Chapter 3 third quarter

I can imagine how the struggle between the three women for the crown intensified.Many important officials of the imperial court were involved in this struggle and paid the price for it. The venerable Grand Duke Sun Wuji and Zhongshu Ling Chu Suiliang tried to present all kinds of harms in front of his father to make Wu Zhaoyi the empress. My mother was furious behind the bead curtain. My mother kowtowed and bled. Chu Suiliang shouted impassionedly, why didn't he kill this thief? !That was a detail of my mother's debut in the palace.The ending of Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao Shu being imprisoned in the cold palace was expected by all the palace people.Queen Wang was destroyed by witchcraft and cults. This is indeed just an illusion. Her tragedy lies in being in the harem with my extraordinary mother.One day the eunuchs found a paulownia man nailed with iron nails under the queen's phoenix couch. The paulownia man's appearance resembled Gaozong's. .The Li Dynasty has always hated witchcraft and evil Gu. My father didn't even have time to find out the real origin of the Tongmu people. In his rage, he threw the Queen and her ally Xiao Shufei into the cold palace.Some eunuchs knew the inside story of the Tongmuren incident. They hid in the corner and watched Wu Zhaoyi with awe or bewilderment. Sitting in front of the book desk, she wrote her first book "Women's Rules" after entering the palace.

My mother Wu Zhao has been familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics since she was a child, and her words and articles are elegant. "Rules for Women" tells all the concubines and palace people in the harem that as a woman, they should abide by all the moral etiquette formulated by the former emperors. One of them stipulates that the palace people below the concubines are not allowed to approach the emperor casually.Later I heard that my mother formulated this rule against my aunt Wu Shi, who was also called into the palace by the emperor at that time and showed signs of competing with my mother for favor. I admire my mother's foresight and deep grasp of the status quo and the future. From this, it seems that she has already considered the way of the queen in the future when she wrote "Rules for Women" as Zhaoyi.

On November 1, 655 A.D., his father ordered Sikong Xu Shi to carry a seal to officially confer Wu Zetian as empress.I was three years old that year, and I have no memory of the unprecedented grand occasion when all the civil and military officials went to Suyimen to meet the new Empress Wu Zhao, but I think it should be a cold winter day when the sun was low and the sun was dim. On the door, her mind is full of thoughts, but her smile is covered by twelve kinds of flower ornaments, pearls, rubies, emeralds, sapphires and gold ornaments. Thousands of appearances are awed.The bell towers and drum towers on the left and right sides of the Taiji Gate sounded in unison, and all civil and military officials shouted loudly: Long live the queen, and the queen will live forever.

That's it, that's how my mother became the queen of the Tang Dynasty.I was three years old that year.I don't remember the appearance of Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao Shu. My mother chopped off her hands and feet and soaked them in a wine vat. They wept in the wine vat for several days and died. The palace people of Ye Ting Palace couldn't sleep at night. Since ancient times, the women who failed in the battle of the palace all got the cruelest end, and the consequences would affect the whole family.Not long after, my father changed the surname of the once prominent family of Queen Wang to Mang, and Concubine Xiao Shu's family to Xiao. It is said that this was my mother's idea.Someone told me that Concubine Xiao Shu asked God to reincarnate her as a cat and my mother as a mouse before she died, hoping to kill her enemies in the next life.From then on, all the cats who were loved by the concubines were expelled from the palace. They told me that this is the reason why I have never seen a cat.

In the second year, my father deposed the crown prince Li Zhong, and as the eldest son of the empress, I was established as the crown prince.Li Zhong's biological mother was a lowly palace servant, and the ghost of his adoptive mother, Queen Wang, could no longer protect this dull and quiet boy. He was named the governor of Liangzhou by his father, and before he took office, his Eastern Palace servants avoided him. , They left the East Palace one after another without saying goodbye. I remember the bleak scene when Li Zhong left the palace: riding alone and riding three or five elderly followers.I don't know how a fourteen-year-old boy lives alone in a remote place in a foreign country.The grand ceremony for the establishment of the prince was held for three days and three nights. I felt that my ears were about to be pierced by all kinds of noisy sounds. I covered my ears. I wanted to scream, but my mother stopped me with her gaze and majesty. .

