Chapter 14 The Story of Wu Yingxiong and Jianning Gege

In the tenth year of Shunzhi, that is, in August 1653, Empress Xiaozhuang presided over the marriage and married the 13-year-old Princess Kechun to Wu Yingxiong, the son of Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi. This is an out-and-out political marriage. It was also the first time in the history of the Qing Dynasty that the Manchurian Gege married the children of the Han people. Princess Kechun, formerly known as Jinfu Gege, is the fourteenth daughter of Huang Taiji. She is not a direct descendant, but a concubine of the Qilei family.According to legend, Lei is a peerless beauty of the Chahar Tribe in Monan Mongolia, a spoil of war for Huang Taiji's conquest of the Chahar Tribe. Although she came from a humble background, she is humble and talented, and she is the most favored by Huang Taiji among all the concubines. Occupying the dragon bed for a long time, she is good at pampering alone, and even Empress Xiaozhuang has to give her three points of courtesy.

In the sixth year of Chongde, that is, in 1641, Huang Taiji soldiers besieged Jinzhou, and after a long battle, he had to leave behind the Qilei family who was pregnant with Liujia.Just as he led his army to the front line of Jinzhou, Princess Kechun was born in December of that year.At the same time, as if the Qing army suddenly had divine help, the situation on the battlefield quickly reversed, and the Ming army retreated steadily. In just ten days, 130,000 troops were completely lost, and more than 50,000 people were beheaded. Across the plains, it was extremely tragic. Huang Taiji believed that this was the "sign of prosperity" brought to him by the little princess, so he made an exception and conferred the canonization for her who had just turned one year old.According to the Qing system, princesses can only be granted titles at the age of thirteen. The queen's daughter is named "Princess Gulun", which is equivalent to a prince; those born to concubines are named "Princess Heshuo", which is equivalent to a princess.But Kechun has a special license to enjoy the same salary as Princess Gulun.This unprecedented honor has formed her arrogant personality since she was a child.

However, the good times didn't last long. When she was three years old, Huang Taiji passed away, and then Dorgon died of illness, and the newly succeeded Emperor Shunzhi was still young, so the power in the palace fell into the hands of Empress Xiaozhuang .The first wedding she officiated was betrothing Kechun to Wu Yingxiong. At that time, Kechun was already thirteen years old. In the past ten years, she clearly saw how her status changed day by day. After the death of her father, the difference between Princess Heshuo and Princess Gulun gradually emerged. There are classifications in terms of food, diet, and year. The most important thing is that all her sisters are either married to Mongolian princes or Manchu nobles, but she is the only one who wants to marry a Han.

For Kechun, this was an unbearable humiliation.She finally knew that even though she had accepted the canon since she was a child, a concubine was a concubine after all, and she was incapable of fighting against the real imperial power. She cried, was angry, mourned and even went on a hunger strike, but she finally got married amidst the sound of beating and beating.Empress Xiaozhuang, the most perfect woman and the kindest elder in people's minds, she specially declared that the dowry dress and wedding ceremonial guards for Kechun's marriage should be prepared according to the grade of Princess Heshuo, but it was better than that of other Princess Heshuo. It is much richer. The auspicious day is selected by the Qintian Supervisor, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs is responsible for it. It is grandly organized and extremely gorgeous.

But so what?After all, Princess Heshuo is Princess Heshuo, wearing a flower feather on top is completely different from the etiquette of the guard of honor.Moreover, whether the wedding is happy depends not on the ceremony, but on the person she is going to marry.Efu is a Han, this is an unchangeable fact, this fact obliterates all the superficial beauty, deeply hurts Kechun's young heart.She was full of hatred and disdain for her husband-in-law whom she had never met. Coincidentally, Wu Yingxiong didn't want to marry her either, he married a Gege as his wife and an eyeliner to go home.He is very clear about the essence of this political marriage, and he understands that it is not an honor for him to stay in the capital and give him the eunuch's house.He couldn't be more grateful.

