The pear blossoms shook and fell in the wind and rain, and Meng Lang died and the wine was closed.

The tent once leaned on the stamens, and the cuckoos cried all day long.

After returning from Jiangnan, Zhao Kuangyin was depressed for a while. On this day, after Meng Chang, the lord of Shu who died in the country, was escorted to Bianjing, Zhao Kuangyin met him in Chongyuan Palace.

Feng Mengchang was appointed as the inspector of the school and the secretary of the Zhongshu Order, and was awarded the title of Duke of Qin. Meng Chang's mother and other family members were also rewarded. called Meng Chang's mother the mother of the country, and allowed her to enter the palace at any time without being rigid.

After receiving the reward from Emperor Song, Meng Chang's mother Li took Meng Chang's wife and concubine into the palace to thank her, and Meng Chang's imperial concubine, Mrs. Hua Rui, stood out in the crowd. When it was Mrs. Flower's turn to visit, I only felt that her fragrance was fragrant, and when I looked carefully, I saw that she was beautiful and extraordinary, and when she bent down to worship, it was more like the wind swinging willows, graceful and light, and extremely enchanting.

No wonder Meng Chang used such verses to describe Mrs. Blossom:

"The ice muscles and jade bones are clear and sweatless, and the wind in the water hall is dark and warm. The curtain is open, the moon is alone, and the pillow is chaotic. ”

Zhao Kuangyin, who has never been close to women, but at this time, as if he had fallen into an evil spirit, stared directly at Mrs. Hua Rui, and saw that Mrs. Hua Rui was extremely embarrassed, and when she left, she suddenly looked back and stunned Zhao Kuangyin.

For this autumn wave at a glance, the wise and benevolent Zhao Kuangyin didn't think about tea for several days, didn't want to eat, and his mind was full of Mrs. Hua Rui's bumpy and graceful figure, as well as the eyes that seemed to hook the soul, so that Zhao Kuangyin, who had always only cared about leading troops to fight and not thinking about his children's personal affairs, completely fell. can make him have such a big change in his opinion of women, not only because of Madame Hua Rui's infinite charm, but also because of his dead heart for Murong Ningyan.

The person who has thought about it thousands of times in his heart is now living happily, and it is inconvenient to bother him anymore, and fulfillment should be the highest state of love.

Zhao Kuangyin was ready to give preferential treatment to Meng Chang at the beginning, who knew that when Meng Chang came to Bianjing from Shudi, the subjects of Shu spontaneously lined up to send him away, which showed that Meng Chang was very popular with the people, and Zhao Kuangyin was not happy in his heart, he could tolerate those who failed, and those who failed without losing their power.

Thinking about it this way, Zhao Kuangyin has the idea of wanting to be crowned queen, how can he miss such a beautiful woman who has captivated the country and the city in front of him?

After hesitating for several days, Zhao Kuangyin came up with a clever trick.

On the second day, Zhao Kuangyin set up Yan to entertain Meng Chang, and said with a smile at the banquet: "I heard that Guogong has good sauce pig's trotters, and today the special imperial dining room has made more, please Guogong smile!" ”

Meng Chang said: "Thank you for your grace! ”

As soon as the words fell, a palace maid brought a plate, and the yellow and shiny sauce pig's trotters were placed in front of Meng Chang.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, it tastes great!" Meng Chang filmed Zhao Kuangyin's sycophants while eating, who knew that the good show was still to come.

"If Guogong likes it, eat all of these! Hahaha! Zhao Kuangyin smiled and clapped his hands at the door.

I saw that the two palace maids carried another pot of pig's trotters up, more than 100 of them, Meng Chang was suddenly a little sluggish, and his throat was tight, no matter how delicious the food was, it didn't taste good if he ate too much.

Later, the pig's trotters that were bitten in the mouth were already difficult to swallow, and they wanted to run out like long legs, and several times their throats were tight and they couldn't help but vomit, and they forced themselves to swallow them, and they really ate tears rolling in their eyes.

But Zhao Kuangyin kept guarding, not only did he not leave, but when he saw Meng Chang finish eating one, he quickly helped to clip another one, Meng Chang endured to eat until late, and then ate the pot of pig's trotters, so swollen that he couldn't stand up.

