After the father and son were silent for a long time, Ji Yuan suddenly asked: "By the way, is there any news about Xue'er recently?"

"I was about to tell my father about this! The business in Qingcheng sent back a message saying that 'the little sister appeared in Qingcheng more than a month ago'. According to the direction of the little sister's travel, it can be determined that she should be preparing to return this time.

Home... Counting the days, if she doesn't delay along the way, she should be home in the next few days." Ji Yan said, and after hearing the news about Ji Ruoxue, he also breathed a sigh of relief.

It turned out that in order to avoid worrying his parents and fearing that Ji Ruoxue would be punished after returning home, he deliberately concealed the truth after returning home. He changed Ji Ruoxue's running away from home to "she is..."

Because I was playful, I asked for my permission to stay outside and delay my return home.

Hearing that his precious daughter was about to come home, Ji Yuan also had a hint of joy on his face, but in the blink of an eye, the joy disappeared.

Ji Yuan deliberately said with a straight face: "This crazy girl actually knows how to come back? She has been away for almost a year, and she doesn't even know how to send a letter home..."

Ji Yan stood aside with a smile on her face. He was not worried at all about his father's feigned anger. Not to mention that he had just caught the happy look on the corner of his father's lips. Even if his father would really

Zai Nu, when his sister Ji Ruoxue really comes home, all he needs to do is act like a baby, and his father's anger will be gone.

"It's the same for you, my elder brother. She said she didn't want to go home and wanted to go out for some fun... so you just followed her? Although there were people from the Sword Making House to protect you along the way, you don't have to be afraid of ten thousand to be afraid of anything. You have to know her.

He is just a child who has not grown up..." Ji Yuan turned around and began to blame Ji Yan.

"My child is guilty." Ji Yan quickly lowered her head and began to admit her mistake.

"That's all..." Ji Yuan waved his hand and said helplessly: "It's not your fault. If you want to blame that crazy girl for being too playful, it's your father and your mother who indulge her too much...

…”

…

Ji Yan looked at her father, thought about it carefully, and then said tentatively: "Does my little sister have to marry the Crown Prince of Beiyu?"

"Huh?" Ji Yuan turned his head and looked at him suspiciously, waiting for his next words.

Ji Yan looked at his father and said cautiously: "What the kid means is that if the younger sister doesn't like Crown Prince Beiyu, then...do we still have to force her to jump into the fire pit?"

"What exactly do you want to say?" Ji Yuan looked at Ji Yan and asked in confusion.

Ji Yan thought for a while and finally decided to tell the truth, so he adjusted his tone and said softly: "My child once hid something from his father, and I asked his father to forgive me... Actually, my little sister ran away from home this time.

As for the reason? According to Haier's guess, it should be because she doesn't want to marry Prince Beiyu."

"What?"

Ji Yuan couldn't help but said angrily: "This unworthy woman, it seems that I have pampered her so much that she dares to disobey me on this matter."

"Father, please calm down." Ji Yan quickly comforted her.

"Calm down?"

Ji Yuan said displeasedly: "Since ancient times, major marriage matters have been 'the orders of parents and the words of matchmakers'. When can we talk about her being picky?"

"Father."

Ji Yan quickly said: "Father, please don't get angry. This is just the child's unilateral guess, and it may not necessarily be the younger sister's true thoughts..."

"Is it?"

Ji Yuan looked at Ji Yan and said slowly: "I hope so."

…

After the father and son were silent for a while, Ji Yan asked cautiously: "Is the marriage with the Beiyu Hou Mansion really so important?"

"What do you think?" Ji Yuan asked.

Ji Yan said to herself: "The marriage between our Ji family and the Mu family is nothing more than an exchange of interests and a strong alliance..."

It has to be said that Ji Yan's words actually described the benefits of the marriage between Ji Mu and his family in great detail.

Ji Yuan looked at his son in confusion and asked: "Since you know the importance of it, why would you ask such a question?"

Ji Yan sighed and said leisurely: "But father, please don't forget that the Mu family is not a kind person. If you don't believe it, the Mu family will remain unmoved in the face of this overwhelming imperial power? Even in the early stage,

Through the marriage of our two families, we can fight side by side and achieve a win-win situation... But what if it reaches the later stage? What if we are the only two families left in the world? There will definitely be a big war between our two families to decide this issue one by one.

The final throne. Once the moment comes when they turn against each other, and my little sister is caught in the middle, how should she deal with herself?"

When Ji Yan said this, she had been observing Ji Yuan's expression. At this time, she saw that his face was a little loose, and continued: "Actually, we don't have to choose to marry with the Mu family, we can also choose other princes' families.

An exchange of interests can be achieved in the early stage! In fact, if it were another company, our advantage would be even greater..."

