"Are you hungry?" After eating for a while, Xia Muyao asked Gu Er again.

Gu Er still snorted stubbornly, but her tone was not as resolute as just now.

Xia Muyao didn't say anything, concentrated on finishing her meal, put down her chopsticks, and waited for Yan Ling to clean up the dishes and chopsticks on the table.

Gu Er watched Yan Ling pack up all the food, her little face couldn't help but look aggrieved, and she got off the ground from the side of the bed in a huff and walked out of the big tent.

"Where are you going?" Xia Muyao followed behind Gu Er and asked.

"I'm going to find my father." Gu Er replied in a choked tone, but finally didn't hold back her tears, and wiped her little face with her hands as she walked.

Xia Muyao looked at Gu Er's crying little shadow from behind, her eyes couldn't help but get wet, the environment here, the people here, are completely unfamiliar to the three-year-old Gu Er, how helpless should this child be at the moment?

"Gu'er." Xia Muyao shouted from behind.

Gu Er didn't look back, and walked around the barracks by herself.

"Gu'er." Xia Muyao shouted again in the back.

"My name is Zhao Ji, I'm not Gu'er." The little guy suddenly turned around and replied loudly to Xia Muyao.

Xia Muyao was immediately stunned, walked forward quickly, squatted down in front of Gu Er, grabbed Gu Er's arm, and said softly: "Okay, then the mother will call you step-son in the future...... Then can you call me mother? ”

Gu Er looked at Xia Muyao and didn't speak, then bypassed Xia Muyao and continued to walk aimlessly in the barracks.

Xia Muyao followed behind, looking at Gu Er's small figure, her heart hurt again and again.

**

Gu Er was tired after walking for a long time, so he stopped, squatted on the ground, and stared blankly at the front, his eyes desperate.

Xia Muyao walked over, squatted with Gu Er, and then stretched out her hand and gently touched Gu Er's little face, "Are you tired?" ”

Gu Er's little mouth deflated, and she said pitifully to Xia Muyao: "I want to find my father." ”

Gu Er still can't understand what happened, why in a short period of time, his father disappeared, but suddenly someone came out and said that she was his mother. Although he once asked Zhao Yuanting, why did other princes in the palace have concubines, but he didn't?

But in fact, he has no impression of the word mother since he was a child.

So Xia Muyao at this moment can't make him feel intimate, and in an environment without Zhao Yuanting, he has no sense of security.

Gu Er is so pitiful.

Xia Muyao took him in her arms distressedly and patted him lightly on the back, "Good boy, your father has something very important to do, so now, I have my mother to accompany you." ”

Gu Er was really tired and hungry, he didn't have the strength to cry anymore, he could also feel Xia Muyao's kindness, so he leaned on Xia Muyao's arms, hugged her neck, and was quietly in a daze.

Xia Muyao picked up Gu Er and slowly walked back to the big tent, Gu Er did not resist, and kept lying quietly on Xia Muyao's shoulder.

After returning to the big tent, Gu Er went to bed quietly, and fell asleep after a while.

I slept a long night, and I didn't wake up until dusk.

Huerhe returned to the Great Tent, and this afternoon he discussed with the lieutenants in the military tent that he would follow the will of the King of Beihu and continue to attack Dakang, and that he would launch an attack on Zhao Yuanting's army early the next morning.

"Asleep?" When he returned to the big tent, he saw Gu Er who was asleep, and asked Xia Muyao with a smile.

"Yes, I've slept all afternoon, and I guess this kid is also tired." Xia Muyao sighed, with some worry in her tone.

Until dinner, Xia Muyao thought about waking up Gu Er, he didn't use lunch, he must be hungry.

But when Xia Muyao's hand touched Gu Er's body, she realized that something was wrong with Gu Er, Gu Er's little face and hands were hot, and she looked groggy when she fell asleep.

"Come on, is Gu'er sick?" Xia Muyao wiped Gu Er's slightly sweaty forehead with her hand, "He's hot." ”

Huerhe hurriedly leaned in front of the bed, stretched out his hand and touched Gu Er's body, and then turned around and shouted outside the big tent: "Guards, please invite the military doctor." ”

The guards outside the big tent hurriedly responded and hurried away.

Xia Muyao was a little panicked, she grabbed Huerhe's hand, "What should I do?" Gu Er will be fine, right? At this moment, she needed to listen to Huerhe's answer to give herself confidence.

"It's going to be fine, the military doctor will come and prescribe some medicine, and you'll be fine." Huerhe hurriedly comforted.

Xia Muyao stopped talking, turned around and sat on the edge of the bed, held Gu Er's little hand, and stared at his little face worriedly.

**

The military doctor came after a while, looked at Gu Er's situation, and prescribed some medicine to dispel wind and cold, and Yan Ling was busy taking it and going down to suffer.

Then, the military doctor brought strong wine and rubbed it on Gu Er's acupuncture points, repeatedly rubbing it for two quarters of an hour, and the heat on Gu Er's body finally subsided little by little.

Xia Muyao's heart let go.

