The peacock flies southeast, wandering for five miles,

Thirteen can weave, fourteen learn tailoring,

Fifteen bullets, sixteen poems and books,

Seventeen is a gentleman's wife, and her heart is always bitter and sad,

Since the king is a government official, he keeps the festival unswervingly,

The concubines leave empty rooms, and they see each other rarely,

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In the lobby of the Prime Minister's Mansion - the lanterns are colorful, the guests are full, and a team of singers in costumes are performing the song and dance "Peacock Flying Southeast", dancing beautifully, singing around, and winning bursts of applause!

"Peacock Flying Southeast" is one of the famous chapters of Han Yuefu, which tells the bleak story of Liu Lanzhi and Jiao Zhongqing, who are in love with each other, but are hindered by the elders of both sides, and finally commit suicide for love, and both become peacocks after death!

The story is very popular with the world, and it seems that there is something wrong with it at the New Year's banquet, and what is even more surprising is that the woman in charge of leading the dance is Cao Cao's concubine - Mrs. Huan, and she is also the biological mother of the prodigy - Cao Chong.

Mrs. Huan's origin is mysterious, it is said that she was born in the Qinglou Chu Pavilion, but she was very favored by Cao Cao, and gave birth to three sons, Chong, according to Yu, and her status in the Prime Minister's Mansion was only below the Bian family, much higher than the other concubines.

In addition, Mrs. Huan is versatile, proficient in chess, piano, calligraphy and painting, but also good at singing and dancing, the banquet singing and dancing in the Prime Minister's Mansion has always been in charge of her, and now the performance of "Peacock Flying Southeast", I think it's not accidental, right?

"Great Sima New Year...... Da Sima is safe! ”

"Happy New Year, sit down and drink together!"

Xiao Yi walked into the lobby, congratulated some important ministers, and then sat in the first position of the general, drinking and eating meat, while checking the situation, he always felt that something was wrong......

Cao Cao was wearing auspicious clothes, sitting in the center, enjoying the song and dance, and he was so engrossed that he stopped drinking and forgot to drink, and the children sat on the left side, and the concubines of the prime minister's house sat on the right side!

I haven't seen him for a few months, but the traitor has lost a lot of weight, his expression is also very haggard, his eyes are dull, and his eyes are slightly red!

There is a grapevine that in order to cope with the heavy government affairs, Cao Cao took a large amount of tiger and wolf medicine, this method is tantamount to drinking to quench thirst, although the human body is full of energy for a while, but it will greatly reduce the life expectancy, Guo Jia is a lesson from the past!

What surprised Xiao Yi the most was that it was not his mother-in-law, Mrs. Bian, who sat next to Cao Cao and watched the song and dance performance together, but Mrs. Ding...... Now I finally understand, why did you perform "East Sparrow Flying Southeast", it turned out that the old love was rekindled?

Mrs. Ding is about fifty years old, medium in stature, her facial features are very standard, and she is also a great beauty when she is young.

Cao Cao and Mrs. Ding are married and have a very deep relationship, but because of the death of the eldest son Cao Ang, the husband and wife quarreled repeatedly, to the point that water and fire were incompatible, and finally Mrs. Ding returned to her parents' house in a fit of anger.

Afterwards, Cao Cao was quite remorseful, and drove to pick him up several times, but Mrs. Ding just didn't come back and didn't remarry others, and the husband and wife became an embarrassing relationship of separation and non-divorce.

Mrs. Ding has a strong personality and strong self-esteem, when Cao Cao was proud of the spring breeze and rising step by step, she lived alone in her mother's house, raising silkworms and weaving cloth every day, self-sufficient, and did not step into the Prime Minister's Mansion or accept gifts from the Prime Minister's Mansion!

I didn't think that Cao Cao would be defeated and come back, and when she walked into a low point in her life, Mrs. Ding suddenly returned to the Prime Minister's Mansion, talked privately with Cao Cao for a long time, and lived in the Prime Minister's Mansion, and on the first day of the New Year, they sat in the lobby together to enjoy singing and dancing......

It would have been a good thing to rekindle the old relationship between husband and wife and resolve past grievances, and this is a traitorous male's private affair, which has nothing to do with the military and political affairs of the imperial court, but another thing makes people look sideways:

"Mother, please use tea, which is boiled with ginger, wolfberry, and longan, to quench your thirst and warm up your body and remove the cold!"

"According to Er, she is really well-behaved, she knows filial piety at a young age, exactly the same as Ang'er when she was a child!"

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Because next to Mrs. Ding, there is also a beautiful young man, who is the son of Mrs. Huan - Cao Ju, and Cao Chong is a sibling brother, who is exactly ten years old this year, and his eyebrows are clear, pink and cute!

Cao is a two-year-old who can speak, a five-year-old who can read and write, and an eight-year-old who quotes scriptures, and is also a smart young man, but his brother Cao Chong's aura is too strong, so he can't be seen everywhere!

At this time, Cao Yi served tea and was extremely well-behaved, and Mrs. Ding laughed heartily and kept stroking the top of his head, like a pair of real mothers and sons, which is what everyone is most worried about?

Cao is the son of the concubine, and Mrs. Ding is the mother of the main house, the two are nothing to match each other, and they also conform to the rules of aristocratic families, but they have really become a mother-son relationship, then the problem is serious!

