Ye Jinkao was appointed as Zuo Shangshu by Emperor Yong'an in the fifth year of Yong'an. At that time, the position of Right Shangshu had been vacant for five years since Ge Qiuqiu's death, and Zhu Xian of Zuo Shangshu was in power in the middle of the court.

At that time, Emperor Yong'an supported Ye Jinkao, who had reached the age of sixtieth year, in order to suppress Zhu Xian's forces. It's a pity that Ye Jinkao has always been cautious, except for helping Emperor Yongan deal with the government affairs wholeheartedly, he didn't say anything about the disputes between several parties in the court.

After the death of Zhu Xian, the eighth year of Yong'an, Zhu's ** collapsed under the suppression of Emperor Yong'an, and Ye Jinkao slowly took over the government affairs in Zhu Xian's hands and made a lot of political achievements!

Not to mention, in the two natural disasters in the eight years of Yong'an, Ye Jinkao's performance was extremely satisfying.

In the eighth year of Yong'an, Ye Jingyan, the second son of Ye Jinkao, donated most of the family property obtained from business, and united with more than a dozen commercial banks in Jiangnan to raise a large amount of cash, and purchased a large amount of rice from the country known as the land of fish and rice in Wei, which helped Dashun solve the urgent need of the contract with Dayueguo.

And Ye Jingyan did all this without asking the court for the slightest credit.

When Emperor Yong'an wanted to ask Ye Jingyan what kind of reward he wanted, Ye Jingyan only made one request. He wanted to recognize his daughter who was taken away by gangsters many years ago, Ye Ziluo.

Needless to say, Ye Ziluo in Ye Jingyan's mouth is now in the harem as a concubine, deeply favored by Emperor Yong'an, and gave birth to the five princes - Ye Lingxi.

Facing Ye Jingyan, who had made great contributions, Emperor Yongan couldn't refuse.

As a result, Ye Lingxi, a bird training craftsman from a humble background, became Ye Ziluo, the eldest daughter of the second son of Zuo Shangshu Ye Jinkao.

The backer of the Ye family did make Lingxi straighten his waist, but it also made Lingxi feel uneasy in his heart.

At this time, Lingxi understood why Xiao and the Empress Dowager made her win the favor of Emperor Yong'an first, and then she was willing to give this backer to Lingxi.

This backer is so big that Lingxi has become a figure like the Zhu family back then. If Lingxi didn't want to follow the back path of the Zhu family, he could only grasp Emperor Yong'an's heart to death.

When he went to greet the Empress Dowager Xiaohe before February 12, Lingxi said to the Empress Dowager Xiaohe with a wry smile, "Ancestor, this backer is too big." ”

Xiao and the Empress Dowager sat on the low kang, looked at Lingxi and said with a smile, "You have a five-finger mountain in the hands of the mourning family, you can give you which one you want, and you can change it if you are not satisfied?" Have one and be content! Besides, isn't it good to be bigger? If you have a big backer, others won't dare to bully you......"

"Yes, the ancestor is right, the concubine has been taught."

Patting Lingxi's shoulder, Xiaohe and the Empress Dowager let Lingxi sit on the low kang, "Okay, don't be bitter, the mourning family will give you a good object." He said that he picked up a piece of cyan jade pendant from the carved table, put it on Lingxi's chest with his own hands, and muttered, "Over the years, the mourning family has saved a lot of good things, but the mourning family is reluctant to give it away." Don't look at the mourning family's rewards to others, they always say that this is which noble master gave to the mourning family back then, but in fact, there is no such thing. If the mourning family doesn't say that, it won't show their importance in the hearts of the mourning family......"

Lingxi looked at the jade pendant on his chest that was not in good shape and had a delicate style, raised his head and smiled at Xiaohe and the Empress Dowager, "Ancestor, what is the origin of this jade pendant you gave to your concubine?" ”

The Empress Dowager Xiaohe smiled heartily and said, "The origin of this jade pendant is very big, this is what my ancestor has worn on me since I was a child." I wear it close to my body, and I've never taken it off......"