After Yan Ling boiled the medicine, Xia Muyao carefully fed the medicine into Gu Er's mouth. Gu Er had a bitter taste in her mouth, and she was a little annoyed, but she didn't have the strength to cry out, so she just hummed a few times and fell asleep again.

Xia Muyao didn't sleep all night, and kept observing whether Gu Er had a fever again.

Huerhe also woke up from sleep, and seeing that Xia Muyao had been staying up, he couldn't help it, he understood her heart as a mother.

The next day, when the sun rose, Gu'er remained stable and did not have a fever again.

Xia Muyao was tired this night, held Gu Er's little hand, and fell asleep.

Huerhe went to the military tent, and then went back to the big tent, and when he saw the bed, Xia Muyao was holding Gu'er's little hand, and the mother and son slept peacefully, and their hearts couldn't help but warm.

Huerhe sat down on the edge of the bed, covered them with a quilt, and watched them quietly by the bedside.

After a while, I heard the guards outside the big tent whisper: "General, the enemy has a messenger coming." ”

When Huerhe heard this, he was stunned, what happened to Zhao Yuanting? Could it be that he regretted sending Gu Er back and wanted to get it back?

Thinking about this, Huerhe walked out of the big tent and went to meet the messenger who came from Dakanglai.

The messenger gave the letter to Hulkh and departed.

Huerhe opened the secret letter, it turned out to be Zhao Yuanting's farewell letter, he led the army today, pulled out the camp and left, and found a stable place to recuperate, as for the war between Beihu and Dakang, he no longer participated.

Huerhe looked at the letter and couldn't help laughing, looking for a Zhao Yuanting is really a chess master, changing from passive to active, if he withdraws, Beihu can't beat him, and Dakang will be messed up because of this.

If Beihu and Dakang fought, Zhao Yuanting could still enjoy the benefits of the fisherman.

It's really clever. Clever.

Huerhe secretly admired in his heart, thinking that if Zhao Yuanting's army left, before Dakang sent new generals and troops, it would be easy for the Beihu army to attack Dakang.

Thinking of this, Huerhe hurriedly turned around and walked towards the military tent, things had changed, and he wanted to replan his strategy.

**

Zhao Yuanting left with his 100,000-strong army and withdrew all the way to the southwest.

At that time, Zhao Yuanting was killed by the Beihu people on the battlefield, and the news of the new emperor's accession to the throne was already known throughout the country.

All of a sudden, hatred for the Beihu people permeated the whole world.

Although the Dakang New Dynasty made peace with Beihu, but did not get a response from Beihu, it knew that this battle would continue to be fought, so in just a few months, the army enlisted in the army, the number of troops expanded rapidly, after a period of training, led by the former generals in Juyi Village, all the way to the border.

And Huerhe led the army of Beihu to capture the three cities of Dakang one after another, and the momentum was like a bamboo.

After all, the world is mired in boundless strife and war.

After Gu Er's illness recovered, he became a silent child, he sat with a calm face every day, and was not interested in anything. Every day, when I go out to eat and sleep, the most common thing I do is to be in a daze.

Xia Muyao tried everything to make Gu Er happy, but he was just not interested.

Xia Muyao had no choice but to wait a little longer, and Gu Er would forget about Zhao Yuanting and accept her and Huerhe.

But Gu'er, who is a little better to Xia Muyao, is very resistant to Huerhe, as soon as he sees Huerhe, he turns his head away, or lies on Xia Muyao, no matter what Huerhe says to him, he has never responded.

Huerhe couldn't help but sigh to Xia Muyao secretly: "I don't know when this kid will think that he will be his father." ”

"Take your time, he's been much better to me these days, you can talk to me a few words." Xia Muyao softly persuaded Huerhe.

Huerhe could only nod helplessly.

After a while, because he was with Xia Muyao every day, Gu Er's expression towards Xia Muyao gradually eased a little, and he followed Xia Muyao from one city to another, and Xia Muyao became his new most reliable person.

Xia Muyao also secretly discussed with Huerhe, changing Gu'er's name to step-son, Hurenji, which is also a good name.

Huerhe agreed, for him, if changing his name would ease Gu'er's attitude towards him, then why not?

"Stepson, come, my mother will take you to the city tower." When Huerhe attacked the city, when Xia Muyao entered the city, she would climb the city tower with her stepchild and look at the entire city.

"This country, this world, the wise and the brave and the benevolent." Every time Xia Muyao stood on the city wall, there would be a lot of surging feelings in her chest.

The stepchild looked at Xia Muyao and looked at the city with Xia Muyao.

"My father said that the world will be mine in the future." Suddenly, the step-son said so.

Xia Muyao was stunned, she always thought that Zhao Yuanting had kidnapped her stepson at the beginning, but it was just to take revenge on her and Huerhe, she never expected Zhao Yuanting to say to her stepson and give him the country.

Why?

The emperor's country has never been passed on to his son only, not to mention that he hates Huerhe so much, why would he give the country to his stepson in vain?

"Why did your father give you the world?" Xia Muyao asked again softly.

"Because I'm his favorite prince, my father said I had his blood in my veins." Ji'er repeated with a confused look what Zhao Yuanting had often said in his ear that day.

And when she heard these words in Xia Muyao's ears, she only felt dizzy.