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November 12, 2013, the tenth day of the tenth lunar month.

The weather was sullen, and there were a few muffled thunders faintly in the sky.

At ten o'clock in the evening, in a farmer's rental house on the outskirts of Hangzhou, Ye Xingzhen had just arrived home, he was wearing a pair of black-framed glasses, his whole body was wet as if he had been fished out of the water, he had just come back from dancing in the Latin dance hall to be a part-time Latin dance male coach, every Wednesday and Friday night, Ye Xingzhen had to go out part-time, with a salary of 200 yuan each time.

"Damn, today's female member is really disgusting, she rubbed against me when she was learning tango with me, and she didn't look at such a big age, such a fat body, if it weren't for Lao Tzu who had to rely on this part-time job to pay the rent and utility bills, she would have been slapped and slapped to give her a peach blossom on her face!" Ye Xingzhen scolded and swore to himself, taking off his tight dance clothes, revealing his thin and slender figure, there was no way, if he stayed alone for a long time, he would inevitably start to get used to talking to himself.

Ye Xingzhen, who took off only a pair of underwear, walked into the simple bathroom and unscrewed his unkempt hair, ready to take a bath.

Ye Xingzhen, male, 26 years old, a law student who graduated from a third-rate university, could not be admitted to the civil service after graduating with great difficulty, nor did he pass the judicial examination, so he only found a small company in Hangzhou to do administrative work. The hard work is only 2,000 yuan, in addition to his own expenses, but also to provide the queen mother's delicate girlfriend to eat, drink and have fun, so I gave full play to my Latin dance skills, which I learned in college, and went to find a part-time job, so that life is not so poor.

According to Ye Xingzhen's father, who just died of illness last year, his family was passed down from the Qing Dynasty, and it was still a Manchu surname, and the previous Manchu surname was called Yehenara. Ye Xingzhen scoffed at this, everything that doesn't attract margins is leaning on celebrities, doesn't my father mean that he wants to be with the most prominent and powerful old man in modern history, the Queen Mother of the West, who has leaned on celebrities a lot these years. Just like in the past, when Yang Guifei was favored in the Tang Dynasty, everyone in the world was honored with the surname Yang, and they all rushed to climb the boundless kinship with the Yang family, who was originally a small family in Shuzhong.

Besides, is it glorious to be a relative of the old witch Cixi who ruined the golden opportunity for China's modern development?

Ye Xingzhen had just applied shampoo in the bathroom, and the unkempt water actually stopped slowly.

“**！” The water has stopped again! Ye Xingzhen made up his mind to negotiate with the landlord tomorrow, why did the water stop after 10 o'clock every night, and didn't anyone take a shower and go to the toilet after 10 o'clock!

What to do with a bath? Ye Xingzhen, who was wet all over, had to think about the problem, and after thinking for a while, he suddenly thought that the landlord had a huge cistern on the top floor, in which a few fish were raised, and he was always ready to dedicate himself to the landlord's dinner.

Forget it, let's take a bath with the fish today. Ye Xingzhen thought so, took an iron basin and put on pants and went to the terrace on the top floor.

Ye Xingzhen stood on the terrace shivering, the weather in November was a little cold, he was going to go back to the bed to sleep after taking a shower, and when he was about to pour a basin on his body, he said that it was too late and that it was fast, nine days away, a huge purple lightning bolt suddenly slashed down, and hit the iron basin squarely, Ye Xingzhen fell to the ground, and his last thought before losing consciousness was:

I'm so stupid, why take an iron basin and bathe on the balcony.

Why is there still lightning in November?

The next day, on the evening news of Hangzhou TV, the solemn-looking hostess was broadcasting an update message: "The city government once again reminds all citizens, please do not talk on the balcony, under a big tree, on the phone or raise a basin on a thunderstorm to prevent a tragedy like the man who was struck by lightning yesterday." ”

A dream back to a hundred years

The consciousness that had been lost for a long time finally returned to Ye Xingzhen's brain, wasn't I killed by that damn purple lightning, how could I still be conscious? Have I become a ghost?

Why does your body seem to be able to move? How many times can you flick your little finger? Can I salvage it again?

"Miss is awake! Mrs., come and see Miss! ”

Who is this sharp voice, the hospital is too noisy, Ye Xingzhen depressedly tried to open his eyes to see who was so noisy, but he was exhausted and shook his lower eyelids weakly, still unable to beat the pajamas, and fell asleep groggily again.

In the second year of Xianfeng, the Dragon Boat Festival, the first day of May.

