In the previous chapter, it was mentioned that in July of the fourth year of Xianheng, the construction of the new palace of the prince of Jiucheng Palace was completed, and the emperor invited the officials of Wupin to bring their families to the new palace of the prince to participate in the banquet, watch the music, dance and acrobatic performances, and stop with great joy.

Princess Changle and her husband, Zuo Qianniu General Zhao Gui, also attended the banquet and were warmly received by Li Zhi.

Princess Changle is the seventh daughter of Gaozu, Li Shimin's half-sister, Li Zhi's aunt, is in her fifties, fat and white, graceful and blessed, Li Zhi can talk to her and treat her with courtesy.

Seeing that the princess and his wife were coming, Li Zhi immediately asked them to take their seats and asked cordially, "Are the princess and the concubine okay?" Princess Changle said: "We are all well, thank you for your concern!" ”

At this time, Li Hong and Pei Xiaolian also came to receive the guests and saluted the princess and his wife. Princess Changle returned the salute, and then looked at the couple: "The prince is like a jade tree in the wind, the princess is like a hibiscus out of the water, a talented woman and a good match!" ”

The music sounded, the palace maids and eunuchs lined up to serve the food, the dancers entered the dance and danced, and the guests enjoyed the music and dance while eating and drinking.

Zhao Gui whispered to Princess Changle: "Crown Princess Pei Xiaolian is the daughter of my colleague Zuo Jinwu General Pei Judao, our baby daughter has also reached the age of marriage, it's time to get married!" ”

Princess Changle nodded and said, "Yes, which son does Zhao Lang fancy to?" "Our precious daughter has missed the crown prince, and we can't miss the prince anymore!" Zhao Gui said.

Princess Changle said: "Zhao Lang is thoughtful, the concubine will go to propose to the emperor!" ”

Princess Changle came to Li Zhi's banquet and saluted: "Your Majesty, the concubine has something to tell you!" "What's the matter with my aunt?" Hurry up and get free! Li Zhi hurriedly said.

Princess Changle said: "The concubine has a daughter, named Zhao Wenying, who has reached the age of Jilu, knows the etiquette rules in the palace, is born gentle and virtuous, and wants to marry Longzi, please be your majesty!" ”

Li Zhi held the dragon's beard in his hand, and said with a smile: "Which of my sons does my aunt fancy to?" "Li Xian, the king of Zhou, is young and lively, and has a heroic spirit, which can be relied on!" Princess Changle said.

Li Zhi nodded and said, "Since my aunt came forward in person, how can I not obey?" "This family affair is decided like this, and then the six rites procedure will be performed.

Empress Wu was very unhappy, because of this family matter, Princess Changle didn't mention it to her at all when she worshipped her, and put aside her to propose marriage directly to Li Zhi, and didn't respect her very much!

Someone asked Princess Changle why she didn't propose marriage to Empress Wu first, Princess Changle snorted and said, "Empress Wu? Isn't that the Ah Wu who shines my shoes? What's the big deal? Hum. ”

It turned out that when Ah Wu was still a talented person, he had special respect for the princesses, served them carefully, and was respectful, for fear of making a little mistake. Once, Ah Wu was in charge of a banquet, and a palace maid accidentally dropped a little food on Princess Changle's shoes while delivering food.

The palace maid hurriedly knelt down to apologize, but the princess did not give up and continued to get angry. Ah Wu took a few wet towels, squatted down to shine the princess's shoes in person, wiped them repeatedly, changed one towel after another, and finally wiped the princess's shoes clean, avoiding the fate of the banquet being disturbed.

Princess Changle raised her shoes and said to Ah Wu triumphantly: "Today is considered a martial artist and diligent, this princess is in a good mood, don't embarrass your subordinates, be careful in the future!" Hum. ”

The martial artists were full of smiles, and they accompanied them vigorously, praising Princess Changle for having a large number of them, regardless of the villain, so they survived with difficulty.

Since then, Princess Changle has always been arrogant when she sees martial talents, and she doesn't take martial talents in her eyes. More than ten years later, Wucai was promoted to Zhaoyi and Queen, Princess Changle was still a princess, standing still, but she still went her own way and was more arrogant to the Martial Queen.

When Empress Wu's position was consolidated, Princess Changle didn't realize that she had fallen from the top of the food chain to the second layer of the food chain, and her aunt and nephew were more estranged than her father and daughter, brother and sister, and from the perspective of Li Zhi's attack on the Taiwei faction, he hated the arrogance and fetters of the elders very much, so if Princess Changle was smart and clever and could look at her eyes, she should not continue to stand in front of her juniors.

