The Crown Prince in the Jade Pendant

After 20 years of prosperity, after 15 years, the flavor of the new year dissipated. All families put their minds away and began to make a living in the new year. Those who work for large families should also clean up and go back to their master's house.

In Changxing Hou's residence, a girl with a peach Ruyi lined jacket, an indigo pleated skirt and a bun tied on her head opened the curtain. She was just playing with people and had a smile on her face. When she saw someone, her smile stagnated.

However, Qiuye is the person who has rolled in the back house after all. Very open, she covered up her real reaction and welcomed the visitors in with hospitality and kindness.

"Five girls, you're early today. It's cold outside. Come in quickly!"

Chu Jinyao didn't get started directly. She learned what she saw secretly and blessed Qiu Ye. Then she got up and said, "Hello, sister Qiu Ye. Is mother in there?"

After all, Chu Jinyao is a young lady. Even if Qiu Ye is the big servant girl around Zhao, the wife of Changxing Hou, there is really no need to be so polite. Nodding and saying hello is actually enough.

But Chu Jinyao didn't know, even she knew, didn't know how to nod, and how to say hello. These things are as natural as breathing and drinking water for Miss Houzhai, but they are too difficult for Chu Jinyao.

In fact, Chu Jinyao should be the fourth girl, the second legitimate daughter of Mrs. Zhao, the main room of Changxing Hou's house. But her fate was a little bumpy. When she was just born, she caught up with Tatar. Zhao gave birth to a daughter outside. Unexpectedly, she held her daughter wrong and took another girl back to her house. She was named Chu Jinmiao. Chu Jinyao had just been found back a few days ago. Chu Jinmiao had stayed in the Marquis house for 13 years and had deep feelings with her mother and servants. Her grandmother, old lady Chu, was not willing to let her granddaughter who had been in pain for 13 years go back. She simply made the decision and let both girls stay. Chu Jinmiao continued to be the fourth girl. Chu Jinyao ranked behind Chu Jinmiao in order to be the fifth girl.

Chu Jinyao grew up in a farmhouse and didn't understand all these Hou door etiquette. She was afraid of being laughed at by others. She secretly observed how others saluted and spoke, and then thought about learning it by herself. In this way, she made many mistakes without knowing it, just like today's greetings.

Qiu ye received Chu Jinyao's gift and returned a gift. She hurriedly welcomed Chu Jinyao. As soon as the heavy rat and mink curtain was put away, the temperature in the main hall was better and the cold air was no longer poured back. Autumn leaf breathed a sigh and said, "it's really windy today. If the curtain is opened for a long time, it's nothing to blow us. If it's frozen, my wife will be broken."

Chu Jinyao didn't expect it, and hurriedly said, "I didn't mean it, I didn't expect..."

"Five girls don't have to say that. You're the master. It's a big mistake, and it's also the bad service of your servants." as she said, Qiu Ye raised her face and stared round her eyes to see the people behind Chu Jinyao, "you two little hooves, have you just come back? If you're so careless, take care of your skin!"

The lilacs and camellias behind Chu Jinyao hurried to admit their mistakes. Autumn leaf scolded a few more words before easing her face and said, "OK, if you can correct your mistakes, you should pay attention next time!"

This time, Chu Jinyao also heard that she had just behaved improperly. Qiu Ye was hard to say about her, so she scolded the servant girl who came to greet her.

Chu Jinyao feels sorry and implicates others for no reason. If she does better, how can she let others be scolded for her?

In fact, Chu Jinyao was still confined by his original family. In the big Hou family, the young ladies who haven't left the cabinet are all golden branches and jade leaves. If they make a mistake, it's a great punishment to forbid them to copy the women's ring. The pain of beating boards and other flesh and blood is all suffered by the lower people. Who doesn't remind the master when he wants to make a mistake? What's more, clove and Camellia are not wronged at all. Chu Jinyao has just been found. She doesn't know how to salute and say hello. Don't clove slaves understand? If you remind one or two before going out, it won't be like this. However, clove is a stuffy gourd. It can't say a word with a pole, and Camellia's eyes are wandering. At first glance, it's a big jump, and she won't think about it for her master.

Qiuye sighed in her heart, but all she could do was knock one or two across the floor. It was because she was also sold from a farmer's house to Hou's house. She felt empathy, so she had pity for Chu Jinyao, who also grew up from a farmer's house. No matter how much, autumn leaves won't do it.

