The Three Kingdoms of the Widow

Sima Yi walked to the gate of the palace, and the guards on the left and right stopped her. Sima Yi didn't have to speak, but showed the pine sign on his waist, and the guards retreated when they saw the strange ponytail pattern.

In fact, Cao Pi told the palace guards long ago that people with this brand can enter and leave the palace freely, but Sima Yi himself has never used it once, and she is still unwilling to come with Cao Pi's edict, let alone let her come on her own initiative up.

This time for Cao Rui, it was a special case.Sima Yi thought, even Cao Pi found out that something was wrong with his son, so there must be something wrong...

She went directly to the East Palace where Cao Rui lived, but before entering the inner hall, she was stopped by the servants: "Shang Shu You Servant shoots, please stay."

"I wish to see the prince, please inform me."

"Your Highness is gone, please go back."

"Your Majesty ordered the minister..."

A pottery filled with water hit the door directly in the next second, and after a bang, there was the sound of crackling and smashing on the ground and the sound of water splashing out, accompanied by Cao Rui's roar: "Get out! I don't want to see you! Stop using your father as a cover!"

"Shangshu Youpushe, please come back." An old servant pleaded with Sima Yi, "Don't talk about you, His Royal Highness has not been allowed to enter except for inviting people recently, that is, the inner court ladies can go in and deliver some food every day."

Sima Yi thought for a while, came out to change direction, and went to Queen Guo's residence.

To save face, Guo Xu treated Sima Yi politely, and the maid served snacks and ginger tea, but Guo Xu waved him away.

"If you have anything to say, Zhongda, just say it."

"Rui'er seems to have something to do recently." Sima Yi was not polite to Guo Xu.

Guo Xu laughed: "Zhongda is overstepping... You can't just call him the prince's name."

"I'm not here to be polite, Queen Guo please tell me what happened to Rui'er." Sima Yi obviously didn't take Guo Xu seriously.

Guo Xu felt depressed. Her acquaintance with Sima Yi originated from a transaction in a posthouse. Sima Yi picked her to bring down the Zhen family, and she could be the queen in the future.From then on, she worked hard to climb up in order not to look at other people's faces, until she really became a queen, but sadly found that she was still not respected.

"I won't tell you." This was her only means of revenge.

Sima Yi looked at Guo Xu coldly: "Queen, if you don't tell me, something will happen to Rui'er, and if something happens to him, the crown prince may fall aside. You don't have a son, and you will never have one." , we have agreed that Ruier will be your only backer in the future, how long can you keep your queen position without this backer? Are you trying to tell me now that you don’t care about this backer? "

Guo Xu's face twisted for a moment: "I am the queen! All the princes are my children! I am their aunt!"

"That's right, but if His Majesty knows that you are barren and have been someone else's concubine, how much better do you think your fate will be than Zhen's? As for the aunt...you can do it, and of course others can do it too."

"Stop it!" Guo Xu screamed, knocking over the golden goblet that was holding ginger tea in front of him, "Stop it!"

This is Guo Xu's heart disease. Before meeting Cao Pi, she had been a married woman for more than ten years. At the beginning, she was also optimistic that that person would be promoted in the court, so she would rather be a concubine than to enter this family's door, but this His other wives and concubines have children. Only Guo Xu has been silent, and Guo Xu knows that she will never be a mother.Later, this person died suddenly, and Guo Xu's dream was shattered. Her father decided to take her to Xudu to try his luck. Unexpectedly, he met Sima Yi. Sima Yi readily agreed to recommend her to Cao Pi on the condition that she would assist him. Cao Pi took the position of the eldest son and raised Cao Rui after Zhen's death.

Guo Xu was overjoyed at the time, but she couldn't believe that she would have such luck. She tentatively asked Sima Yi why she chose her, a woman who was nearly thirty.Unexpectedly, Sima Yi recounted her history clearly: "You are barren and have a dark history, which is the most important reason why I chose you."

