Chapter 45: The Ring Spanning Millennia
"It's really strange, the bronze statue of Zhu Yuanzhang is not sitting on the dragon chair and looking at the Quartet, but bending over and looking respectful?"
Shen Lang's question spoke everyone's mind.
Zhu Yuanzhang has been poor for eight generations, and has been a beggar monk, because he has had such an experience, which has led to his cautious and sensitive personality, even to the point of suspicion, if anyone dares to say anything about his previous experience, it is tantamount to suicide.
But here, he did not hesitate to bring humiliation on himself, and even respectfully faced the visitor with a begging posture, why is this?
As a generation of founding emperors, the dragon is in his hands, but he will actually stand a bronze statue on behalf of himself here, and this bronze statue is so respectful and humble, thinking that with his identity, what is worthy of him to be so low and stretch out his hand to beg, this really can't be said.
"It depends on who he's waiting for here."
A voice came faintly from behind us, and when we looked back, it turned out to be Chunting, and he finally woke up.
"Chunting, how are you ......?"
Xue Nan seemed to want to ask why Chunting suddenly lay on the ground and fell asleep, but he didn't know how to speak.
Chun Ting pretended not to see Xue Nan's intentions, stretched out in place, and hammered his neck, it seemed that he was sleeping on the ground, and he was really uncomfortable sleeping.
"The reason why you are curious about why this bronze statue of Zhu Yuanzhang poses like this, it is better to think carefully about who he is waiting for here."
It seemed that he had been awake for a while, and from his mouth came out seemingly random words, but in one sentence, they went straight to the point where we were most confused.
Thinking down from his words, Zhu Yuanzhang is the Son of Heaven, and the world is his, so he naturally doesn't need to be respectful to anyone, but what if it is for him to calm the world?
Ling Xuan's mind was nimble in the end, and he was the first to react.
"It's often spring!"
Hearing the three words of Chang Yuchun, we finally reacted, even if Zhu Yuanzhang is the Son of Heaven, but what Chang Yuchun did is equivalent to giving this great country to him in vain, even if Zhu Yuanzhang is sensitive and suspicious, he will never have bad intentions towards Chang Yuchun, not because he can't, but he doesn't dare.
Because he knows that Chang Yuchun is not a mortal, since Chang Yuchun can give the country to him, he naturally has the ability to take it back from him, in other words, no matter what Zhu Yuanzhang's identity is, he can only be respectful to Chang Yuchun, and he does not dare to claim to be the emperor at all.
In addition to Chang Yuchun, we really can't imagine that there will be a second person who can make Zhu Yuanzhang so humble.
After listening to Ling Xuan's speculation, Chun Ting nodded, reached into his arms to take out something, hesitated, and when his hand was withdrawn from his arms, he didn't take anything out.
Shen Lang listened for a long time, and saw that although we had some guesses, there was no actual progress, and looked at Chunting and asked puzzledly.
"Brother Ting, even if we know that Zhu Yuanzhang is waiting for Chang Yuchun, what's the use? Do we want to find Chang Yuchun and ask him to give orders to this bronze statue? ”
Not to mention that after a thousand years, Chang Yuchun has long been ancient, even if he is not a mortal, living until now, where can we find his traces?
Chunting looked at the bronze statue, as if no one else in his eyes was worth his extra glance except for the bronze statue.
"The point is not who he is waiting for, but the most important identity of the person he is waiting for."
After Xue Nan heard this, he reached out and stroked his hair, and began to recall the several identities we had learned about Chang Yuchun along the way.
"King Kaiping? 100,000? The strange man in the world? Xu Da's lieutenant general? Or Zhu Yuanzhang's nobleman? ”
In this way, Chang Yuchun's identity is really a lot.
Chun Ting shook his head, there are so many identities, but they are still not the most important identities in his mouth.
He looked at me, and his dissatisfaction with me was not hidden in his eyes.
"I arranged for Xiao Nan to go to Emei to see you, she should tell you for the first time that Emperor Jianwen was the leader of Guanshan, have you ever thought about so many fallen emperors in history, why Guanshan only has a soft spot for Emperor Jianwen?"
After hearing this, I suddenly realized that we were indeed covered by appearances, ignoring the most important identity of Chang Yuchun.
"It's Guan Shan, Chang Yuchun's most important identity is that he is from Guan Shan!"
"Chang Yuchun once told Zhu Yuanzhang that this place would be explored by people in the mountains in the future, and at the same time, he also promised Zhu Yuanzhang that if the country was turbulent, his descendants could come here to ask for help."
"And Zhu Di, in the name of the Qing monarch, took away the world that should have belonged to Emperor Jianwen, although the lord of the world is still the descendant of Zhu Yuanzhang, but Chang Yuchun will inevitably be a little unhappy, which will bring Emperor Jianwen into Guanshan."
Hearing my speculation, Chunting finally nodded in satisfaction, and continued my words about the reason why the shape of the statue was so respectful and humble.
"The reason why Zhu Yuanzhang carved his bronze statue so respectfully is because Chang Yuchun said that there will be people in Guanshan in the future who will come to explore, although Zhu Yuanzhang does not know about Guanshan, but in his heart, everyone in Guanshan is like Chang Yuchun, and his magic power is not like ordinary people."
"In the face of such a group of people, how dare Zhu Yuanzhang call himself the Son of Heaven, he can only carve the statue respectfully, and wait for the people in Guan Mountain in this place where he does not see the light of day."
"And the people of later generations will naturally not be able to identify themselves when they come here alone, so Zhu Yuanzhang used the two things on Chang Yuchun's body as evidence to lay a sophisticated mechanism here, and only when the person who came with these two things can he really open this last mechanism."
Qi Zhi took my hand, very dissatisfied with Chunting's answer, and pouted and complained to Chunting.
"Brother Chunting, it's useless for us to know what you said, where have I seen something like that along the way."
Chun Ting smiled mysteriously, with an unknown deep meaning in his tone, but his eyes looked straight at Qi Zhi holding my hand.
"It's just that you haven't noticed, how do you know that what Zhu Yuanzhang wants, you must not have?"
I followed his gaze and finally understood why his tone sounded so meaningful.
Qi Zhi was holding my left hand, and on the ring finger of my left hand, I was wearing a ring, which was not a so-called wedding ring, but a ring that was taken away by my father sent back by Hebo outside the exit of Yang Guang's tomb.
This ring is not gold or silver, but wood, and my father has worn it on my hand since I was a child. It looks simple and mysterious, and in some years, there is no pattern on the ring, but some strange patterns are engraved, not words, and it is not the carved ornament used in all dynasties.
When my father disappeared, he didn't take anything with him, except for this ring, and when Hebo came to visit before, he returned the original thing, and every time I saw it, I could think of my father, so I put it on my left hand after sending it back, and never took it off.
As the so-called light is dark, I have never associated with this ring, but when I saw Chunting's gaze, I finally remembered that this ring, and the groove on the right hand of the bronze statue, the size is exactly the same.
I don't believe in any coincidences, all coincidences are man-made, are they ......
"This bronze statue of Zhu Yuanzhang, it's actually this ring that you are asking for?"
I was dumbfounded, looking at the ring on my left hand in disbelief, I didn't expect that it had crossed thousands of years, starting from the Ming Dynasty, and had been transferred to my hand several times.
Chunting looked a little silent, his face was full of memories, and after a long time, he finally spoke with emotion.
"Han Chuan, it's not that I won't tell you the real story, but this can only be up to you, and when that day comes, you will know the truth of all this when you remember who you are."