Xiao Rui did have something to hide from Xie Mulin. Because he felt embarrassed to speak, he didn't want to mention it in front of his sweetheart.

However, Xie Mulin used Xie Yinghui and Huang Yan, a prospective unmarried couple who had just met, as an example to show that she attached importance to frank communication between men and women who were about to become husband and wife, and Xiao Rui could no longer lie.

He has known Xie Mulin for several years, if he can't even compare to Xie Yinghui and Huang Yan, a prospective unmarried couple who have only known each other for a few days, hiding this and that from his future daughter-in-law, he is simply smearing his face! In addition, his father was procrastinating and reluctant in the marriage, in case Xie Mulin misunderstood that he was not interested in the marriage between the two and refused to agree to marry him, it would be troublesome!

So, Xiao Rui had no choice but to stumble: "It's not that I want to hide it from you, but ...... It's a private matter for the elders, and I feel disgraceful, so I'm embarrassed to mention it to you...... Don't be angry, I'm afraid that if you know the truth, you will look down on me, so you have something to hide. ”

Xie Mulin raised his eyebrows: "How did you say this?" What do your elders have to do with you, even if they have been there? They are them, you are you, as long as you don't do dishonorable things, other people's experiences, how can I care? It's even more impossible to look down on you! ”

"What if...... Does it have something to do with my background? Xiao Rui plucked up his courage and breathed a little, "In the past, you only knew that I was the son of General Zhuguo, and my biological mother was Aunt Li. But if ...... What if ......" he hesitated for a moment before holding back his shame and continuing, "What if my biological father is not actually General Xiao?" Won't you look down on me? ”

"What?!" Xie Mulin was taken aback, he never expected to hear such an answer. She thought about it carefully, and suddenly realized: "Your aunt said before...... You won't be controlled by your father, mother, and brother anymore, that's what you mean?! Since you are no longer your father's son, you don't have to follow his orders anymore?! Along with his wife and children, he has nothing to do with you anymore?! ”

Xiao Rui smiled bitterly: "That's exactly the case...... When my aunt told me this, I just felt like a bolt from the blue. Since I was a child, I have believed that General Xiao is my biological father, and I never imagined it...... He was not related to me by blood. Later, I used to treat me differently from my brother for my father's sake, and I felt aggrieved because my mother and brother were suspicious of me. Now I know that my past grievances are actually unreasonable. They treat me badly, in fact, it is very ordinary. ”

Xie Mulin took a few deep breaths and calmed down a little before asking Xiao Rui: "Since you are not General Xiao's son, what about ...... Who is your biological father? Aunt Li told you about it, right? She had a vague conjecture, but she didn't dare to say it until Xiao Rui said the answer. But she thinks this conjecture is a bit reliable, after all, King Yan really cares about Xiao Rui, and if Xiao Rui's father is just an ordinary person, Aunt Li will probably not easily expose this secret in order to let her son get rid of Xiao Mingde's control, right?

Xiao Rui lowered his head and was silent for a while before he said, "It's His Royal Highness King Yan." ”

This answer was not what Xie Mulin expected, but she was a little puzzled: "Is it because Aunt Li served by the late Aunt Xiao in the past, and Aunt Xiao and Grandma Xiao once had a relationship with King Yan?" ”

Xiao Rui stretched out his hand and rubbed his face, hesitated for a moment, and then turned his heart sideways and said the answer: "His Royal Highness King Yan said that he and his eldest aunt are childhood sweethearts, although they are married, but in fact, they have always been brother and sister, but they have long been in love with my aunt. originally thought that as long as he married his eldest aunt, his aunt would naturally become his concubine, but he didn't expect that his eldest aunt died early due to illness, and he and his aunt would have no results. But what my aunt told me was different from what His Royal Highness said. It was true that she had affection for His Highness back then, but His Royal Highness was also in love with his aunt, but it was just a mistake...... The eldest aunt got along with the emperor who had not yet ascended the throne, which caused an embarrassing situation! ”

This story is the most humiliating part of Xiao Rui. But since we've already said the beginning, it's okay to keep talking. After all, he is not actually the protagonist in this story, so he can still bear the shame if he overcomes.

Xiao Mingde, the general of the Zhuguo State, was the companion of Jinshang when he was still the prince, and the relationship was very good, and the brother Yan Wang and Xiao Mingde's sister-in-law Xiao Mingzhu also came and went often. Now he was still the king of Chu back then, because he was ranked lower among the brothers, and his mother's family was not obvious, during the period when the brothers took the heir, it was half a little transparent. But his mother-that is, the current queen mother-although she is mediocre and unfavored, she gave birth to two princes in a row very well, and she is still very excluded in the harem. In order to protect himself, after discussing with his mother, the king of Chu decided to send his younger brother to the Yan Wangfu as an heir and inherit the military power of the Yan Wangfu. As long as the younger brother can gain a firm foothold in the Yanwang Mansion, when those royal brothers are fighting, they will have to worry about the power of the Yanwang Mansion to some extent, and they will not be easy to be ruthless to their mother and son.

However, the original King Yan was still very young, and his personality was also lively and jumpy, in order to ensure that after this younger brother went out, he would not be separated from his biological mother and brother, as the queen mother of the biological mother, set Xiao Mingzhu as his fiancée for his youngest son. Because she knows very well that Xiao Mingde is the eldest son's diehard, Xiao Mingde's sister is naturally no exception, with their brother and sister, the younger son will firmly remember the love of blood relatives and always stand by their mother and son's side.

Xiao Mingzhu showed her extraordinary beauty and intelligence at a young age, and she was also gentle and considerate, King Yan liked this little Qingmei very much, and was very happy about this marriage. After he went to Beiping, almost every month there would be letters and gifts sent back to the capital, ostensibly for his fiancée, but in fact, they were also handed over to his biological mother and brother, but they were just hidden from the eyes and ears of everyone in Yanwangfu. But his feelings for Xiao Mingzhu, his fiancée, are not fake.

As for Xiao Mingzhu's henchman Yaozhi, who admires him, this is nothing, anyway, after Xiao Mingzhu became a concubine, the girls around her did a room and a concubine's room, which were also routine operations.

It was not until the northern frontier was in an emergency, and King Yan frequently led his troops to participate in the war, that there was no shortage of letters sent to the capital.

At this time, the king of Chu, who was in the prime of his youth, fell in love with his younger brother's fiancée Xiao Mingzhu at an inopportune time.

He didn't dare to expose this matter, because it might anger his younger brother, and he also appeared to be very immoral. More importantly, at this time, he had already won the favor of the daughter of Pingnan Bofu, and was about to marry the other party as a concubine, and then use the military power and power of the Pingnan Bofu of the Yue family to sweep away the remnants of the several imperial brothers who had previously lost the heir, suppress all the younger brothers who might become his rivals, and snatch the throne of the prince. At such a critical moment, he didn't dare to expose his personal relationship with his future brother-in-law at all!

Xiao Rui gritted his teeth and whispered to Xie Mulin: "At this time, His Royal Highness King Yan was in the north for a while, and he heard the rumors. In order to confirm the authenticity of the news, Weifu secretly rushed back to Beijing and asked his aunt for the truth. The eldest aunt told him that it was indeed the case, and apologized to him that it was impossible to marry him. His Royal Highness King Yan was devastated, and borrowed wine to drown his sorrows, and his aunt rushed to comfort him, so he ...... There you have me. ”

It sounds like his birth is really not decent, and it wasn't even born to a woman that King Yan liked willingly, it was just drunk and promiscuous. When he heard the truth from Aunt Li, he really suffered a big blow.