Chapter 1

Suihe three years, summer.

In Jiang's mansion, the trees are deep and the green shadow is heavy. The cloister is hidden in the trees. It's hard to find people walking in it.

Mu Mingtang, wearing a light blue silver cross collar and six pleated skirts, stood behind the trees. Two people outside are concentrating on talking, and did not find her.

She was originally dressed light, mixed in the mottled shadow of the trees, it was not easy to find out if she did not look carefully. But mu Mingtang knew that the real reason was that the king of Jin was too happy to meet his old love again. So much so that he, who had always been alert, did not notice that there was a person standing behind the tree.

"Brother Ji, I was sorry for you. Blame me for my bewilderment. I was cheated by a traitor. I misunderstood you and left my parents behind. Fortunately, you've had a good year. Otherwise, I really... "

The woman in Biyi suddenly choked and couldn't speak. She didn't wear powder and makeup. At first glance, she was not surprised, but the more she looked, the more beautiful she was, and the more she looked, the more enduring she was. Her eyes are big and her eyebrows are high. She looks very stubborn. Now her eyes are full of tears, and she tries hard not to let the tears fall, which is especially distressing.

Xie Xuanji is distressed. He can't help but take a step closer and hold the woman's arms in front of him. He wants to exert himself, but he doesn't dare to be abrupt. "Mingwei, it's OK, as long as you come back. The position of the Jiang family has been reserved for you all these years. As long as you come back, nothing will change. "

The woman, known as Mingwei, shed tears: "but brother Ji, I'm not worthy of you. I was deceived by Rong people at the beginning. I didn't know how to fall into the trap. I doubted your intention and escaped marriage on Shangyuan Festival. I think a lot this year, but the more I understand, the more I dare not come back to see you. Even if the Rong people took me, but to put it bluntly, I still don't know who I am. I've come to this situation by myself, and I can't blame others. Knowing that you are all right, I am already satisfied and dare not expect anything else. I heard that you are engaged to her. It's good. She will take good care of you for me. "

"No, Mingwei." Xie Xuanji seems to be in a hurry. He takes a step forward and has almost pasted it in front of Jiang Mingwei. He stooped to look at Jiang Mingwei, a pair of eyes focused and deep: "I said, as long as you come back, I will always be here. To postpone the engagement to Jiang Mingtang is just because the imperial edict has been announced. Uncle Jiang can't disobey the imperial edict, so he has to claim a daughter outside and come back to take your place. But the real is the real, and the fake is the fake. Now that you have come back, what do you want to do with substitutes? Princess Jin, it will always be you. "

"But I was taken away by the Rong people, and my whereabouts were unknown for a year. The royal family attaches the most importance to chastity. I know I am clean, but how can others believe me? If I marry you, won't I make you ridiculed? "

Jiang Mingwei seems to be ashamed and ashamed when she talks about the back. She can't help drooping her head and revealing a long neck. Xie Xuanji was very happy when he heard that. He was always gentle and calm, but now he couldn't help laughing. He almost threw jiang Mingwei into his arms. "Great, Mingwei. Do you know how happy I am when I heard that sentence. You do not belong to other men, you are still virgin body, I simply ecstatic. You may rest assured that no one else will know about your disappearance this year except you and me, and Jiang's uncle and wife. If outsiders ask, just say that you're out of town. As for the father and the mother, I have to say that you just need to get married. "

Hearing Xie Xuanji's words, Jiang Mingwei's face turned red and her cheeks fainted. After a while, she seemed to suddenly think of something, pale, or gently pushed away Xie Xuanji: "brother Ji, you are very moved to my heart, but now I am not worthy of it. The princess you haven't met has become someone else. She is more clever and filial than me. She won't make my parents angry like me. When my parents adopt her, they must think that she is more intimate and suitable to be a daughter than me. Now that the engagement has changed, I should be more interesting and go away. I will not only delay your marriage, but also annoy the second lady. "

"Mingwei, what are you talking about?" Xie Xuanji said coldly and without hesitation, "I have never had any feelings for her. I always regard her as your substitute. Uncle Jiang, they are the same. If she didn't look like you, how could she enter the door of the Jiang family? She was originally a fugitive, but now she has enjoyed a year's wealth in the Chiang family, which is a great fortune. She knows that gratitude is OK. If she can't identify herself and dares to target you, I will not let her go. "

Jiang Mingwei's eyes are filled with tears, and her strong eyes are full of tears. She will not fall: "brother Ji..."