Guo Xu felt very desperate at the time: Sima Yi had already found out about his past, but he thought he could hide it.What Sima Yi said could not be more clear. She was chosen because she is easy to control.

Later, Guo Xu also thought about finding a chance to kill Sima Yi, but she chose to give up after Cao Pi told her everything about the harem.

Cao Pi would not give up Sima Yi even if he was willing to do so.

"Is the queen still unwilling to tell me about Rui'er?"

"I'll tell you, I'll tell you..." Guo Xu could only comfort himself that the future would last forever, and at the same time, he did not forget to give Sima Yi a hard look.

"Recently, Rui'er has an unusual relationship with Wen Lie's son, named...Cao Zhao. I haven't seen it personally, but I just heard rumors from the palace maids that Rui'er and Cao Zhao had a very unreasonable fight. Rui'er often ordered Cao Zhao to come in. Palace, retreat everyone, just the two of them, hang out in the inner room, but some conversations are occasionally heard by the palace maid, saying that Cao Zhao is indiscreet and often has presumptuous words and deeds, but Rui'er doesn't pursue it..."

"Didn't Rui'er marry Yu Shi?" Sima Yi said suddenly, "As a princess, Yu Shi should advise on these matters."

Guo Xu showed a mocking expression: "Why, Zhongda doesn't know yet, His Majesty didn't tell you? The Yu family has been sent away and is not in the palace."

"What did she do?"

"It's nothing, it's just that Rui'er once favored the Mao family, saying that she wanted to make Mao a good concubine. The Yu family cried, and said in front of the empress dowager who went to persuade her that 'the Cao family loves the humble', and it turned out You know that the Empress Dowager got up to advocate for her family. Zhen Shi used to be Yuan Shi's concubine. As for me, I was also a "lower person". I offended too many people, so no one dared to speak for Yu Shi. If he wants to kill Yu Shi, I told him that he can't kill people now, he must impress His Majesty, so he sent Yu Shi to Yecheng."

Guo Xu couldn't get enough of it when he said this: "Zhongda, Mrs. Yu said something after the trouble-causing thing. Do you want to know what it is?"

"The queen has something to say, please."

"The Yu family said: 'I heard that the family education of the Sima family in Hanoi is very strict.

Sima Yi got up and said goodbye: "Your Excellency will leave." You have already got the information you want, if you don't want to hear it, don't listen to it.

Coming out of the empress's quarters, Sima Yi decided to go back to Cao Rui's inner hall. She had already made up her mind, but suddenly she saw a figure swaying around the corner, it seemed to be Master Sima, she chased after him, but she couldn't see him.

Sima Yi didn't know what it meant that Master Sima appeared here alone at this time, without a follower, and kept hiding from himself, but he thought of what Master Sima said - Sima Yi turned around and ran away.

She has to prepare.

Cao Rui was in a bad mood today, and Sima Yi actually wanted to come to see him. It would be good if he didn't rush out and chop her up on the spot.Cao Rui thought of Cao Zhao, who always put him in a good mood, so he ordered someone to summon Cao Zhao as usual.

After Cao Zhao came, the two of them rolled together, laughing and playing games, Cao Zhao's ideas always coincided with his own, and he was more pleasing than wives and concubines.Cao Rui thinks this is very good.For example, today, Cao Zhao proposed to play games for fun.

Cao Rui kissed Cao Zhao's face: "Okay, what are you betting on?"

"Gambling..." Cao Zhaohu searched the room with his beautiful red phoenix eyes, suddenly jumped down from Cao Rui's arms, came to a cabinet in the room, opened it and began to search.

Cao Rui didn't get angry when he saw Cao Zhao messing up the clothes in the closet, he thought he liked Cao Zhao like that.

"These!" Cao Zhao finally came over with a pile of clothes, Cao Rui took a closer look, it was nothing else, it was Cao Pi who was going to formally make him the prince, and someone sent him a dress for the prince in advance, so that he could try on the fit. No.Cao Rui had already tried it and thought it was just right, so he refused to hand it back. He went to tell Cao Pi that he wanted to keep the clothes for himself, and Cao Pi didn't object.Cao Zhao found out all these things today.

