Chapter Twenty-Eight: Taizu Passed Away

But the fourth daughter did not go up the mountain directly, but led Wang Yuanheng around the side of the mountain and went straight to the back of the mountain.

It's a flat, open place. I saw that among the lush trees, there were more than ten wooden houses with a uniform style.

The fourth daughter led Wang Yuanheng straight into a wooden house in the center, and saw Ye Xiao here.

After some greetings, not long after taking a seat, a maidservant girl came in and reported to Ye Xiao, "Young master, the old master has invited this son to go and talk."

After seeing Ye Xiao's signal, Wang Yuanheng didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly followed the man out. The two of them walked all the way, but returned to the front of the mountain.

After finding the path, the two began to go up the mountain. When I reached the halfway point of the mountain, I found that there was a palace-like building with a considerable scale here.

The front is suppressed and the back is raised, built by the mountain, which is both unique and unassuming. Before they could enter, one person came out.

When he saw Wang Yuanheng, he immediately gave a deep salute and said, "I don't know that the son has arrived, and I have missed the distance, forgive my sins!"

Wang Yuanheng hurriedly returned the salute and looked at this person again. I saw him, about 60 years old, wearing a blue shirt, a square scarf on his head, and a Confucian dress.

After the Confucian student let Wang Yuanheng into the house first, and then personally served fragrant tea to Wang Yuanheng, he stood silently and carefully looked at Wang Yuanheng's face.

Seeing that this person's behavior was a little weird, when Wang Yuanheng opened his mouth to ask, he thought about it for fear of losing his manners, so he endured it again.

When he was young, after drinking a cup of fragrant tea, the Confucian said, "There must be many doubts in the child's heart, please come with me!"

So Wang Yuanheng followed the Confucian scholar to the two attics next to the hall and stood still. Confucius stretched out his hand to push open the door of an attic with three large characters of 'Baoyue Xuan', and motioned for Wang Yuanheng to enter.

After he entered, he found that the interior of the house was very simple and elegant, except for some flowers and orchids, and all kinds of calligraphy and paintings were hung on all four walls.

Offerings are placed on the table below one of the portraits, and the thick green smoke from the incense burner shows that the incense has only been applied for a short time.

Wang Yuanheng stared at the person on the painting for a long time, and he actually had a sense of déjà vu. After thinking about it, I realized that the face of the person in the picture was almost the same as my own.

'Who is this person?' Why is the portrait hanging up here?' Just as he was thinking about it, the Confucian suddenly shouted, "Bastard boy, you don't bow down when you see your ancestors!"

Wang Yuanheng was startled, and quickly turned his head to look at the Confucian student. Confucius walked straight up to Wang Yuanheng, pointed to the portrait and said, 'Do you know who is in the painting?'

Wang Yuanheng looked at the portrait again and looked at the Confucian scholar with a blank expression. Confucian sighed lightly and said, "The painting is not someone else, it is the portrait of my Emperor Taizu when he was young!"

Is there a portrait of the emperor in the middle of this mountain wilderness? Wang Yuanheng was puzzled. Immediately, he said, "Even if he is the ancestor of this dynasty, but he is his emperor, what does it have to do with me?"

The Confucian shook his head and said, "The ancestor of this dynasty is generous, benevolent, brave and martial, and deserves the respect of all the people;

'Ah, Emperor Taizu is actually his grandfather?, Wang Yuanheng was quite surprised. The Confucian scholar did not speak, but only took out an object from his body and handed it to Wang Yuanheng.

When I took it, it turned out to be the jade lock that I had lost for a long time. You've been wearing this thing since you were a child.

'Confucianism. After a pause, he said, 'This thing was given by Taizu when your father was born, and the old man was on the scene at that time!

Hearing this, he remembered the words of the Taoist named Zhao Xuanlang who taught him martial arts in his dream, and then looked at the portrait in front of him, Wang Yuanheng faintly felt as if he had some relationship with the Taizu Zhao family.

