――Time goes back to noon of the same day――

Just as Dry Sheep had been observing Yi Yi for a while, jumping out of the wall of the Donggong Mansion and making contact with his companion Wei Xuan and the other five people, Yi Yi was thinking about this question in his heart while preparing a meal with the only remaining cook in the Donggong Mansion.

Jinling Ram Pei Gong ......

Due to the intervention of the withered sheep, Yi Yi finally saw the name of the owner of the spiritual seat, the name of the person that Liang Qiu Gong did not allow her to understand, the name of the person she had worshiped for more than ten years.

Yi Yi secretly guessed that the Jinling person named [Ram Pei] was her biological father, otherwise, how could the old prince ask her to worship this person she had never heard of for more than ten consecutive years?

The question is, why did the old man hide this.

Yi Yi still remembers that when she first became sensible, she asked about her parents, but at that time, Liang Qiugong only told her that she was an orphan brought back to the house by Liang Qiugong for adoption, and as for the rest, Liang Qiugong didn't tell anything.

Perhaps, his biological father had committed a very serious crime, because only in this way can Liang Qiugong's seemingly contradictory approach be explained.

Although Yiyi didn't care in front of the withered sheep, but in reality? She cared a lot, after all, it was her biological father, her dearest......

Why, exactly?

Why did the old man, who treated him like his own granddaughter, hide his biological father's name for more than ten years?

With complicated feelings, Yi Yi came to the study of the Donggong Mansion with the wine and food prepared for Liang Qiu Gong on a wooden plate.

"Tuk tuk tuk ......" Yi Yi knocked on the door.

"Is it Yiyi? ――Come in! Inside the house, there was a hearty laugh from Liang Qiugong, although this familiar voice gradually became old with the passage of time, but the closeness in the tone was still the same as back then. It warms Yiyi's heart.

"Squeak......

Gently pushing open the door of the study, Yiyi stepped into the study, and at this time, Liang Qiu Cheng was practicing calligraphy in the study, and saw Yi Yi walking in with wine and food, Liang Qiu Gong shook his head helplessly, and said with a smile, "Yiyi, how many times has the old man told you." This kind of thing, just ask the people in the house to do it......"

Looking at Liang Qiugong, whose affinity is no less than that of his biological grandfather, Yi Yi pursed his lips and smiled slightly, and said softly, "What did the old man say?" It's a blessing to be able to serve you......"

"You kid ......" Liang Qiugong shook his head dumbly, and said half-jokingly, "You have this filial piety, the old man is very pleased, but now it is not what it used to be, you are now the wife that the kid is marrying." How can it be the same again? -- The boy turned around and said he might want to complain to the old man. ”

Thinking of her husband Xie An, Yiyi couldn't help but feel a little sweet in her heart, shook her head, and said sweetly. "What did the old man say, although Yiyi is married now, but in front of the old man, she is still the ignorant little girl back then......"

Looking at the woman in front of him who had regarded him as his granddaughter for many years, he said this. Liang Qiugong nodded with satisfaction, and said half-instructively and half-pleadingly. "If you want to say that the old man in this family used to be the most reassuring, it is you and Xiao Wu...... Xiao Wu is thick and leafy, not as careful as you, and now the two of you are married to that kid together...... You are two years older than Xiao Wu, you are a sister, you have to help Xiao Wu more in the future, the little girl of the eldest grandson's family is not a fuel-efficient lamp, the old man is really afraid that one day the old man is gone, Xiao Wu will eat the loss of that girl......"

Hearing this, Yi Yi hurriedly said, "The old man's body is very tough, and he will definitely live a long life!" ”

Looking at Yiyi's serious expression, Liang Qiu laughed openly, stretched out his hand to stroke his beard, and said with a smile, "Okay, okay, I'll accept your girl's good words...... By the way, now according to your identity, don't call the old man [old man] anymore, spread it out and make people laugh......"

"This ......," Yiyi's face showed some hesitation.

Seeing this, Liang Qiugong shook his head and said, "You kid, you pay too much attention to the difference in identity, in the past, you just called it like that, but now, you are the wife and concubine of the Shangshu of the Criminal Department, and then use the old name for the old husband, and it is not conducive to your husband's reputation, you know?" ――Like Xiao Wu, let's call the old man [grandpa]! ”

Yi Yiyan's face showed a little hesitation and panic when he heard this, and after hesitating for a while, he said timidly, "How can a slave be like that...... Why don't you dare to call you [old lady]? ”

She followed her husband-in-law Xie An's name for Liang Qiugong.

