Tang Dynasty woman

Chapter 47 The Pink Age of the Tang Dynasty (2) ([-])
Cui Shi's two sons-in-law were born to Cui Shi's original wife Wang. They are a pair of sisters, with snowy skin and beautiful appearance, which are comparable to her stepmother, Mrs. Cui.The eldest daughter has been married to Zhang Shuo's son since she was a child, but now she is accompanied by Cui Shi and offered to the Eighth Prince, while the second daughter is offered to the Twelve Prince.Zhang said that he held a grudge in his heart, and always wanted to avenge his reluctance to marry, but Cui Shi was proud of himself, so he couldn't hurt him a little.Only one day, Cui Shi saw two lines written on the gate of his house: "Trust mediocrity in the master's house, and enter the beautiful women in the erotic palace." Naturally Cui Shi would be furious, and naturally he would ask his family to erase the handwriting, Man searching inscription.Naturally, these two inscriptions spread throughout the entire capital, and also made a joke of the entire capital.As long as Cui Shi is successful, he doesn't care about this humiliation.

2. Misfortune of the court lady

At this time, Zhongzong gave houses to his daughters Princess Changning, Princess Anle, Princess Yicheng, Princess Xindu, Princess Anding, Princess Jincheng and his younger sister Princess Taiping. Each mansion gave 500 guards, and the gates were very dignified.However, Princess Taiping maintained the government for a long time, and she also captured and killed Xue Huaiyi and Er Zhang. The food township has reached [-] households, Princess Anle has [-] households, and Princess Changning has [-] households. Only eat two thousand households in the city.

The princesses and Shangguan Zhaorong rode together in the same place every day, sometimes touring the streets, sometimes hunting in the countryside, and sometimes having fun in the mansion.In Princess Taiping's mansion, there is also a group of young actors, all of whom are thirteen or fourteen-year-old boys.Princess Taiping trains herself, and often invites a group of princesses to hold banquets and listen to music in the mansion.In this troupe of small opera singers, there is a young singer named Yi Xiang, who is the most pleasant-looking, aged sixteen, besides singing, Princess Taiping is always accompanied by Yi Xiang in her daily life.Those princesses also liked Yi Xiang very much when they saw him, and they all rewarded him with many treasures and pendants.

Princess Xindu's son-in-law Wu Yanhui and Princess Yicheng's son-in-law Pei Xun both searched for flowers and asked willows, and often stayed at the prostitute's house at night. The two princesses guarded the boudoir in the middle of their own mansion.Not long after, Princess Yicheng betrayed Princess Taiping and had a good relationship with Yixiang in a secluded place with flowers and trees.

On that day, Princess Anle's mansion successfully excavated Dingkun Pond, and a post was posted to invite the royal relatives to the mansion for a celebration banquet.

It turns out that there is a Kunming Pond in the palace, which produces a lot of fish. Princess Anle and her sisters have been used to fishing in the palace since they were young. After they married out of the palace, they often remembered the scenery by the Kunming Pond. Give it to her, and put it in the garden of the consort's mansion.Zhongzong said: "Since the previous generation, this Kunming pond has never been rewarded outside, and I dare not violate the ancestral rules. Moreover, the fish in this pond can sell [-] fish every year, and the pollen of the concubines in the palace depends entirely on it. Today If I reward you with this pool, wouldn't it make the faces of the concubines lose color?"

Later, in order to make her daughter happy, Empress Wei took another [-] guan from her own money. The princess added [-] guan to herself, recruited tens of thousands of workers from the capital, and spent a year digging the Dingkun Pond in the mansion.The scenery of vegetation by the pool is the same as that of Kunming Pool.On the day when Dingkun Pond was completed, the garden was filled with lights and festoons.At night, the lights on the top of the tree shine like stars in the sky.This Dingkun Pool has ten miles of water surface, all of which were built by Si Nongqing Zhao Luwen for her.A stone mountain is piled up in the center of the pool, imitating the appearance of Huashan Mountain, and a waterfall flies down from the top of the mountain, pouring into the pool water.Another clear stream is opened, and the bank is built with jade. The beautiful flowers and Yao grass on both sides of the bank are fragrant and fragrant.The bottom of the creek is entirely made of coral gemstones, and the jewels reflected in the water are extraordinarily clear, colorful and crystal-clear when the moonlight shines on them.