"Ming Wei." Xie Xuanji's heart was broken by her eyes. He could not help hugging her, "just come back. Uncle Jiang and I have been waiting for you for a year. Now, it's time for everything to return to its original place. "

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What a touching smile. The more he smiles, the more he feels like a joke. They had no idea when they were young, but they passed by because of misunderstanding. Now they are reunited, showing their heart to each other and solving the misunderstanding. What will happen next is to get married and have a happy life with the blessing of both parents.What a touching scene, what an enviable feeling. And Mu Mingtang is the interloper in this pair of childhood friends, a replacement who does not know the greatness of heaven and earth, and the only outsider in the whole incident.

The "she" in Jiang Mingwei's words and the "double" in Xie Xuanji's words are Mu Mingtang.

As Xie Xuanji said, Mu Mingtang was not born high. Especially compared with the two people in front of him, Xie Xuanji is the prince and has been granted the king of Jin. Another person, Jiang Mingwei, is the daughter of a senior official and grew up with Xie Xuanji. Mu Mingtang is not even from Beijing.

She was originally from Xiangyang. Her family was not a scholarly family or an official family, but a merchant full of copper smell. Although he was born in a poor family, his parents were harmonious and his family was rich. With the love of his parents, Mu Mingtang grew up to 12 years old. Originally, her life path should be the same as many ordinary town girls. Her family is ordinary, and her parents love her. She grows up step by step. Then she marries another ordinary man when she reaches hairpin, gets married and has children, and forms an ordinary small family.

was as like as two peas in the first half of her life, but at the age of twelve, all the peace was broken.

In the third year of Hongjia, Xiangyang was surrounded. After a few days of resistance, the governor saw that the Jie people were fierce. The governor was greedy for life and afraid of death. He left the huge Xiangyang City and all the civilians in the city and fled out of the city overnight. When the prefect left, he also took away the elite troops and weapons of the whole city. Without weapons and command, Xiangyang will not be defeated. The Jie people go to the city to slaughter. Mu Mingtang's parents are killed by the Jie people just to protect Mu Mingtang from going out of the city.

Unfortunately, even so, Mu Mingtang did not run out of Xiangyang. After all, there are many ordinary people in the world. Mu Mingtang has neither the martial arts of flying over the eaves nor the wisdom of keeping calm in the face of danger. He was discovered by Jieren on the way. She almost went with her parents. Fortunately, when Marquis Wu'an came to the city, she recovered her life.

Later, with many refugees, Mu Mingtang went north to find a place to live. After the destruction of his hometown, Mu Mingtang suddenly fell from a well-off business lady to a penniless refugee who could step on anyone. She is a girl, or a 12-3-year-old, quite beautiful woman, what she will experience on the road is self-evident.

Mu Mingtang's journey was very hard. Fortunately, she met her mother-in-law Zhou, who was also a family wreck. Mother-in-law Zhou protected her in the name of her grandparents and grandchildren, so that she could live and complete the whole earth preparation to yingtianfu.

Later, Mu Mingtang and her mother-in-law Zhou stopped at Chen Liu and planned to start a new life. Although Mu Mingtang has never met her, she has fled all the way to the north. Mu Mingtang takes her as her grandmother and plans to take care of her in the future. They depended on each other, sewing, washing clothes, weaving bamboo strips, everything. As a result, life is better and easier to get better, but Grandma Zhou falls ill because of overwork.

Mu Mingtang spent all his money to seek medical treatment for her mother-in-law, but her mother-in-law did not survive and died before spring. After Mrs. Zhou died, Mu Mingtang burst into tears and wanted to send her to earth with dignity. There are heroes in troubled times, but they are just ordinary people. They don't have the martial arts skills to fight, and they don't have the generals to cheer up. They can only live like mustard grass. Granny Zhou had no dignity when she lived, but after she died, she could walk face to face.

I didn't expect that it was just such a humble wish that God would not let Mu Mingtang come true. After the death of mother-in-law Zhou, the pawnbroker saw that Mu Mingtang was quite beautiful and had a bad heart. He told people all over the street that Mu Mingtang was stealing. Otherwise, as a weak woman, how could she take out the pawn from time to time.

Mu Mingtang is so angry that he scolds the pawnbroker in the street. On the way to escape, Mu Mingtang had already trained herself to be tough and tough. She scolded the pawnbroker fiercely. The pawnbroker was robbed by her one after another. He was so angry that he couldn't help fighting with her. The innocence and reserve of Mu Mingtang's boudoir have been sharpened long since he came to the present. When he saw this, he bit and grabbed the ground to fight with each other. As a result, in tearing, he was stopped by a line of well-dressed bodyguards.

