Daming: I help my wife be the empress

"Slow down, slow down."

When entering a house on the side of the road, Xu Can in front reminded Gu Hengbo to pay attention to his movements.

This Xu Can, like Gu Hengbo, was an untouchable woman before, and her status was even much higher than Gu Hengbo's.

She is a native of Wu County, Suzhou, Southern Zhili. She was originally the daughter of Xu Zimao, the Chancellor of Guanglu Temple in Daming.

Xu Can herself is also very clever, and she is good at poetry and poetry. It is said that she was once a famous talented woman in the south of the Yangtze River.

Later, in the early years of Chongzhen, she married Chen Zhilin, who was already a famous scholar in the south of the Yangtze River in Fushe, as his stepwife.

When I first met Xu Can in the young women's reform-through-labor brigade, I learned that he was good at poetry, and Gu Hengbo, who was also good at poetry, started a lot of comparisons. After a little comparison, she knew that she had nearly half of her reputation. The famous courtesan, the way of poetry is obviously not as good as Xu Can.

Coupled with sympathy for Xu Can's experience and admiration for his character, Gu Hengbo quickly made friends with him, and now he often works as a partner.

That's right, as a prisoner, Gu Hengbo sympathized with Xu Can.

After the capital was breached by intruders, Gong Dingzi and she committed suicide by jumping into a well, but were rescued by the housekeeper.

After dying once, Gong Dingzi was completely discouraged, and became extremely greedy for life and afraid of death.He was a shun official first, and then a Qing official, and his official paths were the same on both sides-first he was awarded the official department to Shizhong, and then he moved to the Shaoqing of Taichang Temple.

The most humiliating thing was that he and a group of officials who had surrendered met the Qing army led by Dorgon outside the city gate, and they bowed down as a result.

Gu Hengbo believed that her family and Gong Dingzi deserved their crimes for being prisoners, and even if they didn't kill them, they would have to thank the emperor for their kindness.

But what happened to Xu Can seemed to her to be a bit unlucky, even wronged.

Her husband, Chen Zhilin, was born in a famous family in eastern Zhejiang, and his father, Chen Zubao Zengguan, came to Shuntian Prefecture.

In the ten years of Chongzhen, Chen Zhilin was No. 2 in the first class of high school, becoming the second place in the list, and entered the editor of the Imperial Academy.

At that time, the Haining Chen family had a high prestige and was extremely famous. Not surprisingly, with Chen Zhilin's reputation and talent, he would surely become a bigger official than his father after he became an official.

However, in the second year of Chen Zhilin's second place in high school, something happened to the Chen family.

When the Qing captives invaded the army, Chen Zubao dereliction of duty as the governor of Shuntian Prefecture, was dismissed and arrested and imprisoned. Feeling wronged, he committed suicide by drinking poisoned wine.

Emperor Chongzhen "angered the ancestors and punished leaks" and transferred his anger to Chen Zhilin. He not only dismissed Chen Zhilin as an official, but also stated that he would never use it.

As a result, Chen Zhilin hated Chongzhen, and even Daming, and was depressed ever since.

When he heard that the Qing captives had occupied the capital, Chen Zhilin immediately rushed to the capital as fast as he could, and went to join the Qing captives.

He was indeed very smart, and after he arrived in the capital, he quickly found out the details of the Qing prisoner, and then relied on his clever flattery, first to curry favor with Dorgon's cronies, and then to meet Dorgon, calling him a benefactor. get reused.

He first studied for a bachelor's degree in the Academy of Secretaries, and this year he was promoted to the right servant of the Ministry of Rites.

Chen Zhilin felt that he had gained a firm foothold with the Qing captives, and felt that the Qing captives would rule the world, so he sent someone to bring Xu Can and his family to the capital.

As far as Gu Hengbo knew, Xu Can himself was extremely opposed to Chen Zhi and Lin Shiqing.However, Xu Can was born in a scholarly family and was deeply bound by the rules of his husband and wife. He never thought of using practical actions to resist Chen Zhilin's official move, so he just wrote a few poems to express his depression. …

As a result, shortly after Xu Can brought the Chen family to the capital, the "Battle of Yangzhou" took place that changed the world's situation...

