Novel: The palace gate is as deep as the sea. How many days can you survive after entering the harem?

chapter_title:Chapter 1

chapter_content: "Cousin Emperor, Cousin Emperor, what's wrong with you?" I saw him squatting under the window lattice and shaking, so I stepped forward and slapped him. Shoulder.

"Ah, ah ah..." The emperor's cousin seemed to be possessed by a demon, roaring and pushing me down. The bloodshot eyes in his eyes were extremely scary.

"Cousin Emperor? What are you doing?" I held the clothes he had torn off and tried to move back. I felt that something bad was going to happen soon.

I am Zheng Yao, my nickname is Yaoyao. I like to eat melon seeds and like my cousin.

"Take it out and give it to me." My brother always had a stern face, cornering me in the corner and asking for the melon seeds in my hand.

"No, I didn't." I hid my hands behind my back, held the melon seeds in my hands tightly, and looked at my brother.

“I’ve told you so many times, eat less melon seeds, or you’ll get chipped teeth.” I didn’t give in, and easily took my hand.

"Yaoyao, come to my cousin." After hearing my cousin's call, I hurriedly got under my brother's arm, stepped on the cannas in the flower bed and hid behind my cousin, and gave it to my brother. I made a face and said, "Just a little bit."

"Big cousin, why do you always bully us kids?" My cousin knelt down and patted the orange pollen on my body, and then pocketed it for me. A handful of melon seeds were stuffed inside.

"Zhining, what are you kidding about? How old are you? You drive this girl crazy all day long." My cousin took me flying over the courtyard wall, and my cousin's roar spread far behind us.

No wonder I like my cousin. From being in his arms when I was one or two years old, to being on his back when I was seven or eight years old, and now in his arms again, he has always protected me and taken me with him. Go out and have some fun.

"Yaoyao, are we going to read books today?" My cousin took me into a clothing store, bought me a piece of men's clothing and asked.

"Yao Yao will go wherever my cousin says." I had been thinking about the spiced melon seeds in the teahouse all morning, so I grabbed my cousin's arm and shook it.

The teahouse at the entrance of Yanliu Lane in Xishi City is the most lively place in Chang'an City. There are all kinds of storytellers, playwrights, performers and singers.

My cousin likes to bring me here to listen to books. He said that when he comes here, he will drop everything and only live in plays and books. I also love to have him bring me to listen to books because Here are the most delicious melon seeds in Chang'an City.

"Mr. Ning, has he forgotten the slave family?" As I was peeling melon seeds slowly and leisurely, I heard a delicate gasp, and in the blink of an eye I saw a woman in green wrapping around the table like a vine. On my brother.

"What are you doing in broad daylight?" My cousin stood up and pointed at me.

"Who are you? Stay away from my cousin! My cousin doesn't recognize you!" I stood up and stood in front of my cousin.

"The little master's milky sounds are really cute. I saw that every time I came here, I just wanted spiced melon seeds, so I peeled some and brought them to me. I just hope that I won't forget about you." The woman did it easily. Over my head, I handed my cousin a small cloth bag.

"Humph, cousin, let's go home." I snatched her sweat towel bag and threw myself into my cousin's arms angrily.

I was very angry. I was angry because of the woman's closeness to my cousin. I never thought that there would be something even more irritating after I stormed back to the room.

I took out the sweat towel bag that the woman gave to my cousin. It contained a pile of peeled melon seeds. The song "Guizhi'er" was embroidered on the sweat towel: < /p>

"Guaren'er is not a strange thing at all. He wrapped it in a sweat scarf and gave it to my brother. Every one of them has been on the tip of my tongue. Gifts are less important than others, and good things don't need too much. Please pay me more thanks. Brother, don't forget me."

"Bah, bah, what's this? It's so shameless!" I threw the sweat towel on the ground and stomped on it. I have never seen such explicit words, and I didn’t know what to do for a moment, I just felt angry.

