The storyteller that Huai Rushan wants to see is very famous in Yejing. It is a middle-aged man of about forty years old, with a refined face, a dark blue long gown, and a swing of a folding fan, but he has the taste of a scholar. It is said that he was originally a magistrate. He has some ink in his belly, and his ventriloquism is good. He speaks ups and downs when talking about books, and gradually he has accumulated a reputation. From ordinary people to literati and scholars, and even many dignitaries, they like to listen to him talk about books, and they are called Mr. Wang.
Mr. Wang's venue on this day was set up in the back garden of Wangxian Tower, and there was an elegant seat in front of the garden, which was reserved for wealthy families. Some of them are separated by fences, and there are tables, chairs and benches, which are common seats, and most of them are ordinary people. Huai Rushan had already reserved a private seat, and after the three of them arrived at Wangxian Tower, they were led by the second running hall to the elegant seat in front of them.
Before the show started, there were already quite a few people sitting in the hall. Huai Rushan looked around and said, "This Mr. Wang is indeed very famous, and there are so many spectators. I heard that he is the one who told the story today. The stories written by friends are later passed down, and they tell the stories of immortals in the sky and emperors in the world.”
"I know this." Yu Xiaocui replied: "The legend was that the immortal went down to earth to repay his kindness, and fell in love with the benefactor general. The immortal, because of his immortal power, gave birth to a child for the general, but was robbed by human beings. The faint-hearted emperor was burned as a monster. Later, the general robbed the prison to save people, but he died. After the death of the general, the immortal returned to heaven and gave birth to a pair of children to raise alone, and only took the children to the world every year to worship the general. The legend is that the immortal later I found the reincarnation of the general, and the story of his acquaintance."
Halfway through hearing this, An Changqing's eyelids twitched, and when Yu Xiao finished speaking, it turned out to be the story that Xiao Zhige had specially asked people to write in order to pave the way for him to have a son. He looked at Huai Rushan obscurely, wondering whether he invited him to listen to the story on purpose or not.
Huai Rushan didn't show the slightest clue, raised his eyebrows and said with interest: "I didn't expect the prequel to have such a bleak ending?"
Yu Xiao nodded and said, "I watched it and cried while hiding under the quilt. I heard that there was a reunion ending, so everyone rushed to see it."
"That's not bad." Huai Rushan shook his fan, looked at An Changqing, and said meaningfully, "I heard that this story was written by the author according to His Majesty and the lord. I wonder if the lord has read it?"
"I've read a few. It's just that I don't like to read these stories, so I didn't read them." An Changqing sipped his tea and said lightly.
"Yejing is indeed more open than Zaiguo's folk customs. If they were in Zaiguo, these literati and painters would not dare to use my brother Wang to write stories." Huai Rushan said: "What's more, the strange thing that this man gave birth to a child."
An Changqing secretly thought that he had a plan, and he was even more vigilant to deal with it: "The world is vast, and what we have seen in our life may not be complete. These compiled stories may not be all false. They write them. As long as we don’t commit adultery and violate the law, as for who wrote what was written, why should we interfere?”
Huai Rushan said thoughtfully, "Your Highness is so knowledgeable, you really should ask my brother Wang to learn it too."
While they were talking, they saw that Mr. Wang had already appeared. He drank a sip of tea to clear his throat, and gave a slap to start the speech. So the three of them stopped talking and concentrated on listening to the book.
Mr. Wang really lived up to his reputation, and the story of the one-fold recognition of his relatives was touched by his lingering and tactful, and even more sad. When he was shocked for the last time, a startled sound called everyone out of the story.
Yu Xiao heard tears, Huai Rushan handed him a handkerchief with a smile, and asked casually, "Is this a birthmark or a tattoo on Young Master Yu's face? The pattern looks very unique."
Yu Xiao glanced at An Changqing subconsciously, and seeing that he did not stop him, he replied, "It's a birthmark, it was there at birth."
"Really? This birthmark looks like a fish scale. I thought it was a tattoo. What unique meaning does it have?" Huai Rushan said with a smile.
An Changqing said with a smile: "It's a coincidence, but this red pattern does have some deep meaning, but it's inconvenient to say more."
Seeing this, Huai Rushan was inconvenient to ask again, so she had to invite them to have dinner together. Wangxian Tower was originally a restaurant, and the first floor and up were private rooms. The three of them changed to the private room for dinner. After the meal, An Changqing excused himself by returning to the palace to leave.
After the two of them left, Huai Rushan didn't leave, he sat by the window, and after about a cup of tea, he saw a man in gray push the door in, closed the door and knelt down and saluted, "Your Majesty ."
"When you go out, you don't have to pay attention to politeness. Now that I am the second younger brother, you call me the prince." The fan knocked on the palm of his hand, and the gentle man sitting by the window changed his expression, got up with his hands behind his back and said. : "Have you found anything?"
"The Yanwang Mansion is very tightly guarded. We didn't dare to get too close, so we could only inquire from side to side, but we didn't find any news about the merpeople." Gray-clothed humane said.
