During the "Gaopingling Rebellion", Cao Shuang gave up resistance and surrendered to Sima Yi, who was accused of exterminating the three tribes.
Many people in the Cao family have been implicated, and even, including Cao Shuang's henchmen, many people can't wait to get rid of their relationship with the Cao family, lest they avoid it, but as the daughter-in-law of the Cao family, she resolutely does not disassociate from the Cao family and vows not to remarry.
This strange woman, whose name is Xiahou Lingnu, is the wife of Cao Shuang's cousin Cao Wenshu, and as the daughter-in-law of the Cao family, she is loyal and admirable.
Xiahou Lingnu was the daughter of Xiahou Wenning, and after marrying Uncle Cao Wen, Uncle Cao Wen died unfortunately early, and Xiahou Lingnu did not leave a son and a half daughter, and began to be widowed at a young age.
Afraid that someone would marry her and ask her to remarry, Xiahou Lingnu cut off her long hair in order to express her determination, and swore an oath.
When her father saw her widowhood and lived a very hard life, he persuaded her to remarry, and Xiahou Lingnu insisted on being a widow, and her father repeatedly forced her to remarry, and Xiahou Lingnu cut off her ears with a knife, that is, she did not marry.
Because Uncle Cao Wen died early, there was no pillar in the family, and Xiahou Ling's daughter had a very hard life, and when Cao Shuang was in power, he provided her with daily necessities. When Cao Shuang was killed, Sima Yi ordered the extermination of cao shuang's three clans, so many people of the Cao clan were killed.
Seeing this scene, the Xiahou family was afraid of being implicated, so they wrote a letter requesting to disassociate themselves from the Cao family and forcibly take Xiahou Lingnu back home.
At that time, Xiahou Ling's father, Xiahou Wenning, was Liang Xiang, and seeing that she had no children in the Cao family, he forced her to remarry again.
Xiahou Lingnu cut her nose with a knife in her room, covered her head with a quilt, and her mother called out to her, she did not respond, and when she went to the room to see, the bed was full of blood.
The whole family was stunned and advised her that life in the world, like a slight dust, perched on the blades of grass, why do you treat yourself like this? Besides, all the people in your husband's family have been killed, so who are you holding on to your chastity for?
The "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" quotes the "Biography of the Spirited Woman" to record: Or so to speak: In the world of life, such as light dust perched on weak grass ears, how to work hard Nell! And the husband's family has been destroyed, who wants to keep this?
Xiahou Lingnu cried and said, I have heard that benevolent people will not change their discipline because of prosperity and decline, and the righteous will not change their minds because of survival, the Cao family was strong before, I intend to keep the chastity, and now, the Cao family is decaying, how can I give up? How can I do such an animalistic act?
The "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" quotes the "Biography of the Spirited Daughter" to record: Ling Nu yue: Those who hear benevolence do not change their ways with prosperity and decline, and those who are righteous do not change their hearts by survival, and when the Cao clan was prosperous before, they still wanted to save the end, and now they are decaying, how to endure it! What do I care about when it comes to the beast?
Soon, the news of Xiahou Lingnu's daughter reached Sima Yi's ears, and Sima Yi was also very shocked when he heard it, so he praised Xiahou Lingnu, praised her virtuousness, and allowed her to adopt her son as a descendant of the Cao family.
The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms quotes the Biography of the Spirited Daughter as saying: King Sima Xuan heard of it and listened to the beggars to raise them, and after cao's name, his name became famous in the world.
A weak woman is so benevolent and righteous, and there are too few people who can adhere to such discipline, and this is the power of traditional culture.