Half-old Xu Niang, Xu Zhaopei
Xu Niang is half old, and the charm is still there.
A sad and bloody love story.
An alcoholic and thieving queen, doing tricks to die.
01
In January 518 AD, Xizhou, snow-capped.
In the vastness of heaven and earth, a welcoming team was marching from Jinling to Xizhou, and the groom was Xiao Yan, the seventh prince of Emperor Xiao Yan of Liangwu, who was at the age of ten and was at a playful and active age, and was deeply bored with the noisy and cumbersome etiquette in front of him.
Suddenly, a fierce wind blew the snow everywhere, almost overturning the bride's car, and the crowd was horrified.
Countless historical events tell us that there are often visions from heaven, that is, there are evil omens coming.
It was only this premonition that was confirmed by Xiao Xuan with his own painful experience until a few years later.
And what he cared about most at that time was what kind of person was the bride who was a few years older than him?
The bride, Xu Zhaopei, can be seen from this name that she is not an ordinary person, because the women of the common people in that era did not have names.
In fact, she was indeed from a famous family, her father was the general Xu Xi of the Xinwu Dynasty, and her grandfather was Xu Xiaosi, the chancellor of Southern Qi.
In the eyes of outsiders, such a combination is simply a unique marriage, at least Xu Zhaopei thought so in his heart at that time.
It was only the moment she lifted the hijab that the little groom in front of her made all her beautiful visions for her future husband disappear in an instant.
Because the little boy in front of her, her husband, Xiao Xuan, the seventh prince of the Liang Kingdom, the King of Xiangdong, has one less eye than ordinary people, and the folk call this kind of person "one-eyed dragon".
Emperor Xiao of Liangyuan
02
Xu Zhaopei is a typical white rich beauty, usually white rich beauty belongs to the appearance control, the appearance requirements of the italian person are not to say that the warmth of the jade at least has to look Zhou Zheng.
But the person who appeared in front of her now really made her heart sick, although time can change a person, but the loss of an eye is no longer recoverable.
Since seeing Xiao Xuan on the wedding night, Xu Zhaopei has never been able to let go, and the seeds of tragedy have been planted.
However, it is still necessary to introduce the background of Xiao Xuan here, because it is related to the development of the later story.
Xiao Yan's mother, Ruan Lingyi, was a maid by the side of Emperor Xiao Yan of Liangwu, and once gave birth to Xiao Xuan after being fortunate, because there were many princes under his knees, Xiao Yan did not pay too much attention to the birth of this son, and gave a name of the King of Xiangdong.
It seems that since the day of his birth, misfortune has been with this snubbed prince.
Xiao Xuan suddenly had a strange illness when he was young, and after being healed, he woke up to find that he had one less eye, which made him the object of ridicule by everyone, and since then Xiao Xuan has gradually developed a lonely and sensitive heart.
Loneliness also allowed Xiao Xuan to have time, contact a large number of classics, and gradually become a scholar proficient in poetry, calligraphy and painting, astronomy, music and other aspects.
According to the statistics of later generations, his works are divided into 20 kinds totaling more than 400 volumes, and the one we are most familiar with now is the one that was "Cai Lian Fu":
So the demon boy Yuannu, Swing Boat Heart Xu, Head Xu Hui, and Pass the Feather Cup. The sassafras will move and hang algae, and the boat will move and open. Erqi slim waist bundle, extend Gu bu...
As the years passed, spending all day with her literary and artistic husband day and night, Xu Zhaopei gradually accepted him from the bottom of his heart, and in the days that followed, they gave birth to two children: son Xiao Fang and daughter Xiao Hanzhen.
Emperor Xiao Yan of Liangwu
03
As a famous longevity emperor in history, Xiao Yan's father, Emperor Wu of Liangwu, lived too long, Xiao Yan lived for 85 years, and finally was starved to death by the rebels, which is also a high life expectancy today.
The existence of Xiao Yan directly affected Xiao Yan's happy life.
In the years when Xu Zhaopei and Xiao Xuan's feelings were still warm, Xiao Xuan was quite far away from the throne.
This made Xu Zhaopei feel disappointed in her husband in her heart, and the more she felt that she had spent her life as a princess of the fallen and this one-eyed husband, the more unpleasant she looked at him.
This pampered woman since childhood, the next move, to the surprise of historians.