Before leaving, Zhao Kuangyin asked with a smile: "Does Heqing taste it?" ”

Meng Chang choked for a long time, and finally squeezed out three words with straight eyes: "Your Majesty!" ”

With the support of his father-in-law, Meng Chang was sent back to the house, and the next day the news came that Meng Chang fell ill, and then he never got up, as if something was choking in his chest, and he couldn't swallow it.

After Meng Chang's death, his mother Li was an extremely shrewd person, she understood the reason, she didn't cry or make trouble, just hugged Meng Chang's corpse and said faintly: "You lost the country that day and didn't die on the battlefield, my mother followed you to the Song Kingdom, and I wanted to live a few more days, but I didn't think about it, but now you are gone like this, and it is meaningless to live for your mother." ”

Then Meng's mother Li went on a hunger strike for three days, and also followed her son with hatred.

Emperor Song ordered her to be buried with Meng Chang in Luoyang, and Meng Chang's family returned to Bianjing after the funeral, so as not to enter the palace to thank him. In Zhao Kuangyin's eyes, Mrs. Hua Rui, who was dressed in plain clothes, had a unique charm, and she looked more and more pitiful, and her jade bones were Shanshan.

That night, the drunken Zhao Kuangyin looked at the beautiful Mrs. Hua Rui, sometimes sober, sometimes confused, but stubbornly thought that she was Murong Ningyan in his mind. So he left Madame Hua Rui in the palace and let her serve the banquet, her eyes were full of love and affection.

Mrs. Hua Rui didn't obey at first, and cried and said to Emperor Song: "The bones of the people's daughter's husband are not cold, and it is not too late to discuss him after the expiration of the filial piety period, and I hope Your Majesty will be gracious!" ”

Since Jiangnan came back, Zhao Kuangyin has been hit hard, this is a good time to vent the resentment in his heart, seeing Mrs. Hua Rui crying with rain like this, there is a kind of beauty of pity I see, and at this time Emperor Song is already impatient, where to stay in his day, he can't listen to it at all, he can't help but say that he will prepare wine and food, and order Mrs. Hua Rui to accompany him to drink.

Madame Blossom couldn't help herself, and in desperation, she had no choice but to obey. After thirty years of drinking, Zhao Kuangyin was full of red light, and the more Zhao Kuangyin looked at it, the more he loved her, so he simply hugged her in his arms and hugged her into the account, and achieved a good thing. The next day, Zhao Kuangyin canonized Mrs. Hua Rui as a concubine.

Mrs. Hua Rui thought to herself, seeing Emperor Song can't wait like this, she must be very in love with herself, since it has become a fact, then accept it calmly, so she will let go of the mustard in her heart and serve the emperor wholeheartedly.

Whenever Zhao Kuangyin retired to the dynasty and had leisure, he flirted with her. This lady is a natural stunner, not only proficient in charming, but also good at poetry and painting. Emperor Song once asked her to sing Shu, and she immediately wrote seven-character quatrains, two of which were the most poignant: "140,000 people have been disarmed, and none of them are men."

When Zhao Kuangyin saw these two sentences, he couldn't help but clap his hands and praise: "The concubine is really beautiful." ”

On this day, Zhao Kuangyin looked at Mrs. Hua Rui's makeup, and saw that the dressing mirror she used was a little old, so he said: "The mirror is worn, I will ask you to replace it with a new one." As he spoke, he took the mirror to his hand, and suddenly found that there were five words on the back, "Qiande four years casting", and I didn't feel strange: "I have changed the yuan, and the edict is not allowed to continue to use the old year name, why is there a few words on the mirror 'Qiande four years casting'?" ”

Madame Blossom was at a loss for a moment, not knowing how to answer. Zhao Kuangyin took the mirror and asked Zhao Pu: "It's the third year of Qiande, and there is a mirror engraved with "four years of Qiande", what's going on?" ”

Facing this weird mirror, Zhao Pu didn't know why.

