At the beginning of this dynasty, there was a great rebellion.
Xia Weiming, the general who once conquered the Great Zhou Jiangshan together with Emperor Taizu, led a 100,000-strong army to approach the capital after Emperor Taizu's death, in an attempt to overthrow the succeeding Emperor Xiaoming and proclaim himself emperor.
The rebels fought against the 50,000 forbidden troops stationed in the capital for half a month. Xia Weiming finally entered the palace and executed the Ming Xiao Emperor, who had only been on the throne for less than three months, and announced the establishment of a new dynasty the next day.
It is a pity that Xia Weiming is only a martial artist after all. Xia's new dynasty lasted less than a hundred days, and Xia Weiming was killed on the dragon bed by inexplicable poison.
After Xia Weiming's death, Li Min, the son of Li's clan, joined several young generals to launch a palace change, killing two of Xia Weiming's sons and taking control of the palace.
Because Emperor Taizu's lineage had been slaughtered by the Xia clan, the officials elected Li Min, the son of the clan, to succeed him as the emperor, restoring the title of the Great Zhou Kingdom. Li Min was the later Emperor Gaozu.
Although the Li family has always refused to acknowledge the existence of the new dynasty established by the Xia family, which was less than 100 days old, the fact that the Li family was once copied and destroyed the ancestral temple is a sure-fire fact. So this incident is an unbearable shame for the Li royal family.
The people of the Great Zhou Dynasty knew more or less about the history of the Xia clan's seizure of the throne, but because the Li clan did not want to hear about it, many details were deliberately forgotten.
Therefore, many people do not know that the day when Xia Weiming launched the rebellion was the time of the Chrysanthemum Flower Festival in Kyoto in early September. The iron horse of Jing Ge smashed the golden armor all over the ground, leaving only the Yi River outside the capital city wall full of bright red. Legend has it that the water level of the Yi River rose by six or seven feet during the half-month period, which was caused by the blood and corpses of 50,000 soldiers entering the river.
Ren Shimin painted this chrysanthemum picture probably only in the evening when the sky was full of sunset, so the river was bright red, and it did not imply the rebellion of the Xia clan.
But in the last life, after Ren Shimin's death, this painting became Zeng Lin's handle to threaten the Ren family. It is said that the "anti-painting" of the Ren family is to support the King of Yanbei to follow the example of the Xia family and raise troops to rebel.
Ren Yaoqi always thought that this "Autumn Chrysanthemum" was fabricated by Zeng Lu, because she had never seen it in Ren Shimin's paintings.
Now it seems that Ren Shimin has indeed painted such a painting, but he painted it when he went to the capital, and happened to give it to Han Yunqian on the way back to Yanbei, so she has never seen it.
It's just that how did this painting end up in Zeng Lin's hands, and even become a handle for him to threaten the Ren family? What role did the Han family play in this
Ren Yaoqi thought about it, staring at Han You could not help but be a little erratic.
Han You was a little at a loss when he saw him, so he could not help but take a step back.
Ren Yaoting frowned and stood in front of Han You: "Fifth sister, what are you doing?"
Ren Yaohua was also a little strange, and couldn't help but push her with his hand.
Ren Yaoqi came back to her senses, looked at the surprised faces of everyone, and forced a smile: "It's okay, I suddenly thought of a dream." After speaking, she turned her eyes to Han You who was standing behind Ren Yaoting. After only staying for a moment, he showed a gentle smile again, "I'm sorry, I just thought of something else, didn't I scare you?"
Han You breathed a sigh of relief and showed a relieved smile: "I was startled, I thought I said something wrong to offend you, that's fine. What dream did you think of just now? Do you want to say it? My mother said It's not scary to say it if you have a nightmare."
Looking at Han You's pure eyes with a slight worry, Ren Yaoqi's heart was complicated: "That dream... I am standing on the top of a high cliff, there is no one around, the only way is to lead to nowhere. The steep mountain steps at the bottom of the bottom of the cliff, if you are not careful, you will be smashed to pieces."
This dream was not made up by her. She often had that dream after leaving the Ren family in the last life. No matter how she climbed down the stairs, there was no end and no way out, and the ending always ended in the wake of falling off the cliff and awakening.
Ren Yaoyu sneered: "What kind of terrible dream is this, I thought it was a ghost and a beast!"
Ren Yaoqi smiled slightly and did not argue.
Children always think that these ghosts and beasts are the most terrifying, and they still don't understand that the most terrifying thing in this world is despair and hopelessness.
"Although I haven't had this kind of dream, I find it quite scary." Han You kindly comforted.
"If you stop thinking about it, you won't have these messy dreams!" Ren Yaohua said disapprovingly.
Ren Yaoqi exhaled softly with a relaxed smile on his face: "Okay, where are we going next?"
Ren Yaoyu immediately said: "Let's go to the street behind Guan Gong Temple. I heard that there is a dance dragon and a 'Nine Curved Dragon Gate Light Array'."
Ren Yaoqi and Ren Yaohua didn't care, Ren Yaoting looked at Han You, Han You nodded with a smile: "Okay, I have long heard that there will be a 'Nine Curved Dragon Gate Light Array' in the town this year, and I heard that this kind of light array takes a lot of effort. , and it needs experts who understand gossip and formation to draw the map, so I only do this once every five years. I just want to come and see it."
