Chapter 195: Aftermath
Xiao Rui felt that Miss Xue Si was not a simple girl, ambitious, and unscrupulous in order to achieve her goals.
She was originally the granddaughter of Xue Taishi, but unfortunately she was an orphan girl, her parents died early, and she was not allowed to be treated by the Xue family. Although she inherited a large amount of wealth from a foreign family, because she was a girl and young, this wealth almost fell into the hands of others several times. There are few people in the Xue family who have good intentions towards her, and they have not been less interested in her property for many years.
If Miss Xue wants to keep this huge wealth and still have the right to control this family property after marriage, then a decent marriage is essential. She had to rely on her husband's family to keep her fortune, and she had to make sure that his family didn't swallow up her dowry, and then set her aside.
Her father is only famous, and her mother is the daughter of a wealthy merchant, so under normal circumstances, it is difficult to find any decent and good relatives. If you rely on the Xue family, you can find the right official eunuch children, you will already burn high incense, and it is more likely that you will be married by your grandfather Xue Lao Taishi to a poor family who he is optimistic about, or you will be casually matched to the concubines or side branches of other official eunuchs. If the identity of the person you want to marry is higher, you have to consider the steproom to fill the house, and the man's conditions are not good. If the man's conditions are good, then even if he is older and has children, he is also favored by the daughter of a small official eunuch or the concubine of a large family, where can she be the turn of a daughter who lifts people?
When Miss Xue was elected as the crown princess, Miss Xue Si once sought to become the prince's side room, which was the idea of the prince's golden thighs. She probably felt that with her own financial resources and wisdom, she had every hope of winning favor, and relied on the prince to suppress the Xue family. Helplessly, Miss Xue refused, and the prince was also not interested in the Xue family's daughter, and all he was thinking about was Wang Meiru, who was a maid to dowry, and this matter was in vain. Miss Xue Si was also hostile and wary of her uncle's family afterwards.
Since the crown prince couldn't climb it, she got acquainted with the three princes by chance, so she turned to the idea of the three princes. She didn't dare to hope for the position of the concubine, but it was no problem to make a side room. With her financial resources, she can also help the three princes a lot. If the third prince is expected to take the throne, she will follow the chicken dog to heaven! If the third prince is just an idle prince all his life, then she will not lose. The name of the princess of the palace, for her, the daughter of a person, is also the smoke on the grave of her parents! Relying on the palace, what is she afraid of the Xue family taking away her wealth?
With this in mind, Miss Xue ignored the antagonistic relationship between the family and the three princes, not only continued to provide funds to the three princes, but also encouraged the family members to support her in every possible way. Although because of the inexplicable attack on Old Lady Xue, the Xiao family and the third prince became the culprits identified by the Xue family, which made several Xue family members who originally intended to throw themselves into the third prince retreat, and now there are only two idlers who are willing to run an errand for Xue Si Girl, but this does not affect Xue Si Girl's plan at all. Without a clansman as a helper, she can only be a money bag and has no real power, but she has successfully attached herself to the future third princess Lan family, and the status of the side concubine has been firmly in the bag. As long as the third prince does not fall to the point where even the prince has been dismissed, the wealth and honor she wants in her life will have already been obtained.
Xiao Rui analyzed the situation of Miss Xue Si according to the information provided by Wan Long, and couldn't help but sigh to Xie Mulin in the letter: Such a woman whose parents died and grew up under the calculations of her relatives since she was a child is so shrewd, even if everyone thinks that she still insists on supporting the third prince after Xiao Guifei's accident, which is very unwise, she still clearly knows what she wants. In contrast, Xiao Lin was born higher, grew up under the pampering of her parents and brothers, and had to be windy and rainy since she was a child, except for the fact that she was not going well in marrying the third prince, it can be said that everything went well, but she grew into the stupid and blind appearance she is now. Why is there such a big difference between people?
However, after sighing, Xiao Rui also added with a great desire to survive: Although Miss Xue Si is shrewd, she has a bad heart, completely ignores the interests of the family, and has no filial piety to her seriously injured grandfather. In contrast, he admires his fiancée Xie Mulin more, who also suffered a family change when she was a teenager, but she was able to assist her mother, overcome difficulties, and made great contributions to her father's grievances......
Xiao Rui wrote a lot of words praising his fiancée, which made Xie Mulin can't help but want to laugh. In fact, she didn't think that Xiao Rui praised the fourth girl Xue in the letter, there was any problem, she didn't mean to be jealous at all, Xiao Rui didn't have to be so sensitive. It's just that she was quite happy to see that he cared so much about her thoughts.
Xiao Rui also knew that his fiancée was not the type to be slapped very much, so he gave a little play to it, and then accepted it. Next, he mentioned that because he wanted to investigate the situation between the Lan family and the fourth girl Xue, he unexpectedly discovered that the second prince had contacted the Lan family in private, and it seemed that he had told the Lan family what the third prince had done.
This was after Empress Cao was assassinated, Lin Zhaoyi was imprisoned, and there were rumors that Xiao Guifei was the main messenger. The second prince knew that he was at a loss at the time, and there was endless grief and despair in his heart, just by punching the third prince a few times, he couldn't get out of this depression, so he took advantage of the people of the Lan family in Shouchangbo Mansion to enter the palace and cry, and contacted the Lan family. No one knows what he told the three princes in detail, but judging from the reaction of the Lan family afterwards, their attitude towards the three princes seems to be a little colder, especially the Lan family, the quasi-third princess, after the third prince took the initiative to express his closeness to her in order to tie up with the emperor, but refused to meet him on the grounds of etiquette, and when he accepted the gifts he sent, he was also polite, and everything was done according to etiquette.
The third prince probably thought that this was the Lan family finally knowing that he was going to become the prince's concubine, and he could no longer be as frivolous and rude as before, and he had to strictly follow the grandmothers to learn the etiquette in the palace. But Xiao Rui combined the intelligence of the second prince, and couldn't help but suspect that the Lan family might have known some of the black history of the third prince, and he was completely dead to him.
What kind of black history could it be?
Even the third prince and Xiao Lin secretly communicated with each other, but the Lan family was just chewing Xiao Lin's tongue behind her back, and she didn't necessarily care about the three princes' romance. So...... Could it be that during the selection of the crown princess that year, the Lan family's reputation was tarnished for no reason, even if the candidate for the crown princess has been decided, she still can't get rid of it, causing her to lose several good marriages one after another, and the truth is finally exposed?
Xiao Rui remembered the operation of the third prince to use the Lan clan as cannon fodder in order to attack the crown prince, so he couldn't help but sweat for him.
This account was originally calculated on the head of the second prince, but the second prince may not know the truth, he stabbed this matter to the Lan family, how could the Lan family and the Lan family not be counted as the back account?
Before the daughter-in-law entered the door, the third prince offended people first, how will this day be spent in the future?!