The Crown Prince in the Jade Pendant

Chu Jinyao was lost and was looking for Qin Yi for directions. The son of 　　 was obviously surprised when he saw her: "Who are you and why are you here?"

"I am the fifth girl in the house. What about you, who are you?"

"Five girl?" The young son frowned, and said, "I have seen the fifth cousin, you are not... hey, that's right."

At this time Chu Jinyao had already heard it out: "Are you the son of aunt's family?"

Lin Xining also remembered. The grandmother mentioned in the letter that the uncle's family had held the wrong daughter and just found a fifth girl. It seems that this is the one in front of you.

Lin Xining knew that there was a joke, and stooped to give Chu Jinyao: "The fifth cousin is sorry, I was abrupt."

Chu Jinyao avoided slightly, and then replied with his hands: "Cousin doesn't have to be like this."

When the misunderstanding was resolved, Lin Xining felt a little sad. He saw a strange woman walking around here, still acting sneakily, so he asked. I knew it was my cousin who wouldn't be so loud anymore. The girls are weaker than the other, and his voice is louder. What can I do if I frighten these pampers? Lin Xining wanted to compensate, so she asked: "Why is the fifth cousin here?"

Chu Jinyao was a little embarrassed: "I'm lost."

Lin Xining suddenly, yes, the fifth cousin just came back and didn't know the road in this area. Lin Xining said: "Most of these are vacant yards, which are really hard to identify. My cousin will come with me."

"Thank cousin." Chu Jinyao was very grateful, and quickly followed Lin Xining and walked out.

With Lin Xining leading the way, Rongning Hall arrived soon. Chu Jinyao repeatedly thanked him: "Thank you cousin, otherwise I don't know when I will go around..."

Qin Yi snorted coldly in his heart. It was obvious that he brought Chu Jinyao out. This kid was only taking the last part of the way. Moreover, even if the Lin family didn't show up, Chu Jinyao wouldn't be around for long.

Of course, Chu Jinyao would not know these words.

Lin Xining smiled and personally opened the curtain for Chu Jinyao: "Cousin, you are welcome. It's cold outside, come in."

"Where can I." Lin Xining is a guest. How can she let Lin Xining draw the curtain for her, Chu Jinyao said, "Cousin, go in first."

The maid wanted to take it, Lin Xining shook her head and said, "The cousin is a girl, and she has a weak foundation. You go first."

Chu Jinyao was treated so cherished for the first time, and she went into the house flattered. Later, Lin Xining followed and accompanied Chu Jinyao in.

The old lady, Chu Zhu and others all sat in the Xici room and talked. Hearing the sound of opening the door, the old lady said, "This is Brother Ning."

After Chu Jinyao entered the house, he dared not look up, and immediately asked for peace: "Jinyao is late, please forgive me from grandmother and aunt."

Zhao frowned: "Why are you here now?"

The other girls were there, but Chu Jinyao was not there, Chu Zhu asked about it just now. The Zhao family was embarrassed, but now that he saw Chu Jinyao, he was really out of anger.

Chu Jinyao maintained a begging posture, bowed her head and said nothing. Or Lin Xining took the initiative to say: "I don’t blame my cousin. There are a lot of yards in the east of Rongning Hall. I have been lost there many times before. My cousin just came back and it is inevitable. I just met the fifth cousin, so I took The fifth cousin is here."

When Lin Xining said so, the Zhao family naturally didn't say much. Lin Xining is the only son of sister-in-law, or the son of the prefectural palace. How dare she say anything about others.

When Mrs. Chu heard this, her brows frowned, "Who is following the fifth girl?"

After hearing the rose, he bit his scalp and took a step forward: "It's a slave."

Madam Gu leaned down and said something to Mrs. Chu, Mrs. Chu's expression became worse and worse: "You are a second-class maid, you don't even know the way?"

Madam Gu reminded in a low voice: "Old ancestors, our mansion was short of manpower a year ago, and she called people to enter the mansion and bought a batch of maids, and she was here."

A new girl who didn't even know her way, turned out to be the second-class girl next to her. Madam Chu's majestic and indifferent eyes swept towards the Zhao clan, and the Zhao clan hurriedly lowered his head, revealing a gesture of admitting his mistake. In the presence of Chu Zhu and so many juniors, Mrs. Chu saved face to the Zhao family. She didn't say much, she just glanced at her and took her gaze away. Yan Shi stood beside him and smiled secretly.

Zhao, a person, said she was stupid, she could suppress the aunts and subordinates in the backyard, said she was smart, and she always did some ridiculous things.

