She was the daughter of Wang Yin, a dyer in Li Shishi's Bianjing Yongqingfang dyeing workshop. Wang Yin's wife died after giving birth to her daughter. Wang Yin fed her soy milk as milk so the baby didn't die. As a baby, I never heard her cry. There's a custom in Bianjing to give birth to children. If the parents spoiled them, they had to nominally become monks and spend time in a Buddhist temple.
Wang Yin loved his daughter, so he sent her to Baoguang Temple. Until then she smiled. An old monk looked at her and said, "What is this place? Come here!" She suddenly cried. The monk touched the top of her head and told her not to cry. Wang Yin was secretly happy and said, "This girl is truly blessed by the Buddha." Buddhist disciples are commonly called "Teacher", so the girl was named "Teacher". When she was four years old, Wang Yin committed a crime, was arrested and died in prison. Teacher had no one to depend on, so a prostitute, Li Lao, adopted her. When she was a teacher, she was unrivaled in beauty and skill. As a result, she was the most famous of all the brothels in the neighborhood.
Huizong ascended to the throne and enjoyed a life of luxury. Cai Jing, Zhang Chun, and Wang Fu, a group of people, urged Huizong to reimpose the Qingmiao Law and other institutions on the grounds that they were carrying on the wishes of their ancestors. The capital was decorated with a rich and joyful atmosphere. The tax on liquor at the bazaar was about a million dollars a day. Gold, silver, jade and silk were piled up in the treasury. Then the men of Tongguanli induced the emperor to indulge in the pleasures of the gardens and gardens of the courtyards. Almost all the exotic flowers and stones in China were collected. The emperor built a palace called "Burgundy" in the north of Bianjing, but he enjoyed it. After a long time, he got tired of it and wanted to go out of the palace to make love in small clothes.
The emperor had a personal attendant named Johnny, a eunuch whom he trusted and loved. Johnny was a johnny-come-lately in Beijing before he was castrated and frequented brothels all over the country, so he became close to Li Mu. When he told the emperor that his last name was Li, he was very touched. The next day, Zuni was ordered to take out two pieces of purple velvet, two pieces of two-end haze, two rustling beads, and twenty taels of silver from the palace vault and give them to Li Mu, saying that the great merchant Zhao Yi was coming to visit her. Li Mu greedy for money, readily agreed.
After nightfall, the emperor changed his clothes among more than forty eunuchs and went to Zhen'an Square, the neighborhood where Li Lao lived. The emperor waved his hand to signal the others not to follow him, and just walked slowly in with Johnny. I saw that the house was short and spartan. Li Lao came out to greet him and did the usual courtesies, bringing out several kinds of fresh fruits, fragrant snow lotus roots, crystal clear water gourds, of which fresh dates were as big as eggs. These even the big officials come never take out. The emperor tasted one of each, Li Mu politely accompanied half a day, and did not see the teacher out to meet the guests. The emperor has been waiting.
When Jonny left the ring, Li Mu led the emperor to a small pavilion. There was a desk by the window, a few volumes of ancient books on the bookshelf, and a few clumps of bamboo outside the window, the shadows of the trees scattered and swaying. The emperor sat leisurely alone, feeling peaceful, but did not see his teacher come out to accompany him. After a while, Elder Li led the Emperor to the back room, only to see that the table was already set with famous dishes such as roasted venison, drunken chicken, sashimi, and goat soup. The rice was made of fragrant rice, and the emperor ate it. After the meal, Li accompanied him to chat, but as time went by, the teachers never came out to meet each other again. The emperor was wondering when Li Mu suddenly asked the emperor to take a bath again. The emperor refused to bathe. Li Mu walked up to him and whispered in his ear, "My child loves to be clean. Please listen to her." The emperor had no choice but to follow Li Mu to the bathroom below the small building to take a bath. After washing, Li Lao led the emperor to sit in the backyard. He had to put down a table of fruit cakes and tables and went to persuade the emperor to drink, but Li Shishi never showed up. After a long time, Li Mu took a candle and led the emperor to the bedroom. The Emperor pulled back the curtains and walked into the room, where only a lamp gave off a faint light. There was no sign of a teacher either.
The emperor felt even more strange and walked around in front of the bed. It was only after a while that I saw Li Mu walking with a young woman in his arms. That woman wore light makeup, silk clothes, no fancy clothes, just a bath, delicate like a lotus flower out of the water. When she saw Huizong, she seemed to be very disdainful, her look was complacent, and she did not salute. Elder Li whispered to Huizong, "This child likes to sit still, so he offended you. Please do not be offended." The curtains were lowered for them and they walked out. At that moment, the teacher left his seat, took off his short black silk blouse, put on a silk dress, pulled up his right sleeve, took off the piano hanging on the wall, leaned against the table, sat up straight, and played the tune of "Flat Sand and Falling Geese". Fingers gently turning on the strings, playing the sound has a light flavor. The emperor couldn't help but listen to the song, even forgetting that he was tired. After playing it three times, the chickens had already crowed, and the sky was about to dawn. The emperor hurriedly pulled open the curtains and walked out. Li Lao also hurriedly served him apricot cake, date cake, soup cake and other snacks. The emperor drank a cup of apricot cake and immediately left. The eunuchs secretly waited outside and immediately escorted him back to the palace. This incident happened on August 17, 2003.
