Chapter 142: Crossing the River

When Zhang Zhaohua heard such a trial, he was also a little stunned, the words of the palace maid and the eunuch ** were indeed a big crime. At this time, there are palace maids and eunuchs in the palace to eat, of course, the word "food" has existed in ancient times, the earliest originated from the Han Dynasty, the "Book of Han" recorded: "The official maid Cao Xiao, Daofang, Zhang abandoned, so Zhao Zhaoyi's royal person in the guest, Wang Bi, Zang and so on, all said that the palace is the children, the former belonged to the middle palace, for the history of learning, through the "poem", awarded to the queen. The house and the palace are opposite". But at that time, there was no eunuch participation in the food, it was a matter between the palace maid and the palace maid, and the first time to eat at a table, and finally gradually developed into a kind of relationship of "loving each other like a couple".

Later, the food gradually became a nominal husband and wife mode between the eunuch and the palace maid, in the palace, resentment and boredom, this phenomenon is not a special case, but the emperor hated this behavior and strictly banned it, and the eunuch who married a wife and started a family was punished with a very cruel flaying. Speaking of which, the emperor is a more serious leader, and there is no room for sand in his eyes, in his hands, corrupt officials have to be skinned, and eunuchs have to be skinned when they fall in love. Fight corruption with an iron fist, I don't have to say, rule morality with an iron fist, then it should be discussed.

In short, Gao Sui's reason for killing is like this, Zhang Zhaohua is completely understandable now, if his favorite palace maid and eunuch roll on the bed - don't think that the eunuch can't have fun without that thing, speaking of which, they are a group of rootless people, I'm afraid there are more tricks in the bed, but in the end they are all dependent on props, thinking that Gao Sui saw this scene, he was furious, causing the liver and gallbladder wood fire to rise, rushing to the brain, and the gods lost their mastery, so they raised their swords to chase and kill people all the way to the world.

Since it wasn't a murder for no reason, if Xiao Miao really deserved to die, Zhang Zhaohua finally reluctantly forgave Gao Sui, and in the end, he couldn't help but get sick, and Xiao Miao and the eunuch really deserved to die.

At night, there was only a bright moon hanging in the dark sky, but there was not a single star. Everything on the earth was shrouded in the bleak moonlight, as silent as time jamming. There was only a small sound of leaves rubbing from time to time, and on this night, in a secluded courtyard in the palace that had not been set foot for a long time, two people finally ushered in.

Princess Xu walked in, this Buddhist hall looks small, in fact, there are countless statues of gods, there are large or small shrines, there are three large shrines in the center of the hall, there are three big gods in it, and the red oil niche next to it is a small god who sits or stands, there are big bells and drums and gray prayer flags on the left and right, and there are also sign holders on the desk.

There was a woman kneeling in front of this Buddha shrine, who was adding lamp oil to the lantern, and did not look back when she heard the footsteps, but carefully picked up the lantern with a chisel, and knelt on the futon and recited a few words of the Buddha name, before saying: "You are here, I know you are coming." ”

"Do you know you're going to die?" Xu said, "After doing so many evil things, even if you recite 18,000 Buddha names, you can't atone for your sins." ”

The Buddhist scriptures say that if a person can recite 18,000 Buddha names, the ten directions and the three worlds will be shaken, and all the sins of the past will be eliminated. However, what disappears is only psychological guilt, and all this is as if it were an illusory illusion of self-comfort, and I refuse to open my eyes to see, because when I open my eyes, everything is still there, and the past life is different from the present life.

"I have thought about it countless times," the woman said unhurriedly, "Man, where does life come from? Where does death go? Is there a world after death? If not, then it will be a hundred deaths; if there is, what kind of world will it be after death? Is it suffering, is it happiness, is it sorrow, is it joy? I am like a dream day and night, and I don't know what the benefit is when I think about it, but I can't forget it." ”

Some people say that young children have no soul, and some people say that they do, so she burned a lot of children's clothes, and prayed to her children, whose souls have spirits, and can meet her in their dreams, but after so many years, she has never waited. So she began to feel that her children were resenting her.

Why is he resentful, because he died so wronged, he was born less than a month into the world, and he died so suddenly, and the culprit could not be punished, because that man was only an unintentional mistake, because that man was still his nominal brother.

So this woman is actually King Yan's concubine Zhang, her child who died before term is the youngest son Zhu Gaoxian who was born on December 24, 24th year of Hongwu, it is said that the child who is not full-term should not have a name, all the sons were given names by the Zongren Mansion when they were four years old, and some even had to wait until they were seven years old. It was only because of pity that King Yan specially named him.