On the issue of heirs, the Chinese people have always adhered to the principle of 'having a descendant, and having no heir, and standing long', from the emperor to the general and the common people, all of them have firmly abided by it, and even the beggar called Huazi will pass on the rice bowl and dog beating stick to the eldest son, if he has a son!

On the contrary, if the abolition of the elder and the young, or the abolition of the heir, it is regarded as a great rebellion, and attracts the accusations of the world, the family is not harmonious, the society is turbulent, the second Qin Empire died, and the young son succeeded to the throne is also one of the reasons!

Cao Cao's generation of traitorous males often deviates from the norm and is not afraid of gossip, but on the issue of heirs, he is relatively conservative, but unfortunately Mrs. Ding has health problems and has not been able to give birth to children, and Cao Cao has no sons-in-law.

Later, Cao Cao's concubine surnamed Liu gave birth to the eldest son Cao Ang, but unfortunately the concubine died early, leaving no one to take care of the young son, so he was adopted by Mrs. Ding, and regarded it as his own, so Cao Ang changed from the eldest son to the eldest son, and the family status was completely different.

In addition, Cao Ang is intelligent, benevolent, filial piety, civil and military, and the weight of Cao Cao's father Cao Cao, and he is determined to be the heir, and he has paid a lot of effort to cultivate, but unfortunately Wancheng was defeated in the first battle, and Cao Ang also fell on the battlefield.

This incident hit Cao Cao very hard, and also caused Mrs. Ding to run away from home, and then with her gentleness and virtue, Mrs. Bian became the head mother of the Prime Minister's Mansion (Kabuki was born, originally a concubine), Cao Pi, Cao Zhang, Cao Zhi, and Cao Xiong also became sisters-in-law, and they occupied an advantage in Lichu!

But Mrs. Ding left home and was not divorced, she is still the mother of the Cao family, and Mrs. Ding is only a flat wife, according to the ancient system: a man can have one wife, two equal wives, four concubines, and countless maids......

The identity of the flat wife is unique, above the concubines, with the same dress, glory, and rights as the main wife, and there is no need to salute the main wife, can it be talked about the family status, or slightly inferior to the main wife, and under the mother's dignity, her children are not as noble as the main wife!

It's nothing for Mrs. Ding to go back to the Prime Minister's Mansion, Mrs. Ding and Cao Cao's old relationship is rekindled, and it's nothing to live in the Prime Minister's Mansion for a long time, the ministers just give one more gift and kowtow a few more, which has nothing to do with the world's major events, but Mrs. Ding's intimacy with Cao Ju makes people worry......

Because she can't have children, Mrs. Ding likes children very much, and Cao Ju is also smart and clever, not much worse than her brother Cao Chong, if Mrs. Ding wants to accept Cao Ju as her adopted son as the main family, it is also reasonable. (The official lady has the right to adopt the daughter of the concubine, and even forcibly seize it without being blamed by the world!) ）

Xiao Yi, Cheng Yu, Jiang Ji, Mao Jue, Hua Xin...... A group of civil and military ministers exchanged glances with each other, and they all showed anxious expressions and deep worries!

Once Mrs. Ding's mother's love is great and she really adopts Cao Ju, this little son from the concubine will instantly become the son of a concubine, and his status is higher than Cao Pi, Cao Zhang, Cao Zhi, and Cao Xiong, and he is more qualified to inherit the inheritance!

For so many years, it has been Pi, Zhang, Value, and Xiong four sons competing for the crown, and the ministers have also stood in line according to their different identities and interests, and put the bet on a son, but they didn't want to rush out of a 'dark horse' again, and the situation was completely messed up!

The failure of the southern expedition, the loss of the army, the people are in turmoil, and the people are panicking, and now the Cao camp is already stormy.

"What a powerful woman, she actually wants to occupy the dove's nest, borrow her son to take the position, and then seek the whole world, did she really underestimate you before?"

"Now that there are many internal and external troubles, on the issue of the heir, there must be no more accidents, otherwise as soon as the Cao family falls, the Xiao family will also suffer!"

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Xiao Yi was so smart, he instantly analyzed the pros and cons, and then stared at Mrs. Huan, with a cold light in his eyes and a faint intention to kill!

Mrs. Huan Bingxue is smart and scheming, with Cao Cao's favor, she has always coveted the position of the prime minister's housewife and heir, and she tried her best to let Cao Chong worship Xiao Yi as a master, hoping to win a strong aid, but was politely rejected by Xiao Yi!

didn't think that she couldn't make a plan and make another plan, I don't know how to use it, I invited Mrs. Ding back to the Prime Minister's Mansion, and I also wanted to pass on my son Cao Ji to Mrs. Ding as a son, and then compete for the right to inherit as the son of a son!

Cao Cao was decisive in killing, but he was also an amorous person, and because of Cao Ang's death, he felt a lot of debt to Mrs. Ding, once Mrs. Ding opened her mouth to succeed a son, Cao Cao would not refuse nine times out of ten, and then things would be bad!

"It seems that I not only want to govern the country and calm down the civil unrest, but also help my mother-in-law consolidate her position and help my brother-in-law fight for inheritance, which is really stressful!"

(End of chapter)