"The thin waist palace is full of peaches, and the pulse is speechless for a few springs; After all, it is a matter of death, and it is pitiful for the people who fell from the building in Jingu. died and entered the Chu Wang's house, looking back at the spring breeze and flowers; Feeling old and not often hiding tears, you should only turn over hatred and glory. This is a poem by the Tang Dynasty poet Du Mu to pay tribute to the "Peach Blossom Lady".

"Mrs. Peach Blossom" is known as Xi Fei in history. It is rumored that she was born in late autumn, but the garden is full of peach blossoms; As soon as she was born, she attracted a hundred birds and a phoenix, and when she was born, she had a peach blossom birthmark on her forehead, like the reincarnation of the peach blossom goddess.

However, the wise man of Chen Guo predicted that her arrival would lead to misery, and for this reason, she was forced to stay away from the palace since she was a child and grew up with a nurse.

Modern political marriage is the marriage and transaction between the powerful capital elite and the strong power elite, and the marriage at that time was a family-based marriage, and the purpose of the choice was to integrate the social cohesion relationship between the two major kinship groups of clan relatives and in-laws, so it was often used by the political entanglement of the ancient aristocratic ruling group.

This kind of family-based marriage has evolved into the highest form, that is, a political marriage between the rulers of the country. Chen Guo out of his own needs, Chen Xuangong married two beautiful daughters, one to Cai Guo and the other to Xi Guo.

It was Cai Fei who sent it to Cai Guo; The one who sent it to Xi Guo was Xi Fei. Cai Guo and Xi Guo are not only close neighbors, but also brothers-in-law. When Concubine Xi got married, she decided to visit Cai Guo's sister, but she didn't expect that Cai Aihou, the brother-in-law of Cai Guojun, saw her sister-in-law Xi Concubine and was immediately fascinated by her sister-in-law.

As soon as he thought that "fertile water does not flow into the fields of outsiders", he immediately tried to deceive Xi Fei into staying in Cai State, and made a brightly colored green hat for the monarch of Xi State and created the earliest "value-added tax".

Since Cai Guo was stronger than Xi Guo, Xi Guojun had no choice but to put on the green hat in a dignified manner. However, the green hat pressed his head and wanted to droop, although Xi Fei, who later returned to his side, did everything possible to please her husband, but when Xi Guojun thought of "the second tea, although it tastes good, it is a pity that the head has not tasted", his heart is always uncomfortable.

As a result, Xi Guojun "one green heart, two preparations." ”

He offered advice to King Wen of Chu in the state of Chu and asked the state of Chu to attack him. Then, Xi Hou asked for help from Cai Guo, Cai Hou must have thought that Xi Hou was a brother-in-law relationship and sent troops to help, at this time, Xi Guo and Chu State joined forces to attack Cai State, and Cai Hou could be captured.

It is the place that King Chu Wen dreamed of, how can there be any reason not to agree. So, choose an auspicious day, raise troops to point the generals, and go straight to Xiguo, Xihou pretended to panic and asked for help from the neighboring Cai State, and Cai Hou really personally led the army to rescue.

Who knew that the camp was not decided, the Chu soldiers and the rest of the soldiers surrounded on all sides, attacked from all sides, Cai Hou broke out in a hurry in the dark night, ran to Xi City, Xi Hou closed the city gate and did not accept, Cai Hou was cornered, and was finally captured by the Chu army. When Xihou rewarded the Chu army for a major event, Cai Hou realized that Xihou had fallen for Xihou's plan to "kill people with a knife".

After capturing Cai Hou, King Chu Wen wanted to kill Cai Hou, but under the bitter advice of the minister, he not only released Cai Hou, but set up a banquet for Cai Hou to eat, and the banquet was full of female music.

At the banquet, there was a woman who played a kite, with a beautiful appearance, and the king of Chu pointed to Cai Hou and said: "This woman is a good woman, I can respect you with a bottle of wine." Immediately ordered this woman to toast Cai Hou with a large bottle of wine, and Cai Hou drank it all.

The king of Chu smiled proudly and asked, "What you have seen in your life, is there such a peerless beauty?" ”

Cai Hou remembered the revenge of Xi Hou guiding Chu to defeat Cai Guo, and his heart suddenly became angry, and he secretly thought: "Didn't you just sleep with a little sister-in-law, her thing is not inlaid with gold edges, who is more noble than her?" However, just because he was given a little green hat, he actually ruined his country and almost lost his head, when will this revenge not be avenged now? ”

So, Cai Hou seized the opportunity and replied in a pretended flattering tone: "The peerless beauty of the world is all in the Great King's Palace!" But there is no one who can surpass the beauty of Mrs. Xihou's concubine. ”

King Wen of Chu was stunned, and Cai Hou continued: "The beauty of Xi Fei is unparalleled in the world, her eyes are like autumn water, her face is like peach blossoms, she is like lotus powder, apricot blossoms are smoky, she is moderately fat and thin, her demeanor is beautiful, her country is fragrant, she is incomparable, she is a fairy!" ”

then shook his three-inch tongue and really boasted about Xi Fei's appearance. If it weren't for the fear that King Wen would be jealous, he would have blown the divine power of Xi Fei's bed to the sky.

