Chapter 18: Meng Po Soup (1)
The red candle was stopped in the cave room last night, and I was waiting to worship my aunt in front of Xiaotang.
Makeup asked her husband in a low voice, and the thrush was not deep or shallow.
——Zhu Qingyu "Recent Examination on Zhang's Water Department"
The day after the wedding.
Ah You woke up, it was already dawn, she had never gotten up so late! Wan'er smiled, and there seemed to be a lingering taste of him on her lips. She stroked her body and the pillow of the marriage bed, but she only touched Qin Beiyang's body temperature...... The guests of the League of Assassins have all bid farewell to Taibai Mountain. "Angel" Michael also left for the United States, and he hugged Qin Beiyang goodbye: "Brother, in this life, if you need me, don't forget Michael!" ”
Michael joked that he also had to dress up the nine-colored beast as the South American mythical beast "Wild Horse" to do magic, which scared the town's grave beast to retreat and grin its teeth.
Taibai Mountain returned to silence, and Ah You still kept the empty room alone. Every night, Qin Beiyang hid in the underground palace and slept next to the coffin of the little prince of the Tang Dynasty. This is the only way to ensure that cancer cells do not recur. Jiuse returned to the old and new masters, and he was also happy, as if he had returned to the Bailuyuan Rubik's Cube Tomb.
Qin Beiyang forbade Jiu Se to leave the underground palace, especially forbidden it to get close to Ah You. Katya's death was a lesson from the past, and he didn't want to kill another woman who loved him deeply because of the power of a few spirit stones in the body of this small town tomb beast.
This night, he was meditating on the giant coffin with yellow intestines, and the voice of the old woman came slowly from behind him: "Beiyang! Why don't you ignore your bride? ”
Qin Beiyang stood up in a panic and saw an old woman of unknown age, wearing a shroud-like placket, like a statue of a god from ancient times, or boiling soup at the bridge.
In the face of this woman who has experienced strong winds and waves, any lies or excuses are in vain, Qin Beiyang might as well say directly: "Mother-in-law, I'm just afraid that I will kill Ah You!" ”
"No, you have a future!"
"This ......"
Qin Beiyang was thinking in his heart, could it still be Ouyang Anna?
"I also have a future." Meng Po showed dead skin and wrinkles on her face, "I always pour a bowl of Meng Po soup for the schoolchildren of the 'Heavenly Academy', so that they can forget everything in their previous lives, grasp the afterlife in the heavenly kingdom, and be an excellent assassin or 'tomb beast hunter'." I often want to drink the soup I boiled, but every time I drink it, the past is vivid, like blood and tears......"
Hearing this, Qin Beiyang was at a loss, as if facing living history: "I have also drunk, but I can't forget it." Mother-in-law, didn't you let the children drink this bowl of soup just to concentrate on their studies in the Heavenly Academy? ”
"If a man lives like an ant, insensitive, and confused, then he is dead! Under the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, 40,000 Chinese, how many people have opened their eyes? ”
"Does the Heavenly King count as one?"
"Heavenly King ......" Meng Po is the only person on Taibai Mountain who has seen the true face of Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan, "It's not him." ”
"The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, with its many heroes and turbulent winds, shook the tyranny of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and was the precursor of the revolutionaries. But this great upheaval has also caused tragic damage. Success or failure, half of the merits and demerits, leave it to future generations to comment. A teacher for one day, a father for life, mother-in-law, please accept Beiyang's worship. ”
Meng Po immediately helped him up: "You are the master of Taibai Mountain, the leader of the assassins, my old woman can't afford it." ”
"By the way, mother-in-law, I have a question, why are your clothes, as well as the women on Taibai Mountain, including Ah You's wedding dress, like the shroud after death?"
"The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's system of clothing and clothing, calendars, writing, avoidance, etc., are all different from those of previous dynasties, and we hope to create a new world and completely change the country...... Sixty years later, I'm almost 90 years old. Looking back, the kingdom of heaven is doomed. ”
"In that case, why do you still have to stay on Taibai Mountain?"
"One breath!"
"A man lives a breath, and a tree lives a skin." Qin Beiyang thought thoughtfully, "Heaven and the Manchu Qing Dynasty, you live and die, there are always people who do not admit defeat, just like the people who have lost their country throughout the ages, who would rather flee to an overseas island than be a new courtier." ”
"I swore that I would see the fall of the Qing Dynasty with my own eyes, and that I would let the Kingdom of Heaven live longer than the Manchu Dynasty."
