Chapter 20 Ye Niang's Diary
"What is this sister watching?" Taohua asked curiously.
"I don't know, what appeared in the dressing box. Taohua didn't you carefully turn over the things inside?" After hundreds of years, if it were Jian'er, she would have turned the things here upside down.
"No, I only occasionally pick a few books from the bookshelf outside to read, but I really haven't flipped it inside." Taohua shook her head. Jian'er was immediately in a state of sweat. She took the lead compared to Taohua, the indigenous people who had lived here for hundreds of years. These two kids are too obedient.
When I opened the book, I saw what was written and actually hid it in the dressing box. Jian'er was very curious about this.
But as soon as he opened the book, Jian'er was stunned! Oh my God, the earth, I think she is also a college student who has been studying for more than ten years. Although it is now an era where college students are walking all over the ground, she can at least be considered an intellectual. I am not illiterate, not illiterate! Even though that is the case, when she looked at the words on it, she didn't recognize most of them and was illiterate! What a terrifying thing.
The string of words that looked like plum blossoms that came into Jian'er's eyes, with flowers on them, beautiful, and unique, very exquisite. But the problem is that even if she guessed, she didn't know a few! She was so arrogant. Could it be that more than ten years of hard study have only made me illiterate? The tears of the noodle were so wailing.
He gently pushed Jian'er, who was stunned, "Sister, what's wrong with you?"
Slowly turning his head to Taohua, Jian'er seemed to hear the giggling sound from her stiff neck. She heard her voice: "I don't recognize the words above." A heavy blow!
"Sister is a small seal script for plum blossoms. Few people know how to write it. Sister doesn't have to take it to heart. Otherwise, I'll read Peach Blossoms to my sister?" Peach Blossom asked carefully, afraid of hurting Jian'er's already riddled self-esteem.
Jian'er nodded, forget it, not many people know how to do it, and not many people know how to do it. Besides, many people can't write or read traditional Chinese characters. Don't you know that they use simplified Chinese characters now? Not to mention seal characters, and it is a side-by-side in small seal characters. I haven't heard of the plum blossom small seal characters many times. She doesn't know, but her sister can do it. If she has a younger sister translated it, it means she can do it. Ah Q's spirit defeats everything! His self-esteem is curious immediately, and he turns to urge peach blossoms to read it quickly. She is curious.
"On October 1st, 2016, Ye Niang met with her father for the first time..."
"On December 6, 2016, I hated that the messy slave was unreasonable and dared to humiliate my mother. Ye Niang was useless..."
"On November 10, 2016, I started to learn the art of being a girl with my wet nurse..."
"On November 25, 2016, the wet nurse taught the method of keeping the family..."
"On the New Year's Day in xx, I will part with my second sister in Zhongcui Palace. I hope that my blessings will always be with you. The couple will be with you for a hundred years, and the husband and wife will follow you..."
"On June 1st of xx, I cried sadly, the wet nurse passed away, the intestines were broken, the world was so great that there was no place to live..."
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It turned out to be a log that depicts the life of the poor princess from the intermittent records.
The princess' nickname is Ye Niang. Her biological mother was a maid in the palace. She was favored by the emperor after drinking. She gave birth to Ye Niang in ten months and was awarded the title of talented man. There are countless beauties in the palace. However, the emperor still remembers a small maid without the support of the mother clan. She has no favors and a weak daughter. How could a small talented man survive in the cannibal palace? Soon her mother fell seriously ill and knew that she had no time to give birth to Ye Niang, and was afraid that she would have no support in the future, so she entrusted Ye Niang to Ye Niang's wet nurse Cui.
Others don't know, but Ye Niang's mother knew that Cui was different from others. When she first entered the palace, she saved Cui, who was thrown into the barren well, and she had life-saving grace. Cui was grateful and secretly gave her some advice so that the innocent Ye Niang's mother could survive in the palace, and she was even considered a little respectful palace maid. Originally, Cui planned to ask Ye Niang's mother to seize the opportunity to get the grace of the chief empress, and to give a small official in the future, she would be perfect. However, the plan could not keep up with the change, and a wine would ruin everything.
Then Ye Niang was born, and then Cui became Ye Niang's wet nurse, and then was entrusted with an orphan. In the cannibal palace, Cui protected a small baby and survived hard. In the gorgeous Tang Palace, there have always been many people who praised the high and low. With the connections accumulated before, he helped Ye Niang block a lot of wind and rain openly and secretly.
