Unparalleled Concubine

Up to now, the world is only short of a good news from Jizhou City to change the surname.

In the twelfth lunar month of the first year of Yankang, auspicious snow fell from the sky.

It snowed heavily for three days and three nights, soaking the entire capital in white.

At dawn, at the gate of Jing'an Hou's Mansion, several concierge servants were clearing the snow at the gate. An old man with gray hair, about fifty years old, was holding an eight or nine-year-old child in his hand, looking at him with some trepidation. He glanced at the gate of Jing'an Hou Mansion.

After confirming that it was the Jing'an Hou Mansion, the old man's eyes lit up and he walked up.

He had just approached to the distance of about ten steps from Jing'anhou's Mansion, when a bright blade lay in front of the old man. The guard of Jing'anhou's Mansion, dressed in black, breathed white air, and his voice was cold: "No one is allowed to enter the important place of the Hou Mansion!"

This old man, who has been in a small place all his life, has never seen such a battle. He jumped up in fright and waved his hands again and again: "I am your uncle Li Houye, I am your uncle Li Houye..."

He spoke in an indistinct Yongzhou dialect, whether it was because of the cold or fear, his voice was a little trembling: "I want to see him..."

The general of the Jing'an Hou Mansion frowned slightly when he heard the words. He first glanced at the old man, then at the child behind the old man, and asked, "You...what's your name?"

"My... my name is Xiao... Zhiping."

The general heard the words, nodded, and said: "You wait here, and I will report to the superior."

After finishing speaking, he turned around and walked in, reported layer by layer, and finally reached the ears of Li Xin who was studying in the warm pavilion. When Li Xin heard the name Xiao Zhiping, he felt familiar at first, and then realized that it was indeed his relative in Qiyang County. He frowned slightly, and said, "Why is he here..."

Li Xin had to deal with a lot of things every day, and he didn't want to see him at first, but when he saw the heavy snow outside, he remembered the past when his uncle brought him to Beijing for no reason, so he sighed: "Let them come in. "

"Yes."

The current Li Xin is completely different from the past, so the "security" of the Jing'an Hou Mansion is also very different from the past. The two of Xiao Zhiping went through layers of searches to make sure that they did not have any iron or sharp weapons on them before they were brought to the police station. In the Nuan Pavilion of Jing'an Hou Mansion.

As soon as you walk into the warm pavilion, a gust of warm air blows over your face.

The old and the young came to the capital from Yongzhou and suffered a lot. It has been snowing heavily in the capital for the past few days. Although they are not very poor, they are also very cold.

At this time, Li Xin was sitting behind his desk flipping through some documents without raising his head.

Xiao Zhiping timidly took two steps forward, first glanced at Li Xin, then gritted his teeth, knelt down in front of Li Xin, and kowtowed: "Craftsman Xiao Zhiping, I have seen Lord Li..."

Only then did Li Xin put down the Chinese book in his hand, and looked up at Xiao Zhiping.

"Why, isn't it my uncle now?"

When he was entrusted as a marquis in his youth and returned to his hometown in fine clothes, he would feel happy when he bullied these relatives who treated their mother and child badly in the past. With Xiao Zhiping in front of him, there was no wave in Li's confidence.

Xiao Zhiping knelt on the ground, pulled the boy next to him, and said in a low voice: "Kneel down quickly, and kowtow to your cousin."

This boy was only eight or nine years old, he also knelt down after hearing the words, and kowtowed to Li Xin: "I kowtowed to my cousin."

Xiao Zhiping still knelt on the ground and did not get up. He looked up at Li Xin with an apologetic smile on his face: "Master Hou, Xiaomin is in Yongzhou, I heard that Master Hou is in the capital... that, the family is worried that there will be no shortage of people around Master Hou." Some reassuring staff, so Xiaomin brought his grandson and some family members to the capital to visit Lord Hou..."

He said with a bitter face: "I don't know that the thieves have snatched all the money that I carried with me. Xiaomin and his grandson rushed to the capital after untold hardships, and finally got to see Lord Hou Tianyan..."

The fact that Li Xin took power in the capital has basically spread all over the country, and news has naturally spread from Yongzhou. As a "relative of the emperor", the Xiao family is naturally moved.

At this time, Li Xin's eldest uncle, Xiao Xiuqi, had died of illness, so Xiao Zhiping took his grandson, hired a car, and came to the capital to "seek relatives."

Hearing the word "Tianyan" in Xiao Zhiping's mouth, Li Xin frowned slightly, and then slowly said: "We are fellow Qiyang fellows, you encountered difficulties in the capital, and you found me here, so naturally I can't help you, you How much is the difference, tell me the amount, and I will ask the accountant to pay you later..."

