It's just that that night, after Jian Xubai came back, Song Yixiao hadn't thought about whether to tell him about the arrival of Old Lady Duanmu, but Jian Xubai told her something first: "The prince has sent someone to Jiangnan to ask Gu Gong to go out of the mountain!" ”

"Is the Gu Guild out of the mountain?" Song Yixiao asked with some surprise.

She doesn't know Gu Shao very well, except for the generation of powerful ministers mentioned by Jian Xubai, she also knows that her grandfather Song Ying had a good relationship with him during his lifetime, so that it has been more than ten years since Song Ying died, and Gu Shao Zhishi is at home, and he still does not forget to care about Song Yuan.

It's just that a few days ago, when Gu Shao sent his nephew to the Yanguo Mansion, Jian Xubai said that although this old man expressed his inclination towards the East Palace in this way, he did not mean to go out of the mountain in person?

"The king of Zhongling County asked the imperial uncle for Gu Gong to be his teacher, and the imperial uncle agreed." Jian Xubai said this, smiling slightly, "Before, we all thought that Concubine Cui was grounded, and during the period of the imperial uncle's recuperation, there was no one on the prince's side to help speak, but we forgot that there was another county king!" Thanks to the princess, she thought of letting the king of Zhongling go to Xuanming Palace to serve her filial piety. ”

——The king of Zhongling County, who is the same age as the king of Shu, as the eldest son of the prince and the eldest grandson of Emperor Xianjia, has always been deeply favored.

Due to his age, he doesn't need to shy away from the concubine too much now, and now he can fill the gap in the East Palace in front of the palace.

"I don't know if the crown princess thought of this later, or did she think of it when she proposed to the queen to release the concubine?" Song Yi smiled when she heard this, but secretly thought in her heart, "If it is the latter, I am afraid that when the crown princess says that, even if the queen will prevent the concubine from lifting the ban-those words seem to be for the consideration of the East Palace, but in fact, they will continue to trap the concubine by the hand of the queen, so that her son can make meritorious contributions!" ”

After all, how can a mother-in-law be reliable with her own son?

Especially the king of Zhongling County has served in front of Emperor Xianjia for a few hours, and he has already made meritorious contributions - although everyone knows that Emperor Xianjia is willing to nod his head, to a large extent, he continues to bias the prince, but at least the guise is the king of Zhongling!

"Although Gu Shao was defeated by Grandfather Jian and returned to his hometown, it can be seen that the foundation still exists from the fact that he was able to help my father recover, and also told him that the concubine of the third grade is the continuation of the string!" Song Yixiao couldn't help but think again, "If such a character is put under the command of the prince under the banner of being a teacher to the king of Zhongling County, once the prince is successful, he will also become the backer of the king of Zhongling County from an important arm of the prince!" ”

At that time, even if the crown prince and Cui Guifei suspected that Cui Jianlian's death was the hand of the crown princess, they would not be able to touch the princess's mother and son!

"The crown princess also did me a favor!" Song Yixiao felt relieved when she thought of this, "After all, the rumors inside and outside the current time regard the culprit of Cui Jianlian's mother and son's death as the crown princess!" I'm a pawn at best. But if the status of the crown princess and mother and son is guaranteed, this matter will definitely be silenced and not allowed to be mentioned again! ”

At that time, even if the person who turns over the old accounts is aimed at Song Yixiao, it will be regarded as intent on the princess's mother and son - of course, on the contrary, if anyone wants to calculate the princess's mother and son in the future, they may also drag Song Yixiao into the water.

In other words, she is currently a little tied to the crown princess's mother and son......

Regarding this situation, Song Yixiao thought for a moment, and didn't think of any good countermeasures, so he could only think helplessly: "The horizontal and vertical wood has been completed, let's take one step at a time!" ”

What she considered, Jian Xubai also thought about it: "Gu Gong used to marry the daughter of the prince's guest for his father-in-law, and he sent his nephew to serve under the prince, so he was obviously optimistic about the prince." Now that he has the approval of the emperor's uncle, and he is a teacher for the king of Zhongling County, it is expected that he will not refuse to go out of the mountain in person - so Zhongling has a promising future, and the East Palace family does not have to be suspicious of each other, and it can be regarded as unanimous with the outside world! ”

"But Gu Gongyuan is in Jiangnan, even if he has His Majesty's order, this person who asked him to send it out!" Song Yi smiled and reminded, "I think that even if everything goes well, I will not be able to reach the imperial capital until the end of the Spring Festival." At present, the matter of King Yi can be well understood! ”

Although Emperor Xianjia's move will definitely have a great impact on King Yi, Qiu Shuxia's group is not a fuel-efficient lamp!

What's more, it is not only King Zhao who wants to pull the prince off the throne at the moment!