In high-ranking families, it is so realistic and fickle.

Mother Zhang came out from the west room and was very unhappy: "who opened the door curtain just now, madam has just got up, and there is still sweat on her body. If madam catches a cold, who can afford it?"

Qiuye immediately bowed her head to apologize. Chu Jinyao was frightened and quickly said, "it's none of Qiuye's business. I opened it when I came in."

Mammy Zhang really hasn't seen Miss Qianjin rush to admit her mistake. Usually, a girl either asks people around her to confess, or she has done something wrong, and she won't admit it by herself. With a look in her side, someone came forward to take the blame, let alone Chu Jinyao. Let Chu Jinyao say this. Mammy Zhang really has a bad attack. Even if she is the wife's dowry servant girl, she is also a slave. How can she say that the master is not?

Mammy Zhang had to immediately change her face, squeeze out a smiling face and said, "it's Miss five. It's really early for Miss five to ask ANN to come. Madam is dressing up in there. Come in quickly."

Chu Jinyao thanked mammy Zhang, and then walked gently to xicijian.

Mammy Zhang turned sideways to let Chu Jinyao go first, and then she kept up. She looked at Chu Jinyao's back and deliberately lightened her movements. Her heart was very complex.

Chu Jinyao is a serious girl. She is a proud girl who climbed out of Mrs. Zhao's belly. How can she be so polite and careful? If the fourth young lady who grew up in front of her wife, she must have started talking and laughing loudly as soon as she entered the door, and then she would run all the way into the second room and fall into her arms, regardless of whether she was dressing up and winding her hair. Instead, the wife's real legitimate daughter Chu Jinyao was so cautious.

Mama Zhang sighed. Who would have thought that this kind of thing that she dared not write in the play actually happened in the Changxing Marquis house, a first-class noble gentry in Taiyuan house.

In the late autumn of the 19th year of Jianxing, that is, around October last year, the woman in the Zhao family's courtyard of Mrs. Hou of Changxing was drunk. She began to talk big with the servant woman in other hospitals. She boasted that she was old and knew many things about her wife, even that the four girls were not her husband's own children.

The servants knew as soon as they heard that the woman was bragging. Who was the fourth girl? It was the second lady of the wife's line. The youngest child hurt in the palm of her hand. How could it not be her own? On weekdays, if the woman blows, the people next to her should listen to music. This matter will pass. However, the Marquis's elder passed by and heard this sentence that day.

When Chang Sui went back, he immediately told Changxing Hou that he was annoyed and arranged the master at will. What are these women arranging? Changxing Hou immediately asked people to bring the servants in the backyard, and he himself asked for a crime. The woman was frightened at once. She immediately knelt on the ground and told Changxing Hou everything she knew.

Changxing Hou didn't believe it, but he hesitated when he saw what the woman said. Finally, he sent his own people to investigate the matter in order to keep his daughter innocent. As a result, there was an accident after such an investigation. The four most favored maidens in the Hou house may not really be his daughter.

When Mrs. Hou Zhao was pregnant, the tartar invaded the border and went south to the capital. Beizhili almost had an accident, and Shanxi suffered even more. Tatars killed and set fire to many places and looted them all, including Taiyuan government. Changxing Hou's house is a famous family in Taiyuan. Naturally, it is also the target of these barbarians. At that time, Changxing Hou led troops outside and didn't care about home for a while. The wives and young ladies of the Hou's house had to flee south in a hurry. Fortunately, soon Changxing Hou led the troops to recover Taiyuan, and the scattered family members were picked up again and again. Mrs. Hou's Zhao was pregnant and frightened. She couldn't hold on to production on the way to the south.

On the way to escape, everything is simple and life can't be saved, let alone the tools for production. Zhao can only take people to stay in the villagers' house and pay with a few gold jewelry, which can be regarded as difficult to give birth to the child.

At that time, the farmer had just given birth to a child. That's why they had to stay at home and didn't flee south with the villagers. After giving birth safely, Zhao entrusted the peasant woman to feed milk for several days before leaving with a dowry. In a few days, the soldiers who came to pick up Zhao's house came.

After Zhao narrowly escaped death and returned to Hou's house, he became more and more fond of his daughter who lived and died with him, even less than the eldest girl. Zhao symbiosis has a man and two women. According to their age, they are the eldest girl, the second young master and the fourth girl. When fleeing, the older girl was taken away by the old lady. After Zhao and others separated, only mammy Zhang and her little daughter four girls were around. After returning to the house, the four girls were named Miao and loved from their grandchildren Jin generation.