Xiao Zhiping looked at Li Xin with a face full of astonishment. After a long time, he knelt on the ground again, gritted his teeth and said, "Master Hou, our grandparents... want to stay at Master Hou's mansion for a while."

"My grandson is eight years old this year. He is naturally intelligent. Xiaomin wants him to study in the capital to prepare for future scientific examinations..."

He knelt down on the ground, showing a gesture of humility.

"Besides... Marquis, there must always be someone who can be trusted by your side. Those people with foreign surnames only want to murder Marquis' family business..."

Chapter 1156 Contradictions between Li Xin and his wife

After the change of dynasty, the superiors will seal the whole clan, not only their own immediate relatives, as long as they can be named, they will follow them to heaven.

The reason for doing this is that one is finally getting ahead, so it is natural to make a good publicity and pretend to be a bully in front of relatives and friends. The more important reason is that once the dynasty changes, there must be a group that wholeheartedly supports the new dynasty.

This new group is naturally the new royal family.

Back then, that woman hated her natal brother so much that she had to reuse her family's children and reward her nephew with the surname Wu. That's the reason.

As Xiao Zhiping said, although the Southwest Group is all subordinates of Li Xin, they do not have the same surname as Li Xin after all, and most of them have no blood relationship with Li Xin. The core interest groups that live and die together.

It has to be said that this small family nestled in Qiyang County is very cautious in everything they do, but they are very accurate in this matter.

If it wasn't for Li Xin's preparation for this matter, then he might really want to reuse these people from his mother clan as a force to consolidate the court in the future.

Li Dadu sat on the main seat, looking at Xiao Zhiping with a half-smile.

"When I returned to Yongzhou more than ten years ago, I made it clear to you. From that day on, my mother and I have nothing to do with the Xiao family. For the sake of your family's birth and support of my mother, I have not moved." Every penny of your family has even tacitly allowed you to use my reputation to dominate Qiyang all these years."

Speaking of this, Li Xin paused, and said slowly: "I wanted to scold you a few times, but it's really not worth getting angry with you. Wherever you come from, I don't need your own family by my side. Besides... I don't have the same surname as you either."

Xiao Zhiping swallowed nervously, kowtowed to Li Xin and said, "Master Hou, I don't dare to hope to be an official in the imperial court, but this child is really interested in learning, so I ask Master Hou to look at it... old madam In order to save face, take this child in..."

"The child's father is... the old lady's favorite nephew."

Li Xin's mother, Xiao Qinglan, is Xiao Zhiping's biological sister, but Xiao Zhiping can only call his sister "Old Madam" in order not to anger Li Xin.

Li Xin put down the paperwork in his hand, got up and glanced at the child named "Xiao", with a blank expression on his face.

After a long time, he looked at Xiao Zhiping with a hoarse voice.

"You people want to climb up with all your heart, but you don't know that standing at a high place is not only beneficial, but the higher you stand, the more dangerous it is."

"It is true that I will give you a gentle hand now. Not only this child, everyone in the Xiao family can come to the capital, but it is easy to come to the capital, but it is not easy to survive in the capital."

"Even if you are in Qiyang or even in Yongzhou, even if you encounter disasters one day, at most you will go bankrupt. If you stumble in the capital, it may be the fate of... the Yi tribe."

With Li Xin's current ability, not to mention reaching out to help someone, as long as he speaks lightly, he can make a person or even a family rise to the top. However, as Li Xin said, being high is not necessarily a blessing. This position, being "suffocated and encouraged", may bring disaster to one's own family.

Xiao Zhiping's wish is very simple, their Xiao family wants to keep a child in the capital, and it is best for this child to grow up in Li Xin's Jing'anhou Mansion, so that no matter what, the child can make a living in the capital in the future. To be an official and a half-job, so that the Xiao family can rely on this child to gradually escape from Qiyang County to find a place in the capital and become a "big family".

Xiao Zhiping and his grandson knelt on the ground, kowtowing and being speechless.

Li Xin looked at the grandparent and grandson silently, and then slowly asked, "Let me ask you something."

"When my mother died of illness in Qishan, you Xiao family members, have you ever felt a little bit of pain?"

Xiao Zhiping knelt on the ground, crying bitterly.

"It's already there."

He wept and said: "My sister was the one I watched growing up, and she was also my father's favorite child in her early years. If it weren't for this, my father wouldn't be so angry when she made a mistake..."