"Who am I? I am the monarch of a big country, I can't let this beauty become a piece of meat on my nose, I can't smell it! So, King Wen of Chu came to Xi under the pretext of inspecting all parties.

Xi Hou greeted the left, extremely respectful. Personally arrange the hall and set up a banquet in the court. Xi Hou held the cup and asked King Wen to drink.

King Chu Wen took the wine glass in his hand, smiled and said, "I served your wife a while ago, and today I am here, can't your wife toast me with a glass of wine?" ”

Xi Hou was afraid of Chu's might, knowing that there was a sound outside the strings, but he didn't dare to disobey, so he had to agree and immediately spread the word to the palace. After a while, hearing Huanpei's voice, Mrs. Xi Fei came dressed in a dress, set up a blanket mattress, and then bowed and thanked her.

King Wen of Chu replied. Mrs. Xi took a white jade wine glass and poured a full glass to toast to the King of Chu. The plain hand and the jade color contrasted, and King Chu Wen was shocked. Its appearance is really rare in the world, so I want to take the cup with my hand, touch it by the way, and experience the feeling, who knows that Xi Fei is not in a hurry, and hands the wine glass to the palace people, and then forwards it to the king of Chu.

The king of Chu drank it all, and after bowing again, he said goodbye and returned to the palace.

"A spark can start a prairie fire!" A great man is a great man!

Although Xi scattered and returned to the hall, the spark in King Chu Wen's body had become a prairie fire. It burned so much that he "had a pillar of incense in the sky" from night to dawn.

The next day, King Chu Wen held a tent under him, bent down and set up a banquet in the pavilion, called Answering, but secretly ambushed many soldiers. When the Marquis of Xi went to the banquet and drank until he was half drunk, King Wen of Chu pretended to be drunk and said to the Marquis of Xi: "The widow has a great credit to your wife, and the three armies are here today, why didn't your wife come to comfort him?" ”

Xi Hou excused himself and said: "Our country is small, and it is not enough to use this etiquette, so I hope to tolerate Xiaojun." ”

The king of Chu patted the case and said: "The husband betrays his righteousness and dares to resist me with rhetoric? Why don't you capture it for me! ”

Xi Hou was about to argue, Fu Jia suddenly rose, and tied up Xi Hou during the banquet.

The king of Chu personally led his troops to the Xi Palace to find Mrs. Xi.

When Mrs. Xi heard the change, she sighed: "Lure the wolf into the room, I will take it myself!" So he ran into the back garden, intending to throw himself into the well and die. The guard Dou Dan took a step forward, grabbed his clothes and said, "Madame, don't you want to save the life of the Marquis?" Why bother with both husband and wife! ”

Xi Fei was silent. Thinking about it anyway, the body has been pierced by two people, and one more person is not the same, if King Chu Wen's guy is a little shorter, he can only exercise in the first half of her, which can not only wipe away the shame left by Cai Guojun, but also make her leave the second half as a memorial to her original husband, why not?

In this way, under the introduction of Dou Dan, the king of Chu comforted him with kind words, promised not to kill Xi Hou, and immediately corrected Xi Fei on the spot, and was named the "Fire Commissioner".

King Wen of Chu changed the state of Xi to the territory of the state of Chu, placed the marquis of Xi in Rushui, and sealed the city of ten families, and died of depression after the marquis.

Xi Concubine has been in the Chu Palace for three years, never talking to King Wen of Chu, but crying all day long. King Chu Wen was very strange and asked her, "You are serving me now, but why do you cry all day long without saying a word to me?" With my Jingxiang Town, Weizhen Huaxia, why not be satisfied? ”

She replied, "I am a woman, waiting for my second husband, and even if I cannot die, how can I speak to others?" This is Cai Hou's fault. After speaking, he wept bitterly and wept silently.

King Chu Wen found out that she still resented Cai Hou, and in order to win her favor, he said: "Don't worry, madam, the widow will definitely avenge you!" So he sent troops into the Cai State, and the Marquis of Cai pleaded guilty shirtlessly, and offered the treasures in the treasury to the Chu army, and the Chu army retreated.

