Tang Dynasty woman

Chapter 32 Affair in the Early Tang Dynasty: The Eternal Empress (1) ([-])
5. Humei can confuse the Lord

Look over there Concubine Xiao Shu is pregnant. Concubine Liu Gui is deeply afraid that if Concubine Xiao Shu gives birth to a boy in the future, relying on the temporary favor of Long Live Lord, her son Li Zhengben will be taken away as the crown prince; so she quietly went to see the Queen, Urging her to hurry up the strategy of calling Wu Meiniang into the palace.

Coincidentally, it was the fourth anniversary of Taizong's death.In the area of ​​the capital, all the monasteries, large and small, performed Buddhist rituals to honor the late emperor. Gaozong also personally went to various temples to burn incense and offer sacrifices.Gaozong picked up a white jade wine cup and was about to drink it, but at a glance he saw a double-hook engraved character in seal script on the cup. Gaozong immediately remembered that this Narcissus Temple was originally the place where martial arts practitioners practiced, and it touched their old feelings , looking around aimlessly, only to find that Yi Ren was serving the banquet with three other nuns beside her.But seeing the peach blossoms are the same as before, the human face is still the same, but the long hair is missing, and the charming appearance is the same as before.

It turned out that Meiniang expected that Emperor Taizong would definitely come here on the day of Taizong's sacrifice, so she deliberately dressed up in a new way, and specially got such a white jade wine cup engraved with the word "Mei", and went out early in the morning to greet him, but Gaozong didn't have any Just noticed.Fortunately, this white jade wine cup helped this scheming woman at a critical moment, causing Emperor Gaozong to think of Meiniang from the word "Mei Niang", and from Meiniang to the past vows and love.Gao Zong, who had regained his old love, couldn't help feeling sad and happy, overwhelmed with emotion, and lost interest in eating, so he asked the guards to wait outside, and he brought Meiniang straight into her cloud room.

As soon as Emperor Gaozong sat on the edge of the Zen bed, Meiniang threw herself into his arms, weeping bitterly, and her tone of voice was intermittent: "Your Majesty has forgotten the kindness of the past, but Meiniang misses you day and night. , Now that His Majesty is gone, there is no need to think about poor people, and Meiniang will not resent His Majesty either."

Emperor Gaozong hurriedly wiped away tears for her, and said: "Have I ever forgotten you? Just because the mourning clothes are not full, it is inconvenient to summon, and I came here in person today, just to reunite the old dream with Qing." Then Mei Niang stopped her tears and said: "Your Majesty really won't give up, how about waiting for Meiniang to grow her hair before taking me into the palace?"

Meiniang sat gently on Gaozong's lap while talking, recounting the sufferings of the past three years, and she shed a tear when she said a word, which made Gaozong sob. She changed her face again, she was so soft and charming, she exhausted all the skills she had practiced with her lover Feng Xiaobao in the past few years, and almost made Gao Zong melt his body on Wu Meiniang, the sky was bright and the sun was bright, and she was an extraordinary person The Zen bed, but couldn't help but spread clouds and rain.

When Emperor Gaozong came to Luanyu, Shang looked back at Mei Niang several times, and Wu Shi also looked at her pretty eyes, reluctant to leave, and his true feelings were palpable.

After Mei Niang shed the thousands of strands of blue hair on her head, she also cut off the thousands of strands of love in her heart at the same time. She originally wanted to pray to the Buddha, but the spring flowers and autumn moons are everywhere seductive, and the lonely nights are always unbearable, so a handsome woman from the nearby White Horse Temple The young monk Feng Xiaobao was able to take advantage of the opportunity and make a pair of bald mandarin ducks, which made Mei Niang's life much easier.

Not many days later, Concubine Xiao Shu gave birth to a prince, and Concubine Liu Gui was impatient, and she hurried to the Queen's Palace: "It's amazing, Long Live Lord has spoiled that Xiao family's servant girl even more, three to five In the next year, I'm afraid I will make this little thing the crown prince, and make that girl from the Xiao family a queen." These words prompted the queen to make her final decision.