My queen mother advocated changing the name of the year from the seventh year of Yonghui to the first year of Xianqing, which shows her superstitious belief in changing characters.Since then, the reign title of Datang has become chaotic due to frequent changes. My aunt Wu Shi was conferred the title of Mrs. Korea from a widow because of her mother. She is the queen's sister, and her beauty is somewhat better than the queen's.She once had a secret love affair with her father, so she did not escape the black net woven by my mother.Mrs. Korea died of poisoning one day. His father was very sad. I think he knew clearly that Mrs. Korea died at the hands of his fellow sisters, but he seemed ashamed to pursue the matter. His wife's fifteen-year-old daughter is Mrs. Wei Guo. This is the only thing his father can do and the only thing he is passionate about. He never thought that the young Mrs. Wei Guo would repeat the mistakes of her mother ten years later, and use cardamom Died in another palace poisoning incident in 1999.The queen mother does not allow any woman to get close to the father, even her sister and niece.I think those victims did not underestimate their opponents. Their mistake was to pin their fantasies on their father. They didn’t know that women who can surpass their father are the only rare ones. They cannot be compared to my extraordinary mother.Speaking of my father, he is like a noble lovebird surrounded by the black net sewed by the queen, surrounded by his kindness and conscience, and his love for lust.The father's weak and passive character is well known to the world.When he realized that my mother's ruthlessness and ambition were hindering his life, he once had the idea of ​​deposing the second queen. His father secretly summoned Shangguanyi, the minister of Zhongshu, to the inner palace to discuss the matter. With a clear understanding of his intentions, he drafted a secret edict. Just like the deposed king and queen, my mother was charged with witchcraft in the edict, but the edict was torn to pieces by the angry mother before it was promulgated. Well, that happened in the second year of Long Shuo, when my mother's spies were all over the palace, no secret could escape my mother's sight.

Before the ink on Shangguanyi's cursive edict was dry, his mother had already rushed to his father's inner palace.She made a sad and indignant confession of what her mother did for the country. Her fury and ferocity made her father feel helpless, and she shed tears on the palace of nectar. Persuasive, it moved the father's heart.My cowardly and indecisive father, he allowed his mother to tear the edict into pieces, and finally threw the poor Shangguanyi as a scapegoat to his mother. Father said, it was all Shangguanyi's idea.In this way, my mother eliminated the first crisis in her life in an unruly way. She used various methods to control her father, and it seemed that every time it worked, it was easy.Why is my father so afraid of my mother?I don't know, who in the court can know?I think everything is the fate of the Li Dynasty, everything is mysterious and irreversible.All court turmoil resulted in the dropping of heads because, according to the usual explanation, it was connected with a plot to usurp the court and treason.Shangguanyi was soon implicated in Li Zhong's treason case, and his head, which was once filled with gorgeous poems, was killed in the street market of Chang'an. People all heard that Shangguanyi's death was due to his hostility and attacks on the queen, but No one knows that he was betrayed by my father, of course, this is the inside story of the palace.Li Zhong's treason case is a vague and unsubstantiated statement.I have heard of some strange habits of that half-brother. During his seclusion in Liangzhou and Fangzhou, he was always worried that his life would be harmed by back arrow poison. He was afraid of going out, afraid of meals, and had to change his sleeping bed every day. , and sometimes he puts on the clothes of a handmaiden to escape the assassination he fears.They said that Li Zhong lived alone in a secluded room later, obsessed with the intricate process of divination and witchcraft, and exuded an old and gloomy ghostly aura from the former prince of the Eastern Palace, making it difficult