Chapter 61 Wu Qinglian willing to die for love

He Shen was a big celebrity around Qianlong. In order to show his status, he was naturally surrounded by groups of servants and concubines.In addition to his wife Feng, he also had many concubines, so that some Qing people said that he had countless concubines in his back room.This is not a big deal in a feudal society, and you don't have to worry about losing your job or being accused for having a mistress.In addition, in order to extend the incense, Heshen has a more justifiable reason to marry more wives and concubines and have more children. Many of his concubines were offered to him by officials at all levels in order to curry favor with him. Not only that, he even married concubines left by others as his second wives, and he was punished for this. Criticism of many people.

A concubine was a lowly class in feudal society and a social victim worthy of sympathy.They generally don't have any real feelings for their men, they are just reproductive machines for their family to pass on.But that's not always the case. At that time, there were quite a few people who had feelings for the man they shared, so much so that some would sacrifice their lives for the man they liked.Brothers He Shen and He Lin have such a charm.In the first year of Jiaqing, He Lin died on the battlefield to suppress the Miao people's uprising, and his concubine Yin Yunqing was buried for him, which made He Shen sigh.After He Shen was gifted to death, many of his concubines committed suicide for him, including Wu Qinglian.

Wu Qinglian was originally the concubine of Wang Danwang, the former governor of Gansu and later the governor of Zhejiang. Because of her ability to write poems and paintings, she was very fond of Wang Danwang, so she built a pavilion decorated with precious jade on the edge of the West Lake in Hangzhou for her to live in. It's called a maze.In the forty-sixth year of Qianlong (1781), a major case of fraudulently claiming relief funds and grains in Gansu occurred. Wang Danwang and Le Erjin, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu at the time, and more than 20 people were executed, and their family properties were confiscated. His concubine Wu Qinglian That is to say, it was acquired by the servant Jiang Xi.Later, in order to curry favor with Heshen, Jiang Xi reluctantly parted with her and dedicated her to Heshen.

He Shen fell in love with Wu Qinglian at first sight and loved her very much.She often takes her by her side, and even builds a pool pavilion for her after Wang Danwang's Milou. Wu Qinglian is also very grateful to He Shen for not despising her own background. On the eighth day of the first lunar month in the fourth year of Jiaqing (1799), He Shen's house was ransacked. Wu Qinglian lived in Shuchun Garden in Hehaidian at that time, and was guarded by soldiers from the Ministry of Punishment and Shuntianfu Yamen.During Wu Qinglian's house arrest, she recalled how many honors and disgraces she had had in her life, and how many times she changed hands. Only He Shen took care of him sincerely. After He Shen died, she had no one to worry about.Therefore, she hanged herself at noon on the twelfth day after Heshen's death. Before she died, she wrote ten chapters of quatrains, describing her life's sorrow.It is now preserved in the "List of Confiscated Heshen's Family Property" and Volume 5 of Deng Zhicheng's "Antique Notes" in the First Historical Archives of China.

One: Ever since the lonely wing lamented that there was no nest, the dream of the world was thrown away. Ashamed of the snow-clothed girl in front of the window, the Heart Sutra volume has already been handed in first, The burner incense bottle is a small row of water, and the tall lotus is a different makeup. Like Princess Miaoyan, she goes up to pay respects to King Kong every step of the way. Do you remember that the gold in the garden is covered with gold, and the Xiaoxiao Zizhu has become a forest early. Poplar branches sprinkle water all over the world, vying to worship the Merciful Avalokitesvara.

How many vermilion households and how many Zen passes, the cause and condition of liberation will not be returned. After going through so many calamities of Crescent Eyebrow, I went to Xishan at the slant of the setting sun. It can be seen from the poem that she seems to have disregarded the world of mortals and intended to become a nun. Second: Xiaoli was startled and Yu scratched her head, and she was on the twelfth floor by the lake. The exterior of the building is haunted by the soul, there is no water by the lake and it does not flow eastward. The day when the fragrant rice entered her lips, Haizhen was tired of tasting it.

How old is the crescent eyebrow, and I don't know the vicissitudes of life everywhere. Slow songs and slow dances are difficult to paint, and the moon goes down to the stairs and cold embroidered jackets. All night long, Mr. Wang didn't see enough, so he was too lazy to go to Qianren to help him. Is it because the lotus blooms and the pedicles are in vain? Looking back at the poor singing and dancing place, both of them are in the middle of nowhere. The most indistinct moon night soul, He Zeng Fangcao blamed the king and grandson. The swallows in Liangjian came and went, and the house of the murderer was Jimen.

In the depths of the white clouds, the old relatives are looking for, and the smiles and words were warm fifteen years ago. In the dream, the light boat has no distance, and when it sounds, it arrives at Wumen. The village girl smiles and knows no poverty, and has a long-sleeved light skirt with emerald frown. Thirty-six years of Qin's daughter's hatred, Qing Lian still has a taste of her. Cold night idiots cover their tears, and the rhododendrons cry in other years. When it sings, stop to the bank of the Zhang River, and the Tongjue is deep in spring, and the swallows live there.

The imperial seal crown covers the stars, and it is rumored to enter the noble ministers when you are quiet. How silent is it in front of the gate today? Only then can we know that what people say is hard to be true. Once you can regret your talent, you will be ashamed of your strength and ambition. The flowing water and the falling flowers are gone in spring, and Yizhou's career is wandering in vain. The poem records in detail her panic after learning that He Shen's house was ransacked.After waking up early on the eighth day of the first lunar month, Wu Qinglian was carefully arranging her hair when she suddenly heard that her home was taken away. She was frightened and dropped the comb for combing her hair on the ground; come out.Just like the scene when Wang Danwang's home was raided, the chef just brought in the ready-made bird's nest soup, which was all over the room, but everyone had already eaten too much, and they didn't think it was a good thing, so they put it on the coffee table.When the soldiers who came to search the house saw it, they chewed it and called it agar powder.Wu Qinglian experienced the same thing twice, and deeply lamented her miserable fate, suddenly felt that the world is changing and life is unpredictable.Can't help sighing, and then chose to hang himself to death.

In any case, Wu Qinglian expressed her loyalty to Heshen with her actions, not as unkind as those who broke up in a herd.