Chapter 1 Return to Beijing
In the spring of March, the back garden of Yefu in the capital is full of flowers and beautiful, and the babbling and singing sound on the stage makes the whole garden lively.
The current mother of the Ye family is a senior drama fan, and there are almost no people in the elite circle in the capital who don't know Princess Zhaohua's habits in this regard.
In the middle of the play, it was the first time, and many guests were obsessed with Princess Zhaohua, but there were also a few young people who were not good at this quietly yawned.
"Madame, Madame, the eldest lady is back! The eldest lady is back! At this moment, a loud and excited announcement suddenly came, instantly pulling everyone's attention away from the stage.
"D'Ob, you're old and confused, haven't I been here all the time?" The bright girl sitting next to Princess Zhaohua was the daughter of the Ye family, and at this time she was very unhappy with the inexplicable disturbance of her subordinates, and asked: "You don't want my mother and many guests to watch the show?" ”
Hearing the reprimand, the slightly elderly housekeeper suddenly stopped, looking embarrassed and a little overwhelmed: "Big, big lady, the little one is not talking about you, the eldest lady, is it...... It's ......"
"Steward De, are you crazy? Where are the other eldest ladies in the Ye family besides Ru Xue? Princess Zhaohua frowned and snorted coldly, her good interest was greatly affected.
Seeing that he couldn't explain clearly, Deber simply didn't say more, took a step back to the side, and stretched out his finger to point at the fair girl who was walking slowly not far behind him.
The girl looks sixteen or seventeen years old, her skin is like condensation, her demeanor is elegant, her lips are red without dots, her eyebrows are green without painting, her beautiful eyes are as bright as the stars, and her natural beauty is like a person who comes out of a painting.
Everyone was stunned, and they couldn't figure out the identity of the girl who was so beautiful in front of them that it was not very real.
Only Princess Zhaohua, after seeing this girl, had an indescribably gloomy expression on her face.
"Ye Nianchen, the eldest daughter of the twenty-seventh generation of the Ye family, meet Princess Zhaohua!" Unconsciously, Ye Nianchen had already come to Princess Zhaohua and bowed calmly and elegantly.
Her voice was as warm as jade, with a calmness and indescribable charm of overloading her age, and the tone of the three words "eldest daughter" was obviously no different, but it exploded in the hearts of everyone at the scene like thunder.
"Nonsense, I've never had a sister! Where did you come from, a liar, how dare you be so shameless and pretend to be the eldest daughter of my Ye family in public! Ye Ruxue was furious and scolded loudly.
Someone ran to her, the real eldest daughter, to pretend to be the eldest daughter of the Ye family, which was completely unbearable for her.
Ye Nianchen looked at the angry girl, but he smiled slightly, and said very gently and gently: "You are Sister Ruxue, right?" I've heard my uncle talk about you, and Brother Zhenye. As for you don't know me, it's normal, when I got sick and left Beijing fifteen years ago, you hadn't given birth yet. ”
"Bold! Who's your sister? If you dare to climb the relationship without knowing whether you live or die, Miss Ben will immediately let someone cut off your head! Ye Ruxue's face was red, and she was really angry.
In the past fifteen years, she has been the only baby daughter of the entire Ye family, how can she tolerate such a heartless and crazy person to insult at will?
“…… Didn't my sister even know that there was such a sister as me? Ye Nianchen muttered, she didn't have any fear at this time, but she just looked a little lost: "Could it be that in the past fifteen years, even my father has never mentioned my savings at home?" And so it is with the living...... Who will remember the dead? ”
With a light sigh, a little gloomy and sentimental, Ye Nianchen's soft self-question was like a reflection of time, instantly provoking many people's memories that had long been forgotten or dusty.
For so many years, the vast majority of people in the capital seem to have subconsciously regarded Ye Ruxue, the daughter of Princess Zhaohua, as the eldest daughter of the youngest generation of the Ye family, but suddenly recalled, the Ye family seems to have another eldest daughter.
To be precise, Princess Zhaohua is actually not the original match, but because of her special identity, and after so many years, everyone in the world has almost ignored such a fact.
Fifteen years ago, the Ye family, one of the century-old families, had a great accident, Ye Feng's wife and eldest son both died in the fire, and the only surviving eldest daughter was also frightened into dementia.
The emperor took great pity on him, and soon married Princess Zhaohua to Ye Feng. Soon after, the eldest daughter of dementia was taken back to southern Xinjiang by her maternal uncle for treatment, and never returned to the capital for more than ten years.
