"In order to make Fan Li happy, Xi Shi practiced hard and danced gracefully in the melodious music. Not only that, she also had to train etiquette. She became a well-educated palace maid. Her every move showed her beauty, and she treated people very well. She was so beautiful that she could not stand the same thing." Jian Jie said, lamenting in her heart that the infatuated woman was so stupid. In order to love a man, she actually agreed to be someone else's plaything.

"Xi Shi offered to Fuchai, and Fuchai was very happy. He built the Spring Night Palace in Gusu, built a large pool, and set up a green dragon boat in the pool, and played with Xi Shi on a water show. He also built a Guanwa Palace for her to perform singing, dancing and feasting.

Xi Shi was good at dancing clogs, and Fuchai specially built a "clog corridor" for her, using hundreds of large jars and wooden boards. She danced in wooden clogs, tied small bells in skirts, and placed them. The ringtone and the echo of the large jar were intertwined, making Fuchai intoxicated, addicted to women's beauty, ignore the government, and finally headed to the path of a king who was destroyed."

Xi Shi's clog dance has long been lost, which makes Jian Jie yearn for it. Compared to Fan Li, Fuchai, who is obsessed with her, really loves her. He doesn't want it to love her country. This doesn't mean it?!

So after the smoke of the Wu and Yue dispute disappeared, there is a saying in Xi Shi that she died of guilt and hanged herself.

She helped Yue destroy Wu, and felt deeply guilty. She felt sorry for Fuchai, who really loved her. In an extremely conflicted mentality, she could not be relieved and finally hanged herself in Guanwa's palace.

"That winter, the capital of Wu, Gusu City, was captured by the army of Yue, and Wu was destroyed. Xi Shi's life trajectory came to an abrupt end, and it seemed that with the ashes of Wu, it had been sank into dark history.

Wu Kingdom was destroyed, where did she go? How did she spend the second half of her life? No one cares about this miserable woman anymore!

The time she stayed on the stage of history seemed to be only a few years like a flash in the cereus, and more of her life trajectories were ignored." Jian Jie sighed. Since ancient times, her beauty has been so poor that Xi Shi is much worse than Wen Zhong who was sentenced to death by Goujian.

"How could it be? Didn't it mean that it was taken away by Fan Li?" Nalan Hongyao was surprised. Although she felt that Jian Jie was right, Fan Li was indeed a scumbag, and she was not pure enough for Xi Shi, but "After Xi Shi fell into Wu and returned to Fan Li and left with Taihu Lake" was a description in the literary and drama works of the capital. Is it fake?

"Do you think that timid Fan Slag dares to take Xi Shi away? "Records of the Grand Historian" and "The Spring and Autumn Annals of Wuyue" both said: Fan Li did not even take his wife away when he escaped. If he took Xi Shi to "span the Taihu Lake together", that would be too fake." Jian Jie had a sneer on his lips.

"This..." Nalan Hongyao hesitated.

"According to historical records, Fan Renzha did have a wife and gave birth to three boys for him, but this wife was definitely not Xi Shi." Jian Jie said affirmatively.

"As for the relationship between Fan Renzhao and Xi Shi in the literary drama you mentioned, they are mostly depicted as affectionate, warm and hard to part with. They even said that Fan Renzhao took Xi Shi to travel around the world after leaving Echigo.

These are mainly literary sympathy for this miserable woman, and they want to find an ideal destination for Xi Shi. And this ideal destination, they seem to think that it is a scumbag, they are really blind!"

Jian Jie sarcastically said that based on their sympathy for Xi Shi, these writers hope that Fan Li and Xi Shi’s relationship will be passed on. It’s ridiculous!

A person like Fan Renzhao is worthy of becoming Xi Shi's destination?!

"That Xi Shi..." Nalan Hongyao was a little worried. It was also a woman. She understood that a woman's involuntary and unself-destined fate under power. If it weren't for Fan Li, Xi Shi should have taken care of her husband and children and lived an ordinary life, but that was a kind of happiness.

Later generations often have harsh, unfair and one-sided visions of historical figures. They often only pay attention to their most glorious moments, and often deliberately ignore their lonely or peaceful years.

Xi Shi was obviously "neglected". When modern people want to work hard to restore a complete her, they will find it extremely difficult and there will be too many mysteries.

Nowadays, if you study history, you will regretfully find that among the four beauties, the other three can find evidence of existence in the official history at that time, but Xi Shi lacks any record of historic history.

She only exists in the records and chants of later generations. Not to mention her whereabouts, even important information such as her hometown, life and deeds can only be screened and summarized bit by bit from the complex pile of old papers.

When Goujian destroyed the Wu Kingdom and Fuchai was forced to commit suicide, Xi Shi, the number one beauty in ancient China, lost her value, and her fate can be imagined.

Her story or legendary experience is not recorded in official history, so after Yue destroyed Wu, her whereabouts became a mystery.

"There are various legends about Xi Shi's ending, and there are 6 main types in summary. Like what you said before, "taken away by Fan Renshao" is also one of them, but I think it should be fake." Jian Jie said.

"What about the other types?" Nalan Hongyao asked. She was eager to understand Xi Shi now, and she really hoped that this number one beauty in ancient China would have a good ending.

"One is the 'condescendant suicide', and the other is the 'being told by Fan Renzang'!" Jian Jie said coldly. If the latter is true, then Fan Li is hopelessly scum!

"How could it be?" Nalan Hongyao was also shocked. What they often heard was how affectionate Fan Li and Xi Shi were. Now, I suddenly heard that Fan Li was suspected of killing Xi Shi, so how could he not be shocked?

This statement is not unreasonable. After the demise of Wu, Goujian wanted to keep Xi Shi by his side because of her beauty, but Fan Li firmly opposed it.

He wanted Goujian to learn from Fuchai's lessons and not be tempted by beauty. So he used Xi Shi's trust in him to bring her to Taihu Lake. Finally, he pushed her off the boat while she was not paying attention, and she drowned in Taihu Lake.

There is another saying that "the Wu people sank the river." Folk legend says that after the fall of the Wu Kingdom, the Wu people vented all their anger on Xi Shi. They wrapped her layer by layer with brocade and sank it in the Yangtze River.

The poor generation of beauties became the scapegoat for Goujian and Fan Li!

"Dongpo Foreign Things" records: "There is a mermaid in the Yangtze River, also known as Xishi fish. It changes its color several times a day, and its meat is delicate and delicious. When a woman eats it, it can increase her charming appearance. According to the clouds, it is formed after Xishi sinks into the river."

Luo Yin of the Tang Dynasty wrote a poem: "When the family and country rise and fall freely, why should the people of Wu blame Xi Shi? If Xi Shi interprets the Wu Kingdom, who will the Yue Kingdom come to fall?"

From these we can see that Xi Shi was "speaked by the Wu people in the river" and there is also a certain basis.

Another thing is the "Goujian's saying that he was sinking into the river". Goujian once said: "Xi Shi should be the result of the destruction of Wu."

Obviously, he believed that the demise of Wu was due to Fuchai's indulgence in Xi Shi's beauty. In order to prevent Xi Shi's beauty from harming Yue, he repaid his grudges and gave Xi Shi to death in the river. It's so funny!
Chapter completed!