Chapter 5: Good Calculation
Back then, when the emperor was still the prince, due to the struggle for power, he had to send this son away and hand him over to the Huo family, whom he trusted the most.
Later, he sat firmly on the throne, took Huo Yixiao back, and raised him in front of him as the prince's companion.
In addition to the name of a prince, over the years, Huo Yixiao's food and clothing are no different from those of the prince, so that officials privately speculate when the emperor will officially recognize this son.
"Who is his birth mother?" Old Madam Gui asked.
"I don't know," Wen Yan said, "I only know that his biological mother's identity is not ordinary, so he was sent away, and he didn't recognize it for a long time after he picked it up, but sooner or later he will recognize it." ”
Mrs. Gui agreed, the royal bloodline, if the emperor really didn't want to admit it, how could he take it back.
"You mention him ......"
Wen Yan lowered his eyes and raised them again, looking a little shy: "Before the accident, Concubine Huo had discussed with her grandparents and asked me to discuss with him. ”
Old Madam Gui hurriedly asked, "What about now?" ”
"It was said that I was waiting for me to leave the filial piety period," Wen Yan took out a jade ring from his collar and held it in his hand for the old lady to look at, "I gave it to the palace before I left Beijing." ”
Old Madam Gui's eyes were glued to the jade ring.
She can understand whether things are good or bad, and Wen Yan's jade ring is undoubtedly a thing in the palace.
In other words, Concubine Huo didn't care about the involvement of the Xia family and Wen Yan's parents, and the big things in the eyes of outsiders were nothing at all in the eyes of Concubine Huo, so she wanted Huo Yixiao to marry Wen Yan.
One is accompanied by the prince and the other is accompanied by the princess, the two must know each other, maybe Huo Yixiao fell in love with Wen Yan and begged Concubine Huo to speak.
And it is rumored that the emperor is very generous to his son who has not been recognized, as long as Huo Yixiao insists, he will not object.
The son who can't inherit the title in the Shunping Bofu and the prince who will recover his identity sooner or later, how to choose, do you need to say?
If Wen Yan promised to Ji Yan, when someone came from the capital two years later, Mrs. Gui would be able to regret that her intestines would be green.
"You should have told your grandmother about this earlier," Old Madam Gui said softly, "It's good that you didn't respond to the Shunping Mansion, otherwise it wouldn't have been a mess." Before settling with the Huo family, we can't just talk to the outside, grandmother thought about it and resigned to the Bofu. ”
"I originally thought that the filial piety period would be long, and there would be no changes in the middle, but I didn't think about it when I was young, and I must tell my grandmother early next time." Wen Yan said with a smile.
Mrs. Gui: "......"
That's right, but it doesn't sound very pleasant.
However, Huo Yixiao's name is too pleasant, so she doesn't care about Wen Yan.
Wen Yan put away the jade ring, so that Old Madam Gui could think seriously and withdrew from the Longevity Hall.
Back in Xiyuan, Wen Yan called the old lady and Mama Huang to the inner room, and said in a low voice: "Who gave me the jade ring I wore around my neck?" ”
The old lady was upright and replied: "The princess gave it, the girl won't even forget this, right?" Not only the jade ring, but also two jade pendants and a small box of jewelry, all of which were given to you by the princess when you left Beijing. ”
"Wrong," Wen Yan redirected, "The others were given by the princess, only this jade ring was given by the palace, if you ask in detail, it was given by Concubine Huo." ”
The old lady blinked her eyes and looked at Mama Huang.
Although her girl has been in the palace for a long time, she is not familiar with Concubine Huo at all.
Mama Huang looked upright and said, "The girl is not mistaken, the jade ring was given by Concubine Huo's palace." ”
The old lady was stunned, and was patted by Mama Huang before coming back to her senses, and nodded like a busy chick pecking rice: "What was given by the palace, what Concubine Huo gave." ”
Whoever gives it is the same, and the girl lets her say that whoever is who.
Wen Yan nodded in satisfaction.
She didn't plan to talk to Old Madam Gui about Huo Yixiao.
It is a fact that she married Huo Yixiao in her last life, and it is also a fact that she still wants to marry him in this life, but it is a lie that the two have already agreed to marry.