Since then, the princess's marriage has become a good story, and the unfortunate person who died has been quietly forgotten by almost everyone. Perhaps, this is the innate coldness of human nature.
Looking at Ye Nianchen, everyone was silent, and the troupe also stopped early, even Ye Ruxue was unconsciously stunned there and didn't squeak immediately, and the entire back garden was terrifyingly quiet.
"You are the daughter of the Ye Liu family?" After a while, Princess Zhaohua finally asked with an expressionless face, and her graceful and luxurious demeanor was extremely detached.
"Back to the princess, my mother is Liu Qingling." Ye Nianchen had already regained his dark color, no longer having the previous sentimentality, but a warm smile appeared on the corner of his mouth when he said his mother's name.
This smile was so natural and beautiful, but it was so dazzling in the eyes of Princess Zhaohua.
Hearing such a conversation, Ye Ruxue on the side was inexplicably anxious and uneasy. staring at Ye Nianchen hatefully, she didn't want a bullshit sister, which was a great insult to her.
She subconsciously rejected and hated the person in front of her, and didn't want her mother to say anything more to this kind of unknown person at all, it was better to drive away or even kill it!
Princess Zhaohua looked sideways, signaled her daughter not to worry, and then asked Ye Nianchen directly: "This princess remembers that Fenglang does have a daughter, but his uncle was barbaric and unreasonable back then, and he smashed the wedding hall of this princess because his sister was angry, and forcibly took her to southern Xinjiang, saying that he would break off with Ye Jiaen from now on, and he would never get along with each other until he died!" If it weren't for the emperor to protect him, how could this princess be so arrogant and presumptuous by him? ”
Speaking of this, a flash of undisguised hatred flashed in Princess Zhaohua's eyes, and she seemed to realize that the topic was slightly off, frowned and paused, and continued: "Besides, that child still had dementia back then, and I heard that it has not been cured for so many years, how could he suddenly come back completely fine?" Oh, and besides, considering her age, that girl is now twenty years old, and you really don't look like anything like it! ”
Neither admitted nor denied it, Princess Zhaohua only raised a number of doubts in public in one breath, questioning Ye Nianchen's identity. Even if she didn't deliberately cover up some face-damaging things related to herself back then, such an attitude is reasonable.
Although the possibility of impersonating this kind of thing is not great, after all, the risk is too high and it is too easy to be recognized, but Ye Nianchen was only five years old when he left Beijing, and it is normal for Princess Zhaohua to not recognize Ben now.
Moreover, the Ye family is not an ordinary family, and the identity of the eldest daughter of a dignified century-old family is important, so it is not outrageous to confirm it well.
Ye Nianchen was not surprised by Princess Zhaohua's questioning, and calmly explained in public one by one: "First, Nianchen didn't know the reason for the incident back then, so he didn't want to pursue the right and wrong. But what my uncle said about breaking off his will and not getting along with each other is just representing himself, and it doesn't mean that I have no relationship with the Ye family. ”
"Second, I heard my uncle say that I was overstimulated by a sudden accident with my relatives and suffered from dementia, which is not born like this. Therefore, although the treatment was slow, with the blessing of my ancestors, I have fully recovered this year. ”
"Third, Nianchen is indeed twenty years old this year, but it is not surprising that his face has always been relatively small due to illness over the years." "In the end, no matter what, I am the daughter of the Ye family after all, and it is normal for me to want to come back and see it after so many years. Nianchen has repaired several letters to inform him of the latest situation, but he has not been able to reply to the letter, homesick and cordial, and finally persuaded his uncle to rush back, but he never thought that this place was already a matter of things. ”
In the last sentence, Ye Nianchen deliberately understated it, but people who were a little bit of a little bit could hear the sadness and helplessness in that sentence.
The biological mother and brother died early, the body was tormented by illness for a long time, and he left his hometown with the background of his only uncle, and there were no family letters and visits for 15 years.
This kind of Ye Nianchen suddenly made many people sigh for her secretly in their hearts, but after all, it was a family matter, and her stepmother was Princess Zhaohua who few people dared to provoke, so it was just a sigh.
"Really? But these are just your words, what about the evidence? ”
Princess Zhaohua didn't take these explanations seriously at all, but issued an ultimatum indifferently and mockingly: "If you can prove that you are really the daughter of the Ye family, this princess, as a mother-in-law, will be happy to recover for you, and treat you as if you have been a mother and a son in the future." But if you can't prove your identity, then pretending to be the daughter of the family and deceiving this princess is a capital crime, and it must not be spared! ”