Chapter I: Admonitions

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Dashun Dynasty, the eighteenth year of Yonghe, the seventh day of the first month.

The goose feather snow, which had been falling for three days, finally stopped and turned into a light snow. In the afternoon, the sun peeks out of the winter clouds, and the entire capital is covered in snow.

Nine-year-old Ye Xiling wore a brand-new dark green tight-fitting long skirt on her lower body, a festive jujube short skirt on her upper body, and knelt on the ground in the main hall of the small courtyard with a double bun on her head, kowtowing to her father sitting on the main seat.

This worship is parting.

After this worship, we will never see each other again.

"Hurry up, hurry up." Ye Xiling's father, Ye Zhiyuan, hurriedly ran down from the main seat, but he didn't expect to let the hem of his robe trip to the ground.

Ye Muliu walked in front of Ye Xiling in small steps and helped her up, pressed the corner of her eyes with a handkerchief in her right hand, and cried softly.

"Mother, don't cry." Ye Xiling raised her little hand to wipe her tears for Liu, and her sleeves slipped down to reveal a gilded twisted bracelet on her wrist. The color of the bracelet is pure, and at first glance it is not something that a small family can afford to wear.

"This is a great joy, why are you crying?" Ye Zhiyuan got up and reprimanded Liu with an angry face.

Liu choked up and said, "I'm crying with joy, just thinking that I won't see Xi'er in the future, my heart is ......."

Liu said and covered her face with a handkerchief, not wanting her husband to see her tears.

"This is the blessing of cherishing children, we are an inferior family who trains birds, it is her blessing that the master can take a fancy to her and let her enter the palace, what do you have to cry?" Ye Zhiyuan said to the Liu family and also to Ye Xiling, "We are small families, and when Xi'er grows up, at most he will be married to a peasant family or Xiao Si." It was different if it could be released from the palace, and it was possible to be a concubine for a large family at that time. Maybe I can still carry my aunt, which we can't look forward to in our lifetime! ”

He Ye Zhiyuan has no ability in his life, and the only thing he can do is the craft passed down from his ancestors - bird training.

If you want to talk about this bird training, he, Ye Zhiyuan, dares to be called the second in the uncle's mansion, and absolutely no one dares to call the first! How good can it be? In the final analysis, it is a slave who trains playthings for the princes and nobles.

Train the birds well and make those old masters laugh. But if the training is not good, not to mention that you can't get the hard-earned money, you will have to be beaten well.

Now that there is such a good opportunity in front of him, like a pie falling from the sky, how can he not seize it?

Ye Xiling's heart was cold, and she couldn't listen to a word of what her father said. Is it a blessing to be an aunt to a big family? This is pushing her into the fire pit!

But what if you don't push? Who asked her to train a wren brother who can say, 'Mo Dao is not **, the curtain is swept by the west wind, and people are thinner than yellow flowers'? Who made the current Queen Mother and the former emperor meet for the first time by picking a curtain? Who let that wren brother only listen to Ye Xiling's words, and no matter how others tease, he didn't squeak?

Ye Xiling knelt on the ground and closed her eyes in meditation.

She has been in this Dashun country for more than three years, and three years have allowed her to say goodbye to her past life. She was grateful to God, she thought that her life had come to an end like that, but she didn't think that God had given her a chance to live again.

The vicissitudes of the previous life made her not as ambitious as other crossing women, and the only thing she wanted to do was to live here in peace and stability, and manage a happy and ordinary life with the experience of two lives.

But who knew that God wanted to joke with her, and a wren brother actually became the reason for her to enter the palace.

Looking at her elderly parents, a young sister who is only a year older than herself, she has to accept this fateful arrangement.

"Dad, mother!" Ten-year-old Ye Yiling knelt in front of Ye Zhiyuan and Liu and said, "Let my daughter also enter the palace, let my daughter accompany Xi'er and take care of Xi'er......"

Ye Xiling opened her eyes when she heard this, and looked at the girl who was kneeling on the ground and was only one year older than herself.

The children of the poor are in charge of the family early, and Ye Yiling is only one year older than her, but she takes care of her everywhere. Now that he is going to enter the palace, Ye Yiling is also afraid that he will suffer and will accompany him.

Ye Xiling's heart warmed, and she took off the gilded bracelet on her wrist and put it on Ye Yiling's wrist, and said, "Sister, the master only ordered me to go." As long as you give Brother Wren to someone else, I will come back, and you wait for me at home. ”

After saying that, she kowtowed to her parents, turned around and ran out of the small courtyard, and went to the two-person sedan chair waiting for her at the door of Uncle Guo's mansion.

The palace is a place to eat people, how could she bear to let Ye Yiling go there to live that kind of fearful life?

Uncle Guo's surname is Cui Mingrenjing, who is the younger brother of the current Queen Mother, and Cui Guifei, the current emperor, is his eldest granddaughter. The Cui family is full of glory with this concubine. At present, the princes and grandchildren all have the blood of his surname Cui, and above the court, the children and grandchildren of the Cui family are also in important positions.