"You can't bet on this..." Although Cao Rui dotes on Cao Zhao, he is still not confused.

"Why not! This dress looks good!"

"Okay, okay, you can gamble, but you can't give you the clothes, can I break them into money and give them to you?"

Cao Zhao could think about it, so he threw down his clothes, took out the dice, and started playing "Hulu" with Cao Rui. This is actually a five-throw game, and whoever throws more black dots wins.People who play all think that they can cast five black dots, which is called "Lu", so they will shout "Lu" to cheer for themselves. Over time, everyone habitually calls this game "Hulu". .

When they were playing to the point of joy, both of them were yelling, when suddenly they heard a maid outside saying: "Your Highness, the fruit is here as usual." Cao Rui didn't take it seriously, and didn't raise his head: "Come in, put it down casually." Just go out."

The maid who came in lowered her head and bowed deeply, holding a lacquer plate full of Linoxiang pears and plums with both hands, and put it on the table next to Cao Rui. After that, the maid did not retreat, but retreated behind the screen.

Cao Rui was a little strange, but his attention was all on the game, it was just a maid, and she didn't bother him, so he didn't have to pay attention to it, so he didn't care.

Cao Zhao yelled, "It's Lu! It's Lu!" Cao Rui reached out and picked up a pear from the nearby plate, and handed it to Cao Zhao: "I've been shouting for a long time, I'm thirsty, eat a pear."

Cao Zhao looked up at Cao Rui, his long eyelashes flickered twice, and he bit off a large piece of pear flesh.

"Is it sweet?"

"Hmm..." Cao Zhao vaguely agreed, but didn't take it, just took Cao Rui's hand and gnawed a few more mouthfuls.

Seeing how happy he was eating, Cao Rui gave him another green plum: "This is pickled, try this."

Cao Zhao took it by himself this time, but frowned after taking a bite: "It's too sour!"

"Sour? No way, it must be because you ate pears before."

"It's sour! It's sour! If you don't believe me, try it!" Cao Zhao handed the bitten plum to Cao Rui's mouth.

Cao Rui saw that the green plum was missing a piece, leaving obvious small teeth marks, and there was a light pink circle of lip balm beside it, which was very conspicuous against the green skin, Cao Rui smiled: "Okay, I will try it." taste."

Take a sip: "It's not sour, it's not sour at all, try again if you don't believe me."

Cao Zhao took it suspiciously and took a bite: "It's still sour!"

"Really? I'll try again."

The two of them ate and quarreled like this, without hearing the sigh behind the screen.

Enough is enough, the game is over, after calculating the final result, it is Cao Zhao who won, he wants that suit.

"That's the prince's dress, I can't give it to you." Cao Rui coaxed Cao Zhao.

"Then give me the money—well, just [-] million!" Cao Zhao dared to speak loudly.

Cao Rui smiled wryly: "How can I have so much money? Even if I have, I can't get it out for a while. How about it? As long as other things are in my house, you can take them as you like."

"I want clothes! If you don't have clothes, give me money!" Cao Zhao relied on Cao Rui's usual favor, and even if he was arrogant, he couldn't handle it.

"Hey, I really can't give you clothes, ah. Otherwise, I owe you what I owe, how about meat?"

Nima, is this going to be a nasty joke?

The result was that Cao Zhao was extremely persistent and uncompromising this time. Seeing that Cao Rui was about to take off his clothes, Cao Zhao pushed him away: "It's either clothes or [-] million yuan. If you don't give it, don't think about me sleeping with you!"

"Next time, can I help you next time? It's really not good this time. It's presumptuous for you to wear this dress."

"What kind of arrogance is not arrogance! I want to wear it!"

"Okay, okay, you can wear it, but you can only wear it here." Cao Rui had no choice but to let go.

