Chapter Seventy-Two: The Outer Circle of Filial Piety (1)
My name is Bumu Butai, this is my real name, but I have only used this name for thirteen years, and after I was thirteen years old, others have been calling me all the time, from Fang Fujin to Concubine Zhuang, then the Queen Mother, and finally the Queen Mother.
Now I'm dead. My body is lying on the bed in Cining Palace, but my body is floating in the sky above the Forbidden City, I have lived in the Forbidden City all my life, this is the first time to look down and see the panoramic view of the Forbidden City, I turned around in each palace, and looked at all the corners and corners that I had not walked before I was born, and I floated back to Cining Palace, at this time Xuan Ye had already given me the honorific title, Empress Xiaozhuang Wen.
Empress? What kind of queen am I, the queen of Taizong, my aunt Zhezhe, and my sister Hai Lanzhu. I am just a queen honored by my son, and this queen title, in my opinion, is not right.
My body was floating in the main hall of Cining Palace, and the people inside were crying bitterly, all of them with tears on their faces.
Are they really crying about me? I don't care about this anymore. I care about Xuan Ye, Su Mer, and Rong Hui, and the three of them knelt in front of my body and cried without any manners, I sighed softly, alas, what is there to cry about.
In my life, I have had a lot of fate, but I also enjoy all the glory and wealth, and I have enjoyed all the years, Xuan Ye is a good emperor and governs the Qing Dynasty very well; Xuan Ye is a filial grandson who will be very good to Sumer and Ronghui.
I have nothing to love in my life, and I accept death peacefully.
Speaking of Ronghui, I feel a little guilty, I have been used to suffering all my life, she followed me, and she has suffered all her life, and she has been a widow for a lifetime. In the days before I died, when she was sick, I once asked her if she had ever complained about me in this life, and she said she didn't know.
Heh- I don't know, I don't know.
This question was also asked by my aunt Zhezhe, that is, Empress Xiaoduanwen, and I didn't know the answer at that time. My aunt asked me and Hai Lanzhu to marry Taizong, and I asked Qinghui and Ronghui to marry Fulin, and our aunt and niece have been in reincarnation for three generations.
It's a pity that it's not the reincarnation of happiness. My aunt and Hai Lanzhu have been favored, but I, Qinghui and Ronghui have been widows for a lifetime. Especially Qinghui, as a queen, but Fu Lin will be Concubine Jing, I can't protect her, I can't protect her.
If we could do it all over again, what would we do? Anyway, I won't choose this path anymore, it's too tiring. I wanted to live another life.
When I first married Taizong, I was only thirteen years old at that time, and Taizong was only Baylor. At that time, I didn't understand anything, I was still ignorant of the future, and I only knew how to ride horses and hunt on the grassland all day long, and suddenly one day, I was sent to Shengjing by my brother Wu Keshan, and sent to the backyard of Baylor Mansion, with only Sumer, a little girl younger than me.
When I first entered the Baylor Mansion, Summer and I couldn't even speak Manchu, and we couldn't communicate with others at the most basic level, and Taizong was thirty-four years old at the time, and he was not interested in me, a milky little girl, so all day, Summer and I stayed in a small courtyard in the backyard of Baylor House, except for Taizong's occasional visit, only my aunt came to see me.
Those days are too long and far away from now, I have been the Queen Mother and the Queen Mother for half my life, the feeling of being ignored by no one cares, I have forgotten, I don't know how I survived those days, and I don't remember whether I cried at that time, and now the deepest thing left in my memory is the four corners of the backyard of Baylor Mansion, the blue sky is as beautiful as the grassland. Later, slowly, I learned Manchu and even Sinology. The situation slowly improved, and later gave birth to a daughter, Taizong did not have many children, because, I was slowly favored.
However, at this time, my sister, Hai Lanzhu married Taizong, Hai Lanzhu became a special favorite, I didn't have time to be proud of the favor and gone, I saw Taizong's all kinds of Hai Lanzhu, no matter what Taizong did, Taizong will accompany him, and what willful requirements Taizong will follow, thirsty, cold, sick Taizong will be on the side to ask for warmth, wholeheartedly accompanying, and later even for Hai Lanzhu, regardless of the fate of the Qing Dynasty, regardless of the desperate soldiers rushed back from the front line, at that time I understood that Taizong was not even a pet to me, let alone love.
After seeing the days of Hai Lanzhu, I know how tasteless and pale my past days were.
I envy Hai Lanzhu from the bottom of my heart. But I'm helpless, one is Taizong, the other is my sister, I'm just a supporting role. Therefore, I left a will before I died, don't be buried with Taizong, as long as Hai Lanzhu is there, then I will always be a supporting role, I have done enough supporting roles before my death, after death, I don't want to continue to be a supporting role, I don't want to see them again.
Now thinking back on Hai Lanzhu's life, and then thinking back to my life, if I could do it all over again, I would choose Hai Lanzhu's life, I didn't have an answer to this question before I died, I didn't expect that after death, I didn't even hesitate to make such a choice.
