Chapter 11:

"Xiao Jiu, do you already know?"
When Queen Wei asked, Qin Jiao nodded.
She half-dropped her eyes and said, "Since I was young, they have always beaten and scolded me as they wanted. I did all the work at home, but they never gave me a good face. "
"In order to exchange Li Jiabao for a place in county school, they sold me to the Xu family fool. I didn't want to. She beat me. Even if I was beaten to death, I deserved it. At that time, a thin sheet was wrapped up. Throw it away."
"That day, Zhao Aman beat me out and then went out. I secretly heard Li Jinzhu persuade me to say that I was also Miss Qin at any rate. I was really beaten to death. If someone from the Qin family finds someone in the future, they will bear it. Sorry."
"Only then did I know that I was not theirs, my surname was Qin."
"Qin Jiu is the name I gave myself."
Qin Jiu said half-truth and half-false. At that time, when she was running the road guide, she had never thought of going back to the Hou Mansion, so she simply used her real name "Qin Jiu", which could not hide her. Therefore, under the guise of "hearing", she poke the loopholes in her name to the clear.
The more Queen Wei listened, the more annoyed she became, and she couldn't help making a serious shot.
"hateful!"
Her heart felt like being slammed by an invisible palm.
How could there be such abominable people in this world, their daughters grew up in Hou Mansion, but they didn't treat other people's daughters well, behaved like cows, and humiliated and hurt them at will.
If this little girl ran away cleverly and was really married to a fool, wouldn't her marriage and the rest of her life be ruined by them!
Thinking of this, Queen Wei couldn't help but want to break the Li family to pieces!
It's a pity that the couple committed homicide, left their homes, and escaped.
Empress Wei endured the pain in her heart and barely maintained the smile on her face, she gently touched the top of Qin Jiao's hair.
A little girl of this age should have black and soft hair, but the touch of her palm is frizzy and dry. This girl is too bitter!
"Mrs. Gu."
The little girl's delicate voice interrupted Queen Wei's thoughts, and she saw her holding her slap-sized face, her black and pure apricot eyes unblinking, and asked with difficulty: "You said, you are my aunt. Then who is my father and mother? Why... why do they not want me?"
Empress Wei sighed and said, "You are the first-in-law of the Qin family's house in the Zhongyi Hou Mansion, and the second-in-law of the Qin family."
She took Qin Jiu's cold little hand, and told her about the past one-to-one, but she concealed all the things that were almost abolished when the emperor was a prince, and simply summed it up as Qin's exile because of being framed by others. , This entrusted the newborn child.
"...After the Qin family was rehabilitated, they sent someone to pick you up, but they didn't expect that they would replace you with their daughter."
"It turned out to be like this..." Qin Jiao suddenly realized.
After a while, she asked, "Mrs. Gu, who else is in my family? Will parents dislike me?"
Qin Jiu's expression was a little disturbed. Empress Wei patted her hand, smiled and soothed a few words, and then said: "Your father and mother are no longer there. You have a brother and a brother. Your eldest brother is called Qin Ze Ning, your younger brother is Qin Zeyu. As for the others in the Qin family..."
Queen Wei's face was cold for a moment, and then she smiled again, and said, "It's just the uncle in the next room. You don't need to care about their likes and dislikes. Your grandfather has passed away, but your grandmother is still paying. You do more on weekdays. You just need to do the work on the face. Just like that, you don’t need to care about the likes and dislikes of the others in the Qin family. Everything has its own basis... your own aunt will be the master for you."
Qin Jiao nodded, and said in his heart: I want to come, Queen Wei also knows the Qin family's determination to lean against the second prince.
"Good." Empress Wei said with gentle eyebrows, "Your maternal ancestor's surname is Wei, from a family of hairpins. There were two chief assistants from his ancestors, four chief officials in Xinjiang, and eleven were among the top three. Jinshi, there are too many to mention, it's definitely not a small family."
Speaking of Wei's family, Queen Wei's eyebrows were full of pride.
"Your maternal grandfather is currently the governor of Jiangnan and is now in office. You look exactly like your mother. If your grandfather and grandmother see you, they will definitely recognize you. I will recognize you at a glance, but you are much thinner than your mother when she was a child. ..."
Looking at the small and thin face of the little girl in front of her, thinking of the scars all over her body, Queen Wei's nose was sour, and tears that had been restrained came from the corners of her eyes.
Her younger sister suffered from exile at the same age as the flower, and it was this daughter who was thinking of her before she died.
And she! Over the years, he has held the counterfeit in his hand and pampered!
Self-blame and annoyance entangled in Queen Wei's heart like vines.
Qin Jiao took out a veil, gently wiped the tears on her cheeks for Queen Wei, and comforted: "...Auntie don't cry."
The cry of her "aunt" was jerky and difficult, but it made Queen Wei's tears flow down even more.
She hugged Qin Jiu again, like a lost treasure, and choked with sobs: "Good boy...good boy, my aunt won't let you suffer anymore."
Queen Wei’s body has always been bad, and she is most afraid of being overwhelmed with joy and compassion. The mother Xu hurriedly persuaded: "Madam, it is a great thing for you to recognize your cousin. How can you cry? You should be happy!"
