result, the group had to pitch tents in the mountains to spend the night.
It was too cold, and Jiang Jiuniang couldn't bear to watch the Emperor Emeritus and Consort Liu freeze to death in the wild. So she set up a charcoal stove in their tent, so the smoke would come out of the tent through a pipe and wouldn't cause them to get poisoned.
As for Jiang Jiuniang's family's own tent, it was naturally filled with various high-tech products, making it much warmer than the Emperor Emeritus's tent.
Before nightfall, the group gathered together for a simple hot pot meal before returning to their tents to sleep. They thought they could sleep soundly until dawn, but unexpectedly, someone attempted to assassinate them in the middle of the night, specifically targeting Jiang Jiuniang and Lu Baichuan. No one paid any attention to the tents of the Emperor Emeritus and Consort Liu nearby.
Jiang Jiuniang put the two children into her spatial dimension and started fighting with the professional assassins outside.
"Hand over the Pangu Jade and we'll spare your lives!"
The assassins didn't know she had put the child in her spatial storage and assumed she was hiding in the tent. With so many of them and only two people on the other side, who had to take care of two adults and two children, they were no match for them.
Jiang Jiuniang sneered and swiftly dispatched the assassin who had just spoken.
Seeing this, the others were instantly enraged, and without further ado, they drew their knives and charged.
The retired emperor and Consort Liu hid in the tent, not daring to look out, covering each other's mouths to prevent them from making a sound.
Needless to say, their strength was unquestionable, and they finished off the enemy in no time.
"They all bit their tongues; they're all suicide squads. Even if they were alive, we wouldn't be able to get anything out of them."
Lu Baichuan sighed. These past few times he had encountered assassins, who already knew how to evade Jiang Jiuniang's interrogation.
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