During the ten years of getting along with the old palace maid on and off, she talked a lot about Guangxu, but only a few words. For example: Guangxu was timid and was most afraid of thunder in summer. When there was a heavy rain, the doors and windows would be closed tightly, and the eunuchs would stand on both sides and cover their ears. However, he also liked to listen to the sound of water leaking from the sewers in the palace after heavy rains. the sound of.

He often braved the rain and came to a pavilion in the northeast corner of the Imperial Garden. There was a stone faucet hanging high in the pond below. The rainwater from the harem spurted out from this faucet and fell into the deep pond. , like a waterfall, roaring for a long time, flowing into the Yuhe River. This is what he likes to hear and watch the most. Also: He has a bad temper and is moody, and none of his eunuchs dare to get close to him. He often stayed up at night and got up in the middle of the night to review memorials. When something didn't go his way, he would bang the table and scold the bastard, whether he was scolding the memorial or the eunuchs nearby, which frightened the eunuchs. She said a lot of fragmented things like these, but only in a few words, and it was not easy to record them. If you think about it carefully, it is also consistent with Guangxu's character. "Born in a deep palace and raised in the hands of women" (Song Taizu said the words of Empress Li), he was both timid and willful.

Some of them can be described, but they cannot be pointed out accurately. For example, "carrying the palace and walking the palace".

The old palace maid said to us very humorously: "You are probably willing to hear about the concubine summoning in the palace. According to legend, when the emperor summoned the concubine at night, in order to ensure the emperor's safety, he took off the concubine's clothes. First, take off your clothes, wrap them in a cloak, and let the eunuch carry him into the emperor's bedroom. To be specific, it is not exactly like this. If the concubine is not included, the emperor will choose at will. Then the eunuch will hold a lantern to summon the concubine. After a brief grooming, the eunuch will guide the way and the personal maid will escort behind. The side hall. I had already made preparations here. I washed and dressed, took off my clothes, and shouted the order, so the eunuch carried me to the sleeping hall. It was only a few steps away from the east palace to the west palace, carrying the concubine everywhere. This is what our aunts say when we are chatting in our free time. When we are on duty in the palace, there is still a joke like this: One of our maids is pretty and easy to dress up. , everyone made fun of her, saying, "Oh! She's so pretty on her head and feet! She's like a flower. Be careful, the eunuch (eunuch) will come in the evening and take you away!" which caused the other party to curse her a lot: "You have a bad tongue." Basically, I hope you will marry a thick, big, hemp, black, strong man with sideburns in the future, and he will lick your face like a black blind man (meaning a bear in Northeastern dialect) to prevent you from getting confused!' This is also true! Count on the court ladies’ pleasantries and charming voices! It can be seen that there is a saying in the palace that the palace is carried away. It is unclear when it happened. ”

${FDPageBreak} Concubine Zhen walked around the palace and carried the palace behind her. It's completely different. For a palace tour, the concubine is treated as a loved one and a close friend, and the concubine is announced to the emperor in the room where he handles political affairs. Under the palace system, concubines were strictly prohibited from entering the rooms where political affairs were generally handled. At this time, the concubine dressed up as a man, with a robe, a coat, a big braid hanging down behind her, a round hat with a straight jasper hat, a red pimple on her head, and a pair of pink-soled palace boots on her feet, making her look like a young man. You can grind ink and hold inkstones for the emperor, or you can talk to the emperor about the past and the present, but you can't talk about government affairs. You can also talk about poetry, calligraphy and painting, or you can play chess with the emperor. This is the most favored treatment, and others are envious of it. Let me say it again, this is definitely not the same as carrying a palace, the main reason is that the identity is different. Before the Reform Movement of 1898, Guangxu's beloved Concubine Zhen was often like this. She often dressed in men's clothes and waited for the call. Therefore, people who are jealous of Concubine Zhen say that Concubine Zhen interferes in government affairs, dresses inconsistently with the palace system, and likes to dress up as a man, which is disrespectful, etc. The old queen mother also issued an edict for this and reprimanded Concubine Zhen. In fact, that was all the reason why Longyu was jealous, including Concubine Jin. "

What the old palace maid said is just hearsay and cannot be confirmed, so there are relatively few things remembered about Guangxu.

