Chapter 20: Ye Niang's Journal
"What is this that my sister is looking at?" Peach Blossom asked curiously.
"I don't know, I found it in the dresser. Peach Blossom, haven't you carefully flipped through the contents inside?" "For hundreds of years, if it was Jian Er, she would have turned the things here upside down.
"No, I only occasionally pick up a few books from the bookshelves outside, but I haven't really opened them inside. Peach Blossom shook her head. Jian Er suddenly sweated, compared to the aborigines who have lived here for hundreds of years, she took the lead, these two babies are too well-behaved.
Flipping through the book to see what was written, it was actually hidden in the dresser, which Jian Er was very curious about.
But as soon as she opened the book, Jian'er was dumbfounded! Heaven, earth, think that she Song Jian'er is also a dignified college student who has been reading books for more than ten years, although it is now an era of college students walking all over the place, but she can at least be regarded as an intellectual, I am not illiterate, not illiterate! That being said, looking at the words on it, most of them she doesn't know, she can't read! What a terrifying thing.
A string of words that looked like plum blossoms caught Jian Er's eyes, with long flowers on them, beautiful, unique, and very exquisite, but the problem was that even if she guessed her, she didn't know a few!
Gently pushed Jian Er, who was stunned, "Sister, what's wrong with you?"
Turning her head slowly to Peach Blossom, Jane seemed to hear the gurgling sound of her stiff neck, and she heard her own voice: "I don't recognize the words on it." "A heavy blow!
"Sister, this is a plum blossom seal, few people can write it, sister doesn't have to go to her heart, or, peach blossom read it to her sister?" Peach Blossom asked cautiously, afraid of hurting Jian'er's already scarred self-esteem.
Jian'er nodded, forget it, she won't and not many people will, and many people can't write or read traditional Chinese characters, don't you know if they all use simplified Chinese characters now? She won't, but her sister will, and having a sister translate doesn't mean that she will too? Ah Q's spirit knocked down a qiē! The self-esteem that was riddled with holes suddenly healed without medicine, and instead urged Peach Blossom to hurry up and read it, she was curious.
"On October 1 of the xx year, Ye Niang met with her father for the first time......"
"On December 6, XX year, I hate, Diao Nu is unreasonable, I dare to insult my mother, Ye Niang is useless......"
"On November 10, XX year, I began to learn the art of female redness with the nurse ......"
"On November 25, XX year, the nurse taught the method of running the house......"
"On the Yuan Festival in the xx year, don't give the second sister in Zhongcui Palace, and the blessings that I wish to give will always accompany you, husband and wife for a hundred years, and the husband and wife will follow the ......"
"June 1, XX year, sad cry, the death of the nurse, the intestines are broken, and the world is so big that there is nowhere to ......"
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It turned out to be a diary, from which the intermittent records portrayed the life of the poor princess.
The princess's name is Ye Niang, and her biological mother is a small maid in the palace, who is favored after the main wine, and gave birth to Ye Niang in October, and has to be named a talented person. There are countless beauties in the palace, how can the queen still remember a small palace maid without the support of the mother's family, no favored weak girl, how a small talented person can survive in the cannibalistic palace, and soon the mother was seriously ill, knowing that her time was short, and she was afraid that the poor young girl would have nothing to rely on in the future, so she entrusted Ye Niang to Ye Niang's nurse Cui Shi.
Others don't know, but Ye Niang's mother knows that Cui's is different from others, she first entered the palace to save Cui's who was thrown into the barren well, and she has the grace to save her life, Cui's gratitude secretly mentioned that the naïve Ye Niang's mother was able to survive in the palace, and even a small palace maid with a face, originally Cui's also planned to let Ye Niang's mother seize the opportunity to ask for a grace from the lord's mother, and it would be complete to marry a small official in the future.
After that, Ye Niang was born, and then Cui's became Ye Niang's nurse, and then she was entrusted to be orphaned. In the man-eating palace, Cui's family protected a small baby to survive hard, and in the gorgeous Tang Palace, there has always been no shortage of people who praise the high and the low, relying on the connections accumulated before, openly and secretly helped Ye Niang block a lot of wind and rain.