The Manchu people celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival to pray for blessings and disasters. Legend has it that a long time ago, the gods of heaven and earth sent people down to observe the people's feelings. On the fifth day of the fifth month of the fifth month, the god of heaven and earth dressed up as an oil seller shouted: "One gourd is two catties, and two gourds are three catties." Everyone rushed to buy first, but only one old man not only didn't buy it, but also told the old man that the account was wrong. When the oil was sold, the old man followed the old man who did not buy the oil and said, "You are a good man, and the plague god will send a plague tonight, and if you put mugwort on the eaves of your house, you can avoid the plague." When the old man heard this, he went from house to house and told all the people that if mugwort was planted in every house, the plague god could not bring down the plague, and the people were saved. On the fifth day of the fifth month of May, the Manchu people pay attention to inserting mugwort on the eaves to prevent diseases, and also pay attention to stepping on dew in the suburbs. It is said that washing your face and eyes with the dew of this day will prevent sores and eye diseases.

The weather is excellent sunny day, in a dilapidated small courtyard in the West Fourth Archway Splitting Wood Hutong, a half-big girl holding a tall girl in blue flag dress stands in front of the West Chamber, the fiery red pomegranate flowers in the yard are blooming, the blue flag girl goose egg face, long eyebrows into the sideburns, Danfeng eyes, born extremely beautiful, but the face is a little pale, just gave birth to a serious illness, she is trembling and sticking a gourd sticker on the window eaves. The little girl on the side happily chanted the Buddha:

"Amitabha, Miss pasted this gourd flower, and on the fifth day of the new year, she threw away the disaster, and she was cured of any illness! There is no disaster, no difficulty, and a long life is 100 years old. ”

The Manchus love gourds because gourds are a homonym for "Fulu". The Manchu people like to cut paper again, cut into a gourd with red rough-edged paper, and put the "five poisons" pattern into it, symbolizing the treasure of suppressing evil spirits, and the "five poisons" are all collected into the stomach to suppress. This kind of treasure gourd paper-cutting, called "gourd flower", gourd flower is said to be able to dispel "five poisons", posted on May 1, picked up at noon on May 5 and thrown away, called "throwing disaster".

"Flim-tongued." The girl in the flag dress didn't look at the position of the window flower, and posted the window flower casually, and said lightly.

Unfortunately, Ye Xingzhen crossed over, it was still Nima's clear wear, and the more tragic thing was that Qing wore it into a woman, and the most tragic thing was that it crossed over to become a young girl with a blue flag - Yehenala Xingzhen.

Speaking of this name, it is estimated that few people know it, but after changing to the official title of this girl, everyone in Greater China knows it.

Her official title is: "Xiaoqin Cixi Duanyou Kang Yi Zhao Yu Zhuang Chengshou Gong Qin Xian Chongxi with Tianxing Shengxian Empress"

Abbreviation: Empress Dowager Cixi.

Or more simply: the Queen Mother of the West.

After learning that he had crossed over into an old witch who controlled half of the world in China, Ye Xing really wanted to jump up and fall into the water and die again if he hadn't been weak after his illness.

Your sister, do you want to fuck me like this, this is too exciting for Nima! God! Ye Xingzhen stretched out his well-maintained middle finger and pointed weakly at the sky.

Fortunately, I have read the secret history of Cixi and know that Cixi's maiden name is called "Xingzhen", which is very similar to her own name, but the pronunciation is a little different.

That's it, if you come, you will be safe, and you can take care of your body with peace of mind before making other plans. With the support of the little girl Wan'er, Xingzhen slowly paced around the small courtyard a few times, and her body that had just recovered after her illness was unbearable, and she was out of breath after walking a few laps. The little girl Wan'er held Xingzhen with one hand, and brushed the stone bench under the pomegranate tree with the other hand, allowing Xingzhen to sit down slowly.

"Xing'er~" A middle-aged female voice sounded at the gate of the courtyard, Xingzhen heard this voice, and immediately stood up without delay, turned around, and said to the place where the voice came from:

"E-niang."

It was Yehenala Xingzhen's mother Fucha who came, she combed a common bun of flag people, only a few half-new silver hairpins were inserted on both sides, and the dark purple cheongsam on her body was not wrinkled, and there was a little girl who was in her teens and had not yet grown up, and the little girl blessed Xingzhen: "Big sister, is she well?" "This is Xingzhen's sister Mei'er.

"It's already good, isn't this sweating while walking, Eniang, Brother Xiang'er, Qixue has gone?"