for the eunuchs and maids nearby to approach.I think Li Zhong was trying to escape his bad luck, but my mother, with the mentality of cutting grass and roots, weaved him with the crime of colluding with Shangguanyi and Wang Fusheng for rebellion. die.The assassination did not happen to him. He was strangled to death by the white silk carefully woven by my mother. I don't know whether it was Li Zhong's luck or a tragedy.As a young man living in the East Palace, I often accidentally found some of Li Zhong’s belongings left in the palace, such as books, pens and inkstones, scabbards, birdcages or sachets. Sometimes I dreamed that Li Zhong sneaked into the palace like a ghost—— Picking up his relics, I was afraid of seeing Li Zhong in my dream. It is ridiculous to say that Li Zhong was afraid that someone would assassinate him, but I was often afraid that Li Zhong would return to the palace to assassinate me.My mother, Wu Zhao, was also afraid of ghosts, which were the ghosts of Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao Shu that smelled of alcohol. For a while, when she passed through those dark and secluded corners of the Taiji Palace, she always covered her eyes and face with her sleeves. Said that she saw Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao Shu floating there, and they threw their rotten fingers and toes at her.And some court ladies also saw a black cat running fast in the Yongxiang of the harem. Its shrill voice resembled the late Concubine Xiao Shu. The maids said that it was Concubine Xiao Shu, because they remembered that Concubine Xiao Shu said before she died that she would become a cat in the next life. The oath to punish Empress Wu, they believed that Concubine Xiao Shu, who had turned into a cat, was chasing her sworn enemy.I can't imagine how my mother spent the days of being chased by ghosts. She was never afraid of any living people, but she had scruples about the dead.My mother persuaded my father to move out from the ancient Taiji Palace and spent huge sums of money to rebuild the Daming Palace in Gaozu's time. The reason why she lived in Luoyang all her life was because of her fear of those ghosts.I find this a puzzling thing.

In the fourth year of Xianqing, my mother and her confidant Xu Jingzong jointly eliminated her hostile forces: Changsun Wuji, Chu Suiliang, Liu, Han Yuan and others.Those high-ranking officials who have been prominent for many years have tied the knot of life and death with my mother because of the issue of being a queen. They may not have expected that being my mother's enemy means that disaster will come at any time.Under the shadow of my mother, Xu Jingzong was promoted step by step and gained power for a while. In return, he helped my mother get rid of her countless hidden dangers, including the founding father Sun Wuji who was always respected by my father and emperor.Changsun Wuji was betrayed by Prince Xima Wei Jifang. It is said that Xu Jingzong interrogated Wei Jifang alone. Wei Ji dialect said that Changsun Wuji wanted to gather cronies to create a new dynasty and regain his lost power.Rather than saying that this is Wei Jifang's tortured confession, it is better to say that it is an accusation that my mother has conceived for the eldest grandson Wuji for many years.Xu Jingzong reported to his father three times about the rebellion case of Changsun Wuji. However, he was too lazy to let Changsun Wuji confront him face to face. He was kind to his uncle, deprived him of his feudal fiefdom, and demoted him to Qianzhou. However, Changsun Wuji hanged himself in a state of anxiety and anger in the second year. died.The eldest grandson Wuji’s life has surpassed all sentient beings with his extraordinary intelligence and integrity. He once assisted his ancestor Taizong to create the golden age of the Tang Dynasty. Unexpectedly, he was finally woven into her black net by my mother’s slender hands, so I believe that the eldest grandson It is a legend that Wuji cried and blinded his eyes before hanging himself.That was the first victory my mother created, or she won the first victory in a battle of strong hands, and all important historical records record it like this: Empress Wu has monopolized the power of the court since then.I am seven years old this year.

