Chapter 48: Mandate of Heaven
When the wives and concubines in Beichen Palace realized that their future was not very beautiful, the music of the small city in the south was melodious, and Mi Xuan was hitting the bus. In contrast to the mood of the girls, she seemed to float in the clouds and was in extreme joy. The man got married, but the man did not make a promise. On the second day, he left the city and came to Xiaoyi. The princesses of various countries married into Chu. The princesses may not be beautiful, and those dowries must be stunning. Not every man can withstand this temptation, but the man still came.
Mi Xuan couldn't suppress her excitement, and she lost her slightest momentum in the slightest moment of her previous sleekness. Xiong Jing felt why she was like this, and she didn't say it out loud. She just waited for her to finish playing a song before she called her to sit beside her.
"The report was not good today, too urgent." Xiong Jing said bluntly, with a smile on his face.
"The king comes to Xiaoyi, Xuan'er, Xuan'er..." It was dark last afternoon and it seemed like one year, and the night was like one year, and it was another year since the morning. It was another year. Mi Xuan could still hold it back two years ago, but from the third year, she could no longer hold it back. She asked someone to go up to the roof of Xiaoyi Tower and look at the south gate with Lu Li Mirror. It was not until the guards appeared outside the city gate that she finally let go of her heart for three years.
The man was right in front of him. Mi Xuan couldn't help but throw himself into his arms and cry. Xiong Jing comforted her, and when she finished crying, she said seriously: "From today, I can't stay here anymore."
"Ah?" Mi Xuan's eyes were blurred in an instant, and the man's words seemed to be in the sky.
"I said, I can't stay here again from today." Xiong Jing repeated the words just now and looked at the woman. Her face quickly lost blood and stiffened. Except for tears flowing out of the spring water in her eyes, she seemed to be dead.
"I must be restrained. I must be restrained." Xiong Jing waved away the surrounding temple servants and servants, wiping away the tears that could not be wiped away, and said so. "I must be restrained by all countries marrying half of the beauties in the world into the Chu Palace. Since I get married, I can no longer do good things, and this is also restrained."
"That's right, that's it?" Mi Xuan understood it but didn't understand it.
"Of course." Xiong Jing helped her wipe her tears again. "Since she got married yesterday, she should keep the right to be husband and wife, even if this marriage is not what I wish."
"Xiong'er knows it." Mi Xuan held back her tears and maintained a little calmness.
"The same is true for Linzeli's marriage." Xiong Jing grabbed her cold hand and placed it on his chest. "Since you and I are husband and wife, I should respect the righteousness of husband and wife and never be happy with other women."
"Woooooo, woooo..." After hearing this, Mi Xuan couldn't help crying again. Only then did she realize that the man was pretending to be herself in his heart. After crying for a while, she stopped sobbing and listened to the man saying the following words.
"In the future, after the Yan Dynasty disperses, I will also leave the palace and come to Xiaoyi to talk to you, listen to you and watch you dance, but you must not stay here again," Xiong Jing said his thoughts, which was the most correct idea he thought. "But stayed next to Xiaoyi, and you and I can look at each other."
"Yeah." Mi Xuan focused heavily. She had lost the ability to speak and could only cry.
"The Chu-Qin war will be clear within a few years. Once it is clear, I will break up and marry you as the queen." Xiong Jing hugged Mi Xuan in his arms and told him solemnly.
Since it is a political marriage, once the political situation changes, there is no emotion or child maintenance, the marriage will be irreversible. Even in the Central Plains countries and in the most severe Lu area of the Zhou rituals, the same is true.
Confucius' disciple Zengzi gave birth to his wife because his wife was not ripe with her pears. Empress Dowager Zhao Wei married her daughter in Yan State and prayed during sacrifices: "Don't let her rebel (you must not let her come back)." The Wei people married her daughter and taught her, "You must accumulate privately, and you will be a wife. It is a blessing to live in a good place (you must praise the money privately. It is a common thing to be divorced after marriage, but it is a lucky thing to live forever).
This is true for ordinary people. It is not complicated for a monarch to break up a marriage and get married. Just send an envoy to the wife's country and say, "I am not sensitive and cannot serve the country and the ancestral temple, so that the envoy dares to sue the deacon" (the king of my country is not talented and does not have the ability to follow his wife to sacrifice to the country and the ancestral temple. I specially send an envoy to report to you the following information.). After telling me, I send my wife to the wife and bring back all the property she brought with her marriage, and the marriage ends.