"It's going to school, hey, it's like that whether you go or not, and I don't expect him to learn anything, it's just a five-year-old baby, just beg God not to make trouble for him." Xingzhen's younger brother Guixiang is now entering Mengxue in the flag school inlaid with blue flags, Fucha looked at the eldest daughter's outfit, nodded with satisfaction, saw the flat embroidered shoes on Xingzhen's feet, frowned, and helped Xingzhen to sit down on the stone bench. "Why don't you wear flag shoes today?"

Flag shoes, also known as "pot-bottomed shoes". Manchu women are all heavenly feet, the old custom wears wooden shoes, the middle of the sole is made of wood, the upper and lower are open, and the trapezoidal flower pot is inverted, called "flower pot bottom shoes" flower pot bottom shoes can make the body taller, and the body is more slender, in addition, due to the special shape of the shoes, the woman walks with her arms swinging back and forth is larger, and the flower pot bottom shoes can make the body taller, the body is more slender, and the walk is extraordinarily dignified and elegant.

Who is happy to wear that thing, it is awkward and easy to wrestle. Xingzhen muttered in her heart, but she didn't dare to show it on her face, and still replied flatly: "I can't get used to wearing those shoes." ”

"Well, you have just recovered from your illness, and it is common for you to not be able to wear these shoes, and then continue to wear them when you are well, and you want to enter the palace to draft your daughter, this rule is very important!" Fucha patted the hand of his eldest daughter, who was like a flower, and sighed.

Eh, draft.

Xingzhen pricked up her ears and listened carefully to Fucha's nagging. There is a Qing generation of drafts, and there is a very strict system. The concubine system of the Qing Dynasty was relatively simple in the era of Hachi and Huang Taiji, improved during the Shunzhi Emperor, and gradually improved the concubine system during the Kangxi Emperor. There are 1 queen, in the middle palace, 1 imperial concubine, 2 concubines, 4 concubines, and 6 concubines. The nobles often promise, there is no fixed number, and they live in the east and west 12 houses. The east palace has Jingren Palace, Chengqian Palace, Zhongcui Palace, Yanxi Palace, Yonghe Palace, Jingyang Palace, and the West Palace has Yongshou Palace, Yikun Palace, Qixiang Palace, Changchun Palace, Xianfu Palace, and Chuxiu Palace.

The so-called show girl must first of all be the woman of an official of pure blood, in order to maintain the dignity and privileges of the Manchurian aristocracy. The ** of the Qing Dynasty, from the queen to the palace maid, were all selected from the banner women.

Where the selection of the show girl period, by the household line of the banner of the banner, will read the age of the woman, etc., by the staff leader of the leader of the Xiao riding school and the patriarch, one by one to report to the capital, and then report to the household, the household to play the emperor, the emperor approved the selection of the show girl, the household immediately again the banner of the unified, each flag to make a list of show women. The patriarch and the wife of his parents or uncles, parents, and brothers, personally took the show girl to the Shenwu Gate of the Forbidden City, arranged in turn, and handed over to the internal supervisor by the household department for reading. This is the first selection.

Those who have been selected by the eunuchs to be registered must be selected and read again. This is the second selection, and those who are anonymous will be hired by their own families. If the women of the flag officials are not as good as the candidates due to accidents, they will be sent to the election next time. Girls who have not been seen and women whose names are registered, who marry privately, who are self-appointed as the chief of staff and their parents, shall be dealt with separately.

The age of the draft girl must be an unmarried woman between the ages of 13 and 17. After being selected by the eunuchs for two breaks, they were finally selected by the emperor, or they were accepted as concubines, or they were assigned to the prince or prince as their wives. The selected show girl who is registered is not allowed to marry privately during the registration period (generally five years), and the offender will be punished to a certain extent from the deputy commander of the capital to the commander of the flag and his parents. The show girl who was selected to leave the brand has not been selected for a long time, and the registration period has passed, so such a woman has to never marry.

The draft girl is sponsored by the Tobe. As soon as the time for the triennial draft of women arrives, the eight banners of the household department and the eight banners of the eight banners of the provinces are directly under the yamen, and the foreign flag officers will be submitted to the candidate women of appropriate age for the record. The date of each selection is approved by the household department, and then the flags are notified, and the inventory is available, and the day of the selection is ready to be selected, the show girls get off at the Shenwu Gate, arrange them in order, and introduce them into the Shunzhen Gate by the eunuchs, so that the emperors and queens can choose to see.

