"Girl, please use it." Xiao Ai timidly poured a cup of tea and handed it to Su Yi, who sat down in the courtyard of Fang Hui.

For a while, I thought about it, and I don't know if this sister found out that she was the third lady's person? It is said that this sister has a good temper, but I don't know what is the difference between this good-tempered person and the people around him who have different intentions......

Su Yi put down the teacup heavily: "Xiao Ai! ”

Xiao Ai was a spirit, and she knelt down as soon as her knees were weak, and she only reacted after kneeling, what did she kneel?

Su Yi glanced at her, obviously a child, but her eyes were particularly fierce. "Xiao Ai, the tea is just hot, what is this for?"

Xiao Ai thought for a while and said, "Slave, slave, it's just, just thinking about today," she bowed her head and bowed: "Thank you sister for saving your life, but I missed it again, and the tea was hot again, Xiao Ai has been clumsy, and I ask my sister to forgive me." ”

Su Yi opened the teacup and took a sip: "It's not a life-saving grace, it's just that your mistake has been made, will the third lady protect you?" ”

Xiao Ai was silent. Of course, the third lady will not protect her as a little maid, but a transaction, if she can "retire successfully", what she gets may be a good identity to marry into a good family, or it may be a large sum of silver, but if she provokes the main owner halfway, and the new master's power is not enough, no one can protect this kind of eyeliner.

Su Yi coughed lightly to pull Xiao Ai's thoughts back, and she said: "The third lady must feel that it is very unnecessary to protect you, and she is now in the third room, which can be described as covering the sky with one hand, and I don't have the ability to drive you away, but, if I keep you, will she keep you?" But it's not impossible, you just have to go to the third lady and boldly surrender, saying that I allow you to continue to be by my side, that is to say, you are a double-sided eyeliner, in fact, it is my person, and I have to rely on you to send some news to her room, confusing the public, etc., I have my purpose. ”

Little Aina said, "Madame won't believe me. ”

Su Yi asked her, "How do you know?" ”

Xiao Ai shook her head: "The third lady has always been cautious, I was on an errand with her for a while, and she told us that three thousand must be killed, and no one is killed." ”

Su Yi smiled: "Would you rather kill three thousand by mistake than let one go?" ”

Xiao Ai nodded.

Su Yi stood up and took out an envelope from the drawer and handed it to Xiao Ai: "This can be my handle, you can show it to the third lady, and she will understand what you mean." However, this is just a little bit of skin, not enough evidence, so she will send you, an insider, to continue to spread the news, and until you find out the evidence, you have value and are safe. As for me, I won't let her find any real evidence, and you don't really want to surrender to her, because that's not the case, and after you go to see her, you and I will be grasshoppers on the same rope. ”

Xiao Ai took the envelope and asked, "What is this?" ”

Su Yi replied without reservation: "My correspondence with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. ”

Xiao Ai was taken aback: "His Royal Highness the Prince? ”

Su Yi smiled slightly: "All the third lady's jealousy of me comes from this person, because Han Yingrui wants to enter the prince's mansion, and the prince has a good impression of me and has no respect for her, so the third lady is anxious, afraid that I will rob her daughter of her good deeds." Su Yi deliberately revealed a smugness that was difficult to hide: "She wants to enter the prince's mansion, and I am not uncommon!" As for this, how many times have you stumbled on me? ”

Xiao Ai was silent for a long time before nodding and saying, "Okay, the slave is at your disposal." ”

Su Yi sighed: "You can go in a while, I will arrange a chance for you to go to her, the more obvious the traces of deliberate arrangement, the better." Say it well, don't worry, lest you show your feet. ”

"Yes." Xiao Ai slowly withdrew. It's cold in winter, and Su Yi, a girl who is not favored, has no warmth in the room, if it weren't for Han Linxin, I'm afraid Aunt Cen's house would be the same. Xiao Ai felt that her hands and feet were a little stiff inside, thinking that it was colder when she came out, but she found that it was warmer than the cold room.

