Master Wei, who was secretly guessing because the traces on his neck disappeared, was stunned for a moment. If he hadn't only drank a little wine today, he might have suspected something wrong with his eyes.
"What are you looking at?"
The old man in long and wide sleeves let go of his hands behind his back, showing a little disdain on his face that at this age only has light lines at the end of his eyes.
"Go out and meet a woman?"
woman? There is no woman, Master Wei shook his head in confusion.
"laugh."
Even though he was fifty years old, he squinted his eyes slightly at the younger old man, put his nose close to his son, and after sniffing, raised his narrowed eyes to look at Mr. Wei with mockery.
"Why don't I see it on weekdays, you still have such special hobbies."
Master Wei couldn't understand what his father was saying at all. As the old man got up, he subconsciously raised his sleeve and smelled himself, but there was nothing.
"Father, I don't understand what you mean."
"Tsk."
In the dark courtyard, the old man in white didn't answer, but turned around and sat on the stone bench, slowly pouring a glass of wine into the glass in front of him.
It was only then that Master Wei realized that there were wine and vegetables and a jug on the stone table. After pouring the wine, the old man stretched out his chopsticks and took a bite of the food. After he had finished chewing, he turned his head and looked at his son.
"Go, go to that tree, and catch the worms on it."
Master Wei followed his father's hand to look over, but saw that he was pointing at the big tree that enjoyed the coolness under it during the day.
It's a big night, where are the bugs.
Seeing that Master Wei hesitated, Wei Mingyan put down his chopsticks, "Why don't you go?"
There was obviously no anger on his face, and there was no anger in the action of putting down the chopsticks, but Mr. Wei was forced by his father's light gaze, as if a bucket of cold water had been poured on his head.
He didn't care about whether there were any insects in the middle of the night, so he hurried to the big tree, and looked around the tree with the light of the lantern hanging on it.
Anyway, he looked for it, and he couldn't blame him if he couldn't find his father... Huh
Master Wei looked at a black worm on the tree trunk in shock. It looked like a common vegetable worm, and it was fat and fat lying on the tree trunk. However, Master Wei had never seen a black vegetable worm, and it was black all over. , Even the back seems to be glowing under the lantern.
It's so bizarre.
Father said that he came here to look for bugs, and he really found a bug. Could it be that he really...
Master Wei, who was full of thoughts of "Is father really not an ordinary person", suddenly paused.
Why can't it be that my father caught bugs and put them here, and then let him come and find them
If it were ordinary people, they would definitely not do such boring things, but if the old man of their family...
Master Wei quietly raised his eyes to look at his father who was sitting on the stone bench eating food and wine but did not drink, and remembered that he was watching the stars at night when there were no stars.
Master Wei's mouth twitched.
Dad seems to be able to do such a thing...
"What are you doing in the cold?" The old man who didn't raise his head seemed to have eyes behind his back, and urged him in a cold voice, "Hurry up and catch him."
"Yes, here we come."
Master Wei was taken aback by the sudden sound, and quickly went to pinch the black bug with his hands.
When he went with Shangguan to deal with floods, he had encountered bugs quite often, so he was naturally not afraid. When he pinched it with two fingers, Master Wei realized that the black bug didn't move. He looked at it. It's like dying.
Immediately, my heart became more determined that it was my father who put it up.
After catching the worms and sending them to the table in front of his father, Master Wei asked respectfully, "I don't know what father wants this for?"
Wei Mingyan glanced at his son coldly, picked up the black bug with his chopsticks and threw it into the wine. Under Master Wei's shocked gaze, he even poked a few times into the wine glass with his chopsticks.
Master Wei: "... Father?"
This is really crazy.
Must be crazy.
"When Zhou Guo was still there, Emperor Wu Leng made Zhang's daughter a noble concubine. After being named a concubine, she began to indulge in the harem and stopped the court for dozens of days."
Wei Mingyan said, holding the wine glass in one hand and chopsticks in the other hand with his white hands with clear bones, his originally weak voice became even weaker now, "Wu Leng ten years, Zhou people's grievances abounded, Liu Wang rebelled, and finally destroyed the state of Zhou, proclaiming himself emperor."
Master Wei read history books since he was a child, so he naturally knew that this was a story recorded in the history books. He was a little confused, "Why did father say these things?"
"Emperor Wu Leng has been on the throne for five years. He has always been diligent in government and cared for the people. He has never been obsessed with women, but after he became a noble concubine, his temperament changed drastically and he no longer cares about political affairs. Do you know how?"
Master Wei was stunned, "Does father want to be like the history books, thinking that the noble concubine has wronged the country?"
Slowly turning the chopsticks in the cup to stop, Wei Mingyan raised his eyes and raised his eyebrows slightly, "Why, you don't think so?"
The moon, which had been covered by clouds, was gradually revealed, and the yard was covered by moonlight, which became brighter than before. Master Wei looked at his father, but found strangely that as the moonlight became thicker, the fine lines on the corners of his father's eyes appeared. It seems to have gradually disappeared.
