"That's the way it is."

After Haitang told his brother Haijiao the information revealed by Zhou Wenjun, he fell silent.

The reef was slow to speak.

Ma took his two grandchildren to visit Mrs. Wednesday at the Zhenguo Mansion and did not stay long. An hour later, she got up and said goodbye, taking away the reef that had already mixed with the children of the Zhou family, as well as the begonia who had just exchanged information with Zhou Wenjun and Zhou Yijun's cousins.

When I got home, the time was still far from lunch, and Ma called my second daughter-in-law, Hu, Aunt Cui, and Aunt Ma's two confidants to discuss housework in the main room together, and Ma Changnian's family took their daughter Grape to work in the needlework room. Haitang changed his clothes and ran to his brother's room on the reef, under the pretext of reading a few books he had newly bought, but in fact he wanted to tell him the news as soon as possible.

The reef was very unexpected. He didn't expect that Jin Jiashu's life experience from the mouth of the Zhou family would be like this.

Jin Jiashu is not the biological son of Concubine Xu Xian and her ex-husband, but the orphan of her sister?

Concubine Xu Xian is not a concubine who married into the palace for the second time, and it was her sister who married someone?

There is a reason why Concubine Xu Xian cares about Jin Jiashu; Empress Dowager Zhou would write to her mother's brother, and there was a reason for the Zhou family to shelter the Jin family; There is also a reason why Sun Guifei would let the Sun family send a killer to assassinate the Jin family; Even when Jin Jiashu was first rescued, he once tried to hide his identity and did not dare to admit that he was the son of the Jin family.

Because his mother Jin Xu was once the nurse prepared by the Wu family for Empress Wu, who was about to give birth, she experienced the fire in Kunning Palace on the day she entered the palace and knew the truth about Sun Guifei's murder of Empress Wu's mother and son. Because Jin Xu had a sister who served by the Empress Dowager Zhou's side, he was able to get out of the palace safely by the grace of the Empress Dowager Zhou, but he also died of fear. Before she died, she told her husband's family about her experience, so Jin Juren fled the capital in a panic, and because of the guidance of the Empress Dowager Zhou, she abandoned her family and business and ran all the way to Chang'an to seek refuge in the Zhenguo Mansion.

Even if the Sun family would send a killer to kill the Jin family, it was not necessarily because of Sun Guifei's jealousy and hatred for Concubine Xu Xian, maybe they just wanted to kill people? The father and son of the Jin family knew about their crime of killing the queen and the prince back then, how could they allow these two living witnesses to exist in the world?

In the past, they didn't know about the existence of the Jin family's father and son, so that's it. Now that Concubine Xu Xian acted carelessly and leaked the news, of course they have to take action.

Now it is not what it used to be, and now there is an old protégé of Wu Wenzhenggong in the court, and Sun Ge has been in power for many years and has already made countless enemies. The Sun family has lost an heir who can continue the family's wealth and glory, and has not been able to help King Ji return to the royal family, and the future is bleak. Those who hate the Sun family will definitely seize every opportunity to attack the Sun family and completely pull Sun Ge Lao off the horse. How could the Sun family leave such an obvious handle in the world?

Everything is so logical. If it weren't for the reef to live again, knowing what would happen in the future, I was afraid that I would really believe it.

After he was silent for a long time, he raised his head and said, "This is a lie." If Jin Jiashu's biological mother was really just Concubine Xu Xian's sister, not Concubine Xu Xianfei herself, why didn't she deny it when rumors spread in the capital in her previous life? She also treated the Jin family so kindly, as if she owed them a debt. If it was only her brother-in-law's family, could she be so nice to them?! ”

Haitang said: "Of course I believe in my brother. Not to mention anything else, if Concubine Xu Xian's relationship with the Jin family is really so open, she can ask the emperor to give Jin Jiashu a little favor, at least don't let him continue to suffer from the harsh treatment of his father and stepmother. But Concubine Xu Xian has been a concubine for several years, and the eight princes are all four years old, and Jin Jiashu still has new traces of labor on his hands!

