274, Chapter 274

Because the marks on his neck disappeared, Master Wei was confused for a moment. If he hadn't drunk only a little wine today, he might have suspected that there was 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, and his face, which only had light fine lines at the end of his eyes at this age, showed a little disdain.

"Did you go out and meet a woman?"

Woman? Where is the woman? Master Wei shook his head in confusion.

"Tsk."

The old man, who was obviously fifty years old but looked younger than him, narrowed his eyes slightly, put his nose in front of his son, sniffed, and looked up at Master Wei with sneer in his narrowed eyes.

"Why didn't I see that you have such a special hobby on weekdays."

Master Wei didn't understand what his father was saying at all. As the old man stood up, he subconsciously raised his sleeves and smelled his body, but there was nothing.

"Father, I don't understand what you mean."

"Tsk."

In the dark courtyard, the old man in white did not answer, but turned around and sat on the stone bench, slowly pouring a glass of wine in front of him.

Only then did Mr. Wei realize that there were wine and food and a wine pot on the stone table. After pouring the wine, the old man took a bite of food with chopsticks, and waited until he chewed it down before turning his head to look at his son.

"Go, go to that tree and catch the insects on it."

Mr. Wei looked in the direction of his father's hand, but saw that he was pointing to the big tree under which he was cooling off during the day.

There are no insects at night.

Seeing Mr. Wei hesitate, Wei Mingyan put down his chopsticks, "Why don't you go."

Mr. Wei was not angry, and his action of putting down his chopsticks was not angry, but Mr. Wei was just as if a bucket of cold water was poured on his head by his father's light gaze.

He didn't care whether there were any bugs in the middle of the night. He hurried to the big tree and searched around the tree in the light of the lanterns hanging on it.

Anyway, he looked for it. If he couldn't find it, he couldn't blame his father... Huh?

Master Wei looked at a black bug on the tree trunk in front of him in shock. It looked like a common cabbage worm, lying fat on the tree trunk, but Master Wei had never seen a black cabbage worm before, and it was black all over. Even its back seemed to be glowing under the lantern.

It was too strange.

My father said he came here to find bugs, and he really found a bug. Could it be that he really...

Master Wei, who was thinking "Is my father really not an ordinary person", suddenly paused.

Why can't it be that my father caught the bugs and put them here, and then asked him to find them?

If it were an ordinary person, he would definitely not do such a boring thing, but if it were this old man in their family...

Master Wei quietly raised his eyes to look at his father who was sitting on a stone bench eating wine and food but not drinking, and remembered that he had just observed the stars in the sky without a single star.

The corners of Master Wei's mouth twitched.

It seemed that his father could really do such a thing...

"What are you doing?" The old man, who did not raise his head, seemed to have eyes behind his back, and urged coldly, "Catch it quickly."

"Yes, I'm coming."

Master Wei was startled by the sudden voice and hurriedly pinched the black bug with his hands.

He followed Shangguan to deal with floods and encountered bugs many times, so he was naturally not afraid. When he pinched it with two fingers, Master Wei found that the black bug did not move. It looked like it was dead.

Suddenly, he was more convinced that it was his father who put it up.

When the bug was caught and sent to the table in front of his father, Master Wei asked respectfully, "I wonder what father wants this for?"

Wei Mingyan glanced at his son coldly, picked up the black bug with chopsticks and threw it into the wine. Under Master Wei's shocked gaze, he even poked the wine glass with chopsticks a few times.

Master Wei: "...Father?"

This is really crazy.

This is definitely crazy.

"When the Zhou Kingdom was still there, Emperor Wu Ling made Zhang's daughter a noble concubine. After he made himself a concubine, he became obsessed with the harem and stopped attending court for dozens of days in a row."

Wei Mingyan said, holding a wine glass in one hand with his white hands with distinct joints, and turning the cup with chopsticks in the other hand. His originally faint voice became even fainter. "In the tenth year of Wu Ling, the people of Zhou were full of resentment. King Liu rebelled and eventually destroyed the Zhou Kingdom and proclaimed himself emperor."

Master Wei had read history books since he was a child, so he naturally knew that this was a story recorded in history books. He was a little confused, "Why did father talk about this?"

"Emperor Wu Ling has been on the throne for five years. He has always been diligent and loving. He was a commoner, and never indulged in women, but his temperament changed drastically after he was named a concubine, and he no longer cared about government affairs. Do you know what happened? "

Master Wei was stunned, "Father, do you think that the concubine ruined the country as the history books say?"

After slowly turning the chopsticks in the cup, Wei Mingyan raised his eyes and raised his eyebrows slightly, "Why, don't you think so?"

The moon, which had been covered by clouds, gradually appeared. The courtyard was covered by moonlight, which was brighter than before. Master Wei looked at his father, but strangely found that as the moonlight became darker, the fine lines on his father's eyes seemed to gradually disappear.

How, how could this be...

Such a weird thing made Master Wei subconsciously take a step back, looking at the father in front of him, his back felt cold.

