Chapter 2218 Flower Struggle (One Hundred and Twenty-seven)

"Will that shadow follow us?"

asked Bonaparte after a while.

Georgiana suppressed a smile, she finally understood the reason for his sudden "mercy".

The papers in question have been taken away by members of the French Ministry of Magic, although they will most likely take them back to densely populated Paris.

"I haven't read that yet," she said.

"Where did you read?"

"Where Cao Xi was arrested." She replied.

He was obviously a little impatient.

"Do you know where the devil hides? In the details." She said while flipping through the book, "Be patient, Leon."

He stopped talking again.

Georgiana secretly observed him for a while and found that he was not really angry, so she began to continue reading.

After seeing off the imperial envoy, they returned to Huai'an and rode a sedan back to the Nanhe Governor's Mansion. When the sedan passed through an alley, a group of policemen ambushing at the corner suddenly pounced on Cao Xi's sedan and captured him.

He didn't even have time to resist, and he didn't know what kind of crime he had committed.

The officer who captured him had no expression on his face and was unwilling to reveal a word. Cao Xi was taken to a prison in the city.

Nick and Juren were "invited" to get on the sedan and returned to the Guandi Temple next to the Governor's Palace. This place is currently taken over by the River Defense Battalion. It can be said that they are also under house arrest.

It was not until night that Jucai got the news that Cao Xi was said to be a member of the White Lotus Sect.

Nick thought this was incredible, and then Juren reported new news. The emperor issued an order to temporarily deprive the admiral of his command authority and asked him to go to Nanjing to defend himself.

The admiral was obviously innocent, but the unfortunate old man was still extremely worried. The Qing criminal law was reasonable in some aspects, but it was extremely harsh when it came to treason cases. It could even be said that it was too harsh.

He has no foundation at all in trying cases impartially.

A week later, the admiral set off for Nanjing. Nick and Juren followed the officials who escorted Cao Xi. The poor guy was locked in a cage, like a trapped animal, and the officials who escorted him guarded him very tightly. Nick and Juren had no idea what to do.

I couldn't get close to him and say a word to him.

Wan Ning tried to get close to him, but was blocked by the officer maintaining order. Then the loyal servant took her away and let her sit in the carriage.

At this time, the judge told Nick that according to Qing law, the daughters of convicts were no longer imprisoned in the church, but sent to remote places for exile. The Hesheli family where the admiral was was would not be treated that way, and would probably be treated as innocent.

Enter Yeting and become a palace maid or a female official.

Nick looked at Cao Xi. He was very high-spirited a few days ago, but now his shiny braids have come loose. His eyes were blank, and his underwear showing the cuffs was stained with blood, as if he had been tortured.

It is a difficult problem for Nick to know whether these learned servants truly love the emperor or just use the imperial power to suppress another aristocratic force. They are all loyal subjects, but they do not know that the status of their servants is passed down from generation to generation.

Yes, I don’t know that some people are born with authority. They can endure humiliation and bear heavy burdens and accept adversity, which happens to be not the quality that a White Lotus believer who “revolted against the Qing Dynasty and restored the Ming Dynasty” should have.

After arriving in Nanjing, they were imprisoned in an exquisite courtyard that once belonged to a corrupt official. A few days later, the admiral handed Juren several documents and asked him to draft a summary based on the admiral's official career, while Nick was

Please go and see Wan Ning.

She was very ill, but she was extremely happy to see Nick, which showed that she did not trust the local doctors.

Nick's suggestion was to bleed her, but her family doctor firmly opposed it. His explanation was that Wanning had a fever now, and was like a boiling kettle. He wanted to reduce the external fire, rather than lowering the temperature of the solution in the kettle. The internal solution

The less it is, the more intense the external fire will be.

Nick believed that Wanning's condition was the same as the last time the admiral was in Guangzhou. Now her fiancé and father were involved in a story about her fate, but this incident did not make her feel sad. This was completely beyond his expectation.

the expectation.

Wan Ning was only betrothed to Cao Xi in compliance with her father's wishes. In the face of filial piety, no influence can disobey her father's wishes, especially girls, who cannot easily gain freedom, not to mention that Cao Xi has become a son-in-law.

, she does not need to be a shadow and echo in other people's homes like other married girls.

She told Nick that now she only had the option of "obeying". Even though Cao Xi and she were not married, their "status" already existed. In order to make her explanation more convincing, she gave examples of those who had been selected before.

The girl who left the sign committed suicide after Emperor Kangxi's success, so Qianlong stopped drafting when he reached a certain age.

Maybe Cao Xi is not the emperor, but there is only one way for a woman in this social system. She will live peacefully and no one will blame her. It is much better to be a "widow" at home than to serve others in the palace.

, because she is still the master at home.

There is a story in the Biography of Women. When King Chu Cheng was in power, he married the daughter of the King of Zheng. Once King Chu Cheng came to the high platform in the harem garden, held his head high and looked around, looking majestic and majestic, dominating the world.

It seemed that all the people in the surrounding palace were eagerly watching and praising him. Only one woman walked forward on her own without stopping to look.

King Chu Cheng saw the woman's behavior, so he asked the woman to look at him, but the woman didn't look. The king said again, "Look at me, and I will give you a thousand pieces of gold, and I will make your father, brother, and son your son." The woman still didn't look, so he said:

Wang walked down the stage and stopped her and said, "Just look at me, and I will make you my wife and give you titles and salaries to your father, brother, and children. It only takes one look. Why don't you look at me?"

