March 17, late spring and early summer.

No wind, no rain.

The clear moonlight shines softly on the window lattice through the floating clouds as thin as a light veil, plating the wooden window with a faint layer of silver ash.

A beautiful figure, leaning on the door like this, looking at the bright moon in the boxy night sky above the small courtyard, intentionally or unintentionally fiddling with the jade pendant in his hand.

This is a relic of my sister, after my sister's death, Donglu became today's son Emperor Mingzong and handed it over to her personally. When the jade pendant was handed over to her, she received a promise from the Son of Heaven: holding this jade pendant to face the saint could satisfy her three requests. As long as it does not violate morality, national law and ethics, everything is fine.

It seemed like it should have been a peaceful day, but many of the things that happened on this day were not peaceful.

Just today, she entered the palace, and in the eyes of everyone's incomparable envy and jealousy, the queen mother, who was over the age of old, helped her complete the grand ceremony. As an ordinary woman who has almost nothing to do with the royal family, her experience is enviable and jealous.

But all this, speaking of which, can be regarded as what she deserves.

It all started 30 years ago.

At that time, the Queen Mother went out of the palace to worship the Buddha in Puji Temple, but was besieged by thieves in the temple. There was a female official beside the Queen Mother, who blended into the rebels with her own wisdom and wisdom, and deceived the rebels into escorting her into Beijing with half of her troops and infiltrating the palace.

After entering the palace, the woman escaped with a clever plan, broke into the imperial study, and told the emperor who was worried about the siege of Puji Temple by the rebels, not only relieved the siege of the rebellion, but also risked her life and sneaked back to Puji Temple to report the news, blocking a fatal knife for the Queen Mother and saving the Queen Mother's life.

This female official is none other than her mother, Lin Yuan'er.

Lin Yuan'er's parents died early, and her family was poor, and only one younger brother depended on her. The legacy left by his parents is nothing more than an ebony hairpin. entered the palace as a maid, but she was a young lady from a wealthy family. Lu Yun, the female official next to the Queen Mother, saw that she was smart and clever, so she transferred her to serve the Queen Mother.

After this incident, Lin Kite was recognized as a righteous daughter by the Queen Mother, and was awarded the position of county lord, with the title of "Pingrong", which means "quelling the Rongma rebellion". And Mingzong, the son of Donglu Tianzi, who had only been on the throne for less than a year at that time, was also quite fond of this strange woman.

However, the two have different identities and can only be called brother and sister.

When the county lord of Pingrong was entitled, he was fifteen years old, and although he was respected by the county lord, he still served beside the queen mother, was humble, and never took credit for himself. For her younger brother who was two years younger than her outside the palace, she did not take credit for asking for more than half of the glory and power for him. One of the reasons is that she has such a temperament, and the other is because her younger brother Lin Qian is not half greedy for officialdom and power, and his only preference is to do business.

"Shinong Industry and Commerce", although businessmen can be rich and rich, but in terms of status, they still belong to the most despised inferior people. For this reason, Emperor Mingzong personally inscribed the word "Imperial Merchant" to the Lin family to show his reward.

When the county lord of Pingrong was seventeen years old, he was graced by the queen mother and left the palace and married Gu Ting, the poor lawyer she liked at first sight. At that time, Gu Ting, who was twenty years old, was a fellow villager with Lin Yuan'er, who was rich in learning and five cars, and was upright, and came to the capital to seek a job, but because he had no relatives and no reason, he could only live by writing a complaint for someone in exchange for a meager remuneration. Sometimes when they encounter poor families who have been wronged, they even volunteer to write complaints without taking a penny.

After Emperor Mingzong heard about Gu Ting's deeds, he made an exception and allowed him to enter the office.

And Gu Ting is also really talented and learned, and he has become more and more noble in the court, and has been sitting in the position of the secretary of the third grade, in charge of the appointment, promotion, assessment and other affairs of officials, the road is smooth, the official fortune is prosperous, and the Gu Mansion is often a city, and people come and go.

But the county lord of Pingrong is the opposite, after giving birth to his eldest daughter Gu Manxi, his health has been not good, the old injury has recurred in the past, and he has been sick in bed all the year round; Later, she gave birth to a young daughter Gu Manxue with a crippled body, and she died of scabies.

