Chapter 207: Feeling the same (please vote for the third update!)
The love between father and son
Liu E is a legendary empress dowager. Looking at history, her experience is very similar to that of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and her mother, but much lower than Wang A. After all, Wang A was a queen from a famous family and had a mother with great powers. But Liu E was just a woman.
The lonely and helpless Sichuan girl was forced to make a living, so she married a silversmith named Gong Mei as her wife when she was a teenager. Gong Mei walked around the streets making silverware every day, and Liu E shook the rattle to attract customers.
At that time, some people said that she could become a queen, queen mother, and almost become an emperor in the future. She was afraid that she would not even be able to laugh.
Why, I'm hungry.
At that time, Sichuan was not a prosperous country like Chen Ke and others. At that time, due to historical reasons, Shuzhong was brutally exploited by the imperial court. The famous Wang Xiaobo uprising had just ended, and Sichuan was filled with rivers of blood and thousands of miles of red land. The common people could not afford to eat at all.
Rice, how can I be interested in striking silverware?
The young couple couldn't make ends meet at all, and later they couldn't survive anymore. Gong Mei decided to go to the capital to try his luck. He originally wanted to go on his own, but Liu E said, "I'm going with you, and I don't know who is helping whom."
That's true. If it hadn't been for Liu E playing drums and singing, barely making ends meet, the two of them would never have been able to travel through thousands of mountains and rivers, and they wouldn't have been able to reach Bianjing City.
Unexpectedly, when they arrived in the capital, there were many masters, and Gong Mei couldn't find food at all with her little skills. Seeing that she was about to starve to death, Gong Mei came up with a way that was good for both of them - he followed him thousands of miles away.
The wife who depended on each other was sold into Prince Xiang's Mansion. You may despise him for being ruthless and selfish, but looking at Liu E's subsequent attitude towards him, you can know that this was what the two of them had discussed at the time.
When even the most basic life cannot be guaranteed, it is admirable to support each other, but there is no blame if we let go.
Who would have thought that this helpless move would cause earth-shaking changes in the fate of the two of them.
It's all because of love.
Zhao Heng, the king of Xiang who was still called Zhao Yuanxiu at that time, got Liu E in this way. The two people had very different backgrounds and levels. In front of Zhao Heng, who was the prince, the heir to the throne, and whose literary accomplishment was second only to Song Huizong, Liu E had no idea.
A poor girl who had studied and married before was as lowly as grass, but she fell in love at first sight and has loved her for the rest of her life. If this is not love, then there is no love in this world.
But the relationship between the two was by no means smooth. Zhao Hengchong fell in love with a lowly Sichuan girl, and everyone disagreed. The matter quickly reached Song Taizong. The informant was Zhao Heng's nanny, saying that he was seduced by a witch.
If you don't care about your studies, your body will be empty.
Zhao Guangyi was furious and ordered Zhao Heng to drive Liu E out of the palace immediately and never interact with her. As a result, Liu E could only leave the palace sadly, but Zhao Heng really loved her, and the two began an underground love affair that lasted for several years.
It was not until Zhao Guangyi later became emperor and Zhao Heng became the emperor that he took her back to the palace and lived together openly and honestly.
To put it simply, Liu E became the queen step by step, but she could not have children. But it didn't matter, as long as she had the emperor's love, she was invincible. The story of "civet cat for prince" happened in history, Liu E
She had a son, even though he was not her biological son, but no one inside or outside the palace dared to say a word to her while she was alive.
That child was Zhao Zhen. He fully inherited his father's romance and also fell in love with a folk girl...
Ordinarily, the same story repeats itself in the generation of sons. Liu E should be happy and happily help the couple to continue the romantic fairy tale of their parents' generation. But if that is done, Liu E will not be the super person who holds the world in his hands and dominates himself. The Queen Mother.
Not only did she have no special feelings for Wang Xiu, the lucky man, but she felt deep fear - Liu E had experienced the dangers of free love firsthand, and Zhao Heng actually dared to hide Zhao Guangyi's beauty in a golden house for her sake. That was... Song Taizong, who was known for being suspicious and ruthless, was also merciless to his own children! How could Zhao Heng do such a stupid thing if it wasn't because of love that went to his head?
After becoming the emperor, he overcame many obstacles and helped her to become the queen. Even though she was a second marriage, and even though she was already old and gloomy by then, Zhao Heng had no regrets.
Of course, it was lucky and touching for this kind of thing to happen to her, but when it happened to another woman, and the object was her own son, it was not warm at all. Liu E was worried that the woman would snatch her son away, and even more Worried about losing control of her son - that's where her power comes from!
So Liu E sternly rejected the emperor's request and immediately kicked Wang Xiu out of the palace, preventing his son from seeing her again. Ironically, the reason she gave was that this girl was too charming and might not be good for the young man. The reason why Zhao Heng's nanny drove her out of the palace was exactly the same.
And as a person who had experienced it, in order to prevent her son from meeting his sweetheart in private, she married Wang Xiu in a blink of an eye. The husband she chose was named Liu Congde. Liu Congde’s father was named Liu Mei. Liu Mei’s original name was Gong Mei, who was Liu E’s Ex-husband. He took his ex-wife's surname and pretended to be Liu E's brother-in-law, thus becoming Zhao Heng's brother-in-law. He was regarded by Liu E as his only relative and lived a lifetime of prosperity and wealth.