"But my surname is Wang, and I have lived in Wangjiapo since I was a child!" Wang Yuanheng thought for a while and said. The Confucian shook his head and said, "You are not surnamed Wang, but when you were young, your family suffered an accident and was raised by your nurse Wang, so you took her maiden surname Wang!"

Hearing this, Wang Yuanheng began to believe a little. Because since he was a child, he was very strange: why other people have fathers and mothers, but his own family only has his mother and uncle, and he has never seen his father;

Listening to him now, Wang Yuanheng immediately evoked childhood memories. But everyone who talked about Emperor Taizu said that he was brave and martial and rare in the world, which made Wang Yuanheng have a great interest in this Emperor Taizu.

I asked the Confucian Shengdao, "It seems that the old-timers have a deep relationship with my family, and you must know what kind of character Emperor Taizu is."

The Confucian nodded and said with his hands behind his back: "If you ask Emperor Taizu, I am afraid that no one in the world knows better than the old man!"

Wang Yuanheng looked at him, his eyes full of anticipation. When he was young, after taking a sip of tea, the Confucian Sheng told Wang Yuanheng about Emperor Taizu's Chuzhou War Emperor Puhui, the capture of Han Tao in the Southern Tang Dynasty and how to raze the southern countries, and the northern attack on the Northern Han and Khitan.

'Emperor Taizu is indeed a brave general!!' After listening to Confucianism's story, Wang Yuanheng praised.

Hearing this, the Confucian nodded and shook his head again, saying, "Taizu is indeed a brave man, but he is not just a martial artist, he is also very fond of books and studious, even to the point of obsession.

After a pause, he added: 'In those days, whenever he went to the city, he had to first find all kinds of books and classics in the city, and then take them out and read them from time to time, and even in the army, he often had a book in his hands.

At this point he stopped abruptly and turned and went up to the attic. When he was young, he carried a burden and handed it to Wang Yuanheng.

Because he didn't know what was inside, Wang Yuanheng resigned again and again. This is what your grandfather left behind, and today it is rightly returned to its rightful owner.

Confucius frowned. Hearing him say this, Wang Yuanheng hurriedly took it with both hands. Seeing that it was not early, the Confucian scholar was busy ordering people to fetch food and use it with Wang Yuanheng, and said, "The matter of Taizu can not be explained in one or two days.

If the son doesn't dislike it, he can stay here for a few days, and I will talk to you slowly' Wang Yuanheng didn't seem to have anything else important to do, so he nodded and agreed.

The Confucian student immediately arranged for his subordinates to clean up the room and arranged for Wang Yuanheng to stay. Back in the room, Wang Yuanheng opened the bag and saw that it was a few ancient books that were slightly yellowed.

Wang Yuanheng didn't pay attention to the secret book called the 'Nine Xuanjian Sutra', but he cherished the other two 'Book of Rites' and 'University'.

When he was a child in a private school, he often heard his husband praise these two books, that is, to take them out and put them on himself.

So that you can check it from time to time. For a period of time after that, in addition to eating, sleeping, and reading books in his spare time, Wang Yuanheng begged the Confucian scholar to tell him the anecdotes of Emperor Taizu.

The Confucian scholar did know a lot about Taizu, and he successively told Wang Yuanheng about Taizu's journey from leaving home at the age of twenty-one to join the army under Guo Wei's account, and then going to Chai Rong's mansion as a general.

Before I knew it, a few days had passed. On this day, after the Confucian scholar finished talking about how Taizu ascended to the throne in Chen Qiaoyi's yellow robe, Wang Yuanheng finally couldn't help but ask, "Why are the seniors so clear about Taizu's affairs?"

Please let me know. The Confucian stood up and laughed for a while and said, "The old man is none other than the Youzhou Zhao Pu, who is also a teacher and friend with Emperor Taizu!"

'Ah--?? this person is Zhao Pu, the founding prime minister of this dynasty, who is famous all over the world and is known as the 'half-volume Analects to rule the world'!

Wang Yuanheng was suddenly in awe, "It's the boss here, the kid is disrespectful!"