In 554, Emperor Yuan of Liang's favorite concubine Wang Shi died. Emperor Yuan, who heard the news, was sad and indignant: "It must have been Xu Fei's poisonous woman who harmed her!" So he ordered Concubine Xu's son Xiao Fang to go on a campaign, and this war was also recognized as a battle of death. When his son died in battle, Emperor Yuan of Liang did not understand his hatred and simply forced Concubine Xu to commit suicide.
Princess Xu was forced to die in a well, and Emperor Yuan of Liang sent someone to fish out her corpse and send it back to her mother's house, known in history as "wife out".
Concubine Xu, whose original name was Xu Zhaopei, was the princess of the imperial court when Emperor Xiao of Southern Liang was the King of Xiangdong. Her grandfather was Xu Xiaosi, one of the six auxiliary ministers during the Xiao Baojuan period of Southern Qi, and was a great hero during the founding period of Southern Qi. Her father, xu kun (徐琨), a general of the Liang Dynasty who served in the Middle Sino-Chinese general, was in power.
With such a prominent family lineage, Xu Zhaopei has been reading poetry since childhood, smart and clever, and has a high heart. However, her father took a fancy to Xiao Xuan, the king of Xiangdong, who had only one eye among the many royal children, and thought that this person was full of dragon spirit and would become a big thing in the future. So he arranged for his daughter to marry Xiao Xuan, the king of Xiangdong.
Xu Zhaopei was angry and hateful at her father's arrangement, and cried for several days and nights, but her father was indifferent to this, and Xu Zhaopei had no choice but to marry Xiao Xuan with great reluctance.
However, if this marriage is dissatisfied with Xu Zhaopei, then it can be said that it is an attitude of indifference to Xiao Xuan. After marriage. Xu Zhaopei's talent and wisdom did not make Xiao Xuan look at her twice, and even if Xu Zhaopei was dressed up in a brilliant way, he could not arouse Xiao Xuan's interest in the slightest.
In order to humiliate Xiao Xuan, she often painted only half of her face in makeup, and the allusion of "half face makeup" came from this. When Xiao Xuan, who was blind with one eye, saw this, he was furious and angry that he did not enter Xu Zhaopei's room again for a long time.
When the maids around them saw it, they were worried about their own princess, afraid that the princess would do something to hurt Xu Zhaopei in a rage. However, Xu Zhaopei was very calm, but instead comforted the maid: "A person like Wang Ye who is full of benevolence and righteousness will never take anything from me for such a trivial matter!" If it's a big deal, I'll leave the palace, but I'll be at ease without him! ”
In this way, the two maintained a marriage that was superficially harmonious but privately inseparable for many years.
In 552, Hou Jing's rebellion was quelled, and Xiao Xuan ascended the throne at Jiangling for Emperor Yuan of Liang. According to the custom, Xu Zhaopei, who was the head of the house, should have been made empress, but because the marital love between the two had been exhausted in years of indifference. Emperor Yuan of Liang did not want to make Xu the empress, so the throne remained vacant, and Xu Zhaopei was only promoted from the throne to an imperial concubine.
At this time, Xu Zhaopei was almost confused, and the emperor's indifference for many years made him live in the deep palace for a long time, empty and lonely, and he had to borrow wine to dispel his sorrows and give up on himself. It happened that he was bumped into by Emperor Yuan after drinking heavily and vomited on the emperor. Xiao Xuan, who already had little affection for her, hated her even more.
Because he has not been emotionally satisfied, Xu Zhaopei has become more and more bold in his actions. Once, at a palace banquet, she saw the courtier Ji Jiang born handsome, looking like a young man. Her heart, which had not been dewy for many years, began to stir at that moment, so she took the initiative to get close to Ji Jiang and left him in the harem fornication.
Although Xu Zhaopei was more than ten years older than Ji Jiang, the two of them were very happy whenever they did things like clouds and rain, and Ji Jiang also sighed for this: "Although Xu Niang is old, the charm still exists!" ”
After tasting it once, there will be a second, a third... Sure enough, Xu Zhaopei later hooked up with the Zhiyuan Daoist of Yaoguang Temple. After the affair between the two was known to Emperor Yuan, Emperor Yuan was furious and ordered that the Zhiyuan Daoist be burned alive.
Xu Zhaopei, who witnessed all this, was greatly stimulated, so he hated Emperor Liang Yuan, and even his concubines, and when he saw that there were pregnant women in the palace, he brutally killed them.
Later, Xu Zhaopei heard that the poet He Hui Junmei was very beautiful, so he wrote a love poem to him for courtship. After the two men's exchanges were known to Emperor Yuan of Liang, his patience with Xu Zhaopei was thoroughly exhausted. Coincidentally, at this time, his beloved concubine Wang Shi died after giving birth to a son, and Emperor Yuan of Liang suspected that It was Xu Fei's doing, so he transferred his anger to Xu Fei's son Xiao Fang.
There was also a scene at the beginning, the only son was gone, Xu Zhaopei also had no thoughts, and resolutely committed suicide by throwing himself into the well. This poor half-makeup beauty thus ended her absurd and sad life.
@ Cheng Yujun
For Xu Zhaopei, there are haters and pity. And her marriage to Xiao Xuan is actually just a tragedy under the political marriage. The two looked at each other and entangled their lives, ending in this way, perhaps the result of a good ending.
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