Tang riddles

In the first year of Kaiyao, the sixteen-year-old Princess Taiping ushered in her first marriage.The husband Gaozong and Empress Wu chose for her was Xue Shao, the second son of Princess Chengyang.Princess Chengyang is Gaozong's biological sister, and Xue Shao is Gaozong's nephew.The wedding was held at the Wannian County Pavilion near Chang'an. The scene was so grand that the illuminated torches even scorched the trees along the way.

Unfortunately, the good times didn't last long.Seven years later, Xue Shao's elder brother Xue Wei participated in the conspiracy of Li Chong, the clan of Li Tang, and Xue Shao was implicated.Although Xue Shao did not participate in the rebellion, Empress Wu believed that Princess Taiping had married the wrong man.She ordered Xue Yi to be executed, and Xue Shaozhang sent him to prison, where he starved to death.At that time, Princess Taiping's youngest son was just one month old.This incident dealt a great blow to Princess Taiping. Her marriage with Xue Shao was considered satisfactory, and the husband and wife were quite affectionate.However, there are many involuntary things in the royal family.In order to comfort her beloved daughter, Empress Wu broke the convention that Princess Tang's food town should not exceed 350 households, and granted Princess Taiping's food town [-] households.

Time flies, and time has come to the first year of Zaichu two years later.Princess Taiping ushered in her second marriage, this time her husband-in-law is Wu Youji, Empress Wu's family.But the strange thing is that just before the wedding, Wu Youji suddenly fell ill and died, and this time the marriage just ended like this.

The second marriage ended without a problem before it even started, and Princess Taiping seemed to be stimulated.Since then, he began to raise male pets wantonly, and even committed adultery with courtiers.She even offered her mother her favorite male favorite, namely Lianhua Liulang Zhang Changzong.

In fact, Princess Taiping has been involved in government affairs since then.Every time he entered the palace, he would discuss politics with his mother, but in order to protect his daughter, Emperor Wu never publicized Taiping's participation in politics.

Twelve years later, in the spring of the second year of Chang'an, when the champion of Yinyu High School was traveling around Chang'an in fresh clothes and angry horses, Princess Taiping had already noticed her.Princess Taiping had never seen such a handsome Erlang, although his manliness was not heavy, even his face was white and beardless.But she didn't see any femininity, and she had a completely clean temperament.Yin Yu was dressed in white, but on the day of the parade, he was wearing a fiery red uniform for the number one scholar. It was like a blazing flame that burned into Princess Taiping's heart.In comparison, what Lianhua Liulang has become dull.

Since then, Taiping has fallen into a entangled love thread, often forgetting to eat and drink, and the figure of Yin Yu always appears in his mind.At that time, Princess Taiping was already thirty and seven years old, but because of proper maintenance and love all the year round, she looked like a young woman in her twenties.But it is such a woman who has already grown old, but it seems that she has returned to the girlhood of [-] years old, and she is pregnant with spring.

Soon, an opportunity to get close to Yin Yu came to her.After the Spring Festival, in the flower-filled March Shangsi, talented people who have entered the Jinshi Department will be gathered on the bank of Qushui, and hold a romantic and poetic Qushui Liushang Banquet.At that time, many members of the royal family, nobles, and aristocratic families would also be present. This banquet was actually to create an opportunity for these new scholars who would enter the officialdom to make friends with people in the court.

As the most favored princess of the royal family, Taiping was naturally among those invited.At that time, His Majesty the 79-year-old Emperor Wu will also appear to listen to the poems written by the new scholars and watch the banquet.And the number one scholar, Yin Yu, couldn't be absent. For this day, Yin Yu also prepared for a long time.She is to display her talents and be reused by the Emperor Wu.But she never thought that at this banquet, she would meet someone she would never be able to get rid of for the rest of her life.

As sister Yu's attendant, I also went to this banquet together.That scene, let me never forget.Located in the southeast corner of Chang'an City, Qushui is a large lake with vast scales.In the upper reaches of this big lake, there is a meandering creek. The environment here is quiet, with dense bamboo forests, scattered pavilions and pavilions, elegant and romantic.Every year, the Qushui Liushang Banquet will be held here.In order of priority, the guests took their seats along the Qushui.The most upstream is naturally the Emperor Wu and the nobles with respected status in the palace, most of the new scholars are ranked in the middle, and there are some invited celebrities and descendants of the family in the downstream.

