The Xiao family has indeed encountered some unpleasant things recently. Seriously, this is actually a disaster for their family.

Things have to start with the future crown princess Xue Da Lady who will marry into the East Palace soon.

Miss Xue is not very outstanding in the Beijing lady's show, but she can be selected as the crown princess, which is a secret, and now in the circle of the powerful, everyone who should know knows it. She didn't really get the prince's blue eyes, but because she cleared Wang Meiru, who was a taboo in her identity, as a bargaining chip, the prince was bent on getting her sweetheart, so he made her an add-on.

Now that the marriage has been decided, Wang Meiru is about to marry into the palace. The nobles in the palace did not stop it, and the prince saw that he was about to get his wish, so he didn't pay much attention to his wife, Miss Xue. He can still fulfill some superficial courtesies, but it is impossible for him to stand out for the benefit of the Xue family. The Xue family was attacked by the second prince and the Lin family as a new target, and even suffered a few small losses. Not only did Old Master Xue feel cold, but the rest of the Xue family also thought that his future was bleak.

The reason why the Xue family is willing to let their daughter choose the crown princess is because the Xue family only has Mrs. Xue who can support the lintel, and none of the children and grandchildren are successful. If their family can produce a crown princess and become a queen in the future, how can they survive until there will be high-ranking officials and eunuchs among the juniors of the Xue family again in the future, and the lintel will be propped up again, so that the Xue family will continue to enjoy wealth and honor.

But now, the thighs that I finally hugged don't seem to be very reliable. If the prince is ruthless to the Xue family, watching the Xue family lose their troops and losing generals, and is unwilling to support the Xue family in the court, then what is the meaning of this family business?

For the sake of her future status in the royal family, Miss Xue and her parents asked her family to be patient, but if the knife was not stabbed in her body, she would never know how much it hurt. The disgust within the Xue family grew louder, and two mainstream opinions were slowly formed.

One is to choose a beautiful and intelligent companion from the daughters of the Xue family in addition to Miss Xue and become the prince's side concubine, on the one hand, she can make an arm for Miss Xue, and on the other hand, it is also to compete with Wang Meiru for favor, so that the prince can take more care of the Xue family;

The other is not to put all hope on the prince, but also to make up his mind with other nobles, and try to hug the other thigh, just in case.

Among the princes, the crown prince has already designated the daughter of the Xue family as the crown princess, the second prince has just formed a big enmity with the Xue family, the fourth prince is too young, and only the third prince meets the requirements of the Xue family. But the Xue family has already produced a crown princess, and it is impossible to produce three princesses, if Miss Xue's own sister or cousin is allowed to be a side concubine, it will inevitably lose her dignity. Moreover, if the Xue family directly married the two princes at the same time, it was likely to violate the emperor's taboo.

After the Xue family discussed, they put forward a suggestion - not to directly stuff their daughter into the backyard of the third prince, but to choose the third prince's mother's Zhu Guo General's Mansion as the marriage object. With the relationship between the Xiao family of the General Mansion of the Pillar State and Xiao Guifei and the three princes, the marriage with his family is not much different from the marriage with the three princes. And with such a layer of separation, it seems that it is not so easy to arouse the emperor's suspicion. If they can invite Xiao Guifei as a matchmaker, the Xue family can still justify that the Xiao family is interested in befriending the princess's mother's family before making a request for marriage, and they are powerless to refuse.

Xiao Mingde, the general of the Zhuguo State, has two sons and two daughters, if the Xue family is allowed to choose, it is naturally the eldest son Xiao Cong as the first choice. However, the general's wife, Lu, has very high expectations for her eldest son, and her daughter-in-law is very picky. The daughters of the Xue family, except for Miss Xue, the rest of them are either slightly inferior in appearance, or their father's and brother's official positions are not obvious, so they can't get into the eyes of the Lu family at all.