"Then go have a look." Ren Yaoting nodded in agreement.
"Let's leave the carriage here and walk over? Anyway, it's not far from here, and there are so many pedestrians on the road, how lively." Ren Yaoyu suggested.
As soon as this statement came out, Han You's eyes lit up. She rarely has the opportunity to go out, let alone walk on the street with her friends so generously.
Looking at the boys and girls walking around the lantern festival in twos and threes on the street, she couldn't help but feel very envious. It's just that she is shy, and she won't say such a proposal.
However, Ren Yaoting observed his words, agreed immediately, and then asked Ren Yaoqi and Ren Yaohua, "Where are the third and fifth sisters? Would you like to go with us?"
She asked politely, but it meant that regardless of whether Ren Yaoqi and Ren Yaohua agreed or not, they had already decided to go.
Ren Yaohua glanced at the pedestrians on the street and was a little moved, so he glanced at Ren Yaoqi.
Ren Yaoqi never cared about this kind of thing, so he nodded and said, "Then let's go, just don't lose the wife and maid next to everyone. Although the security of Baihe Town is not bad, it is after all. It's people coming and going."
Ren Yaoyu interrupted happily and impatiently: "You have to tell me this! These people don't dare to lose us!"
So a few people took a bunch of wives and maids to the street behind Guan Gong Temple.
Ren Yaoting and Han You walked in front together, Ren Yaoyu and her maids and wives walked around the stalls on the side of the road, and excitedly bought more than a dozen lamps for the people behind to carry them back.
Ren Yaoqi and Ren Yaohua walked together.
"Third sister, don't you want to buy a lamp?" Ren Yaoqi asked.
"If you want, you can buy it yourself, but I don't want it. Where do you want to hang it back?" Ren Yaohua was just watching the excitement, not interested in the lights.
Ren Yaoqi just asked casually, she was still thinking about the painting, thinking that no matter what, she must find a way to get it back.
The two walked silently all the way, and when they were about to reach the backstreet, they met the team of Wu Changlong. The crowd all rushed towards this side, and Ren Yaoqi and Ren Yaohua stopped outside the crowd and watched for a while.
"Huh? Where are the seventh sisters and the others?" Ren Yaohua looked around and asked suddenly.
Ren Yaoqi also looked around, and there were people all over his eyes, but the three people were no longer there.
"It must be pushed to the front." Ren Yaoqi said uncertainly.
Ren Yaohua looked around again, but there were too many people in front of them, where could they see who was who.
"Forget it, they will definitely go to see the nine-sentence dragon gate light array. Let's go there and wait for them."
Ren Yaoqi nodded and had no opinion.
The two bypassed the lively crowd and went to the place where the formation was set up.
The nine-curved gantry lantern array is placed on a flat ground behind the Guangong Temple. It is about two acres wide. It is poured with water into an ice wall of about seven feet, and there are 360 lamps inside. The entire light array has only one entrance and one exit. People who don't understand the formation method go in and no matter how they go around, they will end up at the entrance and then come out again.
Placing such a light array is time-consuming, labor-intensive and expensive.
When Ren Yaoqi and Ren Yaohua walked to the entrance, they saw that there were already some people watching the excitement, but there were very few people who dared to go in and try, and everyone was afraid that they would not be able to get around.
"This light array is so beautiful!" The maids said happily.
The ice lantern array was so beautifully illuminated by the lights that Ren Yaohua and Ren Yaoqi couldn't help but be stunned.
"Isn't that the son of the Han family?" Xiang Qin suddenly pointed not far away.
"Huh? Third Young Master is also there?" Xiang Qin added in hindsight.
Ren Yaoqi looked up and saw Han Yunqian and Ren Yijun standing outside the lantern array talking. It is no wonder that Xiangqin only saw Han Yunqian at first glance. Although he is young, he has a calm temperament and outstanding demeanor. Ren Yijun's handsome appearance and gloomy temperament were naturally compared by him.
Ren Yaoqi couldn't help frowning, isn't Ren Yijun wrong with Han Yunqian? How could the two of them appear here together
After thinking about it, Ren Yaoqi said to Ren Yaohua, "Since we met, you should go and say hello."
Ren Yaohua did not object, and the two walked in front of Ren Yijun and Han Yunqian.
Just heard Ren Yijun say: "If you can come out within a quarter of an hour, I will believe you, how?"
Han Yunqian was about to speak when he looked up and saw the two sisters.
"Yaoqi, are you here too?" Ren Yijun turned a blind eye to Ren Yaohua and only greeted Ren Yaoqi with a very friendly attitude.
Ren Yaoqi and Ren Yaohua bowed to salute, and Han Yunqian returned the salute.
Ren Yaoqi smiled and said to Ren Yijun: "I wanted to invite the third brother to see the lamp together, but I heard that you have already gone out, so it was with Mr. Han?"
Ren Yijun rolled his eyes: "Who came with him? It just happened to happen at a friend's party. I said I wanted to see the Nine-Bend Longmen Light Array, and he wanted to see it too, so he came along the same road."