Chapter 48: Mandate of Heaven
When the wives and concubines of Beichen Palace noticed their not so good future, the music in the south of the city was melodious, and Mi Xuan was building. Contrary to the mood of the women, she seemed to be floating in the clouds, and the whole person was in a state of extreme joy. The man got married, but the man did not miss the appointment, and the next day he went out of the city and came to Xiaoyi. The princesses of all countries marry into the Chu State, and the princesses may not be beautiful, and those dowries must be stunning. Not every man can withstand this temptation, but the man still comes.
Qi Xuan couldn't suppress her excitement, she lost an inch of her attack, and she didn't have the same smoothness as before, Xiong Jing felt why she was like this, and she didn't say anything, just waited for her to finish playing a song before calling her to sit beside her.
"I didn't play well today, I was too anxious." Xiong Jing said bluntly, with a smile on his face.
"The king came to Xiaoyi, Xuan'er, Xuan'er......" Yesterday afternoon, it seemed like a year until it was dark, and it was like a year at night, and it was another year to get up in the morning until now. In the first two years, Mi Xuan could still hold back, but from the third year, she couldn't bear it anymore, and let people go up to the top of Xiaoyi to look at the south gate with Lu Lijing, until the guards cavalry appeared outside the city gate, and her heart that had been hanging for three years finally let go.
The man was in front of him, and Mi Xuan couldn't help but throw herself into his arms and cry as she spoke. Xiong Jing comforted her, and when she finished crying, she said seriously: "From today on, I can't stay here anymore." ”
"Huh?" Mi Xuan's eyes instantly dimmed, and the man's words seemed to be on the horizon.
"I say, I can't stay here anymore from this day on." Xiong Jing repeated what he had just said and looked at the woman. Her face quickly bled and stiffened, except for the tears that flowed from her eyes like a spring, and her whole body seemed to be dead.
"I need to be temperate. Temperance. Xiong Jing waved away the temple slaves and maids around him, wiped away the tears that he couldn't wipe away, and said. When countries marry half the world's beauties into the Chu Palace, I must be restrained. And since you are married, you can no longer do good things, which is also moderation. ”
"Is it, that's it?" Mi Xuan understood and didn't understand.
"Yes." Xiong Jing helped her wipe her tears again. "Since I got married yesterday, I should keep the righteousness of husband and wife, even if this marriage is not what I want."
"Xuan'er knows also." Mi Xuan held back her crying a little, maintaining a trace of composure.
"The same is true of the marriage in Linzeli." Xiong Jing grabbed her cold hand and put it on his chest. "Since you and I are husband and wife, I should abide by the righteousness of husband and wife, and never be happy with other women."
"Woo, woo......" Hearing this, Mi Xuan couldn't help crying again, and then she knew that the man was pretending to be himself in his heart. She cried for a while before she stopped sobbing and listened to the man say what was going on.
"In the future, after the Yan Dynasty disperses, I will also leave the palace, come to Xiaoyi to talk to you, listen to you, and watch you dance, but I must not stay here again," Xiong Jing said his thoughts, which he thought were the most correct. "Instead, we stay next to Xiaoyi, and you and I can look at each other."
"Yes." Mi Xuan nodded heavily, she had lost the ability to speak, and could only nod her head crying.
"The war between Chu and Qin will be clear in a few years, and once it is clear, I will break off my marriage and marry you as the queen." Xiong Jing hugged Mi Xuan in his arms and solemnly told him.
Since it is a political marriage, once the political situation changes, there is no emotion and no heirs to maintain, and the marriage is irretrievable. The same is true even in the Central Plains countries, in Ludi, where Zhou etiquette is the strictest.
Confucius's disciple Zeng Zi, because his wife steamed pears were not ripe, out of his wife; Empress Dowager Zhao Wei married a daughter in Yan Kingdom, and prayed during the sacrifice: 'Don't rebel (you must not let her come back)'; Becoming a resident, fortunate (be sure to praise the money in private, it is a common thing to marry out and be divorced, and it is a lucky thing to live for a long time).
Ordinary people are like this, and it is not complicated for the monarch to break off marriage and wife, as long as he sends an envoy to the country of his wife, saying: 'The widow is not sensitive, and he cannot do this to the shrine of Jizong Temple, so that the envoy dares to sue the deacon' (The monarch of the country is not talented, and he is not able to follow his wife to worship the shrine of the temple, and the special envoy will report this situation to your left and right. )。 After telling each other, he gave gifts to his wife and brought back all the property she brought with her marriage, and the marriage ended.