Since he was sensible, the young Wu Yingxiong knew one thing: his father Wu Sangui is the number one traitor in Tianzi!I am the son of a traitor! He couldn't choose his origin, and he was confused.In that era, all the textbooks only talked about the words "loyalty and filial piety", but he had no monarch to be loyal to, and it was difficult to be filial to a father. His king is Manchu.If he is really a loyal minister, he should fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty; but it was his father Wu Sangui who betrayed the Ming Dynasty!Just ask, who should he be loyal to?How to be filial?

He also studied literature, he is talented and intelligent, it is not difficult to embroider with a bright heart, and he is full of economics, but the highest achievement of a scholar is nothing more than winning the exam, but since he was born as the son of Wu Sangui, he already has wealth and wealth in his pocket, so why bother to rush for the exam? I also learned martial arts, the sword chased the meteor, the sword chased the sun and the moon, but so what?It's not that there is no chance to go to the battlefield, but the task is to "rehabilitate", and the one who is flat is a righteous teacher who "reverses the Qing Dynasty and restores the Ming Dynasty". How do you raise the sword in your hand and swing it down?

His sword is rusted, his poems are useless, and his identity as the son of a traitor follows him like a shadow. People fear him because of his identity and despise him even more.He has no friends, no cronies, no ambitions, and his only pleasure is playing jade. Because he felt that his situation was very similar to that of jade——jade is a precious stone with a hard texture and a warm luster, but it is easy to be stained, and it turns into any color when it is stained. has its own color.Only when someone is willing to give it up and treat it tenderly, can it get rid of its color and restore its nature.

He caresses Yu from morning to night, imagining that one day, he, like Yu, can receive someone's tender love and revive his soul. However, he chose to marry Princess. On the wedding day, he wore a mang robe to mend his clothes, and under the guidance of the ambassador, he knelt down at the east steps of the Qianqing Gate to receive the imperial decree, conferring the third-class fine Qi Niha Fanjia Shaobao and Prince Taibao.Then go to the Meridian Gate to respectfully enter the "Nine Nine Great Ceremonies", and enter the palace to have a banquet to pick you up. Emperor Shunzhi hosted a banquet in the Palace of Preserving Harmony, entertaining his son-in-law and princes and ministers; Empress Xiaozhuang hosted a banquet in the Palace of Compassion, entertaining all concubines and court wives.Zhonghe Shaoyue and Danbiyue were played in the palace, creating a joyful atmosphere.

He is drunk. From then on, he knew that he had officially become a man without freedom, a hostage of his father, and was more deeply involved in the political vortex he hated.Even in your own home, you can't talk casually, otherwise you will be pushed to the Meridian Gate where he just entered the ceremony and beheaded at any time. There was a long line of horses and chariots transporting the dowry, and they drove to the Ezu's mansion. He sees Greg. She is so beautiful, as beautiful as a fairy.But he was not moved, the way he looked at her was like looking at a sharp sword hanging above his head, not knowing when it would roar down.

