It's almost the New Year, all the disciples say goodbye to Bai Ziyun, they have to go back to their hometown for the New Year reunion dinner, leaving only one old and one young, the old one is Yu Ji, he is over eighty years old, he has no wife, and no descendants, he has no family for a long time, the less is Yahei, and his relatives have all died in the desert.

A few days later, Bai Ziyun finally lived the first Chinese New Year's Eve in this world, that is, Chinese New Year's Eve. At the end of the Han Dynasty, there was no title of "Chinese New Year's Eve", which would have been available when it was originally needed in the Western Jin Dynasty, but Bai Ziyun called it like this, and the world also had the title of "Chinese New Year's Eve", and it would soon spread throughout the land of Yan Zhao.

Five major pieces for the New Year: sticking door gods, sticking Spring Festival couplets, pasting New Year's paintings, hanging lanterns, and setting off firecrackers. In addition to the widespread popularity of firecrackers in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the other four things have not yet evolved except for lanterns, and now they have all been brought to this world by Bai Ziyun in advance. Unfortunately, the cost of these four items is too high to become popular.

Bai Ziyun and his disciples had a reunion dinner, and then distributed New Year's money to the disciples and house slaves, and now the New Year's money is also called tired of winning money, or called big pressure winning money, this kind of money is not the five-baht money circulating in the market, but is used to wear and play and cast into the shape of a coin to ward off evil spirits. Usually the obverse is minted with the words on the coin and various auspicious words, such as "Long live the thousand autumns", "the world is peaceful", "go to the evil and eliminate the evil", etc.; The back is cast with various patterns, such as dragon and phoenix, turtle and snake, double fish, fighting sword, star fight, etc.

After dividing the New Year's money, Bai Ziyun saw that those house slaves had nothing to do, and they were stunned, and many of them still showed bitterness on their faces, I was afraid that they remembered their own homes before, it was really difficult for them. You should be happy in the New Year, and it's not a matter of being so sad.

Bai Ziyun felt that he should think of a way to make them happy, people in this era have too few entertainment activities at night, literati and scholars are just going to play Go and other parties, rich people just go to prostitutes, and the poor people are only left to entertain with Zhou Gong.

Bai Ziyun thought for a while, and felt that the cheapest and most attractive entertainment was storytelling, that is, the storytelling of the ancients.

Bai Ziyun has read countless novels, and with a system, there are too many novels that can be told, but unfortunately in this ignorant late Han Dynasty, it is impossible to talk about modern novels with strong modern concepts. can only talk about classical Chinese novels, then the scope is greatly narrowed.

Think about the most famous Chinese classical novels are "Dream of Red Mansions", "Journey to the West", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin", these four famous works, "Dream of Red Mansions" is a novel that can only be appreciated by literati and scholars, "Journey to the West" is the most widely circulated, but they are all praised Buddhism, and those immortals in it have basically not been circulated now, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"? Hmph, now it's the end of the Han Dynasty, it's about to be the Three Kingdoms, talking about "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", this is to leak the heavenly secrets, once you say it, you don't have to live a stable life in the future. "Water Margin" is a good theme, but this is a novel about the peasant uprising, most of which is about the official coercion and the people's rebellion, and the protagonists have a miserable ending, it's the New Year, and I tell the story to make everyone happy, doesn't it make everyone unhappy to talk about this now? If the four famous novels can't work, then choose the others, how about "Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties"? This is a romance novel, and this era should be harmonious. How is "Romance of the Gods"? Don't make a fuss, there are so many powerful immortals in it, doesn't it seem that your ability is too low......

Bai Ziyun's mind swept through classical novels, and finally found a novel: "Three Heroes and Five Righteousness".

"Three Heroes and Five Righteousness", written by Shi Yukun of the Qing Dynasty, is a classic of classical chivalrous crime novels, and can be called the originator of Chinese martial arts novels.

"Three Heroes and Five Righteousness" tells the story of Bao Gong going to Dingyuan County and taking charge of Kaifeng Mansion during the reign of Renzong of the Northern Song Dynasty, and with the help of all chivalrous people, he tried strange cases, redressed grievances, eliminated violence and peace, and acted chivalrous and righteous. The book creates the image of a selfless and unafraid of power, and at the same time intersperses a large number of righteous acts of chivalrous men who see injustice and draw their swords to help each other.

"Three Heroes and Five Righteousness" can be said to be very suitable for telling in this era, now the late Han Dynasty is chaotic, the family is lawless, and there are many natural disasters, the people of Li can be said to be in dire straits, and they are eager to have a hero in their hearts, who can wear golden armor and holy clothes, and step on seven-colored clouds, well, well, regardless of the style of this style, in short, the people of Li are YY, eager for someone to change the status quo. And Bao Gong in "Three Heroes and Five Righteousness", honest and fair, iron-faced and selfless, and wise and decisive, dare to redress grievances for the people, as well as those chivalrous people to eliminate harm, eliminate violence and peace, this noble image is very in line with the spiritual thirst of the people of this era.

"Three Heroes and Five Righteousness" is about the later dynasties, and the place names, official names and character habits in it are quite different from those of the Eastern Han Dynasty, but it doesn't matter, this will Bai Ziyun have experience, and it will be enough to push these all down to another world.