Lingxi put the jade pendant in his clothes, raised his eyes and smiled mischievously at Xiao and the Empress Dowager, "The old ancestor has started to cheat again, and the concubine has never seen such a jade pendant after waiting by the ancestor's side for many years." ”

"You little monkey!" The Empress Dowager Xiaohe nodded her forehead and said with a smile, "I will get to the bottom of it." ”

Teasing Xiao and the Empress Dowager for a while, Lingxi pulled the topic to the Ye family's backer.

Xiao and the Empress Dowager did not hide it, and explained the Ye family's bottom and Lingxi clearly.

Zuo Shangshu Ye Jinkao is now over the age of sixties, and there are two sons-in-law and four concubines under his knees. The eldest son, Ye Jingcheng, entered the official career, and the second son, Ye Jingyan, inherited the tea shop that his wife Yang had run for hundreds of years.

The rest of the sons don't say anything, just talk about Ye Jingyan.

When Ye Jingyan took over the Yang family's tea shop, he was only a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy, but he used extremely drastic means to quell the Yang family's civil strife. Then, in seven years, the Yangjia Commercial Bank developed from a tea shop that only sold tea to a large commercial house dealing in tea industry, grain, cloth and other commodities, and had great prestige in the Jiangnan region.

Not only that, Dashun and the small border country of Wei did not have international trade, and the Ye family's trading house became the largest private business between the two countries.

Ye Jingyan can be described as a business wizard, and his career development in Jiangnan is booming.

It's a pity that the sky is unpredictable. On an autumn night in the seventeenth year of Yonghe, the Ye family's mansion in Liuzhou was ransacked by robbers.

When Ye Jingyan received news from afar and hurried back, Ye Mansion had already been turned into ruins in a fire. Ye Jingyan's wife, Yang, was seriously ill, and their six-year-old daughter was killed in the fire.

Ye Yang has been in a trance since he recovered from his illness, and he is unwilling to admit the fact that his beloved daughter is no longer there. In order to appease Ye Yang's emotions, Ye Jingyan told Ye Yang's that Ye Ziluo had been robbed in the chaos, and spent a lot of money to find Ye Ziluo's whereabouts.

This search is fifteen years.

“…… Ye Jingyan and Ye Yang's relationship is very deep, and Ye Jingyan has not told Ye Yang's the truth about things for so many years. The Empress Dowager Xiaohe took a bite of the teacup, moistened her throat, and raised her eyebrows, "Then the mourning family ordered someone to release some rumors to Ye Yang's family, saying that her daughter, who had been lost for many years, had entered the palace as a concubine, and was beaten into the cold palace to survive, not to die, not to ......."

"Ye Yang, as a mother, is probably in pain after hearing the news. Ye Jingyan loved Ye Yang's family deeply, and scattered all his family wealth for his beloved wife, only asking for the emperor's permission...... No," Lingxi shook his hand holding the teacup, and the warm tea juice spilled out of the teabowl. She looked at Xiaohe and the Empress Dowager and said, "Old Ancestor, Ye Jin is a Zuo Shangshu, how can he know nothing about the things in the harem?" The concubine left the cold palace in May last year, it is impossible for the Ye family not to know? Moreover, the flood and locust plague occurred in autumn, and the ancestor did not return to the palace until winter......"

Seeing a smile flashing in the eyes of the Empress Dowager Xiaohe, Lingxi's heart was shocked, and he understood at once.

Lingxi put down the tea cup in his hand, reached out and grabbed the sleeves of Xiaohe and the Empress Dowager's embroidered jade Ruyi pattern and shook it lightly, lowered his head, and choked up, "Old ancestor, how can the concubine be able to let the old ancestor bother ......for the concubine so far."

The Empress Dowager Xiaohe picked up the plain handkerchief on the table and handed it to Lingxi, and said with a smile, "Look, it's like a child, and tears will be shed at every turn." You just need to remember the thing you promised the mourning family, and the mourning family can't overdo it to hurt you. ”

Lingxi wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, stood up and knelt in front of the Empress Dowager Xiaohe, raised the three fingers of his right hand, and swore solemnly, "Ancestor, the concubine swears that the concubine will definitely live up to the expectations of the ancestor!" ”

On February 15 of the ninth year of Yong'an, Lingxi saw the Ye couple with gray hair in the Lingyan Palace.

