Chapter 976 - 859: You Actually Woke Up

Ji Youyuan looked at her and chuckled, saying, "Are you the one missing them?"

The little girl giggled. Earlier, she had told her uncle that she missed her grandmother and aunt.

"So, do you miss them, uncle?"

Ji Youyuan blinked and deliberately looked up at the sky, pretending not to hear what she said.

"Don’t pretend, uncle, you obviously miss them a lot, don’t you? I already know."

Ji Youyuan couldn’t keep up the pretense anymore. He helplessly patted the little girl’s head and, coaxing her while persuading himself, said, "As soon as the issues here are resolved, we’ll start our journey back!"

"Alright! We can go back tomorrow!"

Ji Youyuan blinked, somewhat perplexed, and asked, "How do you know we can go back tomorrow?"

Xiaosuisui blinked back and said, "Once we’ve solved the issues at Xianyu Pass, can’t we go back?"

Ji Youyuan laughed.

"You think the issues at Xianyu Pass have been resolved?"

"Yeah! Once we don’t go to war with Xiling Country, isn’t it solved?"

Ji Youyuan was baffled. What’s going on in this little girl’s mind?

How could she be sure that the issue at Xianyu Pass could be resolved without warfare?

"Who told you there wouldn’t be a war at Xianyu Pass?"

Xiaosuisui tilted her head and said, "Isn’t the issue at Xianyu Pass Xun Heng’s plot?"

Ji Youyuan nodded, "That’s right!"

"Then if we kill Xun Heng and tell the Emperor of Xiling about it, won’t it be solved?"

Xiaosuisui tilted her head, pondering.

Ji Youyuan: "..."

Such a simple solution!

He reached out to pat the little girl’s head, "You’re still young; there are many things you don’t understand. It’s not that simple!"

Xiaosuisui tilted her head, pondering again, and asked, "If I don’t understand, can’t uncle explain it?"

Ji Youyuan’s hand froze as the little girl made a very reasonable point!

"Uncle’s not unwilling to explain, just afraid that you won’t understand if I do!"

Xiaosuisui continued to tilt her head and asked, "How do you know I won’t understand if you haven’t said anything?"

Ji Youyuan: "..."

Alright! Treating this brilliant child in the family as just a child is truly his mistake, no!

It’s a sin!

"Now that we know the true intentions of Prince Yu, it indicates that he really presented true intelligence to the Great Han to pursue immortality. Now that these are genuine intelligence reports, tell me, what would our Great Han do?"

Xiaosuisui blinked and quickly asked, "What would they do?"

Ji Youyuan patiently explained to her the current world situation. The Great Han’s territory is the best and most fertile land in the world today.

All the great and small countries want to claim it for themselves, even Nanjiang wants a share of the pie, as he narrated such events.

The little girl listened with her mouth wide open, eyes unblinking.

"Now you understand, right?

General Huo would undoubtedly seize this opportunity to directly attack the heartland of Xiling, determined to occupy Xiling, either making it a vassal of the Great Han or erasing Xiling from history!"

After Ji Youyuan finished, he couldn’t help but ask her, "Do you still think the issue at Xianyu Pass is resolved now?"

Xiaosuisui slowly closed her mouth, mimicking an adult’s sigh, and said, "Now it’s not just the issue of Xianyu Pass; I think it’s an issue for the entire world!"

Hearing her say this, Ji Youyuan looked at her in confusion and asked, "Why do you say that?"

"Just because our Great Han has fertile soil, we’re targeted by so many small countries. If our Great Han retaliates and beats all those small countries down, making them all part of the Great Han’s territory, won’t there be no more wars?"

Ji Youyuan: "..." That seems very reasonable!

"Don’t you think my reasoning is sound?"

The little girl saw her uncle at a loss for words and quickly tilted her head to ask.

Ji Youyuan nodded and quickly gave her a thumbs-up, "What you say makes sense, but such a thing has never been accomplished throughout history."

Upon hearing this, Xiaosuisui tilted her head and asked, "Why?"

Ji Youyuan laughed as he explained to her.

"In any war, it’s the common people who suffer. If a king wages wars recklessly, it will wear out the people and exhaust the treasury. When the people suffer and endure hardships, they will curse that emperor as a tyrant. At that time, history would definitely mark that king down unfavorably. No king desires such a reputation!"

Upon hearing this, Xiaosuisui thought for a moment and said, "But I think His Majesty, my godfather, is very willing to do it this way!"