So Gaozong over there saw Concubine Xiao Shu give birth with great joy and gave the name Su Festival. On the day of the full moon, the Caixia Palace was very lively, all the concubines and concubines came to congratulate, and the emperor gave a banquet to all the officials in the Hongde Palace; Stop in front of the main palace gate.A delicate-looking and light nun got out of the car and bowed at the feet of the queen. She was very obedient and very humble and called her mother a thousand years old.Naturally, this is Wu Meiniang. Meiniang, who is in her 20s this year, already has cloudy hair on her temples. Because of Gaozong's promise, she has been secretly growing her hair, which is why she has the effect today.But who knows that Emperor Gaozong is so forgetful, he has long forgotten the agreement between him and Mei Niang, so no one came to welcome her into the palace.In fact, it was Mei Niang who comforted herself by the fact that the nobles forget things more. She knew that the weak Emperor Gaozong was unlikely to be able to remonstrate with courtiers outside and slander concubines inside. A cowardly and incompetent emperor does not have such a boldness.

From then on, Wu Meiniang served the Queen's food and daily life like a palace maid every day, and talked and laughed to relieve the Queen's boredom in her spare time. The Queen couldn't help liking her from the bottom of her heart.The gold and silver clothes that the queen bestowed from time to time, Meiniang secretly rewarded the court ladies, so there was no one in the whole main palace who did not say good things to Wu Meiniang.Concubine Liu Gui even worshiped her as a sister with Meiniang, and dragged Meiniang to her own palace, where they slept together and were very intimate.

And Mei Niang, who is in her 20s, is more and more radiant and charming.Just at this time, Emperor Gaozong was not in the mood to dote on Concubine Xiao, and sometimes he was lucky enough to be in the main palace.As soon as Concubine Xiao Shu heard that Wansui stayed in the main palace, she scolded the queen as a coquettish fox, and sent people one after another to pretend that Sujie was crying for her father, until she forced Wansui back to Caixia Palace.So under such a favorable background, Meiniang began to formally enter the Tang Palace's Fengyun stage.

On that day, Emperor Gaozong came to the main palace again. When the emperor and the empress were sitting and having dinner, the empress said deliberately: "If there were no military talents to conspire for Your Majesty, how could we be here today? Poor that martial arts person, since the death of the first emperor, he has not been here." Watching the evening drum and the morning bell, spending the lonely time in the empty gate, won't His Majesty miss her a bit?"

Gaozong, who was touched by the heartstrings, couldn't help but sighed heavily, and said sadly: "Farewell to Buddhism is like a lifetime away. Why don't you read it every time it's the end of the day? It's just because it is related to the title of the first emperor, and the beauty has also been cut. Send out the palace, everything is irreversible."

Only then did Queen Wang smile slowly, and said slowly: "I know that Your Majesty can't forget his love for talented people, so I specially found a woman for Your Majesty. She looks and behaves like a real charming girl. Today I present it to Your Majesty. To relieve the pain of lovesickness." Gaozong was naturally anxious to see her, so two maids in the court supported Wu Meiniang and walked out from behind the heavy curtains, and Wu Meiniang also walked out of her brilliant and strange world. The life that has been said through the ages.

At that time, Emperor Gaozong was full of enthusiasm, and repeatedly praised that the queen is really a good person, and that night he met Wu Meiniang in the West Palace.This night's phoenix upside down is very different from the affair in those days. At that time, there was joy and fear, but now it is joy and carefree.Kuang Jianwu Meiniang is skilled at deceiving the Lord, and her bed-brothers are as skilled as she is on the political stage in the future. Gaozong, who was very happy, secretly made countless vows and spoiled her almost to the sky.

Mei Niang pretended to be respectful, and did not dare to be presumptuous at all. She still went to the main palace to serve the king and queen every day, and she still laughed and laughed with the king to relieve boredom until Wansui waited in the west palace. and after a few days, he personally sent the emperor to the main palace again, advising the emperor not to lose the feeling of adversity of the couple.

