Although Xue Ying was listening very carefully, the more she listened, the more confused she became: "So what? What does this have to do with me?"

Xi Xi couldn't wait to knock her head open: "The plum banquet is so important, so it has been presided over by the queen mother and handled by the Ministry of Rites for many years, but this year, the queen mother handed over the task to Xue Yao, who did not have any official position-you still can't see such an obvious thing?"

Xue Ying shook her head, dazed. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Xi Xi closed his eyes: "Your shrewd and confused brain will drive me crazy sooner or later." ”

"What the hell is going on?"

"The queen mother will never dare to make her own decision on this matter, so it must be allowed by the emperor. And the emperor allowed Xue Yao to do such a thing, either intentionally giving Xue Yao an official position in the Ministry of Rites, or he had already listed her as a candidate for the future queen, which do you think is the most likely?"

"Now the emperor doesn't seem to like letting women be officials...... So does the emperor want her to be the future queen? Who does he want Xue Yao to marry?"

"Herein lies the problem. "The emperor has not set up a crown prince, and all the information shows that the emperor has not yet determined his heir." ”

"How can you determine the future queen without an heir...... Okay, I see. Xue Ying exhaled and wiped the cold sweat that didn't exist on her forehead, "It's too against the sky, I have to be calm and calm." ”

Xi Xi snorted: "Finally not confused?"

The crown prince has not been determined, but the crown princess has been determined, in other words, whoever marries Xue Yao among the princes will become the heir to the throne, so there is no doubt that Xue Yao will become the object of competition among the princes next.

Getting the throne by getting a woman is a chilling thing in Xue Ying's opinion.

"Why did the emperor do this?"

Xi Xi shook his head: "I don't know." ”

"That'...... What about Master Xue San? He loves his daughter so much, how can he be willing to let her get involved in such a dispute? It is a major matter related to the throne, and if he is not careful, he will die!"

Xi Xi snorted: "How do I know? But are you really the daughter of the Xue family? Why didn't anyone tell you about such a big thing?"

"......" Xue Ying was speechless.

"But there's still a lot going on with that. Letting Xue Yao handle the plum banquet is actually a test, if Xue Yao can't do this well, let alone become the future queen, I'm afraid it will become the laughing stock of the entire Dagu. ”

Xue Ying shook her head: "Third Master Xue will help her." Besides, she is not stupid, and since she knows that this matter is very important, she will not let herself make mistakes. ”

"As soon as the news came out that the queen asked Xue Yao to preside over the plum banquet, all forces were ready to move, the Jian'an Hou Mansion, especially your three rooms, is now the center of the whirlpool, thousands of pairs of eyes are staring at you, don't be stupid and don't know anything. ”

"I know now. Xue Ying's eyes rolled, "But there is such a super dazzling moon as Xue Yao in the Jian'an Hou Mansion, and my non-shining star should not be noticed." ”

"Shunrou County Lord who lives in the Jian'an Hou Mansion, you are not enough to attract attention? If I didn't know your virtue, I would have thought that there was a force protecting you in secret, otherwise how could you live so peacefully?"

"This is called a fool with a fool's blessing!" Xue Ying triumphantly gestured triumphantly.

………………

The sound of firecrackers woke Xue Ying from her sleep. In a daze, he changed into heavy clothes, and the unknown man had been hurriedly sent to the Suiwang Mansion.

Although it was still early, the lights on the streets seemed to be full of the atmosphere of the New Year, and this joy came to an abrupt end outside the Suiwang Mansion, as if blocked by an invisible wall.

Obviously, there are red lanterns hanging outside the gate of Suiwang's Mansion, but I don't know why Xue Ying insists that the color of the red lanterns here is extremely dark, and it makes people feel depressed when they look at it. Not to mention after entering, the sound of firecrackers in the distance only set off the place even more cold and silent, and even the faces of the subordinates who were standing next to her to greet her were lifeless.

When I arrived in the hall, only the princess was there, and the excuse for King Sui's failure was that he was unwell and was recuperating in Beizhuang. But Xue Ying had already learned from the information given by Xi Xi that King Sui was not recuperating at all, but was imprisoned by the emperor in a place called "Tianyi Cliff".

King Sui's name is Murong Song, the third son of Emperor Shun, although he is the third in line, he has been very loved by the Empress Dowager since he was a child. The Empress Dowager has been in power for more than 20 years, covering almost the entire period of Emperor Shun, and under her power, Emperor Shun has almost become a puppet.

Among Emperor Shun's three sons, Murong Song was far above the other two brothers in terms of intelligence, strategy and generosity, coupled with the preference of the former empress dowager, so he directly bypassed the two brothers and was made the crown prince. However, after the death of the Empress Dowager, Emperor Shun began to continuously weaken the power of the crown prince, and two years later, despite the opposition of the Manchu civil and military forces, he insisted on abolishing the crown prince and passed the throne to his eldest son Murong Mian.

At that time, Emperor Shun was already dying, but he still held on until Murong Mian ascended the throne before he was willing to give up, in order to cut off all possibilities for Murong Song to inherit the throne openly. In fact, Murong Song didn't make any big mistakes, the reason why he was so calculated by Emperor Shun was probably because Emperor Shun was suppressed by the Empress Dowager for too long, and after her death, he projected resentment on Murong Song.

To put it simply, it is a tragic story of an emperor who played tricks on his deathbed and then used tens of millions of people to fill the pit.

Although Emperor Ying successfully ascended the throne, Murong Song, as a former crown prince, has a deep-rooted power in the court, and this power is not at all something that Emperor Shun or Emperor Ying can completely eradicate in a year or two, so Emperor Ying's position has always been in a shaky state.

According to the information provided by Xi Xi, Murong Song was already ready to seize power in the second year of Jingkang, but he didn't know what had happened, and the power he had worked hard for many years suddenly collapsed, and he himself was imprisoned in Tianyi Cliff by Emperor Ying, and he never left there since.

A king who once intended to rebel, even if he was humiliated by Emperor Ying as King Sui, it was not easy to save a life. Just thinking that the high-spirited and proud His Royal Highness the Crown Prince described in the information has now ended up in a miserable defeat, and has been trapped in a desolate and bitter cold place for the best twenty years of his life, Xue Ying has to be full of emotion for this story.

It's no wonder that everyone is so taboo about King Sui's affairs and dare not tell her anything. If the first empress dowager lived for two more years, the person who would rightfully inherit the throne should be King Sui, so the emperor can't be too taboo about this younger brother.

However, after learning about King Sui's past, Xue Ying always had a question: There are many ways to drive her out of the Xue family, why did Xue Qi propose to pass her on to King Sui?