Xiao Rui glanced at Xie Mulin with a smile and asked in a low voice, "Are you worried about me?" ”

  Xie Mulin blinked and looked away: "What about worrying?" Didn't you keep saying that the third prince wanted to keep you for his use, so he was always making small moves in secret? Now even Ling Zun doesn't approve of you going north, if the third prince cooperates with Ling Zun, you will also feel a headache, right? ”

  Xiao Rui said with a smile: "My father returned to the camp in western Beijing on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, and had fun with the soldiers, and has never returned home. As long as no one at home delivers him news, he will not go home for a few days after the end of the New Year. He has been angry with His Royal Highness recently, and he will not have correspondence with His Royal Highness if he has nothing to do. As for the Third Highness...... He's been very busy lately, and he probably won't be able to take care of me here for a while. He has already heard the news that I am going to be transferred to Chang Huaiwei, but if I can be transferred, I can be transferred back. For now, it is important for him to appease my father, and there is no need to annoy my father again in order to keep me. ”

  Xie Mulin heard something in his words: "What does this mean?" Is Ling Zun still angry with the three princes? It's ...... last time" She suddenly paused, remembering that Cuijiao was beside her, although she had been very quiet, but some things could not be casually known to the other party, "cough...... Is it because of the incident that I mentioned when my big sister was chatting last time? ”

  Xiao Rui has always had a tacit understanding with her, and immediately understood, and shook his head with a smile: "That incident is already settled, but the reason why my father is angry has something to do with that incident." ”

  Xiao Mingde was previously angry that the third prince used unspeakable means to calculate his daughters for ulterior purposes, and he was even more angry that he was snobbish and missed such a good marriage as the Zhao family. Later, because of Xiao Rui's reminder, he noticed that his sister Xiao Guifei and nephew the third prince might have some thoughts about his eldest daughter Xiao Lin, and he was even more unhappy.

  He has always not supported his nephew to seize the heir, but if the emperor intends to promote the third prince, he will not object. Anyway, his idea is that everything is based on divine command. The emperor also knew his loyalty, otherwise he would not have trusted to hand over the Jingxi camp to him, and let him command the military power of the defense army of the capital.

  However, once his daughter Xiao Lin became the third princess, the emperor's trust in him would definitely be discounted. And he is not a cold-faced and ruthless wooden man, in order to prevent his daughter from being affected by the three princes, after the latter's failure to seize the heir, he suffered from the disaster of the pond fish, and even affected the entire Xiao family, he had to contribute to the three princes. That would be against his heart. Therefore, he didn't want his daughter and the third prince to become husband and wife no matter what.

  When his sister entered the palace as a concubine, he once objected, but the holy order was difficult to disobey, and his sister was happy to be the imperial concubine. Now that he is the head of the family, the third prince has taken a fancy to his daughter, is he still not allowed to refuse?

  Xiao Mingde found his sister Xiao Guifei and strongly advocated that the third prince marry the Lan family, the daughter of Shou Changbo. Shou Changbo was a down-and-out nobleman who had little power in the court, not even financial resources. During the Lan family's participation in the East Palace draft, he had an ambiguous relationship with the prince, and only lost to Miss Xue because he did not have Wang Meiru as a bargaining chip. And as the daughter of the Bofu, her status is too high, and she can't be the side concubine of the East Palace, and she is still waiting to be in the boudoir. Xiao Mingde let the third prince marry her, which can not only give the third prince a warning and a lesson, but also cut off his hope of finding a powerful Yue family and strengthening his own strength to win the heir.

  Xiao Guifei naturally opposed this suggestion, but Xiao Mingde insisted that she couldn't resist her brother. Once Xiao Mingde opens his mouth in front of the emperor, it is very likely that the emperor will agree to give marriage, and then there will be no room for turnaround! Concubine Xiao and the third prince panicked for a while, racked their brains, and finally decided to use some kind of method that was also unacceptable to escape the marriage.

  I don't know what method the third prince used, the Lan family fell ill after being announced by Xiao Guifei to enter the palace, and it is said that the symptoms are very similar to the epidemic. Shouchang Bofu hurriedly sent her to a secluded courtyard to recuperate, and invited a doctor for treatment. Due to the rapid leakage of the news, Shouchang Bofu couldn't cover it up, so he had to admit the news of his daughter's illness to relatives and friends, but he denied that it was an epidemic, claiming that it was just an ordinary cold, but people in the elite circle in the capital had their own judgments, and they were curious about whether Miss Lan could survive the epidemic safely.

  In this way, until she recovers, all matters related to marriage will be suspended. Xiao Mingde also couldn't propose it in front of the emperor to let the third prince marry a girl with an unknown illness.

  Next up is the Chinese New Year.

  Xiao Mingde returned to Jingxi Daying on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year. Without his uncle staring, the three princes came up with one after another. Before the Lantern Festival, the scandal about the Lan family and the prince spread in Beijing. This is a fact, and there are actually many people who know about it, but because it happened in the palace, no one in the know will talk nonsense. Now that the news is spread in the first month, the nobles in the palace will only think that the insiders chatted about it when they visited relatives during the New Year, even if Empress Cao and the East Palace are annoyed that those people talk too much, they will not suspect the three princes.

  But as long as this matter reaches the ears of the Queen Mother and the Emperor, even if Xiao Mingde has a hundred reasons to prove that the nephew and the Lan family are a match made in heaven, the Queen Mother and the emperor will not agree to let the Lan family become the third princess. If there is a scandal of brothers fighting for wives, then the whole world will have to watch the royal jokes!

  At this point, the third prince was finally able to get rid of this marriage he didn't like. Even if Xiao Mingde heard the news and knew that it was his sister and nephew who did it, and it might harm the Lan family's life, he was helpless.

  It's just that with this criminal record, the third prince must also be a little wary of his uncle Xiao Mingde. The Lan clan is solved, but who knows if there will be any Hong's, Huang's, Bai's, Hei's or something next? Xiao Mingde clearly wants his nephew to marry a wife who can't provide help, but he has a lot of weight in front of the emperor, and as long as there are no major problems, the candidate is very likely to get the emperor's permission. Can the three princes still make people sick again and again, and then there are scandals with the crown prince? There were only three or four girls who had an affair with the prince.

  Therefore, Concubine Xiao Guifei has been very busy recently, busy taking the opportunity of the New Year to receive the orders of the royal relatives, nobles, and important ministers of various families, and wants to choose a satisfactory princess candidate for her son as soon as possible, so as to start first, and give her son's marriage before Xiao Mingde opens his mouth to be a matchmaker again.

  It's just that Lin Zhaoyi also has to choose a concubine for the second prince, and a large part of the list of daughters-in-law candidates for the two seems to overlap, so naturally all kinds of conflicts are indispensable, and they fight openly and secretly. The second prince also left the Xue family alone, and helped his biological mother fight with Xiao Guifei, and the third prince had to participate in providing assistance to the concubine.

  He was so busy that he didn't even bother to see Xiao Rui when he returned to Beijing for the New Year, how could he notice that the latter had already received an appointment and was about to leave Beijing?

  When Xie Mulin heard this, he glanced at Xiao Rui with some meaning: "The third prince is so busy, have you really not done anything?" ”