After hearing Xia Ji's words, He Qing frowned and said discontentedly, "A person's greed is like a snake trying to swallow an elephant."
In her view, Xia Ji's lament was purely a case of fretting over nothing, a needless groan when one was not actually suffering. It did not have any substantial significance.
Throughout Xia Ji's life, although resources were scarce during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States, this could not change the fact that she came from a wealthy family. Though history may have some inaccuracies, the affair Xia Ji had with her stepbrother was recorded in every relevant biography. Whether it was forced or voluntary, these observers thousands of years later dare not arbitrarily make a judgment; however, after her husband Uncle Xia Yu died, Xia Ji's list of visitors never dwindled, to the extent that eventually, her own son could not bear it any longer and furiously killed the then King Chen Linggong, ending up being torn apart by chariots …
