Chapter 414 Han Lie’s Past

“Second brother, put me down!” Xia Miaoyuan said, and struggled out of the second prince’s arms.

[I’d better walk by myself. Second brother is too unreliable today. ]

[I was shocked that I could bump into someone while holding me. ]

Second prince: …

Xia Miaoyuan stretched her skirt and said seriously: “I’d better walk by myself. I’m already four years old.”

Seeing Xia Miaoyuan pretending to be an adult, several followers such as Jin Hu and Yin Bao covered their mouths and laughed.

“Okay, Miaoer walk by yourself! Let’s go, our carriage is parked over there.” The second prince said, and he took Xia Miaoyuan’s hand, and he would pull her to find the carriage when he did things.

At this moment, Xia Miaoyuan suddenly shouted: “What is this?”

It turned out that she had just stepped on something and hurt her foot.

She took her foot away, but found that it was a jade earring.

"Huh? Whose earring fell off? The quality looks pretty good."

Xia Miaoyuan picked up the earring and looked at it carefully in the sunlight.

"Strange, I didn't see any girls passing by here just now." Silver Leopard murmured.

"Such a valuable jade earring fell on the street, and no one picked it up. Are the people in Mai County rich?" Jin Hu was a little confused.

The second prince took the earring and thought, "Do you think this earring belongs to the young man who bumped into me just now?"

"A grown man is wearing women's jewelry?" Jin Hu laughed.

Silver Leopard retorted: "What's the big deal? They bought it for the young lady, isn't it okay?"

The second prince turned around, looked in the direction where the young man in black was walking, and said: "Call him back and ask him and you'll know."

Everyone looked in that direction, but the young man in black was walking so fast that he had disappeared.

"Young master, don't worry about this for now, let's go back first. You and the young lady shouldn't stay outside for too long." Jin Hu urged.

The second prince nodded and put the jade earring into his sleeve pocket.

Before long, they returned to the official post.

The second prince hurried to Yue Haoyun's room and asked Jin Hu to call Han Qingbo over.

Xia Miaoyuan wanted to listen to their conversation, so she followed the second prince like a clingy puppy.

The second prince knew what she was thinking, so he didn't stop.

In the room, Yue Haoyun had just finished his meal and was sitting at the table drinking tea.

"Oh, I've been suffering these days." Yue Haoyun picked up the teapot and poured a cup for the second prince and Han Qingbo.

"You are still the best. If you want to go out, go out. I have been hiding in my room or in the carriage all day long, and I am getting sick."

The second prince suppressed the smile in his eyes and advised: "Just bear with it for a while. It is worth suffering a little to confuse the enemy."

Yue Haoyun sighed: "Okay! What if I can't bear it?"

At this time, Han Qingbo said: "Second Prince, you called me here to discuss something?"

The second prince slapped his head: "Hey, I almost forgot the business."

"I just took my sister out to play and overheard something."

The second prince told the two of them everything he heard in the restaurant in the afternoon.

When he talked about Han Lie's only son being assassinated, Han Qingbo was very surprised.

"The Prime Minister of Dai Viet, a first-rank official, actually has only one son?!"

"Isn't this too strange?"

The ancients attached great importance to offspring, especially the wealthy families, who all emphasized having many sons and blessings in order to bring honor to the family and continue the family line.

Therefore, it is indeed quite strange that the Prime Minister has only one son.

Yue Haoyun looked at Han Qingbo's expression and smiled, "You, don't know the situation of Prime Minister Han's family."

The second prince and Han Qingbo looked at him curiously when they heard Yue Haoyun say this, expecting him to continue.

Even Xia Miaoyuan, who was playing pinball on the side, was cheered up.

[There is not much content about Han Lie in the book. Especially for the part about how he came to Dai Viet, how he entered the official career, and how he was promoted to Prime Minister, it is almost blank. ]

[There is not much ink on his family and marriage. 】

【Yue Haoyun, please tell me. 】

Yue Haoyun took a sip of tea to moisten his throat, and said: "It is said that Prime Minister Han was just a poor scholar. He didn't even have parents or brothers at home, let alone any family. He was alone."

"Later, he won the first place in the imperial examination, so immediately, wealthy families rushed to have him as their son-in-law."

"In the end, Lord Wang, the then Minister of Rites, married his daughter to him. She is now Mrs. Han."

Han Qingbo asked in confusion: "Since wealthy families were vying to have him as their son-in-law, why did he choose the daughter of the Minister of Rites?"

Among the six ministries, the Ministry of Rites has the least power, and it can even be said that it has no real power. The daughter of a Minister of Rites is naturally not the best choice.

The second prince looked at Han Qingbo and said, "You don't understand this. Didn't Prince Yue just say that Prime Minister Han was born in a grassroots family and was an orphan? Such a person has no family power, and the truly powerful families would not choose him as a son-in-law."

"For him, the daughter of the Minister of Rites is already considered up-and-coming."

Yue Haoyun nodded, "That's right."

Han Qingbo looked a little unnatural when he heard this.

Xia Miaoyuan glanced at Han Qingbo's expression, [Alas, Han Qingbo's situation is similar to Han Lie's. I'm just worried after listening to it.]

A few years ago, when Han Qingbo was the top scorer in the imperial examination, he also staged a son-in-law-hunting event.

But Han Qingbo had his own ideas. He was unwilling to get married at this time. He wanted to rely on his own strength to gain a firm foothold in the court before finding a marriage of his choice.

Therefore, he had not agreed to any marriage since high school.

For this reason, he did not understand the unspoken rules of marriage in the upper class society.

The second prince patted Han Qingbo on the back and consoled him, "You are different from Prime Minister Han back then. You have now become an important official that your father relies on, and you have become a noble family through your own efforts. You are worthy of any other family's daughter."

Han Qingbo lowered her eyes somewhat embarrassedly, "Why are you talking about me? Lord Yue, please continue!"

Yue Haoyun's voice continued, "This Wang family is a family of officials, and they have some foundation in the court."

"Since Lord Han is the son-in-law of such a family, he has found someone to rely on."

"Therefore, the Wang family has many requirements for Lord Han as a son-in-law. For example, the most important one is that he is not allowed to take concubines or concubines."

The second prince looked as if he understood, "So, Lord Han's children are all born to his wife alone?"