In the harem of Chu Wei, the most tragic person is Xiang Shi, and her tragedy makes people sigh at the same time, but also makes people see the darkness of human nature under the strong of the weak.
Xiang Shi was originally a noblewoman of Xiangguo, because Xiangguo was swallowed up by Juguo and became Juji's maid, and later Juguo was swallowed up by Chuguo, and Juguo's princess Juji was dedicated to the King of Chuwei, and Xiang naturally became a concubine who married into the Chu kingdom with Juji and became the Xiang concubine of the King of Chuwei.
She was also a treasure entrusted by her parents in the palm of her hand, with the destruction of the country and the death of the family, things are not human, Xiang Shi is like an object, it has been moved around, becoming the lowest existence in the Chu harem, she was also a brazen and wanton, delicate and noble woman, and now due to changes in the environment, she has become a quiet woman who is only a promise, timid and timid, so that she can meet her identity and survive in this chaotic world.
Ju Ji entered the Chu Palace for many years of infertility, in order to protect the status of the favored concubine, and to have a dependence in the second half of her life, she gave birth to a very beautiful, and gentle and beautiful Xiang Concubine pushed the bed of the King of Chu Wei, and Xiang Ji did not live up to Ju Ji's high hopes, and it did not take long to become pregnant.
According to the rules of the time, the children born to Xiang Ji would take Ju Ji as their mother, but Xiang Ji as the birth mother would naturally have a lifelong dependence, and at that time, Xiang Shi might be full of joy and look forward to the birth of the child, she had a child, she had a dependence, compared to other women without heirs, much luckier, she was satisfied.
As everyone knows, it is the arrival of this child that brings her bad luck, and because of this child, she has become a thorn in the eye and a thorn in the flesh of queen Chu, and she is eager to get rid of it quickly, and this child is also the root of the tragedy in the second half of her life.
She was happily waiting for the birth of the child, but the astrologer Tang Ming looked at the sky at night and found that the star was born, looking at the harem of Chu, only Xiang Shi was pregnant, so this star was naturally the child in her belly.
The overlord star will descend on the Chu kingdom, and some people will rejoice and some people will be worried.
The king of Chu Wei was overjoyed, he was worried that there was no one to inherit the hegemony in his life, he was worried about himself, and now the hegemonic star had descended on the Chu state, so the Chu state he expected to dominate the nations and dominate the world would be a promising and beautiful prospect, so he pinned all his hopes on this child who was about to be born, and immediately ordered the concubines to move into the pepper room to give birth.
Xiang Concubine rose from an obscure woman to the focus of the palace, from a simple living room to a luxurious pepper room to give birth, from two or three servants waiting for the small concubine to become a noble person with a group of servants and followed by female doctors day and night.
People who have watched "The Biography of Zhen Huan" know what the pepper room means, it is a symbol of status, a symbol of status, and it is also the treatment of a spoiled concubine. In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the pepper room was a special existence, that is, only the queen could live in the place, and the pepper room of the Chu Kingdom was only lived when the queen was pregnant with the crown prince Huai, and other children did not have this honor, not to mention other concubines, no matter how big the family was, no one had entered the pepper room to raise a fetus, which showed what it meant that the Xiang Concubine could live in the pepper room to give birth.
When the Queen of Chu heard that Xiang Concubine had been moved into the pepper room for delivery, she was scared out of a cold sweat, and what immediately came to her mind was: Does the Great King want to be more crown prince?
If the King of Chu Wei really changed the prince, it would be a devastating blow to her, how could she be willing, she really wanted to tear up Xiang's family, so she secretly bought the female doctor' heart, threatened and seduced, and let her find an opportunity to harm the child in Xiang's belly.
Xiang's treatment suddenly improved, and he was panicked and dazed, not knowing how to be good.
Ju Ji was different, although she was a little surprised, but she was a smart and intelligent woman, who put aside this negative emotion in an instant, and was so happy that she wanted to fly, and this child was her dependence. If it was true that as Tang Ming predicted, the glory and wealth of her life were all in this child, so she immediately took action, on the one hand, instructing people to protect Xiang Shi and not let people harm her, on the other hand, patiently comforting Xiang Shi, making her mood stable, on the other hand, being commensurate with her sisters, and bringing the relationship between the two closer.
Although Xiang Shi was cowardly and did not know that people's hearts were sinister, but with ju Ji's airtight protection and the attention of the King of Chu Wei, those who wanted to harm her also had to weigh and weigh, which was like Xiang Shi in ignorance and fearlessness to stay safely in childbirth, but the result was surprising, she actually gave birth to a little girl.
