In 200, Liu Bei's army defeated Xuzhou and went to Yuan Shao of Hebei, and Zhang Fei fled alone to Peiguo County. One day, Zhang Fei met a fresh and vulgar firewood collector on the road, and suddenly had evil thoughts and tried to forcibly occupy it. The woman did not obey, claiming to be Xia Houyuan's niece. Zhang Fei was overjoyed when he heard this, captured him and married him as his wife.
This woman's name is Xiahou Juan, and she is indeed Xiahou Yuan's niece, who was taken away and raised by her uncle because her father died early. Xia Houyuan regarded her as his own, and would rather let his children go hungry than let his niece starve. According to rumors, Xia Houyuan's youngest son was starved to death because of this. Xiahou Yuan followed Cao Cao to fight abroad for a long time, and it was inconvenient to take Xiahou Juan with him, so he placed her in her hometown of Yu County.
When he married Xiahou Juan, Zhang Fei was 35 years old, and Xiahou Juan was only 13 years old, and the difference between the two was 22 years old, which can be described as an old husband and a young wife.
In fact, Zhang Fei is not as described in the speech: eight feet long, with a leopard head and eyes, a swallow-jawed tiger whisker, and a voice like a huge thunder, like a galloping horse. On the contrary, he is a strange man with both literary and talent. Ming Dynasty Zhuo Erchang mentioned in "Interpretation of the Essence of Painting": Zhang Fei likes to draw beauties and is good at cursive.
And Xiahou Juan is the descendant of Xiahou Ying, the founding father of the Western Han Dynasty, with a prominent family, and Zhang Fei is also considered a portal. Zhang Fei took good care of Xiahou Juan after marriage, and after a long time, Xiahou Juan gradually accepted his fate, and the husband and wife became more and more affectionate.
In 219, Xiahou Yuan was beheaded by the veteran general Huang Zhong at Dingjun Mountain. Xiahou Juanxian remembered his uncle's kindness and begged Zhang Fei to deal with Xiahou Yuan's affairs. Although Xia Houyuan was an enemy general, because of his love for his wife, Zhang Fei immediately agreed and buried Xia Hou Yuan thickly.
Xiahou Juan gave birth to two daughters for Zhang Fei, and the eldest daughter became the first empress of Liu Chan, the empress of the Shu Han dynasty, who died in 237 and was known as Empress Jingwei; The second daughter was Liu Chan's second empress, known as Empress Zhang.
In 263, Deng Ai smuggled into Yinping, and Shu Han perished. Emperor Liu Chan and Empress Zhang were forced to move to Luoyang. Zhang Fei's second son Zhang Shao followed, and Cao Wei, seeing his kinship with Xiahou Yuan, canonized him as Marquis of Lie. Zhang Shao thus died well.
However, Guan Yu, another famous general of Shu Han, did not have such good luck. When Shu Han perished, Pang Hui, the son of Pang De, slaughtered Guan Yu's entire clan on the pretext of revenge for his father.
The so-called drink and peck, there is a fixed number. Who would have thought that Xiahou Juan could still bring peace to future generations?
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What a wonderful marriage, worthy of Yanren Zhang Yide!