At this time, the woman said, "I heard that the woman is good-looking and good-looking. Now that the king is on the stage, it would be disrespectful for me to look at her. If I don't look at her, the king promised me that she will be treated as a wife and that she will be richly paid by high officials."

, if you look at it at this time, the concubine is a person who is greedy for wealth and wealth and forgets justice. How can a person who forgets justice serve the king?"

When King Chu Cheng heard this, he made her his wife. Her name was Zheng Yu, and she was originally a dowry for the daughter of the king of Zheng.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, other countries followed the eldest son inheritance system, while Chu State established the younger son. King Chu Cheng planned to make Shang Chen the crown prince because King Chu Cheng doted on Shang Chen's mother at that time.

After Zheng Zheng heard about this, he told his maid, I heard that a woman's responsibilities are only food and work. Even so, I can't hide my thoughts. I don't think when my son said he couldn't

He appointed a merchant minister as the crown prince, but the crown prince resented him because of this and found an excuse to kill him. The king was unable to see clearly, causing innocent people to suffer crimes that they should not bear. It was really confusing black and white, and making no distinction between right and wrong.

The king has so many beloved sons, all of whom want to inherit the throne. The prince is greedy and cruel, and will definitely worry about losing his current position. And the king himself is still in the dark, and no one can make him wake up. If this continues, the disputes between his descendants and his descendants will begin.

If it happens, disaster is about to happen.

Sure enough, within a few years, King Chu Cheng changed his mind and wanted to make his son Xiong Zhi the crown prince.

After Zheng Zheng heard about this incident, he said to his maid, I heard the ancients say, 'If you don't trust someone, don't trust them.

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I have already analyzed the stakes of this matter to the king, but it is a pity that he did not listen. He thought that I opposed him because I wanted to appoint my son as the prince. Since the king has such an idea,

Others must have the same idea if they don't understand.

Rather than end up with an unjust reputation, I would rather die to show my ambition and show that I have no selfish motives. Moreover, if I die, the king will understand my intentions, and he will definitely repent and stop changing the crown prince at will.

After saying this, Zheng Zheng committed suicide and died.

Her maid didn't react at all. When she saw this scene, she was frightened out of her wits. She hurriedly ran to report to King Chu Cheng and told him exactly what Zheng Yang said.

At this time, the prince Shangchen had already received the news that his father was planning to abolish his position as prince, so he decided to take the first step and gathered a group of his own men to surround the palace.

King Chu Cheng did not expect such a thing to happen at all. He was having dinner in the palace at that time. Seeing his son angrily approaching him with a sword in his hand, his heart suddenly became cold.

He knew it was too late to say anything now, so he said to his son, "Please let me eat this bear paw before leaving." The merchant was afraid that he was delaying the war, so he flatly rejected his small request in order to avoid long nights and nightmares.

King Chu Cheng couldn't help but let out a long sigh, regretting that he shouldn't have listened to Zishang and Zheng Zheng in the first place. Unfortunately, it was too late now, and it was too late.

So he had to silently put down the bear paw in his hand, took out a piece of white silk, threw it on the beam, tied it with a knot, and committed suicide.

In this way, after the merchant forced his father to death, he ascended the throne of King Chu and was called King Mu of Chu.

There is a saying in this story, "It is better to die to understand it than to live without meaning." This is exactly what Zheng Yu said. Wan Ning quoted it. The author who wrote these words did not intend to blame, but instead praised the move.

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There was a poet named Yu Qian in the Ming Dynasty. He wrote a poem like this: "Famous events are more important than Mount Tai, but profit is less important than feathers."

Sima Qian, the author of historical records, wrote: "Everyone is destined to die, and it may be heavier than Mount Tai or lighter than a feather."

The importance of honor and integrity can be equated with Mount Tai, life and death. It can be seen that the moral concept of Chinese women is a complex emotion mixed with gentleness and obedience.

As for Wan Ning's claim that the portrait was for a blind date, it was a lie. What woman doesn't want to keep the beautiful image of herself when she was young?

In the forty-first chapter of "Dream of Red Mansions", Grandma Liu finished undressing her hands and walked across a piece of white stone with a stinking smell to Jia Baoyu's fragrant bedroom. There she saw a girl walking towards her with a smile.

When I took a closer look, I realized that it was not a person, but a very three-dimensional painting.

Then she walked for a while and found her mother-in-law coming. When she took a closer look, she saw that it was none other than Grandma Liu's own reflection in the mirror.

She has never seen a full-length mirror, which is only available to rich people, but when she was young, Grandma Liu should have done her makeup in front of a mirror, or she should have tidied her appearance in front of the reflection in the water.

The illusion of Taixu is an existence that cannot be ignored in Dream of Red Mansions. It is created by "Fengyue Baojian", and "Baojian" means mirror.

In the first chapter of Dream of Red Mansions, it is written that Zhen Shiyin "dreams" into the illusion of Taixu. Is this the same understanding as the "words in the mirror" spoken by the people of Hueyin?

Nick originally regretted that his book had been left with the imam and that he might never get it back. Unexpectedly, it suddenly appeared on his window sill, accompanied by the manuscript translated by the imam.

Nick tore out those pages with dangerous contents, but instead of burning them, he hid them.

As for how it appeared, it might be the same as the note that appeared on the floor of his bedroom, brought in by incredible magic.
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