In the main house of the upper courtyard of the Qin family's mansion, Mr. Qin, the Niu family, Qin Hanzhen and the five of them all looked blank, listening to the golden elephant tell how their Cheng Enhou recognized the "Fourth Master Ping".

It is said that in the summer of this year, His Royal Highness the King of Qin, who was ordered to inspect the border David, should have returned directly to his prince's palace in Xi'an after inspecting the three guards of Datong, Taiyuan and Yulin. But for some reason, after arriving in Yulin, he suddenly turned back, and instead of going to Taiyuan, which was the nearest distance, he made a detour to Shuozhou to Datong Mansion.

The Shuozhou guards were the sons of the Jingzhong family, and the chief generals of Datong Mansion were transferred from Yulinwei a few years ago and had worked with the King of Qin. There was some news about the former's family in Beijing, saying that the King of Qin was attacked in the territory of Yulin Wei, so he would suddenly turn back, but it was not clear who was so bold. And the latter's mouth was very tight, and he refused to let through the slightest rumor, but instead sent his henchmen and soldiers to escort King Qin all the way to Beijing.

After King Qin entered Beijing, he lived directly in the palace and met the emperor several times. What exactly he talked about with the emperor, the foreign ministers did not know. There is an imperial history that once tentatively went to the book to participate in the King of Qin entering Beijing without being summoned, but was rejected by the emperor with a word, saying that the King of Qin was ordered by secret order, not entered Beijing without permission. The imperial history had no choice but to admit it and instead stayed in the palace of King Qin.

Since then, the king of Qin has moved out of the palace and returned to his palace in the capital, living in seclusion on weekdays, closing the door and not contacting any foreign ministers, even the people in the clan and the royal relatives and nobles, refusing to see each other. There was a lot of discussion in the capital, and they all said that something big must have happened. Qin Song, the Marquis of Chengen, that is, the eldest brother of Mr. Qin, once inquired about the emperor's brother-in-law, but he didn't find anything. The emperor also smiled and asked the brother-in-law not to worry about these trivial matters.

Cheng Enhou felt a little shameless at the time. Fortunately, the emperor had a long life in October this year, because the emperor had an order to keep everything simple, and did not feast the ministers, but only called the royal family and the royal family into the palace and set up a family banquet. And Cheng Enhou, as the elder brother of the late Empress Yuan Qin, was invited to attend the banquet, and he was happy to gain face in the noble circle of the capital. Unexpectedly, at this banquet, a little accident happened.

King Qin also attended this banquet. The Zongren Ling of the Zongren Mansion, who was also the highest-ranking elder in the clan, questioned King Qin in front of everyone why he blocked the people in the clan from the gate of the palace and refused to see each other. Because several of the people who came to find him were uncles of King Qin, his approach was too rude. Since Zongren Ling is an elder of the clan, he has the responsibility to intervene.

At that time, the emperor had not yet arrived at the banquet site, and no one defended the king of Qin, who remained silent. A few younger generations of clan disciples suddenly jumped up and instigated the Zongren Ling to cure the sins of the King of Qin, including the Zongren Ling's own grandson. Fortunately, the sect made the old traitor slippery, and found out in time that there was a cat, so he did not continue to investigate, but only said with a cold face that King Qin must give an explanation. Several young clan disciples were unwilling and wanted to persuade again, but the emperor arrived at this time, and this farce naturally had to be stopped. Who knew that after the emperor arrived, after listening to the inner attendant's confession of what had happened during the banquet, he actually ordered someone to take away the young clan disciples who were in trouble for questioning with a subtle expression.

The entire clan was in an uproar and demanded an explanation from the emperor. The emperor said that the king of Qin suddenly returned to the capital because he encountered an attack on the road, and the identity of the person who attacked him was unknown, and it was very likely that he was a member of his own army, but the reason for the attack was not clear, and it could only be said that it was likely to involve the clan. Because of the importance of the matter, the emperor ordered the king of Qin not to disclose the news to the outside world, so he lived in the palace, and after moving back to the palace, he closed the door and thanked the guests, and no one came to the door. Fang Caizong ordered to question the King of Qin, but the King of Qin refused to answer, and just obeyed the emperor's orders. Why did those young clan disciples jump up and down? What does this have to do with them? Could it be that they have something to do with the attack?