Luoyang is a bustling city with a variety of customs. From the second year of Linde, father and mother lived here for a long time, and never returned to Chang'an except for the national ceremonies.I don't know if my mother really likes Luoyang. Moving to Luoyang is at least a way for her to avoid the undead. My mother entered the palace at the age of fourteen, leaving a rough and tearful memory. The palace in Chang'an not only gave her sweet rain, She also gave her bitterness, but my mother seemed to have a heart for the latter. She often told her father and children that Chang'an was her sad place, and that Luoyang Palace, 800 miles away, made her feel peaceful and comfortable.Since I was a child, I have often been in and out of Luoyang Palace and Xiyuan Forbidden Garden, watching this desolate old capital prosper year after year under the design of my mother.When I was a child, I was deeply impressed by the Hebi Palace in the Forbidden Garden. It was a cool palace surrounded by green trees and flowers. During the hot summer, my mother liked to take me and my brothers to have dinner there.To the east of Hebi Palace, there is Ningbi Pool with a radius of several miles. On the clear water of the lake, there are three fairy mountains of Penglai, Fangzhang and Yingzhou carefully imitated by southern masons, while the fifty pavilions beside the pool are magnificent and beautiful. Lun Meiwang, they are like stars guarding the Mingde Palace where the mother lives, and everything there has a luxurious atmosphere like a dream.I have some vague and beautiful memories. I remember that one summer morning many years ago, I took a dragon boat with my father, queen, and queen to watch the lotus in Ningbi Pond. With the dew dripping out the fragrance little by little, I remember that I also bathed in family love at the knees of my parents. My father was pale and handsome, the emperor’s dragon face was somewhat kind and somewhat tired, and my mother’s empress had a broad forehead and Fang Yi, With a frown and a smile, the face is radiant, beautiful and moving. I hear the strings and bamboos of the musicians flowing on the lake, and gradually go away. I see how bright the smile of the child on the dragon boat is. His clear eyes are looking into the distance. Looking at the Hebi Palace on the other side of the pool.Everyone knows that Prince Hong died at the strange night banquet in the Hebi Palace, but the child on the dragon boat with a pearl in his mouth and embroidered clothes didn't know anything about the future.I am ashamed to talk about the "Yaoshan Jade Color" that left my name. Everyone knows that it is a trick used by the royal family to deceive the world. In fact, the authors of "Yaoshan Jade Color" include Xu Jingzong, Shangguanyi, Yang Sijian Waiting for the imperial literati and scholars, and the five hundred volumes of books are just a hodgepodge of ancient and modern words and sentences. After the completion of "Yaoshan Jade Color", my mother asked me to dedicate the book to my father. My father was overjoyed and gave me 30,000 bolts of silk. So gullible in such false things.I have been studying with Li Lijin Guo Yu since I was a child. Those books were selected by my mother. I started reading "Chunqiu Zuoshi Biography" when I was ten years old. I read many historical stories full of power, conspiracy and killing. , the story of Chuzi Shangchen's patricide made me feel panic and bewildered. I asked Guo Yu, why did Shangchen kill his father?Guo Yu said it was to seize the throne. I asked Guo Yu again, why did Confucius record it and pass it down to future generations if he killed his father for the sake of the throne?Guo Yu said it was for future generations to distinguish right from wrong, good from evil.Guo Yu's ambiguous answer did not satisfy me.I refused to read "Chunqiu Zuoshi Zhuan" any more, but Guo Yu told me that it was the first book my mother had set aside for me, and I had to finish reading this boring book.I know that my mother likes "Chunqiu Zuo Shi Zhuan" very much, and later I also know that my mother's life's performance has benefited from her understanding and understanding of this book. Everyone gets different nutrition from the book's admonitions. good point.But I like "Book of Rites" and believe in the pure and ideal Confucian creed, which made my growth deviate from the course designated by my mother.The youth in the palace is bleak and in a trance, always sick, always sad for the common people in the floating world.I suspect that all my diseases are due to the blood of father and mother in the unclean incest. I saw my unhappy face in the bronze mirror, and saw a sinful black line wandering on my face. I even I often see the obscene Zen bed idle in Ganye Temple in a trance. The life conceived in sin must be weak and sad. I think this is a matter of course.When I was thirteen years old, I was ordered by my father to preside over the pilgrimage at Guangshun Gate. Although it was only a temporary opportunity, and what I judged was only trivial and trivial matters, these experiences gave me the opportunity to come into contact with all kinds of civil and military people. The customs and customs of officials and folks.It is said that many aristocrats and court officials have high expectations for me. I think it is because I am gentle and courteous to everyone, but my mother always has a look at me that hates iron and steel, and the love between mother and child Year after year, I think she may have noticed my dissatisfaction with a woman who is above my father, even though she is my mother, even though she is a woman who is unparalleled in the world, full of economics and wisdom.

