After more than two years of not seeing each other, Xiao Rui's image has changed greatly, and the whole person has matured a lot. Although he is only nineteen years old at present, after the baptism of the frontier battlefield, he looks like a heroic man in his twenties.

This image is more in line with Xie Mulin's aesthetics, and it is more exciting than the heroic young man when she first saw her a few years ago.

In the past two or three years, she has been in correspondence with Xiao Rui, knowing that his three views and preferences have not changed, but his style of acting has changed, and his feelings for her still seem to be single-minded. With so much heart, Xie Mulin has nothing to hesitate. As long as there is hope, she will hold on to this man. missed him, and it is estimated that it will be difficult for her to find such a suitable person in this era.

Xie Mulin held the venue and tasted every dim sum made by Xiao Rui. In fact, the taste of dim sum is just passable, quite authentic, and not very delicious. But the heart is more important than the taste, and Xie Mulin tastes it delicious. Just in order not to be too greedy in front of her sweetheart, she restrained herself for a while, said that she would take the dim sum back and enjoy it slowly, took a sip of tea, and began to get into the topic.

She asked Xiao Rui, has the recent trouble been solved?

Xiao Rui smiled quite easily: "It's okay." The matter at home is not difficult to solve, and my father's side should be about to succeed in persuasion. If all goes well, I might be able to leave the capital with you and return to Beiping. As for the Third Highness, then there is no need to worry. He has something else to worry about recently, and he can't take care of me for a while. ”

Xie Mulin had some guesses: "Is it because His Royal Highness King Yan is about to enter Beijing and discuss the matter of the heir with the emperor?" ”

Xie Huizhi raised his surprised face beside him: "Wouldn't it?" Second Brother Xiao, when you were with my second sister, did you discuss these topics? ”

Xiao Rui glanced at him: "If you are impatient to listen, you can also go to the front and chat with the shopkeeper." The shopkeeper I hired is quite good at doing business and is very good at chatting with people. ”

Xie Huizhi pouted: "You think I'm in the way, right?" I know you're in the way of me, so you want to kick me away. But no! Since I have accompanied my second sister to see you today, I will accompany you to the end, and I can't give you the opportunity to take advantage of my second sister! ”

Xie Mulin choked, cleared his throat, and gave his third brother a look: "Do you feel that you are too full for breakfast, and your stomach is a little too swollen?" Why don't you go around the yard twice and eliminate food? ”

Xie Huizhi did feel a little choked, but he still couldn't believe that his second sister would take the initiative to send him.

However, Xie Mulin's reason is very high-sounding: "I want to discuss some of the situation in the capital with Second Brother Xiao, and it also involves the situation in his family, although it is nothing to tell you, but it will embarrass him, it is better for you to avoid it." You're just afraid that I'll be alone here with him, and people will gossip if they know about it, but it's only our own people here, how can outsiders know? If you don't worry about him, stay in the yard, we have the doors and windows wide open, you can see everything, can't you rest assured? ”

Xie Huizhi spit out and said: "Anyway, the second sister just thinks I'm in the way of you falling in love, right?" It's okay for me to go out, anyway, if you two get together, it's not necessarily a relationship. I used to be a famous figure in the capital, and I have seen the world, but I have never seen men and women who are in love chatting like this! ”

He got up very simply and walked out, taking away the snack saucer and teapot on the table by the way, as if he was venting his anger and wanted to snatch the love refreshments that Xiao Rui made for Xie Mulin.

Xie Mulin watched him go out helplessly, and saw him sitting on the stone table and stone bench on the side of the courtyard, drinking tea and eating snacks leisurely, and he couldn't cry or laugh for a while.

Xiao Rui still felt a little disgusted in his heart that Xie Huizhi didn't go far enough, and the door of the room was wide open, which made him want to pull Xie Mulin's little hand, and it was inconvenient to say some love words loudly, so he had to sigh secretly. However, in front of Xie Mulin, he still had to praise his younger brother: "Huizhi is really intimate." Don't worry about the dim sum, I still have it there, and I do more than that, but the best ones are here, but the taste is the same. I'll fill you with another box when I go back? If you really like it, I'll do it for you slowly in the future, every day! ”

If you really want to do it every day, it must be after you get married.

Xie Mulin understood the meaning of Xiao Rui's words, his face flushed, he coughed a little shyly, and turned his gaze away: "What's that...... Where did we just go? ”

Xiao Rui looked at the blush on his sweetheart's face, and reminded her in a good mood: "Speaking of His Royal Highness King Yan, he wants to discuss the matter of the heir with the emperor. Mu Lin guessed correctly, since the news that King Yan was going to go to Beijing, His Royal Highness has been in a hurry. He wanted to promote the close relationship between the four princes and the Yan Palace, but the emperor was still staring at him, and he didn't dare to go too far. Besides, even if the fourth prince is friendly with the county lord of Yanwangfu, it is nothing, they are all cousins, and the county lord is the only girl, so she is not allowed to take care of the youngest cousin? The emperor didn't say anything, let alone set the four princes as the heirs of King Yan, and the actions of the three highnesses would only make the emperor suspicious, and there would be no benefit at all. ”

Xie Mulin blinked, lowered his voice and asked softly: "Is the emperor more optimistic about the fourth prince now and plans to let him inherit it...... So what's up? ”

Xiao Rui approached her and replied in a low voice, "I don't know, but someone guessed so." He didn't say who he guessed so much, but took the opportunity to smell the fresh fragrance of his sweetheart.

Xie Mulin didn't notice it, she caught a glimpse of Xie Huizhi looking in the courtyard, sat up straight, and continued in a low voice: "Didn't the Cao family and the Lin family react at all?" Only the three princes are jumping in a hurry? ”

"The Cao family is afraid that they don't take the four princes in their eyes at all." Xiao Rui chuckled, "The Queen Mother and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince used to only regard Lin Zhaoyi and the second prince as opponents, but now they have added a third prince, but the fourth prince is not only young, but the mother's family is also weak, in the eyes of a big family like Cao Lin, he is just a little ant who can be pinched to death, how can he think he is a threat?" At most, he just thinks that the emperor is too fond of him. can compete for the storage position, and the emperor's favor alone is not enough. He paused, "The emperor complied with the Cao family's invitation at this time, and planned to select the heirs of King Yan, which can actually be regarded as helping the four princes." ”

Because the Cao family is likely to mistakenly think that the emperor is planning to pass on his youngest son to the Yan Palace, so he is particularly fond of him, which can be regarded as a kind of compensation. And at present, the crown prince feels that the selection of the heir of the Yan Wangfu can be regarded as a means to attack the second prince and the third prince, and eliminate one of the powerful competitors, even if the heir candidate announced by the emperor in the future is not the fourth prince, they will not think too much, but think that it is their own or the opponent's plan that has succeeded. At present, I am afraid that only the third prince really regards the fourth prince as an opponent to win the heir, so he is eager to implement the matter of the fourth prince becoming the heir of King Yan, so there is no one who can threaten his future.

The crown prince and the second prince only regarded each other and the third prince as opponents, ignoring the fourth prince; The third prince attaches the most importance to the fourth prince, but he thinks that neither the crown prince nor the second prince is his opponent.

Xie Mulin didn't bother to analyze the basis of the Third Prince's idea, she only had one thing she wanted to know the most: "What does His Royal Highness King Yan think?" Which prince would he prefer to be his heir? If, as you say, he doesn't care about it, then why is he so slow to respond to the Divine Will? ”