As for the option of letting the children of the Xue family ask to marry Miss Xiao, the Xue family did not dare to mention it. Because after they became relatives of the East Palace, they had a lot of dealings with the emperor's relatives and relatives, and they vaguely heard some rumors, saying that Xiao Guifei and Mrs. Xiao intended to promote the marriage of the third prince and Xiao Lin, the eldest lady Xiao. How can the children of the Xue family compete with the three princes? If you bring it up, you're going to offend someone!

In the end, the Xue family only had one choice left: Xiao Rui, General Xiao's concubine. The concubine Xiao Li is not considered, because she is not yet seven years old this year.

The Xue family inquired about Xiao Rui's reputation, and knew that he was now working as a small military attache in the field guard, and they were not very satisfied, and they didn't want to take a precious concubine to match him, but if they only allowed a concubine, they were afraid that they would not be able to achieve the effect of marriage. In the end, they chose the daughter of their sister-in-law, that is, the only daughter of Xue Si who died early. Miss Xue Si not only has beauty and talent, but also has a rich dowry, how can she be worthy of the second young master of the General's Mansion.

Mrs. Xue "encountered" Mrs. Xiao Qiao at a banquet at another family, and made this suggestion vaguely. Qiao's marriage is indispensable, but he is very interested in Xue Si's marriage. Because if Xiao Lin really wants to marry the third prince, she can't do it without a rich enough dowry. The concubine and daughter-in-law are easy to handle, and the fourth girl Xue has no parents, and she is not very close to her relatives, so she does not dare to disobey her mother-in-law.

Although this marriage has not been decided on the spot, it has been approved by Qiao's family, and then it is just a matter of waiting for the head of Xiao Mingde, the general of the Pillar State. Qiao Shi thinks that her husband has no reason to refuse, in her eyes, no matter how Miss Xue Si looks, she is more than enough to match Xiao Rui.

However, before General Xiao returned home from the camp in western Beijing, the Empress Dowager ordered a seven-day puja held at Bao'en Temple to pray for her daughter, who died young. During the festival, Miss Xue Si first received praise from the Queen Mother and the eldest princess, and then had contact with the third prince. Although outsiders didn't say anything gossipy, in the circle that had a close relationship with the third prince, there were already rumors that the third prince was interested in Xue Si Girl.

The third prince is also very interested in Xue Si's marriage, anyway, he will always need to set up a side concubine in the future, so what if he books the next rich side concubine first? The cousin of the crown princess can only be his concubine, which seems to make him feel a certain unspeakable happiness.

But when the news reached the ears of Mrs. Xiao Qiao and Miss Xiao, their mother and daughter were not very happy. Miss Xiao was just jealous, but Mrs. Xiao knew that the Xue family had mentioned family affairs, and the girl who was supposed to be her concubine's daughter-in-law suddenly ran to seduce her son-in-law, who she had been optimistic about for a long time, was this slapping her in the face, or was it a slap in the face?

Mrs. Xiao was furious at home, and even scolded the subordinates who kept persuading her in her ear a few days ago to accept the relationship between Miss Xue Si and Xiao Rui, and didn't care about the decency of those servants for several lifetimes, and directly fell to Zhuangzi. In those days, Mrs. Xiao's mood has been very bad, no matter who is guilty of her, there is no good result, even the young and beautiful Aunt Ma and the young second lady Xiao Li are all taken aback.

Xiao Rui's aunt Li Yaozhi originally intended to leave the house and personally give Xie Mulin a birthday gift. But when she encountered this kind of thing, she was no longer afraid of Mrs. Zhengmu, and she didn't plan to take the initiative to scold, so after a few days, seeing that Mrs. Xiao's mood had calmed down, she summoned Mrs. Gu into the house to talk. She gave Gu Niangzi two tasks, in addition to giving Xie Mulin a birthday gift, she also asked her to explain to Xie Mulin the so-called marriage contract between Xiao Rui and Xue Si Girl.

That's just Mrs. Xiao's own opinion. General Xiao had promised a long time ago that Xiao Rui's marriage would not be handed over to Mrs. Xiao, and it was impossible for Miss Xue Si to marry Xiao Rui, so Xie Mulin must not misunderstand Xiao Rui's sincerity.

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