It's a pity that my aunt and grandmother are noble, but they also have a fatal flaw - childless.

It is precisely because the queen has no children, after the death of King Yi, that the throne will be occupied by Uncle Wang, who later became King Xiao, resulting in the only special case of the primogeniture inheritance system of the Great Zhou Dynasty for hundreds of years - the uncle inherited the throne of his nephew.

Because of this exception, one of my aunts was depressed all her life.

Because my aunt Queen Yi has no children, in order to keep her mother's family illustrious and honorable, she will make the decision to marry my aunt to Ji Xie, the eldest son of King Yi. According to the "Zhou Li", Wang Wu's son-in-law naturally has the right of inheritance first. Unexpectedly, something went wrong. King Xiao ascended the throne, and Prince Ji Xie not only could not sit on the throne, but became a "prisoner" son under house arrest.

My aunt quit, crying and making trouble at home, and refused to marry Ji Xie again. Not only will she not be able to be the queen, but she is likely to accompany this disgraced prince to be a "soft prison" for a lifetime. How can an aunt who has been pampered since childhood be willing?

The grandmother felt sorry for her only pearl in her palm, her only daughter, and forced her father, who was just the heir to the throne of Shenhou, to retire from the family.

According to the marriage system, if you are a big country and marry into the royal family, the surrounding feudal countries that have good friends or in-laws or have a subordinate relationship should have a daughter as a concubine, that is, a concubine. Shen Guo quit his family, but his son Ji Xie must marry! Otherwise, the world will be rampant, and King Xiao will be accused of mistreating his nephew.

So, King Xianxiao appointed Fanji to marry his son Ji Xie from among the Jianghan daughters who were supposed to be concubines, and he was the wife of the main room, which also gave rise to the later Queen Fanji.

My aunt quit and soon got married. is married to the new monarch of Suiguo, a big country in the Jianghan Dynasty, and Suiguo is also a big family surnamed Ji, and it is also a good family business. It's a pity that she soon regretted it, not ordinary regret, but lifelong remorse, regretting until her intestines were about to break.

After all, King Xianxiao ascended the throne as an uncle Wang, and he was old, and he died after only five or six years on the throne. The Ji Xie, who was under house arrest, actually defeated Wang Zihui and ascended the throne as King Zhou Yi in one fell swoop. And Fanji, who was supposed to be his aunt's concubine, turned into a queen of Yi in the world of motherhood, which ......

My aunt was depressed all day long, but she didn't dare to show it in front of Suihou, so she was so depressed that it gradually became a knot. At this time, I was betrothed to the crown prince Ji Hu by my father, and she was even more depressed. Suihou asked her to go back to her parents' house to recuperate for a period of time, but she refused, only sighed in the palace every day, and she didn't have a good face for her children.

No one likes a resentful woman, and over time, no one wants to take care of her, whether it is Suihou or her biological children. After another three or five years, she finally died of depression.

The grapes that I didn't eat were sour for a while, and it was really not worth it to put my life on the line. But this is my people, and it is also the pain point of the people of that era.

Fortunately, my father Shenhou is a discerning person, and he smelled the possibility of Gongzi Ji Xie inheriting the throne from the strange atmosphere of Hojing Wangcheng, and not only calmly supported the side, but also promised his children and daughters with Mrs. Fanji. Facts have proved that he made the right bet in this game, and I became the quasi-crown princess of Da Zhou not long after I was born.

On the day when the edict of the crown prince was issued, the entire Shen country was jubilant, and the people were cheering and shouting: "My Jiang surname Shen has another queen!"

Queen? Don't call it too early. The queen is still there! I don't understand, what's so good about this "queen"? Why do so many people flock to it?

From the time I could speak, the most I heard was, "Sister, you can't be so naughty!" You're not like the other sisters, you're going to be the queen! Behave to behave!"

When I was a child, I was confused, and I didn't seem to understand, but later, I heard a lot and became disgusted. Whether it's a mother or a nurturing mother, whenever I say this again, I go back with my neck straight: "Whoever loves to do this queen will do!" I don't want it!"

My mother slapped the table and scolded me for being disobedient, and said that I would tell my father to ask for the family law, so it was better to be beaten to death, and it would save me from marrying into the royal family and losing the face of the Shen family. The grandmothers were stunned, as if they had seen an extremely terrible object, and persuaded one after another: "Sister, don't dare to say that, you see that your aunt has become a lady of Suihou, and several children have been born, and they all died of depression because they did not become queens when they quit their relatives

。 You can't say that!"

For this stubborn sentence, my mother, who has always hurt me, really invited my father. I don't have anything to say, please be a monk - a bamboo ruler that slipped away and slurred the pulp, and hit my palms ten times, and both of my hands were swollen and tall. My father was not allowed to put on the plaster, and punished me to kneel in the family temple all night.

Well, since then I have understood that this queen is my fate that I can't get rid of, and I have to be right, and I have to be right. My parents would rather die than throw away the honor of this "queen".