It is not difficult to break the marriage, but it is difficult to gauge the reaction of various countries. If there is no clarity in the war between Chu and Qin, they cannot take this step, and they cannot let the countries know that they will take this step. Xiong Jing also didn't want the countries to resent him - he slept with someone's daughter for a few years, and then said that he would break off the marriage, so the last resort could only be to live in the dormitory or Xiaoyi, and abide by the righteousness of husband and wife.
Qi Xuan has not reached the age of a wolf and a tiger, women are more affectionate than sexual, and she is afraid that men will abandon her. Hearing this, she slowly settled down, and it took her a long time before she remembered something and asked, "So, what about the heir?" If so......"
"A few days ago, you said that you wanted to vomit after waking up in the morning?" Xiong Jing looked at her with a smile, this was a few days ago.
"Yes." Mi Xuan nodded, "I, could it be ......" Her eyes widened, struggling to get out of the man's arms.
"Xuan'er is already pregnant with my child." Xiong Jing smiled even more. "If the moon doesn't come after five or six days, then there is no doubt about it."
"Ah——!h Mi Xuan let out a low breath and covered her mouth with her hands, in disbelief.
"The king......" The woman shed tears in her joy, and then kissed the man.
Xiong Jing kissed her back, and the joy in his heart was no less than hers. It has been nearly three months since they got married before the ceremony, and the two are together almost every day, as long as it is not a menstrual affair, they will have sex every day. For so long, Mi Xuan didn't find out that she was pregnant with a child, but the maid Cui Sleeve and others were a little puzzled in private: The king dotes on his son-in-law every night, why has he never conceived an heir?
Xiong Jing didn't pay attention to it at first, nor did he think about doubting it, until yesterday's wedding, he thought that he was the defensive party, as long as he waited until his son grew up, he would win, and then he remembered that the day before yesterday Mi Xuan said that he started more than ten days ago, and he wanted to vomit when he got up in the morning, and he usually had no appetite, and this situation seemed to be getting more and more serious.
Although he is not a doctor, he still has some memories of this kind of thing. This is also what otaku are most worried about happening, once it happens, the whole life will be turned upside down. Of course, this is only one of the results, and the general situation in future generations is more likely to be a trip to the hospital once, and it will be a hundred.
"In a few months, Xuan'er will be a mother." After a long kiss, Xiong Jing whispered in Mi Xuan's ear.
"Yes." Mi Xuan didn't want to open her eyes, and in her happiness, she was worried that it was a dream. "If it is not ...... that is born"
Pregnancy does not necessarily mean that she can give birth to a prince, so Mi Xuan's eyes open a slit. The man no longer stays in Xiaoyi, and he no longer rejoices with her, if he gives birth to a princess this time, what should he do?
"The one who gave birth must be the child." Xiong Jing said in an incomparably affirmative tone, as if he had seen the child in his belly.
He was so determined that Mi Xuan couldn't help laughing: "Why does it have to be a child?" ”
"Because ......," Xiong Jing sighed. Probably from the beginning of the Battle of Bailu Plateau, he had a faint feeling that he had never felt before: he seemed to be able to feel the history and destiny like a river. This was, of course, an indescribable hallucination, not that he had any special powers, or that he had drunk the juice of the Sogdians.
Fifty knows the destiny of heaven. The combined age of his previous and subsequent lives was fifty years old, so he also sensed the destiny of heaven. In the Battle of Weinan, he rode his horse and rushed across the pontoon bridge and rushed to the opposite bank. All the generals of the whole army sweated for him, and the generals also warned him again and again afterwards, but he was not worried at all.
Many people are not afraid of death because they didn't think of death at that moment, he wasn't afraid of death because he didn't think that he would die, he thought of death at that time, but he believed that he would definitely not die.
People can actually predict their own death. Xiong Jing never believed it before, but he believes now. He believed in the existence of the gods, believed in the existence of the Mandate of Heaven, and as the king of Chu, his fate, as well as the fate of Zhao Zheng, were all important parts of the Mandate of Heaven, and they represented two different paths that would determine the fate of the Chinese world for thousands of years to come.
Since he was born in this era and in the palace of the King of Chu, he must change history, otherwise, how to explain that a later soul was born more than 2,000 years ago? The Mandate of Heaven wanted him to be born in the Chu State, which meant that he was born with some kind of historical mission.
Born in this world for almost twenty years, has history changed? He originally thought that it had changed, the State of Chu had entered the Iron Age, the sea boat had communicated the whole world, and the Chu army had defeated the Qin ......army one after another, but the moment he heard Zhao Zheng fleeing, he suddenly woke up: the State of Qin is still annexing the countries step by step, and the State of Chu is still in danger even if it recovers, and history has never changed.
There is a paradox between his birth and the fact that history has never changed: why was he born if history does not change? Now that he was born, why hasn't history changed? What he envisions is that history has not changed, and he will die in the last battle, so it will be a boy who will be pregnant with him, and the real change will happen to him.