When it comes to Concubine Zhen, she is not a piece of beautiful jade, nor is she someone who emerges from the mud and remains unsullied. She had also gained power and sold nobility, but she could not be allowed to be arrogant under the stern majesty of the old queen mother. But Guangxu is very worthy of sympathy. I won’t talk about his political achievements here, only his life, especially his love. We say he is an infatuated emperor. Nowadays, there are many court dramas, but unfortunately there is no love drama about Guangxu. Compared with Emperor Ming of the Tang Dynasty, Yang Guifei, and Liang Shanbo, Zhu Yingtai, his affairs were infinitely more complicated.

According to the old palace maid, since Eunuch Liu came to Shanxi, because he came from Da Nei, he was more reliable and knew the rules, and he was the apprentice of Manager Li, so he was assigned to serve as a valet to Guangxu. He saw Guangxu sitting blankly all day, being indifferent to everyone, and even more indifferent to food. He had six dishes and one soup for every meal. No matter what other people ate, he would always be like this. This is the case all the way to Xi'an. The happiest time was when Guangxu was playing chess with the eunuchs. He was very approachable. After playing chess, he was still like a piece of wood, his eyes were motionless and his irritable and angry personality was completely gone. It seems that he is determined to be cruel. No matter what the outside world says, he is just pretending to be stupid. It is very painful for a person who is full of energy to be restrained to this extent.

${FDPageBreak}The only thing he can't forget is his only confidant, Concubine Zhen. Guangxu fell in love with Concubine Zhen at first sight, but he did not know the dangers of political life in the palace.

“Aren’t you afraid that others will hate me when you show such kindness to me?” Concubine Zhen said quietly to Guangxu in those sweet days. "I am the emperor, what can others do to me!" Guangxu thought that he was the emperor, and what could others do to me? This was their conversation that was secretly circulated in the palace. So the excessive favor caused dissatisfaction in the palace, the most important of which was of course the old queen mother. With the arrogant temper of the old queen mother, no one in the world dared to show her disapproval, except Guangxu. You don't love the queen I married you, and you have hurt the dignity of the old queen in front of everyone in the world. There is absolutely no reason not to repay this kind of resentment. Guangxu only knew how to be infatuated blindly, and the naive Concubine Zhen did not know how to restrain herself early, and even ended up in a state of death. "It's not that I don't report it, it's because the time has not come yet." The old queen mother is famous for her cruelty.

When Concubine Jin was in Xi'an, we lived in Beiya (Nanya is the Governor's Yamen, and Beiya is the Governor's Yamen. The old Queen Mother first lived in Nanya, and then moved to Beiya). Because the place was small, the Queen He lived with the emperor in a large house, separated by a partition, and the two houses were connected. This may be a clever arrangement by the old queen, but Guangxu never ignored the queen, and the queen was never convinced!

Some people say that since Concubine Zhen died, Guangxu transferred his love for Concubine Zhen to Concubine Jin. That is just unfounded, there is no such thing. Guangxu was a withdrawn and suspicious person. If he set his sights on something, he would not be able to pull him back. He had long believed that Concubine Jin was not loyal and loyal to him. Concubine Zhen was thrown into the cold palace and was humiliated by Long Yu's slap in the face. He knew clearly that Concubine Jin had also said some unreasonable and bad things. Therefore, Guangxu was also indifferent to Concubine Jin, and there was no sign of any kindness toward her in Xi'an.

After Xin Chou returned to Luang, in order to cover up the cruelty of the old empress dowager, and to ease public opinion at home and abroad, it was said that Concubine Zhen was worried about being humiliated, so before the foreigners entered the palace, she threw herself into a well and died. , go down the well to salvage. According to the rules, the concubine's family members are not allowed to enter the palace at all, unless the concubine gives birth to a child. Usually, family members have to bribe the eunuch to communicate with the concubines, which is also an income for the eunuchs. Now it is a great grace to let her family recover the body.