Cao Zhao was so happy that he took the clothes and accessories by himself and put them on without anyone waiting on him. Cao Rui looked at him helplessly.

"How is it?" Cao Zhao asked Cao Rui after getting dressed.

"nice."

"Show Master Sima and tell him that I can't do it!" Cao Zhao walked out excitedly.

Cao Rui was still not confused, when he heard the word "Sima Shi", he suddenly felt something wrong.He wanted to stop Cao Zhao, but Cao Zhao had already gone out. He wanted to chase him out, but he was still disheveled, so he could only try to get dressed quickly while calling Cao Zhao's name.

But before he was ready, unexpectedly, the woman kneeling behind the screen rushed out of the room without his permission.

Master Sima had been waiting for this moment.

Before Cao Zhao taunted him, he said lightly, "So what if His Royal Highness dotes on you, if you have the ability, go and get the prince's dress. It is the most expensive clothes for the prince. He will really love you if he is willing to give it to you. What, it can't be done."

Then Cao Zhao went to Cao Rui angrily, and Master Sima began to prepare people.This time, he got Cao Pi's permission to be responsible for the security task of Cao Rui's inner palace.

Master Sima said to those under his command: "Someone will come out wearing the crown prince's clothes in a while. This is a treasonous thing. They must be arrested!"

Then the subordinates lay in ambush under the corridor, and sure enough, the little idiot Cao Zhao ran over happily wearing the prince's clothes after a while, shouting as he ran, "Master Sima! Master Sima!"

These guards all knew that Cao Rui was the prince, but Cao Rui didn't dare to run around wearing the prince's clothes before he was officially conferred.

So, Cao Zhao didn't run very far before he was caught by the guards who jumped out.

Cao Zhao was terrified: "What are you doing! I am the son of General Zhengdong! My father is a close minister of the emperor!"

Sima Shi came out from the shadow of the porch, and Cao Zhao was happy when he saw him: "Ziyuan! Look, I did it! Admit defeat!"

But what Cao Zhao didn't expect was that Master Sima's face was gloomy, and he was startled as soon as he opened his mouth: "Come here, Cao Zhao privately flaunted the prince's clothes in court, violated the rules of etiquette, and despised the emperor. Today he was captured and stolen They are all there, and cannot be denied! Immediately hand them over to the judge for questioning!"

"Yes!" The guard agreed, set up Cao Zhao and dragged him down.

"Master Sima, what are you doing! Let me go! Your Highness! Your Highness!" Cao Zhao still didn't fully understand what happened, but no matter how stupid he was, he knew that being taken down would lead to nothing. He cried and called Cao Rui.

"Teacher!"

Suddenly an incredible voice came from behind, Sima Shi and the others turned their heads to look.

Master Sima gasped.

His father, Sima Yi, was standing behind him, combing his hair in a palace bun, and wearing palace clothes, probably because his hem was a little tight, he couldn't run fast, but he rushed over again, his simple bun was messed up, and his temples flew up quite a bit hair strands.

"father……?"

"Let Cao Zhao go!" Sima Yi walked up to Master Sima in a few steps.

"Master Sima!"

Cao Rui also brought people over.

Sima Yi also turned around. Cao Rui saw her makeup clearly and was taken aback: "Sima Yi! Just now you entered the inner palace disguised as a court lady?"

"Yes." Sima Yi bowed and saluted, "I am serving Your Majesty..."

"Gu said, don't use the father as a cover anymore! The father can't order you to sneak into the inner palace in a court lady's attire! What do you look like now? In order to find out about Gu's situation, you actually made yourself male and female Yes! You can really do it! Come on! Sima Yi disguised himself to spy on the East Palace, plotting something wrong, arrest him!"

"Who dares!" Master Sima yelled and shocked the audience, he went to the front to protect Sima Yi. "Your Highness! My father is an important minister of the country. Even if His Majesty comes in person, he must treat him with courtesy. Now you humiliate the father of the minister and slander the ministers in public. Your Majesty knows, what will happen?"