Changxing Hou also cherished his daughter who was born outside and suffered from exile. However, now various signs tell him that Chu Jinmiao may not be his daughter. His real daughter was secretly changed by the farmer in the year of the war!

After Changxing Hou found out the news, he was so angry that he didn't think about it for years. In a rage, the Marquis of Changxing sent people to severely interrogate the mother-in-law who slipped her tongue that day. Later, the mother-in-law confessed that she was married to her wife in her early years. When Zhang Shi ate wine, she heard mother Zhang slip her tongue. Mammy Zhang was also suspicious, but it was hard to say. She was deeply buried in her heart. Later, when she was drunk, she revealed it to the woman. Many years later, she was heard by Changxing Hou.

Changxing Hou thought quietly for several days. He didn't disturb Zhao or his mother, old lady Chu, but secretly asked someone to find the midwife of that year. After the midwife left, Changxing Hou sat in the house for a long time and finally made up his mind to find his own flesh and blood.

His blood can't be disordered, even if it's just a daughter.

Changxing Hou casually made an excuse and left the house just after the new year. At that time, Zhao was still complaining about him. What should he do to go out in the first month? Changxing Hou ignored and went all the way south to find Chu Jinyao in a small village in the south of Shanxi.

At that time, Chu Jinyao was also called Su Yao.

Su Yao got up early that day and went outside to collect firewood for her family as usual. When she came back with the firewood basket on her back, she seemed to look back and saw a man standing nearby, dignified and noble, staring at her silently.

"Uncle, who are you looking for?"

Changxing Hou was silent. He stared for a long time and sighed.

The little girl in front of her is 13 years old. Because she has been doing farm work all year round, she is fiercer than the girls in Changxing Hou's house, but she is very thin and her skin is slightly tanned. Her face was sharp and thin, and she didn't look healthy. However, her eyes were surprisingly good-looking. It made people feel that she shouldn't appear in such a village, but should grow up on a national beauty, be raised in a deep palace, be loved by thousands and served by hundreds of people.

As like as two peas, Chu's Pearl's eyes and nose are almost the same as his sister Chu Chu. On the contrary, Chu Jinmiao, the fourth girl, has become less and less like him over the years.

Changxing Hou approached slowly and asked, "what's your name?"

Su Yao felt very strange, but she smiled and replied, "my name is Su Yao. You're not from here, are you lost?"

Changxing Hou didn't answer Su Yao's question, but asked, "Yao? It's not like a name that people in the village can name."

"Because my mother said that when I was born, a Taoist gave me a jade. He named me Yao, and so did our family."

Hou Changxing looked at Su Yao's jade. It was a clean and transparent jade with red catkins floating inside. It was valuable, and the red catkins inside were also very exquisite. It was like the moment when blood dripped into clean water and was imprisoned by white jade. Changxing Hou suddenly thought of rumors similar to blood recognition.

When Su Yao, or Chu Jinyao, was born, a wandering Taoist came to Taiyuan. It is said that he was a treasure and brought a valuable gem that can bring back the dead to life. He came to the world to find his master. Changxing Hou didn't believe this rumor, but he thought that his child was about to be born. It was always rare for both men and women to have their own blood, so he wanted to find a good jade for his child and play a life-saving jade lock for his child. He personally found it in front of the Taoist priest. The Taoist priest looked at it and said, "jade is destined for your daughter, but it can't be given to you."

After hearing this, Changxing Hou sniffed and left. He is a marquis. It is a great honor to condescend and condescend to find a Taoist, but the Taoist doesn't appreciate it and is full of nonsense. What is Jade's fate with his daughter, but he can't give him this father? Let's not say whether Zhao's pregnant daughter is his daughter. If the Taoist doesn't give it to him, how can he get into his daughter's hands? I don't want to take the opportunity to raise the price.

After that, Tatar invaded the border, and Changxing Hou led the troops to resist the enemy. He soon completely forgot this matter.

Until thirteen years later, the Marquis of Changxing stood in front of Chu Jinyao and thought of this past.

"Uncle, it's time to refresh yourself!" Chu Jinyao said with a smile. "You can go out of the village by going north along this road. I have to go back to chop firewood and boil water. I can't send you out. Otherwise, when my mother gets up, she will scold me again."

