Chapter 125: Confidante

The reason why Emperor Fu Kangdi favored Concubine Li was because she was like a woman.

This woman's name is Xu Xiaomei, the youngest daughter of Lord Xu, the first hero of the Taizu period, and the sister-in-law of Empress Xu's sister Fukangdi.

So how does Li's death have anything to do with Xu Xiaomei? They came from different places and had never even met each other!

Although Li and Xu Xiaomei have never met, Li's death has a lot to do with Xu Xiaomei's resemblance.

If you want to clarify this matter, you have to start after the death of Queen Xu.

Empress Xu's death was saddened by Emperor Fukang. Fu Kangdi and Empress Xu are married couples, and the relationship between the two is very good. The crown prince and the second and third high were all born by Empress Xu herself, and she didn't let other concubines do it for her, so it is conceivable that the relationship between Emperor Fu Kangdi and Empress Xu is very strong, which is strong evidence!

After the death of Empress Xu, Emperor Fukang was sad and sad, life had to go on as usual, and national affairs had to be dealt with.

After the death of Empress Xu, although the harem concubines of Emperor Fukang were sad on the surface, they were happy in private.

When the queen's position is vacated, they have a chance to ascend to the throne.

Even if you can't get on the throne, for example, if the concubine is on the throne, then the concubines below may also be upgraded!

However, soon, their hearts were cold, because Emperor Fu Kang ordered Xu Xiaomei's biological mother to enter the palace, saying that there was something important to discuss.

The matter that Emperor Fu Kang wanted to discuss with Xu Xiaomei's biological mother was that Emperor Fu Kang wanted to summon Xu Xiaomei into the palace, making it clear that she would be the queen when she came and manage the six palaces!

Of course, Emperor Fu Kangdi has his own rhetoric, saying that Empress Xu once told him before her death that she wanted him to take good care of her sister, who was in her twenties and unmarried.

Mother Xu thinks this is a good thing, in the eyes of many people, it is a good thing, but it may not be a good thing in Xu Xiaomei's eyes.

Xu Xiaomei didn't marry Emperor Fu Kang, she looked down on Emperor Fu Kang from the bottom of her heart, thinking that he was a martial artist, except for usurping the throne and rudely losing his temper and killing people, it seemed that he had no merits.

In addition to the above reasons, Xu Xiaomei has a more important reason than this, which will be continued later!

Xu Xiaomei is not only beautiful, she loves to read books since she was a child, and she is proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting.

Emperor Fu Kang has had a long-term crush on Xu Xiaomei in his heart, and it was because of Queen Xu's affection that he didn't have the idea of beating this sister-in-law.

Emperor Fu Kang did not give up, and continued to let people talk to Xu Xiaomei, hoping that she would change her mind!

Someone asked Xu Xiaomei, saying that women in the world have the highest ideal and honor, that is, to be the queen, since she has such a good opportunity, she should take advantage of it. She doesn't even marry Fu Kangdi, who does she want to marry?

The words of the person who came were very hard, a bit of a coercion of Xu Xiaomei.

If you put his words in plain detail, that is, in this world, who else is better than the emperor?! The emperor is the honor of the Ninety-Five, if you don't marry the emperor, who do you want to marry, and who else is better and more noble than the emperor? If you marry someone else, you will look down on the emperor?! Look down on the emperor, then what?!

Xu Xiaomei didn't want to talk nonsense with the people, so she asked the people to bring a message to Emperor Fu Kang, to the effect that the emperor could afford it, however, she Xu Xiaomei is now in her twenties, long past the most wonderful age of a girl, not worthy of the title of queen, not up to the standard of the world, she hopes that Emperor Fu Kang will choose another beautiful woman to manage the harem!

Xu Xiaomei said that if she wanted to get married, she would have married a long time ago, and she would not wait until she was in her twenties!

Xu Xiaomei told Emperor Fu Kang that if she stayed with her own mother for a few more days, she would go to cultivation!

When Emperor Fu Kang heard this, this Xu Xiaomei's ideals were ambitious, and she wanted to cultivate and become an immortal and become a fairy sister, which was not easy to do.

If Emperor Fu Kang wants to stop Xu Xiaomei again, won't that delay people becoming immortals? ! You can't make it difficult for others, right? Besides, she is still Queen Xu's half-sister, so it's hard to start! Xu Xiaomei disagrees, so it won't kill people, right?!

Forcing Xu Xiaomei to death, Emperor Fu Kangdi didn't dare, his reputation was already terrible now, and he had to earn a good reputation for himself.

Besides, forcing Xu Xiaomei to death didn't do him any good!

Is this the reason?

Yes and no!

said yes, because Emperor Fu Kangdi really liked Xu Xiaomei and really gave her the position of queen to sit.

It turns out that since the death of Empress Xu, the position of the empress has been vacant, and after Xu Xiaomei did not come, Emperor Fukang never made other women queens.

Emperor Fu Kang likes Xu Xiaomei because Xu Xiaomei's beauty absolutely overwhelms all the women in Emperor Fu Kang's harem. Besides, Xu Xiaomei has read books for so many years, and is proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, her good conversation and elegant temperament are really not comparable to ordinary women!