"If she can protect her nephew openly, how can the Jin family treat Jin Jiashu like that? It is precisely because this relationship cannot be delved into that she is unable to protect this child. I think...... In the Jin family's hometown, whether Concubine Xu Xian has sisters or not, many people should know. Because Concubine Xu Xian couldn't publicize her background, the Jin family didn't take Jin Jiashu seriously. ”

Hai Jiao nodded: "In the previous life, no one discussed Empress Dowager Xu's life experience. Everyone knows that she is from Cining Palace, but they don't know what year she entered the palace and how she got in. It has been many years since the palace has selected palace people among the people...... Zhou Wenjun only said that she entered the palace in her early years, but he couldn't tell which year it was. ”

This is not normal. Concubine Xu Xiangui is the mother of the prince, but she doesn't even have a serious relative, and her parents' posthumous sealing is very low-key, and it has never spread all over the world. Basically, no one knew where her hometown was, and thought she was the daughter of a commoner in Gyeonggi. It wasn't until later that she raised the second room of the Jin family, and the world knew that it was a relative of her ex-husband, so she knew her origin.

At present, even if Concubine Xu Xian gave birth to the only surviving heir of the emperor's etiquette, she did not publicize her origin, and her hometown parents did not celebrate this. This is not because she is low-key, or because she is suppressed by Sun Guifei and does not dare to publicize. It's because people in her hometown know very well whether Concubine Xu Xian has sisters, know who she once married, and is a married woman. Plus Jin Juren was still alive at the time...... How dare she preach it? This is not a decent and honorable thing.

Haitang asked in a low voice: "Did the Empress Dowager Zhou lie in the letter, or did Zhenguo Gong deliberately make up this lie in order to save the emperor's respect?" “

Haijiao groaned: "I think...... It should be what the Empress Dowager Zhou said in her letter......"

If the Empress Dowager Zhou instructed the Jin family to come to Chang'an to join the Zhou family, and also informed the emperor and Concubine Xu Xian at the same time, she would not need to let her own brother know the emperor's handle. It is not a good reputation for the monarch to take the wife of a minister, and the emperor wants face, how can he be willing to let the Zhou family know his shortcomings? He has been jealous of the Zhou family for a long time, and now that the relationship has finally eased a little, there is really no need for the Empress Dowager Zhou to add a new thorn between them.

Moreover, the emperor obviously intends to pass on the throne to the eighth prince born to Concubine Xu Xian, so the Zhou family may become a help for the new monarch to sit on the throne. Let the Zhou family know that Concubine Xu Xian is a second marriage, and she once abandoned her husband and children, what is the benefit? With the temper of the Zhou family, will they maintain respect for the prince and his biological mother?

It doesn't matter whether Concubine Xu Xian is married for the first time or for the second time, the important thing is that she is now the biological mother of the eighth prince, and the eighth prince is about to become the prince. Then, for the sake of the overall situation, neither Emperor Deguang nor the Empress Dowager Zhou had any reason to let the Zhou family know too much of the truth.

As for the Jin family, as long as the Zhou family can shelter them and live in peace, is it necessary for Jin Juren to talk more? He doesn't talk much, so who would chew his tongue nosy and preach to people that Kim Jiashu is not Concubine Heo's nephew, but her son?

Haijiao whispered, "Actually...... If this lie could be sustained, I'd rather no one tell the truth. If the world didn't know that Concubine Xu Xian was originally a married woman, they would not question the qualifications of the new monarch to succeed to the throne. Sun Ge Lao and King Ji have fewer reasons to live, and there are fewer disputes in the world. Even for Jin Jiashu himself, it is better to let people know that he is the son of the Queen Mother and her ex-husband, and it is better to be the nephew of the Queen Mother! ”

Haitang blinked: "I'm afraid that the Sun family will already know his true identity, and sooner or later they will use this matter as a bargaining chip to attack Concubine Xu Xian and prevent the emperor from appointing the eighth prince as the prince." ”

Haijiao raised his eyebrows: "But Concubine Xu Xian is not without bargaining chips." He smiled meaningfully, "She also holds the handle of Sun Guifei, doesn't she?" ”

Although the Empress Dowager Zhou lied to the Zhou family, one thing should be true - when the Kunning Palace was on fire that year, there was indeed a nurse who had not yet been registered and escaped into the Cining Palace and was rescued by the Empress Dowager Zhou.

(End of chapter)