"You are close to the villain, but you have to hide from me, your father. "

Under the moonlight, the old man, who seemed to have a younger face, hooked his hand at his son, "Come, tell me, father, do you think the fall of the Zhou Kingdom had anything to do with Concubine Zhang Guifei?"

Mr. Wei really didn't want to tell the truth in his heart, but when he opened his mouth, he seemed to be uncontrollably bald, "Er, I feel that you can't blame all the things on one woman, after all..." It was Emperor Wu Ling who changed his temper."

"You are sympathetic." What Master Wei didn't expect was that his father did not show anger after hearing this, but instead smiled, "You have such an opinion, and you are not wasting our father and son."

He leaned back slightly, and slowly turned the chopsticks in his hand in the cup again. He lowered his eyes slightly, and spoke about the past in a calm tone, "In the fourth year of Wu Leng, the Zhang family was in the concubine position. She was pregnant with a dragon fetus and had a good relationship with Emperor Wu Ling, but she was afraid of the power of the Queen Mother, so she didn't move up to the throne. "

"In the fifth year of Wu Leng's reign, Zhang's mother entered the palace and presented a treasure called Nv Xiang to Zhang. From then on, Emperor Wu Ling's temperament changed drastically. He stayed in the concubine's residence day and night and refused to step out. Half a step."

"Since Emperor Wu Ling stopped handling government affairs, Mrs. Zhang has tried to persuade him countless times, but to no avail."

The wine in the glass gradually turned into a rich black mass. Wei Mingyan stopped, casually threw the chopsticks on the stone table, and said softly, "In the sixth year of Wu Leng, after Zhang persuaded Emperor Wu Ling to go to court to handle government affairs, Die by suicide."

Mr. Wei was so overwhelmed by the huge amount of information that he felt dizzy for a while. "But, it is written in history books that Zhang was buried in the sea of ​​​​fire together with Emperor Wu Ling when the palace was destroyed in the tenth year of Wu Leng."

"right."

The old man stood up, held the wine, and came to his son, "The history books are not wrong. The Zhang family was indeed in the sea of ​​fire with Emperor Wu Ling, but it was not written that Concubine Zhang was still alive at that time."

"In the four years since her death, Emperor Wu Ling still slept and ate with Mrs. Zhang. In order to ensure that the body would not rot, he dug her belly open, took out her internal organs, and placed them on silk cloth. The imperial concubine's palace was always kept cold and cold. Emperor Wu Ling, just like Zhang during his lifetime, had conjugal affairs with her day and night..."

A matter of husband and wife, with a dead person...

Mr. Wei's face was livid, his throat was rolling, and he almost vomited.

How beautiful is Zhang, so that an emperor would even want her to die... ugh...

Wei Mingyan looked at his son who was bent over and retching in front of him. He covered his nose with one hand in disgust and held the wine glass in his other hand, handing it to Mr. Wei lightly.

"Drink him."

Mr. Wei, who had just managed to suppress his nausea and straightened up, looked at the black mass in the cup: "...Drink, drink it??"

"nature."

The old man's expression was indifferent, but he couldn't refuse the hand holding the wine glass and handed it forward again, "If you don't want to be like Emperor Wu Ling, just drink this glass of wine."

Mr. Wei's face turned extremely pale for a moment, "Father, me, why did I become like Emperor Wu Ling..."

"Today, someone used daughter's fragrance on you."

The old man said, completely ignoring the look of horror on his son's face, and still covering his nose in disgust, "A father can clearly smell this stink from ten miles away."

"If a man who smells this fragrance is touched by a woman, he will fall into madness and only want to have sex with her. Later, whatever the woman says will be whatever she says. Even if she asks you to die for her, you There will be no hesitation.”

"Speaking of which." Wei Mingyan shook his head with some regret, "I'm afraid Zhang and Emperor Wu Ling were really in love. One of them committed suicide in order not to shake the country, and the other didn't kill her even though he could stay awake... …”

However, Mr. Wei didn't bother to lament with his father whether the emperor and his concubine hundreds of years ago had true love.

He was almost scared to death! !

What daughter is fragrant, what is falling into madness.

That’s right, woman! !

Mr. Wei immediately remembered his father's question about his contact with a woman outside. The pitiful-looking woman who sold her body to bury her father suddenly appeared in Mr. Wei's mind.

At that time, he did have the idea of ​​taking this woman back.

If it weren't for the lack of money, maybe the woman would have been brought to the house by now.

Then in the future, will he be like Emperor Wu Ling, unable to control himself at all, or even become a puppet who can do whatever the woman says.

The old man held the wine glass and said again, "Drink."

Mr. Wei didn't think about anything, took it, and poured wine into his mouth desperately.

Gudong, swallowed.

Then, his pale face turned into livid color in an instant.

Well, it tastes terrible.

Wei Mingyan glanced at his son who was retching with a green face, and shook his head.

"Thirty years ago, your mother and I were not cautious enough when we had a child."