According to historical records:
Xu Zhaopei was an alcoholic, and after each binge drink, he hugged her husband and vomited, and also spit filth into his sleeve.
Even when the two of them met, she taunted Xiao Xuan with ingenuity, and every time she saw him, she only put on half of her face, which means: Anyway, you only have one eye, and I use half of my face to match you.
After several times like this, Xiao Xuan's dignity was completely lost, and she could no longer raise her interest in sharing a room with her, and she had not walked into her bedroom for half a step for three years.
Xu Zhaopei is a woman with strong self-esteem, since such nonsense can not make her husband lose face, then simply play a shocking game!
04
Out of revenge, Xu Zhaopei locked his eyes on a monk in The Yaoguang Temple in Jingzhou, Xu Zhaopei often borrowed the opportunity of incense to fight with him, who could have imagined that the solemn Buddhist hall would become the secret place of the princess and the monk.
After all, the monk was a Buddhist monk, such an identity is still inconvenient, this kind of retaliation is still difficult to play the purpose of humiliating her husband, so she shifted her interest to her husband's attendant, the beautiful man and Ji Jiang.
At this time, Xu Zhaopei was over forty years old, but when he arrived at Ji Jijiang, he seemed to be transformed into a little fan sister who was spoiled and cute, and for this reason Ji Jiang also issued such an exclamation:
Although the dog is old, he can still hunt,
Although Xiao Liyang's horse is old,
Although Xu Niang is still old and affectionate...
And this is the allusion to "Xu Niang is half old".
The implication is that although Xu Zhaopei is a little older, he still has the heart of an eighteen-year-old girl.
Mo said that Xiao Xuan was born into the royal family, even ordinary people felt ashamed of such a bad woman, and with Xiao Xuan's identity at this time, it was not difficult to get rid of this woman who brought great shame to herself.
However, he read that Xiao Fang, the son of the two, was in charge of the army, so he did not do anything to her.
If you don't die, you won't die, and this sentence is the most appropriate footnote for Xu Zhaopei.
After hooking up with Ji Jiang, Xu Zhaopei fell in love with a literary youth named He Hui, He Hui was not only young but also quite handsome, Xu Zhaopei asked him to often go to a nunnery, and afterwards he also wrote poems on white pillow towels to answer each other, which was extremely disgusting.
All this was remembered by Xiao Xuan, and as Xu Zhaopei's madness intensified, her indulgent career was about to end.
In 549, Xiao Fang, the only son of Xu Zhaopei, who led the counter-rebellion, drowned in the water during the battle, at the age of 21.
At this point, Xiao Xuan, who had endured for many years, finally took the shot.
05
Shortly after Xiao Fang's death, Xiao Yi's other favorite concubine, Xu Shi, fell ill and died, and Xiao Xuan forced her to commit suicide on the grounds that Xu Zhaopei poisoned Xu Shi.
Under the ashes of all thoughts, Xu Zhaopei committed suicide by throwing himself into a well.
However, the humiliation that Xu Zhaopei had brought to Xiao Xuan for a long time had formed a lingering shadow in Xiao Xuan's mind.
How could he, who was naturally intolerant, let go of the opportunity to humiliate her?
When Xiao Xuan learned of Xu Zhaopei's death, she ordered someone to fish out her body and send it back to her mother's house with great fanfare, declaring that she had "left her wife" to the outside world.
Even so, Xiao Xuan still did not feel relieved, he showed off his literary talents, wrote an article specifically satirizing Xu Zhaopei's lascivious behavior and wantonly publicized, this is the famous "Slut Qiu Sifu", an excerpt for all to read:
Ten years apart from the prodigal son, the self-pity of the woman's residence.
When I climbed the stairs, I could only see smoke in the distant trees.
Plains so, do not know how many thousands of roads?
The sky and the water are forced, and the mountains and the clouds are the same color.
The mountains are flying into the Han, and the water is trickling.
Who can see the birds flying, mournful wings!
Autumn and moon are unclear, and months and autumns are unknown?
The situation is the slut of the advocate building, and it hurts!
Three years later, by chance, the 44-year-old Xiao Xuan ascended the throne in Jiangling and was known as Emperor Liangyuan, but this one-eyed talented emperor lingered on the dragon bed for three years, and was killed by the rebels in 555 AD.
This strange couple, who had humiliated each other for decades, suddenly came to an end in their lives.
This undoubtedly belongs to the great tragedy of arranged marriages.