Chapter 307: Wordless Tablet
"The golden scales are not the things in the pool, and they will turn into dragons when they encounter the wind and clouds", the so-called gold will shine there, and the "dragon and phoenix among people" is "the dragon and phoenix among people", no matter where she puts it, she will definitely become a "master" of the storm!
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Wu Jue looked at her luxurious palace, gorgeous clothes, precious jewelry, handsome, sturdy and obedient male pets, officials who bowed their heads, and revered and feared people, she was very satisfied, she liked this feeling of a queen holding the moon and holding the moon high.
After Wu Jue became the queen of Yingge Lan and took power, he changed his name to Wu Cao, taking the meaning of "the sun and the moon in the sky". Wu Jue thinks that he is as lofty as the sun and the moon, hanging above the sky.
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Wu Jue lived to be 86 years old, and at the age of 78, new teeth grew from lost teeth, and black hair grew into gray hair, as if rejuvenated, she said this was due to her "technique of collecting yang and replenishing yin".
She had seen many years of noble ladies who aged rapidly after the age of 60. For example, Countess Niguna was only sixty years old, and she was already full of gray hair, wearing a nightcap with a ruffled brim around her face. Her face was wrinkled, her upper lip was deflated, and her eyes were blank.
Her three sons and husband died one after another due to illness and accidents, and she felt that she was a forgotten person in this world, and that there was no purpose or meaning in life. She eats, she drinks, sometimes she sleeps, sometimes she doesn't, she lives but she doesn't really live. Life has not left any vivid impression on her. She wanted nothing more than life, she wanted nothing but peace, and only death could bring her eternal peace, but before death came, she had to live as she was, and that was to slowly consume her life force, and in her it was evident that only babies and old people possess the characteristics of infants and old people. She lives without a clear purpose, as if she only uses the various functions of her body. She needs to eat, sleep, think, talk, cry, do things, lose her temper, and so on, just because she has a stomach, a brain, muscles, nerves, and a liver. She does all this not because she is pushed to do it by external forces, unlike people who are able to concentrate their energies on one purpose and not pay attention to other purposes as they do when they are energetic. She speaks only because she is physiologically required to move her lungs and tongue, she cries like a baby because she needs to blow her nose, and so on. What energetic people regard as an end in sight is obviously just an excuse for her.
To be alive is like the walking dead!
Countess Nikona was actually a fairy-like beauty when she was young. But after getting married, she devoted all her love to her husband and children.
Nikona's preoccupation is with the family, that is, her husband and children. She wants her husband to belong to her and to this family. In addition, she has to give birth, raise and educate children.
She devoted herself to the activity in which she was engaged, not only with all her wisdom but with all her heart, and the deeper she sank, the greater the matter appeared, and the more she felt weak and incompetent, so that, even with all her might, she did not have time to finish what she was supposed to do, for there was a never-ending chore.
So Nikona was unkempt, her clothes, her hairstyle, her unseemly conversation, her jealousy (she was jealous of every woman, beautiful or ugly) became the laughing stock of the people around her. Everyone thought that his husband was obedient to his wife's disciplining clothes, and that was indeed the case. Nikona made her request very soon after her marriage. She thinks every minute of her husband's life should belong to her and her family.
She did not pay attention to her manners, nor did she flatter her husband, nor did she pay attention to her dress, nor did she make all kinds of demands on him, so that he would not be restrained. She thought that it was instinctive to exert charm on her husband, and that it would seem ridiculous to do so in the eyes of him now, knowing that she had dedicated her whole body and soul to him without reservation in the first place. She felt that what held them together was not the poetic affection of the past, but something inexplicable and solid, like a union of her mind and body.
She thought it was as ridiculous to win her husband's favor with her fluffy curly hair, to put on a fashionable dress, and to sing lyrical songs, as it was to groom herself for pleasure. Now, dressing up to please may give her pleasure, but she really doesn't have the time. She doesn't usually sing, doesn't pay attention to her makeup, and doesn't think about her words when she speaks, mainly because she doesn't have time to do that.