There is no need to explain your strong life, but it is mainly due to the blessing of being born a hundred years early. What if these two were born in an era when Neo-Confucianism was prevalent?
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The flower of first love died before it bloomed, and in such a cruel way. Zhao Zhen's anger can be imagined. He couldn't bear it anymore, but... he had to continue to endure it. Who said it was his mother?
However, Liu E did not feel guilty, because she quickly married him a wife. Of course, the candidate for the queen was her favorite - the granddaughter of Guo Chong, the Guo clan Empress Guo.
Empress Guo was chosen by Liu E. The woman who made Zhao Zhen forget about Wang Xiu naturally became the queen of the country. However, Zhao Zhen put all the anger that he could not express against Liu E on her. Empress Guo was the queen of the general family and was unruly by nature. He is highly skilled in martial arts and never accepts the situation. So from the beginning, the couple could not urinate in a pot.
At first, when Liu E was there, Zhao Zhen did not dare to mess around. After Liu E passed away in the second year of Ming Dynasty, he ignored her and favored a beauty named Shang instead. He did not see her for several months. Empress Guo Unable to endure it, he came to accuse Shang Meiren of seducing the emperor.
Relying on Zhao Zhen's favor, Shang Meiren actually spoke rudely to the queen. Whether as a queen or a head wife, Queen Guo's dignity was seriously offended. In an instant, her natural instinct as a tiger girl took over, and she pounced on her. hand.
Shang Meiren hurriedly dodged, but the slap fell on Zhao Zhen's face by mistake. Years of resentment suddenly broke out, and the resentment against Liu E was also blamed on Queen Guo. Zhao Zhen was crippled.
she……
But after all, they have been married for ten years. Even if there is no love, there is still family affection. Although they were always cold-blooded when they were together, Zhao Zhen regretted it when he really divorced her. A year later, he was in Houhuayuan
While traveling, I saw a small sedan covered with dust, which his ex-wife often rode in.
The official stood beside the sedan for a long time, then wrote a poem "Celebrating the Golden Branches" and sent it to Guo. When Empress Guo was sad, she wrote a poem in return for Zhao Zhen. The words were sad and sad. The emperor saw
After his death, he became even more sad. He immediately ordered someone to leave quietly and asked his ex-wife to get into the palace secretly in a sedan chair to meet her.
But Mrs. Guo was a stubborn and inflexible person. She said that it was okay to enter the palace, but she had to be "a hundred officials appointed and appointed to the throne", upright, reasonable and legal, and return to the palace as a queen.
Just like deposing a queen, it is no joke to depose and re-establish it. Not only are the procedures cumbersome, but more importantly, the emperor has to bear a lot of pressure from public opinion, because deposing the queen and marrying him again means that he is wrong to depose the queen.
, Zhao Zhen was frightened from the bottom of his heart when he thought about the overwhelming criticism he had received when he was deposed.
While the officials were hesitating, his troubles were solved - Empress Guo, who was only 24 years old, died of a sudden illness. Of course, this was the official statement. In fact, Empress Guo was killed by someone, and the murderer
It was those who encouraged the emperor to depose the queen. But no matter what, they caused great trauma to Zhao Zhen...
So much so that twenty years after the incident, Zhao Zhen would still think of his unruly ex-wife when he dreamed about it at midnight...
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Guan Jia was passionate and gentle, and he had loved many women in his life. But there were three that left him unforgettable the most, and among them were these two women who left him with deep regret.
The reason why Queen Cao's story brought back so many memories for him was because Chen Ke and the two girls were so similar to him, Wang Xiu and Guo...
Su Xiaomei and Wang Xiu are both gentle and pleasant folk girls. They were their first loves, but they were not recognized by their elders, so they settled on Liu Yue'e and Guo instead.
Liu Yue'e and the Liu family were both queens of the generals and proud daughters of heaven. They even slapped them in the face. As a result, one was deposed and the other had their engagement annulled... Although the repercussions were very different, for the two women, it was
There is no difference.
Therefore, Zhao Zhen understands and envies Chen Ke very much, and he can protect his first love at all costs. This is what his father once did. Only he, who was gentle and cowardly and resigned since he was a child, failed to do it. So here in Zhao Zhen,
Chen Ke made a private decision for life and insisted on breaking off the engagement. This is not a sin at all, but rather a courage worthy of praise.
If Zhao Zonghui knew that due to his evil intentions, the official had a strong liking for Chen Ke, and even a sense of empathy, he wonders whether he would find a trap to jump into.
After a long while, the silent emperor asked in a low voice: "Is Liu Yue'e here?"
"No." Since he couldn't hide it, Chen Ke said calmly: "I saw her at my uncle's house when I was welcoming the bride, but I didn't see her when I came back."
"Oh..." The official was silent again for a while, then looked at Chen Ke and said, "Have you considered what she will do in the future?" He thought of Guo's last years and said in a more serious tone: "A person whose engagement was annulled.
Girl, how difficult will it be?"
Everyone in the room was stunned. Why did the officials even care about this matter?