"Sister Jiu, are you okay?"

A girl whispered outside, less than twenty-seven years old, her face was crystal clear and delicate, revealing a silky roundness. The hair on the forehead looks very soft like a baby, and the wisps fall from the forehead, of different lengths, and they are simply trimmed into the shape of a sea and covered with fluffy.

Her double eyelids are very deep, and they are intertwined with the lying silkworm up and down, which sets off her eyes more and more like stars, rippling waves.

This girl seems to be underweight, wearing a peach-colored open-arm Jin Chuan dance costume, and is standing in front of Chu Jiu's door.

He stomped his feet back and forth, twirling on his toes, and from time to time he put his feet on the crack of the door and peeked in.

In the bead-like eyes, wisps of anxiety are projected, as if they are about to quench fire.

It's already May, and the sky is about to dissipate, and there has just been a heavy rain in the morning, and the hot air is mixed with moisture.

On both sides of the steps at the door of the house, a few green plums were planted, and the branches and leaves were green, dotted with fruits, like green pearls.

Just look at the teaching people a few times, and the hot body and mind will be much cooler.

Seeing that he couldn't wait for a long time, Liuli paced over, pulled on the branch as if angry, and grabbed a small astringent fruit.

Mu Ran pondered, she casually threw it into her mouth, but her facial features were like an electric shock, and she immediately twisted into a ball, stretching her tongue out so long that she couldn't spit out half a word.

"Squeak......

Chu Jiu covered a purple cloud smoke Luo water-sleeved gown, and at first glance, he was tall and white.

The rouge is thin, the eyelashes are cut and the wings are cut, the nose arch is upturned, the lips are moist and flamed, and the mist in the eyes is thick, like a spirit nourished by the mountain snow.

She has a goose egg face, slightly thin, the flowers between her eyebrows are bright yellow, three points pure, three points fireworks, three points smart, plus a point of delicacy that ordinary people can hardly look up to.

Because I have just bathed, there are still wisps of water stains on the sideburns like cicada wings.

Liuli was squatting under the eaves, sticking out her tongue incessantly, and when she heard the sound of the door, she shook her hand and shouted in a confused voice:

"Hurry up, hurry up! Mama is urging! ”

Tonight's feast was originally set up for the birthday of the second prince, he stood out among the princes, stood out, and is now a celebrity next to the emperor.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see what the old emperor meant.

Therefore, at a banquet tonight, everyone in the dance workshop was full of energy, trying their best to dress up, and wanted to win the lottery.

"Hurry, look at you!"

When Chu Jiu saw her like this, he was angry and funny, and he focused on her eyebrows, and whispered angrily:

"It's going to take two hours, and the wine casting banquet in the front hall hasn't been dispersed yet, where are you going to put it now? Today's full of princes and ministers, let's introduce a little dancing girl, who dares to rashly make a mistake? ”

"But, the mama in front of me is urging! I've ordered this several times. ”

After Chu Jiu's preaching, Liuli's spirit became a little smaller, but he was still unconvinced, arguing stubbornly.

"Okay, then let me ask you, which grandmother is urging you? When will it be rushed? What did you do in the past? If she wants to urge you, you won't tell the truth? It's good to inquire more about the specific situation ahead! ”

"Oku......"

"Glass ......"

"Huh?"

She was still immersed in what she had just said, and she didn't come back to her senses.

Chu Jiu suddenly rolled his eyes, his eyes showed a hint of cunning, pursed the corners of his mouth, and looked at her with a secret smile.

"Are your earrings wearable?"

"My earrings? Not in ......"

Liuli was about to blurt out, and touched her earlobe, but it was empty.

I was shocked, and I was about to look for it in a hurry, but I saw a pair of small jasper-like things playing with Chu Jiu's hands.

She fixed her eyes and saw what was not her own ear bell?

"Only when everything is done properly can we sit back and relax, and if you want to hurry, you can't reach ,......"

"Okay, I won't talk about you today, while there is still time to do it, hurry up and check it, don't go wrong again."

It is the turn of spring and summer, the outside of the house is warm, the residual glow has faded, the oblique glow is no longer there, and the surroundings are green, fat, red and thin.

Looking at this scene, she thought back to herself five years ago.

Last year, in this door today, the peach blossoms on the human face are red; The face of the person does not know where to go, and the peach blossoms are smiling in the spring breeze.

Chu Jiu had just turned ten years old that year, and the emperor list recruited dancing girls, and the conditions on the list were strict, but the bounty was really tempting and mouth-watering.

The crowd was bustling, pointing at the emperor's list, but they could only look away.

And the bustard mother of Xinghualou is also among them.

She raised her head and watched the sunlight for a long time, really moved.

Speaking of Chu Jiu, she is also a girl from a poor and good family, just because when she was four years old, there was a drought in Jiannan, and the crops were not harvested, and her parents fled with the whole family, but with so many mouths, how could there be food to feed?