Emperor Wu began to compose poems, and poured wine in a wine glass, and the inner eunuch floated the wine glass on the stream to make it flow down.Whoever puts the wine glass in front of him will have to compose a poem, and he has to follow the poems of the Emperor Wu. It's very embarrassing to admit in front of a nobleman that one's talents are not good enough.In addition, the wine glass can still be robbed, and the person who grabs the wine glass must drink all the wine in the glass first, and then compose poems.In this way, some unexpected fun can be added to the game.

I don't know what happened that day, the wine glass seemed to be possessed by some spirit body, and it always flowed to Princess Taiping and Sister Yu, so, a poetry and wine banquet with a flowing glass of water turned out to be theirs. The poems of the two are solitaire.At first, it was just an ordinary poem praising the scenery, but later, it seemed that there was a deeper meaning hidden in the poems of Princess Taiping. Although I am not good at reciting poems and fus of these literati, I can still tell that she is Showing love to sister Yu.Sister Yu concealed the meaning of refusal in the poem, but Princess Taiping didn't care about it, on the contrary she was very happy.

Even I could hear it, let alone everyone else present.The atmosphere at that time was very delicate, most people held the attitude of watching the show, but some people frowned in displeasure, thinking that Princess Taiping was too dissolute.Among them, Qin Zhen is the most obvious one. After all, Sister Yu is his "son-in-law" and his most admired bosom friend. He is very angry at Princess Taiping's frivolous behavior.On the way back, he bluntly got angry in front of Sister Yu.Sister Yu's persuasion calmed him down.

I originally thought that Princess Taiping's behavior that day was just a whim, and she would not have too much to do with Sister Yu anymore.However, when I was young, I was still too naive.I never thought that she would be so bold as to propose to His Majesty the Emperor Wu.She said that she was already deeply infatuated with elder sister Yu, and hoped that the Queen Mother would be able to fulfill her wish.Of course, I learned about Taiping's proposal from rumors later, but I didn't know it at the time.Not only I don't know, but the only people in Chang'an city who know about it are her mother and daughter.His Majesty Wuhuang did a good job of keeping the secrets secret. She knew that her daughter fell in love with a married man and tried to win her love with a sword.

Knowing that this is a shameful thing and contrary to ethics and morals, shouldn't we just let it go?However, this mother and daughter are really greedy and incapable of swallowing elephants.Taiping has been favored since she was a child, and she has never been unable to get what she wants.Moreover, the successive deaths of her two husbands dealt a great blow to her, and her views on marriage and love have been distorted.In her opinion, her mother caused the death of her two husbands, so her mother should compensate her.What kind of husband she wants, her mother should satisfy her.

On this point, His Majesty the Emperor Wu happened to be in Taiping's arms.Emperor Wu lost his beloved daughter in his early years. Although it was rumored that she personally killed that daughter for the sake of superiority, most of the nobles did not believe it, because this rumor was clearly spread by His Majesty's political enemies who wanted to discredit her. remarks.In any case, as her only youngest daughter, Taiping really puts this daughter at the top of her heart.When choosing a son-in-law for her daughter back then, she was cautious and respected her daughter's wishes as much as possible, but tragedies still happened one after another.This made Emperor Wu even more guilty, and how to make up for it was not enough in her opinion.This time Taiping's request made her fall into a dilemma.Naturally, she wanted to help her daughter get what she wanted, but... how could she not hurt her moral face, but also get her lover?

You can't have both, she has to think carefully.

His Majesty the Emperor Wu didn't move, but Princess Taiping was not idle. She launched a fierce pursuit of Sister Yu.He sent people to deliver letters to Yin's mansion every three days, and even put on men's clothing, and waited for sister Yu who had returned from the secretary's duty to appear on the road that must pass through the palace, and came up to chat.Although the Yin family accepted those letters (love letters) out of sympathy and etiquette, Sister Yu didn't even read them and burned them all.When I met Princess Taiping, I just talked politely and alienated, trying to keep a distance as much as possible, and in the end I played a game of avoiding detours.

Sister Yu was also very disturbed, but she didn't particularly take it to heart. At that time, she had just entered the officialdom, and she was all focused on her official career.Jinshi who have just been admitted to the imperial examination rarely become officials directly, and most of them have a one- to two-year probationary period. After passing the test, you can take office.For example, Qin Zhen, not long after the Qushui Liushang banquet, received a transfer order from the Ministry of Officials and was sent to another place. He had to leave Chang'an, his daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter.The same is true of Zhang Jiuling.

