Xie Mulin listened to the words of the county lord of Yongping, blinked, and asked tentatively: "The Fourth Highness really wants to come to Beiping with the Queen Mother and the eldest princess's family?" Why didn't Second Brother Xiao mention it in the letter? ”

The county lord of Yongping smiled: "Sister-in-law, don't worry, reason, my brother will not hide anything from you, but this time it is related to the safety of His Royal Highness, and the emperor has a clear message, so my brother is not easy to say, so I only told my father, princess, and I in the letter." We'll mention it to you too, so he doesn't have to do anything else. Actually, what is this? You don't communicate with people in the capital, you are at home almost every day, even when you go out occasionally, you always walk with your family or familiar people. You are also a person who understands, you know what you can say and what you can't say, even if you know something secret, can you still publicize it indiscriminately?

"The matter of the Fourth Highness coming to Beiping only needs to be kept secret on the road. When he arrives on our territory, everyone in the world will know about it, and it won't matter. Who can hurt my father's own nephew under his nose? ”

This is exactly what Zhu Rui said in the letter. It's just that the language in his letter is unknown, and if Xie Mulin wants to know more details, it seems that he will have to work hard from the Yongping County Lord.

So she tried to ask: "If His Royal Highness is just traveling with the Queen Mother, it is not a big deal, why do you want to keep your whereabouts secret?" The county lord mentioned earlier...... What kind of villain with ulterior motives, is there still someone who wants to be unfavorable to the Four Highnesses? ”

"Since the emperor showed a different attitude towards the Fourth Highness, there are more people who regard him as a thorn in the side!" The county lord of Yongping did not shy away from saying, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince doesn't like him, but he doesn't show his intention to kill his brother." His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is still a little open-minded in the end, knowing that he has three brothers, as long as the emperor does not change his mind, any brother can replace him, so the focus is not on the fourth highness. As for the Second Highness, he has already decided to succeed him, and he can't take care of others! ”

Xie Mulin was taken aback: "His Royal Highness the Second Prince...... Have you already decided to succeed you? Isn't it a waste person? ”

The county lord of Yongping pouted: "The emperor is sometimes very ruthless to his son, but sometimes he can't help but be soft-hearted. After all, he couldn't force his own son to death, but keeping His Royal Highness in the palace would not be beneficial to anyone, so he took the person away, but it was clean. The second highness is going to succeed the family is the county king's mansion, the former old county king just swallowed his breath last month, old and sick to death, his concubine only has a daughter under his knees, has already been married, and there is a son born to a favorite concubine, very favored, thinking that he will be able to inherit the throne, this month is not less with his biological mother tossed his mother. The concubine tossed and turned, and only then did she successfully deliver the words to the queen mother and ask for grace.

"Now that His Royal Highness has joined this family as the eldest son of the county king, his status is lower, but the descendants of this family are all honest people, and they have no wealth or power, and they are thin, so they are not afraid that something will happen. The daughter of the concubine is in love with each other, and she was still a matchmaker made by Lin Zhaoyi at the beginning. Even for the sake of this marriage, His Royal Highness's future mother and sister will be more tolerant of him. ”

The emperor chose this county palace as the family where the second prince would live in the future, and he also took care of it. The biological mother of the second prince has just died, and once he is succeeded, he will not be able to continue to wear filial piety for his biological mother. But because his future heir father had just died, and the county king's mansion was in the period of filial piety, he could serve three years of mourning. Considering the attitude of the princess and her daughter towards Lin Zhaoyi, the arrival of the second prince just stopped the concubine from doing mischief, and they probably wouldn't care too much about him enshrined another tablet in private, right?

The succession ceremony of the second prince is tentatively scheduled to be held in early May. The Queen Mother left Beijing first, because she didn't want to see her grandson being taken out and becoming a distant nephew. The bloodline of that county palace is already relatively far away, and it can be traced back to the brothers of Emperor Chengde, only by virtue of the merits of supporting the establishment, they have attacked two more generations of princes, otherwise they would have been reduced to the generals of the clan long ago. The second prince became the heir of this county prince's mansion, which was naturally countless times stronger than the ending that he originally thought would be deposed as a concubine. But the bloodline is far away, which also means that he has no hope of being in a position for the rest of his life, and it is even difficult to get in touch with the official position of the clan with real power. If you're lucky, maybe you'll be able to mix up a job in the Zongren Mansion, right?

For the ambitious second prince, this is naturally not the result he expected. But for those who care about his safety, this is definitely the best arrangement.

The county lord of Yongping sighed a few words about the future of the second prince, and quickly shifted the topic to the third prince, no longer paying attention to a person who was destined to become a disciple of the Yuanzhi clan: "There are many rumors about the third highness, but there is no clear evidence. The elder brother suspected that the several accidents encountered by His Royal Highness in the palace were inseparable from him, but there was nothing to say without evidence. It took a lot of effort for him to persuade the emperor to let His Royal Highness go out. ”

Xie Mulin hurriedly asked, "What dangerous accidents have the four highnesses encountered?" ”

That's a lot of it.

The fourth prince once practiced riding in the imperial city, and found that the state of the horse he was used to riding was not right, so he paid more attention to it, and did not ride it quickly, but slowly rode back to the crowd, and asked the teacher who taught him to ride to check the state of the horse. As a result, the latter found that the saddle had been tampered with, and once the four princes urged the horse to gallop, the horse was likely to make a fuss in pain and throw the four princes to the ground. If it stepped on him a few more times, it would not be as simple as being injured, and it would not be impossible to lose his life!

Before the fourth prince almost fell off the horse, he had not found out what the reason was, and there was a problem in Qiao Meiren's palace again. The four princes often go to visit their biological mothers, Qiao Meiren will always ask his subordinates to make him love snacks, that day the palace people suddenly fell ill, and they were sent out of the palace before they had time to make snacks, and another palace person was replaced to make snacks for the four princes. Seeing that this snack was different from usual, the four princes did not touch it too much, and rewarded it to their little eunuchs. Who knew that the little eunuch had a stomach upset that night, vomited up and down the ground, and because someone suspected him of being an epidemic, he quickly sent people out of the palace. However, there were two attendants related to dim sum, but they fell ill, and the fourth prince was suspicious.

Qiao Meiren's side secretly investigated the newly promoted palace people who were promoted to make snacks, and found that there was nothing wrong with her, but a "good sister" who helped her, and the family outside the palace suddenly got a windfall, and the origin was suspicious. During this search, the emperor also discovered that there were two inconspicuous guards around him, and some members of the family had recently been transferred to the Jingxi camp, where General Xiao Mingde once held military power, and were also promoted. Although these two guards are not outstanding figures, they have the qualifications to be close to the emperor and the fourth prince, and they are not very reliable people, so it is impossible to get the treatment of close attendants.

The emperor became suspicious because of this, worried that someone would really do something to the four princes, so he was ruthless and sent his youngest son out of the capital temporarily.