But the people around seemed to have not seen it, and seemed to be turning a blind eye. Only when Pei Yuanhao walked out of the cabin and everyone knelt down, the two of them separated and bowed down.

Pei Yuanxiu also saw the movement on the ship, and then he turned around and looked at me.

I held the fence, looked up at the shore, and murmured, "You said before that the news has been sent back. Do Li'er and the others know?"

"Of course I'll know."

"She, will she come to the dock?"

"Of course." He said, walking to me, reaching out and gently stroked my shoulder: "Li'er misses you very much."

...

I miss her very much, too.

It was early winter when we went out to sea, but now it was late spring when we returned to Jinling. The hot wind blew across our faces, and the fishy smell of the river water also penetrated into our noses at any time. The familiar touch and smell immediately made my soul floating on the boundless ocean return to reality.

We are back.

Li'er, I'm going to see Li'er!

Thinking of this, my not-so-high emotions began to feel happy.

Slowly, our ship began to turn and sailed towards the dock where there was already a crowd of people. From a distance, we saw countless guards and attendants on the dock lined up and waiting for us in an orderly manner.

Similarly, on the other side of the river, there seemed to be noisy sounds coming.

The emperor's ship and Zhoushan Navy arrived in Yangzhou was naturally the first major event in Jiangnan in recent years. It is not surprising that there are crowds of people there.

However, no matter how big the matter is, it cannot match this moment!

My breathing, which was not smooth, became even tense at this moment. As the boat slowly approached the dock like a mountain, it also blocked the sunlight. The huge black shadow threw inch by inch on the dock. In the crowd, I saw a slender and thin figure standing there, looking up at us motionlessly.

Although the haze had covered her weak body and also covered her face and eyes, I could even see the light flashing in her eyes. At this moment, it kept surging and almost falling!

Li Er!

I could hardly suppress my excitement and walked to the side of the boat, looking anxiously at the small figure. She seemed to feel something. Her two little hands were stretched over her head to block the sunlight, and she also walked anxiously here.

But immediately, the person behind her grabbed her arm.

Although my whole spirit was on Li'er, I immediately recognized the thin and weak figure.

Han Ruoshi held Li'er's shoulder with one hand and raised the other hand above her head, blocking the dazzling sunshine. I vaguely saw a faint smile on the corner of the slender lips.

At this moment, my hands also became cold.

Pei Yuanxiu turned his head and looked at me.

Next, no one spoke. After a violent shock, the boat finally steadily landed. When the sampans on both sides were mounted, I couldn't wait to walk over. Pei Yuanxiu couldn't stop him, so he could only hold my hand and prevent me from running too fast. But I still stumbled over. The moment I stepped onto the solid 6th floor, I staggered and almost fell.

Just as I could barely stand firm, I heard Li'er crying shouts coming from the front--

"mother!"

As soon as I looked up, a soft, small body had already plunged into my arms.

I almost fell down by Li'er's hit, but immediately reached out to hug her, feeling that the small, warm body filled my entire embrace, and felt her constantly twitching shoulders and her little face buried in my chest. After a while, the wet feeling soaked my clothes.

She cried and shouted, "Mom, mom..."

“…”

I couldn't speak, so I slowly tucked her back with both hands and hugged her hard into my arms.

At this moment, I no longer cared about how many people were landing on the big ship behind me, nor how many people were watching us on the pier, nor how many people were watching us, nor about Han Ruoshi, who was standing not far away with a slightly frosty smile on her face. Especially when I saw Han Zitong and I both walked down, she seemed to have no strength to walk over... And all this was nothing to me. As long as I felt the breath of this child in my arms and knew that she was still fine, then everything around me, and any suffering that had happened was nothing.

I don’t know how long it took, Pei Yuanxiu stood by our side silently, and at this time he finally spoke: “Qingying, we——”

Before he could finish his words, he saw me raise my hand and hit Li'er hard.

The bang was not light, but it shocked the people around.

Li'er was trembling with me, but he still held me with both hands and refused to let go.

I gritted my teeth and raised my hand to hit her again.

After several consecutive blows, I didn't know whether she was in pain or not, but I was so painful that my heartbeat began to twitch. When the Han sisters next to me finally couldn't stand it and walked up to pull the child out of my arms, Li'er was already crying and her eyes were red.

Han Zitong shouted at me in anger: "What a big deal to kill Li Er like this?"

Pei Yuanxiu also held my hand: "Qingying, don't be angry first, if you have anything to say when we go back."

Li'er was already a little breathless and her face was flushed. She kept crying. She held the corner of my clothes in her hand, feeling aggrieved and pitiful. Han Zitong obviously had never seen her cry like this before. She felt uncomfortable first and turned around and stared at me: "You have the strength to beat your daughter now. What did you do in the past? If you, the one who is a mother, were not responsible, would Li'er be lost?"

At this time, Han Ruoshi walked up, pulled her arm, and said softly: "Zitong, don't say that."

“…”

"It's because I'm not good, it's because I took Li'er out, but I didn't pay attention to her."

“…”

"It's all my fault."

"What's wrong with you?" Han Zitong was so angry that she even became sarcastic, and she said fiercely: "You are still a girl, and you haven't had a child. Humph, when Li'er followed us before, nothing happened, but when her mother came, something happened to her.

"Don't scold my mother!"

Just as I gritted my teeth, I didn't say anything, just staring at their sisters coldly - to be precise, she stared at Han Ruoshi. When she looked up and met my gaze, her pale face disappeared without even a trace of blood. It seemed that she had seen something terrifying. She hurriedly lowered her head to avoid me. At this time, Li'er broke free and threw herself into my arms again, crying: "It's Li'er that is not good, Li'er is making mother worried!"

I was panting. If Li'er hadn't hugged me like this, I would have even suspected that I would be unable to stand firm. After a while, I reached out and gently stroked her arm.

Tears wet my clothes again, and a chill on my chest made me shudder.

And at this moment, everyone around them burst into panic.

I looked up, and I couldn't even come back to my senses. I saw all the people staring behind us with wide eyes, as if they had seen something incredible, and even some of the guards and servants who were closest to the outside of the dock were shouting and retreating.

The river water, the wind, and the gusts of bitterness.

I felt a huge shadow covering our heads, slowly covering us and covering the entire dock.

“…”

After a moment of stuttering, I slowly turned around.

I saw that the huge dragon boat, which had been parallel with us, was turning its bow on the river and heading towards the pier on our side, as if a huge mountain was standing in front of us, directly approaching the sky.

As soon as I looked up, I saw the Nine Five Supreme above ten thousand people on the bow of the boat, looking down at us with both hands.
Chapter completed!