I don’t know why I was so angry. It seems that since that time, my cousin’s status in my heart has been different from that of melon seeds. I like my cousin as much as I like melon seeds. , doesn’t seem to be a favorite anymore.

Because, I knew clearly that what the woman did was shameless, but I still followed her example and ate a whole plate of melon seeds for my cousin.

However, my cousin can’t eat anymore.

The emperor sent him to inspect Sichuan and Sichuan as an imperial envoy. Before leaving, I pulled the corners of his robe and cried.

"Yaoyao, my cousin is an adult, and an adult must have the responsibilities of an adult. You will understand when you grow up."

"Yaoyao, when my cousin is not here, you You have to listen to your brother. You can't go out to play by yourself. It's very dangerous for children."

"Yaoyao should learn to write well. If you want your cousin, you can write to your cousin. Yes, send it to Sichuan."

My cousin touched my head and spoke like a child, completely unaware of my little thoughts. I stuffed the plate of melon seeds in the sachet into his arms and said loudly: "I'm not a child!"

So what if I am a child! As a child, can’t I like my cousin?

I don’t understand the adult world, nor do I understand the reason why my cousin must leave.

After he left, I wrote to him every day. I didn’t know what Sichuan and Sichuan were like, and I didn’t know if it was the same as Chang’an, so I only wrote that my cousin took me to eat, drink and have fun. Every moment.

chapter_title:Chapter 2

chapter_content: "My cousin took me to the opera garden in the palace to watch a play. I fell asleep on his back, and the tuna stick stuck to him. Shoulder, he just smiled and wiped my mouth, never called me Tanzui Yaoyao. "

"My cousin ate a bowl of Yangchun noodles with me. I smiled and asked him how to divide it, and he pinched it. He pinched my face and said he only ate chopped green onions, and then asked the waiter to buy me another bunch of candied haws."

"My cousin was really nice to me, so nice that...it made me forget. I feel like I am a child without a mother. He is so good that he depends on me for everything. He is so good that I miss him every night."

"Cousin, you have been gone for more than two months. I miss Yaoyao so much. You, Yaoyao is going to write you the sixty-ninth letter. Yaoyao is going to sew all the letters together to make a handbook. I also gave the handbook a name - Cousin's Handbook. When my cousin comes back, Show it to my cousin."

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I kept writing those letters to myself, until one day my sister-in-law touched my hair and said to me: "Yao Yao. "When you grow up, a grown-up girl will go to someone else's house."

"If Yaoyao doesn't leave, no place will be as good as home. Yaoyao will stay at home with her brother and sister-in-law." I hugged her. He grabbed his sister-in-law's arm, feeling vaguely uneasy.

"Little greedy Yaoyao, you are going to the palace. The palace is the best place in the world. How can your brother be willing to send you to a bad place? How can dad be willing to let you suffer? ?" My sister-in-law shed tears as she spoke. Her tears became more and more fierce, and she hugged me tightly.

I don’t know what happened yet, but I just thought it was my fault, which made my sister-in-law cry. I quickly wiped her tears and said: "Sister-in-law, Yaoyao will not go to the palace to accompany my aunt. Yaoyao is staying with you at home. With such a gentle and beautiful sister-in-law, how could Yaoyao leave?" Unexpectedly, my sister-in-law cried even harder and held me tightly with her hands.

I don’t understand. I am going to the best place in the world, but I am still going to accompany my aunt who has always loved me. Besides, this is not the first time I have returned to the palace. Why is my sister-in-law so reluctant for me to go?

Why is my brother so unhappy? He always stayed in the yard practicing his double hook gun over and over again, smashing a piece of canna.

It wasn’t until the day my sister-in-law took me into the palace that I understood why. It turned out that I had to stay with my aunt and could never return to Duke Zheng’s mansion.

Entering the palace at the age of twelve came from the words of my aunt, the current Queen Mother: "Yao Yao is already so old. She will be an adult when her menstruation is over, so she should stay with the Ai family. ”

My sister-in-law dragged me to my knees and said yes in a low voice.