In everyone's subconscious, Baxing should naturally be a boy, and now that Xiang Shi has given birth to a girl, naturally it is not Baxing, the King of Chu Wei was disappointed, and the Queen of Chu and Ju Ji were secretly relieved. Xiang Shi does not care, the star is good, the ordinary woman is her child, she does not have any ambition, just want to live in peace and stability, do not know, it is this child has become the root of her tragedy, she will be pushed step by step into the abyss of life.
Although Ju Ji hoped to give birth to a son to Xiang Shi, if this fetus really gave birth to a bully star, then she would face the Queen of Chu directly, and the dangers in the future would follow, and maybe one day the head would move without knowing what was going on. Moreover, she basically has no mother clan to rely on, and the queen has a very powerful matriarch, the queen has several sons who have been divided into various places, the power is not something that Ju Ji can oppose, and Ju Ji only wants to have a reliance in the second half of her life, live a stable and stable life, and there is no ambition, let the son compete for the world, so when she sees that the Xiang clan has a daughter, she is also secretly relieved.
Queen Chu was relieved because Xiang Shi had given birth to a daughter, not a bully, her son was still the prince, the future King of Chu, she was still the queen, the status and power were still in her hands, unchangeable.
The days seemed to have returned to their original state, Xiang Shi became the little concubine again, living in Ju Ji's palace, taking care of her daughter, Ju Ji was still the favorite of King Chu Wei, the queen was still the queen, nothing had changed, but people's hearts had changed, and the Queen of Chu could no longer ignore Xiang Shi as before.
Xiang Shi gave birth to Mi Yue, there was no threat to queen Chu, she should be relieved, but when Xiang Shi was pregnant, her planning of all the plots and fears had made her hate Xiang Shi very much.
The hatred she had accumulated for so long was blocked there like a wall, unable to come out, unable to go down.
Reason told her to stop paying attention to Xiang Shi, who was an insignificant little concubine who would not have any impact on the overall situation, as long as her son could ascend to the throne, why should she be afraid? But emotionally, she couldn't help but hate Xiang Shi, she needed to find an opportunity to vent the hatred in her heart, so this hatred has always been in the chest of Queen Chu, and it is this hatred that later pushed Xiang Shi to the abyss of life, until death.
As Mi Yue grew up, her intelligence, wisdom, and extraordinary understanding gradually revealed, very favored by King Chu Wei, and raised her as a boy, and Mi Yue did not look like a girl since she was a child, but like a boy, climbing trees, catching birds, playing slingshots, at the age of six or seven, she was interested in war games, and all day long she ran around the palace with her three- or four-year-old brother Mi Rong and two small attendants, sometimes shooting arrows, sometimes charging at a rockery, like a victorious female general, elated.
Once, Mi Yue shot down a yellow finch with a slingshot, but she did not expect that this yellow finch fell into the pro-silkworm queen team of Chu, and a group of maids screamed and ran around in fright, and in a panic, the silkworm box held by Mi Shu fell to the ground, and accidentally was trampled to death by her beloved silkworm baby, crying loudly.
When the Queen of Chu saw her own daughter crying like this, she was angry in her heart, and saw that the culprit was actually Mi Yue, which was really a combination of new hatred and old hatred, which made her have a seizure, and slapped Mi Yue on the spot, and she didn't think it was enough to relieve her hatred, and she wanted people to beat her twenty sticks again.
People who have watched court dramas know that the staff blames this matter, but also has a skill, if you are willing to give a way to live, fifty rods, it is also the pain of flesh and skin, will not hurt the bones, if you intend to kill people, do not use twenty rods, ten rods can beat such a six- or seven-year-old little girl to death.
Now that Mi Yue had fallen into the hands of the queen full of murderous intent, twenty rods down, how could there be a way to live.
After Ju Ji heard about it, she rushed to save Mi Yue in time and brought the case to the King of Chu Wei, who was also blinded by hatred, and still did not hesitate to try to ignore Mi Yue's sin in front of the King of Chu Wei.
The king of Chu Wei had always loved Mi Yue, how could it be because of such a small matter that the queen killed Mi Yue, and besides, he was still alive, the queen dared to persecute his children so blatantly, if he was a hundred years later, his children who were out of the house still had a way to live, after thinking about it, decided to give the queen a little color to see, but also to plan in advance to ensure the safety of his children and concubines after a hundred years.
Within a few days, the queen's murder of yuemei was turned over, and king Chu Wei, in a rage, seized the queen's authority and vaguely planned to abolish the queen, which made the queen of Chu very angry, shocked and afraid, and later had to make Yin Zhaoyang Zhou Xuan keep the queen's position, but the queen also swore that no matter what the circumstances, she would not do anything to the concubines and other heirs.
