Yanjing, Mengxia April, the willows are dark and the flowers are bright, lush and green, it is a good season for the cultivation of all things. The early days of summer are long, and the south wind is fragrant with grass and wood. The sixth day of April was the thirty-second birthday of the crown princess Shen, and although there was not a big banquet, the princess still sent invitations and invited some female relatives who were close to each other to come over.

Early in the morning, the fourth wife of the fourth room of Yan Mansion, the county lord of Nanping, got up early, and asked while dressing up, "Go and see if the young lady is up?" ”

The lord of Nanping was born in the Rongwang Mansion and gave birth to three sons and one daughter, the eldest son Yan Tongzhu was twelve years old, ranking fourth in the family; The second son, Yan Tongliang, is ten years old and ranks sixth in the family; The third son, Yan Tongming, is seven years old and ranks ninth in the family. According to the rules of the Yan Mansion, they have all moved to live in the outer courtyard, and now their youngest daughter, Yan Hao, who is only five years old, still lives in the west cross courtyard of the four-room main courtyard.

"Mother." Yan Hagi climbed over the high threshold and came in, although she was five years old, but because she was a premature baby, a small one, and still frail and sickly, she was sick and dying several times, and almost died, which scared Yan Siye and the county lord of Nanping enough, and also made the county lord of Nanping blame herself, it was she, who was a mother, failed to give her daughter a good body.

"My son, did you sleep well last night?" The county lord of Nanping stepped forward to pick up his daughter and kissed her little face.

"Xiaoxiao slept soundly last night." Yan Hagi replied coquettishly. Xiaoxiao is Yan Hao's small character, which was specially taken by her maternal grandmother, Princess Rong, to Guangji Temple and ask the monks there to take it for Yan Hao, hoping to borrow the power of the Buddha to bless the little granddaughter to grow up safely.

"I'm going to the East Palace today to celebrate the crown princess's birthday, do you remember what your aunt told you?" The county lord of Nanping asked with a smile.

Yan Hagi nodded, "Remember." ”

The county lord of Nanping put down Yan Hagi and looked at her dress, Yan Hagi was young and had no title, and he was wearing a cherry red embroidered Ruyi pattern collared long jacket, combing flower buds, hairpins inlaid with broken rubies and gold hairpins, a few thin pigtails hanging from his chest, and a small silver bell at the end, which looked very playful and cute. He wears a gold collar around his neck, which is engraved with fish scales, and a longevity lock carved with a longevity pattern is pendant below, and the lock is engraved with a double bat arch longevity peach and a four-character auspicious prophecy of longevity and longevity; The bottom of the lock is decorated with pendants in the shape of bergamot, pomegranate, longevity peach, peanut and so on.

"Xiaoxiao, you're dressed up very beautifully today." The county lord of Nanping smiled with satisfaction.

"Because my mother is beautiful, my daughter is beautiful." Yan Hagi's mouth said sweetly.

"I got up in the morning and ate honey, it's so sweet." The county lord of Nanping smiled and nodded her nose. "It's so sweet without honey." Yan Hagi smiled.

After the mother and daughter were dressed neatly, the county lord of Nanping asked Yan Hagi to hold Yan Hagi, sit in a soft sedan chair, and go to Chunhui Hall to greet Mrs. Yan's Min family. Mrs. Yan's Min family was born in the Pingguo Mansion and is the sister of the current Pingguo Gong. Mrs. Yan had five sons and two daughters, but only the eldest son, the second son, and the fourth son were born to Mrs. Yan. The third son, the fifth son, and the two daughters were all concubines.

The people in the long room, the third room and the fifth room have all arrived, and Yan Erye served as the fourth prefect of Jiangning Mansion, and now he is in office with his wife and children. The eldest wife Zhou, the third wife Jiang, the fifth wife Wang and the eldest grandmother Wang sat on the back chair below, talking with the old lady Min. Mrs. Yan is nearly sixty years old, her hair is full of silver threads, the corners of her forehead and eyes are wrinkled, her face is kind, and she looks at her granddaughters with a smile on the corners of her lips. A fat boy was somersaulting on the Luohan couch she was sitting on, this fat boy was Yan Tongfeng, the tenth young master who was only two years old in the fifth room.

