In the ninth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, it was the period when Emperor Zhu Yijun was choosing a concubine. The eunuchs were ordered to go to the streets, and the good-looking and innocent girls entered the palace, which was a great opportunity for many civilian women to fly on the branches and become phoenixes.

Zheng Mengjing was originally a little woman, due to the early death of her mother, her younger brother was a soldier far away on the frontier, who had not been seen for many years, and at the age of fourteen, she and her father Zheng Chengxian depended on each other. Zheng Mengjing was born in Beijing, his father was originally a private school teacher, under the influence of his father, Mengjing has some talent and knowledge.

Zheng Chengxian failed the exam for a long time, and after the death of his mother, the two lived a little embarrassed. Under the pressure of life, Zheng Mengjing was married by his father to a merchant Jia as a concubine.

Merchant Jia was a wealthy local merchant, although the social status of the businessmen in the Ming Dynasty was not high, and his life was comfortable. After Zheng's father negotiated with the businessman, he led his daughter to the door to get the dowry.

knocked on the door, and the person who opened the door was a subordinate with a dowry slip in his hand and handed it to Zheng's father.

"My lord said, if you go home with the dowry slip, the dowry will be sent to your house. Miss, let me familiarize myself with the Jia family. ”

Zheng's father knew that this was driving him away, so he took his daughter's hand, "I entered the door of Jia Shang's house, so I could protect myself, and my father was incapable, so I had to do it as a last resort." Fortunately, although the Jia family is in business, Jia Gongzi has also read books and is reasonable. Leave you to him, and Daddy can rest assured. As Zheng Chengxian spoke, there seemed to be tears in his eyes.

"Daddy, don't be sad, my daughter will often see Daddy."

"The married daughter is not allowed to see her father for a long time, and you don't have to come to see me in the future," Zheng's father took out a jasper bracelet from his arms, "This is the bracelet that your mother wore before her death, it is not precious, and your father gave it to you, and it is kept as a memory." ”

Zheng Chengxian finally took a deep look at his daughter, then turned around and left with the appointment slip.

The dream looked at her father's back, and her nature was so strong that she held back the tears in her eyes. "Let's go inside." She also turned to her subordinates and said.

The Jia family is very magnificent, a businessman, everything is exquisite, and the housekeeper brought her to the Jia businessman.

Dream thought that his excellent appearance could allow him to find a happy person and stay together for a lifetime, but who knew that everything could not be done by himself.

"Miss Zheng, would you like to raise your head and let me take a look?" Master Jia was sitting in the hall, and his voice was not like an ordinary businessman, and his voice was very cold.

When the dream looked up, she knew that there would be no more ripples in this life, she didn't look at the old man, and then she looked down, and she recognized that she was indeed this stagnant water.

Who knew that Master Jia was a little surprised and uneasy. "This ...... Miss Zheng was born so beautiful? ”

He got up and paced around the room, very anxious. "Miss doesn't know, Jia Mou's concubine is nothing else, but I hope that the concubine can share some family affairs, so that Mrs. will not be too tired. But now, you are so beautiful, how can you be my concubine ......?"

The dream saw him pacing eagerly, presumably with his wife and his wife, and did not want such a beautiful young lady to make his wife feel more hearted.

The dream felt ridiculous, but it was his appearance that made him nowhere to go. But the love between the husband and wife of the Jia family really touched her, and she couldn't bear to be mixed in, so it was better to take advantage of this and quit the hire to go home to accompany her father.

She took the opportunity to plop down and knelt down, begging: "Master, don't hide it, my mother died early, my father is not in good health, and he is bedridden every time he gets sick." If I'm not there, my father will have no one to take care of me. I begged the lord to let me go, the lord and the lady had a deep affection, I didn't want to bother, and I also hoped that the lord would allow me to go home and take care of my father. ”

Originally, the dismissal of the girl's family greatly damaged the girl's reputation, but since the dream opened up first, Master Jia was relieved.

"Since the young lady insists on this, let me go back. It's just that the dowry doesn't have to be returned, so it should be given to the lady's family to make amends. ”

"Thank you, sir."

The dream came out of Jiafu, which was a sigh of relief. When I got home, I was ready to tell my dad about it.