Of course, this glory brought him infinite arrogance. Not to mention anything else, just talking about the land occupied by the mansion of the uncle's mansion, it is more than twice as much as the mansion of Zuo Shangshu Zhu Xian and Zhu Shangshu in the middle of the court.

Besides, the warm garden of Uncle Guo's mansion, which is famous in the capital, is dotted with hundreds of thousands of taels of silver every year. Ice in summer and charcoal in winter, in order to warm the thousands of birds in the garden. Even if the emperor wants to play with birds, he has to go to him and choose one.

If it weren't for this, where would Ye Xiling be called to the palace on an errand.

Entering the second-floor garden of Uncle Guo's mansion, Ye Xiling's sedan chair stopped outside Biyuan Pavilion. A rough girl led Ye Xiling into the main hall of Biyuan Pavilion to meet Mrs. Guo, the emperor's personal wife Ye Shi.

In the Shun Dynasty, the rank of the official's wife follows the official character of the husband, and Uncle Cui Guo has no official position in the court, but the emperor named the Ye family as the third grade, and the degree of favor can be imagined.

The rough girl took Ye Xiling to the outside of the pavilion and stopped, and whispered inside, "Sister Mei, Ye Yatou has brought in." ”

A big girl wearing a light green half-new placket, with a pair of sideburns twisted on her head and a silver hairpin, walked out. Na Mei'er didn't introduce Ye Xiling first, and gave the rough girl a slap with her backhand, and said in a low voice, "Ye Yatou is also what you can call?" ”

The rough girl was dazzled by a slap, and she didn't dare to scream out of her mouth, so she could only sobble and nodded.

Ye Xiling lowered her head and blessed Mei'er, and opened her mouth to shout, "Sister Mei is good." ”

Mei'er looked back and saw Ye Xiling bowing her head, as if she didn't know about her beating, so she said, "You come in with me." ”

With that, he turned around and lifted the cotton curtain and entered the house.

Biyuan Pavilion is Ye Xiling has never seen the luxury since he hit this world, the one-meter-wide red velvet carpet has been spread at the door of the cabinet, and there are two large vases on both sides of the door, with a few green bamboos inserted in them, which should be the name of Biyuan Pavilion.

Ye Xiling didn't step on the red carpet, but only walked with Mei'er on the ground next to her. Finally, he knelt down inside through the curtain of the cabinet's Wufu Tuanshou Gate and said hello to his uncle and wife.

The maiden name of Mrs. Guo's uncle is Ye, and her father Ye Bingren was a member of the three products when he was in office. Later, he resigned from the government at old age and became a rich man in the world.

Ye asked Mei'er to lift the cotton curtain and let Ye Xiling raise her head.

"It's a good look." Ye Shi took a sip of tea, and asked a person next to him who was wearing a pink jacket and looking like a maid beating her shoulder, "Whose girl is this in the bird garden?" ”

"Back to the old lady's words, it is a bird training artist, Ye Zhiyuan's youngest daughter - Ye Xiling." The maid replied respectfully.

"Yo, surname Ye? It's my own family~" Ye Shi took a sip of tea, and raised his eyelids to Ye Xiling, "Cherish the spirit and cherish the spirit, isn't this a spiritual pity when read upside down?" It's a good idea to have a good heart. ”

The pink-clad maid said yes again and again.

Mei'er hurriedly pushed Ye Xiling with her hand, and said in a low voice, "Why don't you thank the old lady for her name?" ”

Ye Xiling hurriedly kowtowed to the pavilion and said, "Lingxi thank the old lady for the name!" ”

Ye Shi laughed kindly after hearing this, and pointed at Ye Lingxi and said to the pink-clothed maid, "Look at this cleverness, it's really popular." If it weren't for the palace name, I would have wanted to stay. ”

The pink-clothed maid pouted with grievances on her face and said, "The old lady is disgusted with our sisters' stupidity~"

"Look at your clever ghost!" Ye Shi nodded the forehead of the pink-clothed maid, turned around and said to Ye Xiling seriously, "There are no more rules in the palace than elsewhere." It is also your blessing to enter the palace on an errand, and this is also the grace given to you by the National Uncle's Mansion, you must always remember the good of the National Uncle's Mansion. Behave decently in the palace, and don't lose the face of the Queen Mother and Cui Guifei, otherwise don't blame the masters for their embarrassment......"

Ye Lingxi heard this, and understood that what Uncle Guo was referring to was her family. If she acts in the palace and does something wrong, then her family will definitely have no good fruit to eat outside the palace. Ye Xiling hurriedly kowtowed to the cotton curtain and said, "Lingxi Xie is cultivated by the old lady, and when you act in the palace, you must listen to the words of the queen mother, and you don't dare to embarrass your uncle's mansion." ”

Seeing Ye Lingxi's body trembling, Ye suddenly sneered, "Look, I just said that he is a clever one." Let's go down and learn the rules from Mama for a few more days......"

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