Chapter 876: Zealous
The governor's wife finally completed her task for the day, and she was relieved and happy.
In the past, her husband was not familiar with Xie Pu, who participated in politics, and had no personal relationship, so except for public communication occasions, she hardly had any contact with Xie Pu's wife, Wen. After sitting and talking with her for a long time today, she found that Wen's personality is gentle and elegant, very easy to get along with, and her conversation is not good, not the kind of foolish woman who is full of heart and eyes full of backhouse strife or inflammation, and occasionally reveals only a few words, and it can also be seen that she and her husband Xie Pu have a harmonious relationship, often communicate and talk, and can make a handkerchief with themselves for daily exchanges.
After the governor's wife went to Beiping with her husband to take office, she has not made any satisfactory friends, and she is a little lonely, but now she suddenly found that there is still a person to communicate with in the circle of officials and relatives in Beiping, and she is very happy.
Now that she has been a matchmaker for Xiao Xie's marriage, her relationship with the Wen family will be closer in the future, and she will naturally be able to communicate with each other. No matter who asks in the future, she has enough confidence to explain why she made this friend, and she is not afraid of gossip.
Thinking like this, the smile on the governor's wife's face became a little more sincere, and she began to inquire about the situation of several young masters and girls of the Xie family from the Wen family. Although today's marriage is preliminarily said to be successful, Xie Shenzheng has four sons and four daughters! Among them, four of them have reached the age of being able to say that they are pro. The governor's wife also has children of her own, there is no shortage of concubines and concubines, and she is not harsh as a mother-in-law, she is very fair and generous.
Wen honestly introduced the situation of his children, and it didn't take long for him to notice the meaning of the guest, and he was suddenly pleasantly surprised. However, she knew in her heart that several of the children in the family had already been married, and she did not intend to let the children break the contract because the governor's family background was more prominent, so she also calmly told the governor's wife that the marriage of the children had been almost finished, but it had not yet been decided, so it was difficult to say the name of the in-laws.
The governor's wife felt that Wen's approach was more sincere and upright, and it was really the style of a serious gentry, even if the Xie family had always had a tradition of doing business, she didn't feel that their family was inferior to other eunuchs. If the children of the family can be married to such a decent family, the children will surely live a peaceful and joyful life in the future, right? Originally, she was not very active, she just casually listened to Wen's tone, but now she really has the heart to choose a good child from the children of the Xie family.
Of course, she still needs to go back to discuss this kind of thing with her husband, and it is impossible to settle it by herself, so she just inquired about the age and temperament of the Xie family's children, so she pressed the table and turned the topic back to the object of her help, Xiao Rui, the nephew of King Yan, who has been very favored recently.
King Yan asked the governor and his wife to come forward to be this matchmaker, and when he came to the Xie family to propose to the second girl Xie for Xiao Rui, he did not say what Xiao Rui's identity was. The governor and his wife only knew that he was a young military attache of Kaipingwei, who had made real military achievements, was born in the General Mansion of Zhuguo, and was the second son of General Xiao's concubine, and was very appreciated and favored by King Yan, and it seemed that his biological mother and Aunt Wu beside Princess Yan were relatives. If Xiao Rui is only such an identity, then he can't work the governor - a feudal official - as a matchmaker, and the family background of this feudal official is still very unusual - his father was a subordinate official of the current emperor when he was in the Qiandi before his death, and he is an old man in the Qiandi who is rooted in the Miaohong, and he is a hero from the dragon!
It is precisely because of the governor's background that although he himself is mediocre, with his holy family, he has also made it all the way to the feudal official. Of course, in this place of Beiping, the gold content of this feudal official is extremely low, because almost all the authority that the governor can hold is in the hands of His Royal Highness King Yan, and he is just a decoration most of the time, so as not to let the court officials accuse the Yan Wangfu of monopolizing power.
In order to prevent King Yan from misunderstanding that he was sent to spy on him, the emperor also told King Yan that he sent him, an old man from the palace, to Beiping to monitor the bereaved family of his eldest brother, lest Mrs. Xu's mother and daughter join forces with the descendants of King Yan's relatives and relatives who were "cut off" in the previous generations to do things that endanger the community. King Yan believes it or not, and others don't know, anyway, the governor's yamen and the Yan Wangfu have been at peace and get along well, but the governor's work is relatively leisurely.
However, the governor would occasionally receive a secret letter from the capital, accepting a task secretly assigned by the emperor. Recently, he received a puzzling task, and the emperor signaled him to cooperate with King Yan's actions, to respect a prince named Xiao Rui, and to avoid letting outsiders know about Xiao Rui's background until the emperor gave permission.
The secret letter did not mention that Xiao Rui had any special life experience, nor did he explain what the governor should do with King Yan, so he had no beginning or end, which made the governor feel at a loss.
However, after he tactfully inquired about King Yan, although he hadn't figured out Xiao Rui's life experience, he had already roughly deduced the truth.
If Xiao Rui was just the concubine of the General Mansion of the Zhu Kingdom, and was treated favorably by the Yan Mansion because his biological mother and Princess Yan's henchmen were sisters, then he would not be eligible to get a formal courtyard in the Yan Palace. Everyone else said that he was about to become the commander of the Yan Wangfu's guards, but Yan Wang did not give such an order, nor did he arrange him to live in the guards' residences, and the chief and deputy commanders of the palace's guards were very friendly to him, and even had some respect, as if he was a noble person. King Yan also personally took him into the Forbidden City! If it is said that he only followed King Yan in as an entourage guard at that time, then it is rumored that King Yan also brought people into the Fengxian Palace, what is going on?
is not a descendant of the Zhu family's royal family, no one is qualified to enter the Fengxian Palace, and when he came out, his body was still dyed with heavy incense, and his clothes and forehead showed traces of kowtowing.
Obviously, this Xiao Rui's original surname should be Zhu! Although I don't know why he grew up in the Xiao family, it must be a royal secret. The Governor is well aware of the rules that his subordinates should abide by, and will never inquire indiscriminately.
He once suspected that this Xiao Rui was the son of King Yan who was born to someone else outside, and now he recognized people for the sake of incense, and the emperor also recognized the existence of this nephew.
But the governor's wife raised doubts: King Yan's mansion has no heirs for many years, if King Yan has an illegitimate child, why did he delay until today to recognize it? When the emperor signaled that he wanted to succeed the prince, he never refused! Moreover, Princess Yan is very friendly to Xiao Rui and his biological mother, where is this like the attitude of the wife towards her husband's outer room and illegitimate children? It's more like an irrelevant junior; Another point, if Xiao Rui is only the illegitimate son of King Yan, why did the emperor send a secret decree to the governor and ask him to cooperate with King Yan's mansion? Such an instruction is not so much that the emperor cherishes this illegitimate nephew, but that it is ...... He seemed to cherish his son!
So the governor and his wife came to the conclusion: this Xiao Rui may be the illegitimate son of the emperor, but he only recognized his ancestors and returned to his ancestors in the name of the heir of Prince Yan, and he omitted to inherit this procedure, and he will inherit the Yan Wangfu in the future. The Lin and Cao families in the capital had accidents one after another, the prince's position was unstable, the future of the second prince was worrying, and the remaining three princes had just angered the emperor, and only the fourth prince had the holy favor. If you consider the different identities of the princes of King Yan, it is best to find someone who understands military affairs, so is there a more suitable object than a royal illegitimate son with real military merits?
The governor and his wife understood what attitude they should use to face Xiao Rui, the future prince of Yanwang, and they were even more enthusiastic about being a matchmaker for the prince of Yan.