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Xie Mulin was not surprised by Aunt Li's explanation of Xiao Rui's background, no, she should be called Master Jing now.

That should be the version that King Yan, Xiao Rui and Xiao Mingde, the general of the Zhuguo Kingdom, discussed together, saying that Xiao Rui is the son of Xiao Mingzhu and King Yan, which can free Aunt Li from his biological mother's identity, so as not to be unable to explain her future arrangements to the outside world. After all, she has been a concubine in the Xiao family for more than ten years, even if she just takes on a false name, it will inevitably cause gossip, which will put Yan Wangfu, the Xiao family and Xiao Rui himself in an embarrassing situation, and some people may question Xiao Rui's bloodline.

Originally, the emperor instructed Aunt Li to commit suicide, but King Yan did not stop it, but Xiao Rui was unwilling to lose his biological mother, so Xie Mulin gave him this idea, and he also won the approval of the emperor and King Yan and others.

Xie Mulin quietly listened to Master Jing tell the Wen family about the version of Xiao Rui's life story that King Yan had discussed, and found that they had added a lot of details, which seemed to be more credible.

For example, King Yan loved his fiancée deeply, and when he learned that she was bullied by her sister and became ill, he secretly returned to Beijing to visit and comfort her during the war, and also had a night with her that made Xiao Mingzhu pregnant with his heir. However, when he learned the news later, he was entangled in the stalemate war and could not return to Beijing to complete the marriage, and it was not until Xiao Mingzhu had a difficult birth that he saw his beloved for the last time.

Another example is that Xiao Mingzhu and his sister Xiao Mingyu have been at odds for many years, and they are deeply hated by the latter, and Xiao Guifei, who was not in the palace, even tried to seduce her future brother-in-law Yan Wang, but failed. Therefore, she later learned that Xiao Mingzhu was raising a baby in a courtyard on the mountain, so she deliberately slandered Empress Cao, so that the other party misunderstood that Xiao Mingzhu was pregnant with the emperor's heir, and ordered her mother's family to send someone to attack, causing Xiao Mingzhu to be frightened and dystocia, and almost killed two corpses.

Another example is that Li Yaozhi, as Xiao Mingzhu's confidant and big girl, clearly knows who her enemy is, but because Xiao Mingde wants to protect his other sister who is still alive, and wants to stay in the capital to avenge Xiao Mingzhu, he was forced by Xiao Mingde to be his nominal concubine, responsible for raising Xiao Rui, who lost his mother. In order to maintain the reputation of the Xiao family, Xiao Mingde was unwilling to let outsiders know that his sister had a child out of wedlock, so he lied to King Yan, saying that Xiao Mingzhu's mother and son died. King Yan was already guilty of impregnating his fiancée and didn't dare to ask more, until Li Yaozhi had a certain amount of freedom to travel, and until he met in Beijing and told the truth, King Yan didn't know that he had a son.

There is even another detail, saying that Xiao Mingzhu's reputation is still bad after his death, and it is deliberately done by Queen Cao, and Xiao Guifei's own sister is adding fuel to the fire. The latter naturally has his own selfish intentions, and by the way, he also took advantage of this to curry favor with Queen Cao, and took advantage of his strength to enter the palace and become a concubine; And after the former knew that he had misunderstood, he did not plan to apologize, but planned to make his sister Cao Shuqing become Princess Yan. King Yan hated Cao Hou deeply, so he unceremoniously exposed Cao Shuqing's personal relationship with his personal soldier Fang Wenshan, ridiculed the Cao family fiercely in front of the emperor, and turned his head to marry Yue Yunsheng, who Xiao Mingzhu asked him to save before his death, as a concubine, and returned to Beiping with the Yue family. But also because he walked too quickly, he lost the truth that he found that Li Yaozhi was still raising a little baby who was not quite the same age, and later regretted it after knowing the existence of the child.

Regarding King Yan's hatred and revenge against the Cao family, it has something to do with the Xie family. Due to the exposure of Cao Shuqing's affair with Fang Wenshan, the Cao family expelled Fang Wenshan, and Cao Shuqing instead married Xie Pu, a wealthy scholar from a poor family, and began to plunder the Xie family's huge wealth. This is also the beginning of the misfortune of the Xie family.

After listening to Master Jingming's explanation, Wen let out a long breath: "I see...... Yanwangfu and Shitai...... It turned out that they had all been victimized by the Cao family, so it's no wonder that they have not been in harmony with the Cao family all along. ”

Xie Yinghui was expressionless beside her. She was not surprised at all, her family was so unreliable, she had harmed many people for no reason before, and the queen's aunt knew that she had made a mistake and did not feel guilty at all after killing her future concubine. She broke with such a foreigner, uncle and aunt early on, and she really did the right thing! Otherwise, knowing the lack of virtue that the Cao family had done, wouldn't she be ashamed to death?!

Princess Yan said softly to the Wen family: "The Cao family was indeed ruthless back then. Don't hide it from my in-laws, in fact, only one person in my mother's Yue clan has something to do with a certain prince who had something to do with something bad earlier, but the rest of the family is honestly doing their own things and is not involved in the battle for succession. But if the Cao family wanted to compete for power at that time, they had to purge the court, and many people who should not have died were wronged and died. If it weren't for the prince's rescue, my whole family would not have been safe and sound, not to mention that there are still children who are still in office and are safe and secure as court officials. I know in my heart that this is all the grace of Sister Mingzhu. Before she died, she could still think of begging the prince to save me, this friendship, I will never forget it for the rest of my life! She died innocently and tragically, leaving only this bit of blood and blood in Regore. Those who have harmed her have to enjoy wealth and honor. Not to mention the prince and Sister Li, even me, I can't get over it in my heart! ”

Wen nodded in understanding. She understands now, there have been rumors earlier that it is the four princes who are going to come to the Yanwang Mansion in the royal preparations, so the county lord of Yongping is friendly with the four princes, even if they are separated by thousands of miles and cannot see each other, they still have to send a letter and something from time to time. But it is rumored that after the candidate who will succeed to the Yan Wangfu becomes the third prince, the Yan King can't help but have to go to Beijing to face the saint. Even if he recognized his illegitimate son, he was very troublesome to arrange for Xiao Rui to recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors, and he was not willing to accept the third prince as his heir.

The son of Xiao Guifei, the enemy who killed Xiao Mingzhu, who is willing to let him inherit his own incense family business?! The emperor has such a thought, is it simply a knife in his brother's heart, okay?!

However, since the emperor wants to deal with the Cao family and the Lin family at the same time, it is impossible to hand over the huge Yan Wangfu and the northern military power to the princes with the bloodlines of these two families, so that they have the opportunity to make a comeback, leaving two princes, the fourth prince is the emperor's favored new prince, and only the three princes can succeed to the Yan Wangfu. Compared with stabbing his younger brother, the emperor was of course more unhappy to watch the power of the Yan Wangfu fall into the hands of the side branch clan.

Of course, now with Xiao Rui, all these problems are no longer a problem.

The Wen family even had a faint feeling that if the Yan Wang couple insisted on not accepting the three princes as their heirs, then their son-in-law Xiao Rui might really take the throne as the son of Yan Wang as a concubine and inherit the Yan Palace.

In this way, won't her daughter Xie Mulin become Princess Yan in the future?!

Wen couldn't help but gasp and subconsciously looked at his daughter.

The daughter seems to have known Xiao Rui's identity for a long time, so ...... Do you know who you want to be in the future? Is she mentally prepared?!

Xie Mulin noticed his mother Wen's gaze, turned his head to look back, and smiled at her with a reassuring smile.