But elder sister Yu didn't know whether it was because she was so outstanding, or because someone at her superiors looked at her differently, she immediately stayed on as a Beijing official after she was admitted to the imperial examination, and became a secretary in the province as a school secretary.After that, he took part in the first martial arts examination, became the first champion in both civil and military subjects in history, and became the first champion in both civil and military subjects. He is in a great development period.Moreover, her daughter was just born, so to elder sister Yu, the most important thing is Qin Lian and her daughter.Perhaps in her opinion, Princess Taiping was just a novelty to her for a while, and after a while, seeing that she was as immobile as a mountain, she should give up.She has given Qin Lian all her life's love, and it is impossible to fall in love with anyone again. Besides, she has a special status, how can she let Princess Taiping discover her secret, it will cost her her head.

At that time, Qin Lian was plunged headlong into the wonderful world of raising her daughter, and seemed to have little understanding of what happened outside, and didn't care much.Sister Yu didn't seem to have discussed this issue with her.She and sister Yu's newborn daughter is an extremely cute little guy.At the beginning, it was named Ziji, which means a child who has inherited the blood.The baby name is Chishi, which was given by Qin Lian, which means that the child is like a red thread, firmly maintaining the family.In fact, I should have discovered at that time that Qin Lian was already aware of what happened outside, otherwise why would he give the child such a baby name?

As soon as the child was born, he became the family's treasure, and the pain went to the bone marrow.At that time, Yin's mansion was full of joy and harmony. Looking back now, it is really sweet and sad.Time is gone, and in a blink of an eye, things are people and things are not.

In July, Emperor Wu had his thousand-year-old birthday. At that time, Emperor Wu had already entered his eighties, but his body was still strong, his mind was clear, and his voice was clear.To celebrate the legendary empress' birthday, Chang'an prepared for a long time, and a special banquet kicked off.At the time of the banquet, the most famous thing is that under "Qing Cup Music", a thousand dancing horses are held head to tail, and a spectacular dance is launched.At the end of the song, the dancing horse held the cup and poured wine for the Emperor Wu, which has become a good story.

I also attended that banquet with Sister Yu, but I never imagined that I, who only drank a small cup of sake at the banquet, would be completely drunk.When I woke up, I found myself lying in the servant's room in the palace with a severe headache.And sister Yu beside her has long disappeared.

I hurried out the door and went to look for Sister Yu.The palace is too big, and my status is low, so I really didn't dare to intrude, so I had to inquire all the way, and finally learned from an internal guard that Sister Yu was waiting at the gate of the imperial city.I knew she was probably waiting for me, so I hurried to the gate of the imperial city.

When I got to the door, I saw Sister Yu, but found her complexion was very pale, and her complexion was very bad.Asked what was wrong with her, but she didn't answer, just said nothing happened.I sensed that something was wrong with her, but I didn't dare to continue asking.On the way back to the mansion that day, she kept silent, sitting in the carriage, holding her forehead with her hands, closing her eyes and meditating.After returning home, he didn't even go to see Qin Lian and the child, called for a hot bath, and went into the study alone after taking a bath, and didn't come out for a long time.

It was only later that I realized that Princess Taiping drugged her that night and forcibly brought her into the bedroom. She wanted to cook raw rice and cooked it, so she directly exposed her daughter's body without accident.I don't know if she has had that kind of affair with Princess Taiping, I just know that the sky in Chang'an is getting darker, and a storm is coming.

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1. Xue Yi, with three voices, Xue Guan, the father, and Princess Chengyang, the daughter of Emperor Taizong and the eldest grandson, Princess Chengyang is the same mother and younger sister of Li Zhi, Emperor Gaozong of Tang Dynasty.Xue Yi is the eldest son, and Xue Shao is the second son. Both brothers and Princess Taiping are cousins.

Princess Taiping and Xue Shao have two sons and two daughters: the eldest son Xue Chongxun, the second son Xue Chongjian, the eldest daughter Xue Shi, and the second daughter Xue Shi, the owner of Wanquan County. She married Doulu Shi at the age of 11 and died at the age of 24.In history, Princess Taiping and her second husband Wu Youji also had two sons and two daughters, but in the fictional Tang Dynasty in this article, Wu Youji received the bento directly. Therefore, Taiping at that time had only four children. Later Shen Jin had five of them.

2. Cup, or wine cup, is a wine container with an oval shape, shallow belly, flat bottom, half-moon-shaped ears on both sides, and sometimes cake-shaped feet or tall feet. It is also called an ear cup in archaeological circles. .Because the ears are shaped like the wings of a bird, it is also called "the wine glass".If you can't imagine what it looks like, you can Baidu it.