Also, this house was originally not very good, the charcoal basin has never been lit since it came, it is estimated that it is known that it is not good to find, Su Yi did not ask for it, only said to the old lady to ask for grace in the kitchen can be more hot water to fill the soup woman, but also smart, the third lady of the big kitchen can not intervene, can only be the old lady's person, so a winter came over and did not have branches.

Tangerine Qing is a trustworthy old man, originally Aunt Cen brought from her mother's house, is her nurse's daughter, the two have a good relationship with each other, and then the nurse died, Tangerine Qing did a dowry with her, Aunt Cen went to Zhuangzi and begged the old lady to keep Tangerine, and then came back, the old lady sent people back.

Tang Qing picked up the curtain and came in and asked, "Sister has talked to that girl?" ”

Su Yi touched the pattern on the cup and thought for a while: "That's it." ”

Tangerine Qing said strangely: "What do you mean?" ”

Su Yi pursed her lips: "Because I didn't think she would come!" ”

"In addition to surrendering to the girl, is she still ......" Tang Qing thought for a while, and suddenly patted her head: "Yes, I ignored it, she can be with the third lady and the circle, and the person who continues to be the third lady will definitely be more stable than following us." ”

"That's right," Su Yi said: "The third lady must have given her a lot of benefits, maybe it means the glory and wealth of the family, but what about me?" She came in, and I couldn't guarantee her anything. At most, at most, he is a potential person, and if he gambles his life with me, he will have shit luck in the future, and he may be able to be a Zhaoyi. Thinking of herself, she smiled, waved her hand and said, "That's it!" Impossible! Think about it! ”

Tang Qing also smiled: "Sister, don't be presumptuous, my sister has this posture before she grows, why not be that Zhaoyi?" ”

"Don't do it!" Su Yi shook his head: "Intrigue all day long, I can't be blessed!" ”

"That's ......" Tang Qing muttered: "Sister, the third lady is a veteran here, if you make such a show now, she won't see through it, right?" ”

Su Yi said: "Probably not, she is used to being conceited, and she has always been used to bullying me, so she will habitually think that I am not calculating, so I won't think about it much." Besides, she must have been arrogant and thought that if it weren't for today's events, Xiao Ai would not have been exposed. ”

The orange green monster said: "You already knew? ”

"Of course! Even the four rough girls who came here have a lot of backgrounds! ”

"They're too?" Tang Qing was stunned, folded his fingers and calculated: "I know the jade, it was the third lady who dialed it, and the red rice was dialed by the eldest lady, what about the pothos?" ”

"The pothos is newly bought, and it is the third lady's person. The jade was transferred by the third lady, but it was not the third lady's person, but her father's person, because she realized that it was her father's person, and the third lady kicked her to us. It's good that Redmi is the eldest lady's person, but it's the second lady's idea to call people, and the two people who don't deal with each other on weekdays are at peace here, but they join forces, so it's not clear who Redmi is. But I don't understand why the eldest lady sent someone here, is it because she is afraid that any of us in this room will steal her limelight? Su Yi shook her head incomprehensibly: "Even if she doesn't have a son, she won't be so grassy and woody, right?" ”

After thinking about it, Tang Qing said, "What about Cai Wei?" I think she's steady and usable. ”

"Cai Wei should be the old lady's person, available."

Tangerine Qing nodded: "Well, Cai Wei is younger than the girl, and she doesn't have any heart, but she does things well." ”

Su Yi smiled: "As long as you are careful on weekdays, there should be no problem, but your mother is sincere, you have to take care of it." ”

Tangerine Qing was disgusted: "What is the girl talking about!" These are the things that are the responsibility of slaves and maids, and it is not good for you to say that! ”