Carefully put down the basket, and uncovered the cover, Xu Can and Gu Hengbo heaved a sigh of relief when they saw that the food inside hadn't been spilled.

Immediately, Gu Hengbo couldn't help but wait and see - as one of the eight beauties of Qinhuai, she got ahead by cleverness when she was a child, not just her beauty and talent.

This place was originally supposed to be the mansion of an official or nobleman, but now because it is on the side of the street, it has become a value house for soldiers patrolling the city.

There are many vacant houses in this city now, no one thinks it a pity that such a mansion has become a temporary resting place for Qiu Ba and criminals.

In the second room where the two lived, five garrison soldiers were sitting around a coal stove to warm up and rest, and a pot of hot water was still burning on the stove.

'The coal stove here can heat hot water, and it must be hard work for us to carry it here. Seeing this, Gu Hengbo couldn't help but slander in his heart.

Seeing that the other prisoner women who brought food came in one after another carrying baskets and put them away safely, Gu Hengbo said with a smile: "Several military lords, all the food that the prisoner needs here has been delivered. Want to check it out?"

The corporal leader among them didn't answer the call, but came over directly, opened the baskets one by one to check the food inside.

Although these meals are for prisoners, they have to do it as a routine.As for the food of the soldiers, it is the responsibility of the kitchen in the camp, which is separate from the prisoners.

Gu Hengbo noticed that when the corporal inspected the meals, his gaze was on these women from time to time, especially on her and Xu Can, as if he could see inside them through the bloated clothes.

But the corporal leader didn't dare to take any further actions.

Among the women, some stared at the corporal, and their eyes were not quite right.

It's not because the men and women live separately and can't bear the loneliness, but because some people want to dedicate their lives to please the officers and even the officials, not to mention getting rid of the status of prisoners and getting out of the sea of ​​suffering, at least they can get some care.

But no matter what these women think, they just dare to think about it, no one really dares to do it.

It's not that I'm afraid of losing my reputation—when all the family members have been demoted to the Qing government, and some are even family slaves with three surnames, what good reputation does the mistress have?

They were afraid of being beheaded!

Last month, when they, the prisoner girls, first worked for the Ming army supervisor, someone boldly hooked up with a post officer.

As a result, it was quickly reported, and the officer in command and the criminal woman who hooked up with him were beheaded together for public display!
The charge is that the two violated the military law, disturbed the morale of the army, and intended to destroy the morale of the army. The crime is heinous!
From then on, no matter whether it was soldiers of the new army or women in prison, they no longer dared to make any shady deals.

Military law is ruthless, they have all seen it before.

Therefore, even though Gu Hengbo used to be a famous prostitute in Qinhuai, thought he could win most men, and wanted to escape the sea of ​​suffering with his talent, he didn't dare to act rashly.

As for who is loyal to Gong Dingzi?

She married Gong Dingzi as a concubine at the beginning because of Gong Dingzi's good reputation, family status, and the huge amount of money Gong Dingzi spent for her.

Now Gong Dingzi not only lost everything, but also made her a prisoner, how could she be loyal to Gong Dingzi again?
Besides, she is not the wife of the wife, but just like a wife (concubine).

In addition, when Gong Dingzi was going to be an official, she persuaded him earlier, and even used a rope to persuade Gong Dingzi to commit suicide together.In the end, Gong Dingzi refused to die, and claimed that it was because he was reluctant to let her die that he bowed his knees and became an official.

It was a good chance not to piss her off.

Since then, there has been a huge gap between her and Gong Dingzi, and the relationship has broken down.

"Okay, the food looks okay, you can go." Wu Zhang's voice brought Gu Hengbo back to his senses.

Gu Hengbo saluted immediately and said, "Thank you, Mr. Jun."

Just get ready to go.

Xu Can, who seldom talked to other men, suddenly pointed to the table and said, "Master Jun, is that the rumored Da Ming Pao?"

The head of the corps showed surprise, and said: "Why, you are not only literate, but you also know the Da Ming Pao?"

Xu Can said: "The convict woman is indeed literate. I wonder if the military master can lend this "Daming Pao" to the convict woman to read?"