Xie Mulin and Xiao Rui's trip to the Lantern Festival lasted for about an hour and was about to end.

According to Xie Pu and Wen's instructions to the children in advance, the Xie brothers and sisters should go home to eat the Lantern Festival at this time.

However, Xiao Rui was very reluctant in his heart. It is rare to have this kind of opportunity to take his fiancée's hand to go shopping and play, and he also wants to get along with Xie Mulin for a while, so he tried to propose: "In fact, the lantern festival here is just ordinary, it is better to have a clean place, and there are a lot of new lanterns." If you talk about the lantern festival in Beiping City, you still have to count the best on Zhengyangmen Street. Looking down from the castle tower, it is the most dazzling. It's also much more lively, with stalls selling groceries, lanterns and snacks three times as long as this street! ”

Xie Mulin listened with a little yearning, but looking back at her brothers and sisters who were already preparing to go home, she hesitated again.

Zhengyangmen Street is not close to here, if they want to go over, they can walk on two legs, and they are afraid that they may not be able to reach the place until the third watch in the middle of the night. Although it is okay to take the car, after all, they have made an appointment with their parents and elders to go back, and it is not good to go home too late. As for leaving his companions and going to Zhengyangmen with Xiao Rui alone, Xie Mulin never considered it. As the younger sister Xie Yingfen said, this is the last Lantern Festival she and Xie Yinghui spent at home, and they still have to spend it with their families. When she and Xiao Rui get married, are you afraid that you won't have the opportunity to watch the lights on Zhengyangmen Street?

Thinking of this, Xie Mulin softened his voice as much as possible and said to Xiao Rui: "It's too late today, it's really inconvenient." Wait until next year...... How about you take me to see the lanterns on Zhengyangmen Street again? ”

Xiao Rui looked at his face, he had already guessed the answer, and he was regretting it in his heart, and he suddenly rejoiced when he heard the words: "Okay! I'll definitely take you next year! "It just so happens that the Zhengyangmen City Tower is not something that ordinary people can climb up at will, even if he takes his fiancée over tonight, he is just looking at the street scene under the city tower, and he may not be able to climb the tower. But next year, he and Xie Mulin became husband and wife, and both of them were members of the clan, and it would be much easier to climb up. If he had been ordered by the emperor at that time to officially announce the identity of the son of King Yan, maybe he could take his new wife to the Forbidden City!

Xiao Rui happily continued to hold the hand of his fiancée Xie Mulin, returned to the Xie family's official residence with the Xie family, and ate the Jiangnan-style Lantern Festival made by the Xie family's chef.

Originally, he wanted to stay at Xie's house for a while longer, and find an excuse to go to the south study with Xie Mulin to talk about his private words, but one of his entourages suddenly came to him and said that King Yan was urgently summoned, and he didn't know why.

Xie Pu said: "Since it is an urgent call from the prince, there must be something important, you go back quickly, and come back again when you have time in the future." "I also saw the lights and ate supper, and Lord Xie felt that there was no need for the future son-in-law to continue to be an eyesore in front of him. His daughter hasn't married into the Yanwang Mansion yet! What does Xiao Rui look like pulling and pulling with her?!

Xiao Rui saluted and said goodbye, Xie Mulin sent him out of the second door, smiled and comforted him: "Daddy is afraid that you will delay the business, don't mind." If he really doesn't like you coming to our house, he won't allow you to go out with me to enjoy the lanterns. ”

Xiao Rui reluctantly took her hand: "I've been too busy lately, and I have too little time to see you." I really want to spend a little more time with you. ”

Xie Mulin smiled: "Okay, let's go back to business!" Didn't you see that your people were waiting in the outer court? ”

Xiao Rui looked back at the entourage who was squeezing his eyebrows at him in front of the shadow wall, couldn't help but roll his eyes, and said to Xie Mulin: "You recognize the stupid kid outside." He and another teenager surnamed Xu have recently come to work under me, basically running errands and spreading word or something. If I have something to do and can't come to see you, I'll send someone from me to deliver a letter to you. This is Xiao Hong, the eldest son of the first emperor who was born in the Yanwang Mansion and married the maiden nephew of the concubine in the past. The other Xiao Xu is a descendant of the closest branch of the old concubine's family to her bloodline, and his father is the magistrate of Liupin, and he is the youngest son. My father has now placed these two children with me, and after a few years of training, I will see how good they are, and then make other arrangements. ”

Xie Mulin raised his eyebrows and understood: "Is the prince planning to cut off Mrs. Xu's roots?" "Mrs. Xu's former supporters, first, the support of her mother's family, mainly the old concubine and the Xu family, who have been married to Yanwangfu for generations; the second is the person who has befriended and beneficialized the eldest son or the person who has been supported by his relatives and friends; The third is the descendants of the previous generation of King Yan, after the throne was occupied by the heirs of the royal family, they had to lose the power of the Yan Wangfu and the side branch clans who were qualified to participate in politics. Among them, the last force was enveloped by the first emperor and his eldest son during his lifetime, and he didn't really have any good friendship with Mrs. Xu, but he just thought about the care of the first emperor and continued to support her.

Now the side branch clans of King Yan's Mansion have almost all been vacant under the arrangement of King Yan, except for some of those who are not innocent in their resumes, and they can get ahead without the help of Mrs. Xu, and they have long been estranged from her. Although her maiden family is a branch of the Xu family, it has long since declined, and there is not even a single official who has entered the stream, and now the old lady's maiden family has sent her heirs to the Yanwang Mansion to experience, which means that the Xu clan is no longer Mrs. Xu's help. As for those who have received the favor of the first emperor and the late prince of Yanwang, which side will they pay more attention to when facing the latter's concubine and nephew and the side room at the same time?

If Mrs. Xu is a person with high EQ and IQ, she has been cleverly enveloping her deceased husband's connections over the years, so forget it, but she doesn't have this wisdom, and a few years ago, she even made a case in the army, which was very unpopular with the people. Now that King Yan and Xiao Rui have intercepted her two helps, she is really about to become a loner. Maybe her daughter will marry into a local family in Beiping, and she can also win some help from the local family. But after being convicted, her daughter's husband's family has added a lot of dissatisfaction to her, and it is difficult to say how far they will support her......

Xie Mulin immediately judged that Xiao Rui, the future prince of King Yan, had added two and a half teenagers to his side as his entourage, and it was King Yan who was cutting off Mrs. Xu's roots. Xiao Rui didn't answer her clearly, just smiled and winked at her.

Xiao Hong waved in the outer courtyard again, Xiao Rui had no choice but to officially say goodbye to Xie Mulin, and reluctantly left the Xie family.

In fact, he also had some doubts in his heart, during the Lantern Festival, there was also a family banquet in King Yan's mansion, and Princess Yan also invited her future in-laws to come, what could King Yan urgently call him back?

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