And the way she looked at him was equally cold and full of hostility. On the first night of their wedding, they did not share the same bed. But of course he didn't dare to treat her badly, they were just unfamiliar and treated each other like guests. Oh no, it's not mutual respect, because it's just him respecting her, not respect, but awe.Moreover, not only as a "guest", but also as a "visited guest", because she is indeed a very honored guest. His attitude towards her was exactly what a courtier should have towards a princess. He kowtowed in the morning and paid his respects in the evening, without neglecting etiquette.And she also seemed very happy that he treated her like this, and she was happy.In fact, she is still too young, has no experience with men and women, and has no desire. All of this was seen by the married maid Xiang'er.Xiang'er is sixteen years old this year, and she has already mastered human affairs. As early as the moment the queen appointed her as a dowry, she has already made arrangements for her own destiny. A dowry is a dowry, isn't it?She thinks that the real dowry is not the princess, but her, Xiang'er. In Gege's dowry, there was a piece of dragon-patterned jade that was cherished by Efu, and he hung it on a rope in front of his chest.Seeing this, Xiang'er quietly tied another multicolored silk ribbon for him, replacing the red string. So he noticed her, noticed her beauty and charm, and also noticed her romanticism.The most important thing is that she, like him, is a Han Chinese. When the princess found out that her maid had robbed the son-in-law, she was furious. At the same time, she found that there was actually a lot of jealousy in her anger.It turned out that without knowing it, she had long fallen in love with his elegance and gentleness, and was more and more attracted by his melancholy temperament.She likes his focused eyes when looking at jade, and more than once longs for it to linger on her body; she prefers to listen to him read poems, the melodious tone is like a distant song.One of his favorite poems is "San Shu Mei": "The dream of spring must be broken in the world, but it's strange that the fate of the dream can be short? The embroidered Qinzheng, the begonia, the banquet late at night. The dance breaks and the song sinks, The flowers have not diminished, but the beauty has changed first. Standing for a long time, the river bridge is about to go, and the setting sun is full of tears..." Oh, he turned out to be so good, why didn't I notice it long ago, and let his heart belong to someone else.Moreover, is the other person still an insignificant little maid by his side? ! Kechun couldn't bear such humiliation, so he beat Xiang'er severely, and even made her commit suicide by drinking a dove. In order to protect his beloved woman, Wu Yingxiong had no choice but to put the princess under house arrest, and gently advised her, hoping that she would let her go and not care about the maidservant.Originally, Xiang'er was just a dowry, and Gege's accessories, like that piece of dragon-patterned jade, were one of the rich dowries, so it was reasonable for her to use her forehead, so there was nothing wrong with it. During her life under house arrest, Gege had her first taste of the world, and gradually became moved. But at this moment, the short-sighted Xiang'er didn't know the heights of the sky and the earth, and was afraid that she would harm Gege after she escaped from the ban.He thought that in this way, he could kill the grass and get rid of the roots, and replace him with the princess from then on. The little school was afraid of misfortune and dared not to do so. On the surface, he agreed to do so, but in private, he released Ge Ge secretly and helped her escape back to the palace. The emperor has long regarded it as a serious problem because of the growing power of the San Francisco these years, and he wants to wait for an opportunity to get rid of it, but he suffers from the unknown.Now that he got an excuse, he immediately dispatched troops to surround the Prince Consort's Mansion, and bound more than a hundred people, all of them young and old. Wu Yingxiong didn't know what Xiang'er had done until this time, but he was dying and was helpless.At the same time, he also understood that it would be a matter of time, even if there was no Xiang'er, the emperor would find other excuses to kill him. Xiang'er was just a pawn that went wrong, crossing the river blindly and causing death. Wu Yingxiong and Gege are also pawns, their fate has been doomed since the day they got married.One is a hostage, and the other is gunpowder. If they are detonated at any time, they will all end up together. The chess players are Aixinjueluo and Wu Sangui. As early as the moment when Empress Xiaozhuang bestowed the marriage, such an ending had already been predicted.Therefore, she appointed Kechun, the orphan daughter of the former king's favorite concubine. However, the ignorant Xiang'er thought that all this was caused by her own audacity. Although she was clever and scheming, she had