Fubao has been with them for so long, but this is the first time he calls Qiao Xi "sister-in-law".

This means recognizing the old man.

Qiao Xi smiled and carried the man onto the carriage. "What does Fubao want to say to me?"

"sorry."

The little person held her belly and blessed the two of them, "I want to follow you, but I'm not honest."

Children aged six or seven imitated adults and apologized seriously.

Qiao Xi's heart seemed to be pulled by something, "No need to apologize, everyone has their own secrets that cannot be told, it's a good thing that you know how to be on guard at such a young age."

When the Qiao family encountered trouble, she was the same age as Fubao. She had the meticulous care of her brother, the prince, and it took her a long time to recover.

After something happened in Fubao's family, he was sent to his uncle's house. He was never treated well by his uncle's family, so it was understandable that he would close his heart.

Fubao blinked at her, as if he didn't expect her to say that, and crystal tears fell from his dark pupils.

She was just worried that Qiao Xi and the others would be unhappy with her concealment.

"Don't cry."

The old man was anxious. How come the baby started crying again after I had just coaxed him for a long time?

"If you don't want to talk about it, then don't talk about it."

He didn't know what Fubao wanted to say to Qiao Xi. Seeing Fubao crying, he thought that Fubao was resisting martial arts and didn't want to say anything, so he pretended to pick up Fubao and leave.

Fubao spoke up, "Dad and brother are hunters, but they are better than ordinary hunters.

When I wanted to eat rabbit, my father would casually carve out a pointed wooden stick and stab four rabbits in a row.

My brother said that the reason he only tattooed four was because there were only four people in our family, and that Dad could tattoo up to eight at most.

My mother is not an ordinary village woman. She can't sew or embroider, and the food she cooks is not delicious.

But she could hold me and dance on the bamboo. Once, Daddy made Mom angry, and Mom took my brother and me and ran away from home, and Daddy couldn't catch up.

Fubao squatted down and buried his head in his knees, "Ever since I was old enough to understand, I knew that my parents were not ordinary people.

Daddy is an expert in martial arts, and mommy is an expert in martial arts, so our family of four lives a very happy life in the mountains.

It was not until my brother turned 20 that my parents decided to find him a marriage, and we moved to town.

In the first two years, although it took us some time to adapt to life outside the mountains, it was relatively peaceful and happy.

Last July, my father suddenly brought back a man who was seriously injured. During that time, my parents seemed to be in a bad mood and locked me in the house and didn't let me go out.

That person only stayed in our house for three days before leaving at night. About a month later, one night, I was half asleep when my father suddenly woke me up..."

Fubao seemed to be thinking of something painful and was speechless for a long time. Qiao Xi picked her up, placed her on her lap, patted her shoulder and said, "Don't be afraid. Tell your sister-in-law what happened. We will take care of it for you."

"Dad told me that the water at home was drugged, and his, my mother's, and my brother's martial arts were suppressed.

Let me hide in the empty coffin in the town’s ancestral hall, and no matter what happens, I am not allowed to come out.

If...if they die, I will go to my uncle's house, and when I am older, I will go find General Qiao Zhenbei's daughter and stay with the Qiao family girl."

"Did your father tell you why he asked you to look for your sister-in-law?"

Su Heting asked in a gentle voice.

Fubao nodded.

“Daddy said that if the daughter of the Qiao family respects the emperor, then all we need to do is stay by her side.

If the daughter of the Qiao family ever becomes an enemy of the emperor, please let me tell her to go to Shoushan."

"Shoushan?"

Isn’t that the old man’s name?

Qiao Xi and Su Heting exchanged a glance, and Qiao Xi said to Fu Bao, "My grandfather's name is Shoushan. Is the Shoushan your father is talking about my grandfather?"

The old man is the grandfather of the King of Jiangbei, and the subordinates don’t know how to call him by his name, so Fubao didn’t know that the old man’s name was Shoushan after following them for these days.

She shook her head and choked up, "I don't know, because at that time there was already a sound of fighting outside. It was Mom and Brother dealing with the bad guys. Dad wanted to go help them, so he sent me out from the backyard and just told me to live and not practice martial arts."

"So, you don't know who the enemy is who harmed your family."

Qiao Xi asked.

Fubao's tears fell even harder. He was trying hard not to cry out loud, but he cried so hard that his whole body was shaking.

This made the adults in the carriage feel very distressed.

Fubao choked up and said, "When I sneaked back home, the house was already on fire.

The fire was too big to be put out, so the authorities concluded it was an accidental fire at night...

I suspect that the deaths of my parents were related to that man, but I didn't see his appearance when he was recuperating in our house.

I had only heard his voice, which was hoarse like someone with a severe cold, with more breath than sound. He was tall and should be older than my father. When he was carried home by my father, I saw a few white spots in his hair.

A month after I was taken to my uncle's house, someone also watched me. He was on the tree when I was cutting grass for the pigs, he was on the roof when I was making a fire to cook, and he touched my wrist when I was asleep.

Perhaps he didn't find anything, and he disappeared after more than ten days.

I was afraid that he would know that I had discovered him, so I didn't dare look at him. So, I didn't know if the person staring at me was the one who had been recuperating in my house.

In addition, during the days when I followed my parents in the mountains, another person appeared. My mother asked me to call her Aunt Yan. She had a very good relationship with my mother.

I once saw her drinking with my mother on the rooftop. She said, "Jinniang, this is the last time I will come to see you. From now on, I will be the owner of a restaurant in the capital.

By then, I'll have a son or a daughter, and maybe I'll be as happy as you."

Fubao told the three of them all the clues related to his parents, "Sister-in-law, this is all I know."

She didn't provide many useful clues, and it was obvious that her parents wanted to protect her and not let her know too much.

But after going through all that, a child could still calmly deal with surveillance and even get away with it. Qiao Xi thought Fubao was amazing.

She hugged her and said, "We will check and we will find out eventually. This time we are going to Jiangning to meet your eldest brother's grandfather. Maybe he will know the identity of your grandfather.

If we know your grandfather's identity, we can know your parents' identities, and then we can follow this clue to find the person who actually killed them."

Fu Bao asked, "Is it the emperor?"

Otherwise, why would Daddy tell her to go look for Shoushan only if Qiao Xi became the emperor's enemy?

Su Heting shook his head, "It's impossible to determine for now."

If Asong and his men were ghost soldiers, the person who harmed them could not be the emperor, because the emperor has been trying to find the ghost soldiers in recent years, and he has not had enough time to win them over.

But if they have some other identity, it is hard to say.

"What's going on with your uncle?"

Su Heting asked.

Jinniang is not an ordinary person, but Fubao's uncle's family is an ordinary farmer. And from what Fubao said, their family had previously lived in seclusion in the mountains and had never had any contact with this uncle.

"He's not my biological uncle. Mom said we needed an identity when we moved to town, so this is how I assumed his sister's identity."

There was a hint of contempt in Fubao's eyes, "When he was young, in order to get married, he sold his ten-year-old sister.

When my mother took us to recognize our relatives, decades had passed, and he couldn't recognize that my mother was not his sister.

Just by looking at the gifts their family brought, he happily recognized his mother.

Su Heting's eyes narrowed slightly.

A person who can sell his own sister can naturally sell Fubao as well. Asong Jinniang would not have failed to think of this.

But they still chose to entrust Fubao to such a fake uncle's house, which shows that no one they can trust.

Regardless of whether their organization is a ghost army or not, there are spies in their organization.

Therefore, Asong did not let Fubao go to find Aunt Yan, who worked as a cook in the capital, but asked her to find Qiao Xi.

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