When the clansmen led by the sect leader heard this, they immediately shut up and shouted for their descendants instead. In the end, under the persuasion of his grandfather, Zongrenling's grandson revealed the inside story, but the emperor quickly figured out that those young children of the clan were indeed instigated to come out of this way, and they did not have the slightest holiday with the king of Qin, and it was not clear why he returned to the capital and closed the door in the palace.

As for who instigated them, Qin Song, the Marquis of Chengen, knew about it, but he didn't tell the Golden Elephant, but the subordinates of the Marquis of Chengen's Mansion had a rumor in private that the prince of Jin had nothing to do with this matter. Those sons and daughters had a close relationship with the prince of Jin on weekdays.

This is a later story, so I won't mention it for the time being. At this palace banquet on the Wanshou Festival, the emperor saw that the matter had been said, and there was no need to keep it secret, so he opened the ban of the king of Qin, so that he no longer had to be forced to stay in the main courtyard of the palace every day and couldn't go out. Together, for the guards of the palace who desperately escorted the King of Qin back to Beijing that day, the emperor also summoned them to the banquet and rewarded them personally.

This can be regarded as confirming the dangerous situation when King Qin was attacked.

The palace guards who were summoned were basically the henchmen of King Qin, and they always followed King Qin out, so the royal family members were used to seeing each other on weekdays. There was only one face, and after asking, I found out that it was not the Qin Wangfu personal guard, but the general flag of the Niujialiang outpost stationed under the jurisdiction of Yulin Wei. On the night of the attack, the king of Qin fled in a panic, and when he passed by his outpost, he rested his feet a little, used water, bandaged his wounds, changed horses, and left again after leaving a seriously wounded guard. Because he was not familiar with the local roads, King Qin specially lit the general flag surnamed Qin Mingping as a guide.

At that time, he said that he would lead the way to the next guard station, and he would let him come back, and he would also write Yulin Wei, explain the reason, and not let him be reprimanded by his superiors, saying that he left his post without permission. No one expected that when they arrived at Shuozhou Wei quickly, they heard the news that the Niujialiang outpost was burned down by horse thieves, and even the seriously injured guard of the Qin Wangfu did not escape. King Qin was worried that there was something wrong with Yulinwei, and he was afraid that Qin Ping would be killed as soon as he returned, so he took him all the way to Beijing and did not send a letter to Yulinwei. This is how Qin Ping was brought by him, and although he is currently temporarily staying in the Qin Palace, he is not a guard, and the identity problem has not been resolved.

The king of Qin begged the emperor to reward Qin Ping with a position and let him not return to Yulin. The emperor was also very generous, and gave him a position of guard, a six-rank one, which was two levels higher than before. The emperor also asked about his hometown, his parents, and relatives. Qin Ping honestly said that he is a Mizhi person, his father is a teacher, his mother Niu Shi was originally from Tianjin, and later moved to Mizhi, and there is a younger brother at home, etc. The emperor didn't think anything was going on at the time, but Qin Song, the Marquis of Cheng'en, felt that something was wrong. When the palace banquet was over, he looked for an opportunity to find Qin Ping, who went to the Praetorian Guard to report, and asked carefully, and sure enough, it was the eldest son of his younger brother Qin Bai and his younger sister Niu.

Qin Song recognized Qin Ping on the spot. Qin Ping was also stunned when he learned that his father still had such a good background, and repeatedly asked Cheng Enhou's "long-lost" brother about his name, and heard Qin Song tell the detailed address of the Niu family's mansion, so he dared to believe that this was true. Just because he hadn't had his parents yet, Qin Ping didn't dare to accept Qin Song's invitation and moved back to the Chengenhou Mansion directly, but he also accepted Qin Song's arrangement and went to the Hou Mansion to have a reunion dinner with these relatives who had never met in his life.

