Zhenguo Gong has always been straightforward, but now seeing that Xie Zhiyi is willing to speak well, he said frankly and bluntly: "We don't talk darkly, how is Sun Shoufu a person, I want to come to Lord Xie as Sun Shoufu's right-hand man, and my heart is clear."

"Right now, Lord Xie is in charge of the Harrier Ridge Iron Digging and Casting Army, he is diligent and resourceful, and most of the daily affairs are taken care of by you personally, even if Qi Shangshu returns to Beijing, it will not have much impact.

However, Sun Shoufu took advantage of this opportunity to play the role of the saint, and sent Zhou Langzhong to replace Qi Shangshu in charge of the affairs of digging iron and casting soldiers. In terms of official positions, Zhou Langzhong is not as good as Lord Xie; In terms of qualifications, Zhou Langzhong is not as good as Lord Xie.

"Sun Shoufu insisted on arranging it like this, what is his intention, isn't Lord Xie still unclear?

"You must know that under Sun Shoufu's command, no one has ever dared to refute him in the court like Lord Xie, and take advantage of the situation. Sun Shoufu's dissatisfaction and suspicion of Master Xie is not Sima Zhao's heart - everyone knows it? ”

Xie Zhiyi's fists clenched in his sleeves, and his eyebrows frowned slightly, silently.

Zhen Guogong didn't have to ask him to answer, as long as he understood this truth, seeing this, he directly pierced Xie Zhiyi's thoughts: "Xie Da's strategies are different from the customs, but he is confined to his humble background and has a long career, and now he finally has the opportunity to make a name for himself in the court, will he give up so easily?" ”

really didn't leave the slightest room for self-deception, leaving Xie Zhiyi behind.

Xie Zhiyi's already stiff face instantly became ugly.

Needless to say, he also understood that Sun Changyu took the opportunity of Qi Shangshu's return to Beijing this time, and specially appointed Zhou Qiuguo for the purpose of dividing his power - he was not as close as Zhou Qiu, the "grandson-in-law of Lord Shoufu", who had a close relationship with the Sun family, and had refuted Sun Changyu in court, even if he specially promised Sun Changyu benefits before leaving, I am afraid that it will be difficult to really appease him.

After being silent for a long time, Xie Zhiyi opened his mouth and asked: "What does the grandfather of that country mean, does he hope that the lower officials will cut off their robes and break off their righteousness with Sun Shoufu and join the command of Mrs. Han instead?" ”

Now that Zhen Guogong has made everything clear, he is now "naked", so naturally there is no need to be polite to the other party.

Zhen Guogong laughed when he heard this.

Xie Zhiyi's face was inexplicable, was there anything funny about what he said?

Xie Zhiyi sank his face again.

Although he urgently needs a way to fight for promotion, he is not without temperament and backbone, and he can let others play tricks.

Seeing this, Zhen Guogong stopped laughing, but he didn't open his mouth to explain, but just asked, "Master Xie thinks that this Da Zhou is in whose world?" ”

Xie Zhiyi was stunned for a moment, hesitated for a moment, and then replied: "Naturally, it is the Liu family, and it is the holy world!" The power of the monarch is divinely granted, and the Son of Heaven is obedient to heaven to calm all the people, this is common sense since ancient times. ”

In his heart, he secretly speculated about the reason for Zhen Guogong's question.

Hearing Xie Zhiyi's answer, Zhenguo Gong nodded with satisfaction and said with a smile: "Since Lord Xie knows that this world is a holy world, he shouldn't ask such a question. Whether it is Sun Shoufu or Han Taifu, they are both holy courtiers, so how can Lord Xie, who is also a holy courtier, not think of being loyal to the Son of Heaven, but choose one of the two of them to serve? ”

Xie Zhiyi was surprised when she heard this, pondered for a moment, got up and said, "Thank you Grandpa Guo for teaching me, otherwise, I'm afraid that the lower officials will go astray." ”

Zhen Guogong waved his hand with a smile and said: "It is said that Lord Xie is quick and resourceful, and Ben Shuai is just a casual remark, but the key is that Lord Xie is very enlightened and loyal to the king and loves the people." ”

Of course, these words have the meaning of praise and co-optation, but Zhen Guogong said it so frankly and selflessly, even Xie Zhiyi himself was not embarrassed to think too much.

I have to say that for Xie Zhiyi, such persuasion is much more effective than Sun Changyu's direct inducement to benefit from it.

Xie Zhiyi is eager to get promoted by clinging to the powerful, but after all, he is still a scholar with an orthodox education, and what he has received since he was a child is the idea of being loyal to the monarch and patriotism and taking the world as his own responsibility, which is the ethics he should have as a courtier, and it is also the bottom line.

