After traveling through time, I became the aunt of the loyal dog emperor

"You said, Princess Le Yan is the emperor's aunt, his sister, and now the mother of his child. How do you think they should address each other in private?"

The vendors who had no business deliberately lowered their voices and talked about the royal family's secrets with others for entertainment. In the process of creating and destroying gods, everyone was happy to lift Wan Ning to the highest position and let her stand up from the identity of a substitute princess. Now, in the process of destroying gods, they quickly fell off the cliff.

Listening to the harsh words and teasing around him, Wan Ning lowered his hat brim to peek at the person who was talking. Perhaps he was also one of the people who raised the banner for Princess Le Yan not long ago. The people around the vendor heard his guess and laughed, and reminded him: "Keep your voice down, don't let anyone hear it, or your head will be hung at the city gate as a wind chime."

"Tsk, they can't even handle their own affairs, yet they're calling for killing the common people. Go away, go away, everyone. Don't wait until I chop off my head and get blood all over you." As he said this, he stood up and began to pack up his stall. The people who were sitting in a circle just now also felt bored and dispersed.

"Sir, what would you like to buy?" Perhaps Wan Ning had been standing there watching for too long, which attracted the attention of a vendor who was packing up his stall.

Wan Ning looked at him and noticed that he was dressed neatly, his nails were neatly trimmed, and there was no stain in the gaps between his nails. The shoes on his feet were also spotless. All these abnormal things aroused Wan Ning's suspicion.

It was impossible for such a large-scale outbreak of rumors about him and the emperor in such a short period of time without someone behind the scenes fanning the flames. But looking at the burly figure of the vendor, he didn't look like a servant of the Liu Mansion, not to mention that Master Liu himself was a little mentally ill.

Wan Ning lowered the brim of her hat again and shook her head: "Not buying, just looking."

"Take a look? If you don't want to buy anything, go look somewhere else. Don't delay my business here." The vendor urged them and turned around to collect their things.

Looking up at the sunlight, Wan Ning had important things to do today, but she didn't want to miss this golden opportunity. After hesitating for a while, she took a step forward, but after taking just three steps, she turned back without giving up. Wan Ning walked towards the back of the vendor, pointed at a hairpin and asked, "Boss, how much is this?"

"Which one?"

"That one." Wan Ning stretched her hand far away and pointed at the innermost hairpin. She stood on one foot and stretched her body forward. Suddenly, she stumbled and lost her balance and fell on the boss.

The boss was already unhappy, so he pushed Wan Ning away, turned his head and spat on the ground, then turned around and said, "I think you are here to cause trouble?"

"Hey, what do you mean! I come to buy things from your house because I think highly of you. Don't be ungrateful." Wan Ning retorted.

"Come on, come on, I really won't buy from you. Go and give face to whoever you want. My temple is too small to burn the high incense you want." The vendor urged.

Wan Ning smiled triumphantly, stopped pestering, and turned away.

The ruined temple outside the city still looked the same from the outside, but the withered branches and fallen leaves around it were replaced by overgrown weeds that even reached up to the waist. Just as he was lost in thought, a figure suddenly jumped out of the bushes and waved vigorously at Wan Ning.

Wan Ning was stunned at first, then she looked carefully and saw that the person was Douzi, so she waved her hand. At this time, Douzi was excited and ran towards Wan Ning, occasionally popping out his head like a boiled egg, and suddenly there was a "bang" sound, and Douzi disappeared.

"Douzi, Douzi, where are you?" Wan Ning quickly pushed aside the weeds and looked in the direction of Douzi.

"Beautiful sister, I'm here."

When she got closer, she found that Douzi had fallen to the ground and was covered by lush weeds. After confirming that he was fine, Wan Ning thought he was cute and ran to help him up. Only then did Wan Ning notice that Douzi had a long hemp rope tied around his waist, with one end tied in a knot. Wan Ning helped him into the temple and found that the other end was tied to a tree trunk in the temple.

The mother-in-law was walking out with her head down, holding the rope, and happened to see Wan Ning appear. Her face showed a bit of embarrassment and awkwardness that was difficult to hide. She greeted, "Princess, you are here. Please come in. I'm sorry there is no place to sit in this temple."

Looking around, the exterior of the ruined temple was already a beautiful sight compared to the interior. The inside of the ruined temple, which was already leaking everywhere, had completely collapsed. The statue of some god enshrined on the platform had disappeared without a trace, and the carvings on the windows that were still intact had also been taken away, leaving only holes.

"It snowed heavily here at the beginning of this spring. The accumulated snow broke the roof, so it was never repaired. A new temple was built in the east of the city, so they didn't come here anymore. Douzi has feelings for this place, so I brought him here for a look. Princess, do you have something to do today?" the mother-in-law explained.

When my mother-in-law was young, this temple was very popular. She volunteered in the temple. Later, when the monks left, she became a fortune-teller in the temple. Sometimes she helped the villagers solve their problems or worshipped their relatives. She watched a generation of people grow up here, and then watched them be taken away by the war. Later, she raised Douzi here and was respected by the villagers.

Now people no longer need this temple, just as they no longer need her.

Wan Ning nodded, but didn't explain her purpose directly. Instead, she asked Douzi, "What is the rope around Douzi's waist?"

The dry, wrinkled hands waved in the air like dry branches, and a bitter smile was forced out of the corners of the dry mouth. The voice was choked with sobs and said, "It's okay. Douzi is naughty. I'm afraid I can't control him. Tie a rope for safety. Princess, are you here because of what Miss Wantao said the other day?"

"Well, on the night of April 21st, at the mass grave in Xishan, can mother-in-law help me pick up a few people?" Wan Ning asked.

"On the evening of the 21st?", the mother-in-law repeated softly to confirm.

Wan Ning keenly noticed her mother-in-law's abnormality and asked with concern, "Is it inconvenient?"

The mother-in-law smiled and replied, "It's convenient, it's convenient. I just thought that there are not many days left. Princess, do you have a complete plan?"

Seeing her answer like this, Wan Ning felt relieved and replied with a frank smile: "Of course, mother-in-law, this is a deposit. After the matter is completed, the full reward will be given to you."

The mother-in-law weighed the heavy silver, rubbed it back and forth with her dry hands, and turned her head to look at Douzi who was catching insects with a look full of love and worry: "Thank you, princess, thank you, princess. I have nothing else to worry about in my life, only Douzi. He is born without worries, stupid and silly but happy. With this reward, I can take good care of him. Thank you, princess, for giving us this opportunity. I will definitely complete the character."

Wan Ning also followed her mother-in-law's gaze and saw Douzi standing in front of the waist-high grass, staring devoutly at the direction where the caterpillars on the leaves were crawling. For the rest of the time, Wan Ning told her mother-in-law what she was going to do that night, but for safety reasons she didn't explain it in detail.

When she came out of the ruined temple, it was already dusk and the sun was setting, stretching the shadows of people. The red glow burning in the sky made her feel dazed, and she remembered that it was also such a dusk when she left here last time. At that time, Ziheng suddenly appeared beside her and accompanied her to finish this journey.

When she came to her senses, she saw a group of dragonflies flying around her, flapping their wings desperately in the sun. Wan Ning stood still, and suddenly, she didn't know when a butterfly appeared among them, circling around her, opening and closing, and finally landing on her finger, being stared at devoutly.