Outside the gate of Zhou Mansion.

"His Royal Highness King Qi is here, it really makes the humble house flourish."

Zhou Yan heard that Qi Wang Xiao Jie came to visit, although he didn't know the purpose of the other party's visit, he didn't dare to be negligent, and went out to meet him personally.

Ever since he became the General of Youjinwuwei, these days have been full of things, he was so busy that he couldn't keep his feet on the ground. Today, he took a break at home to rest. Unexpectedly, Xiao Jie ran to the door, but no matter what, the other party was a nobleman from Tianhuang, Zhou Yan It's not easy to offend, so I can only cheer up and go out to meet Xiao Jie.

Xiao Jie looked at Zhou Yan secretly, and confirmed that he also had single eyelids. He immediately felt confident, smiled slightly, and said: "General Zhou is polite, I just came to congratulate General Zhou on being promoted to General of Youjinwuwei."

Zhou Yan couldn't help being a little surprised when he heard the words, he had been promoted to General of Youjinwuwei for some time, and his relatives, friends and good colleagues in the court and China had all congratulated them, it was somewhat late for Xiao Jie to come to congratulate him now.

Zhou Yan instinctively felt that Xiao Jie had other ideas when he came, and he was also a little uneasy. After all, now everyone knows that General Gao Yang of Zuo Jinwuwei is biased towards him because of the life-saving grace of King Xiao Jie of Qi. Having too close contacts with Qi Wang Xiao Jie, it is inevitable that he will easily fall into the shoes of others. If it is serious, it may even attract the jealousy of the emperor. He thinks that he is a general of the imperial army but befriends the prince, and has ulterior motives.

Also, Zhou Yan had heard rumors to some extent. King Qi seemed to have some opinion on him before, insisting that Wang Chong, who was in power at the time, send him to Yangzhou to pacify the chaos in Shanyue. After returning to Luoyang, he was promoted to General Youjinwuwei.

Although Zhou Yan himself didn't know whether the news was true or not, but Xiao Jie suddenly took the liberty to visit, and he was also worried that he came here to make him unhappy.

But now Xiao Jie has arrived outside the gate of his Zhou mansion, even though he felt uneasy, Zhou Yan still politely thanked Xiao Jie for his congratulations out of courtesy, and invited Xiao Jie to sit in the mansion.

Zhou Yan originally wanted to take Xiao Jie to the expensive guest room, but Xiao Jie expressed inexplicably that it was also his first time as a guest in Zhou Mansion, and he wanted to walk around.

Although Zhou Yan said that he didn't understand what medicine Xiao Jie sold in the gourd, but he didn't want to take Xiao Jie's face off, so he could only accompany Xiao Jie and show him around.

The Zhou mansion occupies a large area, and it has been around for some years. It was rewarded to Zhou Xin by Emperor Yu Wensheng at the weekend. After Zhou Xin surrendered to Daning, this mansion was preserved for the descendants of the Zhou family to continue to live in.

Now that Zhou Xin and Zhou Yan's father, Zhou Yun, has passed away, the huge Zhou Mansion only has Zhou Yan, his mother Dou Shi, and more than a dozen family servants, which seems a bit deserted.

Xiao Jie wandered around the Zhou Mansion aimlessly, Zhou Yan followed closely behind, not long after, they walked to the backyard, there was a Guanyin Hall in front of them, and the sound of wooden fish and chanting could be heard in the distance.

Xiao Jie seemed to be interested, and took the initiative to tease Zhou Yan: "Unexpectedly, General Zhou is a military general who likes to chant scriptures and Buddha at home when he is attacking and fighting outside."

Zhou Yan shook his head, and said with a smile: "Your Highness is joking, a certain Zhou is a martial artist, where can I go to find the Buddha and ask... It is because my mother believes in Buddhism, so when my father was alive, he specially set up a Guanyin in the house. The hall, where more than a dozen nuns are supported, serves as a place for my mother to meditate and worship the Buddha."

Xiao Jie nodded slightly, and said with a smile: "As the saying goes, 'When you meet a temple, you burn incense, and when you meet a Buddha, you worship Buddha'. Since there is a Guanyin Hall in the Zhou Mansion, I naturally want to go in and burn incense."

Zhou Yan was taken aback again when he heard the words. Although he said that he had never had any dealings with Xiao Jie before, he had also heard that Xiao Jie's behavior was somewhat deviant, and he did not look like a sincere worshiper.

But since Xiao Jie had already voluntarily opened his mouth, Zhou Yan couldn't refuse, so he had to bring Xiao Jie into the Guanyin Hall.

As soon as the two entered the main hall, more than a dozen nuns in the hall stopped their movements and bowed to Zhou Yan and Xiao Jie one by one, and then continued to knock on their own wooden fish and recite Buddhist scriptures in their mouths.

Only a woman in Haiqing and a nun's hat has not looked back, and is still concentrating on knocking wooden fish and reciting Buddhist scriptures.