Bai Ziyun gathered the house slaves in the martial arts arena, set up a table and a chair, and saw that everyone was looking at him inexplicably, so he said: "Today is Chinese New Year's Eve, everyone don't need to be too restrained, everyone sit down." ”

Bai Ziyun has always been a high-end mysterious immortal in front of outsiders, but he has always been very easy-going in front of his family, and at this moment, the house slaves listened to his orders and sat down one after another.

Bai Ziyun swept his eyes, then smiled slightly, and said: "Everyone has worked hard this year, as the head of the family, I would like to thank everyone, well, everyone is very hard during the day, but there is no way to relax and entertain, so I gathered everyone here to tell everyone a story, relax and have fun." ”

There were hundreds of people present, but what Bai Ziyun said was clear and audible, and everyone was in awe, and now when they heard that the master was going to tell him a story for entertainment, they were suddenly very moved in their hearts, and they all thought that the master was really a good fairy with great mercy and compassion, and he actually deigned to tell us untouchables stories.

Everyone knelt down to thank them, and the scene became chaotic for a while.

"Alright, everyone, be quiet, I'm going to get started." Bai Ziyun sat on the chair and slapped the table before everyone quieted down.

Bai Ziyun coughed and began to speak slowly: "What I am telling is just a story circulating in the fairy world, and it is unknown whether it has happened in the lower world, because there is no way to verify it now, everyone listens to it, just listen to it as a story, just as entertainment, don't take it seriously." ”

"According to legend in the fairy world, there is a world in the lower world, and it is the Zhao family who has obtained the Central Plains and established the Song Dynasty, and the story I want to tell is what happened in this dynasty."

"It is said that since the Song Dynasty since the Chenqiao Mutiny, the generals set up Zhao Kuangyin, the Taizu of the Song Dynasty, as the king, the unification of the country, passed down to Taizong, and to Zhenzong, the four seas are leveled, and all the people are happy.

One day, in the early dynasty, the civil and military Banqi, there was Wen Yanbo, the imperial historian of Xitai and the supervisor of Qintian, who came out of the class and said: "The minister watched the sky at night, and saw that the Tengu Star was offended, and he was afraid that it would be unfavorable to the prince. Gong painted a map, the emperor to see. 'Cheng Feng took it, and Chen was on top of the imperial case......"

Bai Ziyun is talking about the beginning of "Three Heroes and Five Righteousness", which is the famous story of the tanuki changing the prince, and what is written in the book is written language, and Bai Ziyun made it into the vernacular so that these low-level domestic slaves can hear it.

Approximate content: Song Zhenzong's first queen died without an heir, at that time, Concubine Liu and Concubine Li were pregnant, it is obvious that whoever gave birth to a son may be established as the main palace. Concubine Liu was jealous for a long time, fearing that Concubine Li would give birth to a son and be made the queen, so she made a plan with Guo Huai, the chief manager of the palace, and with the cooperation of the midwife You Shi, she took advantage of the fact that Concubine Li was born due to blood faintness and did not know about the situation, and stripped the fur of a raccoon cat, which was bloody and replaced the newly born prince.

Concubine Liu ordered the palace maid Kou Zhu to strangle the prince, Kou Zhu couldn't bear it, and secretly handed over the prince to the eunuch Chen Lin, who put the prince in a suitcase and sent it to the Eight Sages King to raise. Besides, when Zhenzong saw the skinned tanuki, he thought that Concubine Li had given birth to a monster, so he relegated it to the cold palace. Soon, Concubine Liu was in labor, gave birth to a son, was made the crown prince, and Concubine Liu was also canonized as the queen.

Who knew that six years later, Empress Liu's son died of illness. Zhenzong had no more heirs, so he accepted the son of his imperial brother Baxian Wang (actually the prince who was replaced that year) as a righteous son and made him the crown prince. One day, the prince met his biological mother Concubine Li in the cold palace, mother and son by nature, both of them had tears on their faces. When Empress Liu learned about it, she tortured Kou Zhu, who touched the steps and died. Therefore, Empress Liu slandered in front of Zhenzong, and Zhenzong decreed that Concubine Li would be killed. The little eunuch Yu Zhong was willing to be martyred for Concubine Li and released Concubine Li. Another eunuch, Qin Feng, took Concubine Li out and sent her to Chenzhou, and Qin Feng also burned himself to death. Concubine Li couldn't live in Chenzhou, so she could only live in a broken kiln and live by begging for food.

Bai Ziyun said slowly, everyone didn't understand it very well, but this kind of palace secret, both fresh and exciting, listened to it so terrifyingly, heart-warming, it was completely impossible to imagine that there was such a vicious Concubine Liu in the world, Kou Zhu, who was kind-hearted but whose life was thinner than paper, and two loyal eunuchs who could not fear life and death for the Lord, it was really admirable......

On this night, other people's families had a Chinese New Year's Eve as in previous years, but Baijiazhuang had a different night. The house slaves of Baijiazhuang listened very fascinated, and so did Bai Ziyun's disciples, and Sanniang, the life secretary, worked hard to record everything Bai Ziyun said.

What Bai Ziyun never expected was that his whim opened an era, an era of martial arts.

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The tanuki for the prince is completely fictional, but it has a prototype, which is based on the events of the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty. In order to be favored, Wan Guifei, the concubine of Ming Xianzong, poisoned many concubines or palace maids who were pregnant with dragon seeds, and only one palace maid escaped poisoning and gave birth to Zhu Youjiao, the later Ming Xiaozong.