Chapter Seventy-Three: Memories of a Past Life—Entering the Palace
In October 975 AD, Zhao Kuangyin, Taizu of the Song Dynasty, launched a comprehensive attack on Jinling, Li Yu took the initiative to go out of the city to surrender for the residents of Baocheng, and left the "Broken Array" according to the requirements of the Song State, led the princes and concubines, and hundreds of bureaucrats to board the Song ship to the north.
"Breaking the Array"
In the past 40 years, the country has been 3,000 miles of mountains and rivers;
Fengge Longlou is a night Han, Yushu Qiongzhi is a smoke, how many times have you ever known each other?
Once classified as a vassal, Shen waist Pan sideburns out;
The most is the day of the hasty resignation of the temple, and the church still sings the parting song, crying to the palace.
A few months later, Li Yu and I came to Kaifeng to meet Zhao Kuangyin, the lord of the Song Dynasty......
In November 976, Zhao Kuangyin, Taizu of the Song Dynasty, died suddenly in the middle of the night, and his brother Zhao Guangyi resisted the rumors and succeeded to the throne, and then changed Li Yu to the title of Longxi County Duke. Zhao Guangyi was born a military general, so he naturally did not appreciate Li Yu's talent as much as Song Taizu, so he has always been indispensable to Li Yu verbal humiliation.
In 977 A.D., the Lantern Festival, the women should enter the palace to congratulate them, and I also took sandalwood to go according to the rules, who knows, this is more than half a month, and it is from here that I suffered humiliation, and Zhao Guangyi formed an indissoluble enmity......
Thinking back to the days when I was in Jinling, I was still a country, and now when I enter the palace, I have become a prisoner of another country, and it is inevitable that I will be resentful when I see this situation in the palace. In order not to show my emotions, I have been trying to avoid talking and just hide in the corner and wait for the end of the day.
Not long after the feast began, a member of the palace came to me, saying that the queen wanted to keep me in the palace for a longer time, and asked me for some female work by the way.
The queen was sitting in the middle of the banquet at this time, and I looked up and saw that she was also looking at me, and when the eyes met, she smiled at me and nodded, and I nodded in return.
After the banquet, the queen arranged for someone to lead me to the palace to wait, until it was dark, I didn't wait for anyone, I also tried to shout for a while, and no one paid attention to me, did the queen forget me?
"Maybe the queen is still busy." Seeing that I was nervous, Sandalwood comforted me.
After a while, footsteps suddenly sounded outside the door, and I quickly got up and went out to greet them, but I was directly stunned the moment I saw the person, because the person who came was not the queen, but the emperor Zhao Guangyi.
"Courtiers and women will join the emperor, long live the emperor." After adjusting my mood, I hurriedly said goodbye.
"Get up."
Zhao Guangyi was not polite, and directly stepped forward to help me up.
"If the queen has something to do and it is inconvenient to receive the courtiers, the courtiers will retire first." In fact, from the moment Zhao Guangyi came in, I saw Zhao Guangyi's uneasiness and kindness, and I quickly made excuses, hoping to leave this place of right and wrong.
"There is no queen, I have always wanted to see you, I have long heard that Mrs. Zheng Guo is beautiful and fragrant, and now if you look closely, she is even more a stunner in the world!" Zhao Guangyi said as he approached me.
"Emperor Xie raised his love, but the courtier's wife was old and yellow, and she didn't dare to pollute the eyes of the saint here, so she retired first." I naturally knew what Zhao Guangyi was thinking in his heart, he just fell in love with my beauty, so he could only quietly withdraw to the side while talking.
When I retreated to the door, I realized that it was locked, and I was afraid that this palace could not be left without me thinking of it......
"Madame said she laughed, and I said I liked it, and I liked it." When Zhao Guangyi said this, he completely ignored my refusal, and went straight to take my hand and go to the inner room.
Sandalwood originally wanted to stop it, but was taken down by the guards next to Zhao Guangyi's order, and for a while, only me and him were left in the huge palace.
Later, I begged to no avail, Zhao Guangyi also threatened Li Yu's life, plus the life of sandalwood outside the hall to force me to submit, and after I succeeded, I was forced to stay in the harem in disregard of the rumors from the outside world.
"The emperor keeps me in this palace every day, isn't he afraid that the world will laugh at me?"
"The whole world is mine, what am I afraid of?"
I turned my head away, and didn't want to pay attention to him anymore, thinking about the time when I lived in Jinling, I wrote lyrics and composed music with Li Yu every day, and the piano was harmonious. Now trapped in this palace, he can only face Zhao Guangyi for a martial artist every day, and he is humiliated.
"Where's sandalwood?" After a long time, I asked, after all, I hadn't seen sandalwood since that night.
"Dead."
"What did you say?"
"I said she was dead." When Zhao Guangyi said this, he had a completely indifferent expression, as if it was a kitten and a puppy who died.
"How can I ......" Sandalwood grew up with me since I was a child, she is like a relative to me, and now I can't even protect a maid?
"I can only blame her for being disobedient, why do I have to disturb my time with you?"
"You're the devil......" I shouted to him with red eyes.
"As long as I can get you, what ...... devil"
"You don't deserve ......" Although I wanted to kill him and avenge Sandalwood, I couldn't do anything other than say it.
Who can blame? I can only blame myself for being a woman, and I have no ability to protect myself, and if I am in the next life, it would be better to be a man.
"What if you don't deserve it? Anyway, let's live this life like this, don't think about dying, unless you don't want Li Yu to continue to live. Xu saw that my emotions were wrong, and Zhao Guangyi said this in a suppressed voice.
From the Lantern Festival to the end of January, Zhao Guangyi agreed to let me out of the palace under the persuasion of the queen and the discussion of the courtiers.
Since then, Zhao Guangyi has often used the name of the queen to openly invite a group of women to enter the palace to learn from the female saffron art, secretly nothing more than coveting my beauty, and every time he enters the palace, he finds all kinds of excuses to leave me for several days......
Although I was extremely unwilling, I also had to take care of Li Yu's life, and Zhao Guangyi knew that I cared about Li Yu's life, so he used this to completely reduce me from being imprisoned to his personal plaything......
This humiliated life lasted until Qixi in 978, which was also Li Yu's birthday, and Zhao Guangyi sent poisoned wine during the banquet to completely disrupt everything, and Li Yu died in my arms after drinking......
"You still run away selfishly, that's fine, so we'll all be free......" I held a funeral for Li Yu, which can be regarded as accompanying him through the last experience of this world......
At the end of October of the same year, the palace came to the will, Zhao Guangyi invited me into the palace to thank me, I smiled, refused, and spent the rest of my life with three feet of white silk that night.
Li Yu is gone, so why should I worry......