Xiao Rui left the Xie family with a sad face, and did not come for two days.

Xie Mulin was actually a little anxious in her heart, she wanted to know, after King Yan heard her warning, would he do something for the safety of the fourth prince? Give the emperor a fold and remind him to increase the strength of the guards around his youngest son.

It's not that the four princes will be safe if they don't leave the palace. No matter whose calculation is the death of Empress Cao, it is always a country after being stabbed to death in the inner courtyard of the deep palace. Someone can plan this kind of thing under the emperor's nose, I am afraid that the palace has already become a sieve, I don't know how many people are surnamed Cao, how many people are surnamed Xiao, the emperor can't take it lightly, right? Even if you don't think about the safety of the four princes, you should think about your own life!

Xiao Rui didn't come to Xie's house, and Xie Mulin couldn't know the latest news in the capital. There are still people talking about the melons in the capital, but the attention has been attracted by the gossip in other cities.

Due to the death of the queen, the people have to serve the national funeral, even if the emperor only decrees that the officials and the people are not allowed to marry and drink banquets within 100 days, the specifications are not enough to meet the dignity of the country, and the civil and military officials in the court who were attracted by the queen's assassination did not bother much in this kind of matter. It seems that except for the third prince and his fiancée Lan, who are more unlucky to postpone the wedding for half a year, everyone else doesn't care much about the 100-day national filial piety.

It's just that when they arrived in Beiping, a big city thousands of miles away, many people were affected by the national mourning and secretly complained. Originally, there were many families who held happy events in the spring, but now they all have to stop, disrupting many people's plans, and even doing weddings, fabrics, jewelry, wine, banquets, furniture, carriages and horses, and even idlers doing odd jobs on the streets, their livelihoods have been affected. Although the idlers can also participate in the renovation of the houses and roads in the outer city carried out by the political envoy and the Shuntian government in cooperation with the Shuntian government to earn three meals a day, other businesses can only continue to endure the bleak business.

On the street where the Xie family is located, there are two families, and those who originally planned to marry a wife and a daughter this spring are now all in the soup. The wives of the heads of the two families did not come to Wen's side to complain. But what can Wen do? She can't do this kind of thing.

Not to mention other people's families, the two daughters of the Xie family are preparing to get married this year, and they have a lot of things to do! Due to the national funeral, many families have postponed the happy events that were originally scheduled to be held in the spring to the summer and autumn, and the major restaurants, restaurants, opera troupes, bands, and ministers suddenly become closer to the itinerary after the summer. Of course, Wen didn't want his girl's wedding pomp to lose to others, so he had to compete with other families.

However, Wen was also a little embarrassed in his heart. Among the eight children, Xie Xianzhi will not be able to marry his favorite wife until the eldest princess Yongning's family arrives in Beiping, and when he will marry, so the first one to marry is Xie Yinghui, who made a marriage contract early. However, Xie Yinghui's fiancé Huang Yan is still in the capital and has not returned, and I don't know what the result of his participation in the Spring Festival is. If you win, you may have to participate in the hall selection, apply for an official or something, and I don't know if you can get home smoothly before June to prepare for the marriage.

Xie Yinghui is not married, and Xie Mulin's wedding date is not easy to set. The Wen family has seen Princess Yan twice recently, and the other party is hinting at her, hoping to get the marriage between Xiao Rui and Xie Mulin done as soon as possible, but she is worried and doesn't know how to answer.

The last time Huang Yan sent a letter back to Beiping before the Spring Festival was after the Lantern Festival. The letter has reached Mrs. Huang's Zhen, who also took it to the Xie family and showed it to her in-laws Wen and future daughter-in-law Xie Yinghui. Huang Yan seems to be quite confident in the current examination, and did not mention anything else. But after he tried to release the list, he should have sent a letter home to inform him of the results, and he didn't know when the letter would be delivered.