"Meng Po, you have done it, and now it is the Republic of China."
Others don't know the true face of Lushan, only because they are in this mountain, but Meng Po understands the older she gets: "Beiyang, remember?" I made a 'joint wave' for you and Ah You, which is your marriage certificate, with the words 'Xiwang Council and Political Division' written on it. ”
"The King of the West - Xiao Chaogui, the King of the West of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom?"
"Yes, he is my husband, and I am the queen of the West."
"Could it be that mother-in-law, you are the famous Hong Xuanjiao?"
Qin Beiyang's eyes widened, and the nine colors also crawled out of the yellow intestine question.
"Thank you for reading too much!"
"Please bow to Beiyang!"
In order to understand the psychology, personality and behavioral logic of Ah You and the group of people on Taibai Mountain, Qin Beiyang has made up the history of the Heavenly Kingdom. Hong Xuanjiao, the first strange woman in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, a brilliant one, the brave champion of the three armies, often led hundreds of female soldiers, invincible. Every time she fights, she first worships God, then puts on light makeup, rides a horse, dances with double swords, has a long white body, green and bright between her dresses, like a bright moon falling on snow, and the Qing soldiers look at her like a goddess descending to earth - "undressing and riding horses, wrapping apricot yellow silk in inner clothes, sword skills are wonderful, clothes are illusory, and an army is terrifying." ”
Meng Po pulled Qin Beiyang up, don't look so old, he has a powerful hand in his hand, and he has decades of real kung fu cultivation.
"I didn't have the surname Hong, my original name was Yang Yunjiao, but I was born in the same village as Tianwang - Fuyuanshui Village in Huaxian County, Guangdong. When I was a little girl, I followed the King of Heaven to Bauhinia Mountain in Guangxi, and after a dream, I claimed to be the daughter of my Heavenly Father. The King of Heaven is the Son of the Father, so it is natural that he and I will be brother and sister. I changed my surname to Hong, and the pronunciation of Yun and Xuan in Hakka is close, so I have the name Hong Xuanjiao. Jintian Uprising, Yong'an Establishment, Yang Xiuqing, King of the East, Xiao Chaogui of the West, Feng Yunshan, King of the South, Wei Changhui of the North, and Shi Dakai, King of the Wings. I married Xiao Chaogui, the king of the west, and less than a year after my marriage, he died in the battle at Miaofeng outside the south gate of Changsha, and I became a little widow. ”
"What about the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom after it arrives in Tianjing?"
"I am the supervisor of the women's pavilion, and the king of the east is obsessed with me, he is a very attractive man. And I was young and widowed, and I couldn't bear to be lonely, but I had a personal relationship with my children. Meng Po laughed loudly, "At this age, there is nothing to be afraid of." In the early stage of the Kingdom of Heaven, the Eastern King was in charge of major affairs, and the Heavenly King had no real power. Throughout the ages, high achievements and shocks will cause death. The king of the east has engaged in the trick of descending children several times, lying that the heavenly father has descended to possess the body, which makes the king especially angry. What makes me angry is that Dongwang is infatuated with Fu Shanxiang, the new female champion. ”
"The first female champion in Chinese history."
"I hate her."
A Jiazi passed, Meng Po - no, Hong Xuanjiao's resentment has not been eliminated.
"Mother-in-law, did you personally plan the Tianjing Incident?"
"I'm just a little woman, how can I be so powerful? When I am Wu Zetian? I am just a pitiful instrument of this massacre. I persuaded the king of the east to hold a celebration banquet for the king of the north, Wei Changhui, Wei Changhui took the opportunity to murder the king of the east, and the palace of the king of the east was washed in blood, and 20,000 men, women and children were killed before and after! ”
"You're guilty?"
"I'm sorry for the King of the East, and I'm sorry for the Kingdom of Heaven, this is the turning point for us from prosperity to decline...... The rebellion of the king of the north was executed, and the king of wings ran away in anger, although there were loyal and brave talents of the loyal king, the king of England, and the king of Gan, and the Qing court also had Zeng Demon, Li Demon, Zuo Demon and other famous ministers and good generals, and finally broke Tianjing. ”
"There is a legend that you fled to the United States with a foreign priest and traveled to San Francisco to practice medicine."
"Bad ......"