can marry Zhao Ruxi like this, and marry a man who is not as good as her. Those men are like unweaned children, and they have to go to their parents every day to coquettish and ask for money, and they are not a little worse than her sister Xi, and she feels uncomfortable.

"This matter, let's leave it to Sister Xi to make an idea." The old lady said, "If she wants to marry, she can marry." If you don't want to get married, let's not force her. Knowing that life after marriage is not as good as at home, why should you get married? ”

"But in this way, Sister Xi is old in the future, and she can't find a suitable relative, so don't you have to complain about us?" Zhu hesitated.

When she said this, the old lady hesitated.

At the end, the old lady clapped her hand and said, "This is Sister Xi'er's own choice, and she won't complain about us." Moreover, even if Sister Xi is so good in a year or two, she will not worry about getting married. It's a big deal, let's pick a new jinshi. Sister Xi is capable, even if that person has no family background, Sister Xi can support the family. And then there's us. After marrying Sister Xi's son or our family, can we still let her be wronged? ”

Hearing this, Zhu's eyes lit up.

In order to study, and in order to find better relatives after being admitted to the Jinshi, many poor men refused to discuss their relatives. There are many Jinshi who are nineteen or twenty years old, or even in their twenties, who have not discussed their relatives.

They pick and choose the best, the one with a simple family, and even no mother-in-law at home to serve.

This kind of family has no confidence and doesn't dare to do anything to their sisters; Second, the rules are not so big, and there will not be too many restrictions on Sister Xi. It is more suitable for Sister Xi than Jingping Wangfu and those big families.

"Okay, that's a good idea." Zhu put down a big stone in his heart and slapped his mother-in-law's ass, "Mother, you are still thoughtful." Sure enough, I ate more salt than I did, and your old man had a very good idea. ”

The old lady laughed.

After the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law discussed, they discussed how to reject the family affairs of the Jingping Palace.

Although this family business has to be decided by Zhao Ruxi, with their understanding of Zhao Ruxi, Zhao Ruxi will definitely not agree to this family business, so it is better to prepare early.

Suiping Bofu was busy with Zhao Ruxi's family affairs, but Zhao Ruxi was sitting in a house in Beining, drinking tea face-to-face with Xiao Lingyan.

Yesterday, she received a letter from Xiao Lingyan asking to meet, thinking about it, the two have not seen each other for so long, and the first political turmoil is coming soon. In the original book, Fu Dayong and Fu Yunkai will both die on the battlefield this winter. The second prince, Xiao Lingpu, was sent to the rescue and also died at the border.

Xiao Lingyan, as an old prince who had never been to the battlefield, was not sent, but when the news of Xiao Lingpu's death came, he couldn't afford to fall ill, and he died in the end.

Although they are all prepared, the 100,000 soldiers led by Fu Dayong and Fu Yunkai will not suffer from freezing and starvation at the border because of lack of food and clothing, and because of the weapons provided by Xiao Lingyan, they will not be annihilated by the enemy; Xiao Lingpu has Xiao Lingyan's reminder that he will try to avoid risks; Xiao Lingyan, as a traverser, does not have such a deep affection for Xiao Lingpu, and will not fall ill due to Xiao Lingpu's death.

But what the wheels of fate will be, whether they will be able to reverse it, no one can say.

If it can't be reversed, if she wants to see Xiao Lingyan again, she may not have a chance.

Thinking like this, she immediately agreed to meet Xiao Lingyan.

Xiao Lingyan didn't know where to find the empty house, this house also built a pond, the scenery is very good, the autumn breeze is slightly cool, the two of them sit in the pavilion in the middle of the pond and drink tea, it is quite comfortable.

"The food and grass are ready, right? Are trebuchets and crossbows ready? Zhao Ruxi asked.

"Hmm." Xiao Lingyan nodded, "It's all ready, it's shipped over." ”

During the time when Zhao Ruxi was busy with the imperial examination, he was almost idle.

He had people pretend to be foot merchants, bought a large amount of rice in batches in the southern sub-region, hid the crossbows and trebuchets they made in grain and grass, and quietly transported them to the border pass.

Because he was worried that Xiao Lingpu and Fu Yunkai had spies around him, he didn't tell them, but sent his own dead soldiers to do it. Grain and grass are also hidden in some hidden place. Just wait for the moment of truth to make a difference.

Tobe Guo Ji and several other people who were listed as suspects by him, he buried chess pieces and let the dead people stare at them secretly.

The crown prince, the third prince, and the fourth prince all sent people to keep an eye on him. As soon as they make any moves, he will make a plan, expose them to Xiao Qi, and kick them out of the reserve team of the prince.

Although Xiao Qi is not a good father, he can barely be regarded as a Ming Jun. If the prince took the throne at the cost of the lives of 100,000 soldiers and the safety of the border passes, he would never allow it. He would have blacklisted it directly.

The pavilion where Zhao Ruxi and Xiao Lingyan are located is not surrounded by buildings and tall trees, but a body of water. The only entrance is the wooden bridge that winds in. The surrounding scenery is unobstructed, and it is easy to see who approaches them.

Because the pond is quite wide, the gazebo is quite far from the shore, and their conversation does not have to worry about being heard.

Xiao Lingyan said: "The only thing I'm worried about now is next year. Next year's coup d'état is a plot in which several other princes killed each other in addition to me and my second brother, and finally Xiao Lingheng benefited from the fisherman. But once one of them is killed this year, next year's coup d'état will not happen. If it weren't for Xiao Lingheng's instigator this year and let him stay, he would have left the prince as a raft and pointed the finger at us, the situation would have been even more complicated. ”

Zhao Ruxi also considered this.

She sighed, "That can't be done. You and your second brother can't sacrifice their lives for the development of the plot. Even if it's pretending, the golden cicada is out of its shell, and there are still the Fu family's father and son and 100,000 soldiers in it. There is no way around this level. The rest of the situation can only be handled carefully by yourself. ”

She looked at Xiao Lingyan seriously: "I've been thinking about this for you all this time. I think that after passing this level, instead of being beaten passively, it is better for you to take the initiative and treat others in the way of others. With mental calculation or unintentional, you can always take the lead and achieve the desired goal. ”

"Haha, that's what I plan." Xiao Lingyan laughed.

He said that, but he just wanted to sympathize with Zhao Ruxi in front of him. But this woman is too smart to think the same as him, and this pity can't be pretended.

Zhao Ruxi glanced at him: "If you have a plan, you still sell miserably?" Is! ”

"Who knows if it will work out? This kind of thing, if it doesn't succeed, it will become a benevolent, and there is no third way to go. Xiao Lingyan sighed.

He looked at Zhao Ruxi: "What are you going to do?" Xiao Qi sent a message there, saying that as long as you pass the township examination, he will make you an official. Now that you have all understood the yuan, you want to be an official, and he will definitely do what you want. Do you plan to leave as an official now, or do you want to leave after taking the meeting examination and the palace examination? ”