I didn’t quite understand what my stay in the palace had to do with my menstrual period. I just quietly told my sister-in-law not to let anyone touch my room. I couldn’t ask anyone else to live in my room until I went back.

Because there is still my "cousin's notebook" in the small dark compartment under the bed.

My aunt arranged for me to live in her Shoukang Palace, sleep and eat with her, and everything was luxurious and exquisite.

My aunt would prepare my favorite crystal duck breast for breakfast, and at the end she would let me drink a large bowl of sweet red date soup.

During lunch, my aunt asked the kitchen to boil thick donkey-hide gelatin and rose honey specially for me to eat. It was sweet but not overpowering.

After dinner, my aunt also instructed the palace people to add some flowers, herbs and spices to my bathtub. Before going to bed, I personally watched the nuns applying perfume to my body.

Eating these supplements often makes me dizzy and my nose bleeds frequently, but they are always extremely sweet, and my aunt will not say that I am greedy, and she will give them to me over and over again to warm them up. , serve me a bowl from time to time.

Although there are few people in Shoukang Palace, it is not boring at all. There are three concubines who come often.

Concubine Shu likes me very much. She doesn’t like to laugh much, but when she sees me, she can laugh and tell me jokes for a long time.

My aunt also always dotes on me. She loves to see me and Empress Shu Fei sitting together, having fun and telling jokes.

Although I was a little heartless, I still thought that my brother and sister-in-law were really worrying too much. The life in Shoukang Palace was obviously more interesting than the life at home, but they were still so depressed.

I was immersed in the gorgeous Shoukang Palace all day long, enjoying all the comfort, until one night two months later, I dreamed of wetting the bed. In the dark, I touched my underwear, and it was wet. Sure enough, I wet the bed. .

I didn’t dare to move while lying in bed, and I didn’t dare to call out to the maid who was waiting under the bed. I still wet the bed at such an old age. It would be so embarrassing for my aunt to know.

And if Concubine Shu knew about it, she could tell this joke for a year.

So I stayed under the quilt, trying to escape everyone’s ridicule.

chapter_title:Chapter 3

chapter_content: "What are Yaoyao doing? Why are you still in bed?" The first person to call me was Concubine Shu.

"I'm so sleepy today. I want to sleep and can't get up. Concubine Shu is the best, will you pamper me?" I covered myself in the quilt and tucked it tightly. Several quilt corners were moved towards the foot of the bed step by step, for fear that she would lift my quilt.

"Ah, why is Yaoyao's mattress covered with blood? Yo, yo, yo, our Yaoyao has grown up." Empress Shu Fei still opened my quilt and looked at me with a smile.

"Huh? Ah -" I glanced at Concubine Shu's smile and then at the blood on the mattress, and I was startled.

"Shu Fei, I, I, I peed blood." I crawled to her side, grabbed her arm, and pointed to the blood on the mattress.

"Haha, silly Yaoyao, that's a moon letter. Every woman has it. I have it too. Why is there blood in the urine... Haha..." She stroked my back and her laughter became more intense. Fat.

In a daze, I was a little scared.

Moon letter? My aunt said that I have grown up since I came to Yuexin. When I grow up, I can be her daughter-in-law and marry the emperor's cousin.

What about my cousin? What to do with my cousin Zhining?

"Yaoyao, why are you dazed? Go wash up and put on this." Concubine Shu handed me a white cloth and looked at me teasingly.

"Concubine Shu, is the emperor's cousin easy to talk to?" I took the white cloth and put it on the bedside, turned around and asked Concubine Shu.

I think if the emperor's cousin is easy to talk to, he will definitely make things happen for me and cousin Zhining. Anyway, the emperor's cousin has so many concubines, and I am not missing one.

"He, he, I don't know, I haven't seen him for a long time." The smile disappeared from Concubine Shu's face, she gave a few instructions to the palace attendants and left in a hurry.

