Whether it's true or not, Xie Mulin is not sure. Anyway, listening to Xiao Rui's tone, there is already a possibility of seven or eight points in this matter, and next, it just depends on the Yan Wang couple and the two elders of the Yuan family to discuss their marriage, and what the result of the meeting will be.

General Yuan's grandfather, General Yuan, once made great contributions to the great battle of King Yan's fledgling twenty years ago and helped King Yan win a great victory. He is a veteran who has been in the army for many years, even if he is old, the old injury recurs, and he has no way to continue to garrison the frontier, so he has to return to his hometown, and his prestige in the army is still very high.

In addition, his mother was the blood of a certain Yan King, which undoubtedly improved his status in the northern region. Before the predecessor of King Yan came from the royal family, the supporters of the original Yan Wangfu regarded General Yuan as one of the benchmark figures, hoping that he would be an arm for the true blood descendants of the lord as a blood relative, and compete with the heirs of the royal family for a long time. But because he is not interested in these things that are fighting for power and profit, he only concentrates on leading troops to guard the frontier, as long as it is for the sake of the overall situation, it does not hurt to cooperate with the new Yan King, and he will never provoke trouble, but he will also prevent the new Yan King from coercing the side bloodline. Therefore, whether it is the successor or the person left by the old prince in the front, they all respect him, and at the same time, they don't treat him as their own.

The eldest son of the first emperor, the former prince of Yan Wang, wanted to go to Beijing to fight for the throne, and originally wanted to ask General Yuan to come forward to support him, but he ignored it and only focused on frontier affairs. Therefore, after the prince of Yan Wang was bad, some people complained about how General Yuan was, as if without his support, the prince of Yan Wang would not have been able to do anything. When the old man heard these complaints, he didn't say much, but just moved his own home to Zhending, directly bought a house and land in the local area, and settled down. Except for his own son and his son stationed in the border city for a long time, the female dependents of the family did not interact with the people in Beiping City at all. It was only when he helped the current King of Yan win the Great War that he reappeared in the field of vision of some powerful people in Beiping.

At this time, there were people from the side branch of Yanwangfu who regretted that they should not have forced his family out of Beiping City, but now they were five hundred miles away, and it was very inconvenient to start from his family and persuade him to do something, so he turned back and wanted to move people back home. But after that, General Yuan resigned in the name of the recurrence of an old injury, and went directly back to Zhending to recuperate. His son is still at the border, but his official position is not high, and he has no merits, so the people in the side branch of King Yan's mansion can't look at it, so they have to turn their attention back to King Yan's marriage. It wasn't until King Yan returned to Beijing and brought back the newlywed princess, and a group of experienced civil officials from the princess's mother's family, who had read poetry and books, to enrich the Yandi bureaucratic system, that they began to regret it. There is no need to repeat these trivial matters.

Probably because after General Yuan said goodbye, he was really quiet, so no one continued to pay attention to him, at most, a few years later, his son died of injuries in a small battle at the border, which slightly aroused the topic of the official circle of Beiping City, but not too many people paid attention to it. Zhending is more than 500 miles away from Beiping City, which is too far away. The population of the Yuan family is not large, except for the wife of General Yuan, and the daughter-in-law Mrs. Yuan, there is only one single seedling of Yuan Xiaojun Yuan Xie, and there are no brothers and sisters on the side, which makes people unable to pay attention to it.

A few years ago, General Yuan Lao died. Before his death, he instructed his grandson Yuan Xie to personally go to Beiping City to report the funeral to the Yan Wangfu, and there was another testament to ask the Yan King to present to the emperor. Yuan Xie, who had just turned twelve, went to Beiping with linen and filial piety, and King Yan saw this child for the first time. Although Yuan Xie later went home to guard filial piety, during the three years of filial piety, the instructors sent by the Yan Wangfu have been guiding him in Zhending, and as soon as he is filial, he went directly to Beiping City and went to the Yan Wangfu to receive a deeper military education.

Xiao Rui was quite familiar with him, and after arriving in the north, the two of them had spent two months together in the Yanwang Mansion, and then went north together to Kaipingwei to garrison. Kaiping Wei Dan Whenever he needed to send important letters, documents or something to Beiping City, he sent people to run errands, and basically Xiao Rui and Yuan Xie took turns to come.

Xiao Rui told his fiancée Xie Mulin that in the past two years, he had become acquainted with the top and bottom of Yanwangfu, and he had also met many people in Beiping, spread out his network, and set up an industry in the city, and by the way, he also went to curry favor with his future father-in-law Xie Pu from time to time. He can do so much, and Yuan Xie, who has traveled to Beiping City almost the same number as him, will definitely not do less. As for when the other party got involved with Zhu Pei, the county lord of Yanwangfu, Xiao Rui didn't know by himself. After the end of the war this year, he decided to go to Beijing to receive a reward, and by the way he went home to ask his adoptive father Xiao Mingde to come out to propose marriage to the Xie family, but his little friend Yuan Xie gave up the plan to go to Beijing and continued to return to Kaipingwei to garrison. Seeing Zhu Pei and Yuan Xie close to each other when they saw them off, Xiao Rui was also surprised.

However, King Yan and Princess Yan seem to have known about this matter for a long time, and they are quite happy to hear about it, but because Yuan Xieli's credit is not enough, and his official position is a little low, so they have not made this matter public for the time being, but just took advantage of King Yan to go to Beijing to talk to the Queen Mother. The Queen Mother still hesitated, refused to directly decree the marriage, and did not nod her head to agree to the marriage, so the marriage has not yet been decided. But now that Yuan Xie has made such a great contribution and captured the general of the enemy country, Wang will definitely go to Beijing to receive a reward, and the Queen Mother has no reason to continue to hesitate.

Xie Mulin said to his eldest sister Xie Yinghui: "This marriage was told to the princess and the prince by the county lord who was happy with it first. Although it has not yet been officially decided, it is likely that there will be no recurrence. What the palace means is to discuss with the Yuan family first and finalize all kinds of regulations. After General Yuan Xiao entered Beijing and received a reward, the emperor or the queen mother issued a decree to give marriage, and the scenery that should have been there was also there, and the marriage could be regarded as a consummation. ”

Xie Yinghui sighed: "It doesn't sound easy. I only heard people say that this Yuan family has been in decline for a long time, but I didn't expect it to have such a history. This is not a decline at all, but it is just far away from Beiping. ”

Xie Mulin nodded: "Although the Yuan family has not settled in Zhending for a long time, it is now one of the most famous families in the local area. The Yuan family has nearly 100 hectares of fertile land in the local area, as well as mansions, shops, and many industries. Their family has a very small population, and there is only one single seedling among the juniors, who does not look obvious from the outside, but is actually rich enough. Xiao Rui also said that in addition to being shrewd in the matter of fighting, this Yuan Xie is quite simple and simple in other aspects, and he is a little honest and stupid. Xiao Rui didn't understand why the county lord liked such a man, but thinking about such an honest guest of honor, it was unlikely that something would go wrong in the future. ”

Xie Yinghui nodded thoughtfully.