We followed the old gentleman, turned left and right, entered the alley, entered the alley, entered the alley and came to an old house, entered the house, the old gentleman invited us to each guest seat, and then he sat down.

I asked, I wonder what the old gentleman wants to say to me?

The old gentleman said, you went to Beiping this time, but to protect King Yan?

I was convinced, thinking that this old gentleman really knew everything, so I said, exactly.

The old gentleman said, King Yan is benevolent and is the best candidate for the emperor. He became the emperor of the Yan Dynasty, but he could ensure that my Ming Dynasty would not decay for two hundred years. You go to protect King Yan, you have merit in Daming, and you have kindness to the people, so you will be worshiped by the old decay.

So saying, the old gentleman got up and bent down to bow to me. I hurriedly stood up and hurriedly bowed back, saying that the old gentleman tortured me, and the little monk was only acting under the orders of the abbot, so how could he be worshiped by the old gentleman.

The old gentleman sat down and said with a smile, it is really rare to have the world's first-class martial arts, but he is strong but not arrogant.

Xiao Yunmei asked, how can you be so powerful, can you calculate that I still have two hundred years of foundation in the Ming Dynasty?

The old gentleman smiled and said, This is a celestial phenomenon, you can know it by looking at the sky, but I didn't calculate it. I tried my best to make King Yan the crown prince that day, but the emperor just didn't listen. However, the number of days dictates, and it was only a matter of time before King Yan ascended the throne. The first emperor did not comply with the mandate of heaven and set up his great-grandson as the emperor's grandson, which made many twists and turns out of thin air.

I heard him mention Zhu Yuanzhang and asked, "Have you ever been a courtier?"

When the old gentleman saw me asking, he said, I don't hide it, under Liu Ji, the word Bowen.

Xiao Yunmei jumped up and said that you are sincere Bo Liu Bowen?

The old gentleman smiled and said, I'm a bad old man buried in loess to my neck, what can I do to lie to you?

Xiao Yunmei said excitedly, sincerity is famous all over the world, and I never wanted to see you here. Since he is sincere, fortune-telling will never be fake.

I heard the abbot say that Zhu Yuanzhang relied on Liu Bowen's wisdom to win the world, and knew that Liu Bowen was an important minister of the former dynasty, but he didn't know what his official position was.

Liu Bowen smiled and said, Oh, why are you so sure that my fortune telling will never be fake?

Xiaoyunmei said, who in the world does not know the sentence "Zhuge Liang in three parts of the world, and Liu Bowen in the whole country"? Sincerity knows astronomy and geography, and everything in the world is clear in his heart. The "Song of Baked Cakes" is a calculation of a thousand years later.

I wondered, what "Baked Cake Song"?

Xiao Yunmei was very excited and said Master, you don't know anything. There are three strange books in this world, one is Zhuge Liang's "Lesson Before the Horse", the second is Li Chunfeng's "Pushing Back Picture", and the third is Cheng Chengbo's "Song of Baked Cakes". These three books describe the changes in the times in later generations, and "The Lesson Before the Horse" and "Tui Bei Tu" have happened since they were written, and what they said in the books has happened to this day.

I asked, "Is it so amazing?"

Liu Bowen smiled slightly, it was just a matter of divination, and there was no magic. As he spoke, he said to Xiao Yunmei, you are so young, you know so many things about old decay, I think you should have read a lot of books and gone to school for a few years.

Xiao Yunmei smiled, you can make a mistake now. I've only been studying for a year, and all I know is what I've heard and heard.

Liu Bowen was full of interest and said, oh, what did the storyteller say about me?

Xiao Yunmei heard Liu Bowen ask her about storytelling, which was right in the middle, and hurriedly sat down and asked, Why don't I start with your acquaintance with the emperor?

Liu Bowen said, please speak.