"Humiliate her alone? It's clear that your Sima family brought it on themselves! It wasn't enough to pretend to be a dancer on the Bronze Sparrow Stage back then, but now she's pretending to be a court lady, but no one is forcing her!"

The neglected Cao Zhao cried again: "Your Highness...help me..."

"Master Sima! What do you mean by arresting Cao Zhao?"

The blue veins on Sima Shi's forehead were all prominent: "Cao Zhao has overstepped and used the prince's clothes without authorization, he must be punished!"

"Presumptuous!" Cao Rui looked at Cao Zhao, and Cao Zhao continued to cry, "I didn't! Your Highness, it was Master Sima who made a bet with me before that he made me wear His Highness's clothes!"

"Master Sima, you are so bold!"

"I never instigated Cao Zhao. Cao Zhao, do you have any evidence? If there is no evidence, you will be punished severely if you talk nonsense and frame the minister!" Master Sima stared at Cao Zhao, his menacing eyes made Cao Zhao dare not cry anymore.

"Since Cao Zhao refuses to plead guilty now, and the matter is complicated, let him be handed over to Ting Wei! Wait for His Majesty to come back—then try slowly."

Master Sima did it on purpose, and after he finished speaking the four words almost as if to relieve his hatred, Cao Rui's eyes turned red at that time: When Cao Pi comes back for interrogation, the matter will be out of hand!Not to mention that Cao Zhao will be questioned, but after careful investigation, Cao Rui also has the responsibility of connivance!At that time, Chen Qun, who is known for being ruthless and daring to impeach anyone, will definitely not let it go!

"Master Sima! You..."

All of this is obviously a game set up by Sima Shi, and it is aimed at Cao Rui, but Cao Rui has nothing to do. Who would let his favorite Cao Zhao, a silly boy, jump into this game on his own initiative?

"Master, let Cao Zhao go." Sima Yi suddenly said beside him.

"father……"

"Do you want to see the civil turmoil in Wei Palace?"

"Father..." Master Sima looked into Sima Yi's eyes, "This is my only chance, if I miss this time, I won't have another chance..."

"Let Cao Zhao go. Just pretend this never happened." Sima Yi grabbed Sima Shi's hand.

"But……"

"Do you want Dad to kneel down and beg you?!"

Sima Yi was really about to kneel down, Master Sima supported Sima Yi in fear: "Father! My son dare not!"

"Don't let anyone go!"

Master Sima looked at Cao Zhao, then at Cao Rui, and finally returned to Sima Yi.

"Okay, Dad, I'll let him go." Master Sima said very bitterly, "But I'm for you, not for the prince. I know that you don't want to owe the Cao family. So, this time, it's the Cao family who owes you money." mine!"

Master Sima waved his hand to signal the guards to let go of Cao Zhao. Cao Zhao threw himself into Cao Rui's arms wiping away his tears. Cao Rui lowered his head to comfort him, then looked up at Master Sima—his eyes were full of murderous intent.

"Your Highness." Sima Yi knelt down facing Cao Rui, "Pretend this incident never happened. I promise not to tell anyone, and I will also tell my sons to keep their mouths shut. , and ask Your Highness to give the minister's family a way to survive, otherwise, everything will be destroyed."

"Do you dare to threaten Gu?"

"Don't dare, His Highness is smart and courageous, so he naturally knows the seriousness of this matter."

Cao Rui stared at Sima Yi for a while, "humph", embraced Cao Zhao, turned around and went back to change clothes.

Master Sima came up to help Sima Yi: "Father, my son will also help you to change clothes."

Sima Yi couldn't bear to hear Sima Shi's exhausted voice: "Master, father..."

"Father, stop talking, my son understands. What happened today will never happen again in the future——"

Cao Rui would not be so stupid as to give Master Sima a second chance. Some things, if you miss them once, you will miss them forever.

But some things, once started, cannot be stopped.