It is not a very difficult thing to break up a marriage, but the difficulty is to estimate the reactions of various countries. If the Chu and Qin war were unclear, they could not take this step, and they could not let all countries know that they would take this step. Xiong Jing did not want all countries to resent themselves - Baishui's daughter for a few years, and then said that she would get married, so the final solution was to not live in the bedroom or the small town, and adhere to the righteousness of husband and wife.
Mi Xuan was not as old as a wolf or a tiger. Women were already more affection than sex. What she was afraid of was that men abandoning themselves. He slowly settled down after hearing this. After a while, she remembered something and asked, "In this way, what about the offspring? If so..."
"A few days ago, you said you were about to vomit after getting up in the morning?" Xiong Jing looked at her with a smile. This was a few days ago.
"Yeah." Mi Xuan nodded, "I, could it be..." She widened her eyes and struggled to get up from the man's arms.
"Xuan'er is already pregnant with my child." Xiong Jing's smile even more. "If the month of the month is not coming in five or six days, there will be no doubt."
"Ah--!" Mi Xuan shouted in a low voice, covering his mouth with both hands, unable to believe it at all.
"King..." The woman shed tears again in joy, and then hugged and kissed the man.
Xiong Jing kissed her back, and the joy in her heart was no less than that in her. It has been nearly three months since La's marriage before the festival. The two are together almost every day, and as long as they are not menstruation, they will go to a room every day. Mi Xuan has not found out that she is pregnant with a child for so long, but the maid Cui Xiu and others are a little puzzled in private: Why has the king always spoiled his daughter every night, so why hasn't he conceived his children?
Xiong Jing did not pay attention at first, nor did he think about it. It was not until yesterday when he got married that he thought that he was the defensive side. He would win when his son grew up. Then he remembered that the day before yesterday, Mi Xuan said that he wanted to vomit when he woke up in the morning, and he had no appetite at all, and this situation seemed to be getting worse and worse.
Although he is not a doctor, he still has some memories of such things. This is also what the otaku is most worried about. Once it happens, his whole life will undergo earth-shaking and harsh changes. Of course, this is just one of the results. The common situation in the future may be more likely to go to the hospital once and end it.
"In a few months, Xuan'er will be a mother." After a long kiss, Xiong Jing said softly in Mi Xuan's ear.
"Well." Mi Xuan didn't want to open her eyes. She was happy and worried that it was a dream. "If what she gave birth to is not..."
Pregnancy may not necessarily give birth to a prince, so Mi Xuan's eyes are opened. The man no longer stays in Xiaoyi, so he no longer has fun with her. What should he do if he gives birth to a princess this time?
"The one who gave birth must be the young master." Xiong Jing said with an extremely affirmative tone, as if he had seen the child in his belly.
He was so sure that Mi Xuan couldn't help but laugh: "Why must it be the young master?"
"Because..." Xiong Jing breathed. Perhaps since the Battle of Bailuyuan, he had a vague feeling that he had never had before: he seemed to be able to personally feel the history and destiny like a river. Of course, this was an indescribable illusion that he really had any special abilities, or had drunk the Sogdian hemp juice.
At fifty, he knew the destiny of heaven. His age in his previous and subsequent lives was already fifty years old, so he felt the destiny of heaven. During the Battle of Weinan, he rode his horse out of the battle across the floating bridge and rushed to the other side. All the generals in the army were worried about him, and afterwards, the generals also warned him repeatedly, but he was not worried at all.
Many people are not afraid of death because they didn’t think of death at that moment. They were not afraid of death because they thought that they would die. They thought of death at that time, but they believed that they would definitely not die.
People can actually predict their own death. Xiong Jing never believed it before, but now he believes it. He believes in the existence of gods and the existence of destiny. As the king of Chu, his destiny and Zhao Zheng's destiny are all important parts of destiny. They represent two different paths and determine the destiny of the Chinese world for thousands of years in the future.
Since he was born in this era and was born in the Chu Palace, history must be changed. Otherwise, how can we explain that a soul in later generations was born more than two thousand years ago? Destiny wanted him to be born in Chu, which means that he was born with a certain historical mission.
Born in this world for nearly twenty years, has history changed? He originally thought it had changed. The State of Chu entered the steel era, the sea boats communicated with the whole world, and the Chu army defeated the Qin army one after another... However, when he heard that Zhao Zheng fled, he suddenly realized that the State of Qin was still annexing the other countries step by step. Even if the State of Chu recovered Ying, he was still in danger, and history had never changed.
