After the whole family was swept away, I lay down flat

Chapter 1010: Qiao Fu's Ambition

It was dark, and the Hai family went back to their rooms to rest. When Haitang was about to go back to her room, she saw her brother Haijiao winking at her behind her back.

She paused, turned around and went to the kitchen to get a bowl of hangover soup, brought it to her brother Haijiao, and sat down at the table.

Seeing that his younger sister understood his hint, Haijiao drank the hangover soup with a smile and said, "Although I have already said it during the day, I still want to congratulate you again. Your marriage with Xiaojin is finally settled, and you don't have to worry about any accidents in the future. I hope that you two can love and live in harmony in the future. If Xiaojin dares to make you angry, just come home and tell me, I will vent your anger for you! Even if he is the empress dowager's biological son and the emperor's biological brother, he is not as important as my younger sister in my eyes.

"Brother has lived two lives. I dare not say that I will be able to rise to prominence and gain power in this life, but I am sure that I can teach those nobles a lesson. So, if you encounter anything unpleasant, don't hide it or try to cover up the truth just to please me because you are afraid of implicating me. You need to know that you and I are siblings from the same mother. In this world, there is no one closer than us. Brother is your lifelong support, and you are also his family for life. Even if you get married, it will not change this fact."

Haitang felt a little sour in her nose, and she quickly held back her tears, smiled and nodded, saying yes.

Although she traveled through time halfway, from the day she traveled through time, the ups and downs that the two siblings have experienced together, the secrets they have guarded together, and the goals they have worked hard to achieve together, have made her relationship with Haijiao much closer than that of ordinary siblings. Even if she becomes Jin Jiashu's wife in the future, and is about to leave the home where she grew up and her relatives who depend on each other, and start a new life with Jin Jiashu, she still remembers the blood relationship and the experiences they have shared. Compared with her fiancé Jin Jiashu, she trusts her brother Haijiao more, and naturally regards him as her lifelong support. Jin Jiashu may change his heart one day, but her brother Haijiao will not betray her, his own sister.

Jin Jiashu still didn't dare to tell her the true relationship between him and the Queen Mother, but she knew her brother's biggest secret. For this reason, she would not do such a stupid thing as alienating her natal family and being devoted to her husband's family.

Regarding these things, the brother and sister looked at each other in silence. They didn't need to say anything, as they had a tacit understanding in their hearts.

Haitang just asked Haijiao why he winked at her: "Brother, do you have something to tell me?"

Hai Jiao then returned to the main topic: "I talked to Qiao Fu yesterday. When I was in the government office today, I also found an opportunity to meet with Eunuch Xin to verify what Qiao Fu said."

"Eunuch Xin?" Haitang was stunned. "I remember my brother mentioned that he was an expert in torture in the Jinyiwei. Did he come from the palace?" Haijiao nodded. "Eunuch Xin has been in the Jinyiwei for many years. My master was good friends with him in my previous life. I saw him a lot and heard him talk about many secrets in private. After I joined the Jinyiwei in this life, everything went smoothly. I rarely encountered criminal cases and was on duty in the palace. I didn't have many opportunities to deal with him. Compared with his close care for me in my previous life, he is much colder to me in this life. It's not that he is dissatisfied with me, but he just wants to keep his distance. Apart from official contacts, there is almost no private relationship. I heard that Eunuch Xin has such a cold attitude towards the military officers who are doing well in the Jinyiwei. On the contrary, he is willing to talk more with those soldiers or spies who are not doing well but have good character and talents."

Hai Jiao had only recently realized that Eunuch Xin's attitude towards him was different in his two lives. He could roughly guess the reason, which was that he sympathized with the poor and the weak, and had no ambition to climb up the social ladder. He only wanted to live a quiet life in retirement, so he had no intention of getting close to the high-spirited Jinyiwei military officers. But if he met a young, talented, and ill-fated person from the lower class, he would be happy to take care of him a little more, just like Hai Jiao in his previous life, or Qiao Fu in this life.

Haijiao used the fact that Jin Jiashu ran into Qiao Fu in Jiyuan going to see the shopkeeper Xiao Feng as an excuse to ask Qiao Fu about his relationship with the shopkeeper Xiao Feng and Jiyuan, and also asked why Qiao Fu had such a bad time in the Jinyiwei despite having connections in Jiyuan?

Probably because the two families were relatives and were about to become even closer, Qiao Fu was very trusting and close to Haijiao, his new boss and cousin. He did not hide anything from him and told him that he had been helpless and oppressed in the Jinyiwei for many years and had a miserable life. It was not until the year before last that he had a chance encounter and became acquainted with Old Man Xin from the Criminal Department. Only then did he get his guidance and got in touch with Shopkeeper Xiao Feng.

At that time, Qiao Fu only wanted to make friends with Shopkeeper Xiao Feng. When the two sides got to know each other well, he could shamelessly ask for help and bring himself to Ji Garden to meet Eunuch Ji and his old friends. Although most of the old eunuchs and palace servants who lived in Ji Garden were not powerful, they had been in the palace for many years and had been glorious before, so they still had many connections. He knew that several of the old eunuchs had adopted many adopted sons and daughters like Eunuch Ji. Some of them went out to do business like Shopkeeper Xiao Feng and others, and some were recommended by their adoptive fathers to work as minor officials in various government offices. Qiao Fu only hoped to get one or two of these connections, get the other party's recommendation, and work in a government office with low income. Even if it was just the lowest position with the hardest job, as long as he could leave the Jinyiwei, he could get rid of the identity of a spy and live a legitimate life again!

Jinyiwei would not let their spies go easily, but if there was a government office willing to accept these spies and formally include them in the staff, and they were not involved in important secrets, Jinyiwei would not hold them and would give other government offices some face. Just like Zhang San, the Whip Master, was once a leader among spies. After he became old and weak, he was able to change his job to become a coachman with a connection. Although he could not leave Jinyiwei because he had been involved in many major cases, he could live a peaceful life as a coachman, and his life was much better than that of the old spies.

Qiao Fu asked himself if he was not an important figure in the spy team. If he could successfully enter other government offices, the Jinyiwei would not have to detain him. As long as he could successfully get rid of his identity as a spy, even if he was just a low-level soldier in another government office, he could return to live in the sun. He also thought that he still had some ability and was not an incompetent fool. If he had the opportunity to climb up again, he could fight for an eighth or ninth grade official position in the future. Even if it was not up to the standard, it would not be a disgrace to his Qiao family's once noble family.

Originally, Qiao Fu's grandfather was a member of the Jinyiwei when he was alive, and after his death, he left behind some old friends who could take care of Qiao Fu to some extent. It would be best if he could stay in the Jinyiwei, and he could also use the connections left by his grandfather. But he could feel that he was repeatedly suppressed in the Jinyiwei, and even if the connections left by his grandfather wanted to protect him, they could not do anything about the forces that suppressed him. After repeated consideration, Qiao Fu decided to jump out of the Jinyiwei circle and find another way out.

In fact, if Haijiao had not suddenly transferred him to his side and recognized him as a relative, Qiao Fu would have already become familiar with Shopkeeper Xiao Feng and received his promise to bring him into the garden to meet Eunuch Ji during the New Year. He has now been granted permission to enter Ji Garden to meet Shopkeeper Xiao Feng. If everything goes well, even without Haijiao's help, he will be able to leave his spy identity next year and start a new life.

Although Qiao Fu was very surprised to be recognized as a relative of the Hai family, he was not an honest person who would silently suffer. He had long been considering his own way out, and would never be willing to be a spy for the rest of his life, living a precarious life every day, not knowing when he would die inexplicably.