Ji Yuan listened to Ji Yan's words with great interest, and suddenly said: "I know that you have been collecting information about your peers. Judging from the information you have compiled so far, among the younger generation, who can be your

adversary?"

After Ji Yan thought carefully for a while, she spoke rather boldly: "If the world were to be used as a chess game...except for Mu Qiuhuang, the eldest son of the Mu family, the remaining children are too mediocre to play chess with a child."

"Haha..." Ji Yuan smiled and said, "Are you really crazy enough?"

"baby……"

Ji Yuan waved his hand to stop Ji Yan's words, and said to himself: "You are really a good son to your father."

"baby……"

"My father doesn't mean to blame you." Ji Yuan looked at Ji Yan with relief and said, "My father means that what you said is right..."

"..." Ji Yan couldn't help but be confused.

Ji Yuan thought to himself and said: "Among my father's generation, the only ones who have great talent in the court are Xiahou and Situ. It's a pity that they have no army and no territory... Therefore, they can only sell their knowledge."

Family. Of the remaining nine major princes, the strongest ones in terms of overall strength are our East, West, South and North families. But now the Murong family has been eliminated. Of course, from this point of view, Dongchehou Murong Yan is the

The stupidest one among the nine princes. Next, the strongest ones are only our Xiliji family, Nanzhao Wu family, and Beiyu Mu family... But in the same way, the opponent in my father's mind has always been ours.

There is only Madman Mu."

"ah?"

Ji Yan couldn't help but look at Ji Yuan in surprise.

, in his impression, his father has always been gentle, elegant and approachable, and he has never said such frivolous words.

Ji Yuan looked closely at his expression, smiled and said, "Do you know what our peers call the three of us?"

Without waiting for Ji Yan's answer, Ji Yuan said to himself: "They call Wu Kuang an old thief, Mu Qing'en a madman, and his father a gentleman."

"Is it interesting?" Ji Yuan asked, and then continued: "Just looking at the titles of the three of us, the most difficult one among them should be Wu Kuangcai. Of course, he can single-handedly solve the most unlikely situation.

This is also his ability. But my father never regarded him as his real opponent from the bottom of his heart, because... he did not have enough magnanimity... to truly make a difference in the world, it is not enough to rely solely on cunning and cunning.

You also need to have great courage and the spirit to accept all rivers. Madman Mu seems to be unwise to refuse the emperor's favor twice, and he looks like a reckless man, but in fact? The reason why he dares to refuse the emperor's favor twice is because he has

He has enough chips to make a bet, and his is not the courage of an ordinary man at all, but the spirit of an overlord... Because of this, my father fully agrees with your evaluation of people of the same generation. From the beginning to the end, the only opponents of my Sirieji family are

The Mu family in Beiyu is just one family, and the rest are not worth mentioning."

"Um."

Ji Yan nodded. He knew that what Ji Yuan said about Wu Kuang was referring to his initial seizure of the throne, and he fully agreed with his father's evaluation of the two.

Ji Yan looked at Ji Yuan with a confused look, and said puzzledly: "As my father and the child just said, since our two families are inevitably going to meet each other with swords in the end, then I don't want my little sister to sacrifice the heir of the Mu family.

, looking for another family? At least let the younger sister choose someone she really likes, right? Another point is that only when facing the Mu family, we are not sure of victory, and any other family must also have self-awareness.

In the future, they will all choose to submit to our Ji family. In this way, wouldn’t it be the best of both worlds for my little sister?… After all, you only have this biological daughter, and I only have this biological sister.”

Ji Yuan shook his head gently, looked at Ji Yan and sighed, and then said calmly: "You can say this, I am very happy as a father. Because you are thinking about your sister from the perspective of a brother.

You are a qualified brother. However, the position of being a father is different from that of you! In addition to being your father, being a father is also the "father" of Qinlu Land. Therefore, being a father cannot only stand in the position of one father.

From the perspective of thinking about his daughter. As a father, he can only stand in his current position and think about the future of Qinlu as a whole."

"Children don't understand."

"You will understand when you sit in my position." Ji Yuan said slowly.

"Father, please clarify..." Ji Yan asked stubbornly.

…

A long, long time later, when Ji Yan quietly faced his own heart, he asked how he changed from an elder brother who knew how to care about his little sister's happiness to a person who only knew how to weigh the pros and cons and did not understand the relationship between flesh and blood? ...

...In the end, he had no choice but to sigh: "If you are not in your position, you will not seek to govern."

…

"You..." Ji Ruo couldn't help but became furious.

After trying hard to adjust several times, Ji Yuan finally let out a long sigh, put down his raised palm, looked at Ji Yan, and said: "Listen carefully, this is also the last lesson my father will give you.
Chapter completed!