Song Xiu'er snorted coldly: "I actually said that Miss is an outsider. If it weren't for the young lady to fill the army for her brother, the official brother might not be born, it was really crossing the river and demolishing the bridge. Miss, you have to plan for yourself now, although Monk Daoyan is your father-in-law, but after all, people outside the square can't control the world, and the Yao family is not a place to stay for a long time. ”

"Don't worry, I have my own arrangements, and the back road has been left." Yao Miaoyi took a grape and stuffed it into Song Xiu'er's mouth, "In the past two years, you have suffered a lot of grievances in the Yao family." ”

Song Xiu'er touched the thin cocoon on Yao Miaoyi's hand with pity, the skin on the young lady's face was rough and tanned, but she could imagine the ordeal in the barracks, she was distressed, and said:

"No matter how hard it is, can it be more tiring than Miss saving lives on the battlefield? I'm actually okay, the young lady entrusted me to the Yao family before leaving, and they were still good to me. ”

"Do some chores on weekdays and bring a belt of officials. They eat chicken, and although I can't get a chicken leg, I have at least one chicken wing, which is really good for a half-servant and half-master person. It's that Mrs. Gu often goes back to her parents' house to play the autumn breeze, doing things like east and west, and every time she has to put on a score, stab me a few words, and ask me to beat her legs and knock her back. ”

Song Xiu'er paused and smiled sarcastically, "Even the old lady was so depressed that she couldn't raise her head, what is my grievance." ”

Yao Miaoyi patted Xiu'er's hand, "I'm back, she won't want to bully you anymore." ”

Xiu'er is the daughter of Captain Song, and Captain Song died heroically to save her, but Yao Miaoyi was forced by various pressures and never showed her true identity to Xiu'er.

Song Xiu'er didn't want to mention these tiresome trivialities, she looked at Yao Miaoyi adoringly, "Miss, how did you stuff Korean ginseng into Mrs. Gu's sleeve?" I was standing so close that I couldn't even see it. ”

"Actually, it's a trick." Yao Miaoyi grinned, spread out her left hand, it was empty, and grabbed the back of Xiu'er's neck, "See clearly, that's it." ”

Spread out his hand again, and there was a grape in the palm of his hand.

Song Xiuer clapped her hands and humbly asked for advice, when the bath water was slightly cold, she had already mastered the trick.

Yao Miaoyi demonstrated again, "The key is to be quick in your hands, steady in your heart, and practice more." Skill comes from practice. ”

Song Xiu'er sighed: "Miss is really powerful, she has the skill of medical skills, and she can also learn miscellaneous." I'm a mallet compared to you. ”

In fact, Song Xiuer is very smart and can learn it. It's just that she was abused by her stepmother when she was a child, and she developed a submissive, inferior and timid character, and later almost became a thin horse in Yangzhou, and she fell into the dust, so she lost even less self-confidence.

Yao Miaoyi opened the topic and said with a smile: "Actually, compared to my father-in-law, I am a little bit of a witch." His miscellaneous talents are amazing, and the first monk in the south of the Yangtze River is his mentor; Zhang Tianshi, who led Taoism, was his friend; In the Confucian forest, the four masters of Wuzhong and the ten friends of Beiguo are all his friends, and they often write poems to respond, and the poems and essays are unique; Even this trick was taught to me by him. ”

"And the Daoyan monk is very gentle, never angry, unpleasant, true Buddha's mouth." Song Xiu'er sighed: "The dragon and phoenix fetus of the same mother, why is there such a big gap between sisters and brothers." ”

"The dragon gave birth to nine sons, and each of them is different." Yao Miaoyi said casually, but the figures of the two dragons swept over her heart. The fourth prince, Zhu Di, is a cold character, and seems to be only interested in conquest and authority, like Emperor Hongwu.

And Zhu Di is another place like Emperor Hongwu, that is, he is suspicious, in the last few months of the military camp, Yao Miaoyi instinctively felt that Zhu Di was testing himself in various ways and inquiring about the details.

And the fifth prince Zhu Hu has a gentle temperament, a good hand and a benevolent heart, only thinks about curing diseases and saving people, and believes in himself, with a bodhisattva heart, it is indeed the dragon born to nine sons, each with its own good.

Washing away the dust all the way, Yao Miaoyi yawned, Song Xiuer scrubbed the mat, and was about to fall asleep, when suddenly a guest came.

