Eight hundred and seventieth chapters mother and daughter meet
Yecheng.
The whole city is covered with new green, early spring has arrived, and this once frozen hell city is now finally glowing with a glimmer of life.
Not long ago, Yan Liang officially issued a decree to make Yingtian the southern capital, Chang'an the western capital, Luoyang the eastern capital, and Yecheng was officially changed to the northern capital.
Among them, Luoyang is still the permanent capital, and the remaining Yingtian, Chang'an and Yecheng are all companion capitals.
Now that Yecheng has been changed to Beidu, part of Luoyang's government team can also be moved to Yecheng. This will also help Yan Liang to handle government affairs conveniently while carrying out the war to wipe out Liu Bei.
Spring has arrived this year, the weather is warming up rapidly, and the ice and snow covering the entire northern land is also completely melting.
The severe cold has passed and spring and summer are approaching. Yan Liang has ordered to mobilize food and grass, train soldiers, and prepare to start the Northern Expedition again.
At this time, Julu's careful work once again sent information about Zhuge Liang to Yecheng.
According to the intelligence, Liu Bei had personally issued an order to prevent Zhuge Liang from answering his mother's call and not allowing him to come to Yecheng to fulfill his filial piety.
As soon as the news came out, there was a lot of discussion in Julu City.
Although the Han people in the city all knew that the Song family was forced by Yan Liang to write a letter calling Zhuge Liang to Yecheng, the concept of loyalty, ignorance and filial piety was still serious in this era. These Han people resented Yan Liang and treated Zhuge Liang for his "unfilial piety".
"The move was also criticized.
More discussions were directed at Liu Bei.
Liu Bei, the "benevolent king" who once filled the world with his benevolence and righteousness, has experienced Guan Yu and other events, and his reputation for benevolence and righteousness has long since collapsed.
Now, Liu Bei prevents Zhuge Liang from going to Yecheng to fulfill his filial piety, and even his reputation of "filial piety" is ruined.
The Han people have completely lost their original love for Liu Bei who showed his true colors. The reason why they are still loyal to Liu Bei now is simply because of Liu Bei's power.
"In order to keep Zhuge Liang, Liu Bei gave up even the last bit of reputation. He is truly shameless." Pang Tong said with emotion.
All the ministers on the left and right laughed contemptuously.
Yan Liang snorted coldly, with a somewhat dissatisfied look on his face, "Liu Bei has been shameless for a long time. It's a pity that my plan was to embarrass Zhuge Liang, but I didn't expect that Zhuge Liang was so cunning and pushed the problem to Liu Bei.
But I was only criticized by others, which really gave him an advantage."
Everyone nodded. They didn't know whether to praise Zhuge for being smart or cunning.
At this time, Pang Tong rolled his eyes, stroked his beard and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, don't worry, I have a plan that will definitely make Zhuge Liang lose face."
"What's the prime minister's clever plan?" Yan Shi became interested.
Pang Tong smiled and told his plan.
Hearing this plan, Yan Liang suddenly realized it and couldn't help laughing, "Very good. I will use Prime Minister's plan. Let me see what tricks Zhuge Liang can use this time to preserve his false reputation."
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Two days later, Yecheng Imperial Palace and Changchun Hall.
Ms. Song stood leaning on the railing and looked out the window absently.
Looking past the palaces one after another, it was the tall palace walls that isolated her from the outside, like a caged bird.
Song looked towards the north, and Zhuge Liang's voice could not help but appear in his mind.
That description of elegance, handsomeness, and full of sense of justice had, once upon a time, made her heart beat secretly at certain inadvertent moments.
But at this moment, Mrs. Song was full of disgust towards that face.
Because the latest news has come, Zhuge Liang has decided not to come to Yecheng and will continue to stay with Liu Bei.
This also means that Zhuge Liang has rejected her call as a mother and has regarded filial piety as bullshit.
Although Liu Bei ordered Zhuge Liang not to come to Yecheng, it is an indisputable fact that Zhuge Liang left the choice to Liu Bei.
This means that Zhuge Liang did not intend to come to Yecheng at all. He just passed the problem to Liu Bei, and he did not want to bear the reputation of being unfilial.
She was so grateful and proud of such a hypocritical, cunning and ruthless son. At this time, Mrs. Song couldn't help but feel sad for her own stupidity.
While I was deep in thought, I heard the sound of footsteps, and it seemed that many people had entered the hall.
Mrs. Song's heart tightened, just because Yan Liang had arrived, she suddenly panicked, quickly gathered her mood, and hurried into the palace.
In the hall, a group of maids have entered, most of them are new faces. Most of these maids are holding pearls, jade, silk, satin, embroidery and other items.
The woman walking at the front, dressed in fine clothes, didn't look like a maid, and her face looked quite familiar.
"My daughter pays my respects to my mother." The woman in fine clothes bowed to Mrs. Song and actually called her "daughter".
Ms. Song was shocked. She took a closer look at the woman who called herself "daughter". When she recognized who she was, her face changed with surprise.
"Ling'er, is it...is it you?" Mrs. Song said in a trembling voice.
The woman in front of me is none other than Zhuge Ling.
