Xie Yanhe's face was solemn, and she said in a deep voice: "Mama, Your Majesty told me today that the eldest uncle alone has not yet had the courage to collude with Wei Jian to plot a rebellion. His Majesty suspects that there should be someone behind the eldest uncle. ”

In the thirtieth year of Yongtai, the abolished prince Wei Hong cursed the king with the technique of disgust with victory, and after the incident, he used a knife to kill himself in the East Palace.

It was also from that time that the "Rebellion of the Three Kings" broke out in the court.

Emperor Jianyuan took advantage of the name of "Qing Jun's side" to return to Beijing, but was ambushed by the rebel king Wei Jian in Jixian County......

The two sides fought fiercely for ten days and nights, and Wei Jian not only seized the opportunity, but also took advantage of the geographical advantage, causing Emperor Jianyuan to suffer heavy losses.

In that battle, Emperor Jianyuan's 50,000 vanguard army was finally left with less than 10,000 people. Even Xie Yanhe's father died because of the rescue. Although Emperor Jianyuan cut off Wei Jian's head in the end, the deceased was gone, and the Fengyu army was also greatly injured.

This very tragic past, Xie Yanhe has always been buried deep in his heart, and now when he recalls it, he is still uneasy.

"County Lord, since Your Majesty already knows that the crown prince is in violation of the yin, isn't he angry?" Mama Gong remembered that His Majesty had a deep brotherly relationship with the former marquis, and it was a friendship of life and death.

At that time, His Majesty was only an unfavored prince, and his biological mother was deposed as queen, and was exiled to the north by the first emperor; But the first marquis is the eldest princess's beloved son and nephew of the Son of Heaven. Although the first emperor is mediocre, he is very fond of the first marquis, and it is often said that the first marquis is the unicorn of the Xie family!

But after the first marquis got married, he followed His Majesty to the fiefdom, and worked tirelessly to share the wind and rain; Therefore, His Majesty is very grateful for the kindness of the former marquis and respects the former marquis very much.

Mama Gong didn't believe it, and His Majesty would not be touched by the death of the first marquis.

Hearing this, Xie Yanhe's two rows of eyelashes hanging down like a feather fan suddenly covered the coldness of her eyes, and she said lightly: "Your Majesty's joy and anger, how can I see it." ”

"County Lord, what should we do in the future?" Mama Gong's kind round face is like frost.

Since the prince is already full of malice towards the Hou Mansion, how can the Hou Mansion sit still and wait to be killed!

Xie Yanhe chuckled, and his delicate red lips revealed indescribable mockery: "Grandmother worked hard to plan for Xie Fu. Her old man would never have thought that the crown prince was holding the sharpest knife in his hand, and when the time came, he would let the heads of the Xie Mansion fall to the ground! ”

Mama Gong also sneered when she heard this.

The eldest princess of Ping An regards the county lord as the bane, and she just wants to put the county lord to death, but she doesn't know that the biggest bane of the Xie family is her good son!

Now that I think about it, it's really retribution!

"The eldest princess is also a motherly heart. It's a pity that a loving mother has many defeated children! Except for our master, the other two sons under her knees are all ambitious and talented, and they are not in the climate! ”

Mama Gong's expression was a hint of coldness, and her words were full of fierceness: "County Lord, now it's time to survive with a broken tail, you and Hou Ye have to make plans early." ”

"Don't worry, I'll write to my brother about this matter and see how he arranges it." Xie Yanhe had a trace of hesitation in his heart.

Although her grandmother has always been sweet and bitter to her, she has a completely different attitude towards her brother, she has always been soft-spoken and loving, even Xie Yu, the eldest grandson of the eldest house, is not as good as her brother's status in her grandmother's heart.

Let his brother abandon the Xie family, will he feel embarrassed?

Mama Gong didn't guess Xie Yanhe's inner thoughts.

Therefore, Mama Gong, who completely wanted to be left, nodded in agreement: "What the county lord said is extremely true. For such a major event, it is better for the county lord to inform the Hou Ye. ”

After Xie Yanhe reached an agreement with Mama Gong, he instructed the girl to take pen and ink......

