The game starts with escaping from the famine and flipping the table

The Office of the Minister of Rites.

Elm Courtyard.

You Rongyu sat quietly at the stone table in the yard.

Next to the stone table is an elm tree.

You Rongyu raised her head slightly, and quietly looked at the rays of sunlight shining through the gaps through the dense elm leaves.

Elm seeds are the winged fruits of the elm tree, and are named after their round and thin shape like coins.

"Yuqian" is a homonym for "surplus money". From the literal meaning, this name does have a beautiful meaning.

You Rongyu moved the corners of her mouth and pulled out a sarcastic smile "Rongyu" - "redundant"!

This is no coincidence.

This must have been something my father did on purpose.

The purpose is self-evident, which is to tell my father's white moonlight cousin that both I and my mother are redundant in my father's heart!

Such a simple name clearly tells everyone in the Minister of Rites' Mansion: You Rongyu, the eldest daughter, is the superfluous existence.

When she was a child, You Rongyu never understood: if her father really hated her mother so much, he could have just not married her in the first place. Why did he marry her and then abandon her?

Such behavior is really puzzling and shameful.

Later, when You Rongyu grew up, she learned the so-called truth from the servants.

It was said that my mother was originally a concubine of the Marquis of Chang'an, and she framed my father so that she could marry him. She broke up my father and Song Qianqian, a pair of childhood sweethearts.

You Rongyu still remembers the shame she felt when she heard these words.

That day, young You Rongyu did not eat for the whole day. She felt that she was deeply sinful and did not deserve to live.

You Rongyu really wanted to starve herself to death.

You Rongyu couldn't help laughing again.

In fact, her mother Yu Shanshan was just being schemed against.

Yu Shanshan should have enjoyed a happy and fulfilling life, but the reality is so cruel and ruthless.

Even though she was framed, Yu Shanshan still married her father with great expectations. But she was ignored after the marriage.

Yu Shanshan finally got pregnant for ten months, but when she was about to give birth, she heard the news between You Jiaming and his cousin Bai Yueguang.

This sudden blow caused Yu Shanshan to be shocked and angry. Her emotional excitement caused abnormal fetal movement, resulting in premature birth, and eventually she passed away due to excessive blood loss...

If this was someone else's story, You Rongyu would only feel that it was full of tragedy and could not help but feel pity and sadness for the woman. There was nothing else she could do except shed tears of sympathy.

However, this is what actually happened to You Rongyu's mother, and it directly led to You Rongyu's miserable life.

You Rongyu lived in fear in the Minister of Rites' mansion for more than ten years.

No one knows better than her what the warmth and coldness of life are, and what it means to be a child without parental love and to be treated as worthless as a blade of grass in a wealthy family.

What's more, it's redundant! This is not a lack of love, but rather a blatant dislike. Behind this seemingly simple name, there are so many unknown pains and struggles!

You Rongyu withdrew her gaze, stretched out her hand and caught a fallen leaf from the elm tree.

Falling leaves don't just happen in autumn.

You Rongyu picked up the teapot and carefully rinsed the elm leaves in her hands.

Then she slightly opened her red lips and put the elm leaves into her mouth, chewing them slowly.

The elm tree is a tree planted by every household in the countryside where the land is dry and barren.

There’s no other reason, elm seeds are edible.

When the spring breeze brings the first hint of green, golden elm seeds are dotted on the branches. Poor families will pick them while they are still fresh and cook them into food.

After eating elm seed porridge, Ouyang Xiu, a great writer in the Song Dynasty, left a poem that goes "The spring light is cold in the cups and plates of porridge, and the elm seeds in the pond are fresh after the night rain."

The method of making elm seed porridge is very simple.

Just wash the elm seeds and put them aside, add water to a clay pot and bring it to a boil, then put in rice or millet and cook into porridge.

When the rice is almost cooked, add the washed elm seeds and continue cooking for half a quarter of an hour. Add appropriate amount of salt and it is ready to eat.

Elm seeds can also be steamed and eaten.

First remove the elm leaves and other impurities, wash the elm seeds clean, drain the water and set aside.

Then mix the cleaned elm seeds with buckwheat flour, corn flour or white flour to make steamed bread, and then steam it in a steamer for half an hour before serving.

You can also use elm money as stuffing.

Wash and chop the elm seeds, add shrimp, meat or eggs and mix well, then make dumplings, steamed buns, or pancakes...

Uh!

The final method of making the filling was what You Rongyu had imagined countless times. After she came of age, she finally found the opportunity to realize her wish. She made a mixture of elm seeds, shrimps, meat and eggs, and made dumplings, steamed buns and rolled pancakes.

It's delicious!

It was a hundred times more delicious than any other time You Rongyu had eaten it before.

After all, You Rongyu has been eating the first two methods for ten years.

Every year when the elm seeds are edible, it is the happiest time for You Rongyu.

Only at this time of the year can You Rongyu fill her stomach. This is also a helpless move, because she has been facing the plight of food shortage and lack of clothing since she was a child.

Who could have known that the elm tree in the yard that was originally used to mock her would now become the benefactor that saved her life.

Otherwise, I'm afraid You Rongyu would have died like many officials' families who disappeared in the backyards?

Moreover, he ended up starving to death.

The past events are like smoke dispersed by the wind, but not all memories can be erased so easily.

You Rongyu knew very well that the reason why she ended up in this situation and was left here to fend for herself was not only because of her cruel and ruthless father, but also because of Song Qianqian's instigation.

In the backyard, those sinister and cunning means are endless, making it difficult to guard against.

After all, the backyard is a battlefield without the smoke of gunpowder.

The intrigues and secret struggles in the harem are more terrifying than the real swords and guns on the battlefield. If you are not careful, you may fall into an irretrievable situation.

However, facing such a complex and dangerous environment, the hungry You Rongyu had no power to fight back except to fend for herself in the Yuyuan Courtyard.

You Rongyu expressed her gratitude more than once. If it weren't for her mother's blessing, I'm afraid You Rongyu would have died hundreds of times!

The predecessors planted trees, and the descendants took the shade.

You Rongyu was extremely grateful for her mother's kindness.

It was because of You Rongyu's mother, Yu Shanshan, that kind-hearted woman, who really did what she did: "Be careful not to hurt the lives of ants when sweeping the floor, be careful not to let moths fly around in the lampshade, don't fish in the pond, and release the birds in the cage."

Not only did he take in the orphan Chun Xing, who had a miserable life, but he also saved the little girl Xia Yu, who sold herself to bury her father because of her poor family.

Chun Xing is very talented and good at writing.

Xia Yu is a martial arts expert with extraordinary skills.

It is thanks to the concerted efforts of the two of them to protect her that You Rongyu can live safely.