Beyond Gold and Jade [Rebirth]

When Ye Yanbai returned to the mansion, he had someone call the eldest son to the study room. Not long after, Ye Chonghui walked out of the room with a cold face, and went to the ancestral hall to receive the punishment.

This matter soon spread to Funing Academy.

Mrs. An was feeding her youngest son some medicine, when she heard the news from the servants, Liu Mei frowned slightly, and said to Ye Chongjin, "This is really strange, your brother has been in the academy all day, and when he gets home, he is studying in his own yard, why? You provoked your father and was fined to kneel in the ancestral hall?"

The child took a sip of the soup and suppressed his guilty conscience, but he opened his eyes and said nonsense: "My brother is straightforward, and my father has a good face. It's not unusual to have a quarrel."

An Shi shook her head, thinking: "Your father is not unreasonable. Since he wants to be punished, there must be a reason, otherwise the old man will not be able to justify it. Ah Jin, tell your mother the truth, today in the palace, but what happened? What made your father angry with your brother."

"In the palace..." Ye Chongjin hesitated and said: "Father sent Ah Jin to the East Palace. The prince's brother was injured and bled a lot. Ah Jin had a conversation with him, ate a few plates of pastries, and met the queen again. The empress and the emperor, and then my father brought Ah Jin back."

An Shi asked: "Think about it carefully, but there are other things."

In fact, there is no need to think about it, Ye Chongjin is clear in his heart, but he just can't say it, he is unwilling to say anything about the matter of kissing Gu Chen on his own initiative.

The child pursed his lips, like a puppy being scolded by his master, his dark and moist eyes were full of innocence, his heart melted when he saw it, An Shi quickly embraced the baby lump in his arms, and said softly: "Okay, okay!" It’s okay if you can’t think of it, your father is always moody, maybe it’s a whim, and he wants to make things difficult for your brother, after Ah Jin finishes drinking the medicine, I’ll ask him in person, and I always want him to give an explanation.”

She picked up the orchid porcelain bowl, scooped up a spoonful of decoction to blow off heat, and handed it to the child's lips. The jade white porcelain spoon matched the child's light pink lip color, making it indescribably pleasing to the eye.

An Shi looked at her son tenderly, only feeling that there was nothing wrong with this child.Who knows that no one is perfect, the person who said this is actually shallow-sighted, if you have seen her family, Ah Jin, you will probably not be able to say this sentence.

After drinking a bowl of decoction, Ye Chongjin asked, "Mother, can Ah Jin visit my brother?"

An Shi thought about it and felt that something was wrong.

She put down the porcelain bowl, took out a light purple brocade handkerchief from her sleeve, wiped off the medicine stains on the corners of the child's lips, and said, "It's not urgent, I'll go to your father first to find out, if it's a trivial matter, immediately Let your brother out, you don't have to go, if it's a big deal...I'm afraid you won't be allowed to get involved. "

After all, he was not allowed to go, and Ye Chongjin was inevitably depressed.

He grabbed the corner of An Shi's water sleeve, swayed his arm like a lotus root, and said softly: "Mother, Ah Jin will go secretly so as not to disturb Father, okay?" Seeing that his mother was silent, he said again: "Late at night. Well, brother is alone in the ancestral hall, isn't it very pitiful, it's good if someone accompany him to relieve his boredom, Ah Jin will definitely be happy when he goes over."

An Shi caressed her son's face and sighed helplessly. This child is just too kind. During the day, she lost her mind because of the prince's injury. She finally made sure that there was nothing serious about the prince, and she had to worry about his brother. She felt distressed when she saw it.

She has always had nothing to do with him, so she had no choice but to agree at this time, and told him worriedly: "Don't stay for long, you are not in good health, I will let Liuli follow, and you have to come back before Haishi. If you are not obedient, mother will not let you go in the future." Nonsense."

The child nodded hurriedly and said with a smile, "Mom loves Ah Jin the most."

Seeing that he was happy, An frowned unconsciously, pinched the tip of the child's nose, and said, "Who made Ah Jin the mother's heart and soul, who else can love you if it doesn't hurt you."