As for how Zhu Gaoxian died, because he was born in the month of Layue, and there were six or seven days before the New Year, and the mansion was lively, and at that time, Gao Xian was the most naughty, and he picked a bunch of firecrackers from the library that were ready to be set off on Chinese New Year's Eve, and lit them indiscriminately. I thought that this firecracker could not hear the sound warmly, and called the two little eunuchs to buy the loudest and loudest firecrackers on the East Street, and after trying it, he was very satisfied, so he blew it up all the way, and ambushed two in front of the gate of Yongning Courtyard, and actually set off a wave of anger, so frightened that the palace people and grandmothers who were serving Yongping thought that there was a cannon, and they screamed one by one, making Gao Sui laugh happily.

There is nothing to blow up in the world, because his eldest brother listened to Ji Shan's lecture, and he didn't dare to go to Ji Shan's house to blow up, because if he did this, Yan Wang Zhun Bao would open his ass to flowers, and he didn't go to his second brother Gao Xu's house, he dared to blow up, but then he couldn't run away, Gao Xu caught up with him, so he had to clean him up, maybe he could stuff a string of firecrackers into his crotch.

He blew up the houses of several county lords one by one, stirring people upside down, and it was not enjoyable, and ran to a courtyard, and saw that it was the courtyard of the Zhang family, who had just given birth to a little brother, and he had no scruples, so he ordered three or five at once and threw them in, and after a while, the sound of thunder sounded, and everyone in the whole courtyard was running and dusty.

He was amused by the sight, but before he could leave, he heard a sharp voice: "Brother, brother, call the doctor to go, my child—"

He saw a woman with a disheveled hair running out barefoot, holding a bright yellow swaddling cloth in her arms, and then Gao Sui saw people running back and forth, and the sound of ghosts crying wolves came out in the courtyard, and soon after, Yan Wang Tie blushed and knocked him unconscious with a whip.

I'm afraid that King Yan didn't expect that his whip on Gao Sui's head actually made Gao Sui unconscious for three days, and when he woke up, he went crazy, abandoned his clothes and left, climbed high and sang, went up to the house, and scolded wildly, these symptoms made King Yan and the princess almost frightened to death, thinking that he had lost his mind and was crazy - after the doctor was diagnosed and treated, he said that it was because of the sudden panic, which touched the heart fire, disturbed the spirit, and the gods were involuntary, so that the mind was rebellious and restless.

The gods of man are originally in the heart and brain, and if the heart is hurt, it can make the mind upside down and crazy. King Yan knew that Gao Sui's madness was his reprimand and whip, thinking that Gao Sui's eight or nine-year-old children had always been loved, even if King Yan was strict with Gao Chi and Gao Xu, he had never been harsh on his youngest son, who looked like a princess. This time, Zhu Gaoxian was frightened and died, and he found out that the reason was that Gao Sui's firecracker was frightened, how could King Yan not be angry?

In the end, Dao Yan brought people back to Qingshou Temple, through his hands, Gao Sui regained consciousness, but Dao Yan told that the disease could not be cured, and he didn't know when he was stimulated to attack, so every year King Yan and the princess sent Gao Sui to live in Qingshou Temple for more than a month, one is to let Dao Yan determine the condition, and the other is that Gao Xian's child was killed by Gao Sui, even if he is not sensible, but this sin is to be atoned for, Gao Sui has to recite and copy scriptures in front of the Buddha every year, and pray for the dead brother. This is why firecrackers are taboo in Fuchu, and even fireworks are less.

This kind of punishment is enough, Gao Sui is ignorant after all, if he knew that that firecracker would kill a person, and it was the life of his younger brother, of course he would not do such a stupid thing. It's just that there is no regret medicine in the world, Gao Sui has madness, and Gao Xian has been wrapped in yellow cloth and incinerated, because such a young child cannot be buried, and it must be cremated, so in Zhang's eyes, he only feels that his child has not even been able to get a small coffin, and he has to be burned by fire, why does she not hate it?

She hated King Yan for refusing to open his eyes for her child, but how could King Yan open his eyes? Could it be that for a child who had died and was only ten days old, he had to kill his own son-in-law, who had grown up and was smart and clever? In the eyes of King Yan, he had feelings for this child, especially the child who was holding the newborn child with soft bones, and any father would have all kinds of love, but this kind of pity would not become a love for the calf until the child grew up day by day, and it would have more relevance to him. After all, the child has not grown up, and he is not just the father of a child.

Just like in the emperor's harem, there are also ungrown princes, but this prince died young, and the emperor just sighed and ordered a thick burial. And the death of Prince Yiwen made the emperor mourn to the point that he couldn't go to court for dozens of days, and he also cried when he saw his courtiers, which is why, because one has grown up, the other has not yet grown, and the one that has grown up has more feelings poured out in the long years.

In the end, the Zhang family only has one child, so this child is all she has, which is different from King Yan, so she doesn't understand King Yan, she only feels that people's hearts are biased, and she only feels that since she can't rely on King Yan, she has to seek justice herself.