The visitor is a seventeen or eighteen-year-old woman, and there are beautiful women in the south of the Yangtze River, especially the women in Suzhou, who are gentle and lovely, and have a natural romantic attitude when walking, sitting and standing. Even if it is a three-point color, it can also set off ten points.

What's more, this woman is quite beautiful, and she also has an elegant bookish atmosphere, wearing a Qingjuan cardigan and a white silk skirt, and she is dressed plainly, but she is as beautiful as a blooming orchid.

The woman carried a basket of tender lotus canopy with dew as a gift, and said apologetically without twisting: "I know that you are tired on the road, so you have to rest well, and I should not come tonight, but I ......."

"Sister Shanwei doesn't need to be polite to me, in fact, if you don't come, I will talk to you early tomorrow morning." Yao Miaoyi took the woman's hand and sat down on the bamboo couch, giving Song Xiu'er a look, and Xiu'er retreated.

This woman's name is Hu Shanwei, who was born in a declining scholarly family and has a lot of books at home. The Hu family and the Yao family are neighbors, Yao Miaoyi and Hu Shanwei are handkerchiefs, and they often go to the Hu family to read books and chat. Hu Shanwei was the only neighbor who knew that Yao Miaoyi was in the army for his brother.

Hu Shanwei is a person who is soft on the outside and strong on the inside, and there are no outsiders in the house at the moment, so he asked bluntly: "Wang Ning...... How is he? Why didn't I go back to my hometown with you? ”

What does Yao Miaoyi mean by being stunned? Could it be that Wang Ning, a stinky boy, had a concubine affair with Hu Shanwei? Why don't you usually notice it! Oops, how can this be answered.

Seeing Yao Miaoyi's expression, Hu Shanwei's eyes slipped with a trace of imperceptible sadness, pinched the handkerchief and smiled: "Look at you, where did you go?" The three of us grew up together at the mouth of this alley, thinking that since you came back alive, he was nowhere to be seen, and I always thought that if I didn't come to ask, I wouldn't want to fall asleep tonight. ”

This excuse is not clever, Yao Miaoyi caught something wrong, but it was reasonable and reasonable, Hu Shanwei should not be deceived, so she pretended not to know, and said frankly: "Wang Ning has been promoted to 100 households, and I and other civilians dare not call him by his name, so I want to call 100 households......

It is said that Wang Ning helped Chang Sen find his father, Chang Yuchun, the deputy marshal of the Northern Expeditionary Army, Chang Sen received treatment no less than that of the two princes, and Wang Ning also became Chang Sen's personal soldier, and he was no longer a miscellaneous soldier in the wounded barracks.

After that, he was appreciated by Chang Yuchun, went to the battlefield, fought bravely to kill the enemy, and captured an important general of the Yuan army by shit.

“…… After the Northern Expeditionary Army broke through the capital, the two marshals divided into two routes to pursue the fleeing Yuan Emperor and the Yuan army. I was assigned to Marshal Xu Da's branch, Wang Ning still followed Marshal Chang and them, I heard that they also won the battle, and they should return to the court soon, Sister Shanwei waited. ”

Hu Shanwei sat deep and frowned: Wait? Wang Ning has been promoted to a hundred households, a dignified six-grade military attaché, and has the help of a noble person like Marshal Chang, the future is limitless, what can I do if I wait?

Originally, they used to just look at each other in pairs, and they didn't even say the word affection, let alone the mountain alliance and sea oath. Our fate is too shallow, like morning dew, and the sun will disappear as soon as it rises.

Sending away the trance-like Hu Shanwei, Yao Miaoyi secretly regretted that she was too careless before, and she didn't even see her little daughter's state.

The next day, Yao Miaoyi heard a shocking news: Hu Shanwei took the initiative to sign up to enter the palace as a female official!

Yao Miaoyi rushed to Hu's house. The courtyard of the Hu family was dilapidated, the small garden in the past was changed into a vegetable field, and the scorching sun was scorching, and Hu Shanwei struggled to carry well water and water the cucumber rack.

Yao Miaoyi snatched the bucket and pulled Hu Shanwei to the bedroom to say something considerate, "Are you crazy?" Is the palace so easy to enter? Vanity Fair is a dirty place, so why should you go in and practice yourself? Do you think female officials are so good? Just be able to read and write? How naïve! ”

"The big and small concubines, princesses and princesses in the palace, as well as the lady who enters the palace from time to time, if there is a slight difference, you will not be able to cut off a hundred heads."