At present, the Duke of Zhenguo inspired him to be loyal to the king and help the world, which is tantamount to giving him an excuse to break away from Sun Changyu, who was already suspicious of him, and change his path to make meritorious contributions.

——Since ancient times, people who want to face have been famous for everything they do.

And in this way, no matter where Xie Zhiyi goes in the future, when he reads today's oath, he will remember that he is a courtier of Emperor Kangping.

Seeing Xie Zhiyi's relieved face, Zhen Guogong was full of hesitation, and silently gave Han Yan a thumbs up in his heart.

Sure enough, they are all literati, and their thoughts on each other are more accurate than others!

But I didn't know that Han Yan's understanding of Xie Zhiyi was more from the experience of his previous life, rather than the background of a "scholar".

In his previous life, after Xie Zhiyi was a very popular minister, although he was also quite selfish and had done a lot of things that used power for personal gain, as long as it was a matter of principle, he never retreated from confusion about Jiangshan Sheji.

This is also the reason why Han Yan is willing to pull him up, instead of blindly guarding and suppressing him like he did with Sun Changyu.

Zhen Guogong and Xie Zhiyi reached a consensus, and Zhou Qiu, who had already stepped into the territory of Liaodong, also made up his mind that no matter how persuaded by the accompanying staff, he would never abolish the public for personal reasons, obey Sun Changyu's arrangement, and regard the project of digging iron and casting troops in Harrier Ridge as a bargaining chip for the wealth of the Sun and Zhou families.

Along the way, he was nagged by the staff all the way, and all the conspiracy theories that made him temporarily forbear, waiting for the opportunity to seize power, and slowly setting up Xie Zhiyi, Zhou Qiu only felt that his ears were about to hear the calluses.

The troubles in my heart will inevitably be revealed in the family letter.

Sun Changyin was already lovesick and sad because he was forced to part with Zhou Qiu and his wife when he was in love, but he just thought that this matter was related to Zhou Qiu's career promotion, so he had to forcibly hide the unhappiness and troubles in his heart, and stayed to take care of the children.

Until one time, he overheard Zhou Qiu's dissatisfaction with Sun Changyu's sending him to Harrier Ridge to fight for power and profit with Xie Zhiyi in his letter, Sun Changyin was shocked, and the depression and worry in his heart suddenly broke out.

Sun Changyin immediately took the child to the main courtyard, handed the child over to Zhou's mother to take care of her, and pretended to go back to her parents' house to visit Mrs. Sun, who was sick recently, packed a few boxes of supplements, and took a car straight to Sun's house.

When he arrived at Sun's house, Sun Changyin first went to comfort Mrs. Sun's condition as usual, and then went directly to her mother, Mrs. Sun, to cry.

"Qian'er is only so big, and it is when she needs her father to accompany and teach, how can her grandfather and father fight for power and profit for their own family, so they will send their husband to Harrier Ridge and other bitter cold and remote places? Don't care about our mother and son at all!

"Besides, the husband is pure-hearted and upright, and he has always disdained these people who are fighting against the court, and he is not good at dealing with them. But that Xie Zhiyi is a person who even dares to be a court calculator, and the husband is going to fight for power with him, and the good luck is uncertain, if something happens, how should our mother and son live alone in this world......

"Besides, didn't my grandfather and father force my husband to go against his nature and make him dirty his hands?! Raising such a son-in-law, did grandfather and father think about it for me? Think about Qian'er?

“……”

Sun Changyin was emotional, crying and complaining like a cannon, Mrs. Sun couldn't insert even if she wanted to, and she felt sorry for Sun Changyin's grievances and difficulties as a bride, so she could only write Sun Changyin, and she cried and complained.

Finally, when Sun Changyin had enough to cry and barely hold back her tears, Mrs. Sun held her shoulder with one hand, wiped her tears with a handkerchief with the other, and said distressedly: "My son, look at this pitiful crying appearance......

After that, he ordered the maid who was guarding outside to bring in water for Sun Changyin to freshen up.

Seeing that as soon as Sun Changyin came in, he mentioned with a look of anger and grievance that Zhou Qiu went to Harrier Ridge to take over the matter of digging iron and casting soldiers for the New Year, and Mrs. Sun's intuition was not good, so she quickly dismissed the people who were waiting in the house.

Fortunately, she sent everyone in the house out first, otherwise if the words that Sun Changyin said just now reached the ears of Sun Changyu and Sun Bingzhi, father and son, she didn't know what kind of reprimand she would have to reprimand!

When the maid brought the water in, Mrs. Sun dismissed her with her eyes and personally served Sun Changyin to freshen up.

After Sun Changyin washed her face and re-dressed her makeup, Mrs. Sun saw that her mood had stabilized, so she explained warmly: "Mother knows that you and Ziling's newlywed Yan'er are in love, and Qian'er is still too young, and the family is unwilling to separate......

