Haozhou Chenghuang pities the young son.

At first glance, it seems easy to understand.

Haozhou, the ancient place name, the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, here is Zhongli country, Sui Kaihuang changed the West Chu Prefecture in the second year, and ruled Zhongli County. It is named after the water. At the beginning of Daye, it was changed to Zhongli County.

Tang Wude and Qianyuan restored Haozhou, and in the fifteenth year of Yuan to Yuan, it was promoted to Linhao Mansion, and in the twenty-eighth year, it was restored to Haozhou. In the seventh year of Hongwu, it was renamed Fengyang Mansion, which is now Fengyang.

Chenghuang is one of the important gods commonly worshiped in traditional Chinese culture, and is one of the eight gods of Confucianism and Taoism "Zhou Guan". It is also the god of the city that is believed by the people.

Compassion, which means pity, pity.

Young son, this is the most simple and clear, young child.

I tried to look at this sentence in a cracked way, and I knew exactly what the four parts were, but I didn't have a clue about them together.

The poor little child of Haozhou's Chenghuang?

Hearing my strange statement, everyone looked at each other, and then burst into laughter.

In fact, even I myself was amused by this statement, and it was clear that my understanding was wrong.

Chunting may have been impatient to wait, and he didn't care about our restlessness one by one, but simply lay on the ground behind us and fell asleep.

This man is really different, and my intuition tells me that if we don't crack the mystery, he won't speak again even if he dies here.

After Ling Xuan broke the formation and everyone entered this space, we tried to walk outside, but found that Ling Xuan's broken entrance was unconsciously repaired by itself, intact as before, and we walked out, as if there was another invisible barrier blocking our entry and exit.

Ling Xuan said that this kind of Dao magic array was really unimaginable to him, it contained the lifelong cultivation of the predecessors, and the predecessors who arranged this illusion array also thought that someone would break the formation with force, so this illusion array had the function of self-repair.

And he used all his body to cultivate, and he could only break it once in three months, and when he came in, he had already used all his strength, and he could only get out three months later.

It was such an urgent moment, and Chunting was actually sleeping here, which was really incomprehensible.

Ling Xuan looked at it for a while, pacing back and forth around the stone plate, thoughtfully, looking at his expression, he should have an idea.

"If you want to talk about this city god, it really has something to do with Zhu Yuanzhang."

Qi Zhi didn't panic about the crisis at all, and as soon as she found out that there was another story to hear, she looked at Ling Xuan happily, her eyes full of curiosity.

"Brother Ling Xuan, hurry up, don't hang people's appetites."

Ling Xuan became more and more like Chunting, and did not answer directly, but asked us rhetorically.

"How much do you know about Chenghuang?"

I thought about it and said the impression of Chenghuang in my mind little by little.

The earliest record of the word Chenghuang can be traced back to the "Zhou Yi", "the city is restored to the god of the city, do not use the teacher", and the "Book of Changes" also says: "The city is restored to the god, and its life is chaotic", the "city" mentioned here refers to the high wall built by digging the earth, and the "god" originally refers to the moat without water. The word Chenghuang originally meant a moat used to defend a city.

Because the ancients believed that there were gods in things closely related to people's lives and production safety, the city and the god were deified as the protectors of the city. Taoism incorporated it into its own divine system, calling it the god who cut off the evil, protected the country and protected the state, and ruled over the souls of the underworld.

After I finished speaking, I looked at Ling Xuan, not knowing if there was anything wrong with what I said.

Without waiting for Ling Xuan to speak, Xue Nan added some details for me that I had missed.

"During the Tang and Song dynasties, the belief in the city god flourished. The Song Dynasty was listed as a national ritual. The Yuan Dynasty named him the King of Yousheng. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the title of the god of the city god in the world was sealed, divided into kings, dukes, marquis, uncles, etc., and sacrificed at the age of the year, respectively, by the king and the prefecture and county to keep the order. ”

Although the number of people is not large, but this group of people can really be called the Hidden Dragon and Crouching Tiger, even Xue Nan knows so many little-known things, I thought she was just strong and not worth mentioning in terms of brain, it turned out that I had always underestimated her.