When Mu Mingtang and the pawnbroker were pulled apart by the guards, she didn't know what had happened, but when she looked at each other's clothes, she knew it was someone she couldn't afford. People who are trying to make a living are most aware of current affairs. Mu Mingtang immediately converges his arrogance and does not dare to contradict with his head down. At this time, when she stopped far away, a servant girl came down from the very rich carriage. She was wearing a clean shiqingru skirt, her hair was tight, and the soles of her shoes were cleaner than Mu Mingtang's face. Seeing Mu Mingtang's appearance, the servant girl seemed to dislike him for a moment. Then she pinched her nose and said, "your ancestors are smoking, and you're lucky. Come with me. Our wife wants to see you

People who can be called wives are very important. Besides, it seems that the other party has a carriage and can also serve as a bodyguard. Maybe they are from the government. Mu Mingtang followed cautiously, and later found that her identity not only limited her insight, but also limited her imagination. The person who stopped her that day was not only the official, but also the wife of the third deputy secretary in the capital.

The third division is in charge of the Ministry of salt and iron, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of household affairs. It is the highest institution in charge of the national finance. The Deputy envoy of the third division is the second in command of the province. To use the concept that Mu Mingtang can understand, it is the deputy of the prime minister in charge of the national finance in the imperial court, just like the Deputy Prime Minister.

Mu Mingtang never thought that he just had a fight and ran into the Vice Prime Minister's wife. Mrs. Jiang looked at Mu Mingtang for a while and asked someone to take her back. Mu Mingtang went to the capital in a daze and trembling way. She washed for a long time in the evening. The next day, she changed her clothes and was taken to Mrs. Jiang and Mr. Jiang.After looking at it for a long time, Mr. Jiang nodded faintly to Mrs. Jiang: "just as you said."

According to what? What did Mrs. Jiang say?

Mu Mingtang didn't understand, but soon she knew.

Her life turned upside down from here. She was adopted as an adopted daughter by Mrs. Jiang and became the second daughter of Jiang Honghao, vice envoy of the third division. That's a true official lady and a famous family. How could Mu Mingtang, who was tumbling among the refugees, think that he would have such a fortune. Officials, people and businessmen are like a natural moat. Once upon a time, even the daughter of a shiye in Xiangyang Prefecture, the Mu family had to walk around with their tails between them, not to mention the daughter of the deputy prime minister in the central court.

Mu Mingtang flies up so fast that he is afraid. As the saying goes, the children of famous families are neither humble nor arrogant, while the villains will be rampant if they succeed. Mu Mingtang can understand this mentality very well. She was too afraid to lose all this, so she would do whatever Mrs. Jiang asked her to do, and she would do whatever the maid said.

Mu Mingtang later learned that the reason why Mrs. Jiang appeared in Chen Liu that day was because she went out to look for the lost Miss Jiang Mingwei.

The servant girls said that Shangyuan festival was too crowded. The first lady went out to look at the lamp and lost her. Even if Mu Mingtang had never been in the government, he could feel that this sentence was wrong. She used to be the daughter of the merchant. When she went out to watch the lights, her parents would arrange for a maid and a wife. Miss Jiang was a beautiful lady. Would Mrs Jiang neglect the guard? But Miss Jiang was lost, no matter how. Mrs. Jiang said it was. Mrs. Jiang found Chen Liu all the way. Instead of seeing her daughter's trace, she caught a glimpse of Mu Mingtang in the street.

At that time, Mu Mingtang was scolding and beating, which was very conspicuous. After looking at it for a while, Mrs. Jiang found that Mu Mingtang was similar to her lost daughter in age, even in face shape.

That's why Mrs. Jiang brought Mu Mingtang back. After seeing him, Jiang Honghao thought that it was not a good way, so he agreed. After that, Mu Mingtang was adopted by the Jiang family and changed her surname to Jiang. She remembered to be the second young lady and acted as a substitute for the lost young lady Jiang Mingwei.

Mu Mingtang knew her identity from the beginning. Her parents missed their daughter and failed to find her for a long time, so she put a similar one in front of her to comfort her. Mu Mingtang is very understanding, so he is willing to be another person's shadow, wear the color Jiang Mingwei likes, live in the house where Jiang Mingwei used to live, learn from Jiang Mingwei to speak and walk.

She wiped out her own characteristics that belonged to Mu Mingtang little by little. Mrs. Jiang despised her for being rude and disrespectful when fighting in the street. Mu Mingtang broke off her personal training in troubled times and became gentle and clever. She didn't show her teeth with a smile and didn't show her steps. Whatever you say, be quiet and slow.