"But you have to know that Ziling is not only your husband, Qian'er's father, but also the son of the Zhou family, young and promising, shouldering the heavy responsibilities and hopes of the entire Zhou family, so this time, Zhou Fuyin and your father-in-law will work with your grandfather and father to facilitate this matter."

Speaking of this, Mrs. Sun paused in a tone, raised her hand and touched Sun Changyin's bun, sighed, and said in a low voice: "You have to remember that you are not only the daughter of the Sun family now, but also the daughter-in-law of the Zhou family. You have to remember that Ziling went to Harrier Ziling to take over Qi Nian's iron digging and casting of soldiers, not only the meaning of the Sun family, but also the meaning of the Zhou family! ”

It is a matter of his own future, even if the Sun family's family is much higher than the Zhou family, if Sun Changyin, as a daughter-in-law, deliberately interferes in this matter, I am afraid that life will not be too easy.

Sun Changyin nodded, and said coquettishly: "I have always been able to distinguish the importance of the matter, and my mother doesn't know it. Otherwise, how could I hold back the bitterness in my stomach this time, and only dare to find an excuse to go home and cry to my mother? ”

Seeing that her daughter was not carried away by the momentary anger and resentment, Mrs. Sun nodded with satisfaction, patted Sun Changyin's hand and praised with a smile: "Good boy, I really wronged you!" ”

But good children will also have times when they can't suppress their emotions.

Sun Changyin has been accustomed to seeing Sun Changyu and Sun Bingzhi's father and son drill camp since he was a child, and Zhou Qiu has now gone north, everything has become a foregone conclusion, whether it is the Sun family or the Zhou family, they will definitely not change their minds to recall Zhou Qiu, so they can only retreat to the second, looking at Mrs. Sun with a hopeful face, and prayed earnestly: "Mother, you also said that the husband is the hope of the Zhou family, and he is not a member of the Sun family.

"Why don't you find a chance to talk to your father about when you replaced your husband with the children of the Sun family?"

Sun Changyin really didn't want Zhou Qiu to go to this troubled water, first, she didn't want to fall in love with Zhou Qiu, and second, and most importantly, she didn't want Zhou Qiu to wronged herself for her, which would make her feel sorry and uneasy.

If he hadn't married her, Zhou Qiu would not have been targeted and used by the Sun family, let alone accept the Sun family's arrangement against his will because he was worried about her.

Mrs. Sun sighed when she heard this, shook her head gently, and sighed in a low voice: "If the children of the Sun family are really as outstanding as Ziling, then such an important matter, do you think your grandfather and father will be willing to hand it over to Ziling to do?" ”

There is another point, Mrs. Sun didn't dare to say it to make her daughter sad.

Xie Zhiyi is ambitious and skillful, and it is extremely difficult to deal with, even Sun Changyu was stepped on by him last time because he was unprepared, not to mention that most of the nephews and nephews of the Sun family in their later lives are mediocre in their qualifications, and they are not his opponents, and they will be Xie Zhiyi's stepping stone if they go.

And even if the Sun family has one or two talented juniors, Sun Changyu will definitely be reluctant to send them to gnaw Xie Zhiyi's difficult bone now, lest they "die young" and the Sun family has no successor.

To put it bluntly, Zhou Qiu, like Xie Zhiyi, is just a chess piece for Sun Changyu to fight for the family's wealth and extinction. The difference is that Zhou Qiu, as the son-in-law of the Sun family, is also in love with Sun Changyin, which is easier to control than Xie Zhiyi.

Mrs. Sun looked at Sun Changyin, who was disappointed, and couldn't help but secretly rejoice that her youngest daughter was spoiled by herself when she was a child, innocent and ignorant of the world, otherwise if she figured out the stakes, she wouldn't know how sad and sad she would.

Calculated by loved ones, the pain will be more deadly than the enemy's infliction.

Sun Changyin returned from Sun's house in vain and was depressed for a long time.

It wasn't until he received a letter from Zhou Qiu from Harrier Ridge, saying that he was all right, and asked if she and her son were okay, that Sun Changyin suddenly woke up from her sadness.

Yes, she only remembered that she was sad, how could she forget that her son also left his father, and he needed his love and care more when he was young?

As a mother, Sun Changyin, after thinking about it, took care of her son attentively, did everything himself, and was determined to cultivate him to be a man who was as elegant and upright as his father.

Since she can't go to Harrier Ridge to accompany Zhou Qiu, she should concentrate on taking care of his family for him, so that he has no worries and can concentrate on dealing with Xie Zhiyi consistently, so as not to be distracted by Xie Zhiyi because he remembers his family.

Sun Changyin wrote down his thoughts in a letter and sent it to Harrier Ridge.

Zhou Qiu couldn't smile bitterly after receiving the letter, but his heart was warm and sweet because of Sun Changyin's understanding and support.