The eldest girl is the eldest daughter, raised in front of the old lady since she was a child, how decent she is, but she is not close to the eldest girl. Parents always favor young children. Yan also has children and daughters. It is understandable that Zhao always loves the four girls. But now that I have said, the four girls are not her own, and she still tried to plan for others. Isn't this stupid?

Yan smiled enough in his heart, and then he converged on schadenfreude, and smiled to Chu Zhu: "Aunt Aunt is so lucky. Brother Ning is good-looking, filial, and compassionate to younger brothers and sisters. You will have a lot of blessings in the future."

After hearing this, Chu Zhu smiled slightly. She turned her eyes to Chu Jinyao, looked around without her expression, and then asked, "This is the first time I have seen the Five Girls. You just said, what is your name?"

Chu Jinyao said cautiously: "Aunt Hui, my name is Chu Jinyao."

"Yao..." Chu Zhu's eyes changed, and she turned to look at Mrs. Chu. "Why don't the fifth girls follow Xian'er's generation?"

The girls of the Chu family named them “women” from the characters of brocade, which means taking flowers and clusters of brocades, which means the virtue of a woman. But Chu Jinyao's name "Yao" is the same generation as Chu Zhu.

Upon reminding Chuzhu, the old lady Chu discovered that Chu Jinyao’s name had hit Chu Zhu’s seniority. She paused and said, “This child is also rough and hasn’t had a good life in the past thirteen years. She has this Yao character. , It was given by a Taoist priest at birth." The implication is, don't care about this with a junior.

After all, Chu Zhu is married, and it is difficult to intervene in the affairs of her niece, let alone, Mrs. Chu said so. Chu Zhu said: "I remember when I came back before, the four girls were always the most active. Where about the four girls?"

"Auntie, I am here." Chu Jinmiao stood up and saluted Chu Zhu.

Chu Zhu pulled Chu Jinmiao over and said with a smile: "You stand with the fifth girl, and I will take a good look at you."

Chu Jinmiao’s smile froze. Since Chu Jinyao came, her identity has become more and more awkward. Things that she thought should have become more subtle now, and there are many people in the big house. Chu Jinmiao It is inevitable to hear some gossip. Now Chu Zhu still asks her to stand in the same place as Chu Jinyao...

Chu Jinyao doesn't matter, she has long been accustomed to being seen. And Chu Jinmiao almost moved to Chu Jinyao's direction, and when he was two steps away, Chu Jinmiao refused to go any further.

There is a saying that you are not afraid of not knowing the goods, but you are afraid of comparing goods. Because Chu Jinmiao is the daughter of a farmer, she has always been somewhat inferior to the serious Miss Chu family. Now standing next to Chu Jinyao, the gap becomes more obvious. Chu Jinyao is a head taller than her. Although slightly darker, her facial features are crushing. Chu Jinmiao's only advantage is that she is thinner than Chu Jinyao, but she is thinner than Chu Jinyao, but she is not as comfortable as Chu Jinyao's natural figure.

Qin Yi, who was waiting quietly to watch the show, felt too embarrassed.

Obviously the other ladies also felt that they did not continue this topic tacitly. Chu Zhu didn't expect that she would do something bad with kindness, so she summoned Chu Jinmiao over and quietly patted her hand.

Chu Zhu thought with regret, Chu Jinmiao was slimmer than Chu Jinyao and had better temperament. At first glance, he was a child raised by a wealthy family, with a thin, bookish air. The only shortcoming is that... Chu Jinyao is so much more beautiful than Chu Jinmiao, that is, Chu Zhu is privately inclined to Chu Jinmiao, and she can't say that Chu Jinyao is not good.

Chu Zhu originally wanted Chu Jinmiao and Chu Jinyao to stand together and let everyone take a look. Although Chu Jinmiao still stayed in the Hou Mansion, her biological parents did something like that. It is inevitable that some people in the Hou Mansion would look down upon her with shallow eyelids. Chu Zhu did this to remind everyone to show them something. She was called Miss Qianjin, and the extravagance that Hou Men raised was not comparable to that of a village girl who came out inexplicably.

As a result, he was embarrassed instead.

Although Chu Jinyao is the real Chu family girl, to the Zhao family, the old lady of Chu, and Chu Zhu, Chu Jinmiao was the one who grew up watching her, and it really hurts to love her over the years. Chu Jinyao suddenly appeared and said that they had hurt the wrong person before. Chu Jinyao is the real daughter and Chu Jinmiao is fake. Who can accept it? When Chu Zhu received the letter, she was inexplicable.

