King Qi lowered his head and said to his beloved youngest son, "Hu'er, your mother is dead. From now on, she is your mother, and you should respect her. Do you understand?"

Zhou Wu Jiahe didn't quite understand, and his mind was still blank. He wanted to say, isn't his mother dead?

Why call Aunt Zhen mother?

But facing the expectant looks on the faces of his father and Aunt Zhen, who usually loved him the most, although he still didn't understand, he still called out in a low voice, "Mother."

"Hey, Hu'er is good."

Jiang Zhen'er looked very happy, with tears in her eyes, and couldn't help but hug Zhou Wu Jiahe in her arms and hug her intimately.

The old King Qi smiled on the side, both moved and satisfied.

Jiang Zhen'er was indeed the most suitable candidate he thought of to be the queen. There was no collusion between forces, which prevented the queen's position from falling into the hands of ambitious people.

Having Zhou Wu Jiahe as his son, and since he will not have any children of his own in the future, having her watching over Zhou Wu Jiahe all the time will give him a lot of peace of mind, the old King Qi thought.

What's more, who knows if Hu'er's biological mother, Queen Liu, was killed by someone in the harem?

For example, the mother of his third and fourth sons is the most suspect.

Because the coming year will be King Qi's sixtieth birthday, and for fear of being bumped into, Queen Liu's funeral will not be grand. There will be no civil and military officials to attend the funeral. It will only be a hasty ceremony in Zhanghua Palace, the queen's former residence.

He was carried out of the palace and buried.

Jiang Zhen'er couldn't bear to overshadow her, so she took the initiative to request that the ceremony be simple and not grand. This made the King of Qi and the officials in the court have a better impression of her.

The news of Jiang Zhen'er's conferment reached Xun County, and Xiao Jiu couldn't help stroking her hands and smiling.

"Master, what are you laughing at?"

Wu Ke and others observed from the sidelines.

At the moment, they are following Xiao Jiu in planting rice seedlings in the fields. Since they used Xiao Jiu's rice transplanting method in the field a few years ago, the grain output in the fields has only increased in recent years. With more fertilization and insect control, there can be two crops a year.

receive.

"It's a good thing, we can have a new queen again."

Xiao Jiu said casually, but still couldn't help laughing, but the other people didn't understand what was worth being happy about. They all looked puzzled, but they stopped asking Xiao Jiu anything.

The most important thing right now is spring plowing.

At this time every year, Xiao Jiu will take the lead in farm work, personally supervising the spring planting and autumn harvest, and the people below will naturally pay great attention to this matter.

But Xiao Jiu didn't expect that Xie Yu would make a special trip to find him after hearing about this.

"Is Jiang Zhen'er yours?"

He came straight to the point and shocked Xiao Jiu with his words. Then he quickly collected his emotions, looking surprised and unbelievable.

"Eldest brother, why did you say this?!"

Xie Yu hesitated for a moment, "I sent someone to find out, Jiang Zhen'er is the beauty you found to give to His Highness the Fourth Highness."

Hearing this, Xiao Jiu was not nervous at all, but smiled and asked, "What's the matter?"

Xiao Jiu's whereabouts when he sent Jiang Zhen'er to the royal capital in the name of the Thirteenth Young Master were not hidden, and anyone who inquired could find out.

This is not a secret, but Xie Yu doesn't think Jiang Zhen'er is just trying to please the Fourth Young Master of Prince Qi.

I even wonder if until now, this woman is actually still a tool in Xiao Jiu's hands. So after Jiang Zhen'er enters the palace this time, does she have anything to do with Xiao Jiu behind her back?

He probed, "Now that she has become the queen of King Qi, one of the top ten thousand people, is it because of you that she can be where she is today, and you don't have any contact now?"

Xiao Jiu pondered for a few breaths, as if he was gradually understanding something, and frowned, "Elder brother, you also know that she is now the queen and the mother of a country, and I am the chief of Xun County and a foreign minister. There are differences between men and women. I

There doesn’t need to be any relationship between the two of them.”

This is true, especially when looking at Xiao Jiu, who has grown into a young man in front of him, and has indeed reached the age of defense between men and women. Xie Yu is holding the teacup in his hand but has not yet drank, as if he is distracted.

Then Xiao Jiu said, "I know what senior brother is suspecting."

When Xie Yu looked over, he smiled and said, "After all, Jiang Zhen'er is the beauty I gave to His Highness the Fourth Highness. Without me, I believe she would not be the queen now, but the kindness she owed me has actually been repaid. Now I

The two of them can be regarded as going back to each other, and they have nothing to do with each other."

"Repaid?"

Xie Yu was puzzled.

Xiao Jiu looked calm, "How else could it be so easy for Senior Brother to become my county chief? It was just the beauty blowing the wind from my pillow that made His Highness the Fourth to help."

He said it easily, and Xie Yu finally understood what he meant this time. He sighed and asked Xiao Jiu again, "Is this really true?"

Xiao Jiu seemed to be smiling but not smiling, and answered the question, "Eldest brother, do you not trust me?"

Xie Yu acted a little helpless. After thinking for a long time, he sighed, "Xiaojiu, now senior brother doesn't know which of your words is true and which is false."

"When you grow up, senior brother shouldn't care about you so much."

His expression was one of unabashed confusion and sadness, and he paused for a long time.

Since what happened a few years ago, he has never been able to return to the simple and calm way he used to treat Xiao Jiu. He clearly realized that Xiao Jiu was not a child who didn't understand anything. He grew up... and became extremely smart, decisive and ruthless.

, and it is even more incomprehensible.

"Big brother."

Feeling the embarrassment and confusion in Xie Yu's heart, Xiao Jiu didn't say anything more, just said, "No matter when, I will still be your junior brother, and senior brother is like my biological brother. This will not change."

Xie Yu believes that this sentence is true.

He smiled, put aside all the worries in his heart, and asked, "By the way, where is your brother? It seems that I haven't seen him for a long time."

this……

Did you just deceive Xie Yu and now you want to deceive him again?

Xiao Jiu felt a rare feeling of guilt. He didn't say anything else, he just said, "Senior brother doesn't want to be deceived, so I won't answer this question."

Xie Yu immediately understood what Xiao Jiu meant, and was a little surprised. He asked, "You want to hide this? What did you send him to do?"

He felt more and more that there was another hidden reason behind Xiao Lan's disappearance.

But Xiao Jiu didn't say anything, and instead smiled with a mysterious look. Xie Yu couldn't ask any more questions and sighed helplessly.

"Okay, senior brother, don't ask. Junior brother also has his own secrets. However, you should think twice before doing anything." He reminded again, obviously he was a father for the first time, but he seemed overly kind and verbose.

He stood up and sat up on the mat. Judging from his expression, he was not angry because of Xiao Jiu's concealment. He only took two steps away when he suddenly stopped and turned back, with a little hesitation in his eyes.

"Senior brother is leaving and will set off for the royal capital tomorrow. Junior brother, please take more care in the future."

Xiao Jiu was stunned for a moment, and then he understood the reason why Xie Yu seemed to be in a low mood today, and where the look of reluctance at him several times came from. He came not only to ask the question just now, but also to say goodbye.

"So fast? What are you doing in the capital, senior brother?"

Xie Yu lowered his eyelids and looked calm, with a hint of heaviness in his calmness.

"It was decided a month ago that my grandfather passed away far away in the royal capital, and someone needs to go and take charge of the overall situation. My Xie family has stayed in Xun County for many years, and it's time to return to the royal capital."
Chapter completed!