She hides her real character and turns into another person. She was afraid of being thrown out of Chiang's house. She was afraid of going back to the precarious days and robbing food with wild dogs. In troubled times, dignity was useless, let alone imitating a person?

Mu Mingtang was locked up for a year of intensive training, and finally transformed into the famous lady Mrs. Jiang wanted. It's easier to be skinny than to be bony. Of course, she can't compare with Jiang Mingwei, who was born rich and noble. Her knowledge and conversation are all too poor. But when she doesn't speak, Mu Mingtang already has some shadow of Jiang Mingwei.

Mrs. Jiang was barely satisfied. In March this year, she formally took Mu Mingtang out to cross Ming Road. After that, Mu Mingtang really understood why the Jiang family wanted to adopt an adopted daughter and why Mrs. Jiang was anxious to train her well.

It turns out that the glory of Jiang's family is not only that Jiang Honghao is in the province, but also that Jiang Mingwei is given a marriage to the prince.

The emperor never took back what he said, let alone the marriage edict. Jiang Mingwei disappeared in Shangyuan Festival last year. It's easy for her to find her own freedom, but it's hard for the Jiang family to step down. On the one hand, Mrs. Jiang was worried about her daughter. On the other hand, it was for the sake of the marriage between the Jiang family and the king of Jin.

The king of Jin is the prince, known as the sage, is the most popular candidate in the court. If the emperor had not seen that he and Jiang's family were neighbors before he ascended the throne, he would not have smashed such a great honor on Jiang's family. Jiang Mingwei's escape from marriage - of course, it is mu Mingtang's own saying, and Mrs. Jiang always insists that her daughter has been robbed - this holy appreciation has become a life threatening symbol for Jiang Honghao. Jiang Honghao was very angry when he learned that Jiang Mingwei had disappeared. He was so angry that he said he didn't have Jiang Mingwei's daughter. He even refused to send someone out to chase her. Mrs. Jiang loves her daughter, but she is also saddened by her husband's heartlessness. Her husband doesn't care, so she has to take care of her own affairs. Later, it happened that she met Mu Mingtang, and Mrs. Jiang came up with a plan for Li Daitao.

Mrs. Jiang only hopes that Jiang Mingwei is on a whim and will come back when her heart is broken. If she doesn't come back, or it's too late, it's more or less a remedy for mu Mingtang. After all, the Emperor gave the marriage to the daughter of the king of Jin and Jiang Honghao, but it must be Jiang Mingwei. After the adoption of Mu Mingtang, Mu Mingtang was barely regarded as the daughter of Jiang Honghao.

In March, Mrs. Jiang completely gave up her hope for Jiang Mingwei and formally introduced her second daughter, Jiang Mingtang, to the wives of officials in Beijing. In April, under the care of their elders, Mu Mingtang and Xie Xuanji, the king of Jin, looked across the screen. Even if they met before marriage, they acquiesced in the marriage.

Mu Mingtang said that the king of Jin was infatuated with Jiang Mingwei, and his heart can be learned. Jiang Mingwei escapes from marriage and is suspected of eloping. As the prince and fiance to be, the king of Jin is not furious. Instead, he quietly helps Mrs. Jiang to find Jiang Mingwei. Later, seeing that the wedding date was approaching, Xie Xuanji accepted the imitation arranged by the Jiang family without saying a word.His infatuated Mu Mingtang was moved. As a stand in, Mu Mingtang knows her position very well. She knows that what Mrs. Jiang looks at and thinks about is always her daughter. Even when the king of Jin looks at her, what she looks for is similar to Jiang Mingwei. Mu Mingtang can enjoy beautiful clothes and good food in her life, and she can be a princess in the end. She is already scared. She is not greedy, and she does not expect the love of the king of Jin.

She is ready to be the shadow of Jiang Mingwei all her life. Before she gets married, she is a good daughter who looks like Jiang Mingwei but is more docile than Jiang Mingwei. After she gets married, she is the shadow of the white moon in the heart of the king of Jin. It doesn't matter who Mu Mingtang is, what she likes and who she used to be.

Who knows, just today, at the birthday party arranged by the Jiang family for mu Mingtang, the principal Jiang Mingwei appeared.

Jiang Mingwei did not appear in front of people, but mu Mingtang found that the king of Jin suddenly disappeared, inexplicable intuition told her that something was wrong. Mu Mingtang quietly followed, did not expect to hear such a moving play.

She stood behind the shadow of the tree, listening to the confession of the affectionate Lord and white moonlight for a long time, and felt that their love was really great.

The king of Jin was deeply moved by his love and his devotion to his lover.

So how does she, her poor substitute, a mean vagrant, spend her time?