In order to accumulate more entanglements and take the whole family out of the ghost gate, her father simply sold her.

Dressed in a blue rag, she crouched at her father's feet, burying her head deep in her knees.

The snow-white neck was quietly smeared with dirt, and a straw swayed in the wind.

The poor sell their daughters, and the yellow cheeks are all the same miserable. A pair of chaotic eyes are mixed with reluctant pain and hope for survival.

Seeing the people around him coming and going, and the new face changed three or four times, the father endured it, turned his heart sideways, broke her head with tears, and shouted in a low and hoarse voice.

"Good looks, white! Three bags of rice, who wants it? ”

"I want this girl! Five bags of rice, take away! ”

Looking at the woman in front of him, Daddy hesitated.

Fools know who this is.

As soon as her words fell, two big men stepped forward and insisted on pulling people, but Daddy hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop him, but looking at the five bags of rice in front of him, he still couldn't say half a word after all.

"Daddy......"

The bustard mother fireworks place has been mixed for many years, and it has been tempered with a pair of fiery eyes.

She could see at a glance that this girl was a beautiful embryo, and she should not be treated like a young girl if she was a rare seedling.

In order to temper her temperament, the bustard's mother spent a lot of money on training, from poetry and song to piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and then to eighteen songs and dances, Chu Jiu spent six years to learn all the mastery.

In addition to the external effort, she also invited a bath master to tailor the way of bathing, and the medicines and flowers soaked in the fragrance are all of the highest quality.

There are three fixed meals for eating, the purpose of which is to cultivate her graceful figure and maintain her smooth and delicate white skin that can be broken by blowing.

There are two heavens of ice and fire in the Xinghua Building.

For the other girls, the bustard's mother carried out inhuman oppression, but turned around and spoiled Chu Jiu to the sky.

She remembered that when she first stepped into the archway of the high-rise building, the bustard's mother shook the apricot blossom fan and asked her with a smile:

"What's your name?"

She lowered her head and replied in a vague whisper: "Chu Jiu." ”

"Do you know how to write your own name?"

"Mother taught."

"Hiss......"

The bustard's slow-shaking apricot blossom fan paused, fixed in the air, and looked at the man next to her, her eyes were very puzzled.

She didn't actually say that her mother could not only write, but also read poetry.

"That's good, girl, when you come to me, you have to listen to me, I will be your old son in the future, I say one, you can't say two, I told you to walk sideways, you can't take half a step vertically."

"Don't look at us as a pheasant pit, but you can also jump out of a phoenix, my words are not rough, simple and easy to understand, save the foam Xingzi and you, as long as you are well-behaved, Mom, I will not treat you badly, can you hear clearly?"

In her words, Wen Yan was majestic, and Chu Jiu struck a cold spirit.

"Listen...... Hear me clearly. ”

"Chu Jiu......" the bustard mother chewed carefully.

"The name is good, and I will use it again in the future. From tomorrow onwards, whatever the master teaches you, you have to study hard, study hard, and regularly inspect every day, if there is a master who says it is not good, you will not eat this dinner. ”

The face with the accumulation of fat powder showed a fierce majesty.

"Mom, I won't beat you, but there are a hundred times more uncomfortable ways than being beaten, do you remember?"

"Remember...... Remembered. ”

"Be louder."

"Remembered."

The old bustard turned to the door and called, "Go, call me Qinniang." ”

Qin Niang is over forty years old, wearing a bright blue robe, from head to toe to vamp, there is only one color, and there are no flowers.

Her expression is soft, not dull in monotony, and it is also regarded as a unique scenery in this place where the warblers sing and dance.

"Sister, this girl is handed over to you, it is a rare good seedling, look, it is the same as a flower before it grows, if you do it properly, we will have hope in this Xinghualou."

The woman bowed slightly: "Mom, don't worry." ”

Three hundred and sixty lines, the line is the champion, what about the bustard mother? To be able to cultivate a first-class and outstanding girl, an officialdom expert? Merry genius? Emperor and General?

Phew! The virtue of a man, the old lady knows best.

Chu Jiu grew up day by day, and the bustard's mother's face became more and more proud.

But before anyone saw it, the emperor list came out first.

Looking at the emperor's list, the old bustard's eyes froze, "five hundred taels" and "gold", these words are enough to make people tempted.

She lowered her head, rubbed her eyes with a handkerchief, and put her hand on her forehead, and looked at it carefully.

But despite her love for money, in her heart, she is thinking about another idea.

"Yo, Huai's mother, do you also see this? Just the girl in your building? ”

Hearing the man's laughter, Huai Niang turned around and saw that the person who spoke was Yan Ergongzi, who was a frequent visitor to Xinghualou.

The two got acquainted with each other, and they didn't give face, so they immediately laughed and scolded him.