When the Song Dynasty went to Jiangdong and separated from Zhuge Ling, Zhuge Ling was only a teenager. It was the so-called eighteenth change of women, not to mention that Zhuge Ling is now over thirty.
Therefore, when they first met, Mrs. Song felt that the woman looked familiar, but could not remember who she was. Only when Zhuge Ling claimed to be her "daughter" did Ms. Song recognize her.
"It's my daughter, mother. I haven't seen you for a long time." Zhuge Ling said calmly, without any panic.
"Ling'er, why are you here?" Mrs. Song asked in shock.
Zhuge Ling sighed and told his mother the truth about how he was captured by Yan Liang and how he behaved like Yan Liang's woman.
Previously, Zhuge Liang felt that his sister was a disgrace to the Zhuge family, so he kept the matter of Zhuge Ling a secret from the Song family. Only then did the Song family know that their stepdaughter had become Yan Liang's concubine.
After learning Zhuge Ling's identity, Ms. Song suddenly felt embarrassed. Although she held her daughter's hand tightly, she didn't know what to say.
She is Yan Liang's prisoner, but her daughter is Yan Liang's concubine. How can she not feel embarrassed by this disparity in status.
"Mother, these new clothes and jewelry are given by the emperor. Mother, please put them on quickly." Zhuge Ling took out her hand, took a new piece of clothes, and put it on Mrs. Song's body.
Mrs. Song was stunned and subconsciously pushed the new clothes away, "My mother is just a prisoner of the emperor. Why did the emperor suddenly think of giving me clothes?"
Mr. Song noticed something was wrong.
Zhuge Ling smiled and said, "It is mother's blessing that the emperor gives me clothes. Mother should put them on first and then talk about it."
With that said, Zhuge Ling wanted to dress the Song family again.
"No reward for no merit, no reason, why would the emperor give me a favor? If you don't make it clear to me, Ling'er, my mother will not accept it." Mrs. Song, however, was very determined and took three steps back decisively.
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Seeing that her mother was so stubborn, Zhuge Ling had no choice but to order the palace maids to put down their clothes first, and then chase them away.
In this Changchun Palace, only her mother and daughter were left.
"Mother, let's talk inside." Zhuge Ling pulled Mrs. Song up and walked mysteriously to the inner room.
Zhuge Ling acted like he had something secret that was not convenient for outsiders to know.
The more her daughter behaves like this, the more uneasy Ms. Song feels.
"Ling'er, please tell me what's going on." Mrs. Song asked impatiently.
Zhuge Ling took Song's hand and said with a smile: "Speaking of which, my daughter also wants to congratulate her mother."
Congratulations?
Mrs. Song became even more confused, thinking that she had become a prisoner of Yan Liang, had suffered all the humiliation, suffered all the hardships, what else could she deserve to be congratulated for.
"Linger, stop beating around the bush, what exactly do you want to say?" Mrs. Song urged blankly.
Zhuge Ling took a breath and said slowly: "Then the daughter should tell her mother directly. The emperor has made a decree to accept her as his wife."
As soon as these words came out, Mrs. Song was shocked, and her whole plump body instantly turned to stone.
Yan Liang, do you want me to be your wife?
Mrs. Song's eyes were surging, and her astonished expression seemed to be that she couldn't believe her own expression and thought she had heard wrongly.
Zhuge Ling, however, held Song's hand tightly and repeated with a smile: "Mom heard it right, the emperor indeed decreed that his mother should be made his wife, and the ceremony of the Duke of Zhou will be performed tonight, so my mother quickly put on these new clothes."
, dress up to welcome the emperor."
When Zhuge Ling said these words, although he tried his best to maintain a natural demeanor, he could not hide the embarrassment that was revealed in every trace.
You know, the woman in front of you is your stepmother.
Now she, Zhuge Ling, has been adopted by Yan Liang as his wife, and now Yan Liang wants to adopt her stepmother as his wife. This means that the two of them will serve a husband together.
Although the two are not biological mother and daughter, this embarrassment is inevitable.
Although Zhuge Ling felt embarrassed, she only said that with her current status, only if she knew how to obey and endure humiliation, could she be qualified to have a place in Yan Liang's Golden Bird Tower.
With no choice, Zhuge Ling could only put away her discomfort, and under Yan Liang's instruction, came to enlighten her stepmother.
Mrs. Song was extremely shocked.
Ethical ethics in the Han Dynasty were not as serious as those of later generations. It was common for a wife to remarry after her husband died, and she would not be criticized by the world.
Just like in the past history, after Cao Cao divorced his original wife Ding, he also persuaded the Ding family to remarry Ding.
It would actually be okay if Mrs. Song remarried someone else, but now the person who wants to rape her is Yan Liang.
Yan Liang was the sworn enemy of the Zhuge family. He sent Zhuge Jin to feed pigs, forcing Zhuge Liang to execute Zhuge Jun. He also caused Zhuge Liang to have his legs broken, and he fled in embarrassment.
It was such a person who had a deep hatred for the Zhuge family, and now he wanted to forcefully marry her.
If Yan Liang accepted her as his wife, wouldn't Yan Liang become Zhuge Liang's stepfather?
If the news gets out, the world will laugh at him, saying that Zhuge Liang's mortal enemy has become Zhuge Liang's stepfather.
If this is the case, Zhuge Liang will be discredited!