Harry Potter’s Morning Light

   Chapter 2218 Flower War (One Hundred and Twenty Seven)

   "Will that shadow follow us?"

   asked Bonaparte after a while.

  Georgianna suppressed a smile, she finally knew why he was suddenly "kind".

   Those papers in question have been taken by members of the French Ministry of Magic, although it is highly likely that they will bring them back to densely populated Paris.

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

   "Where did you read?"

   "Cao Xi was arrested there." She replied.

   He was visibly impatient.

   "Do you know where the devil is hiding? In the details." She said as she flipped through the book, "Be patient, Leon."

   He stopped talking again.

  Georgianna watched him secretly for a while and found that he was not really angry, and then began to read.

After sending off the imperial envoy, they returned to Huai'an, and took the sedan chair back to the Nanhe Governor's Mansion. When the sedan chair passed through an alley, a team of arresters ambushed at the corner suddenly rushed over Cao Xi's sedan chair and captured him. He didn't even have time to resist, and didn't know what kind of crime he had committed.

   Cao Xi, who arrested him, was expressionless and did not want to reveal a word. Cao Xi was taken to a prison in the city.

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

   It wasn't 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 unbelievable, and then Juren added new news. The emperor ordered to temporarily deprive the admiral of his command and asked him to go to Nanking to defend himself.

The admiral is obviously innocent, but the unfortunate old man is still extremely worried that the criminal law of the Qing Dynasty is reasonable in some aspects, but it is extremely severe when it comes to conspiracy cases, and it can even be said that it is too severe. He has nothing to do with fair trial.

A week later, the admiral left for Nanjing. Nick and Juren followed the officials who escorted Cao Xi. The poor guy was locked in a cage like a trapped beast. Couldn't get close to him and say a word to him.

  Wanning tried to get close to him, but was blocked by the officials who maintained the order, and then the loyal servant took her away and put her on a carriage.

At this time, Juren told Nick that according to the Qing law, the daughter of an offender would no longer be taken into the church, but sent to a remote place for exile. Enter the Tuck Court and become a palace maid or a female official.

  Nick looked at Cao Xi. He was in high spirits a few days ago, but now his shiny braids are gone, his eyes are blank, and the underwear on the sleeves is bloodied, as if he had been tortured.

It was difficult for Nick to know whether these learned servants truly loved the emperor or just wanted to use the imperial power to suppress another noble force. They were all loyal subjects, but they did not know that their servanthood was passed down from generation to generation. Yes, and I don't know that some people are born with authority. They can endure humiliation and bear the burden, and they are submissive, which happens to be not the quality of a white lotus believer who "reverses the Qing Dynasty and restores the Ming Dynasty".

   After arriving in Nanjing, they were imprisoned in an elaborate courtyard, which once belonged to a corrupt official as well. A few days later, the Admiral handed Juren several documents, asking him to draft a summary based on the career of Admiral Huan Hai, and Nick was invited to see Wan Ning's doctor.

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

Nick's proposal was to bleed her, but her family doctor firmly opposed it. His explanation was that Wanning has a fever now, like a boiling kettle, to reduce the external fire, not to reduce the temperature of the solution in the kettle. The less, the stronger the external fire.

Nick thinks Wan Ning's condition is the same as the last time the Admiral was in Guangzhou. Now her fiancé and father are involved in the change of her fate, but this incident doesn't make her feel bad, which is completely out of his mind. unexpected.

Wan Ning only betrothed to Cao Xi according to her father's wishes. In the face of filial piety, there is no influence that can defy her father's wishes, especially girls, who can't get freedom easily, not to mention Cao Xi has become a son-in-law. , she doesn't 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 path of "One Cong". Even though Cao Xi and her were not married, the "name" already existed. In order to make her explanation more convincing, she cites the previous election The girl who left the sign committed suicide after Emperor Kangxi's big trip, so Qianlong stopped drafting when he reached a certain age.

Maybe Cao Xi is not the emperor, but there is only one way for women in this social system, she will live a peaceful life, and no one will blame her, "being a widow" at home is much better than serving others in the palace , because she is still the master at home.

There is such a story in the biography of the women. When King Chu Cheng was in power, he married the daughter of the monarch of the State of Zheng. Once, King Chu Cheng came to the high stage in the garden of the harem. Appearance, the surrounding palace people all looked up and praised, only one woman walked forward on her own, and did not stop 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 at him, and the king said, "Look at me, I'll give you a thousand gold, and seal your father, brother and son." The woman still didn't look, so Wang stepped off the stage to stop her and said, "Look at me, I will make you a madam and give your father, brother and son a great title, just look at it, why not look at it?"