Changxing Hou frowned: "you're a little girl. Do you want to chop firewood and boil water?"

Don't mention the girl in the Marquis house. Even the servant girl who serves the girl won't do these rough jobs. His legitimate daughters, the eldest and the fourth, have been served by a nurse, two first-class servant girls and four second-class servant girls since their birth. They are also accompanied by many attendants sent by their elders. It can be said that they can't leave people for a moment. Chu Jinmiao, the fourth girl, was pricked by a needle when she was learning needlework. She would be tossed by everyone. She applied medicine and asked the doctor. Chu Jinyao has to get up early in such a cold winter, pick up firewood on the road, chop firewood, boil water and clean the yard when she comes back. Chu Jinyao is his own daughter! The Marquis of Changxing knows what life the eldest girl and the fourth girl live. That's why it's very uncomfortable to hear Chu Jinyao say so. What's more irritating is that the peasant family deliberately changed their daughter during production and let their daughter Chu Jinmiao, who should have been a peasant woman, enter the Marquis house to enjoy glory and wealth. The real Marquis has thousands of gold. It's just that they don't have a good environment in their house, They even ordered me to work!

Changxing Hou was furious. At this time, he had made up his mind to take the little girl in front of him back to the house, keep her name and follow the generation of girls in the family to be called Jinyao. As for the surname Su, leave it to the farmers' own daughter.

Chu Jinyao didn't know what Changxing Hou was thinking at this time. She was still seriously answering Changxing Hou's question: "yes, my sister got married. I'm the only girl in the family. Naturally, I should do all the housework. Ah, my mother got up, I have to go back..."

"Don't go back," said Changxing Hou. "You're not su. Come with me."

What happened later was very vague for Chu Jinyao. Su Fu, who had always been shouting, beating and scolding at home, shrank aside and dared not speak. Su Fu was angry and came to scold Chu Jinyao. Su's mother screamed at the top of her voice. Her brother Su Sheng also seemed to have become a quail. When she heard the news, her eldest sister Su Hui, who rushed home, suddenly fell silent and quietly looked at Chu Jinyao.

Chu Jinyao was afraid of such eyes. Later, she was taken away. She sat in the only gorgeous carriage in her life and leaned out crying to see her home. None of the parents who had lived together for 13 years came out to see her off. Only the eldest sister ran all the way crying and just stuffed her with a cloth bag from the window.

In the cloth bag are two washed cotton jackets and skirts, which are rare decent clothes at home. Chu Jinyao knows that if her sister gives these to her, she will be scolded by Su's father and mother when she goes back. If Su's father is angry, it's not impossible to do it. And my sister's husband's family, I don't know what to say.

Chu Jinyao had a good cry. Until she got off the bus, her eyes were red.

The carriage stopped on a flat ground. Chu Jinyao looked up and saw the majestic Changxing marquis.

Only then did Zhao know what the Marquis of Changxing had done.

Chu Jinyao stood in front of Zhao, yearning and shy. For a time, she didn't even know how to put her hands and feet.

However, her real mother swept her up and down several times and waved in disgust: "take her out. It smells like dirt. It's really choking."

Chu Jinyao was immediately embarrassed. There were no conditions in the village. In addition, she was in a hurry. She really didn't take a good bath. When Chu Jinyao had cleaned up and changed into clean clothes, she happily went to see her legendary biological mother, but outside the partition covered with smoke gauze, she heard: "madam, you don't seem to like... Miss Yao."

"What kind of lady is she? I don't know who she is when she comes out of thin air. The Marquis is really. Listening to the wind is rain. I don't know what cat and dog she has picked up. It may be that someone deliberately set up a game to deceive him."

"Madam..." mother Zhang sighed. Mammy Zhang knew something about that year. When she saw Chu Jinyao, she thought, I'm afraid this is it. But she, an outsider, can see clearly. However, Zhao has actually hurt Chu Jinmiao as a daughter for 13 years. Now a daughter suddenly appears. For a while and a half, no one can accept it.

"Send her out. I don't want to see her. I won't have a daughter like her. Where's miao'er? Go and call miao'er!"

Chu Jinyao was already in tears. She bit her lips and left quietly.

After returning to the house, Chu Jinyao threw herself on the quilt and cried. The jade pendant from the small belt to the big one fell out, and the red flocs in it disappeared imperceptibly.