A few maids set up the dishes and chopsticks for dinner, Ye Ying looked at the table full of delicacies, and remembered that when she had seen Pan Guifei go to Yunqing Palace to pray for blessings, the eunuchs and palace ladies were holding such exquisite and delicious food.

After the family sat down, Huo Junshan sighed: "It's so good! Finally the family is together, and now that the family is reunited, and the border war has been calmed down, I really have nothing else to ask for! ”

Mrs. Tao and Huo Yan also echoed him when they heard him say this, and Ye Ying was the only one who was preoccupied.

Seeing that she was silent, Huo Junshan asked her with concern, "What's wrong?" Isn't it still good in the afternoon, why are you suddenly unhappy? Yan'er, you won't be bullying your sister, right? ”

"Wronged! Where did I bully her! Huo Yan really didn't dare to say what he said just now, Ye Ying's eyes were red, and the rice bowl she picked up was gently put down, and she replied, "It's me who doesn't do my brother's business." Father, I just wanted to ask you, am I not your biological daughter at all? ”

As soon as he heard this, he almost choked and choked a few times, but his voice was a little weak and he didn't dare to look directly at Ye Ying, he glanced at Mrs. Tao, and Mrs. Tao shook her head slightly to signal him.

"Full of nonsense! How so! You are not the daughter of the Huo family, whose family is it? My father knows that you have lived a hard life over the years, but the war at the border has not been settled, and you are young and not a man, how can I take you by my side? Is it because of this that you have a grudge against your father and refuse to recognize this father? ”

"However, if I am really my father's daughter, why don't you come back to see my mother when she dies, I took Su'er to bury my mother, but you only sent a few letters. I still remember my mother holding my hand and putting this butterfly in my hand, and before she died, she still sighed in her mouth. Since then, Su'er and I have been living together, and I have often wondered if I am your daughter and why I was left alone in my hometown. ”

Ye Ying burst into tears, and Huo Junshan's heart suddenly felt infinite guilt.

This poem was the last letter written to him by his original wife before her death, and it would be difficult for anyone in the family to know it so clearly.

Seeing this, Huo Yan also hurriedly pleaded: "The little sister is just straightforward, she hasn't seen her father for many years, and she has a hard time before she says such resentful words." ”

He also put down the chopsticks in his hand and pulled Ye Ying's sleeve, "How can you talk to your father like this!" If you are not the daughter of our family, why did your father go to the trouble of picking you up from your hometown to reunite here? Don't talk nonsense! ”

This farce made the three people who were still discussing the blood test in the afternoon look at each other, and it should have been a reunion dinner for family and music, but now it has become a little boring.

Ye Ying secretly rejoiced in her heart that this plan had become most of it, but fortunately she took Zhen Yeying's package away, read the letters in it several times, and guessed the mentality of the person who wrote the letter, plus the real Ye Ying had often talked to her about her family affairs, so she was more sure of her words.

After the meal, she returned to her room, looking at the pear wood tables, chairs and beds, each of which was finely carved, the lacquered surface of the wardrobe was like a mirror, and there was a pattern of peacock peony embedded with mica on the cabinet door, she reached out and stroked the curtain beside the bed was delicate and silky, and the bedding and pillows on the bed were all embroidered with gold thread, and there was a faint smell of benzoin.

Yilan and Grandma Sun went to prepare hot water for the bath, leaving her alone in the room.

She came to the desk and looked at the incense sticks inserted in the copper beast furnace.

She hesitated for a moment before pulling it out of the censer.

She didn't dare to start for a long time, but she also knew that if the matter was really revealed, it might not be as simple as a good day to lose her clothes and food.

Without doing so, she ripped open the placket of her shirt and stabbed it in the chest.

Fortunately, it was just a small mole, and she only needed to burn out a shallow incense scar, which was difficult to see except for the personal maid.

In the dim light of the candlelight, Mrs. Tao came to inspect as planned, and I am afraid that it will only be a rough confirmation.

She bit the handkerchief in her mouth to prevent herself from screaming, and the sweat on her forehead rolled down her cheeks.

Hearing the footsteps outside the door, she panicked and inserted the incense back and tidied up her clothes.

Seeing her expression, Yilan asked with some strange concern, "What's wrong with the lady?" Is it unwell? ”

"It's nothing, I wanted to pick up the incense ash in this furnace, but I accidentally burned my hand."

Ye Ying casually made an excuse, and Yilan didn't doubt him.

"Just tell us to do these things, the bath water has been prepared, the lady is bathing and changing, go to bed early!"

The large wooden basin in the bathroom is filled with hot water, and Yilan fills it with the juice of roses, lilies, baiji, kaempfera, angelica and other flowers and spices, which can not only moisturize the skin but also make the body have its own fragrance.

The warm water made her forget her previous worries and the pain of the scar on her chest for a moment, and her eyes closed slightly, and there was a slight tiredness in the warm water.

At this moment, Mrs. Tao came out of the door unexpectedly, and the maid behind her was still holding a few clothes.

It just so happened that Ye Ying stood up from the bathtub.

When she saw someone, she turned her back with a red face and covered her chest in surprise.

Mrs. Tao also saw the little red dot on her chest in this "inadvertently".

I don't know if it's because she is steady, the smile on her face is more kind than before: "You girl, I am also your mother, what else is there to be shy about?"

"Madame, don't make fun of it! Why did Madame come here at this time? I'll talk to my wife after I've changed my clothes!"

Ye Ying already knew her intentions, and she half-concealed and half-concealed the little red dot again.

Madame was more convinced, so she said, "I forgot a few pieces of clothes that the tailor had delivered a few days late, and I just happened to be idle and sent them to you, so you can rest early!"

