Tang riddles

My name is Yixu, and I was born in the third year of Chuigong. I was born in Jinling, Runzhou, the capital of emperors in the past.

I have known since I was a child that my family, and the main family that the family serves, is a family with thousands of years of ancient inheritance.The ancestors entered the world from the Nanliang period, and lived in this world for a hundred years until the time of Emperor Zetian when I was born.Although we try our best to integrate into the world, we still retain many old habits inside the family, and we still have a strong wariness towards the outside world.In this family, it is almost a rule of heaven that the son inherits the father's business, and this rule is heavily bound on me.

My father, Yidav, is the head of the Yi family who has served two generations of the head family.Because the husband and wife of the previous generation had a short lifespan and passed away very early, the backbone of his assistance was transferred to their only daughter——Yin Yu.

Yin Yu is 12 years older than me, and I can't remember exactly what it was like when I first met her.But the deepest memory is that when I was young, I was fond of playing, and once climbed a tree and fell down and broke my leg.It was the master who discovered me first, and it was she who hugged me and rushed to find my father.Afterwards, my father set my bones, and I cried out in pain. The master stood beside me, hugging my head with a smile, pinching the numb points on the back of my neck, and humming a little tune.Later, it really didn't hurt anymore.

At that time, I was about six years old, and the master was already there.

Later, in private, I called her Sister Yu.Once I was hit by my father. My father reprimanded me for being disrespectful to my master. It was sister Yu who helped me escape my father's scolding with a smile.At that time, Sister Yu had already put on men's clothes and was wandering in diplomatic circles.The huge Qianyumen family business is managed in an orderly manner in her hands and is thriving day by day.She has an extremely strong martial arts, which is unbelievably strong, and I admire her very much.

Sister Yu is always very busy. In one day, I seldom see her in the mansion. Most of the time, she will go far away, and it takes several days before she comes back.Knowing that I like to practice martial arts, she first picked the strongest boxer in the family to teach me basic boxing skills.Later, when my skills improved, she would personally teach me.What I envy most is her red sword inherited from her ancestors.The name of the knife, Hongming, danced in her hands, as if it had been given life. The red light shone like a Kunpeng spreading its wings;

When I was eight years old, sister Yu was 20 years old, she decided to leave Jinling and go south to Huzhou.I heard from my father that sister Yu may return indefinitely when she goes this time.She was going to do a big event, and I later found out that it was related to Wu Xingshen's.She seemed to be going to Wu Xingshen's to find something, and to talk to Wu Xingshen's about the enshrinement in the future.Our master Yin's surname is Shen, because when he first came out of the mountain, he had no one to rely on and lived under the protection of Wu Xing and Shen for a long time.Although he broke away from Shen's later, the sequelae still exist.Until now, our Yanling Shen family (Yin family) still pays offerings to the Wu Xing Shen family every year. This is like the rogues in the streets and alleys collecting protection fees. We hang the name of the Shen family and share their glory and status. You have to give them the corresponding money in exchange.

I've always felt aggrieved about this, but fortunately, I heard that Sister Yu had successfully negotiated with Wu Xingshen's and halved the cost of the offering. She is really amazing.In my mind, she was the idol I admired the most when I was a teenager, and the person I most wanted to be.

However, Sister Yu stayed in Huzhou for five full years when she went to Huzhou.In the meantime, I only went back to Jinling two or three times, mostly during the Chinese New Year.When she returned to Jinling for the last New Year, she brought back a father and daughter.This father and daughter is really strange, the father is a forty-year-old down-and-out scholar, although depressed and unsuccessful, his appearance and spirit are extraordinary.And my daughter... When I was young at that time, I really never saw such a beautiful person. She didn't seem like a person in this world.Is it a fairy who came down to earth?Or the Qionghua Yushu in the fairyland of heaven?Forgive me for being bad at reading since I was a child, and for not being able to describe her in beautiful words and sentences.

His father's name was Qin Zhen, and the word came to Qin.The daughter's name is Qin Lian, she is twenty-eight years old, and she is in her most beautiful years.At that time, I had just turned 13 years old, and I was still a young boy. The embarrassment when I first saw Qin Lian made me at a loss, and I still remember it fresh.

But what happened next confuses me even more.Sister Yu said that she brought Qin Lian back to get married.Although they were already married in Huzhou, she still hoped to hold a wedding in her family and formally marry Qin Lian. As a 13-year-old me, I couldn't react for a while, I just felt a little sad for a moment.We were ordered to use the surnames of Yin and Yi, without mentioning that we were the Shen family of Yanling.Fortunately, we never hang a plaque like "Shen's Mansion" on our mansion, otherwise it would have been exposed long ago.Since the father and daughter entered the house, they have never gone out, and they have no chance to learn our surname from outsiders.As for why the surname of the Shen family in Yanling was concealed, I didn't know at first.

Later, after the wedding, I was still a little dazed, and finally found my father one evening.I asked my father, "Can two girls also get married?"

My father sighed, stroked my head, and said: "Axu, you will understand in the future, and now is not the time. Remember, the identity of the master is a big secret. Never reveal anything."

Not long after Sister Yu and Qin Lian got married, they set off again and went north together.Sister Yu is going to Beijing to take part in the examination this time. She is determined to enter the officialdom, and this step will have to be taken sooner or later.Now that the family is complete, it's time to start a business.Those who entered Beijing together were Qin Lian's father, my father and me.This time I went to Beijing, I am afraid that I will not be able to return for a long time. My father brought me to train me so that I can inherit his position.But I am not interested in medical skills at all, and I can't learn many things he taught.I was not very willing to go with him, but I still couldn't persuade my father, so I had to obey.