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On the branches of the moon, two candles were lit in the ancestral hall.Ye Chonghui knelt on a yellow futon, writing the house rules silently with a pen and paper.

Thanks to his younger brother, he has copied this book of Ye's family rules no less than a hundred times since he was a child, and he has already mastered it by heart, and because he is a frequent visitor to the ancestral hall, his mother secretly ordered the servants to replace the cattail grass in the futon with After wearing cotton wool, I am not tired when I kneel up, but I feel suffocated.

Ah Jin kissed Gu Chen, although he was angry, what made him even more angry was what his father said later.

"It was you bastard who taught Ah Jin badly. Otherwise, how could he think of using this method to comfort others? You are not allowed to kiss him in the future. Let me know once, and you will copy the family rules a hundred times. How decent is it to kiss a baby of my grandma's back and forth."

Ye Chonghui almost broke the pen holder in his hand, thinking, what's so difficult about doing it a hundred times, and when he got back, he would copy hundreds of copies for backup, but he heard a "squeak", and I don't know which little wild cat sneaked in .

The corners of his lips were slightly curved. Although Ah Jin often hurt him, he never really left him alone.

The child had already rubbed up beside him, sat on another futon, resting his chin on his two tender little hands, and asked, "Brother, why did father punish you?"

A look that has nothing to do with himself.

Ye Chonghui said: "Ah Jin doesn't know?"

The child quickly shook his head, proving his innocence.

Ye Chonghui stopped the pen in his hand, raised his eyes, and said with resentment all over his body, "Father said, Ajin kissed His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in the East Palace today, and blamed me for teaching Ajin badly in the past, so he was punished to come to the ancestral hall to reflect on his past. "

"That's because His Royal Highness loses his temper. When Ah Jin loses his temper, my brother will kiss Ah Jin." The child said it confidently.

But it turns out that the predecessors planted trees, and the descendants enjoyed the shade.

Ye Chonghui was angry, and said: "My brother forgot to tell Ah Jin that if you want to kiss, you can only kiss your family. You have to be responsible for kissing others. Fortunately, His Royal Highness is a man. If Ah Jin kissed a girl, it would be to marry her." Those who enter the door as a daughter-in-law are not allowed to commit the crime again in the future."

The child nodded in understanding.

Ye Chonghui softened his face, and said persuasively: "Although outsiders are not good, you don't have to be restrained with family members, especially brothers who grew up together. It doesn't matter if you are close." Pointing to his cheek, he said: "Ah His Royal Highness Prince Jinlian has kissed him, so he will never be stingy with kissing his brother."

As he said that, he brought his right cheek closer, Ye Chongjin hurriedly leaned against his shoulder, pulled some distance away, and said with a smile: "Brother thinks that father's punishment is not enough."

Ye Chonghui snorted, "Punish him as he pleases."

But he stopped making trouble and buried himself in writing the family rules silently.The child sat beside him, resting his chin to watch him write. After a long time, he suddenly said: "My brother's handwriting is so beautiful, like catkins floating in the March sky."

Ye Chonghui was taken aback for a moment, and said with a smile, "What kind of description is this?"

The child didn't answer.

In the previous life, in the first year of Huanyuan, at the literary and ink poetry meeting by the Mingyue Lake, Mr. Hengzhi wrote a "Spring Fu", which was copied by literati and scholars, and Luoyang paper was expensive for a time.

However, that poem is actually not a good poem. On the surface, it recites the spring day, but inside it satirizes that Emperor Huanyuan killed his brothers and feet after he ascended the throne, and had a tyrannical temperament. He is not a wise emperor.

Gu Chen did not know where to get the authentic work, and he took him to taste it together. The bold but world-famous talented man knelt straight in the center of the hall, watching from a distance, his tall and straight figure was like a stick of ink. Bamboo cannot be broken.

Gu Chen asked him: "What do you think of this poem, Ah Li?"

He only said: "The handwriting is good."

"What's the best way?"

Song Li replied: "Like the catkins floating in the March sky, it has form and spirit, but it is difficult to describe its roots. It is a handwriting that no one else can imitate. It is very interesting."