There is a paradox between his birth and his never-changed history: Since history has not changed, why did he be born? Since he has been born, why did history have not changed? What he imagined might be: history has not changed, and he will die in the last battle, so Mi Xuanhuai will inevitably be a boy, and the real change will happen to him.
Of course he could not say to the woman, so as not to cry again, and he himself was just thinking casually in the dead of night. In the past, he would definitely not be able to face the reality of dying in battle, but since he had believed in the gods and destiny, why should he worry? When he deserves to die, he will die naturally; when he should not die, even if he surrounded him and was wiped out, he could live.
The man only said one beginning, "because" and there was no sound. If it were the case, Mi Xuan would have kept asking questions before, but the violent emotional fluctuations made her extremely sleepy. In this sunny spring, she was lying in the man's warm arms like a cat, listening to his heartbeat and falling asleep.
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"What is it?! The king has not stayed in a small town? Is this true?" When night fell, there was another temple man in Xizhang, Beichen Palace. When he expelled travelers from various countries, Zhao Concubine Zhao's servants who entered Chu did not leave Chu. These Zhao men became Zhao Concubine Zhao's eyes and minions. After Zhao moved south, more Zhao people entered Chu from the North City of Daliang.
"Yes." The temple man gasped, and he rushed up to report such good news.
"Then the king has returned to his slept?" Concubine Zhao's expression changed several times. She could not imagine the reason why her son returned to the palace. Ying Nan, who had been with her, was full of hope, and her husband was coming back.
"Wei...wei, we are back." The temple people began to stutter. The good news was just the previous one, and the next was bad news.
"Where is the king?" Zhao Fei was angry, and her old teeth were chewing.
"Great King, the king ordered people to build a military curtain on the side of the small town, stay at the military curtain." The temple people told the bad news, in return for Concubine Zhao's angrily rebuke, "Get out! Get out!!"
The temple man hurriedly got out, but Ying Nan's face was full of joy. "My mother, the king stayed beside the small world and had not yet had sex with Mi Bitch."
"Will the king join you before he gets into a relationship with that bitch?" Concubine Zhao was still angry and glared at Ying Nan fiercely.
"If the king has not yet had sex with the bitch, the bitch will not be pregnant with the king's descendants." The struggle in the Zhao State's bedroom is no less than that in Qin State. The struggle in the Chu State's Warring States Period was also the struggle in the Zhao State. Ying Nan was frightened in his ears and eyes since he was a child, and he knew that offspring was the most core part of the struggle. Without the descendants, no matter how much the king favored it, it would only be for a while.
"The king must have children to inherit the throne, so..." Ying Nanhua laughed before she finished speaking. She was the queen. Since the king did not get along with Mi Xuan, he naturally had to marry her and several other wives, otherwise who would inherit the throne of Chu in the future.
Ying Nan's words may not be unreasonable, but Concubine Zhao did not say anything for a long time. Her son burned his wedding uniform and ran to Mi Xuan for sex. He took Mi Xuan to rescue Qi. After returning from Qi, he stayed in Xiaoyi in the south of the city every day. Today, he suddenly stopped staying in Xiaoyi, and only set up a military screen next to Xiaoyi, saying that there is no ghost among them, who dares to believe it? Could it be...
Concubine Zhao vaguely remembered a possibility. When discussing last night, Kong Qian's unfiliality was rejected by Song Yu. His son was not unfilial, but just disobedient. This disobedience means not listening to the father's words rather than disobedient. After the father died, the son naturally became the head of the family. Since he was already the head of the family, there was no such thing as disobedient.
It is not enough to crash a small town, and it is not enough to condemn unfilial. Song Yu thought that he could commit adultery and punish adultery. After the marriage, the king had a wife, and he did not stay in the palace. He stayed in the small town in the south of the city and had an affair with Mi Xuan. Since it was an affair, the king could not be punished, but Mi Xuan could be punished. The so-called "If a man and a woman do not have a righteous relationship, the punishment will be the palace." "If a husband has two wives, he will be punished, and if a wife has a foreign husband, he will be the palace."
The method of punishing adultery made Concubine Zhao stunned. Unfortunately, this method may not be feasible. None of the above is Chu Lu, the former is Zhou Li, and the latter is Wei Lu and Qin Lu. Song Yu certainly knew this. The reason he mentioned it was because the trial of Chu State defeat was no longer a written law and was gradually becoming a case law. Mi Xuan was arrested for adultery and handed over to Zuo Yin's office for trial. According to Chu Lu, it was not accused of Chu Lu, but if the three husbands of Yefuyi were summoned to discuss whether Mi Xuan was guilty?
Chapter completed!