She first wrote a letter with a quick pen and sealed the wax seal; Then take out a five-color note from the drawer of the kang head, spread out the paper printed with the dark pattern of Ganoderma lucidum on the kang table, change another font, and carefully write down a line of hairpin flowers:

The flowers in the world are old, the end of the world is gone, and the small garden is not the scenery. There are thousands of red medicines, thousands of good names, and a natural fragrance. Honorable Imperial Clothes Yellow. If you want to make an elegant meeting, you should be careful to drink flowers; If Sister can come, she should cook tea and wine for you to get drunk.

After Xie Yanhe finished writing, she handed the letter and invitation to Pearl and Onyx respectively, and she solemnly instructed: "Pearl will send the book and the flying pigeon out immediately; Onyx sent this invitation to the Cai Guogong Mansion and asked Mrs. Shizi to go to Xiaocang Garden for a banquet three days later. ”

"Yes, county lord." The two maids were ordered to retreat.

Xie Yanhe looked at the swaying bead curtains in the room, and a pair of soft peach blossom eyes flashed with deep thought.

"Mama, if I'm not mistaken, the eldest sister should have married to the Cai Guogong Mansion six years ago. It's in winter, after the wax moon. ”

Xie Yanhe was deeply impressed.

That winter, Xie Yanhe accidentally contracted a wind chill, and at that time, she was still living in the Zhaohua Hall in the palace.

At that time, her condition was menacing, with a high fever for two consecutive days, and her whole mind was not clear.

Emperor Jianyuan killed several palace maids who served her with a rod for this reason, and ordered the courtyard of the Tai Hospital and the imperial doctor who was good at wind and cold to keep watch day and night.

With the careful care of the imperial doctor and the palace maid, within five days, Xie Yanhe was cured.

But Emperor Jianyuan was not at ease, no matter how coquettish Xie Yanhe was, Emperor Jianyuan did not agree to her going out of the palace to attend the wedding banquet of the hall sister, Xie Yanhe also sulked with Emperor Jianyuan for half a month.

"Why did the county lord suddenly mention the eldest aunt and grandmother?"

Although Mama Gong looked surprised, she still tried to recall: "The slave maid never came back with the Hou Ye in the northwest that year; But I have also heard that when the eldest aunt and grandmother got married, ten miles of red makeup, the Xie family accompanied a hundred and twenty dowries, so much so that the courtyard specially expanded by the Cai Guogong Mansion for the marriage of the prince could not fit it, and there were several imperial gifts in it. That kind of scenery also made the people in the capital talk about it for a while. ”

Xie Yanhe frowned: "Does that grandma know how this marriage was set back then?" ”

The lobby sister Xie You and Cai Yuanpei, the son of Cai Guogong, are considered to be talented men and women, but Xie Yanhe remembers that before he and Cai Guogong's son proposed marriage, the lobby sister had a fiancé.

Back then, Xie Yanhe was still at the age of eating and playing, and because he lived in the palace for a long time, he didn't pay attention to the things in Xie's house. Now when I think of these details, I feel like a dusty booklet, full of doubts.

"When the county lord said this, the slave and maid remembered something."

Mama Gong twisted her eyebrows, looking like she was trying to recall.

She said uncertainly: "The slave maid remembers that the eldest lord seems to have married the eldest lady to a young man, that person is a side branch of the Xingyang Zheng family, who used to be a high school in Xingzhou Xie Yuan, and the eldest master greatly appreciates his talent. It's just that the night before the test, he drank with someone on the painting boat and accidentally fell into the river. By the time people pick it up, there is no breath left......"

Xie Yanhe groaned: "That year's palace test was in mid-September, that is to say, this Zheng Gongzi had just died, and two months later, the hall sister hurriedly married the prince of Cai Guogong. Is the marriage so urgent? ”

Mama Gong's face was very ugly.