She flicked the jade bracelet on her wrist and said, "Don't forget that Aunt Daiguo has always been straightforward, and Cui Guifei was an example in the past!" The eldest sister is very decent in front of the Queen Mother and Her Majesty, but in the Zhanchun Pavilion in the month of last year, I heard that I pinched a few words with the Wei Wang couple and didn't know how to protect me in the hands of my aunt, so I had to send me and my fifth sister overnight to avoid Yaohuayuan! ”

Jian Xubai also said that King Yi was the most cowardly, "If Aunt Daiguo's mother persecuted herself, our uncle may not be able to hold on!" ”

——The princess of the country is a woman, and she is favored by Emperor Xianjia, and she is just a shrew, the prince of the East Palace, you can't learn from her, right?

"How can you forget your aunt?" Jian Xubai smiled when he heard this, "King Wei's faction was purely made by his aunt, how can he not be optimistic about her?" ”

Song Yixiao was relieved.

Speaking of this, seeing that Jian Xubai had nothing else to say, he speculated that although his mood was not good, it was not bad-Song Yi smiled and pondered for a moment, and finally told the old lady Duanmu that would arrive on the seventh day of the next month: "The third uncle said that the Duanmu family has an old mansion in the imperial capital, and someone has been sent to clean it in advance, so we don't have to worry too much - I originally sent someone to ask for advice, but the old lady arrived, do you want to prepare anything special?" ”

When Jian Xubai heard this, his originally smiling eyebrows and eyes froze, not like disgust, not like dislike, but with a heavy feeling of suddenly carrying something.

He tilted his head sideways, half of his face was hidden in the dark shadow of the tent, his long eyelashes lowered to hide the emotions under his eyes, and a little light in his phoenix eyes flickered and flickered, and after a while, he said lightly: "Since the third uncle said so, let's listen to him!" ”

Song Yixiao raised her eyes and looked at her husband for a moment, seeing that he was stunned looking at the embroidery on the brocade quilt, he didn't notice his gaze for a while, his eyebrows frowned slightly, he stretched out his hand, gently held his sleeve, and said, "Who is this old lady?" You said you hadn't seen her, how could you mention that she's so unnatural? If you really don't want to tell me, then I won't mention it in the future - I don't mean to ask this, and now that the crisis on the prince's side is unsolved, I really don't want you to worry too much! ”

“…… You know that my grandmother is the sister of Mrs. Duanmu. Jian Xubai was silent for a while, closed his eyes to hide the emotions in his eyes, and said, "Their sisters are all after the Splendid Hall, and they are serious and beautiful - but our grandfather was born in a poor family back then, and he was not outstanding when he was young. Therefore, my grandmother's parents did not agree with my grandmother marrying my grandfather, but my grandmother insisted that she reluctantly relent. ”

Despite this, "the two elders don't like it in their hearts, although they have two daughters under their knees, their grandmother doesn't get anything except a dowry for the Duanmu family's daughter-in-law." The accumulation of the Jinxiutang lineage, after a hundred years of the two elders, was all given to the old lady Duanmu! ”

The problem is, "Old Madam Duanmu gave birth to three sons and one daughter, but except for her daughter, all three sons died. And our grandmother also passed away soon after, so Mrs. Duanmu persuaded her grandfather to take the infant third uncle to her knees and raise her only biological daughter to comfort the pain of losing her son and sister! ”

"The third uncle and our cousin's childhood sweetheart, when they grow up, they naturally kiss each other, and they are also very affectionate after marriage, and the old lady Duanmu naturally wants to leave the legacy of Jinxiutang to them!"

Hearing this, Song Yixiao already had some understanding: "But the third aunt is gone." ”

"Yes, the third aunt is gone, and even that cousin didn't survive." Jian Xubai said with a complicated expression, "The third uncle swore before he got married that there was only one third aunt in this life, and no matter what happened, he would never continue the string and never accept a concubine - so after the third aunt passed away that year, the old lady Duanmu suddenly didn't know what to do with the accumulation of the Splendid Hall?" ”

Song Yi smiled and said in surprise: "I heard the second son of Su before-don't be suspicious, it was mentioned in passing when the fifth sister was sick when he was in Zhanchun Pavilion, and when he asked about the condition-he said that although the Duanmu family has no male heirs, there are still branches?" Why didn't Jinxiutang pass on its heirs from the branch back then? ”

It is said that the larger the family, the more important the inheritance, not to mention the famous family of the Splendid Duanmu, which has been prominent for several dynasties?

