Volume 1: The Smoke Festival Chapter 39 The sky is about to change
Before leaving, Xie Wuyi was still very strange, why did Xiao Wei let her talk to Xie Xuan about Xiao Yun's marriage when she returned to Ningning, now it seems that Xiao Wei already knows everything about this, and the person in Xie Xuan's heart is Xiao Yun.
Maybe something happened between them, otherwise, Xiao Yun is not a snarky person, and the reaction that day should not be so big.
Xiao Wei instructed Xie Wuyi, "If he denies that there is someone in his heart, there is no need to dig deeper, tell him that his father intends to choose a son-in-law for his eldest sister, and he, as a member of the ministry, should also prepare early." ”
Xiao Wei didn't say what to prepare, but Xie Wuyi now understands that he wants to stop Xie Xuan from becoming a colt.
Xiao Yun holds military power and has a pivotal position. Since Xiao Wei had made up his mind not to get involved in the court situation, he used Xie Wuyi's mouth to send a message to Xie Xuan, which was a reminder at best, and a threat at worst.
Xie Xuan twitched the corners of his mouth and smiled dismally, he already knew Xie Wuyi's purpose. The secret that had been buried deep in the soil for many years suddenly came to light, and he only felt a chill all over his body, and he didn't know how to respond for a while.
Xie Wuyi understood that Xie Xuan was a smart person, and couldn't help but say tentatively: "In that case, why don't my brother take this opportunity to worry about it?" ”
"His Royal Highness Fang Cai reminded his father that it was an eventful time and that he should not be in a hurry to marry Chunmei. Now the princess ...... again," Xie Xuan beat her spirits, and turned her neck to look at Xie Wuyi again, "His Royal Highness King Yan asked you to say this, right?" ”
Xie Wuyi was silent, and the right to acquiesce.
Xie Xuan's face was pale, his lips kept trembling, but only his gentle eyes were still clear.
"Your Highness wants me to dispel this idea."
Guo Hui Yi Yao, Xie Wuyi sighed helplessly, "It's good that my brother knows it." ”
"Actually, Your Highness is too worried." Xie Xuan said in a low voice, "Princess Guangfeng Jiyue, as a brother, I am just a mediocre official, how can I deserve to stand by her side?" Besides, I don't want to hurt her......"
Xie Xuan's last sentence was so light that Xie Wuyi suspected that it was just his hallucination. She looked at Xie Xuan in a daze for a long time, such a gentle son who is kind to everyone, but his heart is so firm in the word love.
As a result, Xie Wuyi suddenly glimpsed the thousands of threads of love buried in those eyes as clear as water, entangled in the unknown past, and fell deeper and deeper into the endless abyss.
In the long sorrow, Xie Xuan's unspeakable nostalgia is wrapped.
After sitting for a while, Xiao Wei and Xie Wuyi said goodbye and returned to the palace. Xie Xuan sent them out, and as soon as he walked to the door, his footsteps suddenly stopped.
"What's wrong?" Xiao Wei heard Xie Xuan gasp, turned his head and asked casually.
Xie Xuan frowned, and asked Xie Wuyi in a low voice: "The woman in the crowd, the princess doesn't feel a little like ......?"
Xie Wuyi also noticed that the figure that flashed in front of the mansion just now looked like Xiaodi's mother. As soon as she was about to speak, she was preempted by Xiao Wei.
"Who is it?"
Xie Xuan arched his hand towards Xiao Wei and replied: "Your Highness, when the minister took the princess back to the house, he encountered two abductors on the road, and they kidnapped the princess and the minister, intending-"
Before, Xie Wuyi didn't want to mention this matter to Xiao Wei, so he didn't say that Xiaodi was one of the mother and son. Now she saw that Xiao Wei's face had changed, and hurriedly intercepted: "It's just a thief, I'll settle it in three or two." ”
Unexpectedly, Xiao Wei had already sunk his face, "So you were assassinated on the road?" ”
Xie Xuan sensed that the situation was wrong, and then thought about Xiao Wei's reputation in Zeyang, so he hurriedly lowered his head and didn't dare to respond. Xie Wuyi was afraid that Xiao Wei would be angry, so he hurriedly pulled him, "It's not that exaggerated......"
Xiao Wei didn't speak, only glanced at Feng Da coldly, and strode into the carriage.
Feng Da stood stiffly in place, the coolness behind his back running down his back and straight to Tianling Gai'er.
It's over, the people below didn't report that the princess was attacked, how can this be explained to His Royal Highness...... Your Highness, don't misunderstand that I am derelict in my duties and colluding with others......
On the way back, Xiao Wei always had a black face. Xie Wuyi didn't understand, didn't he just meet a killer, why did he care so much? She opened her mouth a few times, but she didn't know how to ask him. Xie Wuyi thought about it, but decided to ask the question he had been curious about for a long time first.
