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Chapter 214: Hiding the Hook

"Yu Gong" says: Jiuhe Road is because the Yellow River was divided into Jiuhe in Hebei in ancient times, and the area between Jiuhe is called Hejian. Emperor Wen of Han and Emperor Jing of Han were all named princes here and established the Hejian Kingdom, which is located in the northeastern part of the governor of Jizhou.

There are indeed tributaries of the river here, with a flat and wide land, but not fertile. It was August high in autumn, and a group of carriages and horses stopped by the river to get water. The already withered grass lay mats and a screen was erected. A couple in riding clothes were sitting opposite each other, playing small games.

Yaoguang clasped his hands into fists and placed them in front of Ren Hong, with a cunning smile in his smile.

"Guess, good man."

Ren Hong was not in a hurry to guess. He closed his eyes and thought for a while, then rolled up his sleeves, pretended to touch his wife's white fist back and forth, slid from the back of his hand to his wrist, making her itchy, and finally pointed to her left hand and said, "Here."

Yaoguang opened his left hand, but it was empty inside. He also opened his right hand, but a small wooden hook was quietly lying on the palm of his hand.

Yao Guang smiled and said, "My good man guessed wrongly, he should be punished for wine!"

The couple left Chang'an last month and traveled eastward, visiting Yuzhou and most of Jizhou. At first, the journey was still fresh, but after half a month, they were a little tired. Fortunately, Ren Hong could always come up with many new games along the way, which added a bit of fun to the long journey.

But Yaoguang is always not good at chess games. He has to drink alcohol if he loses, or blushs his face to agree to some strange requests from Ren Hong.

She prefers games that only depend on luck, such as the "hidden hook drama" that is very popular in the Han Palace.

"When we were in Shanglin Yuefu, our royal family girls who learned drums and music often played, and those who participated in the game were divided into two Caos, which was a comparison of the winners and losses."

Yaoguang also carefully explained the rules of this play to Ren Hong: "Photos are hostile, and strange people are like people who are traveling, or belong to the upper Cao or subordinate Cao, which is called flying birds. A small hook is passed in the hands of everyone. Cao people know where they are hidden, one hides as one rack, and three racks as one capital. Those with a high shooting percentage win."

"But after arriving in Hejian, I saw some girls from the country pavilion team playing, and wondered why it came out of the palace."

"It's the opposite." Ren Hong smiled and said: "This game has been around in Hejian, but no matter whether it is in the palace or in the folk, the hidden gou opera is because of his biological mother, Mrs. Gouyi, who is from Hejian."

Emperor Wu of Han, like Qin Shihuang, was an emperor who could not stay idle. He loved to wander around the world when he had nothing to do. When he passed by Hejian Kingdom in his later years, the alchemist beside him told him that there was a strange girl here. Liu Che issued an edict to search and found a young and beautiful woman named Zhao. It is said that this woman was born to have her hands clenched into a fist shape and could not be stretched out for more than ten years. It would be useless to break up to more than a dozen men.

However, after being touched by the elderly emperor, a miracle happened!

The woman's hand was opened, and there was a small jade hook in the palm of her hand. Auspiciousness, which was a great auspiciousness. As the ministers cheered, Liu Che happily took the woman into the harem and brought her back to Chang'an, called "Madam Boxing". What was even more surprising was that this woman knew the skills of Huangdi, which made Emperor Wu of Han's old life rejuvenate another spring, and she was very favored.

In Ren Hong's opinion, this is an extremely deliberate situation. Just like Mrs. Gouyi's "being pregnant for 14 months and giving birth", it will not be exaggerated to this extent no matter how late she gives birth, she will be able to give birth to a little Nezha if she doubles her growth.

It always makes people feel that behind this Boxing Lady, there is a whole fraud group that is conspiring to operate, specializing in the preferences of the superstitious elderly Emperor Wu of Han. After the witchcraft disaster, the two groups of Wei and Li's relatives were defeated one after another, and it was Boxing Lady and his son Liu Fuling who had the last laugh.

"So Mrs. Gouyi is from Hejian?" Yaoguang and Ren Hong talked about her experiences in the palace: "In the Jiaofang Hall, Mrs. Gouyi's name is like Queen Wei, and it is a taboo. If anyone mentioned it accidentally, he will be punished by the Queen Zhan."

Isn't it a taboo? According to official statements, Mrs. Gouyi made a mistake and died of worries by Emperor Wu of Han. However, there were rumors in the court that Emperor Wu of Han was afraid that the heroine Zhuanzi would disrupt the country, so he established a son to kill his mother.

"Although the name of Mrs. Gouyi is not allowed to be mentioned in the Jiaofang Hall, it is said that Xiaowu has painted a picture of Zhou Gong being defeated by King Cheng in Ganquan Palace and given it to General Huo. So the ministers on the left and right learned that Emperor Wu wanted to make his youngest son the crown prince."