"How about the girl in my building, you know it clearly, second son! Recently, there are a few new chicks**, the second son is wealthy, and he is naturally suave, he is a lover, don't you come to cheer for him? ”

The second son of Yan is not stupid, he heard the flattery and ridicule in her words, and he was boiling water in the cold, and he also knew that this bustard mother was not small and not easy to mess with.

He gathered the paper fans in his hand one by one, close them to the bustard's body, and attached them to her ear with a hidden smile.

"Mom, don't you know, who do I want?"

He turned his head to look at the imperial list, but suddenly came back to his senses, his eyes widened, as if he understood something.

"Should you be? …… Haha, mom, hello abacus! ”

"Since ancient times, bitches have been ruthless, dramas have been unrighteous, the sons are innocent officials, and the threshold in the house is high."

Huai Niang glanced at him coldly, and then said:

"I'm a girl from Xinghualou, up to the Qin Niang, down to the yellow-haired girl in Duanshui, whoever you want, Son, pick whatever you want! It's just that the rules can't be broken in this way! ”

In a few words, the second son of Yan was speechless.

Using the relationship and money in her hand, Huai Niang opened up her contacts, bought a good certificate for Chu Jiu, and handed it over to the grandmother in the palace.

A few people were happy and some were worried, and there was a faint sobbing sound in front of them.

The scream of the thin voice called the name, and she performed a "Apricot Blossom Danqing", with beautiful eyes and a clever smile, and she was incomparable.

Dance back to the red sleeves, singing Cui Tian; The hall is full of lights, and the seats are beautiful.

Several senior old women were present, they held pen and ink, their eyes lit up, and they sealed the proposed card and handed it to the father-in-law.

I only heard the father-in-law singing loudly: "Chu Jiu, pass!" ”

In the dance hall in the palace, there are a total of ten new girls, all of whom are very top-notch beauties in various states and counties.

Yi Chu Jiu was the youngest, only ten years old; A goose-egg-faced, red-phoenix-eyed sister, named Cicada, is the oldest, only fourteen years old.

The new dancers in the palace have always been led by their aunts to teach etiquette for three months, and after that, they are unified into the workshop and practice diligently every day.

There was an aunt surnamed Zhao who stood under the Xuanhua Gate every day and routinely reprimanded.

"As court dancers, you are all selected by thousands of people, and I know that you are also the daughters of good families."

Her voice didn't sound very harsh, but it was so loud that it was terrifying.

"But in this palace, the first thing you have to remember is not your skills, but the rules. Obey the rules first, and develop your skills in the rules, that is the right way for you. ”

The eyes swept down, like the wind blowing.

"I also wish you a good future in the future. But if you go beyond the rules, gamble your life, and do things you shouldn't do, you are asking for your own death. ”

"Don't think that you are smart and clever, these little cleverness are still less in the palace! I've been in this palace for decades, and what haven't I seen? If you remember my advice now, you will be safe and secure in the future, and you will have a good home, and you will have a smooth and prosperous life. If you don't listen, you will come by your own temperament, and you will end up ....... ”

Chu Jiu stood in the crowd, listening to the hoarse voice, not daring to slack off.

"That girl in the middle of the third row, you come forward."

The place she was pointing to was where Chu Jiu was standing.

Chu Jiu seemed to have been stung by a bee, so he hurriedly walked forward and respectfully.

Mama Zhao held a pair of shining eyes, looked up and down carefully, looked at it horizontally and vertically several times, and couldn't help but admire it.

"Not bad...... That's really good...... I entered the palace at the age of thirteen, and I have seen countless dancing girls, just from my hands, there are more than twenty batches, you are also a stunner. ”

"Stunner ......"

She muttered to herself, she didn't understand the deep meaning of these words at the time, but now she understands a little.

"Ruri! What are you doing here? ”

Thoughts wandered, and a scolding interrupted the memory.

She came back to her senses and found that Ruri was in front of her, drunk by her aunt under the water corridor. Go in that direction to the Flower Hall.

Immediately collected his thoughts, smiled all over his face, walked forward quickly, blocked Liuli behind him, and brushed towards the aunt.

"Auntie, don't blame, it's one of my beaded hairpins, I can't find it, and I'm afraid that I'll miss the time, so I asked Liuli to come over and help find it. This girl has always been ignorant, is she in her aunt's way? I'll accompany you for her......"

Before she finished speaking, Aunt Qin's anger dissipated, and she immediately smiled, and said with a mouthful of anger:

"I see, since the girl's hairpin has fallen, it's a big deal, and it's okay to look around, why don't I call a few minions and help the girl find it together?"

"I'm tired of my aunt, the matter of a hairpin, it's very good to find it, and it doesn't matter if you can't find it, today's feast, the manpower is busy, and the teacher is too busy to move the people, I'm afraid it's not good."

"If the girl needs anything, just call me that."

Aunt Qin's face was so gentle that she was about to pinch out the water.

Chu Jiu obediently owed: "Thank you, auntie." ”