${FDPageBreak} Concubine Zhen was born in the second year of Guangxu (1876). Her surname was Tarala. The family changed their surname to Tang after the Republic of China). In the 14th year of Guangxu's reign, she entered the palace at the age of 13. She once lived in Jingren Palace, one of the six east palaces. In the 20th year of Guangxu's reign (1894), she was canonized as Concubine Zhen. He was beautiful, intelligent, and fond of calligraphy and painting, and was favored by Guangxu. Because of offending Longyu, she was tortured with the support of the Queen Mother, demoted to a nobleman, and later restored to the concubine position. During the Reform Movement of 1898 in the 24th year of Guangxu's reign, Cixi was imprisoned in the three northeastern offices of the palace. Two years later, in the 26th year of Guangxu (1900), the Eight-Power Allied Forces entered Beijing and were thrown into a well by Cixi. He was only 25 years old when he died. We can be said to be contemporaries. She is only 5 years older than me. I have seen almost everything with my own eyes, so I know her relatively clearly.

I can’t remember exactly when I salvaged the body. It probably started in the late spring of the second year after I returned to Luang. It was still cold, so it was naturally different from the situation when he was pushed down the well. From Zhenshun Gate to Leshou Hall, it is designated as a restricted area. First, burn incense and perform Buddhist rituals, and chant sutras all night long; then the shaman performs a dance to lead the soul to Jingren Palace. The members of the natal family bowed to the ground, and Concubine Jin offered sacrifices. Since the deceased was a great person, Concubine Jin kowtowed and worshiped. On the north wall to the east of Zhenshun Gate, there is an open-air wooden niche nailed to the wall, which is dedicated to Concubine Zhen. It faces the wellhead; there are yellow curtains hanging on both sides of the wooden niche, and the two sides outside the wooden niche are like elegiac couplets. There are two vertical banners of yellow cloth hanging on the wall, like couplets; in the middle of the niche hangs a banner of yellow cloth, like horizontal scrolls, also on the wall. The strange thing is that there are no words. It is said that there are no words inside the niche. I had already left the palace at that time, and this was what Old Liu told me (in the autumn of 1946, when we visited the Forbidden City with the old palace maid, the wooden niche was still there).

The first thing to be salvaged was a broken bamboo mat, which was said to have been used to wrap Concubine Zhen. According to those who salvaged it, the body was swollen and its facial features were unrecognizable. Because the wellhead was too small to accommodate two people, the wellhead was dismantled and salvaged.

"If I don't talk about this anymore, I won't be able to finish it in a few words." The main sentence is that the mood did not show up when the concubine Zhen was salvaged. This is what Lao Liu told me.

${FDPageBreak} "Later Guangxu came to see an old tent that Concubine Zhen had hung in the Northeastern Third House. He was often obsessed with this tent."

"He never came close to it again. Any woman, until Bintian, can be said to have the utmost love for Concubine Zhen."

After listening to the old palace maid's story, we couldn't help but sigh. No matter the emperor or the common people, they are loyal to love. , those who remain unchanged despite every setback are always admired by people, and the emperor is even more rare. When the flowers are full and the moon is full, I just love Concubine Zhen wholeheartedly. When we are both in trouble, just like what Yuefu described in the late Han Dynasty, there is a peacock, one female and one male. The female is sick and the male is injured, and nothing can be done. So he sang the words "I want to carry you away, but my feathers will be ruined; I want you to go, but I can't open my mouth". To put it bluntly, I want to carry you on my back, but unfortunately all my feathers are knocked off; I want to carry you in my mouth, but it's a pity that my mouth is tied again. After the Reform Movement of 1898, this was not the case for the two of them. After the incident of "One Autumn Leaf in the Golden Well" happens, he will swear not to get close to women. To use a sentence from the Dagu book: "I am single-minded and only you, if I have any other intentions, God will not allow it." With this heart and body, I vowed not to be with others, and from then on I died of hatred. It’s true: in Hanyuan Palace, the injustice was carried away, and Aizhen was filled with infatuation. We admire Guangxu here. It’s true love, not falsehood; it’s fact, not fantasy!

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