Later, the Marquis of Cai Aihou was detained in Chu for nine years and died in the state of Chu.

As the saying goes, life lies in movement, and in the joint movement of King Wen of Chu and Xi Fei, Xi Concubine gave birth to two lives. Two sons, the eldest son was named Xiong Jian, and the second son was named Xiong Yun (that is, the later known King of Chu Cheng).

After the death of King Chu Wen, although the "Peach Blossom Lady", who was over forty years old, raised her two sons carefully, she was not only delicate and delicate, but more mature beauty, which attracted King Chu Wen's younger brother Yuan.

King Wen's disciple Yuan Yi thought: "Everyone says that brothers are like siblings, and women are like clothes. The gorgeous clothes that my brother worn, I should be beyond reproach if I wear them again. Besides, a woman is as good as a wolf at thirty and forty as a tiger, and now my sister-in-law is having the air of a tiger and a wolf, and in front of me, a burly and good-looking young woman killer, she should become a sheep lying on her back to the sky. ”

So, he wanted to practice bed skills with his sister-in-law.

Unexpectedly, "Mrs. Peach Blossom" is actually a woman who values love and righteousness, and she was forced to do it when she followed King Chu Wen at the beginning. Now, the first half of his lower body was given to King Wen, and the second half was left for her former husband as a souvenir, seeing that Wang Diyuan was so strong, if it was an extended version, wouldn't it ruin the memorial of his life, so he rejected Wang Diyuan's pursuit.

The more you can't get it, the more you want to get it, which is the commonality of human curiosity.

The refusal of "Mrs. Peach Blossom" stimulated Ziyuan. In order to tempt Xi Fei, Ziyuan actually built a new hall next to her palace, singing and dancing every day, and even performed a large-scale group exercise - Wan Wu, teasing in every way.

One day, Ziyuan heard that "Mrs. Peach Blossom" was unwell, so he brought a lot of gifts and came to the harem, pretending to say hello, but in fact he took the opportunity to enter. So he moved his bedding to the harem, and he didn't come out for three consecutive days.

It's a pity that women don't confuse everyone, and the history books don't write whether Ziyuan destroyed the souvenir of "Lady Peach Blossom", but Ziyuan's actions caused great dissatisfaction with Ziyuan among the nobles of Chu, and in 664 BC, Chu pacified the "Ziyuan Rebellion".

Many historical evaluations of "Mrs. Peach Blossom" are "red face and troubled water". However, Zhong Wuregret's father quoted scriptures and found all kinds of evidence from the pile of old papers, believing that "Mrs. Peach Blossom" was a woman with great ambitions, but the foundation of national strength was too weak at the beginning, so she became the concubine of the dead country.

When the "Peach Blossom Lady" first arrived in Xiguo, Xiguo's national strength was already weakened. Seeing that Jun Hou was indulging in wine all day long and neglecting political affairs, she was worried about the country and the people, and she never forgot it, so she changed the law to persuade Hou to be diligent in the government, pro-sages, far away from the group, reward farming and warfare, and promote agriculture and business. Xihou listened to his wife's persuasion, so that Xiguo slowly embarked on the road of self-improvement. It's just that the time is too short to make a big deal.

Moreover, it is usually believed that it was the "Lady of Peach Blossom" who used her tears and loyalty to the former king to cause great dissatisfaction among the nobles of the Chu State against Ziyuan. In fact, this is all out of the scheming of "Mrs. Peach Blossom".

She had long seen through the ambition of Wang's disciple Yuan to usurp the throne, and because her son was still young, he was only ten years old. Seeing that the throne was in danger, she dealt with Ziyuan with the weak attitude of a surviving person, and secretly had already united with the strong ministers, so that she could quell the "Ziyuan Rebellion" in one fell swoop, establish her son's throne, and enable the Chu State to avoid civil strife.

Later, her son King Chu Cheng competed for hegemony with Duke Qi Huan, which lasted more than ten years, and as a result, the State of Chu achieved brilliant results, making the State of Chu on the road to strength, and it is difficult to say that there is no credit for this mother in the deep palace.

It's just that after the "Ziyuan Rebellion" was quelled, there was no record of "Mrs. Peach Blossom". Only one poem of Seven Absolute made a note for her fate: Chu Gong swept her eyebrows and was new, and she was speechless to Twilight Spring. The only death through the ages is difficult, and the sadness is not the only lady.

For such a beautiful woman, Zhong Wuregret has no reason not to be interested, and besides, this mysterious woman's original property has actually become a stronghold that threatens his life, so he has to choose to investigate it in person.