Su Yi stood up and walked to the window: "I can trust you alone, my mother lives simply, I think that if I endure, I can find a place in this mansion, and I am kind-hearted, dedicated to Buddha, I have followed my mother over the years, and I have almost never touched meat...... Well, there is no meat that will be sent into our yard in the first place, and it is on Zhuangzi, and it is also the same here. She paused and sighed: "Especially recently, we should pay attention to the fact that our courtyard is now in the eyes of everyone, a new thorn in the eye, Xin'er was born, and this year, the three rooms went to the Chinese New Year's Eve palace banquet list, in addition to Han Yingrui and Han Chenyi and me." Han Chenyi is just that, after all, the identity of the biological mother is not ordinary, but I ...... "Don't say that the Cen family has long been defeated, just say that Aunt Cen's status in the three rooms, if she doesn't have a son, I don't know where to go down." Female relatives to participate in the Chinese New Year's Eve palace banquet, it is reasonable to say that the officials and relatives of the capital can be, but those who have no status and status are uncomfortable, and the people who take them are also uncomfortable, so in the end, they really report and appear on the palace banquet invitation list, which is all some status, not the chief, that is, the favored concubine. Su Yi just came back and got this opportunity to accompany him, and he is naturally a model of the tree's big move.

The Chinese New Year's Eve Palace banquet was grand, Mo said that the princess and the county lord and so on would be present, even those ladies and ladies of the big officials and important ministers would not look down on Su Li's identity, so Su Li was quickly taken to the old lady to teach him personally for seven days, and the food and accommodation were all at the old lady's place. Wei is not the same as the other countries, it is extremely normal for women in Wei to participate in political discussions, but Su Yi is young, not to mention, living in a corner of the house every day, where can she get in touch with political affairs?

Han Xiu only thought that he couldn't treat his concubine badly, and the old lady had no choice but to hurry up and hold her feet temporarily. The old lady spoke in detail, but in the end, Su Yi didn't understand what kind of evaluation they should give as women after these things happened. No, Su Yi simply took the pen and paper, and memorized while listening to the lecture, a good memory is not as good as a bad pen, the stupid bird always has a way, not to say that the stupid bird flies first, and it can't be too far behind, not to mention that she is not because she is stupid, but because she has never been in contact, and there is no such thinking at all.

Many things happened in the nineteenth year of Taihe Yihai. After the construction of the Jin Yong Palace in Luoyang was completed, the emperor and his concubines, wives, concubines, etc., as well as hundreds of civil and military officials inside and outside the country, moved to Kyoto in Luoyang. There are four primary schools in Guozi, Taixue and Taixue. His Majesty moved the capital and strengthened the sinicization, in order to naturally integrate with the big nations, so as to help the stability of his imperial power and facilitate the continued expansion to the south. However, this is a big disadvantage for the old ministers of Xianbei, so there are many different voices in the court, and the crown prince Yuansui is also one of them. Su Yi asked the old lady, if the prince has always supported the old minister, will it affect the succession? The old lady shook her head and said she didn't know, but the prince didn't necessarily have to support the old minister, the merit was easy to cover the master, and the old minister had been pretentious because he was a member of the Xianbei tribe who helped him win the world, and one day he had to be dragged down to destroy the family. But the crown prince must now take sides and confront the one in the harem...... You don't have to talk nonsense, but you have to know in your heart, don't be offended by someone next to you by saying the wrong thing. Su Yi nodded.

His Majesty advocates Buddhism, there are also people in the Buddhist sect invited to the palace banquet, in order to settle down and admire the Indian monk Batuo, the temple is located at the northern foot of the Shaolin Mountain of Songshan facing Luoyang, because it is located in the dense jungle of the Shaolin Mountain in the hinterland of Songshan, so it is called "Shaolin Temple". Su Yi didn't ask more, because Aunt Cen believed in Buddhism, and had quietly told her that His Majesty is actually not a person who believes in Buddhism, but a dynasty must have faith, and His Majesty uses Buddhism to exaggerate the exclusive status of imperial power, the so-called belief may also be believed, but I am afraid that the degree of faith is not as good as that of Aunt Cen as an official concubine.