At that time, people believed in ghosts and gods, and once they swore an oath, they naturally would not break their oath.
Although the queen swore that she would not harm the children and concubines of King Chuwei, she could not go along with this tone, and because of mi yue, she hated Xiang Shi and Mi Yue even more, even if she could not harm them, but let them have a bad time, she could always do it.
Not long after, the king of Chu Wei died, the crown prince Huai became the king of Chu, the queen became the queen of Chu Wei, became the most honorable woman in the chu country, no one can do anything with her, she can do anything she wants, she can avenge any revenge, she can torture anyone she does not like, in short, she can do whatever she wants, such a feeling is really wonderful.
At this time, Xiang Shi also knew that his situation was not good, and he was cautious in everything he did, for fear of provoking Chu Weihou.
It is really an unexpected storm in the sky, and people have bad luck and bad luck.
Xiang Shi went to Zhang Huatai to receive the relics that the previous king had given them, and met the lustful King Huai of Chu, who did not care who she was, and did not care about her, but let Chu Wei look at her squarely, gave her a charge of seducing the king, quietly hid her, and then took the throne as a new king, and wanted to release some concubines and palace women to show their gifts, and gave some palace women to the veteran army who had been fighting for many years and had no family, so as to show the new king Rende. In this way, Chu Weihou quietly got Xiang Shi out and gave an ugly, old gambler Wei Jia as his wife, Wei Jia drank and gambled all day, drank wine to beat Xiang Shi, gambled and lost, he could even take out the life-saving money for the child to gamble, and if he didn't give it, he would hit Xiang Shi, a cowardly woman, who lived in fear of having no clothes and no food, and lived trembling every day.
In the Chu Palace, although Xiang Shi's status was low, but her life was worry-free, just because she was pregnant with a hegemonic star, it became her original sin, and became a tool for Chu Wei to vent her hatred, using his power to trample on her at will, torture her at will, treat her like an object, dispose of her at will, and maliciously give her to Wei Jia, a shameless violent man like Wei Jia, so that she could live or die.
When she was desperate, Ju Ji sent someone to find her, she thought that she could see her daughter, see her son, life finally had a glimmer of light, she was in a worried mood, according to Ju Ji's arrangement, quietly went to see her daughter, but did not think that there was a greater disaster waiting for her.
Waiting to meet his daughter in a hut in the hunting ground, the result was not waiting for her daughter, but waiting for the Chu King Huai, who had a human face and a beastly heart, he drank deer blood because of hunting, and then drank some wine, which triggered his desire, and when he needed to vent, he crashed into Xiang Shi without dying, and the Chu Wang Huai who was anxious to catch fire did not care who she was, but only vented his desires.
Xiang Shi, who was destroyed by the Chu King Huai, no longer had the courage and face to live, her heart was dead, her intestines were broken, and she ended her miserable life with a hairpin.
Xiang Shi, she is just a weak woman, she just wants to live well, she has not hindered anyone, she has not hurt anyone, she only wants to live in peace and stability, but because of the star, in the eyes of Chu Weihou, she has become a sinner, and the thing she made out of her pregnancy has become her original sin.
Xiang Shi was just unfortunate enough to be pregnant with Baxing, and he was only pregnant with his sins.
Chu Weihou vented all her unwillingness and hatred on her, how unfortunate she was, and became a tool for Chu Wei to vent her hatred, just because she was weak, and Chu Weihou was strong.
Xiang Shi knew that she was weak, she had never fought over anything in her life, she had always lived humbly and carefully, even if she later lived with Wei Jia and suffered humiliation, she had always endured humiliation and burden, and had never fought, but her obedience, her weakness did not change anything, but let others bully her and ravage her unscrupulously.
From the tragedy of Xiang Shi, we can see how sad it was for women who were concubines in that era, their fate could not be in their own hands, completely controlled by others, their life or death was only between the thoughts of others, they had no capital to fight, and they did not have the power to be masters of themselves.
Xiang Shi's tragedy is only that Chu Weihou thinks she is guilty, in fact, whether she is guilty or not, it does not matter, this is determined by her identity. Thinking of it this way, it is not surprising that those women in the court drama fight, fight, and harm people for the sake of glory, for the sake of wealth, for the sake of power, they have no right or wrong, they just want to live a little better, they just want their fate to be in their own hands.
Note: This article is written in the original novel of "The Legend of Mi Yue", which may be slightly different from the TV series, and the picture comes from the TV series stills