As Ye Niang grew up, got along for a long time, and the relationship deepened, Cui's also raised Ye Niang as his own daughter. taught her to be a female celebrity, talent, and even housekeeping. Teach her how to hide clumsy, how to carefully attach to the second princess who is more favored by her mother and herself, be careful to flatter, not to steal the limelight of the second princess, and slowly get the eyes of the second princess, and then slowly have a place in the palace with the momentum of the second princess, no longer a little pitiful person who can even step on a slave. Since Ye Niangxiao had also strangely asked Cui Shi how he knew so many things, Cui Shi just smiled bitterly and said nothing.
Under Cui's teaching, Ye Niang learned the Taoist technique of tuna to nourish her body, and her weak body bones due to premature birth slowly became stronger, so she had the opportunity to enter the palace women's school. Then under the teaching of Cui, he learned the plum blossom seal body, and he won the eyes of the master of the school. Knowing reason and knowing things, not coming forward, not being presumptuous, low-key life, modest in handling things, the master of the women's school has a good impression of Ye Niang, and takes her to visit other female officials in the palace. Slowly, except for herself, no one knows, Ye Niang also learned a lot from other female officials. Piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, poetry and songs, and even dance music......
Later, he got the inheritance of the wooden hairpin, carefully guarded his little secret, arranged the space, and fantasized about marrying and leaving the palace one day, and living a sweet little life with the wealth and lover he carefully hidden, this time can be said to be the happiest day in Ye Niang's life.
But the world is impermanent, with the second sister married, about half a year, Cui's occasional cold, who knows that it has not been better, before dying, Cui's handed over a thick small book to Ye Niang's hand, said: I am afraid that time is running out, and I told Ye Niang to write down the things in the small book carefully, and hide it! Although it is not necessary to do it, but we must also know and keep an eye on it, you must know that you must not have the heart of harming people, and the heart of preventing people is indispensable, and then you have never opened your eyes.
buried the nurse with tears, and Ye Niang no longer had the support to think about her from time to time in this deep palace. opened the small book left by Cui's family, and found that it contained countless private methods in the door of the mansion, such as how the main mother should control the back house, how to teach the children, and how to hold the aunt and the children hostage. If you are a concubine, how to compete for favor, take eye medicine, and deal with the housewife...... Each paragraph is listed one by one, and Ye Niang is frightened.
The last page of the small book recorded Cui's life experience, it turned out that Cui's family was from the Qinghe Cui family in the five surnames and seven families, but it belonged to the branch, Cui's own mother was a favored aunt, but when the head of the family went out to give birth, she was left by her mother who had no heirs, and then raised her with her eldest brother in the name of her mother. Since then, Cui's and his brother have become a thorn in the side of his mother-in-law, a thorn in the flesh. The mother-in-law designed to kill Cui's eldest brother, and Cui's escaped under the desperate protection of his eldest brother, and learned the truth, and since then revenge has become Cui's only thought. With his extraordinary skills and the little money left by his eldest brother at the end, he married a scholar incognito, entered the palace and became a teacher, secretly bribed and threatened, and finally got revenge.
Acquaintance with Ye Niang's mother is because of the lesson of Qinghe Cui after the revenge, and the secret calculation of his mother-in-law is disrespectful, and the crime is unforgivable, but because of the reason, he threw himself into Arai and resigned himself to fate, and was saved by Ye Niang's mother.
After that, Ye Niang's mother's innocence made Cui Shi seem to see herself when she was a child, and she wanted to protect this girl so that she could get the happiness she never had, but the world is changeable, and she is famous......!
In the end, Cui hopes that Ye Niang can get the happiness that Ye Niang's mother and she have never gotten, and marry safely, until her children and grandchildren are around her knees......
It's a pity that Cui's wish did not come true in the end, and a sudden illness took away this ill-fated girl, who died before she was twenty-eight years old.
After reading the log, Peach Blossom and Jian Er were speechless for a while, sighing that Ye Niang's mother was poor, pitiful for the princess who was helpless, and sorry for Cui's misery. This is just a small wave in the era of the supremacy of imperial power, and there is no trace left in history, if it weren't for Ye Niang writing this qiē on paper and leaving it in the space, who in this world would remember that there was such a cute, versatile, but paper-thin princess.
Jian Erqu pointed out some things that Ye Nianghui would have, embroidery, calligraphy and painting, chess skills, and even some Qihuang skills...... , silent again, swollen and broken, the more I think about it, the more I feel like an illiterate person! Jian Er burst into tears......
picked up the remaining thick little book, thinking that this should be the house fighting secret book that Cui's left to Ye Niang, with curiosity, Jian Er opened the small book.