What, how could this be...
Such a strange thing made Master Wei take a step back subconsciously, looking at the father in front of him, his back felt chills.
"You are close to the villain, but you want to avoid my father instead."
Under the moonlight, the old man, whose face seemed to be a little younger, hooked his hands at his son, "Come on, tell Wei Father, do you think the fall of Zhou State has anything to do with Concubine Zhang Gui?"
Master Wei really didn't want to tell the truth, but when he opened his mouth, he seemed to be out of control, and he was bald, "I, I feel that I can't blame everything on a woman, after all... Emperor Wu Leng changed his temperament."
"You are so pitiful and precious." What Master Wei didn't expect was that his father didn't show anger when he heard this. Instead, he smiled, "It's not in vain for us father and son to have such an opinion."
He leaned back slightly, the chopsticks in his hand slowly turned again in the cup, lowered his eyes slightly, and in a calm tone, he talked about the past, "In the fourth year of Wu Leng, Mrs. Zhang was the concubine, She was pregnant with a dragon fetus and had a very good relationship with Emperor Wu Leng, but she was afraid of the power of the Empress Dowager, that's why she didn't make it up for a long time."
"In the fifth year of Wuling, Zhang's mother entered the palace and presented a treasure called daughter incense to Zhang. From then on, Emperor Wuling's temperament changed drastically. He stayed in the imperial concubine's residence day and night and refused to step out. Half a step."
"Since Emperor Wu Leng didn't handle government affairs, Mrs. Zhang tried to persuade him countless times, but it was all useless."
The wine in the cup gradually turned into a mass of rich black, Wei Mingyan stopped, threw the chopsticks on the stone table casually, and said in a low voice, "In the sixth year of Wuling, after Mrs. Zhang persuaded Emperor Wuling to go to court to handle government affairs, Suicide."
Master Wei was dizzy from the huge amount of information, "Yes, but according to the history books, Mrs. Zhang died in the sea of fire with Emperor Wuling when the imperial palace was destroyed in the tenth year of Wuling."
"right."
The old man got up, took the wine, and went to his son, "It is not wrong in the history books, Mrs. Zhang was indeed in the sea of fire with Emperor Wu Leng, but it didn't say that Concubine Zhang Guifei was still alive at that time."
"During the four years of her death, Emperor Wu Leng still slept and ate with Zhang Shi. In order to ensure that her body would not rot, he dug up her abdomen, took out her internal organs, and placed them on silk cloth. Emperor Wu Leng, just like Zhang Shi before his death, had sex with her day and night..."
A matter of husband and wife, with a dead person...
Master Wei's face was livid, his throat rolled, and he almost didn't spit it out.
What kind of fairy and beauty is the Zhang family, that makes an emperor even want her to die... vomit...
Wei Mingyan looked at his son who was bending over and retching in front of him, covered his nose with one hand in disgust, held the wine glass with the other hand, and handed it lightly to Master Wei.
"Drink him."
Master Wei, who barely suppressed his nausea and straightened up just now, looked at the black ball in the cup: "... drink, drink it??"
"nature."
The old man's expression was indifferent, but the hand holding the wine glass could not be refused and passed it forward again, "If you don't want to become like Emperor Wu Leng, then drink this glass of wine."
Master Wei's face turned extremely pale for a moment, "Father, me, why did I become like Emperor Wu Leng..."
"Today, someone used daughter incense on you."
The old man said, completely ignoring the terrified expression on his son's face, and still covering his nose in disgust, "This stench can be smelled clearly by my father ten miles away."
"If a man who smells this fragrance is touched by a woman, he will fall into madness. He only wants to have sex with her. Afterwards, whatever the woman says will be what she is. Even if you are asked to die for her, you without hesitation."
"Speaking of it." Wei Mingyan shook his head regretfully, "I'm afraid Zhang Shi and Emperor Wu Leng really have feelings for each other. Of the two of them, one committed suicide in order not to shake the country, and the other did not kill her despite being able to stay awake... "
However, Master Wei couldn't care less about lamenting with his father whether the emperor and concubine had true love hundreds of years ago.
He was almost scared to death! !
What is the fragrance of a daughter, what is falling into madness.
By the way, woman! !
Master Wei immediately remembered that his father asked him about meeting a woman outside, and the pitiful girl who sold herself to bury her father appeared in Master Wei's mind instantly.
At that time, he really had the idea of taking this woman back.
If it wasn't for the lack of money, maybe the woman has been taken to the mansion now.
Then in the future, will he be like Emperor Wu Leng, unable to control himself at all, and even become a puppet who can do whatever the woman says.
The old man held the wine glass and said again, "Drink it."
Master Wei didn't care about anything, he took it and poured the wine desperately into his mouth.
Gudong, swallowed.
Then, his pale face turned livid in an instant.
Well, it's terrible.
Wei Mingyan glanced at his son who was retching with a blue face, and frowned in disgust.
Master Wei, who was retching, could only hear his father's regretful voice sighing:
"Thirty years ago, when your mother and I had children, we were not cautious enough."