Among the court ladies in the Eastern Palace, there is no shortage of beauties in pink and beautiful women, but I have never had an affair with female sex from my childhood until my wedding with Concubine Pei. Seen as an alien, people guessed that my sickly and weak constitution hindered me, no one believed my aversion to prostitution and lust, no one saw the cloudy sky in my heart, just as no one saw the grass How to grow the same. I don't know when it started, I often refused to be manipulated by my mother, and this rejection made me feel satisfied.Rejection sometimes doesn't need words. My mother often said to me in an annoyed tone, I don't like to see your eyes.She clearly read one word from my eyes: no.I said that my mother is not a mediocre person, maybe she can see the dark sky hidden in my heart, maybe she can see how the grass all over the East Palace grows wildly in the air of melancholy and doubt.My mother has been devoting her brains to the issue of my concubine. The concubine she chose at first was the daughter of Si Wei Shaoqing Yang Sijian. I didn't know that girl, but I heard that she was so beautiful.The affair ended in a near-scandal, when court spies discovered that Yang Sijian's daughter was having an affair with He Lanminzhi, a well-known vagabond in Chang'an.He Lanminzhi is the son of the late Mrs. Han, that is, my mother's nephew. It is said that he has always suspected that Mrs. Han's poisoning incident had something to do with my mother, and my mother has always been very angry with this flirtatious playboy.He Lanminzhi may not be prepared for my mother's righteous killing of relatives. His affair with Yang is a kind of provocation to my mother. How can my mother accept this provocation?It's the easiest thing to say. Siwei Shaoqing Yang Sijian was summoned to reprimand him and the marriage was canceled, and He Lanminzhi was finally stuffed into the prison car exiled in Lingnan.Later, my mother told me about the whereabouts of He Lanminzhi. He was strangled to death by the horsemen who accompanied him, and his body was left on the side of the road. They bought buns made of human flesh and sold them to hungry traffickers on the road.The whole thing made me sick, I was horrified that my mother talked about He Lanminzhi's death in such a way, no doubt she imposed her hatred for him on me, in fact, I didn't feel any harm in this matter I have nothing to do with He Lanmin, nor Yang Sijian's daughter, and the misfortune of the young couple should be attributed to the violation of my mother.I only married the daughter of General Pei Judao when I was twenty-two years old. The whole palace praised Concubine Pei for her gentle and virtuous character. Concubine Pei's married life is short, what did that poor princess get from me?When we occasionally slept together by candlelight, did Concubine Pei see the black shadow of disaster flashing on my face?Do you know that my life is passing away from her so fast?The poor Dauphine knows nothing of the gloomy sky above me.Let me try to recall the wars I don't like.