She has been immersed in the back house for a long time, and she is used to seeing the privacy of the back house. How could the two princes be in such a hurry?! Don't you even want the face of the prince's mansion! Especially the eldest lady has just died a fiancé!

At this moment, the suspicion in Mama Gong's heart is deeper than that of Xie Yanhe!

"County lord, this matter still needs to be investigated from Zheng Jiazi first." Mama Gong made a decision in an instant, "There is also the Xingyang Zheng family, and the slave maid will send someone to set off overnight." Be sure to dig out the secret of this Zheng family. ”

"Not only do you want to investigate the Zheng family, but I'm afraid that Cai Guogong's mansion is not innocent." Xie Yanhe's peach blossom eyes had a hint of coldness, and the cold glow in her eyes was like a famous sword out of its sheath, refining it was incomparable, and it had the advantage of blowing off hair!

"Don't worry, the county lord, the slave maid will let people check." Mama Gong also suspected that the Cai Guogong Mansion had an unsightly conspiracy. Perhaps, the Cai family is the person behind the instigation of the eldest lord to take refuge in the rebel king.

"Mama, remember not to startle the snake." Xie Yan and Yanyan's lips were slightly hooked, and the expression on her face seemed to be smiling: "On the day I returned to Beijing, the lobby sister deliberately left the chores of Cai Guogong's Mansion and rushed back to the eldest princess's mansion to greet me. But after that day, I didn't see a single post from the two cousins, probably because my sister was abandoned by the prince, and I was afraid that I would affect the future of the family. ”

"Why should the county lord bother with such a snob. It depends on the peony flower party you will hold in three days, whether the two aunts and grandmothers of the Xie family will come over to cheer. ”

Mama Gong's words were disdainful.

New hatred and old hatred are added together, and Mama Gong now sees that the people in the Guogong Mansion are not pleasing to the eye in every way, and even the people in the Changxing Marquis Mansion are the same!

"What Mama said is, I'll wait and see."

Xie Yan and Ben didn't want to embarrass these two cousins. After all, after getting married, the two cousins became the daughters-in-law of other people's families, and everything depends on the face of their mother-in-law, which is no more comfortable than when they were in the boudoir.

Therefore, Xie Yanhe knew that the two cousins were estranged from her, so they were very knowledgeable and interested in this flower banquet, and did not post to the two cousins, but just asked the maid to prepare two gifts and send them to their respective mansions, to show that they did not mean to despise her.

It's just that I didn't expect that people don't hurt the tiger, but the tiger hurts people's hearts. The Xie family has never regarded his father as a relative, from his uncle to his uncle, to his juniors!

In that case, don't blame yourself for being ruthless!

"Where's the mandarin duck, are you back?" Xie Yanhe looked around the room.

"Back to the county lord, Sister Mandarin Duck has just come back from Xiaocang Garden, and she is freshening up, so it shouldn't take long to come to greet you."

As soon as Jade's reply landed, she heard a very crisp female voice from outside the curtain: "The county lord wants to be a slave?" Slaves and maids have heard you call you slaves and maids from afar. ”

The red and bright agate bead curtain was lifted by a fleshy arm, and the mandarin duck walked in from behind the curtain with a smile.

"You girl, even I dare to joke." Xie Yanhe snorted lightly, she hid her anger back in her heart, and looked at the mandarin duck with a smile: "Xiaocang Garden has all been picked up?" But what else do you need to add? ”

"Thanks to your county lord, everything is ready."

Xie Yanhe's Qi cultivation kung fu has now been cultivated to ten points, and he can collect his emotions in the slightest, and the mandarin duck does not see anything unusual.

She smiled and said, "This is the first banquet you will hold after returning to the capital, and the slave will never fall into the prestige of our Hou Mansion!" ”

That's a good thing to say! This is like the character that our maid in the Hou Mansion should have! Mama Gong likes Mandarin Duck's domineering temperament, and she can't help but say a word of approval.

The mandarin duck smiled when he heard this, and said jokingly: "Don't praise me, if you praise me again, your tail won't reach the sky." ”