Chu Jinyao is the real stranger to her. Chu Zhu originally thought that Chu Jinyao must be vulgar and greedy when she grew up in a peasant family. Once the sparrow turns into a phoenix, she will show greed, selfishness, and love for money. How can she compare to Chu Jin's knowledge and wisdom?

Even after seeing Chu Jinyao himself, Chu Zhu didn't see the scene that Chu Zhu had originally expected, but Chu Zhu still felt that raising a poor person must be a poor person from the root. It can't be seen now, and it must be revealed in the future. Chu Zhu thought with some regret, if Chu Jinyao's face had grown on Chu Jinmiao, it would be perfect.

Old Madam Chu looked at this sullenly, and when Chu Zhu stopped, she said, "It's getting late, let's set the meal."

With Mrs. Chu here, there is no need to shy away from the rule that men and women differ in their seats at the age of seven. Lin Xining and the young masters and girls of the Chu family accompany the old lady to dinner. The old lady naturally sat in the middle position. Chu Zhu led Lin Xining to sit on the right hand of the old lady, Chu Jinxian sat on the left hand of the old lady, and the daughters-in-law of Zhao and Yan wanted to stand and serve the mother-in-law.

The seats on both sides of Mrs. Chu have always been the most favored people. The preference of the old lady is the direction of the wind, and this kind of people are also very popular in the house. Now Chu Zhu and Lin Xining are on one side, and Chu Jinxian on the other. Chu Jinyao can understand. As for herself... she was at another table.

There are eight people in a table, and several young masters are there. How can the old lady with the heaviest weight be her turn...

Halfway through the meal, the old lady said to Zhao and others: "You guys have also been standing for a day, sit down and rest."

Zhao's and others gave in once before putting down their chopsticks. Immediately, the maid-in-law moved in a stool and waited on the three ladies to sit in.

After dinner, Chu Jinyao went back to her yard and secretly said to Qin Yi: "In such a solemn scene today, we juniors can sit and eat, but mothers and others have to stand and set the rules and stand for half a meal. Just like that, many people say that grandmothers are sympathetic to their daughters-in-law. It is obvious that they are all pampers before marrying. Why should this be the case after marrying?"

"This is etiquette, nothing can be done." Qin Yi sighed and said, "Taiyuan is better. Beijing has strict rules. When you meet an old-fashioned mother-in-law, if you talk to you about everything, then it's called consultation."

Qin Yi is the prince. Although he spends most of his time in the court, he has also heard about these things. The bride's life is not easy, and he feels worried for her when he thinks that Chu Jinyao will have to do the same in the future.

She can easily trust other people's minds with such a tendon. What should I do when she really meets a mean mother-in-law? He wanted to mention that Chu Jinyao should pay attention to her husband's family when he decides to marry in the future, but he feels that he is a foreigner and will leave sooner or later, but the other party is her husband's family. Maybe he will be caught by Chu Jinyao after he says it. Complain.

He still shouldn't mix things up.

Chu Jinyao thought that she would serve her mother-in-law in this way in the future, and she felt that her life was dull. She was depressed for a long time. Qin Yi saw that Chu Jinyao was too wilted, so she took the initiative to speak and divert her attention: "I think you secretly took a few glances at Lin Xining today, are you..."

"No!" Chu Jinyao blushed and said in embarrassment, "What are you doing, what are you doing in a good way?"

In fact, Qin Yi was right. It is rare for women in the house to see men from outside, while Lin Xining was just the right age and looks good, and he was still the son of the prefectural palace. On the entire table, there were always girls sneaking at him. It was the first time that Chu Jinyao saw a noble man of the same age. He was a gentle and considerate young man who was in the wind. He felt good in his heart and took a few glances, which was normal.

Qin Yi snorted softly and said, "You still slander me. I can understand those palaces since I was ten years old...what the women are thinking, your careful thoughts are not enough for them."

"I said I didn't!"

"If you don't have that, what are you yelling at me?"

"You're so annoying." Chu Jinyao took off Yu Pei in a rage and put it on the small table outside the canopy bed, and put down the curtain with a bang, "I'm going to sleep, don't bother me."

After a while, Qin Yi said leisurely: "They are right, women are really unreasonable."

Camellia hesitated: "All right? Good material, don't cut it badly in the end."

"No, I've tried it before." Chu Jinyao turned out to be in a bad situation at home. It takes many years to use a piece of cloth. She is sewing and modifying the clothes at home. Slowly, Chu Jinyao has a good grasp of it. sewing. She knows how to save materials and look good.