Walking out of Cuiwei Garden, Mrs. Tao's expression was much more relaxed.

The maid who followed her asked puzzledly, "Madam, what's the matter?" The maid has never seen a lady like this!"

Madame Tao was a little impatient with this question, and the maid understood her face and obediently asked no more.

Back in the room, Huo Junshan seemed a little anxious, but he didn't ask for a long time when the words came to his mouth, and Mrs. Tao also understood what he meant.

"Don't worry, I've checked, and there's a small red mole on my chest, that's right."

"Hey, when the kid said something like that at dinner, I was really distressed. I owe so much to this child and her mother that I can't bear to see her do that. Now that it's all confirmed, you and I won't talk about it again. The most important thing is not to let her detect anything, otherwise it will hurt her heart too much. ”

"The general's previous doubts were also for the safety of our house, since she is really the general's daughter, the concubine will naturally treat her well, I am blessed and shallow, and I have no children and grandchildren, so I will treat her as if she were my own, the general can rest assured."

And Ye Ying knew that she had confirmed her identity when she saw Mrs. Tao's expression, and she lay on the couch and nestled in the soft quilt secretly happy.

Yilan put up the bed tent for her and went to the outside to guard.

Ye Ying was the only one in the bedroom, she sat up and quietly opened the curtain and looked around.

Looking at this exquisite utensils and precious furnishings, all of which are now her own, she couldn't help but sigh in her heart:

Hu Jingxun, Hu Jingxun, you have finally come to the bitter end!

But thinking of this, she quickly shook her head again and warned herself:

Hu Jingxun has died in the fire of Yunqing Palace, and now I am Huo Yeying.

A night's sleep faded away from yesterday's exhaustion, and the sunlight shining through the tent was bright but soft.

When she was in Yunqingguan, she was either woken up by the bell or by the steward every day.

Now she woke up from the comfort of her bed, opened her tent and looked around again.

It turns out that everything is true.

Yilan came in with a basin of hot water, and when she saw her sitting on the couch, she was quicker, put the basin on the wooden frame on the side of the dressing table, and immediately walked to the side of the couch and put on her shoes for Ye Ying.

Ye Ying was about to stretch out her hand to signal herself to come, but Yilan stopped her and said, "The lady is sitting, and the maid is wearing it for you." Where can you do such a thing!"

"I see you're not a few years older than me, how many years have you been here?" Ye Ying was a little embarrassed and started talking to her.

"The maid is seventeen this year, and she has been here for four years."

"Four years? Isn't that the thirteen-year-old serving in the house?"

"There's no way, the maid is from Yunzhou, before the Yanyun war, the Hu people disturbed the border, they burned and looted in the villages and towns of the maid's house, fortunately the general rescued me and brought me into the house, if I wasn't able to enter the house to serve, the maid would have died in Yunzhou long ago."

"You're also a poor girl. Actually, you and I are all the same. ”

Yilan's words made Ye Ying turn back into Jingxun again, and she also thought of her life experience.

But Yilan said: "The lady is the daughter of the general's mansion, and she is a golden branch and jade leaf, how can the maid be compared." How can everyone be as good as a lady, and life is born rich. ”

"What golden branches and jade leaves, isn't it just a mortal with a nose and two eyes!"

Such a sentence made Yilan laugh like a silver bell again: "The lady is lenient and kind, and the person is also funny, and it is the blessing of the maid to serve the lady." ”

While she was talking, Grandma Sun also came in with a few prepared clothes.

Ye Ying was dazzled, but she only felt that any of them were good, the silk butterfly pattern skirt, the lotus-colored cicada wing yarn shirt, the amber gold jacket, Yilan was also on the side to help choose.

Ye Ying pointed to the cyan embroidered blue shirt and said, "That's it!"

Mama Sun looked at her brows and frowned slightly: "Lady, although this body is good, it is inevitably too plain, and the lady is still wearing a delicate color when she is young." ”

"At the beginning of the Yandi war, what good things should reward the soldiers who fought the war, I am a boudoir woman who has no size, so she should naturally be thrifty. What's more, Fu was born in frugality, and he can wear enough clothes, but how can he wear too luxurious clothes at home on ordinary days, isn't it a waste?"

Ye Ying still had some worries about her life experience in her heart, and she also understood that as long as she had a firm foothold in the General's Mansion, she could have everything in gold, silver, jade, silk and satin, and she couldn't rush it for a while.

These words happened to reach Huo Junshan's ears, and before he saw others, he could hear him laughing in the porch, laughing and exclaiming:

"It's really my Huo Junshan's good daughter! can understand the virtue of frugality, and can think of the soldiers who fought on the battlefield, and they are really not like the daughters of ordinary official eunuchs, who only know how to wear gold and silver. ”

"Why did my father come here at this time? Ready for breakfast?"

"I've just come back from the court, and I've already used it. Did you sleep well?"

"Everything is fine, Grandma Sun and Yilan are serving very well, and their daughter is lazy and has just gotten up."

"You are naturally tired from traveling these days, everything at home is prepared, of course it is comfortable, you have a good rest these days, in a few days, the scholars of the Hanlin Academy, and Wu Shangshu of the household department, they will bring the daughters of the house to the house to enjoy the flowers and wine, you are really good and know a few friends, so as not to be lonely and boring in Beijing."

Ye Ying had a headache when she heard it, she was not good at socializing with people, and she was the daughter of an official eunuch, so most of them were pretentious.

But Huo Junshan kindly arranged it, and she had to make a grateful look.

The people who came were all important ministers of the court, and the various ministries were confidential, presumably the girls in these people's families had their eyes above the top.

Fortunately, Ye Ying also has her own calculations in her heart.