Chapter 113: Sisters of Jinling
Jinling City, the capital of the Tang Dynasty in the south of the Yangtze River.
The beautiful land in the south of the Yangtze River, the Imperial State of Jinling" has been discovered and exploited as early as the Warring States Period for its unique environmental location and extraordinary Feng Shui. For example, in 333 BC, King Xiong Shang of Chu Wei built Jinling City in Stone City, Jinling City.
The name comes from this.
During the Three Kingdoms period, Emperor Wu Sun Quan established his capital here, and Jinling rose from there. After that, the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Song, Qi, Liang, and Chen Dynasties in the Southern Dynasties successively established their capitals here. Before the Southern Tang Dynasty, it was known as the "ancient capital of the Six Dynasties".
Of course, there is also a saying about "gold buried" in Jinling. According to legend, the name of Jinling comes from the fact that Qin Shihuang buried gold in Jinling Ridge to calm the king's spirit, that is, "the mausoleum where gold is buried", hence the name Jinling.
The past is over, the legend has passed away in the east, and now Jinling is prosperous, bustling with traffic, singing and dancing, and full of melodious sounds.
Royal Palace, Yaoguang Hall.
This is the palace of the Queen of the Zhou Dynasty. The main hall is spacious, magnificent and elegant, with carved beams and painted buildings. The layout is exquisite. Between the outer pavilion and the inner room, there is an eight-foot glazed screen. There are flower-like lampstands on each side, and a lamp on top.
Exquisite glass lamp.
On the bed in the inner room, the curtains on both sides were raised, and leaning on the bed was a beautiful woman, with green silk like black and white, lazily and casually scattered on the pillow, and around the neck, the shiny hair was usually pulled up in a bun.
Graceful and luxurious, it is not combed at this time, and there is a sad and soft beauty in the mess.
She held a book in her hand and looked at it carelessly. She coughed lightly from time to time, as if she was not in good health.
This woman is Li Yu's queen Zhou Ehuang. She is twenty-eight years old this year. She originally had a beautiful face, but because her illness worsened after spring, she became a little haggard. She should have been a plump woman, but she has become slender.
Lose weight.
In the past ten years, Emperor Zhou E was known as "the most talented woman in Jiangnan". She was familiar with history books, versed in music, and played chess with great skill.
He played the pipa to celebrate his birthday. Yuan Zong was deeply impressed and rewarded him with a pipa for burning the trough. He also gave his son Li Yu a marriage, and the daughter-in-law he appointed was a beauty and talent.
But today's Emperor E is already frail and sick, and has lost his bright face, which makes me feel pity for him.
"Sister, are you awake?"
Ehuang heard a clear voice like an oriole, and smiled faintly, knowing that it was his little sister who had arrived.
"Jiamin, I woke up."
The beaded curtain was opened, and a pretty and charming girl in a green robe walked in. She had an oval face and was about fourteen or fifteen years old. She had bright eyes and white teeth. She was charming, like a February flower on the top of a cardamom, blooming freely in her youth.
, so lively and agile.
"Sister, are you feeling better?" Zhou Jiamin is the younger sister of Emperor E. They are fourteen years apart. Together, they are like beautiful sisters.
Ehuang shook his head lightly and said: "It's still the same as before. I contracted the disease in autumn last year, and it didn't get better after the whole winter. I thought it would be cured after spring, but I found that the underlying disease was stubborn and it didn't get better for a while."
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Zhou Jiamin felt aggrieved for her sister and said angrily: "Then the imperial physician in the palace is so useless, right? It was just a cold at the beginning, why hasn't it been cured yet?"
Ehuang was very rational and looked at it indifferently, and said: "The imperial doctor is just a more skilled doctor. For many diseases, the doctor can only do his best, but he can't really bring him back to life, unless there is someone like Bian Que or Hua Tuo.
Only a miracle doctor can cure most diseases."
Zhou Jiamin nodded after being taught, pursed her lips and said aggrievedly: "I just hope that my sister will recover soon, so that she can go out with me. The exquisiteness of Jinling is so good, it is not inferior to our hometown in Yangzhou. The palace is beautiful, and the palace is beautiful."
The scenery outside is so beautiful. It’s so relaxing to enjoy flowers, write lyrics, sing and dance with the kite!”
After hearing this, Ehuang felt a trace of envy in her heart. Youth is good. She also started to bloom her beauty from the age of fourteen or fifteen. She is talented, interesting, innocent and free. But today, she can only stay in bed.
Not being able to go out to the ground is like being kept in captivity, which is very sad.
"How are you doing in the palace recently?" Ehuang asked with concern.
"It's good. Sometimes the emperor's brother-in-law will play with me. His poems are really good, better than those written by those new talents. If the emperor's brother-in-law takes part in the imperial examination, he will definitely be the number one scholar!"
When Zhou Jiamin talked about Li Yu, she was still very excited.
Emperor E nodded. Her husband's talents were so high. He could play chess, calligraphy, painting, and write poems and poems. He was the best in the Tang Dynasty in the south of the Yangtze River. No one could control him for the time being. To be able to marry such a husband was to be favored by him.
Noble and distinguished, this life is worth it.
"Jiamin, I am fourteen years old this year, and I am about to reach the age of leaving the court. What kind of future husband do you plan to find?" Ehuang looked at the pretty and charming little girl and couldn't help but jokingly asked.
Zhou Jiamin is also very talented, but she is not very scheming, pure and flawless, and she is even more unprepared for her sister. She smiled and said: "If Jiamin is looking for a husband, he must be capable of literary and military skills. His literary ability is the best in the world, and his talent is unparalleled."
Comparatively, he is a true hero who can stabilize the country through military force."
Ehuang shook his head and said: "How can there be such handsome young men with all-around civil and military talents in the world for you to choose from? You still have to lower your standards. In two years, you can choose a good husband from among the new scholars."
Zhou Jiamin shook his head and said: "My husband must at least not be inferior to my sister. Otherwise, the text is as good as the emperor's brother-in-law, and the power is not as powerful as the emperor's brother-in-law. How shameless!"
Seeing the younger sister's desire to compare, Ehuang couldn't help but chuckled and said: "That's difficult. Putting aside your emperor's brother-in-law's status as emperor, his poetry talent alone is difficult to find in our Tang Dynasty.
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"Well, it's true. Oh, it's so distressing!" Zhou Jiamin frowned and looked distressed, which made her sister Ehuang find it extremely cute. She laughed a few more times and was in a much more optimistic mood.
Of course, at this time, Zhou Jiamin came to the palace and had just lived for more than ten days. She and Li Yu had not yet had an affair. One day, when her sister took advantage of her, she might not be able to laugh.
After chatting for a while, Ehuang felt a little tired and wanted to lie down for a while. Zhou Jiamin obediently covered her sister with a quilt and walked out of the Yaoguang Palace.
"Where are we going to play? By the way, let's go find the emperor's brother-in-law and see if he has written any new words!"
In the heart of this girl, no man in the world can write better words than her imperial brother-in-law. She is the first to see it written and written, and she regards such a thing as a kind of honor and luck.
Zhou Jiamin walked with light steps, like a cheerful skylark, through the splendid Chongqing Corridor and walked towards Chengxintang, Li Yu's study room.
At this time, Li Yu was in the study, meeting Xu Kai, the secretary and provincial secretary who had returned from Runzhou. He was holding a "Collection of Yixuan Poems" and flipping through it repeatedly. The more he read, the more frightened he became. When he turned to the back, he could see
Chapter completed!