Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of Hongwu did not have an empress until he became the emperor, so Liu Bowen took a group of people to choose. I went to many places, but I couldn't choose a satisfactory girl.
One day, when I arrived at a village, I heard the farmers singing folk songs while bedding the grass. Liu Bowen was so fascinated that he sang a few sentences: "Today's bedding, tomorrow's bedding, how many miles are there in this rice seedling?" The farmers heard no one who would be able to match it. Just then, a girl watching a duck mother saw Liu Bowen riding a donkey and sang to each other: "Today's donkey rides a donkey, tomorrow rides a donkey, how many hairs does this donkey have?" Liu Bowen heard it and knew that she was singing exactly what she said, so he thought the girl was very talented. He immediately got off the donkey, walked to the girl, looked at her mouth and asked, "Why is your mouth so wide?" She replied, "My mouth is so wide that I can eat eighteen yuan of grain." Liu Bowen looked at her breasts again and asked, "Why are your breasts so big?" She replied, "My breasts can raise children all over the world." Liu Bowen looked at her feet again and said, "Why are your feet so long?" She replied, "Your feet can tread thousands of miles of rivers and mountains." Liu Bowen said, "You have a big breath." Although he said this, he thought in his heart, "It seems that the empress who is looking for is here." Liu Bowen said to her at the moment, "If you are chosen to be the empress, will you be able to make it?" She replied, "If there is an empress to do it, what else can I do?" The farmers present laughed at her thick-skinned face and said, "We live in rough villages, how can we be empress? In our opinion, it's better for Miss Guan Ke to be fat and white. "But Liu Bowen made up his mind and ignored the farmers' discussions at all. He immediately asked the hand-made man to carry a red palanquin, and carried the girl away regardless of the three or seven twenty-one.
Liu Bowen took the girl to a village one night. Strange to say, the girl became very beautiful the next day. Later, people called this village "Changniang Village."
"Good things don't go out, bad things happen." Before Liu Bowen and his group arrived in the capital, Emperor Hongwu knew that the life they chose was not good-looking. When they came to the capital and asked to see Emperor Hongwu, Emperor Hongwu was very angry and said, "What are you bringing such a rude and ugly girl to do? She is not even worthy of being a palace e, so hurry up and return her}" At this time, one of the court officials said, "Your Majesty, a hundred words are better than a thousand words. Besides, the strategist Liu Bowen has always been careful in his work, how could he mess around? It is not too late to retreat after seeing it." Emperor Hongwu thought about it, and he also announced that Liu Bowen would bring the girl to the hall. At a glance in the hall, it turned out that she was quite beautiful. Emperor Hongwu was very happy and immediately made her an empress.
Afterwards, Emperor Hongwu thought: "Such a beautiful girl, why do the villagers say she is rough?" He thought that her villagers were reluctant to let her be the widow's empress, so they deliberately said that the girl was rough to deceive the widow, and he was really almost deceived. Emperor Hongwu was very angry when he thought of this, so he said: "This villager is too hateful and dares to bully the king." He ordered him to send troops to kill the people of this village.
Hearing this, the Empress was shocked and said, "Long live! Wouldn't this cut off all my parents, brothers, uncles and relatives?" Emperor Hong Wu asked, "What mark does your house have?" The Empress replied, "There is a word'Fu 'on my door, but there is no mark on my uncle's relatives' house." Emperor Hong Wu said; "The widow first sent someone to send a secret letter to your house, and all your uncles and relatives' houses were pasted with the word'Fu ', and then sent troops to cut and kill?" The Empress agreed. The emperor sent someone to send the letter first, and then sent troops to cut and kill.
After the Empress' family knew about this, they immediately informed their relatives and uncles, and the uncles and relatives also informed their uncles and relatives. In this way, once passed ten, ten passed a hundred, and everyone knew. Everyone rushed to write "Fu" on the door, because of the hurry, the words were written crooked, oblique, scrawled, and pasted down, but all the families pasted them. When the Imperial Forest Army arrived, they saw that the door of every household in the village was pasted with the word Fu, but they couldn't get their hands on it, so they didn't cut it. Originally, the Empress family had the word "Fu" and did not cut it, but as long as there was the word "Fu" later, they did not die. Later generations said, "If you don't die, there must be a blessing, and it came from here.