The war with the Kingdom of Goguryeo was protracted and many Tang soldiers were killed and injured. My grandfather Emperor Taizong and my father seem to have spent their entire lives winning this brutal war.When Xu Shi, who was brave and good at fighting, finally captured Gao Zang, the king of Koguryo, and brought him back to the court, my father laughed wildly. He presented Gao Zang as a sacrifice to Emperor Taizong's tomb, and then presented it to the dead ancestors in Taimiao. The grand and fanatical triumphal ceremony plunged the city of Chang'an into a festive atmosphere. I saw the floating young king sitting in the prison cart, his face was pale, and his eyes were full of desolation. I didn't have any joy or pride. From Gao Zang's body, I found my own shadow, but I was sitting in another prison car decorated with gold, jade and brocade.I don't like the result of the war, the victorious officials who returned to the court were awarded titles and gold and silver rewards by the father, while those who died in the battle were buried hastily in the loess of a foreign land, and were quickly forgotten.War always kills tens of thousands of men or their whereabouts are unknown. The emperor regards those whose whereabouts are unknown as deserters. He once issued a harsh and almost unreasonable edict. Those soldiers who disappeared in the war When he returned to his hometown, all his heads were beheaded to show the public, his wife and children were also imprisoned, and the men were slaves and the daughters were slaves.During a tour in spring in Weifu, I saw an empty village with no people, only a few wild dogs haunting inside and outside the hut. I went back to the eunuch under the horse, why is there no one in this village?An eunuch said that deserters probably appeared in the village, and the crime of sitting together often leads to such a desolate scene.I met an old blind peasant woman on the official road outside the village. She was holding an object in her arms and crying to passers-by. I can't forget my conversation with that peasant woman. what are you crying forcry my son.What are you holding in your arms?my son.Your son was beheaded?It was the emperor who beheaded my son. Is your son a deserter?no no.When the government arrested Ding, he had a fever and I kept him in the cellar. He only had half his life left until now. He finally recovered from his illness and went to work in the fields, but the emperor sent someone to behead him. I remember the mournful peasant woman cradling her son's withered, blackened head, her blind eyes drained of tears.When I patted my horse and left because of panic, I heard a more mournful cry from behind, guest officer, please take my head to the emperor.After leaving the tour palace, I stayed up all night, and the crying of the blind peasant woman was still in my ears. I wrote a memorial overnight and presented it to my father.Rather than kill the innocent, I would rather be lost.This is the essence of my memorandum, and I feel that I have an obligation to persuade my father to stop killing innocent people indiscriminately.Fortunately, my father accepted my proposal, and even luckier, I finally saved the lives of a group of fugitives.I am the prince of the Eastern Palace, and I am just a quiet observer of the boundless world outside the palace. What else can I do?During the great famine in Chang’an, the ground was full of starvation. The crows on the turrets of the Daming Palace gathered and flew westward every day. I asked the servant why the crows flew westward. People dragged the dead out of town in wagons, and the crows went after the wagons.I opened my own granary to relieve the hungry victims, but my granary could not fill the hungry victims.This inevitably makes me feel a little sad.I am Li Hong, the prince of the Eastern Palace. Whenever my father is unwell, I supervise the state affairs in places such as Guangshun Gate and Yanfu Hall. The lifeblood of the entire imperial court, I can really see that huge white hand, groping and grabbing in every space, that hand combines strength and softness and can advance and retreat freely, binding my puppet father.I used to persuade my mother to withdraw that terrible hand in many ways. The accumulated dissatisfaction and anger often caused me to offend my mother, and then I got more cold eyes, mocking smiles and sharp grace from her. Equally important words, my mother, no, at that time she had been made the holy queen by my father, she would not withdraw that hand, and that hand pressed harder on the top of my head. I am Li Hong, Prince of the East Palace. There are many scholars and counselors with superhuman knowledge gathered in the East Palace, but no one told me how to remove my mother's hand, except for being kind and courteous to others, except for my few achievements recorded in history books, What else can I do? The second year of Shangyuan is a strange year full of omens. In this year, my long-term sickness is like a new