Xiao Yunmei cleared her throat and said: It is said that the emperor raised a rebel army, and one day when he passed through Nantian Township, Qingtian County, he went to the streets and alleys alone to inquire about the peasants' views on the rebel army. Walking and walking, I met a vegetable seller, the emperor and the vegetable seller had a family routine, talked for a long time, and found that the vegetable seller was witty, obviously quite talented. The first emperor Wen Taowu strategy, wisdom and bravery, secretly thought that an old man who sold vegetables dared to show off his literary talent in front of me, it was better to humiliate and humiliate him, so he said: I have a sentence on the couplet, I have been thinking about it for a long time, and I have not been able to make the next couplet, I don't know if the old man is willing to give it a try? That vegetable seller said, how many catties and how much ink can I have in my stomach? Anyway, there is no business to do at the moment, you can tell me to listen. The first emperor saw that the vegetable seller agreed, so he said: The morning glow is like a brocade, the sunset is like a brocade, the Dongchuan brocade, the Xichuan brocade. After hearing this, the vegetable seller opened his mouth and replied: The crescent moon is like a bow, the waning moon is like a bow, the upper bow and the lower bow. The first emperor saw that he didn't think twice, and the answer was like a stream, secretly thinking that the ink in the old man's stomach was really a bit of a pound, and it seemed that he had to deliberately make it difficult for him, and said, "Uncle, I still have a couplet: the mouth of the world, the mouth of the sky, and the ambition is to swallow Wu." How do you say to the next couplet? The vegetable buyer touched his beard and said with a smile, the king of people, the king of people, the intention is full. The first emperor couldn't help but shout, that's right! My upper link is just pointing at the south of the Yangtze River, and your lower link is actually chasing the Central Plains, and the artistic conception is deeper than me. The old man has such ambitions, why did he sell vegetables here instead of taking refuge in the rebel army? The vegetable seller said that the good general chose the master, and the old man did not meet the master. The first emperor nodded again and again when he heard this, and said, dare to ask his name. The vegetable seller Weng Dao, surnamed Liu Mingji. When the emperor heard that this old man was Liu Bowen, who had been famous for a long time, he hurriedly invited him to go out of the mountain to help. Liu Bowen saw the sincerity of the first emperor, and saw the dragon and phoenix among the first emperor, and Corporal Lixian, so he followed the emperor to give advice and help the emperor lay down the Ming Dynasty and make great achievements.

Liu Bowen was fascinated by what he heard, and if Xiaoyunmei paused halfway, Liu Bowen also asked like a real person in Miaoyang, what happened later?

Liu Bowen waited for Xiao Yunmei to finish speaking, and then he came back to his senses and said, if it weren't for the story I learned about my acquaintance with the emperor, I would have almost believed it. The ability of these storytellers to make up stories is not small, but the emperor heard that I have some reputation, so he sent someone to invite him, and when it came to the mouth of the storyteller, I became a vegetable seller, and I also started a couplet with the emperor. What other stories does the storyteller tell me?

Xiao Yunmei said, there are too many stories, from your life to death, especially the part of death, I cried at the time...... When Xiao Yunmei said this, she was suddenly stunned, and said, The storyteller said that you have been dead for more than 20 years, and you ...... How are you still alive? Is this also a storyteller's fabrication?

Liu Bowen sighed and said, this is true, more than 20 years ago, I was indeed dead.

When I heard Liu Bowen say this, I was very surprised and asked, what is going on?

Liu Bowen said, this matter has to start with King Yan. When I followed the first emperor, King Yan had not yet been born. The mother of King Yan is a Korean person, and the emperor named her concubine. Concubine Qi was pregnant for less than seven months and gave birth to a child, the first emperor suspected her of disloyalty, and gave the punishment of an iron skirt, and Concubine Qi died after being tortured.

Xiao Yunmei asked, what is the punishment of the iron skirt?

Liu Bowen said, wrapping pieces of red-hot iron plates around his waist, looking like a dress.

Xiao Yunmei said loudly, the first emperor is also vicious, right?

