Chapter 89 This Kid Is Truly Good with Babies

The carriage traveled northward, and the weather grew increasingly colder.

Along the way, the one-eyed Lao San and his companions made quite a few mistakes, but they were all minor issues. After Yuan Hui's discipline, everyone returned to behaving properly.

Some of them passed through peasants' fields and went straight to digging potatoes and yams with their bottoms in the air.

Others, seeing the chickens and ducks raised by the peasants, couldn't resist catching them.

Yuan Hui had no choice but to drag himself out to apologize, pay compensation, and even make those who stole the chickens and ducks work for the peasants.

After the reorganization, about ten days later, this group had transformed into a different team.

They were no longer lazy and scattered; instead, they were energetic and spirited.

"Uncle is so good to this esteemed one, and Mother is nice too. Hmm, I should help them!" Xiao Xi'er thought, and she rummaged through her nine-story pagoda to find a bottle.

Taking advantage of the demonic Imperial Tutor holding her, she led him to where everyone was eating and directly tossed the pills into the pot.

"Waste, what a waste! Xiao Xi'er, do you know that taking these pills like this is much more wasteful than swallowing them individually," Ci Xin lamented, feeling heartbroken.

Xiao Xi'er truly witnessed how stingy this person was.

Throughout the journey, he not only refused to part with a single coin but also hoarded any good things he found. It seemed he had a natural affinity for shiny gold objects.

Xiao Xi'er looked at the box on one side of the carriage. The box was brought down from the mountain by Yuan Hui and given to her uncle.

Then, her uncle gave it to her.

Although Yuan Hui found it strange, they had all heard about the little girl's prowess and even witnessed it, so they felt it was only right.

On the night they left, the halls and houses on the mountain were destroyed in an instant.

Ci Xin had ordered it done, ensuring it happened after they had left and were far away.

Lao San, the one-eyed man, turned back to look at the smoky summit and asked, "Imperial Tutor, if we were still on the mountain, would we have been buried alive too?"

"Yes!" Ci Xin nodded, giving a very definite answer.

The box contained treasures that Yuan Hui had collected on his way back from the border of Xiyue, as well as some items they had plundered over the years.

Books, paintings, and some short weapons, among other things.

But there were no gold or jewels.

Naturally, life in the mountains had been tough over the years. If there had been extra gold or jewels, they would have long been used to support the hundreds of bandits.

"Up ahead is Yude County, where the ancestor emperor once settled. Later, when the ancestor emperor moved the capital to Weicheng, the entire country was renamed Wei. Yude County is likely the most prosperous city in Great Wei heading north," Xiao Yin turned and said to Xiaoyue.

"Mmm!" Xiaoyue nodded. As a princess of Great Wei, she naturally knew the situation, but there was also Xiao Xi'er and Jing Ce from Xiyue in the carriage.

Xiao Xi'er wasn't familiar with Great Wei. As a baby, she had consumed a lot traveling from the Imperial City to here and had done as much work as the adults.

So, Xiao Xi'er usually spent her time eating, sleeping, and then eating again after waking up.

Now three months old, she was plump and rosy, very adorable.

Plus, due to the cold weather, Xiaoyue had dressed her daughter warmly, making her even chubbier, which made it difficult for anyone to carry her.

But Mo Jingyu was different.

No matter where they were, whether staying at an inn, walking through the streets, or resting halfway during the journey, he always picked up the baby first.

"Let him carry her; otherwise, this child wouldn't know what to do and would be as silent as a mute," Xiaoyue said helplessly.

Dong Ju felt almost useless along the way.

Fortunately, Baiyu was responsible for the Black Armor Guard, while she was assigned by His Majesty to assist Yuan Hui in managing the group that came down from the mountain.

Otherwise, with her talkative nature, she would have been miserable.

Lady Jin, accompanying Xiaoyue, said, "This child is quite meticulous. Sometimes, I feel he's even more detailed than me. Every time Little Princess eats rice cakes, he gives her water, and he does a great job with the fruit arrangements for every meal!"

"I've heard that his mother was once a pure and innocent girl," Xiaoyue whispered.

Great Wei and Xiyue had been at war for a long time. Xiaoyue had visited the Xiyue border camps and heard much about the witch-like Xiyue queen.

It was said that on full moon nights, the queen would develop strange eyes and become a bloodthirsty demon.

Of course, this rumor originated within the Xiyue imperial harem, and its veracity was unknown.

During the war, Xiyue often failed to win, and General Yuan Hui led his troops with remarkable skill and decisiveness. When direct confrontation didn't work, Great Wei hired the notorious Seven Colors Palace.

The Seven Colors Palace was adept at scheming and infiltrated Great Wei.

During Xiao Yin's reign, hundreds of spies linked to the Seven Colors Palace were eliminated both inside and outside the court.

In the past three years, there were frequent incidents involving connections to the Seven Colors Palace.

Xiyue blamed all their defeats on the witch queen, disfigured her, gouged out her eyes, and threw her into the cold palace.

And this prince faced daily abuse, barely surviving each day.

Xiao Xi'er heard her mother and Lady Jin talking quietly about Jingyu, and she looked at the boy, knowing he could hear them.

His Purple Dragon aura surged back and forth, pulling and tugging.

"Help you absorb it, stabilize your mind!" Xiao Xi'er's small hand pressed against Mo Jingyu's chest.

One by one, the purple auras were drawn into her small hand.

Jingyu felt much better.

Every time he thought of his mother, his heart would ache and throb painfully, especially when nightmares plagued him at night, causing him even greater distress.

However, things had improved over the past two months.

He seemed to have fewer nightmares at night.

"Let's go into the city!" Xiaoyue came to Jingyu's side, draped her arm around his shoulder, and said.

"Seventh Prince, let me hold the little princess!" Nanny Jin's voice softened as she spoke.

Mo Jingyu shook his head and then carried little Ruo Xi as he followed the emperor's footsteps.

The supplies were stationed at the relay station outside the city gates, guarded by officials from Yude County.

Meanwhile, the emperor's entourage entered the city.

"Such prosperity, truly befitting of the founding emperor's old grounds!" Ci Xin smiled faintly, looking around and said, "I hear that the old prince still resides here?"

"Indeed, Imperial Tutor. The one who invited you is the old prince, who is already eighty-three years old but still in high spirits!" County Magistrate Yu Yang said.