Gu Chen laughed after hearing this, and echoed, "It's really interesting."

He ordered someone to accept the words, and said "reward" to Ye Chonghui lightly.The matter is over.

Thinking back carefully, it seemed that it was the first time he and Ye Chonghui met. He passed by him, and the man kneeling on the ground gave him a cold look.

Ben was not from the same road, but entered a family.

The child yawned, resting on Yurun's fair-skinned arm and was drowsy. After a short while, he let out a slight, even sniffing sound.

Ye Chonghui stopped writing, sneaked a kiss on the child's cheek, finally calmed down, called Liuli from outside the door, and asked her to send him back to Funing Courtyard.

Afraid of waking up the sleeping child, Liuli could only lower her voice and said, "Eldest young master, what Madam means is that you just go back to the ink garden to rest, and you have to go to the academy early tomorrow, so don't pay attention to the master's weird temper."

After she finished speaking, her pretty face blushed, and she hurriedly explained: "This is Madam's original words, it's not that slaves and maids arrange masters behind their backs."

Ye Chonghui didn't seem to hear, and warned: "Be careful when walking at night, don't fall on Ah Jin."

Liuli said: "I'll save it for you, servant girl." Another blessed body went out with Ye Chongjin in her arms.

After walking a few meters away, her heart was still beating wildly. The young master's appearance was really unbearable. His stern face was like hard and cold jade, and there was a chill in the warmth, which made people tremble and couldn't help thinking near.

She is a first-class servant girl by the wife's side, but she is only 18 years old, and her appearance is outstanding. In two years, when the eldest and young master should be in charge of human affairs, as a mother, she will inevitably pick two older maids from her room to send to her. At that time, she went to ask the master, maybe there would be a chance to go to Mo Garden.

Thinking of this, she was a little distracted for a while, and she was careless on the road, saw the Funing Courtyard, stepped on a stone accidentally, slipped, and almost dropped the child in her arms.

Xia He and Chunyi's two maids were waiting in front of the courtyard gate, watching this scene, they were scared out of their wits.

Xia He handed the lantern to Chunyi, stepped forward to take the little master into his arms, rolled his eyes coldly, and said in a low voice: "Sister Liuli is usually very stable, why is she falling on the little master today as if she lost her soul?" , I'm afraid I won't be able to afford it if I sell my sister."

Liuli also had lingering fears, squeezed sweat in her hands, and said: "Sister Xia He, my sister was just thinking about what my wife told me, and she didn't pay attention to her feet for a while, but fortunately she didn't hurt the young master. It was really not intentional, sister calm down, I will personally apologize to the little master some other day."

Xia He was still angry in his heart, so he responded in a neutral manner, and carried the child into the courtyard gate.

Chunyi sighed secretly, stepped forward and apologized: "She is used to such a temper, the little master has nothing to do with her, Sister Liuli forgive me."

"Where is it? It was my fault." Liuli said hastily.

The two said a few words, and then they also bid farewell to each other.

Chunyi entered the room and saw that Ye Chongjin had been settled, she dragged Xia He to the outside, and said, "You shouldn't show Liuli face today."

"I know how much face she has in front of the madam, but they are all slaves, who is more noble than the other, look at her lost soul, who knows what she is thinking, the little master is most afraid of pain, if you knock Wherever she encounters, can she afford to pay?"

Chunyi looked around and made sure there was no one around, and then said: "She came from the ancestral hall just now, she must have met the young master. The young master is young, but the young master is not young. After two or three years, who If you know whether she is still a slave, you should be careful and don't offend people for nothing."

Xia He usually doesn't like to delve into these things, but he is clever, and he understands it as soon as he hears it, and immediately disdains her, "Madam loves her like that, and when she is old, it is not difficult to arrange a good marriage for her. Why can't I just think about it?" As a roommate, the eldest young master is good-looking, but with our identity, after following the young master, we will end up as an aunt, and I think she is probably fascinated by demons."

