Let's say that Wucai has not met with Li Zhi since he was made the crown prince, and the two sides transmitted information through the maid through the air, but the number of transmissions became less and less as Li Zhi's official duties and studies became increasingly busy.

In the past twelve years since entering the palace, Wucai has gradually been forgotten by Li Shimin, and he has become accustomed to living a quiet life as a beautiful lady.

It is precisely because of this that the nature is very Ma

The martial arts talent who loves to be in the limelight has not become the second Li Junxian.

In the summer, Li Shimin went to Cuiwei Palace for a vacation, accompanied by the crown prince and the crown princess, Xu Chongrong, high-ranking civil and military officials and the five guards in the ya.

Wucai people can only stay in the palace and can't go anywhere, so they concentrate on studying knowledge, quietly observe the changes in the situation, and by the way, they are familiar with the palace maids and eunuchs in the harem.

One day, the news that the emperor was seriously ill came from Cuiwei Palace, and the Yongxiang of Yeting Palace exploded all of a sudden, and Xiao Meiren, Cui Cairen, Xiao Cairen, and Wu Cairen were all very worried and wept sadly.

According to the system of the early Tang Dynasty, after the emperor ten thousand years later, the whereabouts of the concubines were as follows:

(1) If there are concubines, they can go to their sons' fiefdoms to enjoy their old age.

(2) The childless concubines above the third grade Jieyu migrated to the Chongsheng Palace Qingxiu in Chongdefang, Chang'an, and there were still dozens of palace maids in the palace to serve food and daily life.

(3) The four-grade beauties and the five-grade talents went to the Ganye Temple to become monks, and there were no palace maids waiting in the temple.

(4) Baolin, the Imperial Maiden and the Cainu are placed in Deye Temple.

(5) The people of Wupin Palace who served the first emperor were sent to the Zhaoling Tomb of Jiuzhi Mountain in Liquan County to guard the mausoleum, worship the morning and night, and die as if they were alive.

After discussion, Concubine Wei and Concubine Yan De were happy and carefree, and they could go to the fiefdoms of their sons Li Shen, King of Ji, and Li Zhen, King of Yue, to become noble concubines and continue to enjoy the glory of the world.

Concubine Zheng Xian, Xu Chongrong, Yang Jieyu and other concubines will stay in Chongsheng Palace; Xiao Meiren, Xiao Cairen, Cui Cairen, and Wucai people will all go to Ganye Temple to become monks.

What is certain is that whether it is to Chongsheng Palace, Ganye Temple, or to Deye Temple and Zhaoling, you must abide by the principle of death as life, and live a cold and lonely life.

Some beautiful girls guarding the tomb quickly turned into old women in this claustrophobic environment, and wrote poems sadly lamenting:

Strong singing and dancing are difficult to win, and the flowers are full of tears.

It is only suitable for the death of the monarch in the same year, and he will be exempted from teaching and look at Xiling.

Thinking of the soon-to-be-coming monastic life, the beautiful women are young and widowed, the flowers are withered and withered, and the red mud is the companion, this love does not love once, and there is no dream of a dream, it is about to be separated by yin and yang, and the yellow spring looks at each other, and the beauties and talented people are so frightened that the flowers are discolored, and they cry together.

After dinner, many lamps were lit, all the beauties gathered in Youlan Pavilion, Xiao Meiren played the pipa, sang Chen Houzhu's "Flowers Stop Flowers After the Jade Tree", and sang "The flowers do not bloom for a long time, and the red ground returns to silence", and she was speechless and choked.

Martial arts people drummed, sang Confucius's "Youlan Cao", sang "old age, old age", and whimpered again, and the beauties were in tears, crying three times a day.

For several days, the martial artists were reminiscing about the past and looking forward to the future. In the past, he studied diligently and worked hard, but now everything is zeroed in the temple, and only the sweet memory of the encounter with Jiulang remains.

In the future, Ganye Temple, just like a heavenly river drawn by the Queen Mother, is boundless, there is no magpie bridge, even if Jiulang has a heart, how to cross the heavenly river to meet himself?

The martial artist stood in front of the door, looking forward to the distance, thinking of Li Zhi staring at him affectionately, and quietly called out in his heart: "Jiulang, Jiulang, can you hear the concubine's loud call?" In the sky, in the clouds, the concubine turns into a bird and returns to you in a dream. Pan Jiulang, hang up the cloud sails, ride the wind and waves, and row through the Tianhe River to overcome all difficulties! ”

"But the nobles are forgetful, the emperor is easy to move, although the concubine is like a jade for Jiulang, but the East Palace has selected so many beautiful women......"

