Chapter Thirty-Eight: Beautiful Clothes Reflect Zhu Yan, and Chinese Lights Shine on Green Silk (continued)
In the evening, Jiankang, Taicheng, Hongfan Palace, the concubine Zhang Lihua is serving the Empress Dowager Liu Jingyan for dinner, Chen Guo now has two empress dowagers, and now the empress dowager is the biological mother of today's son Chen Shubao, the queen of Emperor Xuan (the first emperor), so she is the queen mother.
Zhang Lihua is Chen Shubao's favorite concubine, but according to etiquette, she is just a concubine, so when she met Empress Dowager Liu, she was not qualified to wear the queen's clothes, but now Zhang Lihua is wearing it.
Owning utensils and clothes that you shouldn't have with your status is called encroachment, but Empress Dowager Liu turned a blind eye, because even if she didn't like it in her heart, she couldn't change anything.
As a mother, she is old, and Chen Shubao, who is a son, has long been an adult, and her love for Zhang Lihua is well known, and Empress Dowager Liu has no intention of stiffening the relationship between herself and her son for the sake of a woman.
Not to mention, in a few days, the Son of Heaven will abolish Queen Shen Wuhua, and this Zhang Guifei will become "Queen Zhang".
In all fairness, Empress Dowager Liu likes her daughter-in-law Shen Wuhua, Shen Wuhua was born in Wuxing Shen's family, and she is a well-known lady, while Zhang Lihua is beautiful, but she is from a lowly military family.
But Empress Dowager Liu had to admit that Zhang Lihua was very good at being a person, long-sleeved and good at dancing, and was used to buying people's hearts.
When it comes to 'successively', Zhang Lihua is earlier than Shen Wuhua.
That's Empress Dowager Liu or Empress Liu, Chen Shubao is still the prince, there is no princess (main room), there is already Liangdi (side room), this is not strange, even if it is a child of an ordinary big family, it is normal to take a concubine before marrying.
Chen Shubao's Gong Liangdi accepted a maid, who was only ten years old at the time, Zhang Lihua, at that time Zhang Lihua already had the color of sinking fish and geese, which made Chen Shubao obsessed, and then officially married Shen Wuhua as the crown princess.
At the beginning, the relationship between Chen Shubao and Shen Wuhua was not bad, but a few years after marriage, Shen Wuhua's father died of illness, and the grief-stricken Shen Wuhua kept filial piety to his deceased father, and his body was haggard due to excessive sadness.
Shen Wuhua, who lived alone and mourned, was gradually alienated by Chen Shubao, while Zhang Lihua had grown up at this time, her appearance became more and more gorgeous, and she was even more favored by Chen Shubao.
Shen Wuhua was no longer liked by Chen Shubao, Liu Jingyan persuaded his daughter-in-law, but Shen Wuhua had no quarrel with the world, and he was unwilling to force a smile to please Chen Shubao, so he gradually walked to the point where he is today.
Shen Wuhua failed to give birth to a son and a half daughter for Chen Shubao, and regarded his concubine Chen Yin as his own, and more than a year ago, Chen Yin's crown prince was abolished and Zhang Lihua's son was established as the crown prince, which means that Shen Wuhua's position as queen is almost impossible to keep.
This moment is coming, and Empress Dowager Liu is powerless to stop it, so she can only acquiesce to the facts.
Zhang Lihua, who was dressed in the queen's costume, was more and more radiant by the gorgeous crown dress, with black hair, shining in the candlelight, she accompanied the Empress Dowager Liu who finished the meal and said a conversation, and saw that her energy was low and she got up and retired.
Walking out of the Hongfan Palace where the Empress Dowager Liu lived, Zhang Lihua did not go back to the Jieqi Pavilion where she stayed, but transferred to the Ande Palace, where another Empress Dowager lived, that is, Shen Miaorong, the Empress of Emperor Wen.
Emperor Wen Chen Qian and Emperor Xuan Chen Qian are brothers, Shen Miaorong and Liu Jingyan are concubines, Shen Miaorong gave birth to the crown prince Chen Bozong for Chen Qian, Chen Bozong succeeded to the throne after Chen Qian's death, and was abolished by the auxiliary imperial uncle Chen Xuan within a few years, and then lost his life, which was to abolish the emperor.
Chen Ji took the throne of his nephew, but he was okay with his sister-in-law Shen Miaorong, and gave the name of Empress Wen, making it the same status as Empress Liu Jingyan, of course, there was no ulterior relationship between the sister-in-law and the brother-in-law.