Ye Yang was wearing the clothes of the Lady of the Three Grades, and she was weakly leaning on Ye Jingyan's shoulder. With tears in her eyes, she looked at Lingxi and said to Ye Jingyan, "Master, look, our purple dill has grown so big. ”

Ye Jingyan glanced at the gorgeously dressed Lingxi with bottomless eyes, lowered his head and said softly to Ye Yang's family, "Yes, but we can't call her Ziluo, now we have to call her Concubine Yingniang." ”

Seeing the tears that were about to fall from the corners of Ye Yang's eyes, Lingxi hurriedly got up from the main seat, stepped forward to take Ye Yang's hand, and said softly, "I am Ziluo, and it will be your Ziluo ...... at any time."

Ye Yang couldn't hold back her tears anymore, she opened her hands and hugged Lingxi in her arms and cried bitterly. A sound of Luo'er, the heart of the Lingxi is also sour.

Her daughter is indeed fake, but Ye Yang's love for her daughter is real.

Jumping over Ye Yang's bun, Lingxi saw that Ye Jingyan was obviously relieved, and his bottomless eyes were not as indifferent as they were just now.

Lingxi admired the man in front of him, he scattered most of his family wealth, just in exchange for a false word to appease his beloved wife. What man in this world can do such an almost crazy move?

hugged Ye Yang in his arms, and the sympathy for Ye Yang in Lingxi's heart turned into envy.

She envied this woman who had been held in the palm of her hand by her husband for twenty years.

After Lingxi became the grandson of Zuo Shangshu Ye Jinkao, no one called her Concubine Yingniang, but Concubine Ye.

The word Ye represents the power of the Ye clan behind the Lingxi.

Lingxi has become the concubine who is most likely to win the throne in the harem.

On February 16 of the ninth year of Yong'an, Emperor Yong'an stayed in the Lingyan Palace.

Staying in the Lingyan Palace, it is no longer the frost pavilion of the Lingyan Palace.

That night, eighteen red candles were lit in the Lingyan Hall, illuminating the hall as if it were day.

After the spirit rhino bathed, he sat on the bed and looked at Emperor Yong'an who was walking towards him, and a trace of apprehension was born in his heart.

Emperor Yong'an sat beside Lingxi, and the smell of Long Yanxiang immediately surrounded Lingxi.

When Emperor Yong'an straightened Lingxi's body and took off Lingxi's bedclothes, Lingxi reached out and held Emperor Yong'an's hand, stopping Emperor Yong'an's movements.

Emperor Yong'an's tone was full of doubt, "Ai Fei, is you unwell?" ”

Lingxi shook his head, looked up at Emperor Yong'an's eyes, and asked seriously, "Your Majesty, is it Ye Ziluo or Ye Lingxi sitting in front of you at this time?" ”

Emperor Yong'an withdrew his hand, raised the corners of his mouth and smiled, "Isn't it all you?" ”

"It's not!" Lingxi knelt on the bed and looked at Emperor Yong'an and said sincerely, "Your Majesty, although the concubine is stupid, she also knows that the name Ye Ziluo represents the power of the Ye family. And the spirit rhino is the craftsman who trains the birds......"

"You're not stupid." Emperor Yong'an stood up, put his hands behind his back, looked at Lingxi and said, "On the contrary, you are too smart. Aifei, haven't you heard a word? Outsmart oneself. ”

Lingxi raised his hand and put down the pink curtain on the bed, and whispered to Emperor Yongan through the curtain, "The emperor is wrong, and the concubine is stupid because she asks the emperor this sentence." When the emperor saw it in his eyes and shouted Ye Ziluo in his mouth, the former spirit rhino disappeared...... Your Majesty, Lingxi once asked you, Lingxi can have a place in your heart. You said that in addition to the noble concubine, it is Lingxi. Now, Ye Ziluo is arrogant, and Ye Ziluo can have a place in the emperor's heart? ”

Emperor Yong'an looked at the hazy figure in the pink bed curtain and was silent for a long time.

Suddenly, a choked voice came from the sound of the bed curtain, and Lingxi's voice was full of crying, and said, "Please also ask the emperor to move to Xiangshuang Pavilion, the concubine is Lingxi, not Ye Ziluo." ”