After dark, Xie Pu returned.

The whole family thought that he would not be back until at least tomorrow, but they did not expect him to arrive home after dinner, and they were all surprised. Wen hurriedly brought someone to prepare a belated dinner for him. Xie Mulin obviously heard him growl with hunger, and with a relaxed smile on his face, he faintly guessed in his heart.

Xie Mulin leaned over to Xie Pu and asked softly, "Daddy, what did you encounter when you went to Jinghai Temple?" How do you look like you're in a good mood? Are the monks there really so powerful? ”

Xie Pu said with a smile: "The masters of Jinghai Temple are certainly profound in Buddhism, but what does this have to do with Daddy? Daddy just went out for a break, and his spirits were much better. ”

Really? Shermulin wasn't quite convinced.

However, Xie Pu wanted to sell Guanzi again, and Xie Mulin had no choice but to change the topic and talk about today's trip to Cheng'en Temple, highlighting what happened to the Wen family and them in front of Mrs. Xie, and by the way, he also told Xie Yingrong about it.

Of course, she won't tell the truth, she has already inquired, and the official eunuch who met with Mrs. Xie in Cheng'en Temple should have nothing to do with the Cao family. She only told Xie Pu the identity of the old lady who was related to Qiao Meiren and the wife of Xie Pu's alumni, and didn't mention anything else, to see if he was in a hurry.

Xie Pu really frowned, and his originally smiling face became gloomy again: "What's the matter with the three girls?" If you can't bear the quiet days, don't boast in the first place! ”

He obviously felt that Xie Yingrong actively persuaded Mrs. Xie to make friends with outsiders because she couldn't stand the lonely relationship. This is similar to Aunt Dajin's thoughts, but she thinks of her daughter too naïvely.

Xie Pu sulked for a while, but he didn't say anything, just said to Xie Mulin: "You have always been good friends with your third sister. The next time you see her, ask her what she means. If you are really not used to being around the old lady, you can simply come back. There are so many of you brothers and sisters, anyone can go to the old lady to wait, she doesn't have to force it! ”

Xie Mulin immediately shut up. It didn't matter if Xie Yingrong came back or not, but she definitely didn't want to be assigned by Daddy Cheap to serve Mrs. Xie. Cheap dad doesn't have any points for his mother's temperament? He thought that everyone was like him and Wen, who could tolerate Mrs. Xie's work infinitely?

Wen took the girl and brought Xie Pu's dinner into the house. Xie Mulin ended the conversation with his father and retreated to the inner room to help the Wen family. Wen has been helping Xie Pu prepare his luggage for the post recently, and summer is approaching, she asked her daughter to help make a few fan pendants, jade pendants or something, of course Xie Mulin will not refuse. She's pretty good at it now.

So Scemulin heard his parents whispering outside. Wen asked Xie Pu what he had seen at Jinghai Temple today and which master he had talked to. Xie Pu said simply, and it didn't sound special, but then, as soon as he changed his tone, he said something surprising: "I met His Royal Highness King Yan who came from Weifu in the meditation room of the abbot of Jinghai Temple. It turned out that His Royal Highness and the abbot had been friends for many years. Because His Royal Highness has a courtyard on Lion Rock, he often goes to stay in Beijing during his return to Beijing, and every time he passes, he has to visit the abbot in the temple. I also happened to have a conversation with His Royal Highness King Yan. ”

King Yan?

Xie Mulin remembered the history of this dynasty that he had learned before, the first emperor seemed to be the son of King Yan, right? It was a succession to the royal family to have two rooms. However, now this King Yan seems to have returned to the Yan Palace, and he is still the younger brother of the current emperor.

When the Cao family was young, she had an affair with Fang Wenshan, which seemed to be the yellow of her marriage to the King of Yan. Queen Cao found a good marriage for this sister who didn't like to see her, but she was slapped in the face by her sister, and she didn't want to see Cao's anymore.