After Chen Ji died, the crown prince Chen Shubao ascended the throne, Liu Jingyan became the queen mother, and Shen Miaorong continued to enjoy courtesy and became the queen mother.
The two queen mothers, for the new monarch, are not the difference between the mother-in-law and the mother-in-law, but based on the relationship between their respective husbands and concubines, how to call them on formal occasions?
According to the name of the first emperor, Shen Miaorong is the queen of Chen Qian, and Chen Qian is called "Emperor Wen", so Shen Miaorong is called the Empress Dowager Wen, and Liu Jingyan is the natural Empress Dowager.
Emperor Xuan's throne was snatched from his nephew, whether it was based on guilt or cover-up, Empress Wen/Empress Dowager Shen Miaorong's status in the Chen State was the same, at least on the surface, as well as Empress/Empress Dowager Liu Jingyan.
Therefore, Zhang Lihua, who is about to become the queen, of course, has to go to the Empress Dowager Wen, and can be regarded as using her full set of queen clothes to "say hello" and tell the queen mother that Chen Guo is going to have a new queen.
And when Shen Wuhua was deposed, it would announce the end of the era of Wuxing Shen.
Shen Wuhua was born in Wuxing Shen, Empress Dowager Wen Shen Miaorong was also born in Wuxing Shen, and her brother Shen Qin died of depression not long after Chen Ji seized the throne.
Shen Guan, the son of Shen Qin, still relied on currying favor with Chen Shubao and then Zhang Lihua to have his current status, and he was appointed as the middle of the imperial history.
Similarly, Shen Keqing, who was born in the Shen family of Wuxing, was also able to participate in the confidential information by currying favor with Chen Shubao and Zhang Lihua, and like Shi Wenqing and Kong Fan, he was cited by Chen Shubao as a confidant.
These two people did not rely on Wu Xing's Shen family's valve reading, but purely relied on currying favor with Chen Shubao and Zhang Lihua, so they strongly agreed with Shen Wuhua's abolition, and even ran around for this, lest a little neglect would make Zhang Lihua unhappy.
For Zhang Lihua, this feeling of being feared is really good.
The little girl who was in rags and followed her father and brother along the street in the cold wind was about to become the queen of the world.
In the Ande Palace, Shen Miaorong, who had gray hair, looked at Zhang Lihua, who was obviously just a concubine but was dressed in the queen's costume, saluted to herself, nodded calmly, and then politely talked to the soon-to-be-named queen.
Twenty-one years ago, her son was deprived of the throne, and not long after, he 'fell seriously ill and died', and her brother immediately 'died of depression', since then Shen Miaorong's heart has died, and the family honor and disgrace have nothing to do with her.
Therefore, even if Shen Wuhua, who is of the same clan, is deposed, Shen Miaorong does not have much emotion, a queen who has fallen out of favor for a long time, and there is no strong support from her mother's family, what is strange about being deposed?
If her mother's family can hold up the scene, then how could her son's throne be lost, and why did her brother "die depressed"?
Under the candlelight, Zhang Lihua was dressed up and became more and more moving, her hair was black and shiny, Shen Miaorong looked at the beauty in front of her, and she was in a trance in front of her, as if she saw an old man.
Han Zigao was born with a beautiful man with the appearance of a sinking fish and a goose.
Shen Miaorong's husband, Chen Qian, was extremely fond of Han Zigao when he was not the Son of Heaven, and Han Zigao often accompanied Chen Qian, and even Shen Miaorong felt a little stunned by his intimacy.
Whether Chen Qian favors or loves Han Zigao, Shen Miaorong doesn't know, and Han Zigao has been dead for twenty-one years, and the gray-haired Shen Miaorong looked at the beauty in front of him, and once again remembered the reincarnation Pan An back then.
Zhang Lihua, who came out of Ande Palace, was about to return to Jieqi Pavilion, and just walked a few steps, she suddenly remembered something, and asked the eunuch who followed her: "What are the arrangements of the official family tonight?" ”
"Back to Her Royal Highness the Queen, the official family has no time tonight."
The eunuch flattered and used "Her Royal Highness the Queen" to call the concubine Zhang Lihua, Zhang Lihua was very useful, but she was a little surprised that Chen Shubao was "flawless" tonight, and she offered a "surprise" half a month ago, it seems that Chen Shubao really likes it.
Chen Shubao got a 'surprise', and he hadn't been lucky with her for half a month, but Zhang Lihua didn't feel that her status was worrying, because everything was under her control.
What if you're pretty?