"You kid...... That's it! Liang Qiugong shook his head helplessly, but he was no longer reluctant, after all, he also knew that the woman in front of him, who had been raised as his granddaughter since childhood, was born with a weak temperament, and Ji Jing, who had long had an extremely strict concept of life class, was inevitably affected by the world.

Thinking of this, Liang Qiugong didn't persuade him anymore, after all, it was just a title, and it didn't matter much.

"Let the old man take a look...... put down the pen in his hand, looked at the wooden plate in Yiyi's hand, Liang Qiugong showed a little smile on his face, and said as if he sighed with emotion, "It's all the old man's favorite dishes...... It's still Yiyi's heart and skill, Xiao Wu can't cook such delicious dishes......"

Saying that, he sighed regretfully, regretting that his own granddaughter had never cooked a delicious dish for himself, with Liang Qiugong's identity and age, he has a very light view of fame and fortune in the world, after all, it is just something that is not brought in life and not brought in death, if there is any desire, it is nothing more than to get together with old friends, get together with relatives, and enjoy the so-called family fun.

As a grandfather, who doesn't want his granddaughter to cook a few favorite dishes for him?

But it's a pity, whether it's Liang Qiu Gong or Yin Gong, there is no hope in this life, because whether it is Liang Qiu Dance or the eldest grandson Xiangyu, they are not very good at this kind of thing, the former has no cooking talent, and the latter has no cooking patience.

"Hmm......" picked up the chopsticks, sandwiched a chopstick fish meat on a braised fish and put it in his mouth, Liang Qiugong tasted it with satisfaction, and from time to time let out a sound of praise, and said sincerely, "It's not the old man who said that I can marry you girl." Xie An's kid is lucky......"

"Old ...... The old lady is serious, Yi Yi is not as good as the old lady praised......" was praised and blushed slightly, Yi Yi took out the wine jug and wine glass prepared earlier, and poured a glass for Liang Qiugong.

Looking at Liang Qiugong tasting the dishes he cooked, Yi Yi was undeniably very happy in her heart, after all, the old man in front of her was no less than a grandfather in her mind, and he was one of the few relatives in the world.

However, at this moment, Yiyi's ears seemed to echo the slightly sarcastic words of the withered sheep before.

[I think so.] You'd better ask Dong Guogong, there's a good chance he knows...... About that ram Pei! ]

Do you want to ask?

Yi felt her heart beat faster.

As if noticing Yiyi's somewhat wrong expression, Liang Qiugong smiled and said, "Look at your look." Seems to have something to say to the old man? ――Did Xie An's kid bully you? Go back to the old man and teach him a lesson......"

"No, my husband treats Yiyi very well......" Yiyi quickly shook her head to defend her husband.

"That's it...... Could it be the little girl of the eldest grandson's family? Did she bully you? Liang Qiu Gong frowned and said, to be honest, this old man doesn't really want to meddle in the housework of his children and grandchildren, but if someone bullies Liang Qiu Wu and Yi Yi, obviously he will not sit idly by, after all, Liang Qiu Wu and Yi Yi can be said to have grown up watching Liang Qiu Gong since childhood.

"No, no, no. It's not Sister Xiangyu...... It's just that...... Yi Yi wanted to ask the old lady for one thing......"

"Oh, that's it, just ask......" Seeing that Yiyi didn't seem to be angry, Liang Qiugong relieved himself. Smiled and nodded.

I saw Yi Yi take a slight breath, and after being silent for a while, he mustered up the courage to ask, "Old lady." The Ram's Pei Gong, but Yiyi's biological father? ”

"......" suddenly. Liang Qiu's action to drink stopped and glanced up at Yi Yi meaningfully, and the eyes that were still full of the elders' love for the juniors were suddenly replaced by a fierce look.

"You...... Seen? - Didn't the old man let you go to see it? Why don't you listen to the old man? Silently drinking the wine in the cup, Liang Qiugong said lightly, there was a bit of anger hidden in his calm words, which made Yi Yi feel that the old man in front of him who had been with him for more than ten years became a little strange.

"No, it's not...... Iyi ...... Slaves...... I ......" and after a long time, Yiyi finally chose to remain silent.

After pouring himself a few glasses, Liang Qiugong smacked his lips, looked at the wine and food on the desk in front of him, and said flatly, "That's it, since you have seen it, you can watch it...... But don't ask again, don't mention it again in the future, your name is Yiyi, you are my adopted granddaughter of Liang Qiuqing, and the wife and concubine of Xie An, the secretary of the Criminal Department, and have nothing to do with that person, understand? As he spoke, Liang Qiugong glanced up at Yi Yi, and his gesture of not being angry made Yi Yi no longer dare to ask more.