After getting married, Nikona did not like to socialize and only valued the contacts of relatives. She would stride out of the nursery in her nightgown and shawl, showing them diapers that were no longer stained with green feces but yellow with them, and listening to them reassure them that the child was getting better.
His husband's obedience to his wife is manifested in the fact that he not only does not dare to show courtesy to other women, but also does not dare to smile and talk to other women, does not dare to go to clubs for pastime, does not dare to spend money casually, and does not dare to go out for a long time unless he is on business. The wife took her husband's academic activities seriously, even though she knew nothing about them, and took them very seriously. In exchange, his husband had the right to manage his own affairs at home, and he could arrange the affairs of the whole family as he pleased. Nikona was willing to be her husband's slave at home. When his husband was working, that is, when he was reading and writing in his study, the whole family walked on tiptoe. As long as his husband expresses his liking, his wishes are always fulfilled. As soon as he made a new request, Nikona immediately went all out to make it happen.
The whole family did as he was told by his husband, who did not actually exist, that is, according to the wishes of his husband, whom Nikna had tried so hard to guess. The family's lifestyle, where they lived, their social activities, Nikna's work, and their children's education all followed her husband's wishes, and Nikona tried her best to guess what he meant from what he said. She always figured out his husband's true intentions quite accurately, and once she guessed it, she resolutely did it. If her husband goes against her will, Nikona refutes him with his original ideas and fights against him.
"These are stupid words. What a honeymoon is really happy, what is the sweetest early stage of love," Nikona said suddenly, "on the contrary, now is the golden autumn season of our love." As long as you don't leave me. Do you remember when we quarreled? It's me every time it's wrong, it's always mine that's not. But I don't remember why we quarreled. ”
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Her husband couldn't stand Nikola's love, so he made an excuse to go on a business trip, so she missed her husband all day, and often ran to the child to seek comfort, and kept fiddling with the child, but as a result, she fed too much milk and made the child sick. When the child is sick, she panics, but she wants the child to be sick. Because when a child is sick and has to be taken care of, it will reduce the worry about her husband.
After getting married and having children, she quickly gained weight and became thicker, and it is difficult to find the slender, lively and beautiful Niguna from the current strong mother. Her face was contoured, her expression was serene, gentle, and cheerful, and her face was no longer full of the passionate youthful energy that had given her a special charm. Now I can only see her appearance and body, and I can't see her soul at all. She was just a strong, plump mother with many children, and it was rare to see the flame of her former passion. Now, only when her husband comes home and the child recovers, only then will she rekindle her passion.
She devoted all her love to her husband and children. But when she was 60 years old, her husband and children left her due to illness and accidents, and her whole world collapsed. The clockwork in her heart that held everything together and made everything alive suddenly seemed to be plucked out, and everything collapsed into a meaningless pile of waste, leaving only a useless ruin. So she became the walking dead......
"Stupid woman!" This is the conclusion that Wu Jue gave to Countess Nikona. "If a person lives and loses himself, he is doomed to tragedy!"
When Wu Jue was 60 years old, she was almost full of black hair, with very little white hair, energetic, full of energy, few wrinkles on her face, and a radiant complexion, looking like a fair woman in her forties.
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After Wu Jue's death, he uniquely erected a huge "wordless monument" to his mausoleum. She felt that her wisdom surpassed all the contemporaries, except for the eldest grandson queen of the Tang Dynasty.
The only person she admired in her life was the god-like Empress Changsun, and she felt that Empress Changsun was a fairy, not comparable to a layman like her. She felt that she was the wisest woman among all the worldly people of her time, and she was also the most enjoyable, happiest, and successful woman. She felt that her merits and extraordinary wisdom could not be described in any language, that her merits were so high that no words could express them, and that since many narrow-minded and conservative people were jealous of her and resented her and slandered her, she felt that her merits and demerits should be judged by posterity.
She was chic and extraordinary in her life, so her tombstone should also be chic and extraordinary, so she asked her son King William II of England to erect a huge "wordless monument" in front of his mausoleum as her own tombstone in her will!
She is indeed extraordinarily wise, and this "wordless tablet" has left a deeper impression on the people who visited it in later generations, and it has attracted the attention of later generations more than those "wordless tablets" with exquisite language and gorgeous words.