After the ceremony, the Ye family was busy, and when the Chinese New Year was approaching, there were many palaces in the palace that needed to be repaired in order to wait for the next year's draft, and Ye Borong needed to discuss with the people from the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Household about the amount of materials to be transported into the palace, so he was often not at home.

And Ye Wang's family is also preparing for next year's Ye Xia's draft, she needs to get through her connections, and she must not let her favorite daughter have an accident, preferably a successful selection, so that she no longer has to please her sister-in-law Chen.

And Ye Xia is also anxious to have a relationship with those official ladies, there are banquets almost every day, and Ye Qiu also heard that she recently caught up with a princess.

The younger brother Ye Zhixing is too young and only eight years old, although the family did not expect him to take the imperial examination, but they also did not want him, the heir, to be fooled by the people below in the future, so he still had to study every day.

Therefore, there is only Ye Qiu who is idle, but with Xiao Jinwu and Wang Yanran by his side, it is not too boring.

"I heard that the Holy Lord is going to summon all the vassal kings to Beijing this time, and it is estimated that this year will not be peaceful." Wang Yanran shook her head and whispered, "It's right that you don't go out, it's very chaotic in Beijing now!" ”

"It's so cold, what am I going out for? But my eldest sister is quite non-stop. ”

"What do you think of my uncle and aunt? actually sent Ye Xia to the draft? Don't you know that the palace is not peaceful? How many people have died in both years? What's more, my father said that the saint's health is getting worse and worse, and he hasn't been to the court for ten days in a row, isn't this sent to the palace to be a widow? ”

"She asked for it." Ye Qiu inserted a piece of apple and said slowly.

Wang Yanran was taken aback: "Ye Xia asked for it himself?" Why? ”

"Why else, I am not willing to want to fight for this monstrous wealth!" Ye Qiu didn't think so, her sister's mind was obvious, and she thought she was smart, but she had already been seen through.

Wang Yanran's eyes widened: "This monstrous wealth is so good?" The saint can be her father at all ages! Can she get her mouth shut? Besides, she must be selected herself, even if she is lucky enough to be chosen, she thinks she can give birth to a son and a half daughter safely in the palace surrounded by jackals, tigers and leopards? ”

Ye Qiu lowered his eyebrows, and mockery flashed in his eyes: "Don't you know how confident my sister is, cousin?" ”

"But even if Ye Xia is stupid, her uncle and aunt can't be stupid with her, this is not her business alone, what if the entire Ye family is implicated?" Wang Yanran felt that what she could think of as a little girl was that adults should not be able to think about it, so why did they still agree!

"Why else? Are you all unwilling? My father doesn't want to be an imperial businessman for the rest of his life, and my mother doesn't want to be pressed by my aunt for the rest of my life, so my younger brother and I naturally can't count on it, so we can only rely on Ye Xia? They don't think there's anything they can't do with money. ”

"It's ridiculous." Wang Yanran didn't know what to say, "Is this a simple matter of relying on silver alone?" What is an imperial merchant in the eyes of those people? Which one with a little bit of background is not a lot of money? Even those big families dare not get involved, how dare uncles and aunts. ”

"There's nothing you dare, anyway, it's not our turn to talk and worry, okay, you go back and let your aunt talk about it vaguely, don't let your uncle get involved in this matter, so as not to affect your family."

"But what about you? What if you are implicated? "Wang Yanran is in a hurry, her father is an upstart in the court, and he is jealous, but the family has no background, so there are not many young ladies who are willing to associate with her, and the only one who is close is Ye Qiu's cousin, why is she not in a hurry?

"What can I do? It was originally a dying person, and it was all stolen all these years, so it's not a big deal. Ye Qiufeng smiled lightly.

was reprimanded by Wang Yanran: "Don't tell you such nonsense." ”

Ye Qiu looked at her with a smile, his eyes were warm: "Cousin, don't worry, it's not as bad as you think, besides, maybe Ye Xia can't be chosen?" Even if she is chosen, she is still a little clever, and she won't be framed so easily, right? ”

"She? I'm not at ease. ”

"Actually, I think she has a better chance of being given to various vassal kings than being looked up to by the saints."

Wang Yanran looked at Ye Qiu in surprise: "Why do you think so?" The vassal kings are all married, oh, no, there is also a strong king who has a wife, and he has been married for several terms and is inexplicably gone, but how could the saint suddenly give marriage to the vassal kings? Where did you hear anything? ”

"It's not gossip, it's my own analysis, you think, the vassal kings haven't been in Beijing for nearly ten years, how could the saint suddenly recruit them back?"

"What else? Isn't it to deter the vassal king and show the prestige of the dynasty? ”

Ye Qiu looked at Wang Yanran with his eyes and asked, "You just said that the saint is seriously ill, and the heirs of the harem died inexplicably early, how can you deter the vassal king when you are so virtuous?" Are you sure you didn't let the vassal king come to see the joke? ”

"So you're going to give the vassal king a marriage?" Wang Yanran still doesn't understand.

"In my opinion, not only is the saint not good, but the two thin little princes in the palace are probably not very good, and the marriage to the vassal king is on the one hand to appease them with knowledge, on the other hand, it is to want the vassal kings to start infighting, and at the same time, it is estimated that the saint also wants to choose an heir from the heirs of the vassal king."

Wang Yanran was shocked: "How do you know that the two little princes are dying?" ”

"Cousin, do you remember who the imperial doctor who has been checking my pulse all the year round?"

"I know, Doctor Liu."

"Then do you remember what Imperial Doctor Liu is best at?"

"Pediatric Internal Medicine, hiss...... You mean......"

"Imperial Physician Liu usually comes to see me once every half a month, but he hasn't been here for a month now, every time I send someone to Liu's mansion, the people in Liu's mansion say that Imperial Physician Liu is in the palace, what do you say will happen in the palace to let Imperial Physician Liu, who has long been idle, be recruited into the palace again?"

"Only the imperial heir in the palace has an accident." Wang Yanran understood it thoroughly, and at the same time sighed, "But the princess of the saint is fine, but she can't raise a prince, normal people know that it was the hands of those vassal kings, and the saint still wants to appoint the heir of the vassal king as the prince?" ”

"What can you do if you don't stand? And maybe as soon as the Holy Admiral's intentions were revealed, the vassal kings would fight among themselves? When the time comes, the saint will reap the benefits of the fisherman, not only to avenge the great revenge of the heir, but also to choose an heir who has no support, isn't it a double win? ”

Wang Yanran listened to Ye Qiu's explanation with a look of admiration: "You are so smart, it's really a waste not to be a man, even my father has been at a loss for a series of holy decrees recently!" ”

"It's just that I've caught some clues, so you don't have to worry too much about Ye Xia, you don't know what happened to the vassal kings!"