Zhao Kuangyin went to ask the ministers again, and the ministers didn't know how to deal with it, only Dou Yi, a bachelor from Hanlin, said: "This mirror must be a thing of the old Shu. Wang Yan, the last monarch of the former Shu, used the name 'Qiande', and the mirror should have been cast at that time. ”

It turns out that the era name "Qiande" has been used by others, and it is also the era name used by the king of a dead country, which is really unlucky! While feeling embarrassed, Zhao Kuangyin sighed: "The prime minister must use a scholar!" Dou Aiqing does have the talent of a prime minister. ”

After this incident, Zhao Kuangyin ordered the court to read a hundred officials.

Zhao Pu is Zhao Kuangyin's confidant, responsible for specific and complicated affairs, but he has no ink, under the persuasion of Zhao Kuangyin, he began to "keep his hands on the volume", and his words and deeds were also contaminated with some scholarly temperament.

Then the ministers of the DPRK and China speculated, saying that Dou Yi was going to be the prime minister, and Zhao Kuangyin did have this idea, so he went to Zhao Pu to discuss.

Zhao Pu said: "Dou Yi has more than enough literary cultivation, but not enough to help the people. ”

Emperor Song was silent when he heard this, thinking that Zhao Pu would not be wrong in the things he had considered, so he would not discuss anything else.

However, Dou Yi, who heard the news that he was going to be promoted to prime minister, waited for a long time, but saw that there was still no movement, so he quietly inquired, only to learn that the matter had been stirred up by Zhao Pu, and he was very depressed.

Zhao Kuangyin felt very sorry that Fang Jue had lost a talent at this time.

Since the year name of Qiande is the same as that of Shu, Emperor Song issued an edict to change Yuan Kaibao, and wanted to be the queen of Lady Lihuarui, so he secretly discussed with Zhao Pu.

Zhao Pu thought to himself, if the emperor hadn't been stimulated by Murong Ningyan, he would definitely not have used this method to get a woman, let alone find a second-hand woman to be the mother of the country.

So he said: "Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that the favorite concubine of the dead country is not enough to honor the world, according to the minister's opinion, it is better to choose another virtuous person." ”

Emperor Song pondered for a long time, and felt that what Zhao Pu said was not unreasonable, so he thought differently.

Zhao Kuangyin remembered a person, that was Zhao Jingniang that day, the reason why she was rejected at that time was due to two aspects, one was that there was only Murong Ningyan in her heart at that time, and she couldn't tolerate others at all, and the other was that the future was bleak, and there was no * marriage.

Today is different from the past, when Zhao Kuangyin thinks of the quiet and gentle, smart and beautiful, and strong character Zhao Jingniang, he can't stop thinking about it, so he decided to go to Zhao Jingniang's hometown to find her.

This time, he still took Zhao Pu and Commander Han with him, and said that he was going out on a parade. A group of three people went to Puzhou Xiaoxiang Village, found Zhao Jingniang's family, said that they wanted to take Zhao Jingniang into Beijing to seal her as the imperial concubine, at this time only to learn that Zhao Jingniang was depressed after he left, and soon passed away, Zhao Kuangyin was like a blow to the head, stumbled with great guilt, and said goodbye to Zhao Jingniang's parents like a lead.

On the way back, I passed the stream and found that the stream was full of crimson azaleas. Thinking of washing snake blood here that day, Jing Niang helped wash her clothes and helped Jing Niang wash her hairpin, and she couldn't help but be moved.

Now because it is the flood season, it has been washed into a lake, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, there is both the charm of the mountain, and the spirit of the water, the water surface is broad, the lake water is clear, the mountains are surrounded, the mountains in the distance are undulating, the cliffs are upright in the vicinity, there are thousands of postures, just like the natural beauty created by the gods.

Zhao Kuangyin walked into the cave where the two of them fought bravely to kill snakes that night, and the poems carved on the cliff wall that day were still there. This place that witnesses mutual love is still there, but things are different, and I can't help but think about it, Zhao Kuangyin finally couldn't help but burst into tears, and fell into tears that the man didn't flick.

At this time, Zhao Pu learned that Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Jingniang had such a good story back then, and secretly admired Zhao Kuangyin's chivalrous courage and uprightness.

In order to commemorate Zhao Jingniang, Zhao Kuangyin carved the words "Jingniang Cave" on the stone wall of the cave and named the lake "Jingniang Lake." ”