Summary of the seventh story
The seventh story ends here, and the next story is the story of Li Fengniang, the famous queen of the Southern Song Dynasty.
Li Fengniang is the daughter of Li Dao, the envoy of the festival, and when she was born, she won the black phoenix around the house, so she was called 'Feng Niang'.
At that time, there was a famous Xiangshi Huang Futan, he cured the eye disease of the Empress Dowager Wei, because of the trust of Zhao Gou of Song Gaozong, when he went to the home of Li Dao, Li Dao asked his three daughters to come out to meet him, he saw Li Fengniang, she looked noble, did not dare to worship, later, he recommended Li Fengniang to Zhao Gou, Zhao Gou was in charge, let his grandson - Zhao Dian, who was still King Gong at that time, marry Li Fengniang as a princess.
Li Fengniang is gorgeous, but she likes to play right and wrong, and she is fashionable and able to keep to herself when she is Princess Gong, but in 1171, her husband Zhao Dian was made the crown prince, and she also became the crown princess, and began to reveal her true form, which made the emperor's grandfather Zhao Gou, father-in-law Zhao Yan and other elders dissatisfied.
Later, Zhao Gou died, Zhao Yan was sad, Chan gave the throne to Zhao Dan, Zhao Tang was cowardly by nature and neglected the government, and the big things were handled by Li Fengniang, but Li Fengniang had no ability to govern the country, and would only seek benefits for her own family, and people in their forties were still very jealous, so that Zhao Yan could not get close to other women, and because her father-in-law Zhao Yan had wanted to abolish her in person and was dissatisfied, she separated the relationship between father and son, and made a hindrance from it, so that father and son did not see each other for several years.
Under her coercion, the mentally weak Zhao Yan gradually changed from paranoia to a victim fantasy psychopath, people called him the 'crazy emperor', and later, the father-in-law Zhao Yan died, as a son and daughter-in-law Zhao Dian and Li Fengniang were indifferent, not wearing linen and filial piety, under the auspices of Song Gaozong's eighty-year-old widow Wu, Zhao Yan was able to mourn in an orderly manner, but Li Fengniang and Zhao Dian were completely abandoned by the courtiers, and the ministers supported the two sons Zhao Dian as the emperor, respecting them as the emperor and the queen.
Zhao Dian couldn't accept this fact, he had been in the deep palace, refusing to see the new emperor, after losing power, Li Fengniang began to empathize with him, comfort him, and concentrate on worshipping the Buddha, but she had committed too many evil deeds before, and soon became ill, because she was too fierce, no one served her, she died quickly, and after the death of a generation of arrogant queens, she was also miserable, and the corpse was exposed to the sun, emitting a burst of stench, and the palace people had to light dozens of cakes of lotus incense to cover up the stench, and the 'crazy emperor' was left alone not long after.
The next story is called "I Want to Grab Your Family's Throne", which is the story of Li Fengniang, who has the wisdom of previous lives, looking forward to Zhao Dan's early death and copying Wu Ze's journey to the throne, and Zhao Dan, who dreams of the past every night, desperately exercises to live longer and prevent his wife.