Depicted without salt
In the idiom, there is such an idiom "portraying no salt". Among them, "salt-free" refers to the famous ugly woman in Chinese history, which has evolved into "Zhong Wuyan" after thousands of years of literary and artistic processing and publicity.
According to legend, King Xuan of Qi had two important women by his side: one was Zhong Wuyan and the other was Xia Yingchun. Among them, Zhong Wuyan is quite talented and has the ability to govern the country and the country, but Zhong Wuyan's appearance is extremely ugly, so between King Xuan of Qi and Zhong Wuyan, it is not so much a husband and wife relationship as a partnership relationship.
Xia Yingchun, on the other hand, is the opposite. Xia Yingchun's appearance can be described as gorgeous and moving, but in addition to being good-looking on the outside, Xia Yingchun can be described as useless on the inside, and with contemporary words, it can be considered that Xia Yingchun is a "vase woman".
Therefore, when King Xuan of Qi needed to deal with government affairs, or when the State of Qi was in trouble, he would think of Zhong Wuyan, and when he was looking for fun on weekdays, he would think of Xia Yingchun. It can be said that the contrast between Zhong Wuyan and Xia Yingchun can be called the pre-Qin version of "learning well" or "looking pretty" is useful.
In opera and folklore, endings are often set up to satisfy the wishes of the audience. Therefore, Zhong Wuyan had a good ending in literature and art, which can be called a double harvest and everyone is happy. But what about history?
Historically salt-free
The historical no salt is an ugly woman in her forties who is still waiting to be written in the boudoir (according to the following Qin Shi Huang died only fifty years old, so according to this timeline, no salt already belonged to the concept of the old woman at that time), at that time, King Qi Xuan did not pay attention to government affairs, so Wu Salt risked death to see King Qi Xuan, and told his own ideas and opinions to King Qi Xuan, and the opinion of no salt made King Qi Xuan refreshing, so King Qi Xuan set up King Wu Salt as his queen.
Of course, this event looks legendary and makes many people incredible. Coupled with the competition between the nations in the Warring States period, the princes came up with various methods in order to compete for talents. It is very likely that King Qi Xuan's appointment as queen without salt is to follow the precedent of "buying bones with thousands of gold" and to show the talents under the heavens the attitude of King Qi Xuan to talents.
After Wu Yan was made queen, the deeds after that were not recorded by the historians, so after Wu Yan became queen, what kind of encounters he had was already impossible to examine. After all, the encounters after the absence of salt are not the focus of historians.
Big guess
However, whether it is the truth that no salt is appreciated by King Qi Xuan, whether it is King Qi Xuan who buys bones for "thousands of dollars", or whether salt is really talented and salt-free for the rest of his life, there are nothing more than two possibilities:
One is to do the cheap labor of King Qi Xuan, and then pay silently until his death;
The other is to stay in the harem of the State of Qi, still unknown, and eventually die.
In fact, most of the historical figures who are out of the public eye, the rest of their lives, are mainly bland.