Just as she deceived the old lady, Wen Yan actually knew Huo Yixiao's biological mother's identity.
That is the death hole of Huo Yixiao in the previous life, he said that "my mother has no mother, my father is not my father", he insisted on being a descendant of the Huo family and was unwilling to recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors......
Wen Yan spent five years in Zhuangzi, and it was also the encounters in those five years that made Huo Yixiao act paranoid.
Later, whenever Concubine Huo recalled the past, she sighed.
If Wen Yan could marry Huo Yixiao two years earlier, there is someone around him who can know the warmth and cold, and understand the depths, maybe his temperament and experience can change.
This is also one of the reasons why Wen Yan is unwilling to wait for another five years on the Zhuangzi in this life.
She had to enter Beijing earlier, tell Huo Yixiao frankly earlier, and change Huo Yixiao's situation earlier.
There are some things, Huo Yixiao's position is not suitable for talking to Concubine Huo, so Wen Yan will do it and say that there is a way to survive in the palace in the palace, and as a woman, she is more convenient than Huo Yixiao in many ways.
She didn't want Huo Yixiao to walk the road she had taken in her previous life again.
It's just that I didn't expect that when Wen Yan returned to the city, a season came out.
Not to mention that Huo Yixiao exists in her heart, even if she doesn't, Wen Yan can't look down on Ji Yan.
Shunping Bofu is the fragrant bait of the old lady Gui, and if Wen Yan doesn't take a more fragrant Huo Yixiao to hang, the old lady can sell her when she turns her head.
How did Mrs. Gui deal with the Shunping Bo Mansion, no one in the mansion can say everything.
The only thing I know is that the old lady wrote a handwritten letter to Bofu the next day, and Wen Yan didn't know the content of it, and Wen Hui didn't know either.
Seeing that the old lady was filial to the old lady every morning and dusk and went to the palace with Wen Yan and love, and no one mentioned the affairs of the uncle's mansion, Wen Hui's patience finally ran out and she found Xiyuan.
Wen Hui got straight to the point: "You really have no intention of Bofu?" ”
Wen Yan nodded.
Wen Hui saw that her expression was sincere, she was really curious, and she didn't care if she would be treated as a fool by Wen Yan, so she asked: "Ji Yan is so good, you really don't like it?" ”
"If it's good, you have to look at it?" Wen Yan asked her rhetorically, "I've even seen the prince." ”
Wen Hui: "......"
Does she dare to say that the prince is not good?
She didn't dare!
She could only change the subject: "What the hell is that grandmother's idea?" ”
"How do I know what my grandmother thinks," Wen Yan said, "I have already said that I am unwilling and inappropriate, and I have also recommended my sister to my grandmother, and I have done everything I can." ”
Wen Hui made a bitter face, Wen Yan said that it was not bad at all, everything that could be done was done, and then it was time to wait.
But she waited in a panic, and she couldn't bother her grandmother, so she could only come and say a few words to Wen Yan.
The two sisters, who were not familiar with each other before, did not have much intersection in Wen Yan's previous life, but now they are absent-minded, one is casually perfunctory, just looking at the way the two sit opposite each other, there is still some atmosphere of sisterhood.
Wen Hui's maid Qing Yu poked her head outside.
"What's the matter?" Wen Hui asked.
Qing Yu said: "The second girl from Shunping Bofu handed over the post, saying that she invited the three girls to go to the mansion for a gathering the day after tomorrow. ”
The haze on Wen Hui's face suddenly dissipated, and she smiled: "Really? ”
If it weren't for Mrs. Bo's nod, at this moment, the Bofu girls would not give their sisters a few posts at will, there must have been a drama.
Wen Yan asked, "Three girls?" ”
"Invite our girl, the third girl, you and the fourth girl." Qing Yu replied.
Wen Yan frowned.
It is said that the best reason for the old lady to refuse the Bofu is that the banquet is still in the filial piety period, and if the Bofu agrees, she will not invite a person with filial piety to the banquet.
Now that the post is clearly underground, it is obvious that Mrs. Gui has thought about it and paid attention to it.
Rather than waiting for Huo Yixiao, who doesn't know if he will come out in two years, it is better to seize the Shunping Bofu in front of him first.
Mrs. Gui is a good person.