Chapter 61: Wen Yiren's Wife-Controlling Attribute as a Second-Rate Person
In the modern Three Kingdoms TV series, Ah Man is: ordinary Ah Man with artistic attributes, artistic Ah Man with stupid and wife-controlling attributes, stupid Ah Man with ordinary deep affection attributes...
So where did Cao's wife-controlling attribute come from? This has to do with a person, Lai Ying'er.
Lai Ying'er was a famous songstress and dancer in Luoyang, the capital of Eastern Han Dynasty. She lived a life where "young men from the Five Tombs competed to tie her hair, and she didn't know how many red scarves she had received for just one song".
Ying'er was born with a noble and elegant temperament, showing two vastly different faces on and off stage. On stage, she was passionate and unrestrained, able to drive her audience and spectators nearly crazy; off stage, she was silent and taciturn, making those who wanted to get close to her have to retreat in defeat.
She became Old Cao's concubine when Old Cao was the mayor of Luoyang, at that time he went to listen to Qu Er with a group of sons from official families such as Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, where he met Lai Ying'er and fell in love with her.
At this time, ordinary A Duan transformed into artistic A Duan, and the attributes of artistic A Duan played a huge role.
Wen Yia Man was a very talented poet, also very romantic, and soon captured the heart of Lai Ying Er, and took her home as his wife;
However, Lao Cao was a busy person and gradually neglected Lai Ying'er. Lai Ying'er then had an improper relationship with Lao Cao's guard Wang Tu. It wasn't a big deal at first, but she became pregnant! In the past few days, she felt nauseous and vomited, so Ding Furen found a doctor for her.
Got it! Joyful pulse! It's been three months! You know, Old Cao hasn't returned home for almost a year, so naturally, he hasn't had any intimate physical contact with these wives and concubines. After sending off the doctor with a smile, Ding Furen's face was literally covered in frost!
Her husband had entrusted her with the heavy responsibility of managing household chores, but now she discovered that her husband's mistress was pregnant with someone else's child, this is her dereliction of duty!
In the Han Dynasty, whether aristocratic women or commoner females, they had more freedom and a more relaxed living space, their spirit was more independent, their words and deeds were more natural, and their emotions were more passionate.
In the Han Dynasty, it was still far from the birth of feudal Confucianism, and some remnants of matriarchal society were preserved. Therefore, compared with later generations, women in the Han Dynasty had a social status that later generations of women could not imagine. The breadth and depth of their participation in social life are unparalleled in other dynasties.
At this time, there was no excessive emphasis on the ethical view of "three obediences and four virtues", so such things happened.
This incident completely destroyed Cao Cao's good mood. Originally, he was delighted to see his sister find her place, but now the taste in his heart can be imagined. Any man cannot tolerate this kind of thing, even if he is a broad-minded and ambitious person like Cao Cao!
Li Yu smiled and sent Cao Pi and Cao Ang back, with Cao Fang still following beside them. This was an opportunity deliberately created by Old Cao, just to let the two people get in touch with each other and become familiar with each other.
As soon as Li Yu arrived at the Cao family's mansion, he felt that something was off. As he entered the main hall, he saw two people, a man and a woman, kneeling on the ground, shivering with fear.
"Zixiu, take Xiaop back! And...", Cao Fang gave Li Yu a meaningful and affectionate glance, then followed Cao Ang and Cao Pi as they left. She also felt that something was going to happen. The ones kneeling on the ground were Cao Cao's concubine and her sister-in-law, Lai Ying'er; the other one was Cao Cao's original guard captain, Wang Tu, whom she knew.
"Ah, I've seen the boss! Lady Ting and Lady Bian!", Li Yu paid his respects. In the great hall, apart from Cao Cao, there were also the current Imperial Guard Commander Xu Chu, Dian Wei, and his two wives... no, his original wife and concubine Madame Bian;
Cao Cao forced a smile, returned the courtesy and said: "Huaide! Sit!" Ding Furen and Bian Furen also sized up Li Yu, this future maternal uncle of the Cao family. Although they were not in a good mood, they thought Li Yu was not bad either;
Looking at the silent group of people, Li Yu's eyes narrowed, it seems like this is going to be a family matter! "Since there's nothing else, I'll take my leave first!"
Cao Cao said: "Huaide, you are also my brother-in-law now, not an outsider. Help me think about it, what should I do with this matter?" Cao Cao was somewhat disheartened and cold-hearted, thinking that if he couldn't even manage his own family properly, how could he govern the world?
"Oh?" Li Yu didn't stand on ceremony, found a place to sit down, Cao Cao was starting to treat him as one of his own family members, he also relaxed; looking at the two people kneeling on the ground, the woman was beautiful and the man was handsome, what a great couple!
This Wang Tu was a guard collected by Cao Cao when he was the governor of Jinan, at that time the Yellow Turban Rebellion had just been pacified, and a large number of refugees gathered. Cao Cao did a good job in governing the people and calming them down, and he also recruited Wang Tu, a man with several sons, from among the refugees to serve as his guard.
This little brat is really something else, not only did he not repay his debt of gratitude, but he also ruined Old Cao's family.
"What does the master plan to do?" Li Yu asked with narrowed eyes;
"Alas! Family shame!", Cao Cao sighed: "A day of husband and wife, a hundred days of kindness, I plan to let Ying'er off, as for Wang Tuo... forget it... I'll just help them out!"
Li Yu stood up and walked to Wang Tu, lifting his chin with his hand: "I've never seen a person like you, but... I hate people like you the most. In ancient times, there was a punishment called cannoning, where a copper pillar would be heated until it's red-hot, then the person would be stuck onto it, that's what cannoning is."
"There's another one you might not have heard of, called lingchi. They'll strip you bare, then cover you with a dense fishing net and pull it tight. Then, with a sharp little knife, they'll cut your protruding flesh into strips, piece by piece... according to my estimate, you can be cut over 3,000 times before you die..."
"What do you think?" Li Yu asked, squatting on the ground. Wang Tu was drenched in sweat, tears and snot flowing out as he loudly begged for mercy;
Not only him, but also Cao Cao, Xu Chu, Dian Wei, Ding Furen and Bian Furen were frightened enough, never expecting that the usually gentle and elegant Li Yu could think of such a cruel method.
"Oh no! —— Lord Cao, I beg of you, spare Wang Tu's life...", Cai Yan cried like rain, kowtowing repeatedly.
"Shut up...", Li Yu said calmly;
"I'd rather die in his place......", said Cui Ying'er.
"Shut up!", Li Yu's eyes gleamed with a cold light, like a ferocious wolf: "You also have the face to say such things, don't think that just because you have some looks, everyone will give in to your face! Do you know how many people have frozen to death, starved to death... It was Cao Gong who disregarded his own status and gave you a stable home, it was he who provided you with three meals a day, a warm and comfortable life..."
Li Yu now understands why Cao Cao has the attribute of being controlled by his wife. Firstly, he lost his mother at a young age and had some Oedipus complex; secondly, because others slept with his concubine, he always thought that if others slept with her, he could win her back.
"Never mind! Wei De, don't bother them anymore!" Cao Cao said;
"Heh heh heh...", Li Yu nervously laughed a few times, turned around and walked out the door, but came back in a moment...
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