The father left his mother and younger sister in the family in Jinling, when the younger sister was only eight years old.Because there is a strange rule in the family that female members of the Yi family are not allowed to come close to the yard where the owner lives, so my mother and younger sister have been living in the other courtyard of the Yi family ten miles away from our home. My father and I often have to go back and forth to visit they.After we left with Sister Yu, my mother and younger sister moved into our family, and my mother also became the housekeeper, responsible for taking care of the entire Yin family mansion.It's just that my mother's health has been bad, and my father and I are very worried about her.Facts have proved that our worries were not superfluous. My mother passed away a few years after we left.

Those who came to Beijing with us, apart from some high-level officials from Qianyumen, there are also two special figures.One is the mother-in-law of our Yi family, and the other is sister Yu's young bodyguard - Lu Yifeng.Lu Yifeng, a master of swordsmanship, is not more than two years older than me, but his kung fu is much higher than mine, which is really enviable.He was an orphan who was a master of the Thousand Feather Sect when sister Yu was in Huzhou. The master who raised him and taught him Kung Fu was conspired to death. Since then, he has been alone in the mountains and forests of Huzhou. The mountain people drove away some real robbers and begged for a few bites of food.This guy is upright and always strict. I don't think he is happy, and whenever I find free time, I will talk to him.

The mother-in-law of the clan is the older generation of our Yi family, and she is my father's little aunt. She has inherited the Yi family's ancestral Wanhua technique.Only female members of the Yi family can learn this ten thousand transformation technique, which includes disguise technique, bone shrinking technique, voice imitation technique, etc. Most men disdain to learn this kind of heresy, so this unique skill is almost lost when it comes to the clan mother-in-law.Grandma Zu is a very naughty old lady, she often pretends to be someone else to trick me, I like her very much.She has a very good body, although she is over 50 years old now, she can't tell it at all.I reckon that she may live to be eight or ninety years old and it will not be a problem.She has never married in her whole life, she has been studying the art of disguise, and she hardly ever goes out of the house. Even in the clan, few people know of her existence.

Sister Yu was able to disguise herself as a man so realistically, thanks to the help of her mother-in-law.This time in Beijing, Sister Yu has to maintain her masculine disguise, so her mother-in-law is also indispensable to help her.

As for me... I really don't want to go to Chang'an.Not only because my father forced me to study medicine and inherit his position.It's because... I really can't stay with Qin Lian for a moment longer.I'm afraid that my embarrassment, in her eyes, will annoy her, and I'm afraid that my carefully hidden emotions will be discovered by elder sister Yu.

But I still followed them to Chang'an after all.The Yin family has a house in Chang'an. When our group arrived, the servants of the Chang'an mansion had already cleaned up the house.We set out in the autumn of the previous year and arrived in the spring of the second year. It is not long before Chunwei.After I arrived in Chang'an, I seldom stayed in the mansion. I went out to fool around very early every day, and I didn't know where to go until midnight. Later, I simply stayed at a friend's house, avoiding the people in Yin's mansion.At that time, I was already fourteen or five years old, and I was half a child. I learned a lot of things from those new friends I made in Chang'an, and I was no longer the simple boy I used to be.

Not long after, one day I was called home by my father.Accidentally met Qin Lian in the mansion, and suddenly discovered that Qin Lian was pregnant, and her abdomen was already swollen, it seemed that it had been a long time.

I was so shocked, even though I accepted the fact that the two women got married, I still couldn't figure out why Qin Lian was pregnant.I can guarantee with my life that Qin Lian will never have an affair with other men, and the only person who can get her pregnant is sister Yu.But elder sister Yu... she is a girl!

After that, my father took the initiative to tell me everything.He said he knew I had many doubts in my heart, and he would answer them for me.Then, he told me the secret of Yin's Luanhuang bloodline, and gave me a manuscript to read.He didn't give me this manuscript at the time, but just let me read it on the spot, and he took it back after reading it.After telling me this amazing secret, my father still said the same thing: keep it strictly confidential, even if you lose your life, you must not reveal it.

Of course I won't reveal it, but it really took me a long time to accept this fact.

During that time, the Yin family was really happy.After Qin Lian became pregnant and gave birth to her daughter, the news of Sister Yu's high school champion spread throughout Chang'an.Not only Yu's sister won the top prize in high school, but Qin Lian's father, Qin Zhen, also finally became a top student in high school.

As for the second place, it is Zhang Jiuling from the Zhang family in Qujiang. This young scholar is about the same age as sister Yu, and he is also very talented, but I don't know him very well.The top three Jinshi, had infinite scenery at that time.The angry horses in fresh clothes swim in Chang'an, the poem plaques are hung under the Ci'en Pagoda, and the Qujiang River is full of flowers and feasts.These three items are an excellent opportunity for talented scholars who have entered the ranks of Jinshi to show off their reputations.

Sister Yu's demeanor almost completely overwhelmed Zhang Jiuling and Qin Zhen. At that time, she was the most dazzling person in Chang'an.Her beauty, her talent, her bearing and demeanor are all admirable.The tree attracts the wind, and because of this, elder sister Yu has provoked someone who absolutely should not be provoked.

The most beloved youngest daughter of His Majesty the Emperor Wu—Princess Taiping Li Lingyue.

The author has something to say: Memories Chapter 1, I don't know how long this one will last, but it won't be too long.It is mainly narrated from Yixu's perspective, so... you know, it may not be the whole truth.

Also, a friend guessed right before that Father Yin is actually Mother Yin.