Besides, if she likes Xu Xiaomei, she is not Fu Kangdi alone, there are more people who like her, and the matchmaker is about to break through the threshold of her family, she only returns two words, don't marry!

The reason for saying that it is not is that in the heart of Fu Kangdi, there is another layer of thought.

This level of thought is the news that his sister-in-law and his nephew are good back then.

This nephew of Emperor Fu Kang is none other than Emperor Huiwu, who was ousted from power by him!

Emperor Fu Kang hated his nephew, he couldn't see anyone alive or dead, he couldn't see the corpse, he was in a hurry!

Is Emperor Fu Kang down-to-earth when he does this throne? You must know that the jade seal used by Taizu is still in the hands of Emperor Huiwu.

With this jade seal, Emperor Huiwu or the former prince wants to crusade against Emperor Fu Kang, that is a power that cannot be underestimated, it can arouse people's hearts, this is Taizu's decree to pass on the throne to Emperor Huiwu as the emperor, if Emperor Fu Kang wants to debate, he is to find a hundred advisers who can speak and can not argue, his behavior is to rebel and usurp the throne.

At that time, Emperor Fukang had only been the emperor for a few years, and he was worried all day long.

After the death of Empress Xu, in addition to wanting to marry her as the queen because he liked this beautiful and beautiful sister-in-law, another reason was that he wanted to take revenge on his nephew in his heart.

You must know that in the heart of Emperor Fu Kang, he thought that conquering a man was better than marrying the woman he loved, and he still stared dryly, and Emperor Fu Kang had this dark side in his heart.

In addition, it would be better if he could provoke Emperor Huiwu, Emperor Fu Kang was not afraid to do it with Emperor Huiwu, Emperor Huiwu is now hiding in the shadows, and Emperor Fu Kang is not honest in his heart!

However, what Fu Kangdi didn't expect was that Xu Xiaomei was unwilling to be his queen, and Xu Xiaomei chose to become a Taoist monk.

There is no way to do it.

What a man loves most in his heart is a woman who he wants but can't get.

Just like Xu Xiaomei, Emperor Fu Kang can't help it, Xu Xiaomei doesn't marry, what can he do?

After a long time, Fu Kangdi's feelings for Xu Xiaomei not only did not fade, but deepened.

So among the women who came up from below, Emperor Fu Kang fell in love with the Li family at a glance.

This Li has never read any books, and she can't play chess, paint, or calligraphy, but she can play the piano, especially the pipa, and she can play it wonderfully.

For Fu Kangdi, there is something like Xu Xiaomei!

The point is that this Li family looks too much like Xu Xiaomei, except for the fact that they are more than ten years apart in age, they are all similar.

Therefore, there is no doubt that Li was favored by Fu Kangdi, and it is even conceivable that when Fu Kangdi shared the bed with Li for the first time, the picture of his excited heart trembling hands tenderly waiting to cherish Li's body jumped into your mind!

Fu Kangdi and the Li family are looking for joy because they treat the Li family as Xu Xiaomei.

Emperor Fu Kang was very fond of the Li family, just like what was written in the poem: There are 3,000 beauties in the harem, and 3,000 are favored in one!

Lee's favor must be envied. When someone falsely accused the Liu family, saying that she was jealous of the Li family and poisoned the Li family, of course this Fu Kangdi believed it!

Emperor Fu Kang had no reason not to believe it, because before the Li family entered the palace, he was indeed fortunate to be more fortunate to the Liu family!

Li's death, since it wasn't Liu's doing, could it be that she died a normal death?!

No, she died at the hands of Ma Ya's brother.

Ma Ya's elder brother, that is, the logic of the former prince: Emperor Fu Kang favors the Li family, this Li family is very similar to Xu Xiaomei, Xu Xiaomei is his own father, that is, Emperor Huiwu's confidante, Emperor Fu Kang not only insulted Xu Xiaomei's image but also disgraced his father, since Emperor Huiwu doesn't care about the world, but Ma Ya's brother has to ask, how can he bear it? !

Is there any way to fight back?

That is, Feng Qinghui's subordinates were used to poison the Li family and kill her, and she died and died!

Looking at the serial cases in Emperor Fukang's harem, the initiator is Ma Ya's brother.

It's just that Ma Ya added a fire to it later, and this fire almost killed Fu Kangdi!

There is another question, that is, Xu Xiaomei should be a generation older than Emperor Huiwu according to her seniority, how did she become Emperor Huiwu's confidante?

In fact, if it weren't for Xu Xiaomei, who was a generation older than Emperor Huiwu, if it wasn't for Taizu blocking him at the beginning, Emperor Huiwu would not marry the queen Ma who jumped into the sea of fire later, but this Xu Xiaomei would be his queen.

The fact that Xu Xiaomei is Emperor Huiwu's confidante has to start from the Taizu period, from when they were children.