Ling Xuan nodded, and continued to talk about another secret story about Chenghuang and Zhu Yuanzhang.

In the first month of the second year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang enshrined the god of the city god in Kyoto and the world, and strictly stipulated the level of the city god, which was divided into four levels: capital, prefecture, state and county. On the surface, it seems that this is a way to make people know about awe, but in fact, there is something else. ”

He was around the stone plate, his words were slow but unusually serious, and we sat on the ground like children, listening attentively.

"Legend has it that when Zhu Yuanzhang was born, the house was full of red light, and the local people passed it on orally, saying that the true dragon son of heaven came to the world, and this legend brought disaster to Zhu Yuanzhang."

"At that time, Emperor Yuan heard about this and ordered the national teacher to calculate the position of the true dragon son of heaven. After calculating, the national teacher reported to Emperor Yuan, and the place where the new true dragon son of heaven came into the world was in Haozhou. ”

Qi Zhi seemed to have brought herself into the identity of Zhu Yuanzhang, and her face was anxious.

"Haozhou is Fengyang, isn't that just going to arrest Zhu Yuanzhang, what can I do, if Zhu Yuanzhang is caught, he will definitely die."

Shen Lang suddenly laughed heartlessly on the side, Qi Zhi turned his head to stare at him, he looked at Qi Zhi with a smile, and then looked at me.

"My stupid sister-in-law, why are you not at all different from Brother Chuan, and you still worry about the ancients, you listen to my master first, and then say, if Zhu Yuanzhang dies, how can there be a Ming dynasty, in the end, there must be no danger, don't be in a hurry."

Qi Zhi was blushing at Shen Lang's sister-in-law's call, and peeked at my reaction, seeing that I didn't have any expression of resistance, she lowered her head again and listened to Ling Xuan's next story quietly.

Ling Xuan looked at our laughter, he showed a knowing expression, and continued to talk without pursuing us for interrupting his speech.

"Emperor Yuan was afraid that the true dragon son of heaven who came into the world would subvert his country, so he ordered someone to go to arrest him, at this time, Zhu Yuanzhang was hungry and cold and had become a man called Huazi, every day in a city god temple to survive, the officers and soldiers searched him, looked at him with a depressed face, and did not suspect that he was the true dragon son in the mouth of Emperor Yuan, this city god temple in his heart, is the place that saved his life."

After Xue Nan listened to the story in Ling Xuan's mouth, he suddenly realized.

"I see, that's why he will be crowned the title of the god of the city god in the world in the second year of Hongwu who just ascended the throne, ostensibly to 'observe the good and evil of the people and the blessings and misfortunes, and Yu Youmingju will not be spared', but in fact, it is because in his heart, this city god temple saved her life, without the city god, there would be no day he ascended the throne."

Shen Lang scratched his head and complained silly.

"What's the use of knowing the story, we're not a story, we have to know the meaning of this sentence to continue, otherwise we won't be able to go back."

"It will take three months for the master to break through the phantom array again and take us out, but for three months, we are starving to death, and if we can't solve these words, we can't wait to die here."

Shen Lang is sometimes like a second senior brother, he likes to complain when he has nothing to do, he almost doesn't say that he has to go his own way, even if he has learned Li Cunxiao's mastery now, his brain is still not very useful.

"Who said we couldn't untie it."

A flash of inspiration flashed in my mind, Ling Xuan's story was not told in vain, if I guessed correctly, I already knew the number hidden in this first sentence.

Before they could react, I got up and walked over to the stone plate, stretched out my right hand, and slowly but unusually firmly aimed at a number, and pressed it gently.

I only heard the sound of a machine spring in this city tower, there was no sword light, and there was no sky falling, since there was no fatal mechanism, it seems that I chose the right number for this first number.

Only then did everyone react, and they hurriedly got up and came to the stone plate, wanting to know what the number I chose, Shen Lang looked at the stone plate, full of doubts, and looked at me puzzled.

"Brother Chuan, why is the first sentence eight?"