I squeezed the white cloth, lowered my head, and changed into wet pants.

As soon as everything was put away, my aunt brought me a cup of blood swallow donkey hide gelatin soup for me to drink.

After drinking, she asked everyone to go out, leaving only the two of us. She no longer called me Yaoyao in a friendly manner, but called me Zheng Yao word for word.

She ordered me to kneel down in the direction of Luzhou, the ancestral home of the Zheng family, and then said solemnly: "Zheng Yao, what is the family motto of our Zheng family?"

"We will live forever. "The family has been prosperous for a long time, and the children of the Zheng family have no shirking responsibility." I endured the discomfort in my stomach and knelt on the ground, shouting the ancestral instructions loudly.

"Okay, your great-grandfather changed this ancestral precept. Do you know why? Zheng Yao." The aunt asked again.

"..." I was silent and didn't know how to speak, because I really didn't know, I didn't know why there was such an ancestral precept, let alone what such an ancestral precept meant.

"You are the eldest daughter of the Zheng family. Naturally, you must remember the ancestral precepts of your great-grandfather. From today on, you are an adult. No matter what happens, you must remember the ancestral precepts of the Zheng family and believe in them. "My aunt will not harm you." My aunt suddenly lifted me up and patted my shoulder.

I didn’t understand why my aunt told me this. After thinking about it for a long time, I couldn’t figure it out. In addition, I felt really uncomfortable in my stomach, so I simply didn’t think about it and asked the palace ladies to accompany me. Write and draw on the sycamore leaves.

Seven days later, my aunt brought in an aunt who was very skillful in combing my hair. The aunt loosened my two tight double buns, tied up my half-length hair, and took it again. On the fake shell cushion, she had a beautiful flying bun.

"Aunt, how can Yaoyao, who is so short, wear her hair in an adult bun?" I looked around in the bronze mirror, and the high and long bun looked awkward against my round face.

“When my aunt got her hairpin, she used to wear it with this hairpin.” My aunt did not answer my question, but lightly touched the ivory hairpin that tied my hair tightly, then picked up the black pen and gave it to me. I draw eyebrows.

"Auntie can't help it. How can I let you do Yaoyao's eyebrow painting in person?" I turned my face away from my aunt's hand, disgusted with these adult things.

The day before yesterday, I asked my grandma to twist my face with extremely fine thread. Today, I asked someone to send me a lot of rouge and gouache, and now she also wants to draw my eyebrows.

"Yao Yao, girls have to dress up beautifully when they grow up. My aunt's hands are not steady, so she asked your aunt Sun to give you a flying bun that matches yours." The aunt twisted. I straightened my face and applied a thin layer of powder on it.

"Auntie, when I was at home, my sister-in-law often said that these are things for adults. Yaoyao is a child and there is no need to use these." I acted petty, raised my lips and knocked down Aunt Sun's hand.

"Zheng Yao, you have grown up." The aunt seemed a little angry and put down the gouache box.

I didn’t dare to say anything anymore and let Aunt Sun smear those fragrant and greasy things on my face one by one.

When Concubine Shu saw me dressed, she held my hand from under the wide sleeves and asked her aunt: "What are you doing looking for my old clothes? Yaoyao is still a child." , I can’t support such a dress."

chapter_title:Chapter 4

chapter_content: "The Ai family remembers that you were about this age when you were with the emperor." Her voice was calm, and she motioned Concubine Shu to sit down with her eyes.

"Mother, Yaoyao is still a child." Concubine Shu's face was full of shock, and the hand holding mine in her sleeve was dripping with sweat.

I don’t understand why she lost her temper like this. I am indeed still a child. What’s so surprising about this?

"Yao Yao has grown up, come to your aunt." My aunt called me to her side, gave me a piece of duck breast, and while she was talking, two voices sounded almost at the same time.

"My son pays my respects to his mother."

"May your Majesty be blessed."

"My daughter pays homage to your Majesty." When I heard the noise, I immediately thought of my sister-in-law's teachings. As a courtesy, he jumped off the stool and knelt on the ground.

