The group’s favorite Xiao Long Bao: seven brothers and uncles love it to the extreme

In the years since Qin Qi was away, the small courtyard where their mother and son lived had long been covered with weeds. This was originally the most remote small courtyard of Duke Anguo's mansion, and it was also desolate at this time.

When Qin Qi returned here, he instantly recalled the situation of their mother and son in the mansion.

In addition to this most remote small courtyard, there are at least six or seven rooms for concubines in the Duke's mansion. As for those who have no status, there are even more.

There are many concubines, and there are also many children from concubines.

Some of them are even older than Qin Qi, and they were all born before Qin Mu married Song Jiaolan.

The concubine children in this courtyard made the relationship in the backyard of An Guo Gong's mansion complicated and plotting against each other.

Qin Qi came back alone as a teenager. Although he had the title of a prince, there were always people who wanted to kill him quietly.

In just the first month after returning, he was assassinated more than a dozen times.

If he hadn't been practicing martial arts with several children of the Chang family since he was six years old, he might have been harmed.

Not long after returning home, Qin Qi asked his father to get back his mother's dowry.

Because there is a dowry list, there is no fear of Qin Mu encroaching on it. Moreover, although Anguo Gong's mansion is filled with filth and evil, the money is not bad. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have the money to support such a big family and feed hundreds of people.

After Qin Qi got his mother's dowry, he did not immediately go looking for what his mother said. Instead, he went to see the gold and silver jewelry first, and then sent someone to call the steward to collect the profits from the shop under his mother's name over the years.

In fact, there is not much money.

Guan Jiatui said that business has not been doing well in recent years, and bullied him because he was a child and did not understand such things, so he took out a thousand taels of silver notes, saying that it was the income from these years.

Qin Qi sneered in his heart.

Several of his mother's shops were given to her mother by Zeng Chang's aunt, and most of the goods sold there were sold together with her aunt's shop.

It's only a thousand taels, but several shops can earn more than that in a year, let alone so much.

However, Qin Qi's mind was clear, and his face showed a look of surprise and greed. He grabbed the dozen banknotes and waved away the steward.

Even after the steward left, his play did not stop, but continued.

Qin Qi's performance made the manager turn his head and secretly curled his lips, cursing in his heart that this person who was raised under someone else's roof was indeed unworthy of the stage. A mere thousand taels of silver, and yet he showed such a petty expression.

The steward reported everything he saw to Duke An one by one. Seeing Duke An chuckle, and thinking about the money he had gained, he boldly said, "Young Master Qi is really blind, with only this little money... ...I'm afraid that the Chang family is also kind-hearted and trying to gain a good reputation on the surface, but in fact it's not good for Master Qi. I'm afraid that they can't even touch money, so they develop..."

"Okay." Duke An Guo interrupted the steward with a wave of his hand, "Send someone to keep an eye on the young master."

I don’t know what the manager is doing, but he is An Guogong’s loyal dog, the kind who doesn’t panic even if he steals the money from Qin Qi’s mother’s dowry shop. So after hearing this, the steward nodded and went to make arrangements.

Half a year after returning to An Guo Gong's mansion, An Guo Gong tried many words on Qin Qi and wanted to ask him if he knew anything.

In fact, Qin Qi did not know anything. He was still young at that time. He only knew that his mother was getting weaker day by day.

But as for the mother who discovered her own father's secret and was poisoned and gradually weakened and died, not even Mrs. Chang found out at the time, let alone his child.

It's just that Qin Qi remembers what his mother said before she died. He believes that a woman like his mother would never say such words for no reason.

Apparently An Guogong also remembered this incident. He pretended to casually ask Qin Qi what games he played with his mother when he was a child.

Qin Qi pretended to be confused, frowned and lowered his head and thought a lot. Finally he shook his head and said that it was just some horse racing games on tree branches, and he couldn't remember the rest.

Duke An Guo asked him how he had been living in Uncle Yuan's Mansion in Changjiazhen these years.

Qin Qi looked confused again, saying that he was staying at someone else's house, and it was fine for a day or two, but it would not be a good life after a long time.

Duke An Guo believed this.

He himself was such a hypocritical person, so he would naturally not think too well of others. He sneered and secretly thought that the Chang family was really using this incident to build a good reputation.

After half a year of this, Duke An Guo gradually relaxed his surveillance of Qin Qi.

When Qin Qi said this, he couldn't help looking at Mrs. Chang apologetically, "Aunt, it's all my fault. I deliberately said this and deliberately kept the relationship with the Chang family cold. In fact, I miss those years so much. .”

"I know, I know everything." Madam Chang hugged Qin Qi and shed tears.

He was raised as his own child and has not seen her many times over the years. The last time she saw her was when she found Yi'er.

"and after?"

"That guy was very vigilant. It took me many years to make him believe me, and I also found the evidence that my mother had hidden. Later, I wanted to hand these things over to the Holy One, but unfortunately, that guy's spies were everywhere. , I have no choice but to take a roundabout way."

"Stop talking about this, what's going on with Yi'er? And where are your wife and children?" If Mrs. Chang remembers correctly, Chang Yi has been married for more than ten years and has several children. "Your two sons and one Where’s the girl?”

"Those...are not my children."

"What?" Mrs. Chang was suddenly startled and her voice couldn't help but become louder.

Even the Holy Lord, who was playing with Long Baoer next to him, couldn't help but pricked up his ears.

"That woman had an affair with someone before marriage. That person is Qin Mu's most beloved son, Qin Shu's woman outside."

Mrs. Chang recalled it.

If we do not count Qin Mu's two concubines before he got married, Qin Shu ranks third, three years younger than Qin Qi.

I heard that he had always been favored by Qin Mu, but he didn't know why he gave up his woman to Qin Qi.

"Does Qin Mu know about this?"

"Of course they know. They want Qin Shu's child to become the next An Guogong in an upright manner. As for me, I will be the heir apparent until the eldest child reaches adulthood."

After adulthood?

The old lady didn't ask. She already knew and naturally wanted to get rid of it.

The Yujin Dynasty was still very strict about the inheritance and management of titles.

The calendar states that only legitimate sons can inherit the title. If there is no legitimate son, no matter how many bastards there are, they cannot be crowned heirs.

This is a constraint of the royal family.

But according to another calendar, concubines cannot be corrected.

Therefore, if Qin Shu wants to become the crown prince, it will never be possible in this life.

That's why Qin Mu and Qin Shu's father and son came up with such a way to prevent Li Daitao from being frozen.