But what the daughter of the Zheng family didn't expect was that Zheng Chengxian had died tragically at home.

When Dream Realm arrived at the door, he smelled an unusual smell of blood. She noticed something unusual, and when she opened the door, she found that the lock was broken in two. When he entered the house again, his father fell in a pool of blood with his back on his back, and his dream was terrified, and he tried to help Zheng Chengxian up with trembling hands. Half of Zheng's father's face was red with blood, his eyes were wide open, and he had a deep knife wound on his neck, and he was obviously killed by the gangsters. Not only that, but the wound seemed to have a faint white powder. Looking at his hand again, he was still holding the offer letter tightly, presumably he was killed as soon as he returned home.

Hot tears dripped from the eyes of the dream and fell on the face of Zheng's father, who was covered with blood. She didn't dare to cry, fearing that the gangsters were still nearby, so she repeatedly confirmed that her father had lost her heartbeat, and staggered to her feet and searched for everything noteworthy in the house. However, she could not find anything but a pair of footprints on the stool. The footprints are unusual, one shallow and one deep, especially the texture is very unique. And there is nothing missing in the family, it looks like a poor family, how can there be a wealthy person to kill people? The more I thought about it, the more I realized that this matter was not simple, so I had to report to the official.

The dream came out of the house, and the afterglow spilled over her face from the sky, making the flush of her eyes less noticeable. Just in time for the closing of the stall in the market, people passed by her and looked at her a few times. She hated it very much, hated the long way of the official mansion, she had to look at this group of people laughing or making trouble, hating the injustice of the world, conniving at such a wrongdoing person, hating herself even more, and being born beautiful, so she was returned home by the Jia family, it is better to be born ordinary, and live peacefully in the Jia family, and she can't see this bloody scene.

The dream walked recklessly, and even bumped into a group of people without noticing.

"This little woman, you won't shy away from seeing our family?" The dream side raised his eyes and saw that the person in front of him was dressed like a eunuch in the palace.

"Yo, this girl, born really Peugeot, I don't know which lady it is?" The eunuch looked up at her and was amazed by her appearance.

When the Wanli Emperor was choosing a concubine, the eunuchs always went to the street these days to find their innocence, and the good-looking girls were the emperor's heirs. But after searching for a long time, he didn't have half the beauty of the woman in front of him now.

Dream realized that he had lost his manners and hurriedly knelt down. This kneeling saw the various footprints of the group on the ground, with different sizes and shades, but this unique texture was the same as the footprint texture seen at home.

The dream looked up in disbelief, and the slanting sun gradually fell, leaving only a shadow by the Forbidden City wall in the distance. The leading eunuch was waiting for her to answer, and she knew that her father's murder was inseparable from the Forbidden City.

"Folk girl Zheng Mengjing, fourteen years old."

"Where does the family live, can anyone in the family be an official in the court?"

"The folk girl has lived in Beijing since she was a child, her father is a private school teacher, her mother died early, and there is nothing else."

Since the person who killed his father dared to blatantly commit murder at the feet of the Son of Heaven, he must not be afraid of the government. In addition, the texture of this shoe is related to the government, and if it is reported to the official, it may not be re-examined. It seems that it is the will of heaven in the dark, so that the dream meets the eunuch of the draft.

Dream knew that in order to prevent the concubines from interfering in politics, all dynasties chose innocent women as the emperor's concubines, so they deliberately concealed their father's affairs. When the eunuch heard that there was no problem with her family background, she was very happy, and directly sent a little eunuch to lead her away.

The chief eunuch watched the dream leave, lowered his head and sighed, and then said to the lame little eunuch beside him: "Are they all cleaned?" The little eunuch said: "I didn't have time, I did something, I didn't clean it up, and when I saw her coming out of Jia's house, I came over in a panic to tell you." ”

"Ouch, let's clean up! If you don't have a heart, don't let others see it! The chief eunuch kicked the little eunuch in the buttocks, and the little eunuch took the order and ran out quickly.

"It can be done, tsk. Luckily, it caught up. The leading eunuch sighed and finally returned to the palace with a team of eunuchs.