"Yes......"

"You go down first......"

"Yes......"

Looking at Yiyi walking out of the study silently with his head down, Liang Qiugong sighed slightly, and a trace of unbearability flashed in his eyes.

"After all, I can't help but look at it? - Ah, yes, it's been more than ten years, and it's a shame that this kid can endure it until now......"

Muttering a few words to himself, Duke Liangqiu let out a long sigh, raised his wine cup and drank a glass, as if the moment when Jinling City fell seventeen years ago appeared in front of him......

Jinling Ram Pei Gong ......

Ram Pei ......

I haven't heard that name in years......

The relict ministers of the Southern Tang Dynasty and the general of the Taiping Army who single-handedly defended Jinling City for several months under the attack of the four towns of Jijing, and was finally ordered by the first emperor to be full of Zhulian......

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"Jing'er, you don't want to enter the city, lead the Eastern Army to pursue Xue Ren of the Taiping Army!"

Seventeen years ago, when Jinling City fell, Liang Qiu, the Duke of Dongguo, who was in the prime of life, said this to Liang Qiujing, who was still alive at the time, and inherited the title of his brother Liang Qiugong [Marquis of Dongzhen].

"Father?" As the younger generation of the Great Zhou generals at that time, Liang Qiu looked at his father in confusion, after all, they only captured a city gate, and there were still many anti-thieves in Jinling City who resisted stubbornly.

"Don't ask more, go!" Liang Qiugong said in an almost commanding tone.

“…… Be! - The child obeys! Liang Qiu clenched his fists and led 20,000 Eastern troops to pursue Xue Ren, the first commander of the Taiping Army, but he didn't know that he never came back.

Looking at the background of Liang Qiu Jing's departure, a young general beside Liang Qiu Gong smiled slightly, shook his head and said, "Is this a calf protector?" ”

This seemingly young general. It was the Great Zhou Meng General who was as famous as Liang Qiu Gong in the future, the commander of the Southern Army [trapped camp], Lu Gong, Lu Song and Lu Gongbo.

"What?" Liang Qiugong was careless and perfunctory.

Lu Gong smiled faintly and said, "Is it because we know that our army is going to massacre the recalcitrant forces in the city, and even the people in the city, in order to appease Your Majesty's anger in the past few years, so you told your youngest son to avoid it?" - He's going to have to go through it after all, this kind of thing ......"

"Even so. It's not right now...... It's too early for him to come into contact with this kind of thing! ”

"Really?" Lu Gong smiled slightly, turned his head to look at the dim area in the distance of Jinling City, and sighed, "But then again. After blocking our army for several months, Your Majesty has been angry for a long time, and now that the city has fallen, this Jinling is afraid that it will suffer a catastrophe...... After all, the Son of Heaven is angry! ――I don't know how many people will die in this city tonight......"

Liang Qiu Gong sighed slightly when he heard this, shook his head and said, "Leave others alone for the time being, the ram is in a catastrophe ......."

"yes......" let out a long sigh. Lu Gong and Liang Qiu Gong rode horses on the streets of Jinling City, and as far as they could see, the whole Jinling shouted and killed, and everywhere was begging the soldiers of the Zhou army and the people of the southern army. It's a pity that Li Ji, the son of heaven in the Great Zhou, has already issued a cruel order, and the current Li Ji is not the wise king that Xie An will contact in the future. He was a tyrant who was angered by the Taipings.

Therefore, although Liang Qiu Gong and Lu Gong felt that they had to do something about the tragic situation presented in front of them. But there is nothing they can do, after all, slaughtering the whole city, it was the imperial order issued by Li Ji, the son of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and they couldn't help it.

After a stick of incense, Liang Qiu Gong and Lu Gong came to the mansion where the ram lived in the first house.

After a wordless sigh, I saw Lu Gong wave his hand, and countless southern soldiers and soldiers behind him poured into the mansion, killing people when they saw them, it can be said that blood flowed all over the ground, and there were corpses in sight.

You must know that most of the men of the Ram Gate have already died in the battle to defend the city for several months, and those who remain in the house are all female dependents and some children who have not yet known something, but even so, the Southern Army still shows no mercy, because Li Ji, the son of the Great Zhou Dynasty, was blocked by the Ram Pei for several months, and the angry tyrant wanted to execute the Jinling Ram Gate.

