Xie Mulin glanced at Xiao Rui.

Xiao Rui looked at her with a smile.

Xie Mulin was sure that Xiao Rui did it on purpose. Obviously asking about the news of the Cao family, why did he suddenly talk about the Jiang family brothers? Jiang Shaoliang became the son-in-law of the second room of the Cao family, and that's it. Jiang Yuliang is not the son-in-law of the Cao family, even if the Cao family takes a fancy to him and plans to discuss marriage with him, it has not yet been negotiated. Xiao Rui deliberately mentioned him, wasn't it really because he had been engaged to Xie Yingzhen?

Xie Mulin snorted: "I almost forgot that there was such a person, and I only remembered him because Second Young Master Xiao mentioned it." Isn't he still betrothed? I remember that nearly a year ago, there was news that his mother had taken a fancy to him in a family matter, why hadn't it been decided for a year? ”

Xiao Rui was silent for a moment, and then coughed lightly: "I don't know what relatives he has discussed in his family, but I just think that this person is a little snobbish, and I always want to talk about a girl with a good family background, but now she is targeted by the Cao family, and she can't even get married, and I don't know what the outcome will be in the future." If it weren't for his blindness and treachery, he wouldn't have been able to get to this point, and the poor man must have something to hate! ”

Xie Mulin said a fair word: "He is not a snob, but weaker." Relatively speaking, the two brothers are more sensible than their parents, and their character is not too bad. My relationship with Jiang Yuliang was decided by their parents. They came to pay for it afterwards, and I don't resent anyone. Originally, it wasn't a relative that I was willing to marry, but it was just that the Cao family, the Jiang family, and the Cheng family were calculated, and they wanted to use me to control their father, so it would be better to retreat. I just feel a little sorry for their two brothers, with such a pair of parents here, I don't know how they will be affected in the future. She remembered Xie Yingrong's vaguely revealed tone when she was talking to herself......

Xiao Rui was silent again, his expression was a little strange: "You don't resent Jiang Yuliang, but ...... Sympathize with him? Do you still think he's good now? ”

Xie Mulin glanced at him: "When rejecting others, saying that the other party is a good person means saving some face for the other party." I was originally a kind person, what is strange about saying a good word from Jiang Yuliang? Do you still want to scold? Just because his family quit? ”

Xiao Rui immediately smiled again: "No, how could it be? According to what you say, he is indeed not a bad person, but he can't help himself, and he is really pitiful. I have also heard that he is very good at poetry, and his brother is also a capable person, but he has no choice but to marry the daughter of the Cao family, but I am afraid that I will not be able to tear apart from the Cao family in the future. ”

Speaking of this, Xie Mulin was also a little curious. She has always felt that Xiao Cheng, the mother of the Jiang brothers, is the daughter of the Marquis of Ningguo, and she listens to her brother and sister in everything, and it is normal that she will break the marriage last year. But now, Mrs. Ping Nanbo, the eldest daughter of the Cheng family, has turned against the Chengenhou Mansion and the second room of the Cao family, and the wife of the Cheng family, Cheng Wang, has formed a mortal enmity with the Cao family. Her eldest son and the young lady in the second room of the Cao family had already made a family relationship, because she was afraid of offending the Cao family, she couldn't change her hexagram, so she just left. Now that even the youngest son wants to marry the Cao family, is this trying to be tied to death on the stormy ship of the Cao family?

There is also that Master Jiang Shilang, Xie Pu admired him in the past, and it is said that he is also the backbone of the Cao family's henchmen. But Xie Mulin has always felt that he is more like an egoist, taking advantage of the Cao family's momentum to climb up, and he has little loyalty to the Cao family at all. Such a person, knowing that the Cao family is in a bad situation now, the status of the prince of the East Palace is unstable, and Empress Cao is also disgusted by the emperor, he is still willing to kiss the Cao family, he really has no problem with his brain, right?