Li Lao said privately to his teacher, "Zhao's demeanor is not thin. Why are you so cold to him?" The teacher said angrily, "He's just a financial slave doing business. Why should I flatter him?" Elder Li laughed and said, "If you are so stubborn, you can be a trainee." Soon there were many legends in Beijing, and all knew that the emperor had visited the Li family. When Li Mu heard about it, she was so frightened that she cried all day. She cried and said to her teacher, "If it's true, it will destroy my clan." The teacher said, "Don't be afraid. The emperor is willing to visit me. How could he bear to kill me? Besides, that night, fortunately I wasn't forced to do it, and the Emperor must love me very much. I'm just secretly sad that my fate is really bad, that I'm living in a cheap trade, so much so that my filthy reputation will involve the Emperor. As for whether or not the Emperor will be angry and kill us, since things started with the wild amusement, which is extremely taboo for the Emperor, and he doesn't want people to know about it, so it won't come to that, so don't worry about it, everyone."
In the first month of the following year, Huizong sent Johnny to give Li Shishi a serpentine qin. The so-called snake-bellied qin is an ancient qin. The lacquer on the qin had turned yellowish-black, and there were patterns resembling horizontal scales under the snake's belly. It was a treasure treasured in the palace. Gave her fifty taels of silver.
In March, the emperor came to the Li family disguised as a commoner. The teacher wore light makeup and knelt at the door in civilian clothes to greet him. The emperor was delighted, took her hand and told her to get up. Only the door of the Li family suddenly became luxurious and spacious. The last place I visited was all Panlong Jinxiu. Seeing the small pavilion transformed into a large pavilion with carved beams and paintings, that elegant fun was gone. Li Mu saw the emperor coming and hid. She was called, but she trembled and could not stand up. She didn't have the same attentive care she had last time. The emperor was not happy, but he called her gently "old mother."
Li Lao thanked him and led the emperor to the building. The building had just been completed. The teacher knelt down and asked the emperor to give him a plaque. At that time, there were apricot blossoms blooming in front of the building, and the emperor wrote "Drunken Apricot Building" for her. After a while the wine came up, the teacher waited, and Mr. Li made a toast to the emperor. Let the emperor sit down at the table, let her play the serpentine piano given to her, play the song "plum blossom three times". The emperor drank to his heart's content and applauded. But the emperor saw that the dishes served were all in the shape of dragons and phoenixes, some carved, some painted, all exactly the same as in the palace. When the emperor asked what was going on, he realized that these were made by the imperial chefs, and that Li Lao had paid them to make them. The emperor was offended and told Li Lao to do the same as last time and not to be wasteful. He returned to the palace without finishing this meal.
Huizong once went to a painting academy and wrote a poem to test the painters. Every year, one or two painters pass the test. In September of this year, a famous painting titled "Jin Cao, drunken apricot blossoms" was presented to Li Shishi. Gave her ten lotus root silk lamps, ten warm snow lamps, ten fragrant lotus lamps, ten fire phoenix bead lamps. 10 cormorant cups, amber cups, glazed lamps, gold carving bias teapots; doughnut, phoenix doughnut, mengteng, such as hundreds of kilograms of tea; soup cakes, cold utensils, silver cakes, such as several boxes of snacks; gave her two thousand taels of gold, two thousand taels of silver. At that time, there were already rumors in the palace. When Empress Zheng heard about it, she advised, "A lowly person like a prostitute should not be near the emperor's dragon body. And if you leave the palace privately at night, you are afraid that something will happen. I hope Your Majesty will love yourself." The emperor agreed and did not visit the Li family again for a year or two. But greetings and rewards for the teacher never ceased.
In the second year of Emperor Xuandi's reign, the emperor went to Li Shishi's house again and saw the painting he had given him hanging in the Drunken Apricot House and looked at it for a long time. I joked when I looked back at Li Shishi, "How can the person in the picture be shouted out?" That day gave Li Shishi four things, respectively, the cold gold tin, reflecting the moon bead ring, dancing bear green mirror, gold incense burner. The next day real-time hotspot gave the teacher Duan Xi inkstone, phoenix mouth inkstone, ink made by Li Ting, Xuan Hao pen, Tangxi slant paper. Also give Li Lao 100,000 copper money.
Johnny privately to said: "The emperor to go to Li's house, you must change clothes, and only go at night, so you can not go often. Now there is a piece of land to the east of the Root Moon Palace, two or three miles long, all the way to Zhen'anfang. If a secret tunnel is built here, it will be very convenient for the Emperor to come and go." The emperor said, "I will leave this matter to you. So Johnny and the others wrote formally, "Most of the guards who left the palace used to stay outdoors. We are willing to donate money to build hundreds of houses on official land, all walled in, for the guards to rest and defend." The emperor approved their invitation. Thus, the Yulin Army's patrol troops and others began to protect the area until Zhen'an Square, where passersby could no longer come to the area.
On April 3, the emperor began going to Li Shishi's house from the back tunnels and gave her hidden lots, double lands and other gaming supplies for gambling. He also gave her a jade chessboard, green and white jade pieces, Gongshan from the Painting Academy, five flowers and nine folds, a leaf mat with scales, a bamboo curtain and a colorful coral hook. One day, the emperor and the teacher to play double ground, lost; and then played Go lost, then give the teacher two thousand taels of silver.
Later, on Teachers' Day, the teachers were each given two pearls and two gold bracelets, a box of cymbals, a few brocade heads, a hundred heron feathers and jade satin, and one thousand taels of silver. Later, because the emperor celebrated the fall of Liao, he rewarded the states and counties and gave gifts to the places, and also gave the teachers purple silk tents, colorful tassels, and brocade quilts of ice silkworms, but dusty brocade plates, ten thousand taels of bran gold, and, leaving, and other fine wines. Ten million pennies to the royal treasury of Li Lao. *** gold, si