"Your Highness," Xie Wuyi said slowly, considering his words, "Brother and princess ......"
Xiao Wei opened his eyes and raised his eyebrows lightly, "Why, do you care so much about your brother's feelings?" ”
Xie Wuyi couldn't help frowning, and said in her heart that it was he who first asked her to remind Xie Xuan to arouse her curiosity, and now that she wanted to understand the relationship between the two, how could Xiao Wei still plan to keep her as a lobbyist in the dark?
Besides, what is "her brother", can Xiao Wei still know the relationship between Hua Mi and Hua Yi?
"Didn't you already see that?" Xiao Wei smiled tiredly at Xie Wuyi, "Ten years ago, I thought that the eldest sister would be with Shaoyang forever. ”
Shaoyang is Xie Xuan's character. Xiao Yun and Xie Xuan had feelings for each other back then, although this matter was top secret, it couldn't be hidden from Xiao Wei, who stayed in the same palace with Xiao Yun every day.
Xiao Yun has a private courtyard, Xiao Wei once secretly followed her, and once saw her secretly bring Xie Xuan inside. Raising deer in the yard, Xiao Yun rode a horse to chase the deer, Xie Xuan looked at her with a smile, and his expression was extremely gentle. Xiao Yun asked him to shoot an arrow, Xie Xuan bowed down and said "don't dare", and took out a handkerchief from his sleeve to wipe her sweat. Xiao Yun looked back at him, his cheeks flushed, and his eyes fluttered.
Xiao Wei hid in the dark, never daring to think that Xiao Yun, who had always been strong, would also be as shy as ordinary women. Although they were young, Xiao Wei also dimly realized that the relationship between the two of them was not ordinary. Xie Xuanqing's posture is outstanding, Xiao Wei is thinking in his heart, his brother-in-law should be like this.
"But the eldest sister's marriage is not up to her to decide after all." Xiao Wei rubbed his temples, "My father and the emperor dragged it until the eldest sister was nineteen years old, and then he wanted the nephew of the mother concubine to be her concubine." Do you know that the eldest sister even went to Shaoyang at that time and asked him to take her to elope. ”
This is Xiao Yun's unknown side, but Xie Wuyi takes it for granted. She is the most dazzling pearl of Da Yu, and she naturally wants to pursue the most vigorous love.
As for the concubine, Xie Wuyi tilted his head and thought for a while before he understood the emperor's intention of marrying. Concubine Shu came from a humble background, and Xiao Wei was just a concubine of the Xiao family. The emperor favored Concubine Shu and asked her people to marry Xiao Yun, which was harmless to Concubine Shu and Xiao Weibaili.
Even if Xiao Wei did not have a chance to take the throne, the emperor was still accumulating strength for him and using him to balance several other princes.
Xie Wuyi looked at Xiao Wei, a little unbearable in his heart.
Xiao Wei's voice continued, "However, Shaoyang rejected the eldest sister, and the two broke up, and they have not interacted with each other since. ”
Coincidentally, when Gu He in the north committed a crime, Xiao Yun was reluctant to marry, so he took the initiative to ask Ying to quell the rebellion. In the second year, Xie Xuan entered the Ministry of Officials, and in just a few years, he made steady progress in the Ministry of Officials. In the same year, Xiao Yun returned to the dynasty victoriously, and Gu He officially became a vassal state of the Great Yu Domain. The emperor was overjoyed and did not take back her military power, and publicly pointed out that the best descendant of Concubine Marriage's mother's family, the champion Lang of the year, was Xiao Yun's concubine.
However, less than a year after the marriage, the horse died of a sudden illness, Xiao Yun was widowed with her unborn child, and gave birth to a daughter a few months later, that is, the lord of Qinghe.
Since then, Xiao Yun has never proposed to marry.
Hearing this old news, Xie Wuyi sighed.
Xiao Yun and Xie Xuan, one is as bright as fire, the other is as elegant as jade, and they were also a pair of beautiful people. If it weren't for the dispute between the courts, they might not have gone further and further.
Sometimes, it's just creation that makes people.
The chaotic thoughts returned to reality, Xie Wuyi sighed softly, and unconsciously held his left arm, "Is Da Yu really about to change the sky?" ”
Xiao Wei leaned to the side and asked with a smile, "How can you see it?" ”
"The princess's marriage is even a secret from Princess Qi, if it's just the princess remarrying, will everyone be so scared? There must be other forces behind her marriage. Xie Wuyi raised his eyes to look at Xiao Wei, "Since my brother understands His Highness's reminder, it means that the princess has always been coveted by all parties." If the Xie family climbs to King Yan and then marries the princess, then the Xie family will become a living target, and it will be difficult to get out in the future, and others will count you as a party. Therefore, whether it is for the sake of the family or his life, it is impossible for the elder brother to be a princess. ”
And because Xiao Yun is extremely important, the unclear situation is the reason why the emperor has delayed letting her remarry, and now since such a rumor has been revealed from Concubine Shu, it means that the emperor has begun to take the next move.