Huai Ruyu turned around, looked at the crowd below, pondered for a moment, and said, "According to records, Ye Taizu destroyed all the records of the Mermaid, and it is normal for them not to know. But I always feel that Yan The king should know something about the merpeople."
"Your Majesty made a test today, did you find anything?" said the man in gray.
"The child following King Yan is also a merman, I don't think it's a coincidence." Huai Ruyu said.
The man in gray hesitated: "If that's the case, why didn't you explain to King Yan and ask him to come back to Yuze with us?"
"The tomb of the merman was built by the ancestors of the past, and the ancestors of the ancestors had a life. As long as the Yuze royal family continues for one day, the news of the merman is not allowed to spread, and the blood of the royal family of Daye is not allowed to set foot on the tomb of the merman. According to me these days Observation, King Yan and Emperor Ye have a deep relationship, if they tell the truth, Emperor Ye will know."
"But the poison on your body..."
Huai Ruyu waved his hand to stop him from continuing: "No hurry, there is still some time."
Hearing this, the man in gray had no choice but to stop persuading him, and only said, "Then King Yan will continue to stare at him?"
"Let's withdraw the manpower first." Huai Ruyu said.
"Yes." The man in gray saluted again, and quietly backed out.
After the grey-clothed man left, Huai Ruyu sat by the window, remembering the poison on his body, opened his shirt and looked at it, and saw that the grey scales spread on his chest.
He sighed, rearranged his clothes, sat by the window, and recalled what his father had said to him before his death.
At that time, the king father was covered with fish scales all over his body, and his whole body was filled with an unpleasant stench, but he held his wrist tightly, and forced a picture scroll to him, telling him to find the person in the picture. Only the people in the picture can open the tombs of the merman and unlock the poison on their bodies. Otherwise, the Yuze royal family will not live beyond their thirties for generations.
Huai Ruyu still remembered asking him, "What if I can't find it?"
At that time, the king was already confused, and he just stared at a pair of raised eyes and cursed: "If you can't find it, you have to wait to die! If it wasn't for your grandfather who violated the ancestral teaching and blasphemed the holy messenger! Why did we do this?!"
At that time, Huai Ruyu wanted to ask more questions, but his father was already in a daze. For a while, he cursed his father who violated the ancestral teachings, and then cursed the ancestors and the merpeople... And Huai Ruyu, who was only ten years old at the time, saw with his own eyes that his body was covered with fish scales, and he died in an embarrassing and unbearable manner.
Later, Huai Ruyu succeeded to the throne, secretly ordering people to find the person in the painting, while searching the classics, just pieced together the events of the year.
The matter is about to be traced back to the time when Yuze founded the country, when the former king Huai Shuan sentenced the Great Ye and became the king in Zaiguo. But outsiders only know that Huai Shuan is the king, and Yuze has been passed down from generation to generation. But he didn't know that Huai Shu'an never married in his life. After he became king, he sent a fleet to sea and built a merman's tomb on the sea with the power of rain. The tomb of the merman is located in the center of the South China Sea. According to records, it is not only full of gold and silver jewelry, but also the rare merman tribe living in seclusion. Huai Shuan devoted his life to building the tomb of the merman. When he was old, he chose an heir to inherit the throne from the descendants of his loyal servants. Guard the tomb of the merman.
The strange poison occurs once every ten years, and only the holy envoy from the tomb of the merman can solve it. It has been passed down like this for many years without incident. Until his grandfather broke the ancestral teaching and fell in love with the holy messenger of the merpeople, but broke his oath and married another.
It is said that the merpeople rarely intermarry with foreigners, they only recognize one partner in their life, they are not born, but die together. After his grandfather remarried, the envoy disappeared, and his grandfather did not survive the next ten years of poisoning.
Since the disappearance of the holy envoy, no one has gone to sea from the tomb of the merman. His grandfather and father had both sent fleets to go to sea to find them, but there was a lot of fog outside the tomb of the merman, and no one could enter.
It is said that the tomb of the merman was built by the previous king for his beloved, and only the person in the picture can enter the tomb of the merman.
When Huai Ruyu lost his father at the age of ten and inherited the throne, it was the first time when he was poisoned. Now he is twenty-five, and there are only five short years left until the next poisonous day. The first time the poison erupted, fine gray fish scales grew on his chest, and the second time the poison erupted, fish scales also grew on his legs. In the past ten years, the fish scales have grown slowly. When he was thirty years old and fish scales covered his whole body, he would die as ugly and embarrassing as his father.
There may have been fear at first, but after more than ten years of futile search, he gradually lost hope. But he didn't expect that when he almost gave up, he unexpectedly found An Changqing who was almost exactly the same as the person in the painting.
It's a pity that when he learned the news, An Changqing was already the princess of the Northern War, and was later named King of Yan. It was impossible to bring people back to Yuze quietly, so he could only use the pretext of opening up the trade route between the two countries to disguise himself as a good friend of Huai Ru to go to Yejing.
Sitting from dusk until dusk fell, Huai Ruyu drank a cup of cold tea before getting up and leaving.
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