As soon as the county lord of Nanping and Yan Hagi entered the door, the maidservant girl stepped forward and saluted: "Say hello to the fourth wife, and say hello to the twelfth lady." "The Yan family is prosperous, and there are now ten young masters, thirteen young ladies, five masters and five wives in Yan Hao's generation, and they are still young, so they don't know how many more people they will have. The eldest young master Yan Tongshu also got married, although there are no heirs yet, but sooner or later it will be added, and then the Yan family will be the fourth generation in the same house.

"No need to be polite." The county lord of Nanping led Yan Hagi around the eight large screens painted with the scenery of the four seasons, and curtsied, "Mother, daughter-in-law has asked you for peace." ”

Yan Hagi greeted his grandmother and called the aunts, aunts, and cousins in the house one by one. Mrs. Yan and the others looked at her, and they all showed amiable smiles.

"The little man has so many courtesies, carefully tired, Xiaoxiao, come quickly, come to grandmother." Mrs. Yan cherished this sick little granddaughter very much, and in order to pray for her, she went to the temple to eat vegetarian food for 7749 days, and usually ate fasting and recited Buddha.

"Grandmother." Yan Hagi walked over and threw himself into Mrs. Yan's arms.

Old Madam Yan hugged her and didn't let her roll, "My good girl, you have to go out in a while, but you can't crumple your clothes." ”

Yan Hagi thought about it for a while, and obediently sat down beside Mrs. Yan. Mrs. Yan touched her little face and said, "Grandmother asked the cook to make oatmeal porridge with chicken paste, will Xiaoxiao eat more bowls later?" ”

"Okay." Yan Hagi smiled, she is not a picky eater, but her body is weak, her appetite is small, and she can't eat much, which makes the elders very worried, and they always want to coax her to eat more, so that her body is stronger and not so easy to get sick.

Mrs. Yan's intimacy and concern for Yan Hagi made the girls sitting next to her have different expressions, including jealousy, envy, and resentment. Yan Hagi didn't need to look to know that the one who had a grudge against her was her cousin Yan Qian, who ranked sixth in the third room. Not long after Yan Hagi was born, she knew that her cousin was a reborn daughter, and her premature birth was caused by this cousin.

When the county lord of Nanping was six months pregnant, on the way to ask Mrs. Yan for peace, she was hit by a cat and fell, the cat was secretly released by Yan Qian, the reason why Yan Qian knew was that on the day of her full moon, Yan Qian carried someone on her back and chanted in front of her, "Your life is really hard, I let the cat scare your mother, let her fall, and didn't let her fall miscarriage." ”

The lord of Nanping fell, it was not that there was nothing, and the doctor said that the child might not be able to be saved; The lord of Nanping County was reluctant to drink tocolytic pills every day to barely keep the child; It's a pity that it's still less than October, and she gave birth to Yan Hagi.

The newborn baby girl weighed only three pounds, so thin that she even cried silently, and the deficiencies brought out of the mother's womb, even if she was carefully raised, she was still sick for three days.

Yan Hagi was sick and weak, Yan Qian still refused to let her go, it was cold in winter, she pinched the ice cubes, stuffed it into Yan Hagi's swaddling clothes, and froze so that Yan Hagi had a high fever and drank bitter medicine for half a month before the fever subsided, and she did not die; When Yan Hagi was half a year old, Yan Qian wanted to cover her to death when people were not paying attention; When she was seven months old, Yan Qian pricked her with an embroidery needle, and the pain made her cry so heartbroken that she almost couldn't breathe and died. The cousin tried to kill her again and again, until she could speak, and the cousin was afraid that she would sue, so she stopped. Yan Hao's life, this has a certain guarantee, and she doesn't have to worry about Yan Qian coming to harm her from time to time.

Yan Hagi has been speculating, what is the reason why this cousin wants to kill her? The biggest possibility is that they had a feud in their previous life, and their cousin was reborn to take revenge, although Yan Hagi didn't know anything about his previous life, but some cause and effect still had to be endured, who let her step on the air, roll down from the stairs, and then inexplicably received this body. originally thought that she could clean up Yan Qian, but she restrained herself, so that Yan Hagi couldn't grasp her handle, and there was no way to clean it up, so she could only install eyeliner in the yard and watch her every move.

"Twelfth sister, you have a weak spleen and stomach, go to the East Palace in a while, don't be greedy when you see delicious food, in case you don't restrain yourself and get sick again, you have to let your family worry about you." Yan Qian was gentle on his face, and seemed to be concerned and admonished.