At the beginning of the year, the Great Wei and the Qi State were at war, of course, the result of defeat and escape can not be said, what should be carried forward is that the army was still more than 100 miles away from the battle site when the first attack had frightened the commander of the Qi army to the point of inaction. During the march in February, the emperor and the sergeants climbed Bagong Mountain together to compose poems, and when they encountered heavy rain on the way, the emperor ordered them to go to the umbrella cover and share the hardships with the soldiers in the rain, and then saw the sick soldiers, and gave them to personally go to condole. In the middle of the year, Situ Chang Le Yuan Yigong, Le An eldest princess Ma Feng Dan died, he was fortunate to be born in the same year as the emperor, he studied with him as a child, and was a close friend. In the same month, Feng Xi, the brother of the Empress Dowager and the prince of Jingzhaowu, died in Pingcheng, and the emperor sent the prince to attend the funeral. This is the repetition of His Majesty's benevolence and righteousness, which should be praised by everyone, and there must be no shortage of discussions on these topics at the palace banquet. The next month, the emperor went to Lucheng, went to the Confucius Temple to worship, and the next day ordered to confer the official positions of four descendants of Confucius and two descendants of Yan Yuan, and selected the eldest son of Confucius's descendants to be crowned as a holy marquis, and took charge of the affairs of worshiping Confucius, and ordered Yanzhou to repair the tomb of Confucius and rebuild the inscription. Strengthen the integration of Xianbei and Han Chinese. On the 26th of the same month, the crown prince Yuan Sui held a crowning ceremony in the Taimiao. At the beginning of the month again, Emperor Wen ordered that the court and the central government should not speak Xianbei language, and violators would be dismissed. Changed to the long ruler and large bucket measurement method, specifically in accordance with the "Book of Han". In September, moved to Luoyang. In November, Emperor Wen sacrificed to the heavens in Weisu Mountain and granted amnesty to the world. In December, Emperor Wen announced the implementation of a nine-grade system among officials and the election of ministers. And give the crown clothes, easy to go to the Hu clothes.

In the early morning of Chinese New Year's Eve, before it was clear, the old lady sent someone to summon Su Li to get up and freshen up. The makeup is usually a little pink in the daughter's house, combing the double flat bun, the hairpin newly selected moon flowers are in the bun, and a pair of silver carved leaf earrings are hung under a pair of silver beads.

Su Yi didn't want to wear this, but she couldn't resist the old lady. Since A-Niang said that it is not appropriate to swagger, but she can't take off this clothes, then as usual, she will hide outside the palace.

Han Yingrui also got advice, and followed the guidance of the female officials in the palace all the way, Su Yi is the same, kneel when you should kneel, worship when you should worship, bow your head when the mountain calls long live, don't look to the side, worship until dark in the afternoon, everyone entered the table, and after a few more words, Su Yi found an opportunity to sneak out.

Sure enough, the outside of the hall was much cooler and fresher, and even though it was the coldest time of the year, the gentle breeze didn't seem so biting. There is no moon on Chinese New Year's Eve, only a few shallow stars remain, but the palace is brightly lit, red silk is dazzling, and the colorful lights are out, so it is not beautiful. Su Yi looked at it all the way and unconsciously walked to the middle of nowhere, and he was walking along the palace wall, and it was not easy to get to many people.

There was no one near the utility room of this unknown palace, so Su Yi suddenly became playful, and after making sure that there was no one, he climbed onto the roof.

If you stand high, you can see far away, and the scenery from the rooftop is even more ordinary, and you can also see the sound of gongs and drums or melodious music in the distance.

However, the good times didn't last long, and Su Yi was laughing unrestrainedly, when he suddenly heard someone under the roof raise his head sharply and said sharply: "Who is up there?" ”

It's been discovered! Su Yi hurriedly shrunk into a ball and squeezed into a corner where the people below couldn't see, hurriedly looking for a way to escape, but she didn't want the people below to climb up easily, and now she was standing in front of her.

No one - the one nicknamed the snail by Gao Gongzi.