Cao Pi returned to the court years ago, and the result this time was the same as the last two times, and he returned without success.

Perhaps it was God's will. Although Cao Pi chose the early winter as the season of military deployment, God deliberately snowed heavily in early winter this year. The temperature dropped sharply, and the river was frozen. Cao Pi's ships could not move forward at all. , let alone attack Soochow.

According to the "Three Kingdoms" records: "It is a severe cold, the waterway is ice, and the boat is not allowed to enter the river, but it is returned."

Chen Shou was actually quite kind, but simply said that Cao Pi could not fight this battle, so he took the initiative to retreat. In fact, Cao Pi was defeated, because Soochow sent Gao Shou to take 500 people to take a small road to intercept Cao Pi's returning army. He fled all the way, until he got to Shanyang to catch his breath, and slowly gathered up the remnant army.

Shanyang is Cao Pi's brother-in-law, the former Han Emperor Liu Xie, and now the territory of Shanyang Gong. I don't know if Cao Pi has any emotion here.

After he was shocked, Cao Pi himself felt ashamed. He discussed with Wu Zhi, and Wu Zhi suggested that he still go to Wu Wang Sun Quan to ask for something to save face, and on the other hand return to Luoyang grandly. Don't know they lost.

Cao Pi adopted this suggestion and chose to go back by boat. His boat was big, and he needed to call on the people on both sides of the river to pull the tows. "Qinghe sees the boatman's newlyweds and his wife's farewell work":

I'm newly married to you, and I will part with you in the past.The cool wind moves the autumn grass, and the crickets chirp along with it.The cicadas sing in the cold, and the cicadas hug dead branches.When the dead branches fly, the body suddenly moves.Don't mourn the migration of the body, but cherish the time.The years are endless, how can we know the reunion?Willing to be two yellow swans, playing with each other to clear the pond.

When Sima Yi read this poem, he had no doubt that Du Fu's "Farewell to the Newly Married" was inspired by it.

You said there is something wrong with this person, why is he an emperor?

"Zhongda, when I'm not around, is everything going well in Luoyang?"

"Qizou Your Majesty, everything is fine."

"Where is Ruier?"

"Everything is fine, Your Highness. You like to study recently, and your actions have become more stable and convenient, and you are worthy of a great responsibility."

"Okay, next time I'll take him to Soochow to see and see. By the way, Zhongda, Sun Zhongmou paid some more tribute. You bring these two long-winging chickens back to Zhao'er."

There will be no next time, because this is the last time Cao Pi sent troops.

The author has something to say:

The two historical records supporting this chapter (not all of them are credible) were artificially advanced by the author for the sake of the plot. These two events actually happened after Cao Rui ascended the throne.

One is Yu's experience:

"Three Kingdoms": In the early days, Emperor Ming was the king, and the Yu family in Hanoi was accepted as the concubine. When the emperor ascended the throne, the Yu family could not be established as the queen.The Yu family said: "The Cao family likes to be humble, and there is no one who can do righteousness. Then he works in internal affairs, and the king listens to foreign affairs. The way is formed accordingly. If you can't start with good, there is no one who can end it. It is almost certain that the country will be destroyed and sacrificed!" The Yu family then returned to Ye Palace.

One is about Cao Zhao (this is the least credible):

Feng Menglong's "History of Love" love category: Cao Zhao has a special color, Emperor Wei Ming loves him, and his sleep and behavior are the same.Taste betting with the emperor on clothes, if you don't get any, you will enter the imperial tent, and take the clothes out, just like your relatives and pets. [By the way, this Feng Menglong also choreographed Cao Pi. Although the emperors of the Han, Wei, and Jin Dynasties had many double-inserted cards, the age of Feng Menglong’s life was too far behind. The possibility of hearsay is high, and the credibility is low. 】

According to the author's original intention, this chapter is the end of the chapter, but the result... well, then the sentence "do not copy the Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is still valid in the next section.In the next section, look at Wuhou's "Journey to the South".