Mu Mingtang didn't want to listen any more and turned to go back. On the way, she came out to look for her maid. The servant girl saw her, eyebrows immediately disgusted to pick up: "second young lady, the wife said can't walk around, how can you still remember?"

The maid stood in the other direction and didn't see the figure behind the trees. When Xie Xuanji and Jiang Mingwei hear the voice, they both stop talking. Xie Xuanji's face changes. They quickly bypass the shelter and see that a light blue background in the corridor is slowly moving away. Her cover is printed with silver frost flowers, covering the light blue damask, like a frost cloud.

Always wear light and high-grade green and blue white, always with the alienation of passers-by and confidants. From Xie Xuanji's point of view, this figure is really like Jiang Mingwei.

But Xie Xuanji knew it was not. Xie Xuanji frowned secretly. Why did she come?

The servant girl naturally said that Mu Mingtang was not a lady or elegant enough. Mu Mingtang endured it. Once upon a time, she didn't think about it. Today, she finds out that even a servant girl in Jiang's family dares to despise her openly.

Yeah, because she's a double. The imitation of Jiang Mingwei, the substitute of Bai Yueyue in the heart of the king of Jin Dynasty, is a kind of dog rather than a tiger.

The servant girl chattered endlessly, and Mu Mingtang only ignored it, neither argued nor responded. She waited quietly, waiting for the Chiang family to deal with her.

She thought that Jiang Honghao, who was the worst at night, would always send someone to talk to her. However, Mu Mingtang found that people really can not be self righteous, she waited for a long time, no one came to her, only a Mammy, coldly said to her: "second miss, this is the first lady's room. The first lady doesn't like to be touched. Please move out

Mu Mingtang felt relieved for a while, stood up, nodded and said, "it's reasonable. This is my sister's room. Now that my elder sister comes back, I have no reason to occupy her room. I'll take care of it now. "

"No need." Mammy, with her eyelids down and her indifference, said, "all the furnishings in the room belong to the first lady, even the clothes. Second lady, it's enough for you to come out by yourself. "

Mu Mingtang thought that Jiang Jiabi had adopted her. She gave her rich food and clothing and shelter in the mansion this year. So she resisted humiliation and said nothing. She left the room where she had lived for a year and moved to the cold guest room. Once upon a time, when she was in exile, she had taught Mu Mingtang that she was cold and warm. She became practical and philistine. What's disgrace? It's enough to live well.

Mu Mingtang thought that she was so smart. In this way, someone in the Jiang family would come to her to be polite.

Facts have proved that Mu Mingtang still thinks highly of himself. She was left in the guest room for three days. At noon on the fourth day, someone finally came to see her: "miss two, the officials sent you there."

Mu Mingtang tidied himself up and went to the study like a obedient gift. In the study, Jiang Honghao was already sitting. To her surprise, Xie Xuanji was also there.

Mu Mingtang just glanced back and saluted Jiang Honghao very gentlely: "father."

As for Xie Xuanji, it turns out that they are unmarried, but now they are not. Mu Mingtang has no reason to talk to a foreigner. Jiang Honghao didn't say anything, so mu Mingtang couldn't take the initiative to greet Xie Xuanji.

"Well." Jiang Honghao just nodded. He looked at the girl in front of him and thought of what would happen in a moment. It was hard for him to show some pity. Anyway, she has been living in Jiang's house for a year. After two days, she will get married. Let's prepare more dowry for her.

Jiang Honghao was very satisfied with his kindness. He picked up his beard and said, "I think you already know that your elder sister has come back. The engagement of the king of Jin was originally with Mingwei. It's really helpless to let you replace him. Do you understand? "

Mu Mingtang bowed his head meekly: "I understand."

"Good. But you can rest assured that since you have become my adopted daughter, I will not treat you badly. The king of Jin asked his majesty for orders a few days ago. His majesty agreed to let you marry to the Qiyang Palace today. "Jiang Honghao said with a smile and said, "although you are my adopted daughter, the Jiang family is by no means one who favors one over the other. You are still a princess after you marry to the Qiyang palace. Later, you two become sisters in law. You have to watch each other in the clan, so that you can live up to your father's instructions. It's extraordinary that you are today. "

Mu Mingtang was stunned for a long time before he realized what Jiang Honghao was saying. She is still a princess, but not married to the king of Jin, but the king of Qiyang?

And listen to Jiang Honghao's meaning, she is a merchant's daughter, and later became a vagrant, can become a princess, all by the light of the Jiang family. Mu Mingtang slowly raised his head and asked, "father, King Qiyang, is he a living dead man?"