Every time he thought of this, the martial arts people's hearts were like cold ashes, tears were like springs, and tears fell one by one on the multi-pleated pomegranate skirt of the flying birds, soaking the pomegranate skirt.

Let's take a look at the situation of Cuiwei Palace.

After Li Shimin died, Li Zhi hugged the neck of the eldest grandson Wuji, cried bitterly, and Wuji closed his eyes slightly and enjoyed it secretly. One minute passed, three minutes passed, five minutes passed, Wuji couldn't stand it anymore, and secretly thought: This kid keeps crying, is there no end?

Wuji opened his eyes and saw that the princess and Xu Chongrong were looking at him in surprise, and secretly thought: What are you looking at, do you think our uncle and nephew are doing it? Haha, not actually!

Wuji took out a handkerchief to wipe away Li Zhi's tears and said, "Please Your Highness to dispose of all things to stabilize the inside and outside!" Li Zhi pretended not to hear, but continued to hug his uncle's neck and cry.

Wuji was in a hurry, pulled Li Zhi's hand away and sighed: "Hey! Your Highness, don't you be so motherly, okay? The Lord entrusted His Highness with the Jongmyo Society, how can you follow the example of the puppet and only know how to cry? ”

Li Zhi choked up with tears in his eyes: "Everything is subject to Uncle's arrangement!" ”

Wuji said: "Tian Khan died outside Chang'an City, the news should be temporarily blocked, and the news should not be leaked, so as not to shock the government and the opposition and covet it!" Wait until His Royal Highness returns to Beijing safely, and then mourn. ”

All the ministers agreed, and decided to keep the mourning secret for the time being, and Li Zhi led the flying cavalry and the strong soldiers to return to the Beijing division first, and the Wuji protection coffin followed.

On the twenty-eighth day of May in the twenty-third year of Zhenguan, Li Zhi returned to the capital from the Cuiwei Palace of Zhongnan Mountain, and the imperial horses, chariots, and guards of the first emperor still followed Li Zhi into the palace as usual and stopped in front of the Liangyi Palace.

Li Zhi ascended to the palace and appointed Yu Zhining as the servant, Zhang Xingcheng as the servant, and Gao Jifu as the secretary of the order.

The next day, Li Zhi led his ministers to hold a court meeting in the Taiji Palace, publicized the news of the death of the first emperor, read out the edict, and discussed major national affairs, deciding the following points:

(1) Military affairs cannot be stopped, and hundreds of officials will be copied and presented as usual.

(2) Entrust the company to handle the daily details.

(3) All the kings of the Li family, who served as the governor and assassin of the history, except for Li Tai, the king of Pu, could come to Beijing for funeral.

(4) Adopt Xu Chongrong's "Admonition to Rest the Soldiers and Strike the Army", and the battle of Liaodong and the merits of civil engineering.

The news of the death of the first emperor shook the harem like a volcanic eruption, and the concubines changed into decaying clothes, inserted oak wood pipes on their heads, wrapped them in silk threads, tied skews around their waists, wore scumbags on their feet, held bamboo canes, and began to go on hunger strikes, crying day and night, and tightening their waists to live a hard life.

Lu Changshou supervised the palace maids to change their clothes, and when he saw that the martial artists had not changed yet, he handed over a set of decrepit clothes and said, "Martial talents, quickly take off the red shirt and red skirt on your body and put on this." ”

Wu Cairen cried and said, "How can I have a red dress on me? Obviously wearing a green dress! ”

Lu Changshou said strangely: "Huh? The miscellaneous family obviously saw that you were wearing a red dress! He turned back to the envoy next to him and said, "Xiao Yang, what do you think?" ”

The envoy replied: "Master Lu, there must be something strange in this matter!" Lu Changshou nodded and said, "Martial artist, are you crying too sadly, your eyes are blooming, so there is no distinction between red and green?" ”

Wu Cairen continued to cry and said, "I don't have a distinction between red and green!" ”

Lu Chang said: "Shut up, say you have it!" ”

The martial artist took off his shirt and skirt while crying, changed into a decaying dress, took the bamboo cane, and returned to Youlan Pavilion.