After listening to this procedure, Xingzhen couldn't help but secretly speak, Nima is also much more difficult than the civil service exam a hundred years later, it's like ten thousand people.

"You Ama has just arrived in Anhui Huining Chi Guangtai Road (Note 1) in office, in a few days the show girl election can not go to Beijing, it doesn't matter if you don't come up, a while ago I went to our banner Niu Hulu Zuo Ling's house, sealed fifty taels of silver to him, please be sure to make it convenient in the show girl election, so as not to enter the Shunzhen Gate We have a black eye, I don't know anything."

Xingzhen's father, Hui Zheng, was a pen post type in the eleventh year of Daoguang, and the fourteenth year of Daoguang inspection was set as a second-class pen post style of the Ministry of Officials. In the nineteenth year, it was the eight-grade pen post type. In the twenty-third year of Daoguang, he inspected again and set it as a first-class pen post type of the Ministry of Officials. In the twenty-sixth year, he was transferred to the head of the Department of Literature and Selection. In the twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth years, because of the first-class inspection results, he was received by the Daoguang Emperor and was released to an official position at the level of the Daoist government. In April of the same year, he was appointed to return to Suidao in Shanxi. In March of the second year of Xianfeng, he was transferred to Anhui Huining Chi Taiguang Road as a Taoist.

Because he has been serving as a Beijing official in the capital, Yehenara's family is really not a wealthy family, and the fifty taels of silver are estimated to be the expenses of the whole family for half a year. Xingzhen was a little moved, after all, this is what this family has paid for this woman she possessed.

"E-niang, you really don't need to be like this," Xingzhen said eagerly. Just by virtue of his posture after crossing over, how could Emperor Xianfeng, the hungry ghost in that color, let go of himself, and he couldn't help drooling when he looked at his appearance in the bronze mirror yesterday.

"Silly boy, what can these silver be, as long as you enter the palace and can choose a nun, it is naturally excellent, even if you take 10,000 steps back, if you are not selected, this silver is also to prevent villains from practicing our family, so as not to offend the nobles in the palace and make our apricots suffer a dark loss!"

"You Ama did a good job in the south, the governor also valued him, and gave him the beauty of transporting grain and grass, but Guangxi is a little messy, and the long-haired traitor has also flowed to Hunan, you Ama estimates that the south is really a little unstable, if you enter the palace and get favored, you can help your Ama blow the wind, transfer back to the capital, and the family lives with Meimei so that it is good" Fucha chattered and gossiped, not idle in his hands, doing needlework, stitch by needle embroidered a fancy.

Favored? I traveled to this stormy era just to get the favor of that short-lived emperor? And then live alone for half a century (at this time, Ye Xingzhen completely brought himself into the role of Xingzhen)? Xingzhen listened to her mother's chatter, with a shallow sneer on her lips.

Of course, first of all, you have to be pampered.

After thinking about it for a while, Xingzhen felt a little sore back when she sat upright, put her hands and handkerchief on her legs, and shook her legs, and saw Fucha's eyes that were holding her breath and bulging, so she remembered her current identity, and put her legs down curtly, seeing that Fucha was about to open her mouth and nag again, Xingzhen remembered one thing and began to ask her mother: "Eniang, do we have a newspaper in our family?" ”

"Di Bao? That thing used to be copied home when you Ama was working in Beijing, and then you Ama let go of the foreign post, and this newspaper will cost money to buy it from our Qizuoling, and it will cost a few dollars, and I am willing to spend that money! Fucha was really diverted by his eldest daughter, and forgot to teach Xingzhen an indecent sitting posture, "Last year's Di Bao is still in your Amma's small study, I said that you are a girl's family, what are you going to do with those things?" ”

"It's good to have nothing to do, go and see what's new." Xingzhen got up and saluted, and took the little girl Wan'er to turn around and walk out of this small courtyard, and her sister Mei'er shouted, "Sister wait for me to go with me!" Ran over and grabbed Xingzhen's hand, Xingzhen looked down at this little girl whose eyebrows and eyes were very similar to herself, pinched Mei'er's little face that was a little baby fat, and said with a smile: "Then you accompany your sister to find it, and by the way, my sister will teach you to recognize a few words." ”

"I wanted to write last time I recognized words, sister."

"Okay, ask Wan'er to polish the ink for you."

The group of three people passed through the flower gate of the east chamber and arrived at a small courtyard with partitions, and in the small courtyard there was a lonely and old hugging building, which was Yehenara's study.