The female dependents of the Ram's house, the servants of the district, how to stop the well-trained soldiers of the Southern Army, within a moment, they were all killed, looking at the mountains of corpses in the courtyard, Liang Qiu Gong and Lu Gong glanced at each other, and they both felt a little ashamed.

I have to say that it is really against their principles to massacre some unarmed female dependents, but there is no way, the emperor's order is like a mountain, and it is precisely because of this that Liang Qiugong will ask his youngest son Liang Qiujing to avoid this cruel thing and take the Eastern Army to pursue Xue Ren, the first commander of the Taiping Army.

And just as Liang Qiugong and Lu Chengcheng were about to leave, suddenly there were several intermittent baby cries from the mountains of corpses in the courtyard, and when they opened a female corpse on it, Liang Qiugong found that a woman was holding a baby girl who looked only one or two years old in her arms, although the woman had already died.

[What to do?] ]

Lu Gong asked Liang Qiu Gong with his eyes.

"......" Liang Qiugong silently picked up the baby girl, wiped the blood from her face, and said in a low voice in a consultative tone, "Can stop my army for several months, Ram Pei is also a rare hero, cut off his heirs, and kill them all, it is really detrimental to Yin Virtue, how about this, Gongbo?" - A baby girl is just ......"

Lu Gong nodded, then frowned and said, "How does Bo Xuan plan to place this child?" ”

"When I came, Jing'er's wife and daughter-in-law were pregnant, so let this child be a companion with my unborn grandson or granddaughter, you know, my Liangqiu family is not prosperous, and the house is very deserted and ......."

"...... like this"

Afterwards, Liang Qiu Gong and Lu Gong had a tacit understanding to hide the baby girl in front of Li Ji, the son of heaven, and it was later verified that the baby girl was born to a concubine of Gong Yang Pei.

At that time, the news of the death of Liang Qiujing, the youngest son of Liang Qiugong, came to the Wuhu area in front, which made the son of heaven Li Ji very sad, and hated the Taiping Army and the Southern Tang Dynasty even more, and launched a massacre again in Jinling, but all those who enshrined the spiritual seat of the Southern Tang Emperor Liu at home were killed regardless of the reason, until Prime Minister Yingong learned about it and couldn't stand it, together with many generals such as Liang Qiugong and Lu Gong, this was the time to ask the Son of Heaven Li Ji to stop the massacre, but even so, Jinling at that time was still ten rooms and nine empty.

However, it was precisely because of the death of the Son of Heaven Li Ji at that time that the hatred of the Son of Heaven was transferred to the people of the Southern Tang Dynasty and the Taiping Army in the heart of the city because of the death of Hou Liang Qiujing in Dongzhen, and he forgot the ram lineage, which made the baby girl escape.

Two months later, Liang Qiu Gong brought the baby girl back to the Jingdong Mansion in Jijing, both internally and externally, only saying that it was an orphan picked up on the side of the road, and gave the baby girl a name that made her husband feel a little speechless in the future, Yiyi.

Not long after, Dongzhenhou's wife died in childbirth, but it also added an heir to the Liangqiu family to inherit the bloodline, and the fly in the ointment was that a baby girl was born.

At that time, Liang Qiuhao, the grandson of Liang Qiu Gong, even the great hero Chen Bei, whom Xie An called his eldest brother in the future, had been buried in the ancestral grave of the Liang Qiu family because of his fake death.

The two sons died violently one after another because of the family stunt, some of the daughters-in-law died in childbirth, some died of depression because of the violent death of their husbands, and the grandchildren also [died], and the only remaining bloodline of the grandchildren was a baby girl......

Seeing that the Liang Qiu family, which had been inherited for hundreds of years, had decayed to such an extent, Liang Qiugong's heart was cold, and he was only forty years old, and there were already gray hairs in his hair.

"Yiyi, you will live here in the future, she is not only the young lady you will serve in the future, but also your sister, one day the old man is gone, you take good care of her for the old man, okay?" brought Yiyi to Liang Qiuwu, who was only one year old at the time, and Liang Qiugong stroked Yiyi's hair and told him seriously.

"Hmmm! - Iyi will! Yi nodded earnestly.

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With bitter memories, Liang Qiugong silently drank the wine in the pot, and stared blankly at the dishes on the table that only moved a few chopsticks.

Suddenly, Liang Qiugong raised his eyebrows.

Wrong!

Yi Yi has always been obedient and well-behaved, and it is absolutely impossible to go against her own instructions to peek at her father's spiritual position, take a step back and say, even if she has the courage, why didn't she look at it before, but now?

Somewhat...... Wrong!