Chapter 1: The Beginning of Growth

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There is a small courtyard at the foot of the big python mountain, the small courtyard is not big, about one acre of land, all are enclosed with a courtyard wall, and there is a main house in the middle. The main house has only three rooms, but the room is very spacious and tidy. There is a kitchen and a warehouse behind the main house. There are some vegetable patches divided by the well in the front yard, planting some seasonal vegetables, and there is a crooked sign hanging at the entrance of the small courtyard, which reads 'Qingxinyuan'.

"Granny Yue, I'm back, what do you think I'm bringing back?" A girl of about thirteen or fourteen years old was jumping into the courtyard with cheerful steps. The two dark eyes were crooked as if they could speak, and the slightly wheat-colored skin glowed with the luster of a teenage girl, and as she entered the courtyard, it seemed that the whole courtyard was cheerful.

"Stop, stop, Ayan, you are the concubine of the Prime Minister's Mansion, what does this look like, what kind of rules do I teach you?" Granny Yue was about to go into the kitchen to cook dinner, and her face darkened instantly.

"Mother-in-law, I just caught a little rabbit in the field, haha, isn't it cute~ Let's add dinner at night, right? Is it okay to have a braised rabbit meat, Ah Yan hasn't eaten meat for a long time" Zheng Wanyan didn't seem to see Granny Yue's face, and stepped forward affectionately, holding her hand, and spoiled.

"Okay, well, listen to Ah Yan!" Seeing Wanyan's smile, Granny Yue shook her head helplessly and carried the rabbit into the back kitchen.

In fact, after more than ten years of rural life, Zheng Wanyan has also practiced good cooking skills, but she also knows that Granny Yue will not let her go to the kitchen, because she is the daughter of the Prime Minister's Mansion, although she is a concubine of the Prime Minister's Mansion who has long been forgotten by the Prime Minister's Mansion, but her mother-in-law does not allow her to cook.

Regarding her life, Granny Yue has never hidden from her, she is the daughter of Zheng Xiangye, the most powerful person in the Xingyao Dynasty, and her mother is from another dynasty, the Yuehan Dynasty, the scholarly family Lin. And the moon mother-in-law is a maid who grew up with her mother since she was a child, and later married with her mother to the Prime Minister's Mansion, and soon after her mother married into the Prime Minister's Mansion, she was pregnant with her, but when she was pregnant, she was calculated that she was a lonely heart, and she must not stay.

But the mother loved her son very much, and in the face of the opposition of everyone, she still insisted on giving birth to her, and on the day of her birth, at the time of her birth, the moonlight was in full bloom, and the stars in the sky instantly lost their light, and the mother also died of blood; Xiangye was frightened, and summoned Xiangshi to calculate that she must be sent out of Kyoto, and she must not be honored and raised, otherwise the Prime Minister's family will be ruined within a year. Therefore, just three days after she was born, Granny Yue took her out of Kyoto and came to live in this small courtyard in Python Village.

And her father, just three months after her mother's death, married Zhong Liruo, the eldest princess of the Xingyao Dynasty, and married to the Prime Minister's Mansion, not as a concubine.

Since then, Zheng Xiangye's status in the imperial court has risen, and he has been powerful for a while, which can be said to be under one person and above ten thousand.

Since she was sensible, Granny Yue taught her etiquette and sent her to the master's house in the village to read and learn the piano. And told her that although she was in the countryside, she would return to Kyoto sooner or later, and that she was the daughter of the Prime Minister and would not be in the countryside forever.

In her heart, Wanyan felt that her days in the countryside were very happy, and she never thought of returning to Kyoto's Prime Minister's House. Although the days here are hard and many things have to be self-reliant, there are mother-in-law Yue who loves her, there is the kind Master Chen, and there are many, many lovely villagers. She doesn't want to leave everyone!

"Ah Yan, what do you want, it's time to eat." Granny Yue came to the hall with a large pot of braised rabbit meat. Although the bowl was covered with a lid, the slightest aroma still crept out of the cracks.

"It smells so good!" Wanyan swallowed her saliva and walked into the hall in three steps and two steps. "Mother-in-law, your craftsmanship is really getting better and better, it's so fragrant."

Since she was a child, her mother-in-law has taught Zheng Wanyan table manners, so although Wanyan's heart wants to eat a large piece of meat and eat a lot. But I still held back. Eat slowly, chew slowly, eat without speaking, and sleep without speaking. Otherwise, my mother-in-law will be angry and won't give me food when she gets angry. Wanyan has an elegant posture, and there are all kinds of little ninety-nine in her heart.

After eating, Wanyan helped Granny Yue clean up the dishes and chopsticks, and sat on the bamboo chair in the courtyard and chatted.

"Ayan, after the New Year, you will be fifteen, and you will be on your birthday in July next year, and it won't be long before someone from the Prime Minister's Mansion will come." Granny Yue's face was full of loneliness, and she said suddenly.

"Mother-in-law, no, Xiangshi said that I am an ominous person, and my father and the eldest princess will not agree to me returning to Kyoto and returning to the Prime Minister's Mansion, so I will stay here with my mother-in-law." Zheng Wanyan didn't understand why her mother-in-law suddenly mentioned this matter, but seeing her mother-in-law's lonely expression, she was suddenly a little scared in her heart. She tightened her clothes and leaned into her mother-in-law's arms. "Mother-in-law, Ayan has no mother since she was a child, and even her father has never seen her, her mother-in-law is Ayan's most important relative, Ayan doesn't go anywhere, Ayan accompanies her mother-in-law."

"Silly girl, you are the daughter of the Prime Minister's Mansion, the day you were born, the stars were dim, the moonlight was prosperous, you had your destiny, your way. Your mother-in-law will always watch you and accompany you. Granny Yue stroked Wanyan's hair, tears seemed to flicker in her eyes, her eyes were deep, and they seemed to hide endless secrets.

"Well, my mother-in-law accompanies me, and I accompany my mother-in-law. We said yes. "Over the years, my mother-in-law will always say some strange things, fate, the future, it seems that the celestial phenomena on the day of birth are abnormal, and my mother-in-law also has secrets hidden in her heart, and Wanyan often sees her mother-in-law crying alone in the hall, as smart as her, how can she not know. But Wanyan never asked, she felt Granny Yue's love for her, no matter what the secret was, she believed that Granny Yue was for her good.

"Okay, okay, it's not early, Ah Yan go back to the house to rest, and tomorrow I have to get up early and go to the master's place to study." Don't sneak around and fish anymore. Then he led her back to the house, and went back to his own room to rest.

Yes, Wanyan is in the countryside, and her favorite thing is to go up to the mountains to hunt rabbits and go down to the river to fish. It's not that she doesn't like to read, it's just that the knowledge taught by her master, she basically understands it at all, and the following classes are really boring, so she often sneaks into the river near the master's house to touch the fish, and eats for herself and her mother-in-law. Yes, he was sued by the master several times. Later, when the master saw that she was indeed gifted and could not forget it, he turned a blind eye and went with her.

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