Xuan Jinhuan invited Xie Lan to stay to watch the excitement, and Xie Lan was very interested in hearing it, so he agreed.

The two stood on the lookout by the river, watching the rippling lanterns in the river, illuminating the rippling water surface of the clear waves.

"I heard that the wife of Xiang Rui, the secretary of the military department, is the younger sister of the Duke of Zhenguo." I don't know what suddenly came to mind, Xuan Jinhuan chuckled and turned his head to look at Xie Lan, and said, "The in-law relationship between the Xiang family and the Yan family should be quite strong. The Zhenguo Gong she mentioned was the Empress Dowager's nephew and Mrs. Yan's eldest brother, Yan Huan, the Duke of Zhenguo; Although Mrs. Yan is not the daughter of the Yan family, after all, she has the blood of the Yan family, and now the Yan family is also the right-hand man of the emperor's eldest son, Xie Jun.

Xie Lan didn't know why Xuan Jinhuan suddenly mentioned him, so he nodded: "Lord Xiang and his wife Yan have a good relationship, and Duke Zhen Guo also has a lot of support for Lord Xiang. Now Xiang Rui's only son, Xiang Bin, has made a marriage contract with the young daughter of Zhenguo Gong, and the two families should be married to Qin and Jin. ”

Hearing that Yan Xiang had such a relationship between the two families, Xuan Jin Huan understood. In this way, it is indeed the best to go to the home.

The Qionghua tree is full of flowers, and the breeze blows, bringing a burst of fragrance.

I don't know what happened on the other side of the river, but I only saw a group of people gathered around in the distance, and I don't know what was going on.

Xuan Jinhuan knew it. The royal capital has never been able to hide things, let alone in a place where there are many people talking about the Lantern Festival; In less than half an hour, this story will be flying all over the sky, and even if the Lord Xiang wants to cover it up, he will not be able to hide it.

"I don't know what kind of show Miss Xuan is preparing?" Xie Lan asked Xuan Jinhuan with a smile.

"Your Highness, don't be anxious, wait a little longer, won't you know?" Xuan Jinhuan's eyes were dyed with a little smile.

Soon a group of mansions on the bank of the river hurried to disperse the onlookers, who should be people from Xiangfu; Only then did they see that there was a group of people wearing linen and filial piety gathered together, and they didn't know what they were doing.

Xie Lan felt strange: "They, what is that for?" ”

Xuan Jin Huan said leisurely: "Last month, Xiang Rui's son Xiang Bin passed through Luzhouhe County, drunken and molested a woman from a good family, and the woman's husband was beaten to death by Xiang Bin in order to save his wife. Mrs. Xiang loved her son, and sent someone to give the man a hundred taels of silver, wanting to do this; Now the family has come to Beijing to sue the royal court, and they want to seek justice for the deceased. ”

Originally, this matter didn't sound like a big deal, and some high-ranking officials in Beijing bullied men and women and did all kinds of evil, but how could ordinary people dare to go against the government, not to mention the silver, no one dared to speak out.

"How dare they come to Beijing to sue the emperor?" Xie Lan was very surprised.

"On the way from Luzhou to Wangdu, Mrs. Xiang was very attentive to his son, but he sent a lot of people to secretly intercept, encircle, and assassinate. In fact, at that time, the deceased's family took the silver taels given to his wife, and they had planned to end there; But it just so happened that my subordinates knew about this matter, and they also found some things, which happened to be used to deal with Xiang Rui. Along the way, the people of Yunyan Pavilion secretly escorted them to Beijing. Xuan Jinhuan said softly.

Xie Lan thought about it, then frowned and shook his head: "Just like this, in fact, it will not have any practical impact on Xiang Rui at all. ”

Xuan Jinhuan was confident: "The name of the deceased is Xiang Huan." ”

Before Xiang Rui, the secretary of the military department, had not yet made his career, he had already married a wife and had children in his hometown, and his son's name was Xiang Hui. Later, because of the military accident, Xiang Rui was dragged to be a soldier, and later won the appreciation of the Zhenguo Gong and got ahead; It's just that when he returned to his hometown to look for his wife and children, the village had become an empty village. Xiang Rui thought that his wife and children had already died in the troubled times, so he married the sister of Zhenguo Gong.

It is said that Xiang Rui has never forgotten his former wife and children, and the tablet is still enshrined in the house, and the first wife is still the position of the wife.

And the person who was killed by Xiang Bin, Xiang Bin, was Xiang Ruixian's son.

No matter what the outcome of this matter is, it can be regarded as a good show in the royal capital.

Xiang Rui is a person from Zhenguogong, so naturally he also supports the emperor's eldest son, Xie Jun; And those in the palace who took refuge in Mrs. Chu and the four princes saw Xiang Shangshu suffer such a thing, maybe how to rejoice, and then the emperor's favored ministers added a few words to the emperor's ear, and some things could become facts even if they didn't.

Besides, sometimes even if Xiang Shangshu doesn't care, it can't withstand the gossip in Beijing.

So soon, someone compiled Xiang Shangshu's story into a story, telling the story of Xiang Rui who did not hesitate to abandon his wife for Panlong and Phoenix, and now he is still committing murder and killing people; Although the truth is not the case, ordinary people don't know it, so they naturally easily believe this storytelling.

In short, this matter is now in an uproar, and people from the government and the opposition to the countryside are talking about it with relish.

The mother and wife of the deceased Xiang Bin carried the body of the deceased in front of the Dali Temple to beat the drum and sound the grievances, and the people in front of the Dali Temple surrounded the three layers inside and the three layers outside the three floors talked about it, saying that this military department Shangshu Xiang Rui is really not a thing.

The final result was that Xiang Bin was arrested, and Aiko sincerely asked Mrs. Xiang to enter the palace to ask for help from her favored sister Mrs. Yan, who knew that Mrs. Yan directly said that she was sick and did not see Mrs. Xiang, and asked Mrs. Xiang to go back; Although Zhen Guogong had the intention to interfere, it was not good to be too blatant after all, but Mrs. Xiang stayed in Yan's house for the past few days and cried all day long, which also made him very annoyed.

Xiang Rui resigned in the name of the recurrence of his old illness in the court, and asked to return to his hometown to farm and farm.

After Xiang Rui resigned, the former squire of the military department became the new secretary of the military department; This Lord Song has an inextricable relationship with the Chu family, and he can be regarded as the fourth prince Xie Xuan's person.

Seeing this situation, the eldest prince and the people of the Yan family couldn't help but suspect that the people of the Chu family were behind the scenes. Judging by who is the biggest beneficiary of this incident, it seems that it is really like someone from the Chu family did it; Otherwise, why did Xiang Ruifa's wife not go to Beijing to look for relatives for more than ten years, until her son was beaten to death, she suddenly remembered that the current military department Shangshu was her husband who had not seen her for many years, and then carried her son's body to avoid Mrs. Xiang's heavy siege and went to Beijing to sue the emperor.

After this incident, the Yan clan and the Chu clan became enemies, and the little face that they could still work hard to maintain in the past is now gone.

The Chu family doesn't feel wronged, this kind of pie falling from the sky and hitting themselves is a good thing no matter how you look at it; And that Xiang Wei is indeed Xiang Rui's son, he was indeed beaten to death by Xiang Bin, and Xiang Rui's resignation was also proposed by himself, if it weren't for Xiang Xiang's tutor, there would be no such thing, in the final analysis, it was just their own sin.

By the time the vigorous Xiang Rui incident is over, it will already be the second half of the first month.