The celebration banquet was arranged on the big grass by the pool. Zhongzong and Empress Wei led all the civil and military officials to drink in the garden.The group of young princesses, princesses and concubines were all dressed up like a branch of flowers, mixed among the men, joking and laughing back and forth without any hesitation.At this time, Gaozong's daughters included Princess Taiping, Princess Yiyang, and Princess Gao'an, and Zhongzong's daughters included Princess Xindu, Princess Yicheng, Princess Anding, Princess Changning, and Princess Cheng'an. Haunted by the poolside in the forest.Princess Anle and her son-in-law Wu Yanxiu came and went to greet the guests.

Wu Sansi, Cui Shi and He Sheng also followed his mistress into the garden to wander around.Princess Anle invited all the guests to the table, and for a while, the cups were mixed, and they cheered and drank until the sun went down. Then a round of bright moon was lifted from the water, shining golden lights, shining indefinitely on the water.

Princess Anle was so happy that she hurriedly called for a boat, and took the moonlight to play on the surface of the pool.All of a sudden, the emperor, empress, concubines and officials got off the colored boat.The four eaves of the boat are decorated with five-color bright corner lights. The boat is rippling in the middle of the lake, and the lights are reflected in the water, which is really beautiful.The seven princesses of Taiping, Anle, Changning, Yicheng, Xindu, Anding, and Jincheng rode seven small lotus-picking boats, coming and going around the colorful boats.And the lotus lanterns that had been prepared for a long time were also lit up, and the pond was full of floats, reflecting a round of bright moon in the sky. The heart is relaxed and happy, the beauty is so beautiful that it is almost doubtful that the beautiful scenery in the sky will fall into the world.

Princess Changning and Princess Taiping each steered a small boat, quietly sailed into the creek, and landed at Baishi Pier.With a handsome young man beside them, they went hand in hand to the depths of the flowers and trees, planning to have some fun.Princess Changning stopped suddenly, and pointed there with one hand, but saw a man and a woman sitting on the grass beside a clump of flowers and trees, in a moonlit place beside the water, with their faces close to each other, looking very affectionate.When Princess Taiping followed her pointing to look, the man and woman were looking up, the moonlight shone on their faces, it was clear that the man was Princess Taiping's new favorite Yixiang, and the woman was Yicheng. Princess.

Princess Taiping was in a hurry, so she wanted to catch up with them and drink them up, but Princess Changning persuaded her, saying: "For the sake of aunt and nephew, please forgive her this time, let me talk about my sister tomorrow, and warn her not to do it next time." Do it again. If there is trouble now, not only will my sister have a bad face, but Yi Xiang is my aunt's personal favorite, and my aunt will also have a bad face."

Princess Taiping had no choice but to hold back as she said, but she couldn't bear it anymore, so she left Princess Changning and the handsome young man beside her, and hurried back in a small boat to search for her son-in-law Pei Xun everywhere on the grassland. Ask the guard eunuchs on the field, everyone said that just now they saw the son-in-law Pei Xun and Princess Xue talking and laughing under the apricot tree, and then they turned around and walked towards the path.

Princess Taiping looked for that path again, in front of a pavilion at the end of the path, there was a slant of moonlight shining, in the pavilion, Princess Xue was lying in Prince Pei's arms, the two of them were clinging to each other, lingering endlessly.Princess Taiping sneered unknowingly, and said to herself: "This is really retribution! His woman is so promiscuous there stealing other men's men, and his man is also here stealing her own sister."

It turns out that Princess Xue is Ruizong's seventh daughter, and Princess Yicheng is the first cousin. Princess Xue's son-in-law, Wang Shou, was rough, ugly and stupid all his life. How could he compare with Pei Xun's beauty and ease? I had already made up my mind, but I just wished it would be convenient. Now, taking advantage of this good night, seeing how many people are unprepared, I quietly hid in this secluded place, and made this wish.

When Princess Taiping saw that they were in love, it was inconvenient for her to go up and disturb her, so she quietly told the little eunuch next to her to quickly call Princess Yicheng, assuming that Concubine Pei wanted to invite her.Over there, Princess Yicheng was also in a deep relationship with He Sheng. When she heard that the son-in-law had invited her, how could she be willing to leave it behind? The two entangled for a long time under the moon, and then followed the little eunuch to the small pavilion. .

Princess Yicheng looked up and saw a piece of moonlight shining in the heart of the pavilion, Prince Consort Pei was leaning over to hug a young and beautiful maid on the railing, the maid couldn't help giggling.It turned out that this court lady was with Princess Anle, and Concubine Pei and Princess Xue Guo were doing the kind of tricks in the pavilion, which happened to be broken by her, and Concubine Pei relied on his good looks, so he pulled This court lady also took a path to gamble on her mouth, never to admit that Princess Yicheng bumped into her just at this time.

