Insufficient balance
This little girl turned out to be a princess, but I didn't expect it. At the time, I led a group of soldiers like chasing rabbits, driving the scattered and disorganized troops to run all over the place. Suddenly, a soft little thing jumped out from the grass and wrapped itself around my leg, giving me a big fright. It was a small girl with a dusty face and tear stains on her cheeks, with grains of soil still stuck to them. Her clothes were torn and hanging in strips, making people feel pity for her. She cried out pitifully, "Brother, save me!"
The mutiny broke out, and she was so frightened that she hid in the grass to avoid several groups of rioting soldiers. As a result, Yang Xuan, who had been following her all day, was killed by the rioting soldiers right in front of her. "Father, I'm in pain, I don't want to die," Yang Xuan's dying cry still echoed in her ears. If it weren't for Yang Xuan, who had almost died, crawling up with blood and tears flowing, running a few steps before being hacked to death again, she might not have escaped. She was so shocked that she only dared to hide in a corner and weep quietly.
With great difficulty, she finally managed to squeeze out and bumped into a group that didn't look so fierce. Her instincts made her grab onto the person who looked the most harmless and safe. She couldn't forget the warmest smile he had shown at that moment. "Miss, did you mistake me for someone else?" Then she buried her head in his shoulder and burst out crying loudly. At that instant, he was 21 years old, and she was 12 years old.
This is also a princess, I was depressed and brought this group of people to the front line myself. I wasn't thinking about being a hero saving a beauty or anything, but saving a little girl who looks like she's still got over ten years before she grows up is really disappointing. However, it's better than nothing, after all, even a small mouse is still meat, I don't know how many benefits I can get from this. "It's okay, it's okay" I forced out a smile and comforted her, took out some dried meat and fed it to her, coaxing her until she stopped being frightened, and buried her head in my chest, sobbing.
The surrounding noise gradually subsided, and the disheveled soldiers were led away one after another, their armor removed. It seemed that things had more or less come to an end. I held Little Orchid in my arms and, accompanied by a group of officers who were driving pigs and sheep, hastily went to pay respects to the Emperor, and also to catch a glimpse of that person I had imagined.
As soon as we arrived at the palace, I felt a sad and suffocating atmosphere, with muffled sobbing and wailing sounds. The little maid seemed to sense something and jumped down like a rabbit, rushing inside. Then there were sudden shouts and screams from inside, and our arrival caused another round of chaotic shouting and screaming. Many eunuchs were seen running around in fear, shouting "The rebels have broken in!" while others fell to the ground, covering their heads, amidst the chaos and panic.
At this time, the temporary palace outside the forest was crowded with people, and the civil and military officials who were beaten earlier were also squeezed among the soldiers who had been hungry for several days to grab food. The scene was magnificent, and the court etiquette and official dignity were all thrown aside. The clothes, hats, and belts were torn and scattered everywhere, but no one could grab more than the strong and powerful soldiers. Fortunately, someone had instructed beforehand to add water to the pot and simmer it into a thin porridge, avoiding these starving people from eating indiscriminately and dying from overeating without restraint. Obviously, all the cooking utensils of the whole army were not enough for use, and some people couldn't wait and simply took the grain and cooked it with their own helmets and shields. More ridiculously, someone even stole the incense burners from the temple to cook with.
Thus another wonder was born - on the grass, several thousand large and small strange-shaped "pots" were arranged in an array, with smoke billowing out, quite a magnificent sight. Fortunately, Vice General Wei Tao Zun followed orders and left out a few large pots of porridge before allowing those crowded and struggling princes and high officials to barely fill their bellies.
When I saw this group of women, my first thought was that either the aesthetic views of those ancient scholars and literati were problematic or the painting skills of the ancients were too poor. Otherwise, how could the portraits of elegant ladies handed down through the ages depict each and every one of these stunning beauties as supposedly having a pointed head, small feet, large buttocks, thick waist, and stout body, i.e., so-called hourglass figure plump beauty?
Especially the faintly visible tears on the shoulders of that old emperor are extremely charming, despite being dusty and disheveled, with a simple white dress and shallow yellow sleeves, not to mention the broken pearl decorations, but a beauty is still a beauty, whether it's time or dust, can't hide the stunning looks that surpass the three thousand beauties in the harem, with eyebrows like spring mountains, clever and charming, rich and elegant, all the best adjectives you can think of, breathtakingly beautiful, making people unable to breathe, absolutely the kind of woman who makes men go crazy, willing to give up everything for a smile, that's what they call a nation-toppling beauty, a woman who can make people's blood boil with just a slight expression, now I understand why Emperor Xuanzong of the prosperous Kaiyuan era was infatuated with her all his life.
The beautiful scenery before us, cannot help but recall the various comments of later generations. Among them, there is no doubt that they are rare in their true feelings of adversity and also extremely rare in their shared love of music. Originally, it could have been a beautiful story, but this kind of story happening in an imperial family turned into the greatest tragedy, even with the fate of the entire world as its price. What's more, it involves the number one person in the world.
The greater the emperor in history, the more ruthless he often is. When emotions extend to political decisions for a country, it becomes a disaster.
In history, the kings with rich emotions seem to have no good results, either they are foolish or the kings who lost their country (such as Li Yu of Southern Tang and Houzhu of Later Zhou). Even Emperor Xuanzong of Tang was young and talented, with extraordinary bravery and wisdom, creating a prosperous era with his civil and military achievements. However, when he grew old, he couldn't escape being entangled in romantic feelings, crazily falling in love with his daughter-in-law, "The bed is warm on a spring morning, the sun rises high, from then on the king does not attend early court" and thus destroyed the prosperous dynasty...
It's still the end of summer now, and those thin spring sleeves outside are slightly exposed, like bright jade, which makes people imagine that scene... I couldn't help but stare blankly for half a day. Just as I was lost in thought, I felt someone pulling my fingers hard, it turned out to be little girl washing and combing her hair, wearing a new lake-green dress, with a thin waist, two small double-ringed braids on the back of her head, another flavor, two big eyes staring at me, seemingly very unhappy with my expression.
"Huh, you're bleeding!" I only then noticed that my nose was aching and hot, and it had actually made me have a nosebleed! How embarrassing. Luckily the Emperor is in a good mood now and didn't notice, while Yang Taizhen seems to be used to seeing people lose their composure when they first meet her, but she doesn't mind, just gives a slight smile that makes one feel like they're basking in spring breeze, can't help but feel like there's a little rabbit jumping around in their chest, beating rapidly.
At this time, outside was another scene, thousands of soldiers and horses cooking and eating turned into thousands of soldiers and horses going to the toilet. These days, only a small amount of poor water-boiled wheat bran and bean stalks were eaten, swallowed too hastily, and it's no wonder that the poor intestines and stomach didn't come out thin. The most miserable ones were those princes and nobles and their families who ran slower than soldiers, all the good land was occupied by others, they had to give up what was near and seek what was far away. After much difficulty, they finally found a piece of forest, but it was full of familiar people, really couldn't wait any longer, they could only throw away all their dignified manners and rules, wrapped themselves in clothes, even covering their faces, pretending not to know each other, and solved the problem on the spot. There were also those who didn't have time to find a place, had to turn back halfway, secretly sneaking to the riverbank. For a while, the woods and bushes were constantly rustling, farting like thunder, and it was hard to make a good piece of land into a flowing, smelly mess.