6. Seeing jealousy at the beginning, slandering workers
Gaozong originally loved Mei Niang more and more, and the more he loved and pitied her, and the queen praised her every day, saying how diligent and gentle she was, and suggested that Gaozong should ennoble the Wu family as Zhaoyi.Concubine Xiao Shu originally hated Meiniang more and more, but Meiniang just flattered the Queen blindly and didn't take Concubine Xiao Shu seriously at all. Concubine Xiao Shu complained in front of Gaozong, which made Gaozong start to hate her, Meiniang Seizing the opportunity, she tactfully said that Concubine Xiao Shu came from a humble background, and she was obscene by nature, she only knew how to favor her blindly, disregarding the concubine's gift, and advised the emperor to get closer.Gaozong felt that Mei Niang's words were reasonable, so he began to ignore Concubine Xiao Shu. Both Queen Wang and Concubine Liu were very grateful to Meiniang.

Wu Zhaoyi's Mei Niang flirts between the beds, making the romantic emperor into a coma, but every time she restrains her face and persuades her, there is a solemn look on the corners of her brows and eyes, and this cowardly emperor can't help being afraid .If you obey her, in a blink of an eye you will be the smiling Mei Niang again. If you don't obey, her frivolous charm will make people respect, cute and pitiful.As time passed, Emperor Gaozong was made obedient by Meiniang.

Sometimes when Emperor Gaozong encountered difficult disputes between ministers, he would go back to the palace and tell Mei Niang that she would always have a way to deal with it.From then on, Emperor Gaozong treated Meiniang more and more, and discussed important court affairs with her every day, and showed Wu's Meiniang various memorials.When Mei Niang was a girl, she read a lot of poems and books, so she wrote the memorials for the emperor. At first, she discussed it with the emperor first, and then wrote it with a pen. The mother was in charge of the review, so Gao Zong was happy to dodge.However, the language of the memorials she approved was decent, and the handling was appropriate, and the outside officials had no objections, so Gaozong named Wu as a concubine.

As soon as Wu's Mei Niang had a high status, she was the first to attack Concubine Liu Gui. She first told Gaozong that the discord between Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao Shu was all caused by Concubine Liu Gui.She also said that the Liu family relied on the fact that the prince was her own, so she played gossip arbitrarily, and this villain could not be tolerated in the court.Then Mei Niang went to the Queen and said, since the current prince is recognized by the Queen as his own son, why does he stay in Liu's Palace? When the Prince wakes up in the future, won't the Queen's painstaking efforts go to waste?As a result, Concubine Liu Gui, who was old and decrepit, was bound to be deposed as a commoner and thrown into the cold palace.Simultaneously with it, Gaozong promoted the Wu family to a noble concubine, only one level behind the queen, and Xiao Shufei was all under the Wu family.

Then Wu's Mei Niang told Emperor Gaozong day and night that Concubine Xiao Shu had sinister intentions, because she had a prince and formed a party outside for personal gain, intending to murder the prince and make her son the prince.Originally Concubine Xiao Shu had also begged Gao Zong to make her son the crown prince, so Gao Zong did not fully doubt Wu Meiniang's words.Wu Meiniang said this to Queen Wang quietly again, and Queen Wang had hated Concubine Xiao Shu for a long time, so naturally she also spoke in front of Gaozong.

Concubine Xiao Shu felt that something was wrong, so she rushed to the main palace quietly, kowtowed in front of the queen, knelt down and begged, crying and said: "The servant girl should not occupy the favor of Long Live alone, but the servant girl is only a foolish woman after all. , I only know that I am always afraid of falling out of favor, and the sun can be used as a lesson. The servant girl really dare not follow the slander of the empress. Now when Concubine Wu enters the palace, the first step is to expel Concubine Liu Gui. The maidservant is about to be expelled. Although the maidservant is not regrettable to die, after the maidservant is expelled, the concubine Wu Gui will be detrimental to the empress. I am afraid that it is too late to regret what the maidservant said today. The maidservant is sincere today, and advises the maidservant, it is better to keep the maidservant as an eyes and ears for the maidservant. The maidservant is willing to return the emperor's canon, and never Go back to Caixia Palace, stay by your empress's side, and be a loyal servant, just beg your empress to save me!" The words were sincere and sad, and they really woke up the queen, and they discussed how to resist Concubine Wu.But it was too late, and soon there was an imperial decree to demote Concubine Xiao Shu as a commoner and put her in the harem prison.All the relatives of Concubine Xiao Shu were arrested and abandoned to Lingnan.

(End of this chapter)