Hu Shan washed his face with water, his long eyelashes were hung with crystal beads, pure and lovely, and said lightly: "I know, I thought about it all night last night, and I thought about the pros and cons clearly." I went to register early this morning and waited for the exam. ”

"The eunuch who recruited female officials said it very clearly. Female officials are required to be good-looking, disease-free, proficient in documents, and able to write and calculate. After entering the palace, there is a good fortune and a grade, even if you are old and out of the palace in the future, you will also enjoy the status of a good fortune and grade, which can guarantee wealth and status, and it can be regarded as a lifelong dependence, much better than the palace maid. ”

"I don't know that once I enter the palace gate, it is as deep as the sea." Hu Shanwei sighed lightly: "But I don't want to get married, give birth to a bunch of children around the pot." But my parents and brothers wouldn't allow me to be alone all the time. So for me, going to the palace seemed like the only option. ”

"I know you have good intentions, it is indeed dangerous to enter the palace, that place eats people and does not spit out bones, but this is also the only place where I have a chance to get glory and power!"

When it comes to glory and power, Hu Shanwei's eyes shine: Maybe at that time, in the face of Wang Ning and Wang Baihu, it won't seem so unattainable.

Beneath the gentle exterior, there is a stubborn and competitive soul. Looking at Hu Shanwei, who had found her life goal in front of her, like a newborn student, Yao Miaoyi suddenly felt like a confidant, and she herself was not like this.

It is said that women are like duckweed, drifting with the tide. But some women do not accept the heavens and the earth, and they do not use fate as a shield, even if there are thorns in front of them, they have to step out of the road.

No complaints, no regrets.

Yao Miaoyi returned home in a complicated mood, and there was a gray carrier pigeon cooing on the windowsill, and a bamboo tube the thickness of a little finger was tied to the pigeon's left leg.

At noon the next day, Yao Miaoyi said that she was going to eat for a long time, and the Buddha jumped over the wall, and the cook at home couldn't make this dish, so Uncle Yao asked the domestic servant Ah Fu to pick up the carriage.

The whip in the coachman Ah Fu's hand waved roundly, looked back at Yao Miaoyi in the car, and asked in a low voice: "Miss, you have been out looking for relatives for more than a year, but you have a clue?" ”

Yao Miaoyi said perfunctorily: "I also found some news, but after so many years of chaos, the clues were finally broken." The Yao family treats me well, and I will come back when I am at ease. ”

Ah Fu hesitated for a moment and said, "Miss, you are a good person, and the Yao family can be regarded as a family of goodness, but ...... But after all, people's hearts are separated, and a good person like the eldest lady should plan for herself. ”

Yao Miaoyi sensed that something was wrong, Ah Fu was honest and honest, and would never sow discord, what did this mean? Could it be that the Yao family is going to be unfavorable to her?

"Ah Fu, what the hell is going on?"

Ah Fu said frankly: "I don't know, but recently a county official went to the pharmacy to find the owner to talk, and then the owner and his wife always discussed in a low voice, and almost every sentence mentioned the second room and the name of the eldest lady." ”

Ah Fu thought, if it was a good thing, why didn't they say it so far? It's certainly not a good thing to hide it. The eldest lady is good-looking, and she is of marriage age, how many people have taken out their own daughters for wealth, and you are just a righteous sister with no blood relationship......"

Talking all the way, when I arrived downstairs, I heard the sound of the restaurant's silk bamboo and the diners laughing at the persuasion of wine.

Suzhou people like to have fun, but also good at pleasure, big potato day close the doors and windows, put a vat of ice cubes in it, get together to drink and listen to music, so happy.

Ah Fu stopped the carriage and moved a footstool to put it under the wheels to facilitate Yao Miaoyi's disembarkation.

As soon as Yao Miaoyi's left foot stepped on the stool, she saw a dark shadow fall in front of her!

Stamp!

There was a muffled sound. A middle-aged man wearing a Confucian shirt and a Zhuge scarf slammed into the bluestone slab, his head shattered, and the blood flowed slowly, staining the four feet of the footstool red.

The man's eyes were wide open, and his dilated pupils happened to meet Yao Miaoyi's, and his expression was relieved.

Worst! Caught in a trap!

Grief, anger, doubt...... waited for the love to hit Yao Miaoyi's heart, but her face was as frightened as an ordinary market woman, and she screamed in fear