branch of willows blooming in March. The unprecedented feeling of health makes me regain my youth and vitality. I can even confess my life. Carnal experiences are also concentrated this year.I don't know that this short period of happy life is just a flashback, and I don't know why my mother had unbearable feelings for me this year. What did I do wrong?Maybe it's just my regained health that deepened my mother's vigilance, maybe I hurt her power and self-esteem in the process of occasionally supervising the country, maybe it's just my pity and help for Princess Yiyang and Princess Xuancheng that angered my mother .It was Concubine Pei who told me the news about Yiyang and Princess Xuancheng. One day we talked about the late Concubine Xiao Shu in a tea chat, and talked about her ghost turning into a black cat to haunt the palace. The relocation also made those court ladies who had made trouble for Concubine Xiao Shu feel frightened.Concubine Pei suddenly asked me, do you remember Princess Yiyang and Princess Xuancheng?I said of course I remember. When I was young, I used to swing and kick the shuttlecock together. Princess Yiyang is very beautiful. She looks like my father. Princess Xuancheng is even more beautiful. She looks like her mother Xiao Shufei. I remember that they all like to help me put on shoes. drawstring.Concubine Pei hesitated for a while, then said to me softly, you should go and see them, they are all in the cold palace of Ye Ting.I was shocked by this news. I remember my mother told me that the two older sisters died of illness one after the other.Concubine Xiao Shu has been dead for many years, and the two princesses she left behind are still in the cold palace. This unexpected news really shocked me.I don't know whether it's out of forgetfulness or my mother's long-lasting hatred for Concubine Xiao Shu. Either way, I regard this matter as a sin that insults morality and tarnishes the royal demeanor.When I saw the pair of sisters in the remotest shabby room of Yeting Palace, I couldn't believe my eyes. Princess Yiyang's disheveled hair was already streaked with silver. Princess Cheng's face was haggard and her eyes were dull. They were sitting in a dark and damp shabby room, holding a ball of silk thread in their hands. years of confinement. Did my mother's ghost bring you here?Princess Yiyang's trembling voice made me terrified. She said, is it a black cat that brought you here?No, it's me.I say. Do you want to take us out of here?can you take us outPrincess Yiyang has been examining me suspiciously, and I think she is full of wariness about my sudden visit.I answered Princess Yiyang's doubts without thinking, and I said, no matter what, I will let you leave here.I didn't finish what I wanted to say, because I couldn't suppress the choking sound in my throat.Before I left in a hurry, I heard the silent Princess Xuancheng scream suddenly, go quickly, be careful to let the queen see.She threw the ball of thread in her hand towards the door, so that the queen would die if she saw you. Her screams sounded shrill and crazy. Cut off your limbs and soak you in a wine tank, and you will die too.My desire to help the two half-sisters is so strong that I reported my father's request for the marriage of the two princesses, and I couldn't hide my condemnation of my father and queen in my wording.Father granted my memorial, maybe he only remembered that the two princesses had been imprisoned in the cold palace for nineteen years when he read my memorial. It is not surprising in the palace that the offspring confuse and even forget each other.But my mother's attitude on this matter is quite ambiguous, she attributed the misfortune of Princess Yiyang and Princess Xuancheng to the negligence of the inner palace affairs, I heard her praise my kindness and kindness, but I saw her eyes Icy and full of chill.I remember that my mother was leaning on the tiger skin mattress, twirling a sandalwood ball in her hand, and some words that sounded abrupt were actually her scolding me.My mother suddenly asked me, Hong'er, do you have a sibling relationship with the two princesses?I nodded, and I said that I and they are siblings, and of course we have a blood relationship that cannot be changed.A sneer has already appeared on my mother's mouth, Hong'er, do you think the two princesses have suffered for their mother?I nodded again and said yes, and then my mother became emotional, and I found a trace of tears in her eyes, she said, you have always sympathized with others, but you don’t know how to be thankful for yourself. Concubine Xiao Shu changed her life and death, you are not only unmarried like the two princesses, you have already become the ghost of Concubine Xiao Shu.My mother was actually reminding me of not repaying my kindness, or reprimanding me for my rebellion against her, but I don’t think what I did violated the principle of filial piety, I was just protecting the sacred etiquette and righteousness in my mind.