Camellia still refused to make it, it was still cloves. According to Chu Jinyao's statement, it was marked and cut. Chu Jinyao and Dingxiang paired up, and a few second-class maids also came to fight, and after a while, the jacket was cut out.

The second-class girl, Kikyo, praised: "It really saves a lot. The most important thing is that the remaining materials are still whole, and it is convenient to do everything in the future. If it is cut up, it can only be made into small gadgets such as kerchiefs and purses."

Chu Jinyao said: "This is just the shiny surface on the outside, and the inner lining needs to be cut separately. Lilac, you go get the piece of plain spun yarn, I remember there are some left."

After Lilac hugged him, several maids gathered around, weighed the fabric with their hands, and asked, "Girl, is this enough?"

Chu Jinyao touched her hand and said affirmatively: "Enough."

Dingxiang and Platycodon don’t know what to do anymore, they just do what Chu Jinyao said, and in the end, they were just cut off.

Kikyo sighed sincerely, "Girl, you are so clever."

Next is the cut horse skirt. Camellia asked: "This is a white-bottomed purple-flowered material. It's nothing more than a jacket. Is the color too light for a horse-faced skirt?"

Chu Jinyao was also worried about this. She took a close look at the pattern on the fabric and said, "Cut it out first, and then think of a solution when it's pleated."

After the cloth was cut, Chu Jinyao took a piece of it by herself and sat on one side of the seam. She pressed it with her hand, tried to make a few folds, then pulled out a strip of satin from the fabric, and gestured.

Several people of Lilac Platycodonis were sewing the edges, and suddenly Platycodon grandiflorum called out: "Girl!"

The maids all looked up, and the bellflower gathered around, picked up the pleats that Chu Jinyao had locked and looked at it. Chu Jinyao sewed purple satin on the folds, extending it to the knee, then cut the satin into a pointed end, lined it with a piece of harder cloth, and finally decorated it with tassels. Kikyo couldn’t put it down, and said: “It looks so good, just like the tail feathers of a peacock. When the pleats are finished, these hard ribbons will be pressed one by one. They must look like a peacock on the screen. It’s so beautiful!”

The maids all gathered around to watch, Chu Jinyao demonstrated how to sew in front of them, and then closed the edges. The dexterous maid will read it once, but she's a bit clumsy, and she has to look around Chu Jinyao again. From time to time, a maid brings her skirt over and asks, "Girl, isn't it like this?"

Chu Jinyao pointed out one by one, and Baoxia was very lively for a while. Chu Jinyao got his hands fast and finished a skirt in a short while. She was worried that Qin Yi was bored watching these things. She took a piece of cloud brocade and used Xiao Lou to pretend what she needed. She said, "I'm a little tired sitting outside. I'll take a rest inside."

"I'll take care of the girl." Kikyo stood up and said, "Girl, since you are tired, you don't need to take the basket. Let us."

"It's okay, I'll just sew two stitches at will." Kikyo took the basket in Chu Jinyao's hand, and followed Chu Jinyao into the western room and placed it on the kang near the window. Chu Jinyao said, "I just need to rest here by myself. You can go out and do needlework with them."

Kikyo hesitated, but was finally sent away by Chu Jinyao. When there was finally no one in the house, Chu Jinyao said quietly, "Are you still there?"

Where else could he go... Qin Yi said helplessly: "Yes. What's wrong?"

"There were so many people just now, I can't talk to you. Are you bored looking at these?"

Although the jade pendant fell on Chu Jinyao's chest, Chu Jinyao could not stay in the house without seeing people all day. So when Chu Jinyao went out and talked to others, Qin Yi had to stay by himself, except for waiting. can not do.

Qin Yi also felt bored. When did he care about women making clothes and other trivial things, let alone watching them do sewing. But he can't go back now, so he can only stay with Chu Jinyao. What else can he say?

Chu Jinyao said: "I think everyone's days are too idle for ladies. I am making clothes today, and I have things to do. I sit and sit as I did the other day. It's really too idle."

Qin Yi agreed. He has been thinking about how to get back to his body along the way. He still has a lot of things to do in Datong, but he can only stay here and spend time with a group of backyard women. Qin Yi was impetuous, but now he watched Chu Jinyao's slender wrist fly back and forth among the gorgeous brocades, his hands were dexterous and brisk, and he took care of the fabric in a moment. Qin Yi looked at it like this, and saw some beauty with a special rhythm, and the dryness in his heart subsided.