The fierce Princess Yicheng jumped into the pavilion, grabbed the son-in-law with her right hand, and the palace maid with her left hand, and went all the way to the colorful boat to argue in front of Zhongzong.Zhongzong also lost his mind and didn't know how to deal with it.At this time, Empress Wei, Princess Taiping, and Shangguan Zhaorong were sitting and drinking together. Princess Taiping, who knew it well, immediately whispered a few words to Empress Wei, so Empress Wei went up to make decisions for the emperor who had no idea. Give this court lady to Consort Pei.With a decree, Princess Yicheng was furious to death, Prince Consort Pei Xun was happy to death, and that beautiful and lively little maid was ashamed to death.

This fair, beautiful, young and lively court lady was very much in the concubine Pei's liking, and for twenty nights in a row, he never went to the princess room in Yicheng.Princess Yicheng was so angry that she saw Pei consort going to Wang Shouyi's mansion that day, so she ordered more than a dozen maids to rush into the Xinji's room, and tied the maid so tight that she couldn't be tighter. In a ball, dragging and pulling it out, and throwing it down the steps, the palace lady screamed like a pig to let go of the pain.

Princess Yicheng sat high in the hall and ordered the thorny rattan pole to whip her whole body.The court lady didn't show any weakness, she was beaten and rolled on the steps, but she kept swearing, shaking the whole story of Princess Yicheng's adultery with Yixiang, Princess Yicheng was ashamed and annoyed, and shouted loudly. , Order to cut off the nose of this poor girl.A few ladies went up, pressed their heads, brushed twice, and the maid's nose was cut off with a sharp knife.

The poor palace maid suddenly bled all over her face and passed out from the pain.After a pause for a while, Yoyo woke up, still cursing vaguely.Princess Yicheng kept on doing nothing, and ordered her ears to be cut off again.

When those rich women were about to cut, they saw Pei Concubine who was going to the tryst of Princess Xue, who had received one after another secret report from the confidant eunuch, and rushed in from outside, shouting repeatedly: "Princess, please spare her!" Before the words were finished, the rich women had already cut off the two ears of the court lady in their hands.

Concubine Pei looked at the court lady whom he had been so affectionate and lingering over the past few days, she had been butchered by them like a bloody person, dying limply on the steps, he couldn't help feeling extremely heartbroken, he threw himself up, embraced her corpse and wailed Crying loudly, I kept saying that I hurt you, I hurt you.

Princess Yicheng saw that her son-in-law loved this poor girl so much, she became even more jealous, she rushed down from the hall in three steps, snatched the sharp knife from the maidservant, grabbed Pei's son-in-law's turban, It was cut off with one knife.Fortunately Prince Consort Pei held his head in both hands, turned around and hid quickly, only to hear a whoosh sound, all his buns had been cut off, and he was holding it in the hands of the princess.

Concubine Pei was so frightened that he could no longer care about his beloved one, so he ran away and escaped from the gate of the mansion.As soon as he entered the palace, Doutou met Princess Taiping, and with grief and indignation, he told how Princess Yicheng had tortured to death the imperial maid, and almost killed himself.

Princess Taiping was about to make a mistake with Princess Yicheng, she didn't want to bump into her hand, she immediately took Prince Consort Pei to have an audience with Zhongzong.With Princess Taiping's good guidance, the Emperor Zhongzong, who has always been a good man, suddenly became furious. He immediately issued an edict to demote Princess Yicheng to the county head, summoned her into the palace, and imprisoned her in a cold alley. inside.

Princess Taiping also asked Princess Xue Guo to marry Pei Xun, and Emperor Zhongzong also complied.In this way, Prince Consort Pei and Princess Xue had fulfilled their wishes, and they were all grateful to her, but they wronged Wang Shouyi to death.All of Wang Shouyi's crimes were just because of the remarriage of Princess Xue Guo, who was the master of Zhongzong, so Wang Shouyi was insisted on as having the subjective desire and objective actions of rebellion, so Wang Shouyi was justified for this reason. In this way, there is a reason for the princess to remarry, and Emperor Zhongzong has done one thing right again.

From then on, Concubine Pei acted as eyes and ears for Princess Taiping outside, and all four princesses sold their officials, and Princess Taiping sold the most officials.

(End of this chapter)