"Only peonies are the true national color, and the flowers move the capital when they bloom" This ancient famous sentence refers to Luoyang peony. Luoyang is the ancient capital of the Thirteen Dynasties and has many legends in history. Before the Tang Dynasty, most of them were related to wealth or war.
After the Song Dynasty, luoyang's historical status gradually declined, but after all, it was once brilliant, and there are still many stories that have happened.
The story I am talking about takes place during the reign of Emperor Renzong of the Northern Song Dynasty. It is said that the Northern Song Dynasty was divided into four capitals at that time, namely the Eastern, Western, Southern, and Northern Capitals, the Tokyo Kaifeng Prefecture (present-day Kaifeng, Henan), the Western Capital HenanFu (present-day Luoyang, Henan), the Nanjing Yingtianfu (present-day Shangqiu, Henan), and the Beijing Damingfu (present-day Northeast of Daming, Hebei).
In the second year of Emperor Renzong's reign, the second year of Emperor Renzong's ascension to the throne, Emperor Renzong was only fourteen years old and still young, and the government was controlled by Empress Dowager Liu E. At that time, the Song and Liao dynasties had not been at war for many years, and the people of the Song Dynasty had a rare opportunity to recuperate. The national economy and the people's livelihood have entered a period of rapid development.
On the first day of the Mengxia festival, a carriage ran on the official road outside Luoyang City, and in the carriage sat a young official and his wife. In front of the carriage was a middle-aged servant who drove the carriage. At the rear of the car sat a thirty-six or seven-year-old servant woman.
This official's name was Yao Jing, and he was now the enlightened gentleman of the two princes of the daimyo prefect. At the age of twenty-four or five, he looked tall, handsome eyebrows, gu pan shenfei, wearing a scarf on his head, and wearing a blue narrow-sleeved robe. The robe is just an ordinary fabric, but the hemmed ornamentation at the placket is exquisite and eye-catching, and it can be seen that the person who made this robe is very skilled and careful. At a glance, this official can really be described as a talented person and a forgetful sight. Don't look at this Yao official's young age, but it is a family source. His father was Yao Ke, a great scholar from the Wupin Dynasty, who was a great scholar in Luoyang City, Henan Province. Now I live idly at home and concentrate on my studies.
The official's wife's surname is Xu, she is in her early twenties, she looks gentle and lovely, her oval face, two curved eyes under a pair of willow eyebrows seem to be able to speak, and her face is always smiling. Wearing a pale taupe pink dress, her face looks more and more delicate against the background of the clothes.
Lady Xu was born into a family of scholars in the Gongyi area. The three generations of Yao Xu's two families are considered to be family friends.
After the two were married for four or five years, they have been living in the Daimyo Province, and when they found out that they were pregnant at the end of last year, they asked the prefect for leave to go home to the province, but the prefect was afraid that he would go home for a long time, delay his son's studies, and have refused to let him go. It wasn't until two months ago that he found a celebrity with good academic qualities to come to his home and continue to teach the two sons to study, and then he let his husband and wife go home to recuperate.
Because Lady Xu had been away from home for too long, she had to go back to her mother's house for a few days, and then she would stay for a few more days when she returned to her mother's house. Now I am in a hurry to rush to Luoyang, first, because the Yao family's sixtieth birthday is approaching, and second, the date of delivery is approaching, and I can't give birth at my mother's house, so I have to get up and rush to Luoyang.
The four masters and servants were in a hurry, when suddenly a dark cloud came from the sky, followed by a cold wind, and it seemed that there would be a heavy rain. Yao Jing heard Si Fu shouting in the car: "Official, it is going to rain, you have to find a place to shelter from the rain!" Yao Jing listened and looked out of the car, the sky was already covered with dark clouds, and the wind was blowing more and more urgently, it was really like heavy rain was coming.
Yao Jing couldn't help but get anxious, where to avoid the rain? Don't get wet with a bitch!
Si Fu could only be summoned to continue the road, but the carriage could not be driven too fast, so as not to be too bumpy and cause Xu Niangzi to be unwell.
When he was anxious, Yao Jing suddenly remembered that there was a nunnery not far in front of him, called Miaofeng Nunnery, and summoned SiFu to rush to this place.
