A piece of Japanese incense

Chapter 167 Dog Dad's Background

"How did you figure out that I was intending to drive you away? After all, you are my blood relative, how could I abandon you at this moment!" His raised eyebrows twisted into a knot.

Zhi Yihe bit his lower lip, lowered his head, and folded his hands on his knees. He smiled embarrassedly: "Oh~ I heard you mention your identity and my situation. I thought you were worried that I would drag you down, hehe~"

Zhi Yihe walked to the end and stood up, massaging his shoulders flatteringly: "Uncle, you're the best. So, in your opinion, how can we get to Leyu now?"

Seeing this, Jinqi's expression softened a little, and he let Zhi Yihe pat his shoulders: "Didn't I tell you before? Don't call me cousin anymore. Our identities must not be discovered by others. If they do, I will lose my job, and we will be left without a supporter in the court."

"I think being an official is meaningless," Zhi Yihe muttered to himself. Then, an idea flashed through his mind, his eyes curved into crescents, and he ran to Jinqi and said with a smile, "Uncle! Why don't you quit your official position and take Yutuan and me to Leyu? With your intelligence and talent, it would be a piece of cake for you to run a business. Oh! It would be so easy!"

As if he hadn't expected it, Jinqi looked at the curve of her lips and said slowly, "Aren't you going to look for your father? You don't care about Zhiyu and Tingzhu anymore?"

The light in Zhi Yihe's eyes instantly went out. After hesitating for a while, he whispered, "Isn't it said that the new emperor is kind? After all, we are blood relatives, so he should treat them well."

"So you don't care about your father's wish?"

Zhi Yihe thought of what Gou Die had mentioned before, about wanting to find his grandmother. His heart tightened, he heaved a long sigh, and murmured, "Emperor Zhaoding has been locked up, where can I find my grandmother's whereabouts?"

Jinqi leaned forward, his mouth slightly open, his eyes wandering in the air, and shook his head as if trying to shake the confusion out of his mind, and then asked again: "What grandmother? What did you say?"

Zhi Yihe was a little surprised, blinked his eyes, and answered uncertainly: "Aren't you helping him find his grandmother?"

"You mean, Princess Zhaoren?"

Zhi Yihe said "Huh", tilted his head and asked, "What princess?"

"Your grandmother, your father's mother, is Princess Zhaoren."

"What the hell?!" Zhi Yihe's heart was filled with shock. If she was wearing a hat at this moment, her shock would be as intense as the hat in Stephen Chow's movies, which would stand up instantly.

"Um...your cousin never mentioned this to you?" Jinqi pressed his palm to his forehead and rubbed his temples.

"My father has this background? Then Princess Zhaoren is Emperor Zhaoding's elder sister? Younger sister?"

Jinqi took a deep breath, shook his head again, and said slowly: "Princess Zhaoren is the second daughter of the last emperor of Xiqi. She was born into a noble family and was the daughter of the former queen. She later married Zhi Li'an, the only son of the Duke of Zhenguo. They had a son, who is your father."

Zhi Yihe's breathing stagnated. He suppressed the panic in his heart, stared at Jinqi, and tried his best to stay calm, asking word by word: "You call my father cousin, so your father is my father's mother's brother? Then your father is-"

He raised his eyebrows, smiling with a hint of pride: "That's right, my father is Princess Zhaoren's biological brother, the eldest son of the Xiqi Emperor, He Fengye."