It's just that at that time, she hadn't planned well, but she did something but it was obvious, so Xu saw it, so she moved the yard for her, which is where she lives now, Xu was quite considerate of her at that time, and she didn't blame her for starting, but since then, King Yan has gradually stopped coming, and she has been silent until today.

She had also seen Gao Sui's crazy appearance, and felt that such retribution might be enough, but when the princess entered the mansion and became pregnant, the flame that had been extinguished in her heart was suddenly ignited again, why did she have nothing, but some people could have children and grandchildren, why are they also women, but their fate is completely different for them? Is it just based on a family status, is it just a wife?

Zhang's was also young and beautiful back then, and he was favored by King Yan for a long time, otherwise he would not have given birth to the last child in the house, although she was proud of the spring breeze at that time, but she didn't dare to compare with Xu's, even the fifteenth day of the first month, and went over to serve early, and after a few times, Xu's was also exempted from her greetings - at that time, she knew that Xu was a good wife, but in the final analysis, she was also a woman, and she was a woman first.

It's just that when she lost her child, she didn't understand why King Yan's favor gradually thinned? Shouldn't she feel guilty and compensate? But why didn't King Yan stop coming to see her and no longer listen to her tell her about Gao Xian?

Zhang waited in the Qingqiu courtyard for five years, and she finally couldn't wait any longer. She just wanted to plan a game, and the victory was gratifying, and she had an explanation for her children - it was nothing if she was defeated, the accumulation in this world was dissolved, she would fall when she ascended, and the union should be separated, and there was no life and no death.

"When you came to this Qingqiu Courtyard, you dismissed the people who served around you," the princess said: "These palace people have been distributed everywhere and have become your eyes and pawns. Why did Yongping know about the dark tenon on the rosewood furniture, where did Yongan hear about Lan Lan and Zhang Fu, and why did the Jin family suddenly want to send his daughter to the mansion, and how he listened to your words and assassinated the Zhang family—all of this was planned and instructed by you behind your back!"

In order to see the student Du Qi, Yongping dismantled the dark tenon of the Huanghuali basin frame in the Ancheng house, which is the craft of Suzhou, which is not quite the same as the north, and the north will not add a dark tenon where the fir is connected, the craftsman in the house may know, but Yongping will not have nothing to ask the craftsman about the mortise and tenon. And Zhang's is just a Suzhou woman, who was originally from a wealthy family.

Zhang Fu and Lan Lan's matter, among them is Zhang's handwriting, she knows that Zhang Fu and Yong'an are married, and she also knows that Yong'an is not over, so she told Yong'an, and there will be something after. And the Jin family is her main chess piece, sent to attack the princess Zhang - she has such a heart, since the palace owes her a child, she will use a child to repay, and the next generation of the palace in Zhang's belly, who does not know whether it is a man or a woman, is her sacrifice.

"People originally had the heart to cross the river, and the appearance of the boat only provided a way to cross the river. Zhang smiled: "I just gave them a choice, and whether to do or not to do is also a choice for them." If they didn't have the intention of harming others, would they be deceived by me? Aren't you deceiving yourself by blaming everything on me? Can't you believe that your sons and daughters are actually grinding their teeth and sucking blood?"

"Enough!" Mama Li, who was behind the princess, stood up and said, "Niangniang, let the old slave let her go." ”

"Mama Li," Zhang squinted his eyes at her, "I heard that you were originally in the palace and served Empress Xiaoci, but I don't know if you have heard and seen more, so you can't hear such words anymore!

She laughed and said, "This is not a palace on high above, but a gloomy place! No one's heart here is red or hot, it is soaked in ice water and roasted on a blazing fire, and it is all scarred and hard as stone! There is no joy, no goodness, no happiness, it is not made of stones and beams, it is great suffering, it is endless torment! Every man here is digging a hole in order to hide his deepest and most terrible thing, but one day it will be revealed, and no one can escape it!"

"I curse myself, and I curse you—" She staggered to her feet, dark red blood flowing from the corners of her mouth, and she had already taken poison: "I curse you to be so blind all your life, that you cannot see your husband's virtues, that your children are intrigued, that you harm others today, and that tomorrow you will fight against each other and fight endlessly!

She spat out a mouthful of blood, grabbed her throat involuntarily with both hands, and looked at Xu Shi with a last, smug gaze, as if she had predicted her end—she laughed like this, opened her mouth wide, and let out a final mournful cry: "Gong Wu crossed the river, Gong actually crossed the river!

The public did not cross the river, but the public actually crossed the river! Crossing the river and dying, what could he do!

Xu's eyes seemed to see the surging waves, the madman being crossed by the river with a pot, and his wife chasing after him, shouting and sighing, but this big wave had swept in, sweeping away everything in heaven and earth.