I'm clear skies.
When I was young, I would wonder why Xiaoyanzi was so ridiculous and did things so out of line, and everyone still looked at her.
Especially the emperor, when he knew that Xiaoyanzi was not her biological daughter, but Ziwei was, his heart was so shocked that he wanted to cut off the heads of the two of them.
However, after the "beheading turmoil" has passed, they are still the pearls of the emperor's palm. also suffered a lot because of this incident, and the emperor even loved Xiaoyanzi and Ziwei even more.
When I was a child, I once thought that Xiaoyanzi won the emperor's favor by mistake because of a token, and then after recognizing Ziwei, the emperor had announced the world in advance that Xiaoyanzi was Gege, so it was not easy to take it back, and still let her be Gege.
is also because Xiaoyanzi helped Ziwei deliver letters, and she was only Gege after receiving an arrow, and she and Ziwei are good sisters, so Xiaoyanzi is stained with Ziwei's light in order to continue to be this Gege.
20 years later, when I revisited "Returning the Pearl", I found that this was not the case at all.
It turns out that the little swallow is the "real character", and the crape myrtle is stained with the light of the little swallow!
Why?
Clear Sky thinks there are three reasons:
The first point:
The emperor admitted that Xiaoyanzi was in a state of confusion after she was hit by an arrow.
From the first time he saw Little Swallow, he liked her and unconsciously thought that Little Swallow was his daughter.
So this thought, Concubine Ling caught it at a glance, so she climbed up the pole and said that the little swallow looked like the emperor.
So from beginning to end, to sum up one sentence: the emperor has an eye for the little swallow.
And in the face of crape myrtle, what about the emperor's performance?
When I was young, I thought, is the emperor blind?
Xia Yuhe and Ziwei are obviously carved out of a mold, and the emperor can't recognize them, and he doesn't even have a trace of doubt!
Even when he was on a southern tour later, he met Xia Yingying in Hangzhou, and when the emperor first saw her, he felt familiar, like the reincarnation of the rain lotus.
I was really speechless.
Just ask, the mold of Yuhe is placed there, who will be more like Xia Yuhe than Xia Ziwei? !
So to sum it up here, it is also a sentence: the emperor has no eye for Xia Ziwei at all.
The second point:
We all know that before Ziwei "recognized her father", the emperor had already had a "love for men and women" for her in his heart, and he also told Concubine Ling about it.
Just waiting for ** Toast to leave, he announced that he would let Ziwei be his own woman.
But at this time, he knew that Ziwei was his own daughter! !
Who can stand such a big contrast?
The emperor is bitter!
So even if he later convinced himself to accept Ziwei as his daughter, deep down in his heart, he was reluctant.
Therefore, his love for Ziwei is only due to his guilt towards Xia Yuhe, and he will never be able to tolerate it wholeheartedly like he did with Xiaoyanzi, he has already given birth to a dislike.
The third point:
The emperor prefers Xiaoyanzi's character, and he just appreciates Ziwei's talent.
I remember that Galeries Lafayette saw Little Swallow several times and was frightened by her "feat".
She asked the emperor dissatisfied: Why do you like Xiaoyanzi so much and indulge her so much?What does it look like without rules!
And the emperor's answer was: She is indeed outrageous enough, and she speaks without brains, so she behaves perversely.
But just because she is straightforward, she often says the most honest things in her heart. These words are not heard in the eyes of those who only know "Long live the mountain".
So the little swallow is too rare.
And what about crape myrtle?
Ziwei's personality is gentle and virtuous, and she is knowledgeable. It is indeed more dignified than the little swallow and more like Gege.
But this kind of character is very common in the palace, and the harem Gege can be said to have been educated like this since childhood. Therefore, crape myrtle is not conspicuous in personality.
Let's take Xia Yingying as an example, the emperor beat Ziwei because she didn't have a "heart-to-heart" with herself, and she didn't feel that "Xia Yingying is Yuhe's past and present life".
Ziwei is of course very aggrieved, and the emperor feels that he should follow him in everything and be a good daughter. If there is a slight disagreement, you will be beaten.
But Xiaoyanzi went directly to the emperor and said in front of Xia Yingying that she did not agree with the emperor marrying this woman. Even if the emperor was angry again, he felt faceless, and he never made a move.
So in terms of personality, crape myrtle is really too weak compared to Xiaoyanzi.
Ziwei's biggest advantage is that she is talented, proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, poetry and songs.
But crape myrtle is a girl, and in ancient times, even if a girl was talented, she would not be as reused as a man.
It can only be said that Ziwei's talent is slightly stronger than the Gege in the harem, which makes her make the emperor's eyes shine.
But this is not enough to get the emperor's great favor for a long time. After all, before Ziwei, there was still a sunny child in the palace.
Therefore, although crape myrtle is dazzling, it is not a unique existence.
It is only because Xiaoyanzi has repeatedly caused trouble and shocked everyone that it shows the sensibility of Ziwei and the virtuous virtue of Ziwei.
In the final analysis, from beginning to end, crape myrtle is stained with the light of a little swallow!
endAbout the author.
Clear Sky, a post-90s freelancer, is committed to self-cultivation and self-writing, and pays to read and study Xi every year.
The road is long and the line is coming. I hope to meet you who like writing as much as I do, and let us stick to this matter together and leave no regrets for ourselves.