At this time, the woman said, "The concubine heard that the woman has a good appearance. Now the king is on the stage, and the concubine sees it, it is unethical, and the concubine does not look at it. If you look at it at this time, then the concubines are greedy for the rich and the people who forget the righteousness, how can a person who forgets the righteousness serve the king?"

   When King Cheng of Chu heard this, he named her his wife. Her name was Zheng Chong, and she was originally the dowry of the daughter of the monarch of the state of Zheng.

   During the Spring and Autumn Period, other countries followed the eldest son succession system, while the Chu State established the young ones. King Cheng of Chu planned to make the business ministers crown princes, because at that time King Cheng of Chu favored the mothers of the business ministers.

   When Zheng Yang heard about this, he said to his maid, "I heard that a woman's job is only to eat and work." Even so, I can't hide the thoughts in my heart. I think when the prince said that he could not make a business minister as the prince, the prince resented him because of this, and found an excuse to kill him. Your Majesty can't see things clearly, causing innocent people to suffer crimes that they shouldn't have to bear.

  The great king has so many beloved sons who all want to inherit the throne. The prince is greedy and cruel, and will definitely worry about losing his current position. And the king himself was still in the dark, and no one could wake him up. If this goes on, the disputes between the descendants will be staged, and disasters will come.

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

   When Zheng Yang heard about this, he said to his maid, "I heard the ancients say, "Don't use people who are suspicious, don't use people with suspicion." Now that the king insists on changing the position of the son Xiong to the crown prince, I am afraid this is the beginning of the chaos.

   I had already analyzed the stakes of this matter to the king, but unfortunately he didn’t listen. He also thought that I would oppose him because I wanted to establish my son as the crown prince. Since the king has such an idea, others must have the same idea.

   Rather than end up in an unjust name, I might as well die to show that I have no selfishness. Moreover, if I die, the king will understand my intentions, he will definitely repent, and no longer arbitrarily change the candidate of the prince.

   After saying this, Zheng Yang committed suicide.

   Her maid didn't react at all. Seeing this scene, she was so frightened that she hurried to report to King Chu Cheng, and told him exactly what Zheng Yang said.

   At this time, the prince and business ministers had already received the news and knew that his father was going to abolish his position as the prince, so he decided to attack first, and entangled a group of his own men to surround the palace.

   King Cheng of Chu did not expect such a thing to happen. At that time, he was having a meal in the bedroom, and when he saw his son carrying a sword in front of him angrily, he felt a chill in his heart.

   He knew that it was too late to say anything, so he said to his son, please let me eat this bear paw before leaving. The business minister was afraid that he was a tactic to delay the army, so he categorically rejected his small request in order to avoid long nights.

   King Cheng of Chu couldn't help sighing deeply, regretting that he didn't listen to Zishang and Zheng Chong at first, but it's too late to regret it now, it's too late.

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

  In this way, after the business minister forced his father to death, he himself ascended the throne of the king of Chu and was called the king of Chu Mu.

There is a saying in this story, "It's better to die without justice than to die." This is exactly what Zheng Chong said, and Wan Ning quoted it. The author who wrote these words did not intend to blame, but praised the move. .

   There was a poet in the Ming Dynasty named Yu Qian, who wrote a poem like "Fame and festivals weigh Mount Tai, but desire for profit lighten feathers".

  Sima Qian, the author of the historical record, wrote that "people inherently die, either heavier than Mount Tai or lighter than a feather".

  The importance of famous festivals can be equated with Mount Tai and life and death. It can be seen that the moral concept of Chinese women is a complex emotion mixed with tenderness and obedience.

   As for Wan Ning's deceit when she said that the portraits were for a blind date, what woman would not want to leave behind her beauty when she was young?

In the forty-one episodes of "A Dream of Red Mansions", Grandma Liu finished her hands, and with a stench all over her body, she walked over a white stone to Jia Baoyu's fragrant bedroom, where she saw a girl walking towards her with a smile. When you look closely, it is not a person, but a very three-dimensional painting.

   Then she walked for a while and found that her own mother was coming. When she looked closely, it was none other than Grandma Liu’s reflection in the mirror.

   She has never seen a full-length mirror, which is only available to the rich, but Grandma Liu should have dressed herself in the mirror when she was young, otherwise she would have groomed herself in front of the reflection in the water.

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

  A Dream of Red Mansions first wrote that Zhen Shiyin "dreams" in a phantom realm. Is this the same understanding of "words in the mirror" that people from Huyin said?

  Nick originally regretted that his book was left with Imam, and he might never be able to get it back. Unexpectedly, it suddenly appeared on his windowsill with the manuscript translated by Imam.

  Nick tore off the pages of dangerous content, but instead of burning it, he hid it.

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

   (end of this chapter)