Although Xu Zhiyi was spoiled at home since childhood, she learned all the arts that a girl should learn, namely music, chess, calligraphy and painting.
When he was 10 years old, his father died unexpectedly.
My mother was ill at the time. When she heard the news, her blood rushed to her heart and she vomited blood. She has been bedridden ever since and passed away a few years later.
My brother was still young, and at this time, while he was fighting on the front lines, he was just a warrior and had not yet won any honor.
Not enough to support the entire family's door lintel.
The family fell into poverty. My eldest sister was married at this time and was not affected yet, but she was not as confident at home.
However, the man found a reason to cancel the engagement with my second sister.
Finally, with her good talent, she found a good husband. Although he was not as well-connected as the previous one, he was lovable and caring towards her.
Xu Zhiyi has regarded Gu Jingyan as her future husband since she was a child, and naturally developed a liking for him in her ignorant state.
Something happened at home at that time, and he also came to mourn his father.
Xu Zhiyi stood there in mourning clothes, looking extremely pitiful.
He said to Xu Zhiyi:
"When you reach marriage age, I will definitely come to marry you in a sedan chair carried by eight people."
Xu Zhiyi felt relieved after hearing this. Fortunately, she still had someone she could rely on. From then on, she fell deeply in love with him.
When she reached the age of 15, Gu Jingyan did marry her.
Although the banquet was not grand, she originally thought that the Gu family had run out of money.
It was not until she was sent to the palace that she realized that the love she had imagined from the beginning to the end was nothing but an illusion.
The current Queen Mother was the champion of palace fighting in her time, and she strictly controlled the number of the next generation.
However, he did not dare to do it too obviously, and finally left four princes to the previous one.
I don’t know whether the old emperor became suspicious or his long-standing favor was gone.
The frail old emperor was planning to replace the crown prince.
But it was known by the current empress dowager, the queen at that time.
She thought that these evils should not be left in the world.
He immediately joined forces with the then crown prince's allies and planned a coup together with the crown prince.
Except for the crown prince, all the other princes died at the palace gate, and blood was all over the ground.
The prince ascended the throne naturally. He was 20 years old that year.
As soon as he came to power, he completely wiped out those princes.
After issuing the order to execute everyone, it was not enough. Every mansion was burned down by a huge fire.
The fire burned all night long.
Strangely enough, he did not have any offspring until he ascended the throne at the age of 20.
The emperor then struggled for another ten years and finally had a princess.
Or was it a little palace maid whom he had casually visited in Yime Garden when he was drunk that year?
The little palace maid was trembling with fear and stayed in the palace for a long time. When she was about to give birth, she could no longer hide it and told the story.
She was immediately taken seriously, although the Empress Dowager and the Emperor were not satisfied with the identity of the child's biological mother.
After all, it was his first child, so the emperor immediately protected the palace maid.
After the investigation was completed and the dates were confirmed to be correct, an imperial decree was issued to confer her the title of Talented Lady.
The Queen Mother was greatly inspired by this, thinking that in recent years, a wave of women from aristocratic families would enter the palace every year.
Still no solution was found, so he immediately issued an order to start selecting women from ordinary families outside the palace who were very fertile.
The necessary conditions of big buttocks and big breasts must be met.
Unfortunately, one after another entered the palace, but no good news came out.
The talented woman who gave birth to the princess never became pregnant again.
The Queen Mother had no choice but to start selecting women from the public who had already given birth.
This went on for another six years.
The ministers had already expressed dissatisfaction and wrote letters to the emperor one after another.
The emperor was required to select a suitable candidate from among his relatives to be adopted.
Rumors also began to spread outside the palace that the emperor had killed too many people when he ascended the throne, which angered the gods and would not allow him to have any offspring.
Xu Zhiyi was sent to the palace now.
This time the officials offered it on their own initiative.
Out of curiosity, he read the memorial.
It turned out that the woman's name was Xu Zhiyi. Since the eldest sister got married, she had given birth to one child every year, and she had five children in total.
My second sister had three children in four years after she got married.
Everyone in her family has a fertile physique and many children.
She has been married for half a year and still hasn't gotten pregnant because Gu Jingyan has been sleeping in a separate room from her since their wedding day.
I haven't touched her yet.
As an emperor, he was not curious why officials offered their wives.
He is the emperor, and all the women in the world belong to him.
Some people are willing to sell their wives for fame and fortune, and if they get a child as a result, they will be happy and content.
That night, Xu Zhiyi was wrapped naked in a quilt.
When she was sent in, the emperor, after seeing so many beauties, was still shocked by her and thought she was as beautiful as a flower.
He visited her several times, but unfortunately there was no good news.
The emperor's patience was completely exhausted.
Then look for the next target.
The forgotten Xu Zhiyi suffered miserably in the palace, living a life worse than that of a maid.
There are many women like this in the palace, not to mention that she has no family background.
How good can life be for a woman forgotten by the emperor?
She originally thought that Gu Jingyan was just forced to offer himself up.
After all, she also knew that the emperor was cruel by nature, and if she didn't agree to him, the Gu family would be in trouble.
Until she met Gu Jingyan's current wife, Xia Xiuer.
She still remembered that she was so hungry that she tried to steal a steamed bun in a dishevel, but was discovered.
She didn't even mind when the eunuch threw a rotten bun at her with a smile.
The eunuch looked bored and ran away.
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