Chapter 158 The future emperor's uncle
Yuan Shao read the content about "rehabilitation" of Li Ling. Of course, Li Qin had to be grateful, and then a banquet was held to entertain Yuan Shao.
At the banquet, there were three rounds of wine and five flavors. Yuan Shao used the alcohol to say casually: "Li Lang, I heard that the grandmother's surname is He, and she is close to the current Empress. She is the Empress's aunt. Is this true?"
Li Qin was stunned and thought to himself: "What, is he relative to the current queen or the queen's aunt? Isn't the current queen He Jin's sister? How can he get involved? Is it because of his surname He? There are so many people in the world with the surname He, but they may not be all relatives, but they have already hinted, so we must not refuse to give up on the tribute!"
He said, "This is said, but it's too old. My family is in a remote place like Xiliang. Whether it is related to the Empress remains to be verified. Usually, we only mention it at home, but we dare not talk to outsiders, for fear that others will say that we pretend to be royal relatives, which is disrespectful!"
He neither said yes nor said no, and he was vague and asked Yuan Shao to guess himself.
Yuan Shao said in his heart, Li Qin, he claimed to be Li Guang's descendant, and he didn't know whether he was a false alarm. It is very likely that this is impossible to verify! However, whether he has a relationship with the queen or not, does this still need to be verified? I can tell him directly that his family has nothing to do with the queen!
But when he thought so, Yuan Shao clapped his hands and said, "It seems that the rumors are true! Well, it cannot be said that they are rumors. The last time I went to the Shizhong Lord's Mansion to attend a banquet, Shizhong mentioned it and took out the family genealogy of the family, saying that an aunt in the family married to the Li family of Liangzhou, but because of inconvenience in letters, she lost contact. Shizhong Lord once said that the Li family, whose aunt married, was named Tian, and I wonder if Li Lang's Lingzun... How dare I ask what Lingzun should call him?"
This is a very obvious relationship. It’s just that Yuan Shao is just about to climb over He Jin and Li Qin. The generals who are supporting the corner here are all funny. It seems that the Shizhong He can’t sit still and come to win over Li Lang. However, the method he used is really special. He actually wants to recognize the grandmother as his aunt, and he wants to call Li Lang brothers!
Jia Xu was with the Prime Minister. After hearing this, he smiled on his face and replied to Li Qin: "According to General Yuan, my father-in-law is indeed named Tian." After that, he glanced at Zhang Qin beside him. He wanted to recognize relatives. If you have anything to say, it would be too late to say it later.
Zhang Qin was stunned by the side. Before Yuan Shao's words had been digested, He Jin wanted to recognize the Grandmaster as his aunt? The Queen also wanted to recognize it. If they recognized it, it would be equivalent to accepting it for the Emperor. If everyone meets in the future, the Emperor would also call the Grandmaster "Auntie"? This seems inappropriate!
Yuan Shao yelled and shouted: "Li Lang, if you live in Fujiao Village for generations, then Ling Zun is really... Oh, then Ling Ci is the aunt of the current Empress, and Li Lang, you and the Shizhong are brothers!"
He was wrong about this. He conducted a detailed investigation of Li Qin's family background, but he could only find out some things on the surface. For example, before Li Qin became rich, he couldn't find out. Li Tian had no future for most of his life. Where he lived before, he could hardly find out where he lived. Li Tian was not a native of Fujiao Village. He moved here later, so Yuan Shao did not find out!
But he didn't find out, but others knew that Zhang Qin had been in Fujiao Fort for so long, pretending to be friendly and wandering around. Is Li Tian a local? Yuan Shao, the person who just came from Beijing, made a mistake. Can he make a mistake?
Zhang Qin finally spoke. He didn't want He Jin and Li Qin to have a nepotism, which was a great disadvantage to the Ten Generals of the Attendant. He said, "General Yuan is such a bad word. Li Weng did not live in Fujiao Village for generations, but moved from another place." He glanced at Yuan Shao with his eyes squinted, "What, it's impossible to make up this time. With our family here, don't even think about pulling Li Lang over."
But Yuan Shao had been on guard against this move. It doesn't matter if he said it wrong. He could still make it up. He pretended to be even more surprised and said, "It's not that I lived in Fujiao Village for generations. Is this really the case?"
Zhang Qin shouted: "If this is true, how can our family say it wrong!"
Yuan Shao clapped his hands and said, "It would be true that there is Zhang Zhongguan testimony. Li Lang is indeed brother to Shizhong! To be honest, when I left the capital, Shizhong prepared a lot of gifts and asked me to give them to Li Lang, mainly to recognize my relatives, but I was afraid of admitting my mistakes, which made Li Lang embarrassed, so I made my own decision. I just said it was wrong. In fact, if Ling Zun lived in Fujiao Village for generations, he would not be Shizhong's uncle. If he had not lived here for generations, he would have been!"
He looked at Zhang Qin with a smile on his face and said, "You must be happy that Master Shizhong can recognize his brother who has been separated for many years. Thanks to Zhang Zhongguan, you, if you hadn't been the testimony, how could you have recognized your relatives so smoothly?"
Zhang Qin said with a whisper. Unexpectedly, Yuan Shao was so cunning. His rebuttal was like a testimony to him. Isn’t this equivalent to pushing Li Qin to He Jin? If Zhang Rang knew about this, he wouldn’t have to strip him of his skin!
Li Qin glanced at Zhang Qin, turned to Yuan Shao and smiled, "So that's it. I am actually a brother to Master Shizhong. If Brother Yuan doesn't mention it and Zhang Zhongguan doesn't testify, I still don't know it myself!"
Jia Xu climbed up the pole, raised his wine glass, and shouted: "Come on, we have found our brother for Li Lang, drink this cup, I wish you good health to Lord Shizhong!"
The generals of the Fujiao Army all laughed and raised their glasses together to toast He Jin, who was far away in Luoyang.
Dian Wei dried up the wine in one sip and asked Yuan Shao: "General Yuan, if you say so, then the eldest son of the current emperor, if he meets my young master in the future, wouldn't he have to call him uncle, just like he calls him Shizhong?"
Yuan Shao was a little embarrassed. Is this person pretending to be confused or really confused? The eldest son of the emperor really called He Jin as his uncle. One was the king and the other was the minister. Even relatives could not scream.
Li Qin was amused. No matter which little emperor, he would not call him uncle before he fell into trouble. At most, he would call me Li Qing, which would be a great face.
Jia Xu smiled and said, "Of course, of course, I have to call him like this, and I have to..."
Yuan Shao was surprised. These military generals on the frontier didn't take the royal family seriously and dared to joke about such things. I couldn't listen to them. He quickly changed the subject and said, "Li Lang, the war in Bingzhou has been urgent recently. I am afraid that you will have to raise an army to suppress it soon. How did you train troops? Can you reveal a few things and let me learn it too?"
Chapter completed!