Xiao Jie noticed that the hair protruding from her nun's hat was obviously a female layman who practiced with hair, and she probably was Zhou Yan's mother, Dou Shi.

Xiao Jie and Zhou Yan didn't bother Mrs. Dou either, they went up to offer a stick of incense silently, and then left the Guanyin Hall silently, but before leaving the Guanyin Hall, Xiao Jie pretended to glance at Mrs Dou behind him inadvertently, and immediately saw that Unlike Zhou Yan, she has double eyelids.

As soon as the two of them left the main hall, Zhou Yan said to Xiao Jie with some embarrassment: "Your Highness, don't be surprised, my mother always does this when she worships the Buddha, and she didn't intend to be rude to Your Highness."

"General Zhou is serious. Lingtang is just worshiping the Buddha. He doesn't care about your son. It's normal for him to ignore me as a guest." Anyway, the goal has been achieved, Xiao Jie in turn comforted Zhou Yan not to think too much.

The two wandered around the Zhou mansion for a while, and after a while they came to a building with flying eaves and arched beams in the east courtyard. Xiao Jie saw at a glance that this should be the ancestral hall of the Zhou family, where the spiritual tablets of several generations of Zhou family ancestors were enshrined.

"I have heard about the prestige of the ancestor Zhou Xin for a long time. Since I have come to the ancestral hall of the Zhou family today, I think it is God's will. Naturally, I also want to go in and offer a stick of incense." Xiao Jie suddenly raised a question that Zhou Yan thought was somewhat confusing. Require.

Zhou Yan was getting more and more confused about Xiao Jie's reason for coming, he said that he was here to congratulate him on being promoted to General of the Right Jinwu Guard, but he refused to enter the noble guest room for a sip of tea, he just wanted to accompany him to turn right at the mansion.

Zhou Yan originally thought that Xiao Jie had something to say to himself while walking, but along the way, Xiao Jie just exchanged greetings with him, without a word of nonsense, as if he had something serious to talk about.

What made Zhou Yan even more puzzled was why Xiao Jie was so interested in offering incense today, whether it was offering incense to Guanyin Bodhisattva or offering incense to his own ancestors.

But since Xiao Jie had spoken, Zhou Yan couldn't refuse, so he had to lead Xiao Jie into the ancestral hall, the innermost family temple.

In the center of the family temple is a large desk, which is densely packed with memorial tablets of ancestors of the Zhou family for the descendants of the Zhou family to pay homage to.

The remaining three walls are densely hung with portraits of the ancestors of the Zhou family, for the descendants of the Zhou family to pay their respects to their ancestors.

After offering incense to the ancestors of the Zhou family, Xiao Jie had no intention of leaving immediately. Instead, he walked around the family temple and looked at the portraits of the ancestors of the Zhou family.

Xiao Jie quickly found Zhou Xin's portrait, stopped to look at it, and said with emotion: "Old General Zhou is really as majestic as in the legend."

Although Zhou Yan didn't know why Xiao Jie praised his grandfather Zhou Xin for no reason, he still instinctively replied modestly: "Your Highness is too praised."

What he didn't know was that from the corner of Xiao Jie's eyes, he had inadvertently looked at the portrait of his father Zhou Yun.

Xiao Jie could see clearly that Zhou Yun in the portrait also had double eyelids.

The knowledge of biogenetics he learned before traveling told him that if both parents have double eyelids, it is absolutely impossible to give birth to a son with single eyelids.

Therefore, Zhou Yan is definitely not Zhou Yun's son.

He had already sent someone to investigate in private before. Not long after the Zhou Dynasty fell, a lieutenant around Zhou Xin did not hesitate to betray Zhou Xin for the sake of glory and wealth. Zhou Xin...

In the end, under the pressure of Taizu Ning, Zhou Xin handed over the orphan of the royal family of the Zhou Dynasty, and Taizu Ning also wanted to show his tolerance and generosity, and let the past go.

But the strange thing is that since handing over the baby, Zhou Xin has been at odds with his son Zhou Yun and his son, while his daughter-in-law Dou Shi suddenly focuses on worshiping Buddha and no longer cares about mundane affairs.

Now it seems that everything can be explained. It must be that Zhou believed in the old master. In order to preserve the last blood of the Zhou family, he did not hesitate to hand over his own grandson as the orphan of the Zhou family...

And Zhou Yan is the orphan of the Zhou family who survived, and he is Yu Wenxuan's brother!

Xiao Jie secretly sighed in his heart that the world is really impermanent, if not for her appearance, Yu Wenxuan would have killed her only family member with her own hands...

The author of the original book is also a ruthless person. In order to create a chance for Yu Wenxuan and Xiao Huang to meet each other, she actually asked her brother to sacrifice...

But what is difficult now is how to convince Yu Wenxuan that Zhou Yan is her real brother.

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