Text: Mu Mu (WeChat public account reading history columnist)
When the broad masses of the people evaluate women, they are particularly prone to extremes, either because their talent and appearance are unparalleled in the world, or because their appearance is more ugly than that of no salt, such as Zhuge Liang's wife Huang Shuo.
In the rumors, Huang Shuo is an ugly daughter-in-law, and even got the name Ah Ugly.
After Ah Ugly married Zhuge Liang, people laughed one after another: Mo Xue Kong Ming chose a woman, and stopped Ah Cheng's ugly daughter.
But she was talented, and zhuge liang, who was said to be a god, was not very good-looking, so he and Ah Ugly husband and wife were harmonious, and their husbands sang with women, sang poems together, and engaged in invention and creation.
According to folklore, Zhuge Liang went out of Qishan six times, and the wooden cattle and horses used to transport grain and grass were invented by Zhuge Liang with the help of Ah Ugly:
Ugly is amazingly talented, and is a rare strange woman, her talent is all-round, cross-era, so she invented the wooden dog, wooden tiger, wooden man, etc., according to this statement, Ugly is the first person to invent robots.
When they became relatives, Ah Ugly proposed that when the bridegroom came to marry his relatives, he must not sit in a sedan car, not ride a horse, and three did not take a boat, and he could also marry the bride home.
Zhuge Liang, inspired by the ugly wooden dog, wooden tiger, and wooden man, invented the wooden cow and the horse to pick up the bride.
Later, in the war, wooden cattle and horses were used as a means of transportation to help Zhuge Liang solve the problem of grain and grass transportation for hundreds of thousands of troops.
People who have seen Zhuge Liang from books, tv, and movies know that he has a habit, that is, all year round, no matter what the weather, a lupine fan does not leave his hand.
It is said that this was given to Zhuge Liang by Ah Ugly, and she used this lupine fan to remind Zhuge Liang: the eldest husband should be calm in his work, cannot be easily described in the face, and use the lupine fan to cover his facial expression changes, so that others cannot spy on Zhuge Liang's emotional changes.
Another, more legendary version is that this lupine fan was given to her by Ah Ugly's master, and the words "Ming" and "Liang" were written on it, and the words hid the strategy of attacking the city and governing the country and the country, and the master also pointed out that Ah Ugly would marry someone with the words "Ming" and "Liang" in his name in the future.
Later, Ah Qiu married Zhuge Liang (Kong Ming), and gave the lupine fan to her husband, zhuge Liang relied on the strategy in the lupine fan, plus his own strategizing, so he had a clever plan to secure the world.
Rumors are rumors after all, whether Madame Huang is really so talented, I would rather believe that she is not an ugly woman, nor a big beauty, but a kind of beautiful woman with a bookish atmosphere, the kind of Yi room IKEA, so after Zhuge Liang married her, he could be stable in the backyard and assist Liu Bei without scruples.
Once upon a time, we thought that the basis of marriage was love, and it was a matter of course in the depths of love.
The older you get, the more you will know the truth of life, the nature of marriage, the nature of men, men are actually more realistic and practical than women, their consideration of marriage, from ancient times to the present, many are from reality, Zhuge Liang is no exception.
Putting aside the beautiful aura shrouded in legends, the essence of Zhuge Liang's marriage to Huang Shuo is: political marriage.
Huang Shuo's father was Huang Chengyan, a famous scholar in Henan, his mother was the sister of Lady Cai, the wife of Liu Biao's wife, his grandfather was Cai Shi of the Cai family at the shengmen of the late Han Dynasty, his uncle was Cai Mao, the most powerful figure in Jingzhou, the other uncle was Cai Yan, the taishou of Ba County, and his cousin was Liu Zhen...
On Zhuge Liang's side, his father is Taishan Juncheng, his uncle is Yuzhang Taishou, his brother-in-law is a descendant of Pu Tong, Zhang Ling's younger brother, And his master is Sima Hui, the water mirror...
In the entire Xiangyang circle ruled by Liu Biao, everyone went around and around, how they were all acquaintances, and in that era when their origins were more important than anything else, the marriage of these two people, to put it bluntly, was the marriage of two scholars.