Su Yi patted his chest and puffed out his cheeks: "Why am I so embarrassed when I meet you twice?" I'm going to be scared by you! ”

Gao Snail laughed: "Are you not scared and blame me?" You don't stay at the feast, you run out and climb on the roof, what kind of hobby is this? ”

Su Yi replied as a matter of course, and slapped his hand in the face: "It's too stuffy inside!" It's not a good day like today. ”

"Tsk, what you said is like the emperor shouldn't hold this palace banquet."

"Oh, the most important purpose of the emperor's palace banquet is cultural integration, which has little to do with joy." In front of acquaintances, Su Li's original form was revealed, and there was no taboo in speaking: "Moreover, the good day I said is not Chinese New Year's Eve, but my birthday." ”

"You were born on Chinese New Year's Eve?"

"That's right!" Su Li nodded: "Listening to my mother, I was born when my father attended the Chinese New Year's Eve Palace Banquet, and as soon as I cried, the ceremonial flowers in the sky suddenly bloomed together." So, even though I was very unpopular, they still had to congratulate me. Su Yi raised her head, shook her head, and even twisted her buttocks, smiling very proudly: "Moreover, I have to celebrate every year, with thousands of bouquets of flowers blooming to celebrate, I will treat them as if they are for me." ”

Gao Snail also smiled: "You can see it." ”

"My mother said that people live their lives, and the more sad they are, the happier they must be, otherwise they will teach bad people to be happy. Moreover, other people's birthdays and Chinese New Year's Eve collide with them will feel unhappy, because relatives will not care about their birthdays on Chinese New Year's Eve, and they will lose the ceremony to commemorate a very important day in their lives, but I am different, I have a birthday because I was born on Chinese New Year's Eve, and I should be more happy because of this. ”

"You're not popular at home?"

"It's not surprising, a family with a lot of girls and few boys, a concubine born to an aunt in this family, how much better can the situation be? Besides, when I was born, there were fortune tellers who said that my fate was not good, which would make my father's career difficult, and then my father did not get promoted for a long time...... This is not the point, the point is that when I was two years old, my father went to the court, and he was criticized for some reason, and after I came back, my wife persuaded me hard to successfully send me to Zhuangzi. I heard that my mother knelt in front of my grandmother's door for an hour, begging and begging, so that she could accompany me. I never know, since the family doesn't like my daughter and doesn't care about my daughter, why didn't they strangle me when I was born? ”

Gao Snail pursed his lips and said seriously: "That's not possible, if you were born and asked your father to strangle you, wouldn't all the fireworks in every household be in vain over the years?" ”

Su Yi snorted with a smile: "The Zhuangzi I lived in when I was a child was very poor in the capital at that time, that is, a county on the edge of Pingcheng!" Every year on Chinese New Year's Eve, it is already good to have a blessing character and then make a subcouplet, if you can still get that couplet written by the county order, it will be very incredible! Where are the fireworks! ”

She curled up her legs, put her hands on her knees, and fell into a memory: "On Chinese New Year's Eve, when every family closes the door to have a reunion dinner, I will climb the roof or a tall tree, and I can faintly see some lights in the capital, but it is difficult to hear the sound of firecrackers, and I have to run to the place where I am away from the county commander's house or the border between the capital and the county."

"The county order is so fierce, I don't dare to go to his house, so I can only take advantage of the fact that Ah Niang and those fierce and evil stinky women don't pay attention and run to the border. If they really want to set off fireworks for me and firecrackers, why don't they come to me? It's just me making a fool of myself. After nine years in Zhuangzi, when I came back, I didn't understand anything, and when I came back, I was punished and beaten on my knees, and I didn't want to be good, so why did you keep me. ”

Gao Snail was silent for a while, and said, "You have been in Zhuangzi for nine years? ”

"Well, it's been about nine and a half years! What about you? Ever been in the capital since childhood? ”

"Well, I also came with me when I moved the capital."