Woman, as a woman, I once had the opportunity to be the emperor, but I didn't have that desire, in fact, I was not interested in those state affairs at all, I was not interested in being a female emperor. Wu Zetian can be the emperor because she has the ability, courage, and ruthlessness to kill even her own children.
I'm missing that ruthlessness.
I don't want to sit in the world, sitting alone on the dragon chair, the taste of loneliness, I have tasted it all my life, I have had enough. What I long for is a considerate husband, a well-behaved child, and a warm home, and that's enough.
Later, Taizong became the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, and I became Concubine Zhuang, and moved from the backyard of Baylor Mansion to the backyard of the palace, but at that time I had Fulin, my only son, who had no expectations for Taizong, and at that time I put all my hopes and thoughts on Fulin.
Suddenly, one day, Taizong died. The situation is a bit complicated, Dolgon and Hauge are fighting for the throne, but I know that no matter who becomes the emperor, they will not have a good life for me and Fulin, I don't care about myself, but I have Fulin, and I have a daughter who has been married, and the mother is the son. So I went to Dorgon, and I offered myself to him.
Actually, for Taizong, I have long lost my feelings, or I have never had feelings. The sons and daughters of the steppe have always been informal, and I don't think there is anything about dedicating themselves to Dolgon, in fact, except for the poor Confucian students of the Han people who made all kinds of rules and regulations, this kind of thing, whether it is the Mongols or the Manchus, does not pay much attention.
When Hai Lanzhu married Taizong, she was also married before. I'm not wrong.
But my son, Fulin, he objected, he did not understand me. His education in Sinology made him intolerant of my actions, and Dorgon, as the imperial father, had checks and balances on his imperial power, and he felt ashamed on the one hand, and I did not love him on the other. So he and I were angry, and my eldest son and I were angry with my hard work.
Because of this, he actually wanted to abolish Qinghui and make Dong E the queen, but I resolutely refused. At that time, the Qing Dynasty had just entered the customs, the foundation was unstable, the Qing Dynasty needed the support of Mongolia, and Fulin wanted to abolish the mother of a country and abolish this queen from Mongolia, didn't this add chaos to the Qing Dynasty for himself?
I want to spoil Dong E's family, although he spoils it, I don't care, but why he has to give Dong E's queen the title, I don't understand. At that time, Taizong loved Hai Lanzhu so much, and he didn't think about making Hai Lanzhu the queen, and at that time I found out that I was raising a child with one hand, he was stubborn, he was tough, and I didn't know him at all.
At that time, because of Dong E's family, our mother and son quarreled countless times, the most serious quarrel, he said something that hurt me deeply, he said that he really liked Dong E's family, just like Taizong's love for Hai Lanzhu, the saddest and most unbearable days ever, was so naked by my son to pull out, my heart hurt as if it was cut by a knife, that kind of pain, I thought it was the most painful, but I didn't expect that in the future, there was more pain waiting for me, I shed countless tears in those days, before Taizong was gone, I didn't really shed a single tear, but during that time, I almost cried and blinded my eyes.
The son can be ruthless to Eniang, but Eniang can't really be ruthless to his son, in the end, I still gave in, Qinghui was demoted to Concubine Jing, but in order to appease Mongolia, the Qing Dynasty still needed a Mongolian queen, so I asked Ronghui to marry. Ronghui came over and Qinghui was the same, not Fulin's love, Fulin canonized Dong E's as the imperial concubine, there was a queen, but Fulin canonized an imperial concubine, which was completely a slap in Ronghui's face, and later, Dong E's gave birth to a son, and Fulin even wanted to make him the prince, I was really angry.
In order to be angry with me, Fulin abolished Qinghui before, I endured it, isn't it a woman anyway, my niece is far inferior to my son, he wants to change it, I will change it for him. But I didn't expect him to want to make Dong E's son the crown prince, I have never regarded the son born by Dong E's family as my grandson, from Fulin's words, when he said that he was like Dong E's to Hai Lanzhu, I saw that Dong E's completely regarded her as a dead person.
Now Fulin wants to make her son the crown prince, I resolutely cannot tolerate it, I give in to Fu Lin, because he is my son, and I have no mercy on Dong E's family. So I drugged Dong E's and her child, and it was also the medicine I gave to Tong Jia's before I died-Love Flower. Aren't she in love with Fulin? Then I gave her a medicine called Love Flower, this medicine is not overbearing, but there is no cure, Love Flower will gradually corrode her body, her body organs will slowly shrink, and eventually a beautiful woman will become a skinny old woman.
Isn't Fulin affectionate towards her? is like Taizong's true feelings for Hai Lanzhu, Hai Lanzhu was seriously ill back then, and her appearance was not as good as an ordinary palace maid, but Taizong still loved her as before, and when Dong E's family also became ugly, it would be a hundred times uglier than Hai Lanzhu back then, at that time, would Fulin still say that he had true feelings for her?
I'm looking forward to that.
This medicine is called Love Flower, a flower that blooms between lovers, and it is the best poison to test whether two people have true love.
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