Open the door and see, yo, although Hui Zheng is a prisoner, there are really a lot of books in the house, hundreds of schools and some four books and five classics, Xingzhen asked Xiao Yetou to serve her sister Mei'er to grind ink and write, and she looked carefully on the bookshelf.

Depressed, why don't you even have an idle book? Even if there are no explicit books like "Golden Vase Plum", then how can there not even be half a copy of Nalan Xingde's "Drinking Water Words" and Cao Xueqin's "Stone Records", in this era of such a lack of information, it is really sad to have these novels.

Xingzhen muttered in her heart, and she found the old mansion newspaper in the third compartment of the camphor wood bookshelf. She sat on the couch of the Luohan bed and flipped through it carefully.

Xianfeng Emperor Yixu, Daoguang was born in the eleventh year. After Daoguang died of illness on the first day of the first month of 1850, he succeeded to the throne in the same month. In the second year, the name was changed to "Xianfeng".

On the 14th day of the first month of the 30th year of Daoguang, Xuanzong (that is, Emperor Daoguang) was mourned, and on the 26th, the fourth son of the emperor, Yixu, succeeded to the throne of the emperor, and on the 27th, he was named the Empress of Xiaode; He was given the title of Ge Wu Jia as a noble man of the clouds. On October 27, the Empress Xiaode was canonized, and the Empress Xiaode Zigong was temporarily installed in Tiancun.

Speaking of which, Emperor Xianfeng doesn't have an empress now? Could it be that Ci'an in the east is also a successor? Xingzhen's long nails unconsciously scratched on the yellowed newspaper, and the girl Wan'er was chattering with her sister Mei'er, talking about what kind of fun, and the two of them laughed, and scared the sparrows at the door away.

Isn't that my chance? Xingzhen thought so happily, but why didn't the historical Cixi become the empress? Is it because the family background is not noble enough? The Yehenala clan is also an old Manchu surname. It is estimated that it is still the relationship between the inner court, and when the time comes, I will enter the palace, but I must not plant my head in my temper, Xingzhen is self-aware, and knows that she is a man who has crossed into an ancient woman, and she is a show girl, no matter how she pretends to be virtuous and virtuous, it is not decent.

The laughter of the two little girls became louder and louder, Xingzhen was finally woken up and returned to reality, she quickly drank the two little girls who were laughing excessively, "Shhhh

"Eldest sister, you see, the weather is good today, you will enter the palace in a few days, in case you are chosen, it is estimated that there will be less time to come out in the future, I will accompany you out for a walk in the afternoon?" Listening to the second girl of Zhu Yu's family next door, there are more tricks on the flyover today! ”

"I can go to that kind of crowded place there! You didn't see it, E-Niang only allowed me to wander around in this alley, which also called me to hold the lamp and have to enter the room, those many tricks, that is, I miss it in my heart! ”

"E-Niang is really disappointing!"

"You, don't be just playful!" Xingzhen squatted down and straightened the sleeves of Mei'er's clothes, "Usually read more books, recognize a few more words, and then learn the skills of housekeeping from Eniang, and you will learn it in the future!" ”

"Well, I know the eldest sister, let's go to Eniang's room to eat."

These newspapers will be discussed after eating, anyway, it's not a big deal, Xingzhen swayed out of the door in a stiff and dignified posture, it is hard to imagine how to walk if you put on flower pot bottom shoes, the next important thing is to learn to walk! Xingzhen tightly clumped the handkerchief in her hand, thinking fiercely in her heart.

Note 1: Ningchi Guangtai Road: In December of the 11th year of Yongzheng (January 1734), he placed Taiguang Road, Ningchi, Anhui Province, and led Anqing Mansion (hereinafter referred to as "An"), Huizhou Mansion (hereinafter referred to as "Hui"), Chizhou Mansion (referred to as "Chi"), Taiping Mansion (referred to as "Tai"), Ningguo Mansion (referred to as "Ning"), Guangde Zhili Prefecture (referred to as "Guang"), and Zhi'an Qing Mansion. In October of the twelfth year of Yongzheng (November 1734), he moved to Wuhu County.

In October of the fifth year of Xianfeng (January 1855), Anqing Mansion belonged to Lufeng Road, and the name of the road was changed to Huining Chi Taiguang Road, and the road was moved to Ningguo Mansion. The province with the rank of military preparation, plus according to the rank of inspector, can be a special fold to play things, temporarily under the jurisdiction of the governor of Zhejiang. In the tenth year of Xianfeng (1860), he moved to Qimen County, Huizhou Prefecture.

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