never seen much of the world. Finally, she knew the power of power, and filled with regret, she drew her sword and committed suicide. in the arms. To the end of his life, he still thought that he ended up like this, only because he was a maid, so he lost to Gege.Holding the rusty sword on her forehead, she swore to Tianmeng: If there is an afterlife, she will definitely fight Kechun again, and never lose her identity again. Wu Yingxiong drew out his sword, that blunt sword finally drank blood for the first time, the blood of his beloved relatives! Blood trickled down from the blade, he held it upside down, walked out of the inner courtyard, stood in front of the three armies, and also stood in front of Fourteen Gege who was proudly showing off his might. When the general came to announce the edict, Wu Yingxiong conspired to kill the lord, and the thieves were so daring that they would copy and behead all the families and exterminate the nine clans. Wu Yingxiong threw his sword to the ground, raised his head to the sky and screamed. As the son of Wu Sangui and the husband of fourteen princes, his fate has long been beyond his control, so he died unjustly.I hate only hate, I was a man for nothing, but I should be convicted because of a private bed dispute in the boudoir.As the saying goes, "Wen dies to remonstrate, Wu dies to fight", but he died of lust.This is the wrong, the humiliation, the injustice! Kechun was stunned, just like Xiang'er. Only then did she realize that things were not as simple as she thought. The problem could not be solved by killing a maidservant. It turned out that her beloved husband-in-law died at the same time.No, this is not her original intention, she didn't want to, she just wanted to come back and teach her husband a lesson, let him face up to his supreme status, and then ordered him to kill Xiang'er in front of her, for vent their anger.She didn't expect to even kill him!She doesn't want to!She doesn't want it!She forbids it! She stood in front of her husband to intercede for him, and angrily scolded the general. Did you read it wrong?Why would the emperor let you kill the forehead?You go back, I'm in charge here. However, the emperor has already secretly ordered that if the general resists, Wu Yingxiong can be executed on the spot and no one will be left alive. The soldiers are in place, and the arrows are on the string.General Xuan Zhao's face was like black iron, and he waved the banner of life and death: "Shoot the arrow!" Kechun was desperate, desperate, and flew forward to block her husband's arrow, but Wan Xiang'er also died in Wu Yingxiong's arms for half an hour.The pearls were shaking and the emeralds were falling, the beauty was bleak, and she was full of regrets and hatred. She tightly grasped the jade in front of her husband's chest, pulled the colored rope with all her strength, and swore with tears in her blood: "I will never let Xiang'er go!" , it was she who caused my husband and wife to separate, it was her..." She looked at her husband with infinite attachment and love. She had never confessed her feelings like this moment in her life: "Ying Xiong, I regret that I didn't treat you well..." With all her strength, she pulled out the pistol on her chest with her own hands. Feather arrows spurted out blood, dyed the jade jade red, and finally said "too late!" from between the teeth, then lowered his head weakly, with a pair of phoenix eyes, which were still wide open. Kechun is dead, Xianger is dead, Wu Yingxiong is also ordered to set himself on fire, but with so many unfulfilled wishes, so deep lingering, so unwilling hatred, how can he let it go and let the weather go? So, the three of them took every opportunity to experience the world of mortals again, to have disputes again, life after life, entanglement of grievances and resentments, which has not stopped until now.And a catastrophe that lasted half a century and involved tens of thousands of people-the famous Battle of Pingfan in history also broke out... "Now do you understand?" After the story was told, two lines of tears flowed from the eyes of Wu Yingxiong, a male ghost of the Qing Dynasty. I was tongue-tied and marveled at the spectacle, only then did I realize that ghosts also have tears.I stared at the whereabouts of the two tears, and watched them fall into the soil, but there was no trace, maybe they returned to the underworld. I sighed: "Like a long-form TV series, it's unbelievable." "Facts are always better than fiction." "In people's conception, ghosts are the biggest fiction." "This is the limited knowledge of you humans." "Don't attack humans, don't forget that you also change after death, you can't attack your own origin." I suddenly remembered something, "Where are the other ghosts?" "what?" "How do other ghosts communicate with his back? They don't know how to use jade to revive their souls. Isn't it lonely?" "Being a ghost is a rather lonely job, and I can't choose to do it." He is very self-confident, "People have high and low, ghosts have high and low, and the laws of nature." "Actually, I