Taizu and Lord Xu fought the world together, and the two were closer than brothers, so the two families also made a family of children and daughters, and Lord Xu married his eldest daughter to Emperor Fu Kang as his wife.

When Emperor Huiwu's father was not dead, he got along quite well with the eldest son of Lord Xu, the first hero of Taizu, so the relationship between the two families was closer, which goes without saying.

At that time, Princess Jing and the Xu family were more encrypted, she especially liked the beautiful Xu Xiaomei, and sometimes when she went to the Xu family as a guest, she would let people pick up Emperor Huiwu and take it with her.

As mentioned earlier, Emperor Huiwu is not like Emperor Fukang, he is not ruthless. The reason why Emperor Huiwu is not ruthless is because he is a scholar, and he also likes piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, which is similar to Xu Xiaomei, who is about the same age as him.

Children, regardless of gender, can play, and adults don't pay attention to it.

The two often play Go together.

These two are chess opponents, and they can talk together, so they want to see each other on days when they don't see each other, talk and play chess or something, not to mention how happy they are.

So the adults don't give them the opportunity to meet, they find opportunities for themselves.

Emperor Huiwu often went to Xu's Mansion to play chess with Xu Xiaomei.

Sometimes the two of them even meet to go to Princess Jing's house to play, and there are also children there.

Of course, the opportunity for them to meet is not as casual as in a mansion.

However, the more this is the case, the happier and more sympathetic they are when they see each other.

As the two grew older, their hearts changed.

When she was twelve or thirteen years old and knew what was going on, when Xu Xiaomei was happy and ashamed to see Emperor Huiwu, that feeling was actually called first love.

They can't talk about love or love because of the constraints of adults, but they can still communicate with words or poems, both of them are readers, why not communicate with poetry?!

What's more, they only have their own code words between the lines, and when they are brought to others, they turn it around and look at it, and they can't see that there is anything wrong.

In this way, the two people fell into the whirlpool of feelings, and the adults never found out.

This continued until the death of Emperor Huiwu's father.

When Emperor Huiwu's father died, Emperor Huiwu was only fifteen years old, and Emperor Huiwu died before he married a wife, and his father died as a teenager, which was too big a blow to Emperor Huiwu.

During that time, he had to keep filial piety, how could he have time to pass on books with Xu Xiaomei and Hongyan again?

After his father's death, Taizu made him the emperor's grandson, and there were many things, which delayed the year.

After another year, Taizu suddenly wanted to choose a concubine for him, and Emperor Huiwu panicked, so he asked his aunt, Princess Jing, to tell Taizu that he liked Xu Xiaomei.

How can this work?

Although Princess Jing felt that Taizu would not agree, she still went to tell Taizu about it under her nephew's strong request.

Emperor Taizu was very angry, saying that there are so many women in the world, why does he like Lord Xu's daughter? Lord Xu and Taizu were called brothers and sisters in the past, not to mention that Xu Xiaomei's eldest sister married Emperor Fukang, that is, the king of the North at that time, how do they call each other when they come together?

There is a seniority difference between them, no, this is absolutely not good!

Although Emperor Huiwu also cited many examples from the past and present to illustrate that there are too many poor relatives at that time, why can't they?

But it didn't work!

These words were stopped by Princess Jing, and she told Emperor Huiwu that she must be obedient, don't be angry with Taizu anymore, it is impossible between them!

Not long after, before Emperor Huiwu's wedding, he felt that he had no face to see Xu Xiaomei, so he wrote a long letter to Xu Xiaomei, saying that he was interested in the beauty, but the marriage of his elders stood in the way.

Xu Xiaomei also replied with a letter, which made Emperor Huiwu cry for most of the night after reading it.

A man who was about to get married whimpered and cried for half the night, thinking about how unbearable and unwilling he was in his heart!

As for what Xu Xiaomei wrote to Emperor Huiwu, there is no way to know.

In short, Emperor Huiwu got married, Emperor Huiwu didn't make trouble, and Emperor Huiwu was led through the entire marriage ceremony as if he had lost his soul.

It is conceivable what Xu Xiaomei wrote to Emperor Huiwu under the huge pressure at home!

are all talents, you know my heart and I know your heart, in fact, you can understand each other without writing letters, after all, they have done the master's job in marriage!

But who can know that Emperor Huiwu has always been wearing a sachet on his body, and this sachet has been collected by him for a lifetime after entering the Tao and has never left his body.

This sachet was made for him by Xu Xiaomei herself!

Xu Xiaomei also wore a piece of jade, and this jade was worn by Emperor Huiwu when he was a child, and he wore it until later, when he gave this piece of jade to Xu Xiaomei, and he stopped wearing it.

Emperor Fu Kang seized the throne of Emperor Huiwu, will Xu Xiaomei marry Emperor Fu Kang to be her queen? Is this possible?

Xu Xiaomei chose to cultivate, in fact, because she later heard reliable news that Emperor Huiwu went to cultivate, so she chose this path.

They never met again, and perhaps, in their hearts, they could wear the gift of their sweetheart, and they were already together.

So the union of the flesh is not even a fart compared to the union of the spirit!

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