"Madam, you look at the girl who was scared by you."
Empress Wei watched the little girl staring at herself intently, a pair of bright apricot eyes that were very similar to her, a little at a loss.
Empress Wei smiled, took the rough hand of the little girl, and said, "Xiao Jiu, come back to Beijing with me."
"But..." Qin Jiu showed hesitation and looked around, "Auntie, I just rented this shop."
She was a little bit reluctant. Although it was a "acting", it was a little bit arranged by herself, and it took some effort.
"It's okay." Queen Wei said with a smile, "Let this shop first. In the future, you can let a reliable steward come here to take care of you."
She thought to herself that she would simply buy this shop for the child.
Empress Wei persuaded him affectionately for a while, and Qin Jiao finally responded.
So, at noon that day, after Qin Jiu cleaned up, they set off on their way.
This place is thirty miles away from the capital. Empress Wei shouldn't have come here in person, so that Mother Xu would announce Qin Jiu. But she was anxious, and worried that Qin Jiao would be thinking wildly, so she would have to make a trip by herself. The emperor has always loved her, so he didn't stop him, and only sent some guards to her out of the palace.
The group hurriedly followed all the way, and finally arrived in the capital before dark, and a carriage directly entered the imperial city.
On the way, Queen Wei had already told Qin Jiu about her identity and asked her to stay in the palace for a few days.
The carriage stopped in front of the palace gate, and Mother Xu handed over the token to the guard.
Not far away, a figure in a royal blue brocade robe was in front of the palace. He described handsome, tall and straight, staring in the direction of the carriage with a dazed expression, and took a step subconsciously, but took it abruptly. go back.
When the carriage entered the palace gate, Qin Jiu followed the queen onto the sedan chair and reached Fengluan Palace all the way.
"Queen..."
A small figure ran out of the hall, ran down the stone steps, and ran happily towards Queen Wei.
The boy's fair and handsome face was filled with undisguised joy, and it was the Sixth Prince Gu Ju.
"Yi'er," Empress Wei also smiled, smiling from her heart, "This is your cousin."
"Cousin." Gu Yu exclaimed lively, her big eyes flickering, and she looked at her curiously. He still remembered that Qin Jiu rescued him from the lake, and his eyes were close when he looked at her.
Qin Jiu's hands were itchy, and he raised his hand to touch the top of his soft hair.
"Xiao Jiu, he has a single name of "瑧". Your cousins ​​don't have to be too restrictive, you just call him Ju'er." Queen Wei smiled at the two of them, "Let's go in first."
Gu Yu took out a pine nuts from his purse and handed it to Qin Jiu, "Cousin, eat."
The little guy was so innocent that day that Qin Jiu's heart was crisp, and the sugar in his mouth seemed to be sweeter.
"Xiao Jiu, you will live here for a while. When the Qin family is settled, you will go back." Empress Wei flashed a glint in her eyes, and said nonchalantly, "This palace will take care of your mother. your."
Before Queen Wei went out to pick up Qin Jiu, she ordered her servants to prepare a room and corresponding clothes and jewelry for her in the Piandian, hoping that her niece would live comfortably in the palace.
"Okay," Gu Ju raised his face excitedly, his eyes sparkling, "Cousin, you live here with your mother, so you can play with me."
Qin Jiu responded with a smile. At this moment, a Qingyi court lady came to report: "The empress, the imperial concubine, please see me."
She had just returned to the palace when the imperial concubine got the news. A sneer appeared at the corner of Queen Wei's mouth, and she declined quietly: "My palace is busy, no see."
The lady of Tsing Yi retired.
Qin Jiao lowered his eyes slightly, his eyes flickering.
In the novel, the emperor has deep feelings. The emperor has been selected for ten years after he became the throne. Among the four concubines, only noble concubines and Shu concubines were established. Compared with the other emperors of the Daqi Dynasty, the harem is quiet.
If it were not for the six princes who were young and in poor health, the courtiers would not have been fighting for Li Chang and Li Yuan.
The imperial concubine was the biological mother of the second prince Gu Jing.
Qin Jiu couldn't help but think of the six princes falling into the water in Xiaojing Lake. It is conceivable that if Gu Zhu drowned that day, then the biggest beneficiary would be the second prince Gu Jing.
During this period, in addition to investigating her own life experience, Queen Wei must have also investigated the incident of Gu Yu's fall into the water, presumably Queen Wei was already suspecting the imperial concubine mother and child.
"Niang Niang." Mother Xu glanced at the sky, and said with a smile while taking advantage of this gap, "Master Qin is still waiting outside the palace gate, Xu is waiting for the girl."
"Zerning has a heart." Empress Wei said with a slight chin, instructing the in charge, "Yu Ping, go and tell him, this palace will stay with Xiaojiu for a while."
"Slaves obey orders."
Yu Ping, the in charge of Fengluan Palace, led out.
As soon as he went out, Yu Ping saw a glamorous woman in her early thirties kneeling outside Fengluan Palace in thin clothes, her slender figure trembling in the autumn wind.
Pretend! Yu Ping snorted coldly, and quickly walked past the concubine.