think you and Song Ci are a natural match. They are both arrogant and arrogant. I don't understand why they don't get along well." "That's because I can't be proud when I'm in front of her. You know, in our era, if you married Princess as your wife, you had to kowtow three times and nine times. Even when husband and wife usually meet, as long as it's in public, I have to Kneel down for her. Think about it, if you kneel and talk to your wife all day long, will your relationship be any better?" "It's hard." I deeply sympathized, "It's really hard to develop a normal relationship." "I don't think the boy surnamed Su is a bad person, and he hasn't lived with Song Ci for long, and he probably was in the same situation as me." When he talked about his "rival in love", he was not jealous, but rather sympathetic. I smiled, which is much more generous than men in this world.Well, I don't mind him being my predecessor, and it's not a shame, after all, he's a prince. I finally understood all the past, and my heart became clear.No wonder so many things happened when we met. It turned out that everything was because of an old hatred three hundred years ago. Wu Yingxiong added: "Actually, in the past three hundred years, you have been reincarnated more than once, and every time you met, you fought back and forth. No way, when Kechun was born, the Ming army was defeated, there were many casualties, and resentment filled the world, so she was born with a hostile spirit, and there were many disasters. , will cause disaster.Unless you can turn your enemies into friends and completely eliminate this hostility, you can truly quell the grievances. It will not only be the three of you, but also the gospel of society. " "The Gospel of society? This concept is too big." I couldn't help laughing, "I'm just a small person, so it won't affect the whole society, right?" "Don't laugh." The male ghost Wu Yingxiong said seriously, "You must know that no matter how great the disaster in the world is, it is nothing more than the actions of individuals. The cause is often just a trivial matter or an insignificant character. The famous Lugou in China The bridge incident triggered the eight-year war of resistance, and the excuse of the Japanese army was to find a missing soldier; the object of Napoleon's surrender was his first love who had been let down by him; Ability is beyond reach; and..." "My God, your knowledge is really rich." I laughed even more, "Why do you talk like a foreign missionary?" "We all have the same sky above our heads, and the gods of foreign countries and the Jade Emperor of China are just different incarnations of the same person." He is quite scientific, and he is really a civilized ghost. I found myself liking him more and more. "So what was the situation in our previous reincarnations?" "Turn the world upside down, make troubles. Now, like now, Qin Guitian has been sacrificed, and Song Ci and Yuan Ge are also involved in trouble. If you can't unite and turn enemies into friends, more people will die. This is not a big deal, the most fearful thing is that due to smallness and bigness, in the end, like Xiang'er and Kechun, the whole nation's war was caused because of the grievances between the two, and the crime would be serious." "Then, why didn't you come out to help your back to settle the troubles in previous lives?" "I think so too, but there's no way to communicate with the back of the body." He spread his hands innocently, "It's so easy to unearth the jade in this life, and then it fell into your hands, so I finally use the jade to revive my soul and meet you .” "It turns out that this piece of jade was buried with you. From this point of view, I should thank the grave robber for allowing you to see the light of day again." "Actually, before this, I tried to communicate with you many times..." "I know, I dreamed about you." Now I understand everything, it turns out that everything is destined, "I never thought that my predecessor would be a man." "I think this is probably because God has the virtue of being good at life, and I don't want the three of you to cause disputes because of a love triangle?" He shrugged like a foreigner, then bent down suddenly, picked an unknown flower from a crack in the stone, inserted it in my hair, and praised: "I didn't expect my backside to be so beautiful." I suddenly blushed. The ghost prince sighed inexplicably. I was surprised again: "Ghosts can also sigh?" He became dissatisfied again: "Why are you making such a fuss? Ghosts are changed by people, and they also have emotions and desires. What's so great about sighing and crying?" At this time, I thought of an important question: "If it is said that I knew Song Ci Yuange in the previous life, then what about Zhang Chu? Am I related to him? " Gui Yi clapped his hands: "Well, I knew you were going to ask this, so I sighed. You still asked. It's even more wrong to say it. You and Zhang Chu are basically the same person." "What?" The answer was so unexpected that I was once again so shocked that I completely lost my mind.