This time, Princess Changle put aside Empress Wu and directly proposed to Li Zhi, so that her daughter Zhao Wenying married Empress Wu's son Li Xian, of course, Empress Wu would have a grudge.

And Li Zhi treated Princess Changle with great kindness, and often asked Empress Wu to take out treasures from the Great Ying Treasury to reward her, which aroused Empress Wu's disgust.

Besides, the princes are basically born in the deep palace, grow up in the hands of women, do not know the difficulties of the crops, do not care about the hard work of the conquest, carve beams and paint buildings, sit and eat thousands of households, brocade clothes and jade food, and pamper and treat them well.

No matter how much education is given, there will not be the feeling of walking on the ice and the attitude of the entrepreneur who is good at the beginning and the end.

Li Xian gradually grew up, looking more and more like Taizong, lively and active, with a sense of momentum, but he didn't like to read and write very much.

The teacher invited him to study, but he went to play cockfighting with Peiwang Li Xian, and had a lot of fun, and finally played the job of Wang Bo, the waiter of Peiwang's mansion.

In addition to playing cockfighting, Li Xian also loves to play a variety of games such as juju, polo, rafting, elephant play, hunting, pot throwing, canopy, and shuanglu.

Li Zhi's mind was mainly on the crown prince Li Hong, and he lacked energy to educate other princes, so the princes developed freely according to their own preferences.

In the fourth year of Xianheng, Li Xian was seventeen years old, and he married Zhao Wenying, the daughter of Princess Changle, as the princess of Zhou, before the wedding of the crown prince Li Hong and the crown princess Pei Xiaolian.

Zhao Wenying has been pampered since she was a child, and after marrying into the Zhou Palace, she is still not diligent and does not divide the grains, living a rich life of stretching out her hands with clothes and opening her mouth with food.

Since Princess Changle was arrogant to Empress Wu, Empress Wu put her mind on Zhao Wenying. She ordered the servants and maids of the Zhou Palace's palace to supervise Zhao Wenying and Li Xian, and quickly report to her as soon as there was a new situation.

In less than a few months, Empress Wu had mastered a large number of first-hand materials, and the image of a lazy, delicious and playful princess jumped on the paper. Empress Wu sighed: "What kind of family can cultivate such an outrageous woman? She was spoiled and spoiled since she was a child! ”

After Zhao Wenying entered the palace of the king of Zhou, he would not manage the affairs of the palace, he was lazy and lazy all day long, and he played games with Li Xian, and said to Li Xian: "Why do people work? I was born with a golden key, reincarnated into the princess's family, and had all the resources and wealth without labor. If you need to do something, just call the slave and call the maid! ”

Zhao Wenying has a big temper and is not happy outside, so when he returns to the mansion, he loses his temper with the slaves and maids, yells and yells, and breaks the bowls and pans, so that the slaves and maids are all cautious, and they dare not come out.

She saw that the crown princess Pei Xiaolian had a beautiful piece of emerald jewelry, and she also wanted it, so she pestered Li Xianyao. Li Xian said that there was no one in the palace, so Zhao Wenying made a lot of noise and scolded.

Li Xian had no choice, so he went to the Shaofu Supervisor to inquire, and Qiao'er told him that this kind of emerald jewelry needs to wait for the opportunity to be manufactured, and it is very good to make one a year.

Li Xian came back and told the truth, and Zhao Wenying said that Li Xian was useless.

Princess Fang Xiaoqin came to visit the door and asked her to borrow something, but she didn't give it, she was very selfish and didn't share things with others. She likes to stay at home and enjoy the fat house life, and resists relationships and various jobs.

After learning about these situations, Empress Wu sent someone to find out about Princess Changle's tutoring.

Princess Changle gave birth to a baby daughter in her forties, and she couldn't put her down, she loved her so much that she was afraid of melting in her mouth, and she was afraid of flying in her hand, and she was treated as a little emperor and princess at home.

Princess Anping came to her house and saw that Zhao Wenying did not do any housework, and there were nannies to serve her when she dressed and ate, and persuaded her: "The child should educate her to love labor from an early age, let her understand the joy of labor and the responsibility of helping her parents reduce their burden!" ”

"If parents do everything, the child will not grow into a hardworking, capable and motivated person in the future!"