Of course he could not say such things to the woman, lest she weep again, and he himself was only thinking casually in the dead of night. In other words, he would definitely not be able to face the reality of dying in battle, but since he had already believed in the gods and the destiny of heaven, why should he worry? When it was time to die, he would naturally die; When he shouldn't die, he can survive even if he is surrounded and the whole army is annihilated.
The man's words only began at the beginning, 'because' there was no sound after that, and Mi Xuan would definitely keep asking questions before, but the violent mood swings made her extremely sleepy, and in this sunny spring, she lay down in the man's warm arms like a cat, listening to his heartbeat and fell asleep.
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"What do you mean?! The king didn't stay in Xiaoyi? Is this true? "When night fell, there was another temple person in the West Chapter of the North Morning Palace. When expelling travelers from various countries, Concubine Zhao's companions and servants who entered the Chu State did not leave Chu, and these Zhao people became Concubine Zhao's eyes, ears and minions. After the Zhao State moved south, more Zhao people entered the Chu State from the northern city of Daliang.
"Yes, yes." The temple man gasped, and he rushed up to tell him such good news.
"The king has gone to bed?" Concubine Zhao's expression changed several times, and she couldn't imagine a reason for her son to return to the palace. Ying Nan, who has been with her, is also full of hope that her husband will come back.
"No... No, no return. "The temple people are starting to stutter, the good news is just the first one, and the next is the bad news.
"Where is the king?!" Concubine Zhao was furious, and her old teeth rattled.
"The king, the king ordered people to build a military curtain on the side of Xiaoyi, and stay in and stay in the military curtain." The temple people told the bad news, in exchange for Concubine Zhao's angry reprimand, "Get out!" Get lost!! ”
The temple people hurriedly rolled out, but Yingnan's face was full of joy. "The queen mother, the king stayed next to Xiaoyi, and he did not have adultery with the slut."
"The king will share a bed with you before he has sex with that slut?" Concubine Zhao's anger did not subside, and she glared at Ying Nan fiercely.
"If the king does not marry a slut, the slut will not conceive the king's heir." The struggle of the dormitory of the Zhao State was no less than that of the Qin State, and the struggle of the dormitory during the Warring States Period of the Chu State was also the struggle of the Zhao Nu. Since he was a child, Ying Nan knew that his heirs were the core part of the struggle. Without an heir, no matter how much the king favors him, it is only for a while.
"The king must have an heir to inherit the throne, so ......" Ying Nan laughed before he finished speaking. She is the queen, since the king does not have an affair with Mi Xuan, he naturally has to share the bed with her and the rest of the ladies, otherwise who will inherit the throne of Chu in the future.
Ying Nan's words may not be unreasonable, but Concubine Zhao did not say anything for a long time. The son burned the wedding dress and ran with Mi Xuan, took Mi Xuan to rescue Qi State, and stayed in Xiaoyi in the south of the city every day after returning from Qi State. Could it be......
Concubine Zhao faintly remembered a possibility. During the discussion last night, Kong Qian's unfilial piety was vetoed by Song Yu, and his son was not unfilial, but just disobedient. This disobedience refers to not listening to the father, not to the mother, and after the death of the father, the son naturally becomes the head of the family, and since he is already the head of the family, there is no such thing as disobedience.
It's not okay to crash into Xiaoyi, and it's not okay to condemn unfilial piety, Song Yu thought that adultery could be punished. After the king got married, he was already a married man, and he did not stay in the palace, but stayed in a small town in the south of the city and fornicated with Mi Xuan, which was fornication. Since it is fornication, the king cannot be punished, but Mi Xuan can be punished. The so-called 'men and women who do not have righteous intercourse, their punishment palace', 'the husband has two wives will be punished, and the wife will have a foreign husband will be punished'.
The law of adultery made Concubine Zhao stunned, but unfortunately, this method may not be feasible. None of the above are Chu Laws, the former is Zhou Li, and the latter is Wei Law and Qin Law. Of course, Song Yu knew this, and the reason why he mentioned it was because the trial of Chu Guosi's defeat was no longer written law, but was gradually becoming case law. Arrest Mi Xuan for adultery and hand him over to Zuo Yin's Mansion for trial, and he is not guilty according to Chu law, but what if the three husbands of Ye's father are summoned to discuss whether Mi Xuan is guilty?
Thinking of last night's discussion, Concubine Zhao felt that she had a son by her side. If this is not the case, then why did he not stay in Xiaoyi today after discussing the execution of Mi Xuan for adultery just last night? Yesterday's wedding, from today he stayed in Xiaoyi is adultery, but he stayed on the side of Xiaoyi.