"Get up quickly, the ground is cold." My aunt helped me up with a smile and nodded to the emperor.

"Mother, my concubine is feeling unwell and has returned to the palace first." Concubine Shu did not look at the emperor, but only saluted her aunt.

"Wenxi." The emperor called out, but Concubine Shu did not agree, and her steps became faster and faster.

"Emperor, let her go. Come and recognize your cousin, the one who came to the palace to accompany me a month ago. The little girl is very clever." The aunt grabbed the emperor's sleeve and asked him to come. Look at me.

"My maiden pays homage to the Emperor." I really didn't know how to respond, so I could only kneel down again when he turned to look at me.

"Family, why are you living like this? You should call me cousin." My aunt pulled my sleeve and asked me to pick up food for the emperor.

"Cousin Emperor." I glanced at him secretly several times and called him timidly.

"Yao Yao, right? I heard the Queen talking about you." He was very gentle, just like the gentle Queen.

I was very happy about the dinner that day, because my emperor cousin always brought me food, just like my brother, and he always smiled.

He must be easy to talk to!

Ever since we had dinner together that day, my aunt always asked the emperor’s cousin to come and play with me. The emperor’s cousin had a good temper and always patiently chatted and ate with me.

"Come on, little greedy Yaoyao, come on, here are freshly fried five-spice melon seeds."

"Yaoyao, are you happy in Shoukang Palace? It's a pity that Qingrun went to Jiangnan. Go, otherwise you will definitely be able to play somewhere.

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"Yaoyao, are you willing to stay here when you grow up? ”

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The emperor’s cousin talked a lot, and he was more like a child than me when he was playing.

That day he asked me many times how old I was. I wanted to stay wherever I wanted, so I bravely answered him: "Yao Yao wants to be in the palace, because cousin Zhining lives in the palace, and Yaoyao wants to be with cousin Zhining." "

"You are a child, who taught you to say these things? "He took a step back, holding the shuttlecock in his hand a little funny.

"Yao Yao is not a child! My aunt said I have grown up! "I stared angrily and went to grab the shuttlecock.

"Hey, silly Yaoyao, why do you like your cousin Zhining? Let’s talk to the emperor’s cousin? "He sensed my intention, and raised his hand to raise the shuttlecock high. Only then did I reach his chest, and there was no chance to grab it.

"Huh, my cousin is bullying me again. "I pulled out the cumbersome Bu Yao from my head and told him about the time when cousin Zhining took me to play.

"Yaoyao doesn't like you, cousin Zhining, you are just a little boy. The kids are just having fun! "The emperor's cousin gently threw the shuttlecock, and then caught it lightly.

"I'm not a child! I'm not playful, I just like cousin Zhining! "I snatched away the feathery shuttlecock fiercely, with tears in my eyes that were about to fall.

"Yaoyao, don't cry. When Zhining comes back, won't it be okay for my cousin to grant you a marriage? "The emperor's cousin was finally defeated by my tears, half coaxed and half comforted.

The autumn wind had just risen, driving away the sultry heat of summer, but it brought me full of joy, because the emperor's cousin himself said Allow me, and Cousin Zhining will marry me to him when he comes back.

I was so immersed in it that I never knew that my joy, my liking for Cousin Zhining’s joy would bring disaster to me.

It was a night, it was raining heavily and the weather was very cold. I remember everything that happened on that painful night clearly. I remember every detail clearly.

< p>On the third day of September, the three of us had dinner together, and the imperial concubine suddenly came to see my aunt. My aunt asked Aunt Sun to fill a cup of chrysanthemum wine for her cousin, and then went out to talk to the imperial concubine.

The emperor's cousin gave me a piece of chicken and drank all the chrysanthemum wine in the cup. He seemed to be too drunk and fainted. Then he suddenly ran to the door and opened it. He opened it a few times and then went to the window. He was running, slapping and shouting, looking very anxious.