Princess Changle disagreed, shook her head and said, "It's too late for me to hurt her, how can I bear to let her work?" Besides, it's more troublesome to ask the child to do things, so I might as well do it for her. ”

Princess Anping was speechless for a while and stopped persuading.

Zhao Wenying's life is lazy, life, study, and play are irregular, sleep lazy, don't eat, do whatever you want, Princess Changle and his wife don't know how to discipline her, they only know how to blindly follow her and spoil her!

She often wanders during the day, stays up at night, does things with a heart, has a beginning and no end, and is passable, without self-motivation and curiosity, let alone struggle and exploration.

In order to ensure the safety of their daughter, Princess Changle and his wife did not let their daughter go out of the house casually, nor did they let her easily play with other children, and only interacted with the children of nobles such as princesses and princes.

In order to let her daughter listen to herself, Princess Changle and Zhao Gui often gave some benefits to coax her. Again and again, over and over again, for a long time, Zhao Wenying has developed the bad habit of being selfish and self-righteous, not doing things that are not beneficial, and often making trouble unreasonably.

After grasping these circumstances, Empress Wu felt that she could not let such a daughter-in-law harm her son, and began to wait patiently for the opportunity to make a move.

At the end of the first year of the Shangyuan Dynasty, after the Queen of Heaven put forward the programmatic document "Twelve Suggestions" for governing the country, it was praised by the emperor, and the crown prince Li Hong was also ashamed, and fell on the bed and coughed incessantly.

At the subsequent Luoyang Pishan Silkworm Ceremony, in addition to the participation of the women inside and outside the Six Palaces, the civil and military officials and the envoys of the Zhuzhou Dynasty also accompanied the throne. This reflects the consolidation and elevation of the status of the diva.

Then at the court meeting, the emperor wanted to make the queen of heaven know about the state affairs, although he was stopped by Hao Chujun, the Chinese scholar, but it had already shocked the government and the opposition, causing people all over the world to discuss.

Li Xian, the king of Zhou, had a feeling of admiration for the emperor, and said in his heart: "From now on, this king will also learn from the emperor, find a wife he loves the most, and then pass everything on to her!" Let the person you love take care of everything for you, oh, what a joy in the world! Look at the princess Zhao of this king, hey, it's so lazy to do it, don't mention it! ”

Princess Changle and the foreign wife gathered together, and also talked about the affairs of the queen of heaven, Mrs. Fufeng County thought: "My husband is sick, and my son is frail and sick, so I want to hand over the shop to my wife to take care of, what's wrong with this?" Isn't it the same for sons and wives to be handed over to anyone? ”

Princess Changle disagreed, and said, "Madam, it's really different! Just imagine, your surname is Zhang, your wife's surname is Yang, if you pass it on to your son, your store is still called Zhangjiadian; If you pass it on to your wife, your store will be renamed Yangjiadian! "Everyone thinks it makes sense.

When these words reached the ears of the queen of heaven, the queen of heaven was very angry, so she was dismissed from her post and investigated on the grounds that Concubine Zhao was lazy and did not manage the palace, and she was claustrophobic in the courtyard of the inner province.

Rice, vegetables, meat and other food materials are all raw, and there is a charcoal stove in it, so that she can do it herself and have enough food and clothing. The matter of claustrophobic Zhao Wenying, the queen of heaven reported the information she had to the emperor.

The Emperor sighed and said, "A habitual son is like a murderer!" Parents can't spoil their children excessively, which will make children have some bad habits, which is not conducive to the healthy growth of children! ”

The inner envoy guarding the gate of the courtyard looked at the chimney of the kitchen if he was fine, and saw if there was smoke rising, if there was, it meant that Zhao Wenying would make a fire to cook, if not, it meant that Zhao Wenying was really lazy to eat, and he couldn't even make a fire to cook.

For several days in a row, the chimney did not smoke, and the envoy reported the surveillance situation to Pan Changshi, who reported it to the emperor and the queen of heaven, the emperor was silent, and the queen of heaven sneered.

After a few more days, the emperor couldn't help it, and ordered the envoy to open the door and go in to take a look, but Zhao Wenying had starved to death, and his body began to decompose.

The Emperor sighed, "It is a sin that my aunt's daughter is so lazy! "Because the adopted daughter is not the fault of her father, she degraded Zhao Gui as the assassin of Kuozhou, and made Princess Changle accompany her, and she was not allowed to make a pilgrimage.

After Princess Changle and Zhao Gui learned that their beloved daughter was starved to death by the queen of heaven, they were sad and sad, and felt a chill from top to bottom.