Outside, Xie Puzheng and Wen's science popularized the life experience of the Yan King. Wen is a woman in the house, and she rarely participates in communication, so she really doesn't know much about these things, so she asked casually, Xie Pu answered her casually, and then cheapened Xie Mulin, who was eavesdropping in the room.

The current King Yan is indeed the younger brother of the current emperor's mother. When the emperor was still the prince today, due to his relatively young age, his biological mother was only mediocre in terms of position and favor, and his mother's family was even less visible, so the light was completely suppressed by the elder brothers on his head. Before his marriage with the daughter of the Hou Cao family in Pingnan, no one thought that he had the strength to compete for the throne. But in fact, what really made him sit firmly in the position of prince, in addition to the support of the Cao family, who held the military power in the southwest, his compatriots and brothers were succeeded to the Yan Wangfu, which was also an important reason.

Yanwangfu originally had no shortage of heirs. The princess of King Yan was originally the wife of the first emperor, and when the first emperor was succeeded to Emperor Chengde, she even gave birth to her eldest son.

However, Empress Chengde had a niece who was married to the heir of another vassal king, and often went to the palace to lobby the empress for another heir. Emperor Chengde considered that he would not be able to last long, and after his nephew came, he had to rely on the support of his wife and the Yue family to sit on the throne. In order to allow the queen to support the heir willingly and not let the competitors who had won the heir in the past take advantage, he arranged for the first emperor to marry the queen's maiden niece as another flat wife for the marriage. This flat wife became the concubine of the prince, and later became the queen of the main palace of the first emperor.

Although the first emperor still recognized his status as a wife after ascending the throne, he still had to live in the palace of Jinling City, the capital of the country. His biological father and mother are still there, and Yuan Pei still has to stay in Beiping to serve his in-laws and take care of his children. The husband and wife are separated from each other for a long time, how can they not be resentful? During this period, there were the queen mother and the queen in the palace who secretly used their hands and feet, and it was not easy for the first emperor to occasionally get together with the yuan match and the eldest son. But no matter how much he insisted, the two equal wives had the same status, one was the queen, the other was the concubine of King Yan, the son of one was the prince, and the other was just the grandson of the vassal king, so the status was not equal in any case.

Later, when the grandson of King Yan grew up and came to the capital, it was estimated that he was also resentful, and when he saw that the princes were competing for the storage position, the smell of fire and medicine was getting stronger, so he mixed it up, sowing discord and fanning the flames. He may not have been clever enough, or he had gone a little too far and ended up being exposed. Among them, there is also the life of a prince. The first emperor and empress seized the handle of the grandson of King Yan and forced the first emperor to uphold justice. Although the first emperor was very reluctant, he finally gave this eldest son to death.

But at the same time, in order to keep the wife and children of his eldest son, he issued another decree to pass the little prince born to an ordinary concubine in the harem to the Yan Palace, becoming the new heir of the Yan King. This not only deprives the descendants of the eldest son of the right to inherit the throne in disguise, but also protects them from power struggles.

King Yan died shortly after that incident, and he was his own grandson, and he would not oppose the emperor's will, but regretted that he did not stop the eldest grandson's actions in time, and that he lost his life in vain. And the little prince who has just returned after returning has been good at dancing knives and guns since he was a child, and he is also quite talented in the art of war, and soon provoked the heavy responsibility of guarding the border of Yanwangfu, and seems to be more like a reliable vassal king than his predecessor, and Yanwangfu soon returned to calm.

At that time, he was still the king of Chu, and now he had the support of the Cao family's military power, and there was a real vassal king with military power behind him, and when the elder brother and eldest brother lost their qualifications to win the heir, there was no one among the brothers who could compete with him. He sat firmly on the throne all the way.

Nowadays, the emperor is increasingly jealous of the Cao family, but for his brother Yan Wang, it is completely different. The emperor was very fond of this younger brother. Although King Yan has the responsibility of guarding the border, he occasionally returns to Beijing to live for a while and reunite with his brother and mother. However, during his time in Beijing, he always lived in seclusion, did not like to make friends with people, and acted very low-key. Xie Pu was able to meet him in Jinghai Temple, it was really fate.