Chapter 75 Focus on the heart
Both of them were very tired, and no one called them, so they slept until noon the next day.

"Stupid girl, give me your coat." Zhao Siyuan was sleepy and instructed Xihe with his eyes closed.

The tent was eerily quiet.

Zhao Siyuan was furious as soon as he opened his eyes. There was no sign of the silly girl anywhere.

Where are you going so early in the morning?

Someone who went out into the wild is now in the tent of a big bad wolf.

"Little brother, were you hurt anywhere yesterday?"

Xiao Mingxuan stood up, poured a cup of tea and handed it over, and uttered a few words from his thin lips, "It's okay."

"That's great! Then I'll go check on my big brother and uncle to see if they were injured while interrogating the criminals yesterday."

The little girl stood up and was about to leave, but someone behind her grabbed her hand.

When I turned around, I was met with the other person's complicated expression.

"Little brother?"

Xiao Mingxuan licked his dry lower lip and uttered with great difficulty, "Actually... I was injured too."

Xihe was stunned, and hurried back to pull at his clothes, his tone full of anxiety, "Where are you hurt! Let me see!"

Xiao Mingxuan held down the girl's hand that was groping around and pointed to one side of his cheek, "Here!"

Xihe looked up, looked at the scabbed cut on Xiao Mingxuan's face, and fell silent.

The little girl's expression changed and she didn't move for a long time.

Xiao Mingxuan's face suddenly darkened, and he asked through gritted teeth: "Why? Doesn't this count?"

Xihe faced the sinister look of a big bad wolf, threw away his integrity, and said, "Forget it! Come quickly! I'll apply medicine for you!"

Xiao Mingxuan then sat down contentedly and enjoyed the girl's attentive service.

The entire tent was filled with invisible pink bubbles.

"Little brother, what was the secret you wanted to tell me yesterday?"

Yesterday something happened suddenly and I was interrupted in the middle of a conversation. I feel so sorry.

Xiao Mingxuan's face turned stern, and he looked away unnaturally, "...Nothing."

Such a poetic and picturesque scene was interrupted by someone's sudden arrival.

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The two men rushed to Zhao Chengning's tent, only to see Zhao Chengning sitting in the center, with Zhao Jinyuan and two generals beside him.

There were two people kneeling in the center. One was the woman who brought Xihe out yesterday, and the other was a man who was about thirty years old. He should be the father the woman mentioned.

"Big brother, what's going on?"

The tent was unusually quiet. Zhao Chengning had been busy all night and was extremely tired, but he still smiled at Xihe.

"Xihe is here." Zhao Chengning hugged the person in his arms out of habit, and his expression softened a little, not as gloomy and terrifying as before. He threw a weapon on the table in front of the father and daughter, his eyes were indifferent, with the innate coldness of a superior, and said coldly: "Do you want to tell it yourself or do you want me to send you back to the bottom of the cliff?"

Zhao Chengning and Xu Qingcheng interrogated the manor and even explored the manor at night, and unexpectedly discovered such a big thing.

Both the father and the daughter refused to speak, looking like a dead pig that was not afraid of boiling water, but the woman's body was already a little shaky.

"Sister, did you capture me to save your father?" Xihe suddenly asked.

Perhaps she was tired, the woman looked unusually calm, but after not eating or drinking all night and being interrogated repeatedly, she was already exhausted. As soon as she spoke, she felt her throat hurt. "Yes, I want to use you to exchange for my father. This way he won't be considered a failure, and he won't be killed."

"Then you should cooperate with my brother now." The little girl analyzed logically: "You assassinated me first, and now you have left there. If you don't say anything, who can protect you? After we leave, what will happen if the bad guys at the bottom of the cliff come looking for you again?"

The silent man on the side suddenly looked up at Xihe, his eyes as sharp as a poisonous snake, shooting straight at her.

They had offended the royal family and were blatantly rescued by this group of people. The people in the underground would definitely not trust them anymore. They were really in a dilemma.

"You can just keep insisting on it. I can throw you out right now and see if those people will let you go." Zhao Chengning said coldly.

The woman bit her lower lip tightly, and her expression was already somewhat relaxed.

Xihe took the opportunity to add fuel to the fire, "Little sister, you must really want this uncle to survive, otherwise you wouldn't have lied to me. Just like daddy and Xihe, daddy loves Xihe so much that he would leave all the delicious food for Xihe."

The woman bit her lower lip, looked at her father beside her with tears in her eyes, and recalled many past events.

Xiao Mingxuan remained silent, but there was a hint of smile in the corners of his eyes.

Focus on the heart.

Zhao Chengning received his sister's meaningful look, and tried hard to suppress the smile on his face. He deliberately put on a stern face and said in a gentle and persuasive manner: "Without the order of the government, you privately forged weapons on such a large scale. You make me doubt your intentions. But... if you can make up for your crime and make meritorious contributions, perhaps... I can consider your punishment."

Zhao Chengning did not make any final decision. After all, the final decision-making power lies in the hands of Emperor Jingyuan.

"Weapons?" Xihe was stunned as he read these two words. After a long while, he said, "Is there going to be a war?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the man's expression suddenly changed. He raised his head and looked at Xihe. That look was full of inquiry, which was frightening.

Xihe showed no fear at all, and met his gaze. The two looked at each other, "Uncle~ Why are you making weapons? And why do you want to capture me?"

The man was stubborn and refused to speak, but the woman next to him had already relaxed.

In her heart, nothing is more important than her father's life.

The old man seemed to realize what the woman was going to do, and hurriedly spoke to stop her, "Ling'er! Don't say it! At worst, I'll die. My life is not worth it!"

Xihe suddenly said, "Uncle, you're not afraid, right?"

The man looked calm, his anxiety had long since disappeared, and he returned to his original calm and composed look. "Of course I'm not afraid!"

"Have you ever thought about my sister?" The little girl said in a baby voice, "If you die, my sister will be left alone, can you bear it?"

The man met his daughter's pleading eyes and his expression relaxed for a moment.

Xihe struck while the iron was hot and added: "It's so hard to be alone. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and cry. Xihe has only been away from daddy for two days and I miss him so much. If uncle dies, I will be sad for a long time. Can uncle bear to let me be sad?"

Zhao Chengning thought of what Zhao Jinyuan had said to him, lowered his eyes and smiled at the little fox in his arms, and said coldly to the father and daughter: "It would be better if you died, but have you ever thought about how your daughter will live? Don't expect me to have a conscience. I'm saying this, if you die today, I will immediately send you back to the bottom of the cliff. Do you think those people will suspect that your daughter leaked the secret and then cut off the roots?"


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