Chronicles of the Modern Empress Dowager

The first hundred days of the first emperor are just around the corner. As the first emperor’s concubines, everyone will send the coffin of the first emperor into the underground palace.

These days, after several parties discussed and negotiated, the charter was finally drawn up. The auspicious time given by the Qintian Supervisor was at the beginning of February 28th, and they had to set off on the 27th afternoon to the Jingzhuang of Lingling.

Li Wei led the concubines, princesses, and the wives of the princess and princess to worship at the Palace of Shouhuang.

After the sacrifice, each took a car out of the palace and went to Jingzhuang.

On Li Wei Suding's carriage, Lan Hui and Qingxiang were in front of him, and she brought Shujia in front.

"I heard your nanny say that you are learning to write with the six princesses recently?"

"Well, Sixth Sister said she would like to teach children."

"Then how many words would you write?"

"After I return to my mother, my son will write ‘person’ and ‘one’. Sister Six said that he will teach me the "Sanzi Jing" in a while..."

Shujia's voice is soft and pretty, very cute.

In that era, children of this age should also go to kindergarten. The princes were opened early and would enter school at the age of three, but the education of the princes was relatively lagging behind. All I read were those enlightenment books, and I couldn't receive a deeper education. Girls should study more.

Li Wei asked Shujia to sit on her lap and say to her: "After you have been busy for a while, in a few days, I will let you and your sisters study together, and I will ask a special gentleman to teach you and your brothers. You go to school like my brother, OK?"

After hearing this, Shujia stared at Li Wei with big watery eyes, as if she didn't believe what Li Wei said.

Li smiled and rubbed Shujia's face softly and said, "Am I still coaxing you? I really want you to read more. Do you like reading?"

Shujia thought about it carefully before nodding and saying, "I like it, my sisters said reading is fun."

The princesses can read some books more or less, at least they have to read the Fourth Female Books, but it is basically impossible to say that it is impossible to do advanced knowledge. So far, Shujia and the others have an aunt who is a talented woman, who is good at music and can write poetry , Was born again as a beauty, married to a son of the general of Zhenguo. After marriage, he and his wife were reconciled. Later, a war broke out. The generals of Zhenguo and his son led the soldiers to fight. In the end, both father and son died on the battlefield. , And later adopted a child from the family.

There are only five princesses living in the palace now, and there are not enough people to start classes. She wondered whether to find some companions for the princesses.

Li Wei thought about it all the way. After walking on the road for nearly three hours, I finally arrived at Jingzhuang. By this time the sky was completely dark. The car stopped, and the maid helped her down.

There have been a lot of people gathered outside, but they are organized and do not appear to be noisy and messy.

The concubines and princesses first came to the side hall to rest, and several princesses also came to flatter.

Without even a cup of tea, the steward in the main hall came to spread the word.

"Report to the Queen Mother, everything is in order and you can go and worship."

Li Wei said, "That's good." When she got up, Lan Hui and Qingxiang hurriedly came forward to help. The concubines and concubines were also up.

Li Wei walked ahead and went to the main hall to worship. When I met Zhao Qian on the corridor, Zhao Qian bowed his head and respectfully saluted Li Wei. Li Wei nodded and brushed past Zhao Qian.

As far as the main hall, a group of monks from the royal temple were chanting sutras for the first emperor. The coffin of the first emperor stopped in the middle of the main hall, hidden in layers of white curtains.

Li Wei stepped forward to hold the incense, give a drink, and then bowed down. Her gaze passed through the gap in the curtain and glanced at the coffin. The man lying in it was her husband, the husband who was kind to her but not loving. She is just a lonely flower in his garden. Nowadays, all the honors she wears are given to her by that man, but she can't feel the slightest happiness at all, and this status has finally become a burden.

Accompanied by the sound of the Buddha's name, Li Wei remembered the day when she entered the palace in February of the eleventh year of Xikang, she was placed in Zhaoyang Hall as soon as she entered the palace. As soon as he entered the palace, he was given the title of Ru 嫔. She didn't see her husband until late at night. I went to greet the queen early the next morning. At that time, the eldest sister was in good and bad health, but when she met her the next day, she still waited for her face in front of a bunch of people.

On the seventh day after entering the palace, the emperor finally came to Zhaoyang Hall. For the first time, she was trembling, for fear that something went wrong and annoyed the emperor and implicated her family.

It seemed that he had drunk a few glasses of wine before he came that night, and she could clearly smell the alcohol on his clothes.

Looking back now, the emperor didn't say much that day. When she went to bathe and change clothes, he was reading a book in the dormitory. When she came back from the bath, he had already slept on the bed and the book fell under his feet.

Later, the two lay on a bed, and the maid removed the candle, and the surroundings became pitch black. It was clear that the mother had taught her what to do when the emperor called her to bed, but when things came, she was still nervous and frightened. But then the emperor never did anything extraordinary, instead, he told her about his sister's illness and the young prince. From the emperor's tone, she could realize that as the king of a country, she had no other choice.

Later, the emperor fell asleep, accompanied by his snoring sounds, but Li Wei couldn't fall asleep anyhow, and spent the night with his eyes open.

This is her wedding night, there is no sweet words, and no lingering scenes.

Since that night, the emperor never entered Zhaoyang Palace until the end of the year. After the death of the elder sister, the emperor said that he would serve the eldest sister for one year. He was advised by the minister, but he persevered. He did not lucky any concubines in one year. It wasn't until the anniversary that it gradually recovered. At that time, the cabinet suggested that he set up another central palace, but he did not agree. Her position had already been transferred from concubine to concubine. He came to Zhaoyang Hall for the second time on the night of the canonization.

The two still talked under their own quilts, and it was her lobby sister who said the most. It was not until one day later that he told himself that his voice was somewhat similar to that of the older sister.

In the next few years, she was just the voice of the older sister. He was afraid of his loneliness and brought Cheng Li's daughter to raise her, and let Fu Guang recognize her as an adoptive mother. Later, she was given the treatment of a noble concubine, until the autumn of the seventeenth year of Xikang, she had become an imperial concubine, but in the end she did not become his queen.

In the years since the eldest sister left, the emperor has been cherishing her memory, writing poems for the elder sister, and describing her portrait. She witnessed the deep affection of a generation of empresses, and the end of their love. Within a few years, the emperor also became ill, and until the emperor died, the eldest sister's name was also used when he was at home.

Li Wei looked at the coffin again. Your deep affection had nothing to do with me, but why did you bother me in it?