"Your Majesty, nominally, the prime minister is still my father, and we are barely a family. That doesn't seem like a good idea. ”

Xia Qing stood still and looked directly at Cheng Qing.

Cheng Qing was also stunned for a moment, not long ago in the main hall, this kid still looked very timid and scared, I don't know what's going on, but now he has become like this, very sharp.

"However, the prime minister doesn't seem to treat you as his own family, does he?"

He shifted his target and looked at the prime minister with a smile.

The prime minister's face was a little pale, obviously he didn't expect such a thing to happen on this occasion.

Over the years, in order to be able to protect himself, he has reduced a lot of incidents that need to collide head-on with Cheng Qing. Or in other words, Cheng Qing will never contradict what he wants to do, but will only try his best to cooperate with him.

His end is approaching, and it is only a matter of time. Having been in officialdom for many years, he understands his current situation. According to Taifu's personality, he would have chosen to protect himself like him, and slowly retreated from the court's sight. But because of the Queen Mother, because of the people who need him, it is the Queen Mother.

There was no way he could refuse.

He had already been ready to be disarmed and returned to the field, and even sent someone to buy a field in a small mountain villa not far from the capital, intending to return to the life of a male farmer and a female weaver with his wife.

It's just that all this, it seems, is broken today because of this uninvited guest.

He couldn't believe that the girl standing there was Tao Zhiqing and his flesh and blood.

He only remembered that he was ruthless and threw the child into the river, and in such cold weather, he should have frozen to death if he was not drowned. However, she survived, and even appeared in front of him again.

He has always had a deep sense of guilt for this child and Tao Zhiqing. Even if this child doesn't mention it, every year on Tao Zhiqing's death day, he will go to worship, and on that day, he will even worship this child together, because in his memory, this child died on the same day with Tao Zhiqing.

For his official position, for his career, for their family.

He gave up Tao Zhiqing, gave up the child, gave up his promise to their mother, got off the donkey down the slope, and watched them burn Tao Zhiqing to death according to the will of those mobs.

On that day, he had been watching all this from a short distance.

He even saw Tao Zhiqing's gaze turning to his side. He still can't forget that gaze.

With pleading, with disappointment, with regret.

She just looked at him, and then slowly, slowly closed her eyes, and then, she became a charred corpse.

The woman who used to be the first beauty in the world, the woman who did not return to her homeland for him, gave up all her titles for him, and just stood silently behind him and gave birth to children for him.

Just died in front of him.

That day, he stood in front of his neighbor's house and did not return to his house until the mob had left.

What he didn't expect was that the mob would let the child die.

The child, his and Tao Zhiqing's own flesh and blood, just sat next to her mother's corpse, staring as if she had lost her soul.

She turned her head, and there was no life in her dark eyes. She just looked at him silently, tears slowly gathering in her eyes, but they never rolled down. She just kept looking at him, and he felt a little weak.

"Daddy......."

She called him, with a milky voice, as usual.

"Mother, what's wrong with her...... What's wrong with my mother......"

As if she didn't know what was in front of her, she just stretched out her little fingers and pointed to the charred corpse lying in the ashes.

"What's wrong with her......."

At that time, he didn't know how to answer this question.

He crouched down and looked at her, he remembered that at that time, this child still looked like a native of the Wind Country, without any appearance of an alien.

This may be the reason why the mob let her go.

He choked up, not knowing how to answer the question.

He didn't even know what to do with the child.

"Your mother, she ......"

"She went to a far, far away place to play...... Will be back....will be back soon......."

"Woo woo woo woo ..... daddy, you lied to people! mother, she was burned to death! she won't come back! Qing'er, Qing'er has no mother.......

She threw herself into his arms, crying and mourning.

He hugged her small body, and he didn't know how to do it for a while.

Tao Zhiqing is dead, this child, it is impossible to stay here.

But he was even less likely to bring her home.

Because, he had no way to tell his wife the identity of the child.

The only way to do it for her is to ........

He didn't know how he had thrown the boy into the icy water.

Those memories are all gone.

Maybe it was too sad, or maybe he didn't dare to remember it.

"I don't know this kid..... ”

The prime minister raised his head and looked at Cheng Qing, "Did she say that she is my daughter and my daughter? A cat or a dog comes casually, it's all my daughter. You say, isn't that the truth?"

The prime minister's words suddenly made waves.

Even Cheng Qing's eyes changed a little.

He thought that when the prime minister reached this age, his heart would not be able to harden for a long time, and he didn't know how to deal with such a picture.

just doesn't want to, even at this age, his cold heart still hasn't changed.

"Hahahaha, don't you have this daughter? Could it be that this little girl is lying to all of us here?"

Xia Qing didn't expect that the prime minister would deny her so quickly.

She didn't mean to hit the prime minister, she just wanted him to apologize to her mother.

She didn't even expect the prime minister to feel any guilt about her.

But she really didn't expect that a person's heart could be so cold.

Actually could, hurt her and her mother, so many times.

"You, really don't know Tao Zhiqing?

Xia Qing asked tremblingly.

Her body began to tremble unconsciously, and a sneer was already on her face,

"Could it be that at such an old age, your heart is still the same as before, ordinary ruthless, and generally hard-hearted......."

Xu was shaking too much, and Qu Ziyan on the side silently grabbed her trembling hand,

"Calm down and deal with it. ”

He whispered in her ear.

Her heart calmed down a lot at once.

Yes, how could she expect a man who could throw her into the icy river to fend for herself without blinking an eye.

In his view, fame and fortune are far more important than human life.

She and her mother are just obstacles on his way to fame and fortune.

"I said, I don't know you, and I don't know what Tao Zhiqing is. Girl, be self-respecting, don't see any officials who are your father, don't think about deceiving anything. ”