Chapter 1: The Missing Baby Girl and the Joy of the Child
On the spring moon night of the 315th year of the Cangqing calendar, in the Dongluo Palace, there were two black shadows hurriedly shuttling on the treadway, one tall and one short, one large and one small, and the two black shadows passed through the Moon Pavilion and went straight to the Ciqing Hall of the Empress Dowager's bedroom.
That night, led by Yuncheng in Dongluodu, all the baby girls born that day were missing and their whereabouts were unknown.
In the early morning of the next day, a courtier wrote to the court, and Emperor Luo Jing was furious and ordered to inquire, and once it was found, he would be severely punished.
ββThree months laterββ
When the morning sun was about to rise, beside the Qingqian River on the outskirts of Yuncheng, a girl with a ball head stood in the river with a long branch and looked down at the left and right for a long time, and then turned around and shouted: "Miss, there is no fish jumping up!" β
"Keep looking." A lazy voice rang out from the trees.
The girl's face collapsed when she heard this, and she muttered: "How can there be such a tossing ......?"
After looking for a long time, the girl waved the branch in her hand and shouted indignantly: "Miss, can't you just catch a fish swimming in the water?" Why do you have to jump fish? What a place to be! β
"Keep looking."
As soon as the girl heard what she had gotten, she stopped doing it, and walked to the shore with her wet clothes, and said as she went: "This is not what people should do, next time I won't come, what kind of jumping fish, the old lady won't catch it!" Whoever loves to catch will be caught! The old lady comes to catch fish again, and it is a fish grandson! β
Halfway through muttering, a red carp suddenly jumped on the river in front of him, shining with broken light in the sunlight, and the meat was fat and delicious at a glance, and the girl suddenly forgot what she had just said, and a hungry tiger pounced and fell into the river, and then excitedly raised the fresh fish in his hand that was still struggling in the river and screamed: "Miss, I caught it, I caught the fish that jumped up!" β
The girl grabbed the fish and ran to a big tree on the bank of the river, raised her head and showed off: "Miss, look, I caught it!" β
"Yes, put it in the fish basket." The lazy sound came from the trees again.
It is a very bad thing to be completely unsure of the fruits of one's own labor. The girl pouted and walked over to the fish basket, intending to vent all her anger on the fish.
"If you dare to drop a fish...... the voice in the tree sounded at the right time, and the voiceover seemed to be that she dared to fall into the fish, and she would be the next to be fallen.
The girl's raised hand paused in the air, and she stopped unwillingly for two seconds, then lightly put the fish into the fish basket, and turned back and said, "Miss, can you go home?" β
A fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl jumped down from the tree, brushed the folds of her sleeves, and her slightly pale face lifted slightly, revealing a smile: "Go home." β
The girl picked up the fish basket and followed behind the girl, and asked suspiciously, "Miss, why are we here to catch fish?" β
"Yuncheng has not been peaceful recently, and there are still people who dare to give birth at this time, and they are not small." The girl walked in front and said for no reason: "If a boy is born, this fish will be stewed to make up for her, and if a girl is born......"
The girl shuddered in the back: "In the last two months, many baby girls have been lost, everyone says that it is the king of Hades who wants to give birth, and everyone is panicking, and they all say that it is unlucky to give birth to a girl now!" β
"Hades asking for your life?" The girl snorted coldly, but I was afraid that someone was deliberately pretending to be a ghost and making a hindrance.
The two walked back to the city from the outskirts of the city, the sun had risen, the small merchants and vendors on the street began to come out to set up stalls to sell, the inns and restaurants also began to open their doors to do business, the flow of people surged, the girl followed behind the girl, and saw a carriage with a splendid tent in the distance, and hurriedly said: "Miss, Jinniang is here to pick us up." β
The girl lowered her head happily, but found that the girl who was walking in front of her was gone, and she panicked, and the carriage stopped in front of her in a blink of an eye, and a kind middle-aged woman got out of the car. "Xiaoshan, where's Miss?"
"Slave, slave doesn't know, Miss was still there just now, and the effort was gone in the blink of an eye....." The girl named Xiaoshan grabbed the fish basket while speaking, and found that the strap on the fish basket had broken at some point, and the fish basket had long since disappeared.
Now the evidence is conclusive, Xiao Shan wilted, why did the young lady run away again.
Xiao Shan and Jin Niang searched the street to no avail, so they hurried back home, and sure enough, the young lady was already sitting in the room in a good shape, as if she had never gone out, and laughed harmlessly when she looked at the two of them panting, which made Xiao Shan want to hit the wall.
Why is it that the young lady is one step ahead of them every time? Obviously, I don't know where I go every time I sneak around, but in the end, they will definitely make them look like sneaky people who don't do good things, Miss is only fifteen or sixteen, why is she so cunning? Flip the table!