Liu Bowen said, this is a royal matter, and it is inconvenient for me to comment. Concubine Qi was born prematurely, so the emperor has always suspected that King Yan is not his own and has always disliked him. The first emperor had a total of twenty-six sons, and only seven sons were born at that time, and among the seven sons, only King Yan was the most diligent and studious. At the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the northern Mongolian iron cavalry often came to occupy the land of the Ming Dynasty. The first emperor made Beiping the fief of King Yan and let him lead his troops to resist the enemy. King Yan lived up to his grace and won many battles, and the Mongols did not dare to attack from then on. I thought that King Yan was so credited that the emperor would intend to make King Yan the crown prince. Who knew that when I asked, I learned that the first emperor set up the prince and wanted to establish the elder but not the young. I have always loved to observe astronomy, and when I saw the celestial phenomena at night, the future emperor was King Yan, so I persuaded the emperor to obey the will of heaven and set up King Yan as the prince. The first emperor was unwilling to embarrass me by refusing to face to face, so he said, Berwyn said that I should obey the mandate of heaven, so it is better to extend the tradition of more than two hundred years, I let the Taoist school assist Biao'er, let the Buddhist school assist Di'er, and after fifteen years, let the Buddhism and Taoism compare with each other, and whoever wins will be appointed as the prince. I heard the emperor say this, and I thought it was very good. Providence wants King Yan to inherit the great unification, how can the Buddhist sect lose again? Not long after, it coincided with my 60th birthday, and the ministers came to celebrate my birthday. When I saw that everyone had returned, but the general Wang had talked so much, I was a little impatient, and I couldn't drive him away because of my feelings, so I had to speak perfunctory. As he spoke, General Wang talked about the establishment of the prince by the emperor, and I said casually, the emperor was sage, knowing that he obeyed the mandate of heaven, and still used the tradition of the martial arts alliance to establish the prince. General Wang said, it's just a pretense, the first emperor has already decided that the eldest prince is the crown prince, and this martial arts alliance main bidding competition is just used to block the mouths of the people. General Wang smiled and said, "Brother, don't you know, when the time comes, the emperor will let Gonggong Zhao be the judge, and whoever loses and who wins just depends on one mouth." I was taken aback when I heard this, and then I provoked him to say, the general is just a guess, and I don't think it may be an internal decision. Although General Wang was already drunk, he became anxious when he heard my words, and said how could it be my guess? This is absolutely true, and it is what the emperor himself said. After a while, the emperor will transfer me to assist the eldest prince. On the second day, General Wang woke up drunk, afraid that he would be drunk and leak his breath, so he came to try in every possible way, but I only pretended not to know. Sure enough, in less than a year, General Wang was transferred to assist the eldest prince. Until this time, we knew that what General Wang said was true. I was so angry that I went to the palace to look for the emperor to ask about it, and when the emperor saw that I already knew, he had to admit it himself. I advise the emperor not to go against the sky. The first emperor said angrily, Berwyn, I am like a brother to you, and I might as well tell you that this concubine is pregnant and gave birth to a child in July, and it is difficult to say whether Zhu Di is my son. If you set up Di'er as the crown prince according to your advice, wouldn't you want to give the Ming Dynasty to someone with a foreign surname? Even if I act against the sky, I will never be able to make him the crown prince! I saw that the former emperor did not listen to me, and I was disheartened for a while, so I wanted to resign and return to my hometown. When I returned to my hometown, the emperor repented and sent someone to invite me back to the capital. The emperor didn't believe it, so he sent the imperial doctor to try, and when I heard that the imperial doctor was coming, I thought that I would not be able to hide it, so I simply pretended to be sick and died, and asked my family to pile a grave for me and set up a tombstone. When the imperial physician came and heard that I had died, he returned to the court and returned to the emperor, who mistakenly thought it was true, so he stopped.

Xiao Yunmei said, the world thinks that you died more than 20 years ago, so that's the case.