"A few days later, Emperor Wu scolded Gouyi for no reason. Gouyi took off his hairpin and kowtowed repeatedly. Emperor Wu ordered someone to take him away to the palace. When he was dragged away, Gouyi turned around and begged for mercy, hoping that Xiaowu would spare his life because of the husband and wife's love. Emperor Wu ignored it and said: "You can't live!"

Later, Gouyi died in Yunyang Palace. The envoy carried a coffin to bury him at night and sealed the tomb firmly.

Yaoguang frowned and said, "I often heard about the love between Emperor Xiaowu and Mrs. Li in the palace, and I was quite moved by the song "Madam Li's Fu" he wrote personally. But I also thought about the affairs between Empress Wei and Mrs. Gouyi. At first, I was very fond of him, but in the end I was so cruel and decisive."

The big pig's hooves are like this, passionate and fickle. What's more, in the royal family, loving couples turn against each other, and bloody father and son are all common. In reality, there will be breakups when opening a husband-and-wife shop. Intimate relationships are mixed with too many power and money factors, which are destined to deteriorate.

Ren Hong also heard that Mrs. Li was visited by Emperor Wu of Han before her death, but she was covered in her face and never saw her when she died. This Mrs. Li was extremely smart and knew Han Wu's temperament very well, which made his impression of himself stay at the moment when "a smile that bewilders the country". Only in this way can he firmly occupy a place in his heart and keep the Li family's grace after death.

But Yaoguang's next words made Ren Hong feel that something was wrong.

After Liu Yaoguang sighed about Mrs. Gouyi's incident, he looked suspiciously at Ren Hong who was still stroking her hand: "Mrs. Li is right. Generally speaking, people are treated with sex, and their love is weak, and their love is weak. I am still young this year, but my appearance is aging in ten or twenty years. How will my good man treat me?"

Just now, he was still evaluating other people's family affairs, but suddenly a fire broke out in the backyard, and Ren Hong was stunned.

It seems that no matter which era, women question men’s questions are similar. At this time, they cannot avoid them, and they must not care about their opinions and talk positively.

He held his wife's hand tightly, looked at her eyes firmly, and said something seriously.

...

Ren Hong spent a night to coax the topic to pass over. At night, listening to his wife's breathing in her sleep, recalling the topic of today's discussion, but remembering another legend.

"It is said that after he ascended the throne, he posthumously named his biological mother as the empress dowager and buried Mrs. Gouyi again, but found that the coffin was empty, without a corpse, leaving only a pair of embroidered shoes..."

It sounds like a terrifying ghost story, but whether it is true or false, the fact that Mrs. Gouyi was sentenced to death has a certain impact on the legal principles of today's son, so Liu Dan, the King of Yan, dared to question the legitimacy of the throne.

What's even more strange is that Huo Guang actually respected Mrs. Li as Empress Xiaowu and buried her next to Maoling to accompany Emperor Wu of Han, which made the emperor even more embarrassed.

"Mrs. Li, King Changyi... Is this deliberately trying to please Emperor Wu of Han, or is it a secret son buried by Huo Guang more than ten years ago?"

The identity of "Empress Xiaowu" is like a sword hanging over the head of the emperor, and the hilt of the sword is held in Huo Guang's hand. Once there is a change, everything will be natural.

Thinking of this, Ren Hong felt that Huo Guang was so terrifying that he was so thoughtful that he was shuddering and was also glad.

"No matter how keen Huo Guang is, he can only see the process, but I see the result."

However, Ren Hong's arrangements can only be made with hammers and a hammer, and slowly ambush them. They cannot be too eager and deliberate, otherwise if Huo Guang noticed them, they may have a counterproductive effect.

Ren Hong believed that he was too high-profile in Chang'an some time ago, and now he needed to stay silent for some time and do things that others seem useless.

For example, he was obsessed with academics and joined the Hejian Primary School School, which had no place in Chang'an, and lived alone for several months.

After a month of trekking, they will arrive in Lecheng County, the capital of Hejian Kingdom tomorrow. Zhang Chang agreed and borrowed him to Ren Hong and his wife in Lecheng's yard, saying that they would live for as long as they can.

He also wrote a letter of introduction for Ren Hong, allowing him to pay homage to Guan Changqing, the Grand Tutor of Hejian Kingdom.

Guan Changqing was not only the great master of "Zuo Zhuan" handed down from Zhang Cang and Jia Yi, but also inherited the "Mao Shi". He and his disciples were independent of Fang Xingzheng Ai's Qi and Lu studies, and followed the Taoist tradition of Xunzi and Zhao's Confucianism.

Just like the world is known as the Jingliang School and the Gongyang School, people are accustomed to referring to the sects passed down by Guan Changqing as...

"Mao Left School"!

"Mao Zuo."

When he thought of this name, Ren Hong couldn't help but feel awe-inspiring, feeling that there might be a certain number in the dark: "This name is very interesting, I always feel that I have gone wider!"

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