Chapter 714: Red Hair Grows
Sui Gaozu Yang Jianfa sent the three-way army to annihilate Nanchen in one fell swoop, realizing the great cause of the reunification of the north and the south.
Yang Jun, the marching marshal of the Middle Route Army and the king of Qin, was entrusted with the important task of replacing Yang Xiong, the king of Guangping, as the pastor of Yongzhou and continued to serve as the governor of Qinzhou, taking charge of all the state capitals in Guanzhong.
Yang Sujin, the marching marshal of the Western Route Army and the duke of Qinghe County, was named the Duke of Yingguo and the governor of Jiangling, and was given a leave of absence for one month, and lived in Beijing to be honored.
The other generals of the Central and Western Route armies were rewarded accordingly according to the meritorious service rank determined by the Marshal of the Third Route Guangling Meritorious Service Conference.
Although Yang Su was afraid of Mrs. Zheng's family from a famous family, and the current queen Dugu Jialuo has a very good personal relationship, he did not dare to openly propose a divorce from her, but he also lived separately for many years, and only ate and lived in the study in the front yard of the house on weekdays, and rarely met and interacted with his wife.
Even so, Zheng Qiye also set a rule for Yang Su: it is not allowed to mess with flowers and grass outside and take concubines privately.
Yang Su is very different from Yang Jian, he is a suave soldier, and it is more uncomfortable to ask him to live with only one woman than Zheng Qiye. Especially in recent years, in order to be angry with his wife, he specially raised more than a dozen young and beautiful maids in the mansion, and dressed up in the mansion all day long, going back and forth between the halls and corridors to demonstrate to his wife. As a result, the lady gritted her teeth with hatred for this, and Yang Su herself was itching, and she didn't dare to take a step beyond Lei Chi, so she didn't have to ask her to sue him again in front of the queen, so that he would lose his official position again.
This time, he led the army to attack Chen and returned victoriously, and when Yang Su met the emperor in front of him, he tactfully proposed to Yang Jian, asking the emperor to allow him to accept two concubines as a reward for his merits. How could he have died at the wrong time, just in time for Yang Jian to secretly ask Zhang Lihua and couldn't do it, how could he have the heart to take care of such a trivial matter as Yang Su's concubine, but he turned a deaf ear and did not say anything.
Yang Su was greatly disappointed, but also had a plan, wanting to give the most outstanding maid in the mansion, Feng Xiaoxi, that is, the red whisk girl among the three heroes of the wind and dust in later generations, to the emperor, in exchange for the emperor's decree to allow him to take a concubine.
Originally, according to Feng Xiaoxi's position in Yang Su's mind, Yang Su was reluctant to dedicate her to the emperor no matter what, however, since Zhang Zhongjian's assassination of him two years ago, although Feng Xiaoxi was innocent in this matter, he was naïve, and he didn't know that Zhang Zhongjian had a crush on him, so he agreed to elope with him to a quiet place and learn exquisite swordsmanship from him, but afterwards, because Zhang Zhongjian couldn't assassinate him, he ran away alone, which made Yang Su spill all his anger on Feng Xiaoxi.
Soon after the assassination in Xinzhou, Yang Su not only sent Feng Xiaoxi back to the Qinghe Mansion in Chang'an, forbidding her to serve by his side, but also specially confessed that Feng Xiaoxi was sent to do some rough work done by servant women as a punishment for her.
Feng Xiaoxi suffered this misfortune for no reason, and wanted to take advantage of the Yang Mansion servants to escort her back to Beijing, but because she remembered that Yang Su had taken her a friendship when she was in danger when she was a child, she reluctantly returned to the Qinghe County Mansion in Chang'an, and became a rough maid in the mansion.
Feng Xiaoxi was punished by this unfairness, feeling aggrieved in his heart, and because he was separated from Xiao Xiao and others, who had always been good, there was no one to complain about the depression in his heart in the Qinghe County Mansion controlled by Zheng Qiye, and when he was bored, he took pleasure in growing his hair, and in two years, he grew a hair that was seven feet long.
Every morning before work, Feng Xiaoxi needs to spend nearly an hour to coil up her hair and wrap it in layers of cloth, so as not to let Zheng Qiye find out and force her to cut her hair.
But who would have expected that Zheng Qiye thought that although Feng Xiaoxi's appearance was outstanding, he was guilty of being returned to Chang'an Mansion by Yang Sufa as a rough maid, so he rarely looked at her, and naturally did not find that she secretly grew a long hair, and as soon as Yang Suyi returned home from the victory of the former enemy in Guangling, the first time he saw Feng Xiaoxi who was cleaning the courtyard in the courtyard of the study, he keenly found that Feng Xiaoxi had a large ball of hair coiled behind his head, so he took advantage of the fact that there was no one that night, and ordered someone to quietly call her into the study, and forced her to open her hair to let herself see.
Seeing Feng Xiaoxi's long, jet-black and shiny hair, Yang Su couldn't help but think of a rumor he heard when he went to Guangling not long ago to participate in the three-way marshal council: It is said that before crossing the river to attack Chen, the current emperor Yang Jian had sent a secret message to Yang Guang, the king of Jin, asking him to lead the army to capture Jiankang, and secretly send Chen Shubao's favorite concubine Zhang Lihua to the eastern capital.
Yang Su understands that Zhang Lihua can be favored by Chen Shubao, in addition to her alluring appearance, her overgrown hair is especially fascinated by Chen Shubao.
If he could offer the beautiful maid in front of him, who was similar to Zhang Lihua and also had beautiful hair, to the emperor in exchange for his decree to allow him to take a concubine, wouldn't it be a good thing for him to kill two birds with one stone? With such an idea, Yang Su instructed Feng Xiaoxi that he would no longer have to be a rough maid from now on, although he could be pampered in his mansion, and on the other hand, he secretly found a skilled painter, and privately painted a portrait of Feng Xiaoxi, carried it in his arms, and entered the palace to see Yang Jian to offer treasures.
When Yang Su mysteriously asked Yang Jian to retreat from his entourage in the Linde Palace, took out the portrait of Feng Xiaoxi from his arms, and unfolded it in front of Yang Jian, he was satisfied to see that the emperor's eyes showed that he was a lustful man, and he was very familiar with it, so he lost no time in explaining to Yang Jian that the painting was a maid in his house, named Feng Xiaoxi, and he was willing to dedicate Feng Xiaoxi to the emperor's side as a palace maid.
Yang Jian naturally understood Yang Su's intentions, and immediately said reservedly that if it seemed inappropriate to openly integrate this woman into the palace, it would be better to place such a fairy-like woman in a nunnery and order her to serve the Buddha.
Yang Su heard Yang Jian's words at first, not only did he refuse to accept his kindness, but he integrated Feng Xiaoxi into the palace, often accompanied him, and instructed himself to send Feng Xiaoxi to the nun temple to become a monk and practice, and couldn't help but be disappointed. After returning to the house, he pondered carefully, and realized the emperor's true intention: Yang Jian wanted to quietly place Feng Xiaoxi in a secluded nun temple by himself, so as to facilitate the two of them to have an affair.
So, Yang Su immediately spent a lot of money to buy a mansion in the depths of a secluded alley in the eastern city of Chang'an, and bought the officials of the Zongzheng Bureau, issued him a license to build a nun temple, and built a mansion in this mansion, and transferred Feng Xiaoxi to this mansion without his wife, preparing to open up a place for the emperor to have a tryst and affair with Feng Xiaoxi.