Chapter 1
A small city under the jurisdiction of Huzhou, the land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River, the market is prosperous and orderly, the streets are clean and smooth. , everyone is busy, lively but not noisy, the sun is blazing, but there are gusts of cool breeze blowing on the face, bringing coolness, if you smell it carefully, you can taste the fragrance of straw in the wind, that is because of the wind It blows from outside the city along the river in the city. The rivers outside the city are criss-crossed. There are rice fields on both sides of the river bank. It is midsummer, and the rice has been filled with pulp and is about to be ripe. The wind blowing from there is naturally fragrant and pleasant.

A small carriage drove into the city from outside the city, briskly crossed the streets and alleys, and stopped in front of an embroidery shop on West Street and a bookstore on East Street, and a woman in her fifties got out of the car. , walked into the embroidery village and the bookstore, and got out of the business. After getting in the carriage, the carriage never stopped until it reached a medium-sized wealthy house in the north of the city before stopping again.

The coachman put down the stool and yelled, "We're home, girl, get out of the car!"

The maid came out first, lifted the curtain, and smiled sideways. Mimi watched the two young girls in their teens get out of the car, and reminded:

"Girl be careful, don't step on the skirt!"

Xia Yiqing walked in front, she was well-proportioned, her body was slightly plump, her skin was as smooth as jade, and her facial features were graceful and beautiful. She was wearing a lake blue silk spun summer shirt, which was made of ordinary fabric. The collar of the leader's skirt is embroidered with exquisite and elegant flowers, leaves and branches, and it is obvious that a lot of effort has been spent on washing and ironing. The well-fitting clothes set off the graceful posture of a girl in the cardamom age. It looks elegant and generous, pleasing to the eye, but it is Ignore the cheap and ordinary clothing materials.

Walking behind is her younger sister Xia Leqing, dressed similarly to her elder sister, she is also a beauty, with peach cheeks and a fine nose, bright eyes like water, both sisters are tall, the younger sister is slightly thinner than the elder sister, but she doesn't look too attractive The weak, flexible waist twisted, turned around and dragged out a big burden from the carriage. When she was about to carry it out of the carriage, she suddenly paused, frowned, and pushed the big burden into the carriage again, but pulled out a blindfolded bag. A finely woven bamboo basket of blue cloth is carried on the arm.

The things in that big bag were the jobs they had just picked up in the embroidered village and bookstore. If they carried them through the gate in full view, they would inevitably not be gossiped by members of the Xia family. If Mrs. Xia found out their background, then It's even worse!Therefore, the big burden cannot be entered through the gate. It can only be left in the carriage, and the coachman Liu Bo will take it into the courtyard, and then measure it at night.

The bamboo basket contained the offerings brought back from the temple. Three months ago, the father who was the county magistrate of Qipin in another county went on a business trip and went home on a whim. In the evening, it turned out that my mother was happy!Today, my grandmother showed great mercy and asked the two sisters to go out of the city and enter the temple instead of the mother to worship the mother.
Xia Yiqing and the maid in the car looked at Xia Leqing's movements and couldn't help but smile at each other: Leqing was smart enough since she was a child, but she was impulsive and impulsive. She just turned 12 in April this year, and she finally made progress and became calmer.

Xia Yiqing is three months away from turning fifteen, and is about to reach her age, but her actual age... well, it should be said that her soul age is 28!

She came to this dynasty when the deity was nine years old, and it was still the Huaxia Kingdom. It looked like the Northern Song Dynasty, but the emperor's surname was not Zhao, and the capital was in Chang'an. It was a very strange era. She was confused for a while, thinking Where is the history that can’t be connected if you don’t come out and learn it?In the end, we have to accept the reality. No matter what, it is always a good thing to be able to live a new life. We should not let this opportunity go. It is only right to live a lifetime seriously!