Regarding Xie Mulin's questions, Xiao Rui has his own opinions: "Ning Guohou may not have the intention of clinging to his relatives in his heart, but his own family is weak and he will not be willing to offend the Cao family easily; Mrs. Ning Guohou didn't want to be affected by her daughter, but she didn't mean to be estranged from the Cao family, she was just estranged from the Pingnan Bofu; Cheng Wang's family is only the daughter-in-law of the Marquis of Ningguo's Mansion, and now she is taking advantage of the fact that her nephew is about to enter the East Palace as a favored concubine, and she has temporarily gained a firm foothold in her husband's family, otherwise, it is not surprising that she was disposed of by her mother-in-law; Cheng Shizi has always obeyed his mother's orders, even if he prefers the eldest sister and nephew in his heart, he will not deliberately go against his mother for the sake of the eldest sister, he doesn't have the courage yet.

In this way, if Mrs. Ning Guohou thinks that it is more beneficial for her family to marry the other heads of the Cao family, Mrs. Jiang will definitely not have the intention of disobedience. The family affairs of the second room of the Cao family have long been decided and cannot be changed, as for Jiang Yuliang, he is not Mrs. Jiang's own child, why should Mrs. Jiang pity? ”

As for Jiang Shilang, his thoughts are not difficult to understand. Now the momentum of the Cao family is not very good, but as long as the Cao family does not make mistakes, honestly and quietly for three years, with the queen and prince inside, and the help of party henchmen outside, the status is still very stable. If the emperor could solve his family casually, he would not have to endure it for many years. Moreover, the crown prince is the prince of the country, and once it is officially canonized, it is difficult to abolish it without making a big mistake. No matter how dissatisfied the emperor is with him, he will let him go out of the cabinet to study, carefully select a companion for him to read, prepare for his wedding, arrange for him to enter the court and participate in politics after the wedding, and so on. The emperor may be biased towards Lin Zhaoyi and the second prince she came out of, but he only favors them, and he has never said that he wants the second prince to replace the crown prince.

Therefore, the prince's position is still quite stable. The second prince also had a headache because the Lin family had been in trouble recently. The water bandit's lawsuit has been fought in front of the emperor for several months, and the culprit has not been convicted for a long time, but the reputation of the second prince has plummeted. Even if some officials once thought that the second prince was a good candidate for the prince, it was very difficult to explain it when they thought that he or his foreign family actually asked the bandits to pretend to be homeless people to kill people and loot in order to fight their opponents. Therefore, the second prince's momentum is not as good as before, but the crown prince seems to be more reliable recently because he has set a good family affair, and the criticism of the latter in the court and the central government has suddenly become much quieter.

Don't look at Queen Cao's dissatisfaction with the eldest granddaughter of the Xue family, thinking that her mother's family is not as prominent as the Zhao family and other famous families, but in the eyes of outsiders who don't know the inside story, Mrs. Xue has nothing wrong in her life, she has been an official diligently for decades, and she is a respected officialdom old-timer. His granddaughter became the crown princess, which is naturally more in line with the expectations of the subjects than the daughter of the Cao family's relatives, or the daughter of a down-and-out nobleman or the descendant of a royal prince who became the crown princess. Old Lady Xue said good things for her future grandson-in-law one after another, and may have pointed out some of the prince's tricks on how to deal with people, anyway, now the prince is much more polite to the ministers, and he also apologized to the old bachelor of the Zhao family.

The courtiers couldn't help but feel that the prince was just young and ignorant in the past, and with the guidance of reliable elders, he could still learn well. Compared with the second prince's name is not right, and there are still problems with his brain, the third prince's talent is not obvious and there are some unclear rumors, and the fourth prince is still young...... Is there a more suitable candidate for the prince than the crown prince?

Xiao Rui said to Xie Mulin: "Look, isn't Jiang Shilang quite smart? He saw that the prince would be fine for a while, and took advantage of the fact that the Cao family was now going to keep filial piety and was in urgent need of manpower, and pushed his son forward, not only to have a closer relationship with the prince, but also to use the power of the Cao family to push himself up again, who can say that what he did was stupid? ”