The only reason is that his time is short.
Xiao Wei listened to Xie Wuyi's analysis, and the smile on his face became deeper and deeper.
What a clever and clever little yi.
"Yes, although the eldest sister is a princess, she has been carefully raised by her father since she was a child, and Wen Taowu is not inferior to my brothers." Xiao Wei was silent for a moment, and then said, "She went out on a campaign at the age of nineteen, and at the age of twenty, she subdued Gu He and stabilized the displaced people. In the north, the name of Princess Gaoyang is more useful than the Holy Decree. ”
The emperor was extremely fond of Xiao Yun, and because a lord surnamed Wei in Yu proposed that the road was rugged and unsuitable for transporting supplies, Xiao Yun's fighter plane in the north was delayed, and the entire Wei family was exiled by the emperor.
In the end, Xiao Yun turned the tide and became famous, and since then, she has been quite appealing in the court, especially in military affairs, and she has also had contacts with most of the important ministers of the court.
"To what extent is the eldest sister's fame?" Although the corners of Xiao Wei's mouth were still upturned, there was no smile in his eyes, "The third brother and the fifth brother both want to win her over, don't say it, after the eldest brother left, there were rumors in the court and the opposition that the father and the emperor were sick, and the new prince would be decided by the eldest sister." ”
It was a chaotic few months. Fortunately, although Xiao Yun was strong, she saw things clearly, she took off her hairpin and knelt in front of the palace, and made it clear to the emperor that she had no such intentions, and the emperor also severely punished the people who spread rumors, and did not touch Xiao Yun in the slightest. After the turmoil subsided, Xiao Yun still had soldiers in his hands, but he no longer cared about political affairs, raised his daughter in the mansion all day long, and kept a distance from everyone.
Knowing the book and reasoning, the rapids retreated bravely, and the courtiers' appreciation of Xiao Yun was extremely ironic and extremely sad in Xie Wuyi's eyes.
If Xiao Yun was born as a man, wouldn't he just be regarded by the emperor as a chess piece with icing on the cake, and even love and ambition would have to be sacrificed for the so-called overall situation?
Having said that, maybe Xiao Yun has always had a decisive judgment, and she knows very well what she is doing. For example, when she heard Zhu Langxing's report, she knew that the ministers would definitely target the assassins who broke into Pinglin Yuan, so she was relieved to boldly transfer troops beyond her authority, and finally managed to retreat, preserving the two hundred forbidden troops that were transferred against the order.
It's just that...... I don't know if she will be uneasy when she looks at her younger brothers.
Or, in the battle between Xiao Yu and Xiao Wu, who will Xiao Yun look forward to.
Xiao Yun couldn't be trapped in the inner house, and although it was the most emotionally painful year for her to go to Gu He, Xie Wuyi thought that it might also be the year when she was most like herself.
She's looking for meaning in life.
Xiao Wei saw Xie Wuyi's solemn face, and hurriedly smiled with relief: "Oh, these are all over, don't take it too seriously, I told you that I just don't want you to be unable to sleep tonight." ”
Xie Wuyi shook his head, "The sky is about to change, Your Highness, as a prince, is still so calm and relaxed?" ”
"The sky is falling, there is a tall man on top, what does it matter to us?" Xiao Wei couldn't help but snap his fingers and laugh, "You see, my eldest brother is the eldest son, and there are no more people, the fifth brother is the son of the first queen, and the third brother is the son of the current queen. ”
This man......
It's just that Xiao Wei's uninhibited behavior is also a rare sobriety. Xie Wuyi looked at him thoughtfully, still unable to believe it, born in the royal family, the position of power was in front of him, could Xiao Wei really not be moved at all about that position?
However, after listening to Xiao Yun's story, Xie Wuyi understood that Concubine Shu's words really needed to be heard, in case this rumor was deliberately revealed by the emperor, she couldn't afford to parry.
What I am afraid of in the DPRK is the word "change", once there is a move, the follow-up impact will follow, and finally converge into a huge snowball, rolling down the mountain, and it cannot be stopped.
Just like Xie Wuyi stirred up Chu Yufeng's military department, and even discovered the roster and dark room, these seemingly unrelated clues have been guiding her to break through the mystery step by step.
Thinking of this, Xie Wuyi's heart suddenly froze.
She's moving, and the emperor is moving, so ......
Xie Wuyi couldn't help but lean forward, his hands slightly clenched into fists.
"So, will the princess's marriage affect my investigation of the case?"