A touch of impatience flashed in Yan Hao's eyes, if this person doesn't stir up trouble for a day, will he die? She had to suspect that it was a good deed for her to kill this person in her previous life. Yan Hagi leaned next to Old Madam Yan and said weakly: "I never eat indiscriminately, grandmother, Xiaoxiao is very well-behaved." "To deal with Yan Xiang, you don't have to shoot directly, you can ask the backer to help.

"Well, we're sensible and never greedy." Old Madam Yan smiled and agreed, looking down at her little granddaughter, her eyes full of pity.

After a few words of gossip, the maidservant girl came in and invited everyone to the dining room, the Yan family's breakfast has a wide variety, there are five kinds of porridge alone, eight side dishes, and staple foods such as silver silk rolls and fresh meat buns; The family finished breakfast quietly, and the lord of Nanping asked Mrs. Yan, "Mother, what do you command?" ”

"You are a proper person, you don't need to be long-winded with my old wife." Mrs. Yan is still quite satisfied with several daughters-in-law, especially the Zhou family and the Nanping county lord, the Zhou family was married by her, although the Nanping county lord was born noble, but she has great respect for her mother-in-law.

"Then the daughter-in-law will take Xiaoxiao out." The county lord of Nanping saluted, took Yan Hagi and left, looking at Yan Hagi's slender back, Yan Qian pinched her palms hatefully, this girl's life is really hard, she has been sick and crooked for so many years, she just won't die. turned to resent the county lord of Nanping, such a good opportunity to go to the East Palace, she only knew to take her own daughter there, and she didn't care about the nieces in the other rooms.

At the second gate, a green silk silver-topped vermilion wheel car was parked, and the maidservant helped the Nanping county lord to get into the car, and then hugged Yan Hagi, and the personal maid Jade of the Nanping county lord and Yan Hagi's personal maid licorice followed into the carriage.

"If you feel uncomfortable, tell your mother, you know?" The county lord of Nanping originally didn't want to take his daughter out, but the eldest sister entrusted her to make her daughter tired.

Yan Hao nodded: "Well, my daughter knows." ”

Yan's family is in the south of the city, the East Palace is not far from the palace, in the city, an hour later, the carriage of the Yan Mansion and the carriage of the Chu Wangfu met outside the palace gate of the East Palace, the county lord of Nanping frowned, and took Yan Hagi off the carriage, and a pair of mother and daughter wearing palace clothes also came down from the carriage opposite, which was the princess of Chu Xiao Yan and her daughter Tang Xin, the county lord of Gaocheng.

"Nanping has seen Princess Chu." Although the county lord of Nanping is the sister-in-law of the princess of Chu, the fourth master of Yan is now only a scholar of the fifth grade of the Zhongji Palace, and the country comes before the family, and the county lord of Nanping naturally wants to salute the princess of Chu, who is a good one. Of course, if Princess Chu was a person who knew etiquette, she would not accept the gift of her sister-in-law, but Princess Chu did not avoid it, and accepted her gift uprightly.

Yan Hao knew that this little aunt was unclear, so she didn't care, so she followed her mother and saluted Princess Chu and the county lord of Gaocheng, "Say hello to the princess of Chu, and ask for peace to the county lord of Gaocheng." ”

Only then did Princess Chu raise her hand arrogantly and said, "The fourth sister-in-law doesn't have to be polite. "She is a concubine, and after becoming the step-concubine of the king of Chu, she has swelled, and she likes to put up a shelf in front of people the most.

The county lord of Gaocheng nodded slightly, "The county lord of Nanping." ”

Seeing her arrogant demeanor, the lord of Nanping County flashed slightly, sure enough, what kind of mother is there, what kind of daughter can be taught, although he doesn't mind the rudeness of the county lord of Gaocheng, he only feels funny, but this is at the gate of the East Palace, if he doesn't express his position, I'm afraid that someone will see it, when she is the lord of Nanping County is bullying, he asked lightly: "Why didn't Yijia come today?" ”

The lord of Yijia is the daughter of the former princess of Chu, the first granddaughter of today, quite favored, and now she is raised by her grandmother Zhou Xianfei in the palace. The lord of Nanping knew about this, but he deliberately used it to stab her.

Princess Chu's expression stiffened slightly, and she said: "The mother concubine is a little unwell, and Yijia has always been filial, so she stayed in the palace to take care of her grandmother." ”

The lord of Nanping smiled, noncommittal, two pairs of mother and daughter, entered the palace to change to a soft sedan chair, and under the guidance of the little chamberlain, they went to the flower hall of the East Palace to entertain guests.