She has the memory of the deity in her mind: in the middle of summer, a nine-year-old girl complained about her sickly mother, and led her six-year-old younger sister to her grandmother Xia Jin's theory. He spoke eloquently, and tried his best to push Xia Jinshi speechless. In a rage, Xia Jinshi grabbed a bamboo stick and beat her. The girl was dressed thinly and wanted to protect her younger sister, so her head, face, and body were beaten. There were red marks, the two sisters cried loudly, and fled back to the South Courtyard with each other, falling from the sun under the sun. When the mother Pang Ruxue saw it, the mother and daughter cried again. The girl started to have a high fever in the afternoon, and it was even worse at night Confused, Pang Ruxue dragged her sick body, and led her little daughter to kneel down and beg Xia Jinshi. Xia Jinshi only gave a few Qinghuo pills, and was reluctant to spend money to buy medicine from the doctor. The girl died in the middle of the night. By coincidence, she The soul of the girl came across, replacing the girl and becoming Xia Yiqing.

After waking up that time, Xia Yiqing encouraged herself: You must eat more, and you must teach your younger sister to eat more. When you grow stronger, you will be stronger. If you can't beat the old witch Xia Jinshi, you can always run past her. If you catch it, you will be slapped on the head or a meal of fried human flesh with bamboo whips, what a disadvantage!
Because she was well aware of the death of the nine-year-old girl, in the past five years, Xia Yiqing didn't have the slightest affection for Xia Jinshi, and seized the opportunity to use words to make the old woman furious, but she was very helpless. Good people don't live long, and bad people live for thousands of years. Years passed, but Xia Jin didn't show any signs of aging, instead, he became more active and more energetic. He was really pissed off!
In the Xia family, even though Xia Yiqing and her younger sister tried their best to be self-reliant and always on guard, the life of the mother and daughter was still not satisfactory. If the two sisters were as weak and submissive as Pang Ruxue, Xia Jin might have been made All of them were tortured to death.

Pang Ruxue is submissive, filial and virtuous, and her temperament is so soft that Xia Yiqing has nothing to say. It is impossible for this mother to protect her daughter. If her daughter does not fight for her interests, she would rather swallow her anger and suffer, than disobey her mother-in-law .She is a typical lady of the family, she has received strict education since she was a child, and she has always adhered to the three obediences and four virtues. Before the age of nine, Xia Yiqing and her younger sister were taught the rules by the sick and weak Pang Ruxue. To learn, Xia Yiqing has changed since she was nine years old, instilling a lot of her own ideas into her younger sister. The two sisters live in the same room and are inseparable every day. It is conceivable that Leqing is deeply influenced by Yiqing.

The servant woman got out of the car, took the basket in Xia Leqing's hand, and said: "Give this to me, the girls are all grown up now, the second girl should learn from the older girl, going out is no better than being at home, and her behavior should be more dignified and elegant... ...These wives have also taught you, you can no longer be as casual as you were when you were young, our master is an official outside, and you are the official ladies!"

Xia Leqing made a cut, her face full of disdain: "Mother Liu, don't tell me this, what official lady? Who has ever seen an official lady wearing coarse clothes and eating rice mixed with grains? Since she was a child, she has done all the rough and fine work by herself. Beaten and scolded, I see, in this Xia family, my sister and I are concubines..."

Liu's mother listened to Xia Leqing's words sadly, but when she heard her say that sentence later, she couldn't help but change her complexion, she hurriedly stopped, and she was relieved when she heard the big girl Xia Yiqing speak.

The eldest girl's voice is still soft and sweet, but there is a little more sternness: "Sister, have you forgotten again? How did I teach you? Think twice before doing things, and think carefully when speaking! It's not like you don't know that a concubine is a concubine. Born, always stand ten steps behind the concubine daughter, and will always be inferior among the sisters in the family! In the future, concubine daughters will be picked and picked in marriage, and it will be difficult to marry a concubine son, and the children born will be dwarfs because of their mother's concubine status! Do you think our mother is a concubine? Are you willing to be a concubine?"

"No! I don't want to! I said something wrong, please forgive me, sister!"