"Miss, we have to tidy up our clothes, the people from Mofu are coming soon, you are also dressed up, by the way, have you drunk today's medicine?" Jin Niang has become accustomed to this situation, took out a lake green dress from the cabinet and handed it to Xiao Shan, Xiao Shan took it and began to set clothes for her own young lady, and then pushed it to the mirror to comb and tidy up her hair bun. Quick, drink it. β
The little girl Su Chaoxi sighed and accepted their fiddling, but stopped Jin Niang at the end when she was about to insert a hairpin: "Jin Niang, the hair under here is scattered, and there is no need to fix the hairpin." β
Jin Niang smiled in response, but in the end she would find an opportunity to plug in the hairpin. Typical yang and yin.
Everything was ready, Xiao Shan led Su Chaoxi to the garden, Su Chaoxi frowned: "This person from the Mo family is here, not usually in the main hall, what's wrong today?" β
"Miss, it's not ordinary people who are here today, and the young ladies in our house don't want to chat in a formal and restrained place like the main hall."
Chat? Su Chaoxi's eyelids jumped, and he intuitively felt that nothing good would happen today.
Holding his stomach, Su Chaoxi said with an ugly face: "Xiaoshan, no, I'm not feeling well, I have to go first, you go to the garden and wait for me first!" After speaking, without waiting for Xiao Shan's reaction, she bent over and ran away.
Xiao Shan was stunned in place for two seconds, her heart suddenly uneasy, and she hurriedly chased after her, but there was no trace of Su Chaoxi's shadow, Xiao Shan slapped her head, collapsed in annoyance, and was slipped away by Miss again.
Su Chaoxi climbed the high wall vigorously, jumped out of the Su Mansion with a single jump, and disappeared at the end of the street in the blink of an eye.
Yuncheng has not been peaceful in the past few months, there are frequent disappearances of baby girls, Lin has a big belly, lying on the bed with anxiety, she is a widow, her husband has just died, her only motivation to survive is the child in the womb, but at this time the king of Hades asked for his life, although the midwife was already waiting in the room, but she was more afraid at this time.
Su Chaoxi walked into the room lightly, looked at her lying nervously on the bed, and couldn't help but smile: "It's okay, don't be afraid, whether you are born a boy or a girl, it is a good thing, thinking too much will only scare yourself." β
Lin's eyes were filled with tears, and his bloated hand held Su Chaoxi's small hand: "Miss Su, I believe you." As soon as the words fell, she was full of spasms, and the midwife on the side glanced at her lower body, then hurriedly brought the hot water basin, glanced at Su Chaoxi and said, "Girl, it's going to give birth, you go outside and wait." β
Standing outside the door and listening to the roars and screams of the Lin family, Su Chaoxi bit her lip and secretly decided, in this life, as long as she has money and a good life, she doesn't want children, how painful it is to be so heartbreaking, it is simply a thankless job.
Several hours passed, Lin's voice gradually weakened, and suddenly a clear cry shocked Su Chaoxi's spirit, and he rushed in happily, and he bumped into the midwife's hand holding a crumpled red and thin monkey-like little person, but the face that should be festive was solemn, Su Chaoxi looked at the midwife and the motionless Lin on the side, and a touch of uneasiness came to his heart.
"What's wrong with Lin?"
The midwife was silent with regretful tears, Su Chaoxi trembled and walked to Lin's side, looking at Lin's who had a look of hope before, staring at her eyes motionless and breathless at this time, she shook her hands and closed Lin's eyes, her head gradually drooped into the crook of her arm, and she was silent for a long time before she spoke: "Boy or girl?" β
"It's a boy." The midwife had washed the child and rewrapped it in front of Su Chaoxi.
The baby boy giggled when he saw Su Chaoxi, and his small mouth sucked his fingers, how cute and cute it was.
A line of tears flowed from the corners of Su Chaoxi's eyes: "Lin, you gave birth to a boy, such a blessing, why don't you wait anymore?" β
The midwife asked in a low voice on the side: "This Lin family is dead, what can the child do?" β
Su Chaoxi looked down at the baby boy looking at her appearance obediently, her big eyes were bright, and she smiled with tears: "The matter has come to this, it can be regarded as fate, you will follow me, from today on, you will be called Su Anchen." β
Xiao Shan searched all over the palace and didn't see Su Chaoxi's people, as soon as she guessed that she ran out again, she waited at the door early, but when the people in Mo Wangfu were leaving, Su Chaoxi didn't come back, she was anxious and stomped her feet, but when the stars and the moon finally waited for Su Chaoxi to come back, Xiao Shan was dumbfounded.
What the hell is the swaddling baby that Miss is holding in her arms? When she got closer, Xiao Shan fell directly to the ground in fright, covering her mouth for a long time before she could barely say a word: "Miss, whose child is this?" β
Xiao Shan felt that Su Chaoxi dared to say that it was her front foot, and she dared to faint on the back foot.
"Not mine." Su Chaoxi first said something to make Xiao Shan feel safe, but the latter sentence came up immediately after: "But from today onwards, it will be mine." β
There was an exclamation at the door, Su Chaoxi looked over lazily, the ladies of the Su family were all at the door, as if they were sending off guests, and the man in the ink robe standing in front of them was looking at her with interest.
Xiao Shan turned around and saw that the ladies and ladies of each room were there, and fainted.