So, I resigned myself to my fate. I tried to put away my instincts, to lean in as they expected, to learn poetry and etiquette, and to be a needlewoman. Mother breathed a sigh of relief, and the sisters once again focused their jealous and envious eyes on me, and this day passed, alas......

As I grew up, I don't know when the name Jihu became the focus and center of the family's discussions, and I mentioned it from time to time. What? Fanjun sent the young concubine into the East Palace to serve the prince? It's shameless! If this gives birth to children and takes root, what will happen in the future? I still remember my mother poking me on the forehead when she said this, "It's not that you're too young? Really, someone took advantage of the loophole!"

Soon, the rat Gu incident happened, and the whole family was afraid, for fear that I would not become a queen, but would become a widow who looked out. Fortunately, things subsided, and I got a surprise - the prince's cousin Shaoji died of the epidemic, and I had no potential rival. Only I secretly feel sorry for the girl who died young, and she is also a fallen person at the end of the world!

Seeing that the crown prince Ji Hu is the heir of the year of binding his hair, the clansmen finally put their minds at ease, and it seems that I, the queen, are decided. It's a pity that they didn't be happy for long, and the Marquis sent the girl into the palace and was named the second concubine. Alas! Who makes the family king, what can be done?

The mother couldn't hold back her temperament, and kept muttering and scolding the Hou Hou: "Anyway, I also called our husband and wife uncles and aunts, so they rushed to stammer. Isn't it enough for a girl to do the following? My daughter hasn't married yet, so she took the position of second concubine first, what's going on?"

As he spoke, he poked my head with hatred: "It's all about you girl, you were born too late, and you are about to become a pro-government, and you haven't been able to do it yet." When you get married, I'm afraid that the concubines and concubines in the palace and the princes and princesses who are in the palace will run all over the place. See what you do?"

I was annoyed by the poke, and I replied with a stalk on my neck, "Can you blame me? You are my father's filler, can I be born early?"

In that era, the step-room was to perform the rite of the concubine room in front of the original spiritual throne. This sentence can be regarded as poking at her sore spot, and she immediately tore off the veil and cried all over the world. Yes, I was once again executed into the family law, my hands were swollen high, and I knelt in the ancestral hall of the temple for a day and a night.

Fortunately, within a few years, I heard that Concubine E somehow offended the king and was retired to her parents' house. Mother happily went to the ancestral hall and burned several incense sticks. Later, when the news came that she would not remarry and would rather kill herself, my sisters and I sighed for several days—she was a woman with a temperament.

There was a faint hint of uneasiness in my heart, what kind of person is King Zhou? It seems that every woman who marries him will not die well! Am I an exception? After thinking about it, I finally made a heart, anyway, when the "queen" is a life, it can't be avoided, stretching out the head is a knife, shrinking the head is also a knife, whatever!

In the year when I was eighteen years old, my father went to Luoyi and finalized the wedding date with Xiangguo Zhaogonghu in the autumn of the following year. The father rushed back to China, and the whole family was excited and nervous, and immediately fell into a busy process of preparing for marriage.

In that era, the dowry was a very important item for the ladies of the wealthy families, let alone the princes' families? When the concubine who marries the wife, from the beginning of babbling, the elders have to save the dowry one by one. \

is the same thick dowry, and there are two situations: from complex to simple. Complicated, that is, in addition to the maids, grandmothers, stewards and fixed assets that accompany the marriage, as large as the furniture such as tables, cases, boxes, cages, etc., as small as the clothes of the four seasons, and even the toilet and bath tub with mahogany and gold hoops.

As the concubine of Shenhou, I naturally have a set of dowries that are extremely strict from head to toe.

But after all, this is married to the Son of Heaven, and many things are caught off guard. As a result, the casting furnace of the palace was kept day and night, and it was intensified to cast and engrave

Various bronze utensils marked with the name "Wang Jiang". The embroidery weavers in the palace also stepped up their work to weave all kinds of gorgeous silk robes and robes......

After all, these are dead things, and they all have customized specifications, and the population of marriage, especially concubines, is a troublesome matter.

In fact, at that time, whether the monarch or the Son of Heaven married a wife, they did not marry one, but a group. Mrs. Zheng should bring a few concubines as dowries to marry her husband, and the number and rank of concubines reflect the importance that the Yue family attaches to this son-in-law. The highest-level will marry the sister-in-law, the father-in-law and daughter; The inferior ones can be chosen among cousins or side clans; The worst thing is to marry some maids.

It was a bad thing for my father. It's not that he can't bear to have a concubine, but that there is no one at all. I am the youngest daughter of my father, and there are two or three sisters below, but they are all too young, and the eldest has just turned six years old, how can I be a wife?.

Fortunately, there are many cousins and cousins of mine, after all, "marrying a wife should marry a Jiang daughter", and most of the concubines of Jiang and Han are married to us in Shenguo. Whoever chooses or not, let my father and mother have a headache!