Xia Leqing waved her hands again and again, and said angrily: "Our mother is clearly the original wife of my father, but why? Aunt Huang can stay by my father's side for many years. Looking at their mothers, they love and cherish them every day, even their names are different from ours... In the whole world, only their mother and daughter have good lives, and the concubines and concubine daughters are more favored than the first wife and concubine daughters. , enjoy blessings and be respected! My mother, me, and my sister are not even as good as the girls in my grandmother’s yard! I don’t agree with it!”

Xia Yiqing sighed slightly, seeing the coachman Liu Bo knocked on the door of the summer house, and while pulling her sister inside, said in a low voice: "The sun is hot, let's go home first...Didn't I say that? Some things need to be done." We will fight for it by ourselves, but if there are conditions that we can rely on, we must hold on tightly and never let go! Mother is the wife, and our sisters are the first-born, this is a fact! What good life is there for love and cherish? Let them go again Being favored, they are also concubines when it comes to the heavens, and they will always be lower than us! It is not worth getting angry with them, let alone envying them!"

The two sisters entered the gate hand in hand, and walked along the corridor to the inner courtyard, chatting about the hot weather, picking some shepherd's purse under the flower trellis fence and eating it with hot and sour cold vegetables in the evening, while Liu's mother followed behind with a basket and a smile , looked at Xia Yiqing with both relief and pity, she was happy for his wife: the eldest girl came out beautiful and fresh, and her demeanor was even better than those ladies from rich families. Courageous, his wife is soft, kind and timid, but she gave birth to such a daughter who is three points better than a man, what a great blessing!

As the wife's only servant, Mama Liu understands the hardships of the three mothers and daughters in the South Courtyard best. The illness never got better, and she was lingering on the sick bed. Mother Liu had to take care of the wife and the second girl, pulling the eldest girl, not to mention how sad that day was!The old lady is snobbish, and the housekeeper's second-bedroom wife, Tong Shi, followed her to make things difficult for others. The expenses of the South Courtyard have always been deducted, and the monthly money assigned by the master to the South Courtyard has always been delayed. Yue only threw a few copper horns, plus some broken rice and rotten corn that other people used to feed chickens and ducks, as extra porridge for adults and children. No money to go to the pharmacy!

But the three mothers and daughters in the South Yard did not starve to death after all, and the wife's illness gradually recovered. The old lady and the others disliked the South Yard as a poor and unlucky place, and were too lazy to walk around to have a look, but they didn't know that the South Yard, that was A land of spiritual treasures!The eldest girl and the second girl grew up in the South Yard. They had poor snacks and clothes, but they are still tall and beautiful, smart and capable. Especially the eldest girl, she can take care of her younger sister at the age of three, cook porridge and medicine at the age of five, and cook porridge and medicine at the age of seven. I have learned how to do embroidery with needles and threads from my wife, and I have also learned piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. When I was nine years old, the old lady beat me to a serious illness. Make a wish in the field: If the eldest daughter wakes up, I wish to reduce my life by ten years!As a result, the eldest girl really woke up, and became more intelligent and quick-witted after recovering from her illness. From then on, she became the pillar of the South Campus. From then on, the life in the South Campus gradually became more enjoyable, and she no longer had to wait for the old lady and the second wife every day. alms!

Under the care of the two girls, the wife recovered quickly. The eldest girl asked the doctor in the pharmacy to use high-quality medicinal materials when dispensing nourishing pills. It looks like a mother who gave birth to two daughters, but she looks like she is sisters with the eldest girl and the second girl. But the original couple could not see each other, so the wife lived in seclusion, doing embroidery work with the two daughters in the south courtyard every day, or helping the eldest girl draw and paint, and lived a leisurely life.

The last time the master went to Zhoucheng on a business trip, he came back to visit the old lady on the way. Because Mrs. Huang didn't follow, the old lady got a lot of benefits from the master and stopped controlling him. Very happy, I rested in the south courtyard that night, I didn't expect that one month after the master left, my wife would be so scared, I asked the doctor to take a pulse, and it was confirmed that it was a happy pulse!

The wife said that if the baby is a boy, it would be the master's blessing, because so far, the master has no son.

Mother Liu thought that if the baby was a boy, it would be a blessing to the old lady from the eldest girl!Without the eldest girl, there would be no way to have this son!
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