Su Yi pouted and thought for a while, and asked, "Then how old are you?" ”

"Fourteen."

sighed: "You're already married, right?" Isn't it nice for you to be with me now? ”

Listening to this lamenting tone, Gao Snail almost laughed: "Don't worry! I haven't decided to marry yet. ”

"Huh? But my mother said that the children of the average nobleman are married very early? ”

"I'm the son of an ordinary family, and I'm related to the nobility, but I can't say that I'm a nobleman, and I have a picky brother above me, and he hasn't chosen it yet, so it's not my turn."

Su Yi inexplicably began to comfort him: "It's okay, it's good to be a child of an ordinary family, you don't have to settle for a family early, maybe you can have the right to choose yourself." Anyway, I never understand, why do relatives have to be ordered by their parents? I used to live in Zhuangzi, so I may have shallow knowledge, but there, not to mention those slaves and maids, just the ordinary people in the neighborhood, even if they are not childhood sweethearts who grew up together, they have all met and dealt with each other earlier. Su Yi shrunk her shoulders: "I can't imagine that marrying someone who has never met, the first time the two meet in their lives, they are already husband and wife and have to sleep together, and they can't change their identities for a lifetime, and they have to live a lifetime." Especially for women, if they meet something bad, they can only make compromises, but men can divorce their wives. I wanted to tell my mother several times that if she chose a husband's house for me, she must let me take a look, even if it was sneaky, for example, let me hide behind the screen and take a look. However, every time I mentioned choosing a wife, my mother would shed tears and say that she had nothing else to ask for, as long as her daughter could marry a wife, she didn't have to bow down and be small, and the child could be a grandchild. She often said that she had burdened me and made me have to marry into an ordinary family, but I don't think where would I come from without her? And she didn't think about it, if I am, marry someone and become a wife, but what if I can't raise my eyebrows? Husband and wife are separated, and a concubine in the house has to abide by the seven rules of not being jealous or angry, so it is better to marry the person you like, even if you are a concubine! ”

The topic suddenly became serious. Gao Snail pursed his lips: "Not necessarily, there are two sides to everything, for wives, there are those who raise eyebrows with their husbands, and there are ...... What you commonly call a lower cousin wife, a concubine, a favored concubine, and a concubine who is not welcomed, on the other hand, if you can choose a lower cousin wife or a concubine who is not welcomed, which one is better? ”

"That's ......," Su Yi muttered.

"There is always a day when a woman is old and decrepit, as a wife, even if her husband has a new love, she at least has a status, and she still has a concubine to rely on, but if the concubine is old and decrepit and loses favor, there will be nothing. Regardless of the flat wife for the time being, and this situation is rare, but if she is a concubine, the biggest is her aunt, and her aunt is half a slave. ”

Su Yi smiled: "Master Gao, in fact, I think you can call me by my nickname, my nickname ......"

"Yi'er."

Su Yi was surprised: "How do you know?" ”

"What you just told me! But I think it's better to be Suyi, Yi'er always thinks that she is calling a child, or Ah Su and Su are also good. ”

Su Yi pondered for a moment, frowned, and said, "I just said so many things, and you actually listened to them?" ”

He bowed his head: "Since you have decided to listen, you have to listen attentively, don't you?" ”

Su Yi smiled, and when she turned around to admire the brilliance of the lanterns again, she saw a line of eunuchs carrying palace lanterns coming, and at this time they had already seen someone on the roof, looking panicked, as if they had seen an assassin.

Su Yi secretly screamed badly, and hurriedly said: "Someone is coming, you run with me!" I probably know the way! ”

"Probably?" Gao Snail smiled and shook his head: "You go quickly!" I've got a way here. ”

Su Yi looked at him uneasily, and Gao Snail smiled: "Don't worry! Just go! ”

Su Yi nodded, then jumped off the roof and fled. She didn't have to escape for a moment before she heard the shrill voice of the leading eunuch, who took the dust whisk in his hand, pointed to the high snail, and said, "Who is so rude, running to the roof, what do you want?" ”