Qin Song learned from Qin Ping about his younger brother Qin Bai's situation in the past thirty years, and he had the idea of taking his younger brother's family back to Beijing for reunion. After Qin Ping moved into the guard station, he found the golden elephant who had been waiting by his younger brother Qin Bai's side, and ordered him to take people to Mizhi immediately to pick up his younger brother's family. He also said that as long as Qin Bai is willing to go home, he can say anything, even if Qin Bai asks him, who is an elder brother, to kneel and kowtow to make amends, he will admit it.

Hearing this, Niu scolded in a trembling voice in the warm pavilion: "What is this called? Doesn't he make it clear that he is a soft-hearted and polite gentleman who bullied our master, and he will not ask his brother to really kneel down to him before he dares to say big things? If our master is really cold and asks him to kneel down and kowtow, will he really do it?!"

Jin Xiang said with a dry mouth, dizzy and dizzy, and after listening to Niu's words, he didn't dare to refute, so he could only stand there with a bitter face, hanging his head and shoulders, and he didn't dare to come out.

Old Mr. Qin sat upright, silent for a long time, and there was no expression on his face. Originally, he had already accepted the fate of losing his son and daughter-in-law, but now the peak has turned around, but this result made him feel uncomfortable.

How could it be such a mistake? What is the death of the eldest daughter-in-law?

Uncle Hu gasped and asked Jin Xiang in a hoarse voice, "...... you What you said is true? Our uncle...... Gone the night before the outpost?!"

The golden elephant hesitated: "Huh...... It should be, I don't know when he left with His Royal Highness King Qin, but he is safe and sound now, and there will be no mistake. For no reason, no one will pretend to be him? Moreover, His Royal Highness the King of Qin has also confirmed his identity and military position. He glanced at Old Mr. Qin cautiously with flickering eyes, "I don't know, the third master and the third wife actually misunderstood that the fourth master had an accident......

Niu's hands in the warm pavilion began to tremble, and his eyes began to darken. Mama Tiger hurriedly stepped forward to support her. Their movements woke up Qin Hanzhen, who was in a daze, she jumped off the kang, put on her shoes and ran outside, staring at the golden elephant.

The golden elephant was stunned for a moment, looked at the little girl, and immediately reacted to who she was: "This is the third girl of the fourth master of Ping's palm beads, right? "As he spoke, he had to make a move.

Qin Hanzhen ignored it, just stared straight at him and asked: "You said that my father didn't die and followed King Qin into Beijing, so did he say it, why has it been more than half a year now, and he hasn't sent a message to his family to report his safety? Since he knew that something had happened at the outpost, didn't he think that his family would be worried? Could it be that for the sake of secrecy, he can ignore his family?!"

The golden elephant was stunned, and some didn't react: "This ......"

Qin Hanzhen didn't wait for him to finish speaking, then turned his head to look at Mr. Qin: "Grandfather, my father went to Datong when he went to Beijing, and he probably met the general in charge of Datong, so didn't he have the opportunity to meet the second uncle? Does the second uncle know the news that his father is not dead? If he knows, why didn't he bring a letter to the family? Instead, he asked the second aunt to bring her younger brother back to the funeral?!"

Old Mr. Qin's hands were also trembling slightly. Every question of his granddaughter, he has already thought of it. It is precisely because there is a very high probability that there is a more unbearable truth hidden behind this that he will suffer even more.

Old Mr. Qin didn't speak, but Jin Xiang panicked: "No, no, no, it's not like this! Fourth Master Ping told Master Hou that as early as the same time, he had seen Fifth Master An and asked him to report safety to his family." This matter was still given to King Qin, and he had to nod his head, and he did not commit taboos. An Wuye also agreed, and he would not alarm others and quietly inform the family. I just don't know...... Why do the three old men and three wives know nothing?"

Qin Hanzhen's eyes instantly turned cold.