A white rainbow has appeared in the sky. Sister, please come out quickly. If it’s too late, it will be gone! "
"White rainbow?" Li Xiayu walked to the window in confusion and looked in the direction of his sister's finger. He saw a white rainbow cutting through the sky, like a sharp sword, piercing the sun. The rays of light flowed out like blood, covering half of the sky. All stained red.
"White rainbow shining through the sun?" Li Xiayu couldn't help but shiver, and quickly pulled his sister away from the window, then slammed the window shut: "Don't look at it!"
"Why aren't you allowed to look at it?" My sister Li Suwen was only twelve years old. She looked at her frightened sister curiously and said, "This is the first time I have seen a white rainbow like this!"
"Remember, the Emperor of Japan is also the Emperor! Bai Hong and Bai Jing's Qi are the masters of swords and weapons! This is a great ominous sign!"
"Sister, are you saying that the sun is Aye? This sign is not good for Aye?"
"Not bad!" Li Xiayu stood up and looked out from the crack of the window to confirm that no one was watching his sister. He held her sister in his arms and whispered in his ear: "Awen, that woman is now the queen. Lord, her eyes and ears are everywhere in the palace. Our every move, every word and every word is under the surveillance of others. If we are not careful, we will all end up like our mother. There are such ominous signs in the sky today, As long as others say something about you and me looking happy, then you and I will not be able to escape the crime of resentment, do you understand?"
After hearing her sister's words, her eyes suddenly opened wide, her face turned pale, her whole body was shaking and she could not speak. It turns out that these two sisters are not ordinary people, but the two daughters of today's emperor: Princess Li Xiayu of Yiyang and Princess Li Suwen of Gao'an. Their mother is Concubine Xiao Shu, who was selected into the palace when Jinshang was still in the East Palace to give birth to Li Zhisheng. She has two daughters and one son, who are deeply favored by Li Zhi.
When Li Zhi ascended the throne as emperor in 649 AD, he named Concubine Xiao Shu as Concubine Shu. Since the Queen had no children, Concubine Xiao Shu became the biggest threat to the Queen. In order to take away Concubine Xiao Shu's favor, the Queen asked Concubine Xiao to become a monk in Ganye Temple at that time. The Wu family grew their hair and persuaded Li Zhi to welcome her into the palace as a helping hand. Unexpectedly, the Wu family was deeply favored by Li Zhi. Queen Wang and Xiao Shufei fell out of favor one after another. The two had to join forces to fight against the Wu family's palace, but they failed in the end.
In October of the sixth year of Yonghui (AD 655), Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty issued an edict stating: "Empress Wang and Concubine Xiao Shu conspired to commit poison and were deposed as common people. Their mother and brothers were also expelled and exiled to Lingnan." Soon after, Wu Zetian ordered people to Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao Shu were to be hanged. The Wang family and the Xiao family were all exiled to Lingnan, and the Wang family's surname was changed to "Mang" and the Xiao family to "Xiao". Although the sisters Li Xiayu and Li Suwen were golden, they were imprisoned in the Yeting of Daxing Palace because of their mother, just like other guilty palace maids.
"Sister!" Li Suwen took a deep breath: "Aye loves us the most. We are locked up here and treated like slaves. Doesn't he know?"
My sister's question was like a steel needle, piercing directly into the deepest part of Li Xiayu's heart. She was much older than her sister. When Concubine Xiao Shu failed in the palace battle, she already knew a lot about the world. Naturally, she knew that whether her mother was being Whether he was punished and executed, or what happened to him and his sister at this time, he must have received his father's approval, or at least his tacit approval. But she couldn't tell such a cruel truth to her young sister. After all, in such a ghost place, it was enough for one person to be desperate.
"Yes, Aye must not know!"
"Then if Aye knew that my sister and I were imprisoned here, he would definitely issue an imperial edict to rescue me and my sister, right? Take us to the Daming Palace!" Li Suwen said hopefully: "And that bad woman, She must have deceived Aye and harmed my mother and us!"
"Stop talking!" Li Xiayu instinctively stretched out his hand to cover his sister's mouth, raised his head and looked out the window before whispering: "Be careful, walls have ears!"
"Yes!" Li Suwen nodded obediently: "Sister, we have been detained here for several years, right? Aye hasn't seen us for so long, doesn't he doubt it?"
"There were so many states and counties in the Tang Dynasty, and the memorials sent every day could fill several tables. Aye was so busy dealing with state affairs every day that he had no time to eat or sleep. It's not surprising that he couldn't think of us sisters for a while!" Li Xiayu comforted his sister with a strong smile: "As long as we sincerely pray to the gods and Buddhas, Aye will definitely think of us before the Lantern Festival this year, no, before it snows, and send someone to take us to the Daming Palace!"
"Yeah! Sister is right!" Li
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Su Wen broke free from Li Xiayu's arms and knelt down on her knees: "Sister, let's pray to the gods and Buddhas now! It's too cold here. It would be nice to leave here a day earlier!"
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Daming Palace, Guande Hall.
Under the bright yellow umbrellas, Li Zhi and Empress Wu sat at attention. In the square in front of the palace, melodious drum music could be heard from time to time. Different from Daxing Palace, Daming Palace was located on Longshou Plain outside Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty, and the terrain was very high. However, Li Zhi was in poor health and suffered from rheumatism. The original Daxing Palace was low-lying and relatively humid, so Li Zhi built the Daming Palace on Longshouyuan outside the city as his palace. Since the Sui Dynasty, there has been the Guande Hall in Longshouyuan in the north of Chang'an City, where the royal family held archery ceremonies. After the completion of the Daming Palace, Li Zhi did not change this precedent, and the archery ceremonies were still held in the original place.
Due to the important position that bows and arrows played in ancient military affairs, almost all ancient peoples tended to ritualize and sanctify the activity of archery, and the Chinese people were no exception. The emperor's participation in the archery ceremony also has a dual meaning: through his own demonstration, he educates the people of the country not to forget martial arts; the archery ceremony itself is also a social activity among nobles. In addition to archery, there are also complicated etiquette and participation in archery. In addition to having superb bow skills, archers of the rites must also follow complicated procedures and drum music to show their humility, introspection, solemnity and other characters. If the rules of rites and music are violated, no matter how good the bow skills are, they will be affected by it. error and was ruled out for a foul.
"Your Majesty!" Empress Wu looked at the young men walking into the shooting path in the square below with the sound of drum music, and showed a sly smile: "Do you think Hong'er can win today?"
"Haha!" Li Zhi laughed: "Mei Niang said it in layman's terms, this shooting ceremony is not about winning or losing!"
"What are you looking at if you don't care about victory or defeat?"
"It depends on virtue!" Li Zhi replied.
"Virtue? This is obviously a comparison of archery, how can you tell about virtue?"
"Mei Niang, you are a woman, so it's not surprising that you have never read She Yi!" Li Zhi said with a smile: "When I was Hong'er's age, the late emperor personally taught me She, and the beginning of the sect was about She Yi. Shooting is the way of benevolence. When shooting, you seek to rectify yourself, and then you shoot after you are right. If you miss the mark, you don't blame those who are better than you. You just seek to counter others!
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