Chu Jinyao turned the skirt aside, and in a moment, she locked one side again. Qin Yi looked at it for a while and said, "You are indeed better than them, with neat stitches and faster speed."

"What's the matter?" Chu Jinyao said, "I am used to sewing clothes. On the contrary, it is embroidering. I think I'm going to make a fool of myself. If I can't tell if I sew clothes, wait until my grandmother comes. She asked us to embroider the square veil, and I'm going to show off the stuffing. The eldest girls have all learned embroidery since childhood, what can I do?"

Chu Jinyao suddenly asked Qin Yi: "Can you embroider?"

Qin Yi was caught off guard by the question. He smiled and asked slowly, "What do you think?"

Chu Jinyao was not frightened by Qin Yi's whistling air-conditioning tone, but smiled and said, "I think you can ask anything, but I thought nothing could bother you."

Qin Yi rolled his eyes secretly and didn't want to pay attention to her. But when Chu Jinyao interrupted him like this, Qin Yi's mood was much better.

Chu Jinyao put all the scissors and needles back into the basket, took off the jade pendant, and placed it on the Kang table upright. Her current identity is Miss Hou Men, making her own clothes is just to kill time. If she gets bored, she can throw it to the maids anytime, anywhere. She looked at Yupei and asked, "Have you been in a bad mood these days?"

Qin Yi didn't expect that even Chu Jinyao could see it. His kung fu for raising qi is really getting better and better.

Now that Chu Jinyao could see it, Qin Yi didn't want to deliberately tell lies to lie to her, he sighed in a low voice: "Yes."

Chu Jinyao's heart is very complicated. Qin Yi has been teaching her what to say and what to do these days. She never thought that when Qin Yi helped her, she also had something on her mind.

Chu Jinyao was very moved. She took out the jade pendant from the Luozi, and was about to ask about it. Suddenly she said in surprise, "Why is there only half of the red silk in Yuli?"

"This is what I am worried about." Qin Yi said, "I have a hunch that once all the red flocks disappear, and I have not raised them, I am afraid that I will not be able to live."

After Chu Jinyao listened, she lost her voice: "How come?"

Qin Yi sighed exhaustedly, no longer the way he was holding the winning ticket before: "Why did I think about it? But I have a hunch, most of it is like this."

Chu Jinyao was dumb, she hurriedly lifted the jade pendant to take a closer look. Indeed, the red flocks were sparsely sparse. This is just a guess, maybe nothing will happen after all the red flocks disappear, but what if?

Chu Jinyao was speechless. Although she had only met Qin Yi for a few days, she had already treated Qin Yi as a close relative in her heart. When she was in the most difficult time, only Qin Yi was willing to stretch out and pull her, she had nowhere to go in the house, and it was Qin Yi who spoke with her. Although he has no body shape or even a person, in Chu Jinyao's heart, he is more important than her blood relatives. Chu Jinyao felt that it was good for her and Qin Yi to talk, laugh, and break each other. She never thought that Qin Yi would leave her one day.

The air suddenly became heavy and made people breathless. After a while of silence, Chu Jinyao said softly, "Can I help you?"

Qin Yi was surprised when he heard this. After a while, he laughed: "It has nothing to do with you."

"How can it be okay?" Chu Jinyao said, "Since you were born in my Yu Perito, then we are a family. We have been together for so long. How can it be okay to say that it’s okay? If I have nothing to help you That’s all, but now you clearly need, if I still don’t do anything, then who am I?"

Qin Yi frowned when he heard these words: "Do you know who I am? You dare to talk nonsense like this?" No one in the world dared to say such things.

"I know. You are the heaven and earth elves born from Jade Perry. Since you wake up in my Jade Perry, then this is the fate between us."

The first sentence shocked Qin Yi, but this person's last sentence could anger him to death. Qin Yi gritted his teeth and said, "I said, I'm not a spirit." What spirit dared to get on his body?

"Then what are you?"

"..." Qin Yi was finally defeated, "Yes, what you say is what you say."

Chu Jinyao still felt that this person was inexplicable. She muttered in a low voice, "I said you are a ghost, you don't admit it, and you don't say it if you ask. It's nothing to be ashamed of being a ghost. You think I'm still growing up in a poor family. Well, I never feel embarrassed."

Qin Yiquan regarded himself as deaf, unable to hear or speak. He has improved too much recently. If it were in the past, who would dare to say that he is not a human being in front of him, and dare to blame him as a prince?