"Good sister, you should restrain your outspoken temper. Now that you are pampered by the young master, you will naturally live in peace, but in the future, the young master will be in charge of the house, so you should be careful in what you say and do, and don't take it seriously."

The two grew up together as a child, and their love was extraordinary. Xia He knew that she had good intentions, so she could only pout her lips and promise: "Okay, sister, I will be careful in my words and deeds in the future, it will be fine."

Chunyi pursed her lips and smiled, "I'm on duty tonight, you can go back to your room and rest."

Xia He Yinghao came back after walking a few steps, and whispered: "By the way, sister, I took a bag of freshly pickled candied fruit from Yao Zhen, and I will share some with sister later."

Chunyi said unnaturally: "You bullied him again."

"What's wrong with bullying him, he likes to be bullied by me." He said with a playful smile, turned and left.

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After another half a month, news of the funeral came out from the Duke of Yue's mansion, saying that the eldest son of the Mo family had passed away.

Ye Yanbai and the Duke of Yue had no friendship in the past, but at least they were officials in the same dynasty, so when such a big event happened, they had to go to mourn.

Ye Chongjin changed into plain white clothes, her long black hair was tied with a jade-white headband, and the tips of her hair hung down on her shoulders. The few strands of curly hair in the past became more and more docile as she grew older, and her forehead showed a little Lively and energetic, at a glance, he is not just a golden jade boy.

Mother An looked at the little master who was brought up with one hand, and she couldn't hide her worry in her eyes.

She complained to An Shi: "This good person will be gone if he says he's gone, maybe he's been entangled with something bad. Our little master is so small, why go join in the fun."

An Shi said: "Am I willing to do this? It's just a matter of affection. It's always going through the motions. In the past, Ah Jin was young and had excuses. Now it's his seventh birthday. If he doesn't take him out, he doesn't know that he will be punished." How do outsiders arrange it?"

He squatted down in front of his son and said, "Ah Jin is not afraid, let's just go and have a look, there won't be a long delay."

Ye Chongjin was naturally not afraid, but he acted timidly and asked, "Will there be many people?"

Mrs. An thought about it, this Duke of Yue's mansion is after the founding of the country, and the wife of the Duke is the empress dowager's niece, the emperor's cousin, and the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs of the Manchu Dynasty. A few words of condolences.

She nodded.

The child asked again: "Is the prince from the palace coming too?"

An Shi glanced at him, took off the jade pendant around his waist, put it in the storage box, and sighed: "Ah Jin just wanted to ask, will His Royal Highness come?"

Before Ye Chongjin could answer in the future, the little white tiger lying at his feet was the first to make a "wow". The child pushed it away angrily, and turned to An Shi, "Mother, don't listen to its nonsense."

Angry and funny at the same time, An Shi said: "Is it nonsense, or is Ah Jin unable to hold back his anger and admit it? In fact, my mother is not very clear about this matter. Your father should know. If you have the courage, just ask .”

Ye Chongjin had no choice but to quiet down.Ye Yanbai often whispered in his ear these days, telling him to stay away from the prince, if he asked again, Prime Minister Ye would be pissed to death by his own son.

He just wanted to know how the man was injured, and whether it was because of him, so it's not good to ignore him.

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The government of Yue State.

Wearing mourning clothes, Mo Huaixuan stood in front of the mansion to welcome the guests, with a gloomy expression, which seemed to be in the pain of bereavement, but some of it was true or false, and the benevolent will see the benevolence, and the wise will see the wisdom, but no one is stupid to pursue it.

With the death of Mo Huai'an, Duke Yue was the only son. Even if he did not behave as expected on the day of his elder brother's funeral, no one could do anything to him. He couldn't let the ready-made son go and pass on to other people's heirs. , Broken their own roots for no reason.

Mo Huaixuan was generally well-informed, even though he was suppressed by his aunt and brother in the past, now that he is gone, he did not make trouble, but instead helped arrange the funeral, causing many people who wanted to watch the excitement to take a high look.

As soon as the Ye family's carriage arrived, Mo Huaixuan hurried out to greet him.