As Ye Niang grew up and got along with each other, the relationship became deeper. Cui also regarded Ye Niang as her daughter. She taught her step by step how to hide her talent, how to carefully attach to her mother's wife and the second princess whom she is more favored, carefully flattered, and did not steal the limelight from the second princess. She gradually gained the favor of the second princess, and then slowly gained the favor of the second princess with the power of the second princess. She was no longer a pitiful little person who could even step on a slave. Since Ye Niangxiao, she had asked Cui strangely how he knew so many things, but Cui just smiled bitterly.
Under Cui's teaching, Ye Niang learned the Taoist breathing technique to nourish her body. Her weak body gradually became stronger due to premature birth, so she had the opportunity to enter the female school in the palace. Then under Cui's teaching, she learned plum blossom seal script, and thanks to this, she gained the attention of the master of the school. She knew the truth and knew things, did not stand out, did not stand out, was low-key, and was modest. The master of the female school became more fond of Ye Niang and took her to visit other female officials in the palace. Slowly, except for herself, who knew no one, Ye Niang also learned a lot from other female officials, such as piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, songs, and even dance music...
Later, I got the inherited wooden hairpin, carefully guarding my little secrets, laying the space, and fantasizing about getting married and leaving the palace one day, and living a sweet little life with the beloved man with the wealth he had carefully hidden. This period can be said to be the happiest day in Ye Niang's life.
But things are unpredictable. After the second sister got married, about half a year, Cui felt a cold occasionally, but he never got better. Before his death, Cui handed over a thick book to Ye Niang and said, "I am afraid that there will be no more time. I told Ye Niang to record the things in the book carefully and hide them!" Although it is not necessary to do it, I must know and be careful. You must know that you should not have the intention to harm others and be careful of others. Then I never opened my eyes again.
The wet nurse was buried with tears. In this deep palace, Ye Niang no longer had the support for her. Opening the book left by Cui, she now remembers countless secret methods in the doors of the mansion, such as how to control the back house, how to teach the legitimate children, and how to control the concubines, and the concubines. If a concubine, how to compete for favor, take eye drops, and deal with the mistress in the head... Each item was listed one by one, which made Ye Niang frightened.
The last page of the book records the life experience of Cui. It turns out that Cui actually comes from the Cui family in Qinghe, a family of five surnames and seven families, but belongs to the branch. Cui's personal mother was originally a favored concubine, but when the head of the family went out to give birth to a daughter, she was left by her mother's mother's son, who had no children, and then she was raised by her legitimate mother's name. When the legitimate mother did not have a child, Cui and her elder brother were always treated as legitimate children until her legitimate mother had a child. Since then, Cui and her elder brother became thorns in the side of her mother and stabbed her flesh. The legitimate mother designed to kill Cui's elder brother, and Cui escaped under the protection of her elder brother's death, and learned the truth. Since then, revenge has become Cui's only thought. With his extraordinary skills and the little money left by his elder brother, he married a scholar in anonymously, entered the palace and became a teacher. He secretly bribed and threatened him without any extreme, and finally got avenge.
I met Ye Niang's mother because of the lesson of Cui's family in Qinghe after the revenge was avenged. I plotted against her mother as disrespectful and unforgivable. However, because of the reason, I went to Arai and left the will of fate and was saved by Ye Niang's mother. Arai also said that Cui's life should not be decided and everything should be sanitized.
After that, Ye Niang's mother's innocence made Cui seem to see her when she was young. She wanted to protect this girl so that she could get the happiness she had never obtained, but the world was changing and her beauty was poor! Then she would entrust her to the orphan...
Finally, Cui hopes that Ye Niang can get the happiness that Ye Niang’s mother and she have never received, and marry safely until her children and grandchildren are surrounded by their knees...
Unfortunately, Cui's wish was not realized in the end. An acute illness took away this ill-fated girl, and she died less than 28 years old.
After reading the diary, Taohua and Jian'er were speechless, sighing that Ye Niang's mother had a weak fate, pity the princess's helplessness, and cherishing the misery of Cui. This is just a small wave from the era of imperial power supremacy, and no trace has been left in history. If Ye Niang had not written all this on paper and left in the space, who would have remembered that there was such a cute, talented, but a thin princess in this world.
Jian'er Qu pointed out something that Ye Niang knew, such as embroidery, calligraphy and painting, chess skills, and even some magical techniques..., and was silent again, so swollen and broken. The more I thought about it, the more I felt like I was illiterate! Jian'er was crying...
Chapter completed!