Although her daughter said that she had leaked her mouth, Xie Pu did not mean to ask about the actual candidate for the prince of Yanwangfu.

Anyway, he has confidence in King Yan. King Yan has now decided on the candidate for the son of the world but has not announced it to the public, which naturally makes sense. When it can be announced, of course, he will no longer hide it from his competent subordinate officials. At that time, Xie Pu and the others will naturally know the answer. If you don't inquire now, you won't have to worry a lot.

Xie Pu just asked Xie Mulin, "Where did you hear that?" Could it be that after arriving in Beiping, that kid from the Xiao family still had contact with you in private? You haven't been out before, have you? He turned to his wife Wen and asked, "Has Mrs. ever allowed Sister Zhen to send a girl out on errands?" ”

Wen hurriedly shook his head and denied: "Of course not!" Sister Zhen has always been sensible and filial, these days after arriving home, every day I will go to the two old ladies to say goodbye, visit my brothers and sisters, and come to help me with housework, or go to the garden, how can I go outside? No one was sent out. I have a few girls and mothers-in-law in the family, and no one can hide it. "Otherwise, how could she monitor Wanqin's movements?

Xie Pu thought about it, and then asked Xie Mulin: "So, I heard about it on the way north?" I remember that Xiao Rui came back to the north this time, and he brought his biological mother with him, and his biological mother invited you to drink tea and talk on the way, didn't you? Could it be that time? But how did I hear that Xiao Rui was not on his biological mother's boat at that time, but went to the dock to run errands? ”

Xie Mulin secretly wiped his sweat: "Dad, you are so powerful, you even inquired about these things clearly?" Actually, it's nothing, I'm just ...... When I went to visit the shops on the pier on the way, I coincidentally met Xiao Rui twice and chatted a few words. In fact, I don't know the details very well, but I heard that His Royal Highness King Yan has chosen an heir, and has obtained the permission of the Queen Mother and the Emperor, but he has not yet made a formal decree. It seems that the emperor asked him to do something big in the capital, and in order to avoid the princes from making mistakes, he deliberately concealed the news, so that the princes mistakenly thought that they still had the option of retreating as the heir of King Yan. But in fact, not only has the Queen Mother spoken, but several princes in the clan have also reached a consensus on this. If you're well-informed, someone should have heard the rumors, right? ”

Xie Pu thought thoughtfully: "I see...... Recently, there are indeed some rumors inside and outside the Yan Wangfu, and even we, the foreign officials, have heard of it, but the prince doesn't mention it, so we don't want to ask. But the weaver in the palace has already begun to prepare the prince's dress and regular clothes, and the prince has also gone to the Fengxian Hall to worship the ancestors. It's not a year, and the prince suddenly entered the Forbidden City, naturally for some reason. If it is to report that the candidate for the son of the world has been decided, then everything makes sense. ”

He sighed: "Now it seems that the person chosen for this selection is probably the third prince, right?" Otherwise, when the princess ordered someone to make the prince's clothes, why did she call Xiao Rui over to choose the materials? Although Xiao Rui and the Third Prince have not been on good terms in recent years, he is a cousin of the Third Prince after all, and he knows the preferences of the Third Prince best. ”

Xie Mulin wanted to speak and stopped, hesitated for a moment, didn't tell the truth, and only said euphemistically: "How can it be the third prince?" He caused trouble in the capital, which caused the emperor to be furious. I'm afraid it's still under lockdown. ”

Xie Pu said: "It is precisely because he angered the monarch that I guess he is going to succeed him." After all, the Cao Lin family fought fiercely, and the emperor didn't seem to favor any family, but he was afraid that he didn't like the prince and the second prince very much. The third prince made another mistake, and the most likely to become the new prince was only the fourth prince. If it is really the fourth prince who is the prince, the other three princes must make arrangements. There is the Cao family behind the crown prince, and the Lin family behind the second prince, both of whom have old grudges with the Yan Wangfu, and it is impossible for the Yan Wang couple to accept these two princes as heirs, so won't there be only the third prince left? Although the third prince is not outstanding, and he has made mistakes recently, he is not guilty, and he was passed to the palace of the clan vassal king, far away from the capital, and no longer has the qualification to compete for the prince - this is already a punishment for the royal family, right? ”

Anyway, the border war has come to an end, I'm afraid I don't need to worry about the enemy country in the north for ten or eight years, a mediocre and unfavored prince of Yan Wang has no obstacle to the overall situation. At present, King Yan is still in the prime of life, and if there is no accident, he can live for at least another twenty or thirty years. At that time, even the grandsons of the Yan Wangfu have grown up, and there are successors who can directly take over the affairs of the army, so do you need to worry that an unreliable son is not capable of presiding over the overall situation?

Xie Mulin was speechless. She thought, this is probably the conclusion that ordinary normal smart people can analyze, right? Didn't hear it with your own ears and see it with your own eyes, who could believe that there would be such a bloody story within the royal family, Xiao Rui, a foreign official's concubine, would be the only son of King Yan?

Forget it, anyway, sooner or later the truth will be revealed. Cheap Daddy himself is not very anxious to ask the truth, so why should she bother to tell it or not?

Xie Mulin quickly changed the topic: "Forget it, anyway, this kind of thing has nothing to do with our family, let's just sit and wait to watch the drama in Beijing." I see that Daddy, you are quite well-informed about the capital, I don't know what the Cao Lin family will do next? Will it be a lose-lose fight? If the emperor really plans to clean up these two families, will he be able to successfully fulfill his wish? ”

"Where is it so easy?" Xie Pu said a little disappreciatively, "The Lin family has only developed with the support of the emperor in the past ten years, but it is just an upstart who has risen to the throne by nepotism, and it is not worth mentioning without the holy family." The Cao family is different, not only is it a noble family for generations, but also once had military power, even if the military power is not in the hands of Chengenhou now, his family still has connections and fame in the army, and it is not easy to overthrow. Even if the Lin family was asked to calculate because of a momentary negligence, when the Cao family woke up, the situation would be stabilized. In any case, the Cao family, as well as the queen and the crown prince, have never made a big mistake, and there is no evidence to prove that the Cao family is against it. At present, the officials of the court are still inclined to protect the queen and the crown prince. And with these two nobles, no matter how bad the Cao family is, it can still maintain its vitality, at most, it is just to lose more official positions and be honest for a few years.

Beiping is too far away from the capital, Xie Pu now knows that the truth of the Hegong case can be revealed, the really guilty people will be punished, and the unjustly killed people can also get Zhaoxue, so there is nothing to entangle, he only needs to wait for the results of the Dali Temple trial to be announced to the world, and he does not plan to interfere too much.

At this moment, he wants to know more about his daughter's relationship with Xiao Rui: "You two met secretly on the road, no one knows the best, even if someone bumps into each other, it can be said that it was a coincidence, so I won't ask more." But after you arrive in Beiping, you two can't mess around like this anymore! When the marriage is officially decided, he can naturally come to visit and meet and talk to you openly, but now you are not allowed to meet or communicate in private! Beiping is different from the capital, the neighbors here are all colleagues of the father's political envoy Si Yamen, which family has a little movement, can't hide it from the neighbors at all, once something happens, it won't take two days to spread the whole alley to everyone knows! Being a father also requires face, you all give me honesty! ”

Xie Mulin could only laugh dryly: "I'm honest, dad, don't be angry, don't worry, don't worry!" ”

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