On June 1, the eldest grandson Wuji escorted the coffin of the first emperor back to the palace, parked the coffin in the Taiji Palace, and then summoned hundreds of civil and military officials in the Taiji Palace.

Li Zhisheng throne, that is, the emperor is located in front of the coffin, and there are three palace maids behind him playing a cyan pheasant tail fan and a bright yellow canopy, showing the supreme etiquette, the ministers bow down, and the mountain shouts long live!

Next, Li Zhi took off his crown, put on a white filial piety robe, and then wore a crown and rope on his head, and lay on the corpse and cried.

Hundreds of people, including the chiefs, envoys, and interpreters of the Siyi who came to pay tribute to the Tang Dynasty, were moved to weep bitterly when they saw the new emperor so sad, and some even cut off their hair, cut off their faces and ears, and shed blood on the ground to mourn.

For a while, the cry in the palace shook the sky, echoing through the valley, and the dust on the glazed tiles also fell.

In the evening, when the ministers dispersed, the concubines of the first emperor could go to the Taiji Hall to kneel and cry, and cry twice a day in the morning and evening. On this day, the concubines had been on hunger strike for three days, Xiao Cairen couldn't support it with a bamboo cane, and suddenly cried and fainted to the ground.

Some of the internal envoys couldn't support it and fainted to the ground, and the internal servant Xi official ordered the medicine boy to patrol everywhere and rescue him in time. Seeing this situation, Li Zhi canceled his hunger strike, and ordered the Food Bureau and the public chefs to cook rice porridge for the palace people to drink, and they could drink a small bowl of rice porridge every morning and evening in the future.

During the mourning period, singing and dancing, banquets, games, and weddings are all stopped, and bathing is not allowed in March, and husbands and wives are not allowed to have sex together. Living like this, spending every day in crying and hunger, it's like a year.

Seven days passed, and the first emperor and concubines of the harem began to be dismissed.

Lu Changshou took the envoy to check and urge all parts of the harem, after all, the concubines have lived in the harem for many years, and they are very familiar with every grass and tree here, and their hearts are full of nostalgia. Now that I hear the parting bell, I know that this day has finally come, and what should come will always come, and I can't hide it, and I can't help crying again when I think of my future life.

The cuckoo cries blood, the red candle weeps, and the garden is haggard in spring. Wu Cairen's tears had dried up, her heart was broken, and when she was wandering helplessly, a great light of mercy fell from the sky and shone on her.

The martial artists clasped their hands together, prayed sincerely to the heavens, and silently recited: "There is no Amitabha Buddha in the south!" "The great light of mercy changes seven colors, like an initiation, so that the martial arts people are suddenly enlightened! The light of great mercy faded, and the martial artists stared at the sky, muttering words in their mouths, and reciting the Heart Sutra three times.

When the envoy came, the martial artist choked up and took the Haiqing tie clothes, returned to the pavilion to change them, and still put on the decay clothes outside, and then packed up the clothes, ready to say goodbye to the palace where she had lived for twelve years.

Wucai people put the smoke and purple silk cloud pattern shirt, the gold embroidered short sleeves, the silk blue luo and the bird painted multi-pleated pomegranate skirt into the boxwood pattern box, and then found the gold flower note, and wrote a poem "Ruyi Niang" on the case:

Seeing Zhu Chengbi's thoughts, he was haggard and fragmented as Yijun.

I don't believe that I often cry, and I open the box to check the pomegranate skirt.

The poem vividly and profoundly expresses his lovesickness, and asks Jiurou to open the box to look at his favorite pomegranate dress that has been soaked in tears.

Don't underestimate this pomegranate skirt, it is the link between Li Zhi and Ah Wu, and it is also the only hope for Ah Wu to change his fate! Who would have thought that in the future, all men in the world would bow down under this pomegranate dress?

Subsequently, the Wucai people pressed the golden flower paper on the boxwood pattern box with the golden silk Nansong crane paperweight, put the box in a corner of the bedroom, and then instructed Ah Hong and Ah Zi: "If Jiu Lang sends someone to ask, or if he meets Chunlan and Qiu Ju, let them find this box." ”

Wucai people came out of the Youlan Pavilion, it was already a lot easier, according to the guidance of the inner envoy, followed the team out of the palace, from the west gate of the Yeting Palace, through the Fanglin Gate to the West Inner Garden, and then went to the Ganye Temple under the escort of the Jinwu Guard.