"It's because of the rut in the past, and it's also a lesson learned from your mother's family!" Jian Xubai groaned, "Your mother's family was one of the six major lords of Jiangnan a hundred years ago, and after the Southern Song Dynasty, the branch number is Jiangnan Hall. Jiangnan Hall had five rooms in the last years of Xiyong, and the people were very prosperous. At that time, there was a Song Qi in the branch of the Song family, who was rich but had no children, and was very close to the Yan branch, so he succeeded a concubine as the heir from the Yan branch. ”

It's nothing to do here, "But more than ten years later, Song Qi passed away due to illness, but the heir Song Xu packed up his property and returned to the branch - Song Qi was originally a clansman who has been passed down for several generations, has no close relatives and ordinary relationships, who is willing to offend the branch for a dead person?" As a result, after more than ten years of painstaking cultivation, the family property was paid, and in the end it was still a lonely grave, with no heirs! There is such an example of suffering, and Jinxiutang naturally didn't want to follow in its footsteps! ”

Song Yixiao couldn't tell what to say: "Jiang Nantang was still a little bit like that at that time, right?" Acting so unfairly, aren't you afraid of the world's jokes? ”

"This is also an inside story, when Song continued to the branch, it was the last year of Xiyong, and when he returned to the branch, it happened to be the early year of Dongyong." Jian Xubai said, "To put it simply, at that time, the world was in turmoil, and Jiang Nantang suffered heavy losses for some reasons, and he returned with a huge amount of money on this knuckle, and he was generous - in this case, the famous family can also pretend to be confused!" ”

Knowing that his wife had no feelings for the Song family, he didn't shy away from it, "Speaking of the six major lords of the year, now the Ruiyutang Wei clan and the Fufeng Tang Su clan are quite prominent. The other four surnames, the Liu family of Burning Quinoa Hall and the Shen family of Ming Pei Tang, were defeated because it was difficult to support alone; Splendid Hall fell because there was no one; Jiang Nantang's defeat was purely because of two people - one of them was Song Xu! ”

Because, "Although Song Xu was unjust to Song Qi, Song Qi's old servants before his death had a lot of gratitude for the grace of the old master." If Dongyong lasts for a few more years, these people may not be convinced, and they can't do anything about Song Xu. But the Dongyong Dynasty died in less than 40 years, and Song Qi's old department still had people alive, taking advantage of the chaos to contact the gangsters, and the inside and outside should join forces to loot Jiangnan Hall - the huge Wang clan, only two boys less than ten years old escaped! ”

Just two children, "It's pitiful to be able to keep the Jiangnan Tang fire, how can it not be defeated?" ”

Song Yixiao couldn't hold back her vomiting blood, and said, "Forget it, don't talk about this-so, the old lady Duanmu came to the imperial capital, in addition to curing wind paralysis, just to find a successor and pass on the accumulation of Jinxiutang?" ”

If that's the case, what does she think her husband has to worry about?

"Since it is the accumulation of the Splendid Hall, it must be for the people who have the bloodline of the Duanmu family! Old Mrs. Duanmu has no son herself, and her nephew is only a father and a third uncle, but the third uncle was raised by her and her son-in-law, how could she not be partial to the third uncle? And you yourself said before, the third uncle loves you the most among nephews and nieces - who does the old lady pass on if you don't pass it on? ”

Jian Xubai glanced at his wife: "I don't seem to have told you all along, our aunt's grandmother's husband's family?" ”

Without waiting for Song Yi to smile and speak, he said calmly, "If twenty-one years ago, when the next person made a confession, he would not have said Old Lady Duanmu, but Princess Chengyang!" The third aunt, as the niece of the first emperor, was awarded the title of the county lord of Yishui by the first emperor. ”

Song Yixiao's face changed: "...... twenty-one years ago?" ”

This year, isn't it the twenty-first year of Xianjia?!

"The princess of Chengyang is the aunt of the concubine Shentu when he was the first emperor." Jian Xubai's face was expressionless, "This is also the reason why when the old lady Duanmu asked to take the third uncle to raise him under her knees, my grandfather didn't dare not agree - but after the imperial uncle ascended the throne, even the half-brothers and sisters were spared only King Yi, not to mention the people related to Shentu Guifei?" ”

"The king of Chengyang was given death on the second day of the first emperor's great trip, and he was exiled from the Guanwai!"

"It wasn't until after the third aunt died in childbirth that the third uncle made a statement of affection and moved the imperial uncle, and the Chengyang Royal Mansion was pardoned, but he was not allowed to return to the imperial capital - but was sent to guard the tomb of His Majesty Emperor Taizu!"

"Old Lady Duanmu came back to the imperial capital to seek medical treatment, and she still got the permission of the emperor's grandmother!"

"Now calling her an old lady inside and out, it's just a polite reminding of her former identity!"

"Actually, the current situation of the King of Chengyang is very bad!"

In the dim tent, I couldn't see his expression at the moment, but I saw that in the shadows under the long eyelashes, the light was uncertain, and his tone was quiet, "You say, on this eye joint, what does she want to do when she comes to the imperial capital to help her sick?" ”