Once, Zhu Yuanzhang's beloved wife, Empress Ma, traveled in a sedan car. Unexpectedly, a gust of wind lifted the skirt of the Queen Ma, and the Queen ma suddenly felt embarrassed, because her feet were seen by the people. This matter was passed on ten times and ten hundred times, which attracted countless people to secretly discuss and ridicule. And there is a word that has been flowing ever since.
As the saying goes: "The aunt has big feet, and it is difficult to find a mother-in-law." In the era of "three inches of golden lotus" as the beauty, Empress Ma was exactly a girl without foot binding, but Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang loved her deeply for a lifetime.
Zhu Yuanzhang was originally born in the grassroots, joined the rebel army in the era of chaos and strife in the world, and opened his life of domination of the world.
With his wit and bravery, shrewdness and strongness, he was soon appreciated by his righteous father Guo Zixing, who not only married his righteous daughter Ma Shi to him, but also appointed him as Zhenfu.
As Zhu Yuanzhang became sharp, Guo Zixing's two sons were jealous of him and always "chewed the root of their tongue" in front of their father. After a long time, Guo Zixing became suspicious of Zhu Yuanzhang. Once, Guo Zixing heard his subordinates say that Zhu Yuanzhang was arbitrary and arbitrary, and he had no superiors, so he imprisoned Zhu Yuanzhang.
That year, there was a natural disaster, so the grain harvest was very bad, and eating became a problem. One day, Zhu Yuanzhang was dizzy with hunger in the big prison, and suddenly a gentle voice came from his ear: "Fu Jun, Fu Jun!" Zhu Yuanzhang looked up confusedly, and it turned out to be Ma Xiuying.
"Sister Xiuying, how did you get here?" Hurry up and leave, your father knows that he should shut you up? Watching his wife risk punishment to see himself, Zhu Yuanzhang was a little moved.
"I'm afraid you're hungry, so bring you something to eat." With that, Ma Xiuying took out two hot dough cakes from his arms, passed through the gap in the cell door, and stuffed them into Zhu Yuanzhang's hand.
Looking at the burnt cake in his hand, as well as Ma Xiuying's chest burned by the burnt cake, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was hungry into a skin and bone, was very moved, and while eating the burnt cake, he shed tears, and finally hugged Ma Xiuying and cried bitterly.
"Stealing the bread, carrying in, the meat is scorched."
You say, can such true feelings not deeply move Zhu Yuanzhang?
Later, Zhu Yuanzhang was proclaimed emperor in Nanjing, and the first thing he did was to crown Ma Xiuying as empress. Empress Ma looked mediocre, and compared with the harem beauties, she was not ranked at all, and she had a pair of big feet, but Zhu Yuanzhang still loved her miserably.
After becoming empress, Ma Xiuying still did not forget to be a virtuous assistant. Although she was an empress, she was already a coarse tea and light rice, and in order to save money for the harem, she led the concubines to weave and embroider together.
Once, Empress Ma took a boat to swim in the lake, standing on the bow of the boat to greet the people. At this moment, a sudden gust of wind blew up the corner of her skirt, and the horse queen looked at it, broken, and her big feet were exposed. But it was too late to recycle, so it was deliberately exposed.
Many ministers and ordinary people had never seen the queen's feet, and did not know that the mother of the country actually had such a pair of big feet of a peasant woman in the countryside, so they secretly discussed it in private. But the horse queen was not afraid of other people's comments, and there was a saying here called "dew horse's feet".
Hu Weiyong, the prime minister, saw that the common people were talking about it, and really couldn't bear to see it, so he hurriedly played a round game for Empress Ma: "Your Majesty quelled the rebellion to recover the land and restore the country, it is really an emperor through the ages, if the empress does not have a pair of big feet, how can she walk with Her Majesty in all directions to pacify the world?" ”
Indeed, because of these big feet, Empress Ma also saved Zhu Yuanzhang's life. When Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Youyu were fighting, they were chased by each other, and when they escaped, they were hit by stray arrows and could not walk, Ma Xiuying carried her husband on her back and ran for more than ten miles with a pair of big feet.
In 1382, Zhu Yuanzhang's wife, Empress Ma, died, and the people of Limin were deeply saddened, and the people of Limin wept bitterly. Zhu Yuanzhang, who had experienced the destruction of his family, witnessed the bloody storms of the battlefield, and struggled all the way, did not hold back his tears in the end, crying like a child.
The History of Ming commented on Empress Ma: "Mother's righteousness is in the world, and kindness is evident." ”
Later, Zhu Yuanzhang was no longer a queen. Among the emperors of the past, Zhu Yuanzhang can also be regarded as a person with true feelings and long-term feelings, and no one can shake the special status of Empress Ma in Zhu Yuanzhang's heart.