At the time of the death of the lord of Pingrong, the eldest daughter Manxi was ten years old, and the youngest daughter Manxue was about to reach the full moon.

For the beautiful but short life of the lord of Pingrong County, most of the people sighed slightly. Of course, some people sour said that it was the lord of Pingrong County who was too light and couldn't bear this vast grace, so he died.

Two years after the death of the Pingrong County Lord, Gu Ting, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, asked for a decree to raise the aunt Lu Shi, who had two sons and one daughter in the house, to fill the house, and Emperor Mingzong allowed to play, and promoted Gu Manxi, the eldest daughter of the Pingrong County Lord, to be the Minrou County Lord, which was intended to remind the Lu family not to criticize the daughter of the late Pingrong County Lord. Gu Manxue, who was only two years old at the time, was not promoted because she was still young.

Three years later, the fifteen-year-old lord of Minrou took his five-year-old sister Gu Manxue to enter the palace with the Lu family and his daughter Gu Manni to celebrate the birthday of the Queen Mother, and did not want her sister Gu Manxue to fall into the water in the palace and her life was in danger. Gu Manxi ignored the cold and knelt in the courtyard all night, begging God not to take his sister away. Emperor Mingzong strictly ordered the Tai Hospital to go all out, and finally snatched Gu Manxue's life back from the hands of Lord Yama.

It's just that after waking up, Gu Manxue didn't remember her previous memories, she didn't even say much, she was like a gourd with a sawed mouth all day long, and she often had palpitations in the middle of the night. Gu Manxi entered the palace and begged the emperor for grace, and sent her sister to the Lin family's house on the outskirts of Beijing on the grounds that her sister was not suitable for recuperation in the Gu Mansion.

Another year later, the sixteen-year-old lord of Minrou got married, and her husband was Liu Xuanyi, the eldest son of the Liu family, who was born in a family of imperial doctors. The two are talented and beautiful, and they are happy with each other, they should be a pair of fairy couples who envy others, but after only a few months of marriage, the lord of Minrou was accidentally assassinated on the wedding day of the prince and the princess, and the death was extremely hideous and terrifying.

Only he held a piece of jade pendant tightly in his hand and refused to let go.

Yin and Dali Siqing of Bian'an City handed over the jade pendant to Emperor Mingzong for a look, and Emperor Mingzong was shocked when he saw the jade pendant, and then summoned Gu Manxue into the palace to inquire.

No one knew what Emperor Mingzong had talked about with a six-year-old girl, but no one had overlooked one thing - the words that came out of her mouth were the most credible for such a half-grown child.

After the talk, Emperor Mingzong issued three holy decrees:

The first holy decree was to make Gu Manxue the lord of Minhui, move out of the Gu Mansion, and be raised by the Lin family. The Queen Mother personally gave the surname Lin to the lord of Minhui County, and named her Ruo, as the daughter of the Lin family, into the Lin family tree.

The second holy decree was to bury the lord of Minrou County, and be buried in the ancestral tomb of the Liu family as Liu Xuanyi's wife, but his surname was Lin, renamed Lin Xi, and entered the Lin family tree.

The third holy decree, and the most eye-catching will, is to move the long-deceased county lord of Pingrong out of the Gu family's tomb, and posthumously crown him the lord of Shude, and re-bury him as the eldest princess.

These three wills are all to draw a clear line between the Pingrong County Lord and the Lin family and the Gu family.

Everyone didn't know what was going on, but they all knew that the Gu family was dying.

Although, since then, the trembling Gu Ting has not been belittled and condemned, and is still sitting in the position of the secretary of the ministry, but it is an indisputable fact that the sacred heart has been lost, and he has not advanced an inch in the officialdom for nearly ten years, not to mention that Gu Manni, who has been promoted to the concubine of the Gu family and is three years older than Gu Manxue, has never been married, it is not difficult to guess this.

And Gu Manxue moved out of the Gu family and even from the Gu family tree, and was raised by Lin Qian in the Lin Mansion as Lin Ruo, the second lady of the Lin family, until today. The whole Lin Mansion called her "Young Miss".

This shadow leaning against the door and looking at the cold moon and clear light is the young lady of the Lin family-Lin Ruo.