Xie Yinghui waited for news from her fiancé every day, and asked Xie Xianzhi's little servant Qingsong to help him go to Huang's house to inquire more than a dozen times a day. Xie Xianzhi had to remind his sister not to behave too unreservedly, so that the future mother-in-law would laugh at it!

Where can Xie Yinghui take care of her future mother-in-law and not laugh at herself? She just wants to know the news of her fiancé as soon as possible!

Finally, at the beginning of March, Huang Yan's letter from the capital to send back to Beiping finally arrived. He still borrowed the relationship between the Xie family's business and entrusted a very famous dart store to deliver it on his behalf. When Mrs. Huang got the letter, she didn't bother to open it and look at it, so she immediately called someone to set up a car and wanted to come to Xie's house. But on the way, she had already read the letter in a hurry. When she got out of the car in front of the second gate of the Xie family, her face was full of tears.

Seeing this, Xie Yinghui was taken aback, and was a little incredulous: "This ...... Could it be that Cheng Ziheng fell off the list? Impossible! Even he is off the list, who else in the world can be on the list?! ”

When Mrs. Huang heard this, she immediately burst into tears and laughed. She was very happy to hear that her future daughter-in-law was so confident in her son's talent: "If you haven't been on the list, how can you be on the list?" He's hit! Twenty-seven and thirty-seven! It's not very high, but it's also very decent! ”

Wen's, Xie Yinghui, and Xie Mulin were all overjoyed, and hurriedly invited Mrs. Huang into the upper room to talk, Xie Yinghui also stepped forward to support Mrs. Huang very affectionately, and sat down on the circle chair with each other.

Mrs. Huang smiled tearfully and gently patted the back of Xie Yinghui's hand: "Good boy, thank you for praying for Ziheng day and night." Now that he has successfully reached high school, I am finally relieved! Now I just hope that he will succeed in the palace examination, be awarded an official as soon as possible, and return to his hometown to get married just after the holiday. If I start a family like this, everything will go smoothly in the future, and I will have nothing to worry about anymore! ”

Xie Yinghui's cheeks were slightly red, and she lowered her head shyly.

Wen sat on the upper seat, smiled and said hello to Mrs. Huang before asking for details. Mrs. Huang was busy taking out her son's family letter to show her in-laws and future daughter-in-law. Xie Mulin sat on the side, patiently waiting for his mother and eldest sister to read the letter, and then came to Xie Yinghui's side and quickly scanned the contents of the letter.

How did Huang Yan prepare for the exam in the capital, what literary friends did he make, who did he ask for advice, where did he live before the exam, what were the questions of the exam, and how did he feel after the exam...... And so on and so forth, and so on. He mentioned that he met someone from the Zhou family in the capital, and it seemed that he came to ask for a posthumous tribute to Lord Zhou, but there was no response from the Ministry of Rites. No one paid attention to it a year ago, saying that everyone was preparing for the New Year and had no intention of working. After the year, Empress Cao died, and the Ministry of Rites was busy with the queen's funeral, and she had to prepare for the spring festival, where could she take care of the name of an old minister who the emperor didn't like to see?

It is also thanks to Huang Yan during his time in the capital, because he is Xie Yinghui's fiancé, the two sons of the Ma family have a bit of a different meaning, and from time to time they will invite him to participate in one or two literary meetings and poetry meetings to make a name for him. He told the eldest son and the second son of the Ma family about the Zhou family, and the former took the word for him, and finally found an official of the Ministry of Rites, and sandwiched the name of the old man Zhou in the list of the bereaved families of several newly deceased old ministers in the second half of last year, and handed them over. Soon after the beginning of spring, the Ministry of Rites issued a document to reward the grace of Mr. Zhou, the second-grade political envoy, and a bunch of third- and fourth-grade ministers.

The Zhou family didn't know when it would be believed, but Huang Yan felt that he had repaid the kindness of the Zhou family, and he was in a good mood.

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