Afraid of getting bad luck, he entered the door, Ye Yanbai took his wife to the mourning hall, and let his two sons look around.

As the master, Mo Huaixuan personally led the two sons of the Ye family into the backyard. After all, it was a funeral. Ye Chonghui comforted him with a cold face, and Mo Huaixuan listened patiently. Greetings, the other was not in the mood to greet, and after a while there was nothing to say.

Mo Huaixuan was accompanied by the prince, and no one knew the injury of that person better than him. Ye Chongjin wanted to inquire about the news, but because his elder brother was at the side, he could only ask insinuatingly, "Is His Highness the Fifth Highness coming today?"

Mo Huaixuan said: "Your highnesses came to visit earlier, met the aunt, drank a cup of tea and left."

Ye Chongjin wanted to ask him who the highnesses were, but his brother would definitely be annoyed if he said that.

He was hesitating, but he heard Ye Chonghui say: "Brother Zifeng is accompanied by His Highness the Crown Prince. On such an occasion today, His Highness the Crown Prince must be very concerned."

Zifeng is Mo Huaixuan's character.

He asked this question strangely, and his face was always cold. Mo Huaixuan didn't know what it meant, and couldn't answer for a while, so he said: "Your Highness has been ill recently and is still recuperating. I don't dare to bother Your Highness with these trivial matters at home."

After saying that, he pointed to a cobblestone path and said: "Following this road, you will find Xingheyuan. There are many guests today. If you think it's noisy, you can go to the Qinxiang Garden next door to take a rest and wait for Lingtang to come back. "

Ye Chonghui thanked him.

When Mo Huaixuan left, Ye Chonghui changed his cold face just now and raised his eyebrows to look at his younger brother, the pride in it was self-evident.

The child snorted softly: "Scheming."

Ye Chonghui wondered: "Ah Jin wanted to ask, but my brother asked for you. Why did it turn out to be a scheming?"

Ye Chongjin ignored him, and walked forward on his own. Ye Chonghui hurried forward to hold him back, and said, "This is someone else's house. It's hard to find if you lose it. Ah Jin, don't get angry with your brother, okay?"

"Who made you gloat." The child angrily accused him.

Ye Chonghui coughed lightly. Of course he was happy that Gu Chen was sick in bed. He wanted to spend the whole day with his brother for the hard-earned vacation. If Gu Chen came, he would have to look for Ah Jin all day, and maybe he could Thinking about whether he can find someone, it is reasonable for him to gloat.

Ye Chongjin asked: "Brother, don't you have any friends?"

Ye Chonghui thought for a while, if Luo Yan could be considered a friend, he probably had a few of them, so he nodded.

The child taught him with a stern face: "Brother, at your age, you should spend more time with your friends. Whether it's talking about poetry, poetry, or life ideals, it's useless to play with a child like me all day long."

Ye Chonghui smiled and said, "What if I said I have no friends?"

"Then go and pay a few."

"After all, Ah Jin thinks his brother is annoying and doesn't want to be with him, right?"

He raised his brows suddenly, like smoke from cold jade, his stern face softened, his thin lips were slightly pursed, forming a distressing arc, this is the ability to be good-looking, even if it is just a trace of sadness, it can be magnified hundreds of times.The child was taken aback.

Brother was hurt by him.

Ye Chongjin hurriedly waved his hand: "It's nothing, Ah Jin likes his brother, so why would he be annoyed?"

Ye Chonghui asked aggressively, "Is it your favourite?"

For the word "favorite", his brother has been very persistent since he was a child. Ye Chongjin thought, since he wants to hear it, he can coax him a few words, but when he was about to speak, he caught a glimpse of a group of people walking in the distance.

A group of people surrounded a young man in black clothes, and they were surrounded by stars, all of them looked terrified, for fear of neglecting him.The young man was tall and slender, his face was like a crown of jade, but his lips were slightly pale, and his black eyes were as deep as thick ink, forcing people not to look directly at him.

The child nana said: "Didn't it mean that you can't get up?"

Ye Chonghui frowned when he heard the words, and looked back, gritted his teeth in hatred, "The scourge will last for a thousand years."