This is too blunt and hits people's beautiful interpretation and imagination, so people are more willing to believe:
The two old masters, Sima Hui and Huang Yancheng, the two masters of the Water Mirror, arranged a blind date between Zhuge Liang and Huang Shuo, and Huang Shuo tested Zhuge Liang with the "Eight Doors Upside Down Golden Lock Array", Zhuge Liang was trapped in the formation, fortunately encountered a woman in the formation who mentioned a "dragon" word before breaking through the formation.
The woman who instructed Zhuge Liang was naturally Huang Shuo, who was already secretly in love with Zhuge Liang, but even if Zhuge Liang broke through the formation, he was still unwilling to marry Huang Shuo according to the agreement.
It wasn't until Zhuge Liang himself met the "Dragon Girl" who helped him out of trouble, and was shocked, that he found out that she was Huang Shuo, whom he did not want to marry, and only then did the two get married.
Zhuge Liang, a foreigner from Shandong, on the turf of other people's homes, in the away field, actually became a temporary Junyan, the limelight is unique, which cannot but be said to have the effect of marriage.
Through marriage (his own marriage and his sister's marriage), Zhuge Liang has a close connection with political resources such as Liu Biao (because of "The Name of the People", which has been very popular lately) or with family resources such as the Ku family, the Cai family, and the Huang family.
With contact, there is naturally a backer, there is a smooth information channel, plus Zhuge Liang himself has excellent knowledge, is good at summarizing, sorting out, and analyzing all kinds of information, is a marketing genius, and naturally can understand the situation in the world without leaving home, and draw his own conclusions - so there is also the famous planning case "Longzhong Pair".
Liu Beisan took care of Maolu, and Zhuge Liang finally came out of the mountain, but Guan Yu and Zhang Fei around Liu Bei were not convinced of Zhuge Ge.
At this time, it was Huang Shuo who advised Zhuge Liang to retreat into advance: to pretend to be ill and resign from the official.
At this time, Xiahou's army approached Bowang, so Liu Bei went to the altar to pay homage to the general, and made Zhuge Liang a division of the Han Army, Zhuge Liang gained military and political power, burned Bowangpo, and lifted the siege of Xiahou's army.
It doesn't matter if she is an ugly woman, it doesn't matter if she is a talented woman, what matters is that Huang Shuo has a family lineage, has those important relatives, and she herself should be a virtuous wife, so in the years when Zhuge Liang followed Liu Bei to start a business, she was able to settle down in the family, guard the young children, take care of her family, and wait for Zhuge Liang.
When the Three Kingdoms were divided into the world, Huang Shuo was the wife of the Prime Minister, and she was still in longzhong home, planting eight hundred mulberries in front of and behind the house, advocating the production of silk... In Zhuge Liang's affectionate "Former Master's Table", he had a deep affection for this wife!
Zhuge Liang's affection for Huang Shuo, we can see the record, then Huang Shuo's affection for Zhuge Liang, we can't see, but we can imagine: in which chaotic era, their marriage is undoubtedly beautiful, so people will open their heads and speculate.
Nowadays we all say: to marry is to marry a person.
A man's character is not only whether he is kind and good, whether he has a sense of responsibility, but also whether he, as a person, has the minimum principles and bottom line, is not impetuous in the low position, is not irritable in the high position, and maintains a normal heart.
From this point of view, Zhuge Liang is a man worth marrying, and Huang Shuo did not marry the wrong person.
So, in those long waiting years left in Longzhong, swallows flew under the eaves, and the cooking smoke reflected Danxia, do you say that she is lonely?
Loneliness may be there, and women in marriage, even if the husband stays around every day, is also lonely, right?
Loneliness should be absent, because as a woman, a wife, she not only sees her husband's behavior, but also understands his inner ambitions and ideals.
Therefore, Huang Shuo's body has always had a kind of compassion and empathy power, although she is silent in the history books, but her existence itself proves Zhuge Liang's character, true taste.
Between Huang Shuo and Zhuge Liang, the most precious thing is not love, but the clear starlight that they understand each other, illuminating their heavenly or prosperous or lonely long nights.