Harry Potter Morning Light

Chapter 2221 Flower Controversy (130)
Such a board game is recorded in the Turkish document translated by the imam:
You stand silently on both sides of the river, playing a game of chess that is as big as the world. On this huge chessboard, light and shadow draw the chess grid, and your shadow moves in it, making the hope itself in a constant state of change. middle,.

For you, a shadow is a hole without depth, which represents a possibility that people call a plane. People are like peacocks that control their tail feathers with their eyes. Everyone has a shadow. When you notice them, they are like a transparent The gray fan bones were stacked into a bundle in an instant, pretending to be the same one.This is the only one left that marks where the stone is going to fall until you fall flat on it, from one you to one you, for which it almost always does not fit.

There are four kinds of chess pieces that you can drive, one is flowing, one is rolling, one is flying, and the other can only crawl, so you have four kinds of devils, four kinds of angels, four kinds of arrows, and four kinds of sharp blades. and the sixteen kinds of wounds they make.

The war drum beats directly on your eardrums, as light as the steps of a water strider walking on the water, but it is deafening and makes you tremble.

Nick compared this kind of chess played by Yin Yin people with the chess played by many people in Houhai. There is also a "river" on the chessboard, named "Chu River and Han Jie". The black square and the red square are on the two sides of the "river". Chess pieces are composed of seven types: rooks, horses, cannons, pawns, soldiers, ministers, and generals. However, if you go back in detail, scholars, ministers, and cannons were added in the Song Dynasty.Japanese shogi are all generals, and there are also Guima and Xiangche.And shogi has to be upgraded. Nick didn't learn it when he was in Japan. It was too complicated. It was easy to learn shogi played by this kind of old people. He understood it when he watched from the side.

It is written in the Songs of Chu that "Chess is covered with six books". It is possible that this kind of game existed in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, but there may not be a "Chu River and Han Realm" at that time, and it will not be until Xiang Yu and Liu Bang appear.Generally, people who come to Houhai to walk and play chess bring wooden chess pieces, while princes and nobles will use some materials such as jade and ivory.

According to the records in the Book of Rites, jades of different materials and colors are also used in offering sacrifices to heaven and earth.But how can chess made of jade be called chess?Unless it is the same as the black and red sides, one uses jade pieces and the other uses ivory pieces, so that even if there are no colored characters to distinguish, each other's pieces can be seen at once.

Japanese shogi pieces also have no color difference, but their pieces have directions. Of course, it is also possible that Nick is far-fetched, this is just an ordinary game.

In midsummer, many people go to the shade of Houhai and Shichahai to cool off, and some people sell iced sour plum soup, which is said to be very popular in the palace.The fish they hunted before the Eight Banners entered the customs was their staple food, and sour soup, a food fermented from cornmeal, was invented to relieve greasy. Later, this food was brought to the capital, which can bring them nutritious food in the alpine region Fat is formed here, which is easy to cause obesity. Emperor Qianlong ordered to adjust the diet structure. Finally, Yuchafang and Taiyuan Hospital racked their brains to come up with sour plum soup as a substitute for sour soup.

Emperor Qianlong had a thin body all his life, and he was thin and energetic, and Qinxi Baylor, who played with Nick these days, had the same body.The dude always spends his time dressing carefully, and his braids are the same as Cao Xi's, thick and long, hanging down to the hollows of his knees.But this braid is obviously not all real hair. He is not wearing a hat on such a hot day, which can be judged from the volume of the hair on the top.

With him by his side, Nick can save a lot of unnecessary trips. As long as he doesn't enter the Forbidden City, he can go through the Imperial City, from the East City to the West City and the Shichahai area.

During this period of time, Nick has been looking for the Guanyin Temple near the Zhenwu Temple. Juren’s friends did not say whether it is the south or the north. There are currently six Guanyin Temples with this name, and two of them are still door-to-door. The big one is very small, if you add those who changed their names midway, I don’t know how many there are.

He paid special attention to the trees in the "Guanyin Temple", they were all ordinary, and it was really hard to see which one could bloom magic flowers.

Nick was about to give up for a while, but then Juren got the news from the palace that when Li Zicheng entered Beijing, Emperor Chongzhen had hanged himself on Meishan, but he did not "go on the road" alone, and an eunuch named Wang Chengen was buried. Those who hanged themselves, their bodies hung on the trees for three days before they were discovered, and they were parked outside the Donghua Gate and put into willow coffins.

When it was the turn of the Qing army to enter Beijing, they found that the dead old locust tree had grown new leaves, so the regent Dorgon nailed a sign on the tree with copper nails, wrote "Ming Huaizong died for the country", and beat him with a whip. Because of the crime of murdering rebellion, it cut off the young leaves of this "sin locust tree" and chained them up, just like a prisoner put on a shackle.As for the crabapple tree next to which Wang Chengen hanged himself, no one cared about it. Whether it was Emperor Chongzhen who asked for a eunuch to be buried, or Wang Chengen took someone as a companion, don't look for our house!There were indeed people in the palace who went to offer sacrifices, after all, it was better to live than to die.

"I just said why the tree demons are making trouble, so it's because of this."

The old Juren, who was very critical, sighed, and then told Nick "two kings and three styles". This is a ritual system that originated in the era of Yao, Shun and Yu. All dynasties conferred titles on the descendants of the previous royal family, but the previous royal family could not Courtesy of the minister, and the ceremony of the guest.

It is generally recognized that the Ming Dynasty was followed by the Qing Dynasty, and Li Zicheng was only emperor for 42 days, so he cannot be counted as the previous royal family. What's more, Li Zicheng was not killed by the Qing army, that is, the Dashun army at that time.

Some of Li Zicheng's descendants said they did, and some said they didn't. Here I have to mention Chen Yuanyuan, who "became a beauty when she rushed to the crown".

It is said that the tyrants and women who have caused disasters to the country are all ghosts. Humans and ghosts have different paths. Of course, it is impossible to have children, and this peerless "person" seems to have never given birth to children in the legend.

Later, Nick followed Baylor to see the old pagoda tree where Chongzhen hanged himself, but he couldn't find the crabapple that Wang Chengen hanged himself, because there were many crabapple on the mountain, and no one nailed planks to the crabapple.

The flowering period of crabapple is usually in April. The day Chongzhen hanged himself was March 21. Theoretically, the crabapple flowers haven’t bloomed yet, but no one can say for sure about the plants.

The dead trees can germinate again, why can't the crabapple bloom in advance?To die for the country accompanied by begonias that bloomed in advance all over the mountain is a way of death that fits the status of an emperor.

Jingshan and the Forbidden City are separated by a moat. Turkic people worship blue, thinking that it is the color represented by "Changshengtian". For the sake of the three flags, the bordered blue flag was replaced, while the XHQ and the Zhenghuang flag had a large number of people, and the other represented the royal family.

At present, the admiral is in the military camp of Zhengbai Banner. Yongzheng’s residence is in the northeast corner of the inner city. After the Qing-Russia War, Russian prisoners were brought to BJ, and they were placed in the northeast corner. Later, they built a church, and then Then there were embassies.

It was Yongzheng who put an end to powerful ministers like Dorgon and Obai interfering in government affairs, threatening the rule of the little emperor, and established the Military Aircraft Department.

Of course, it is also possible that the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang supported the two little emperors, Shunzhi and Kangxi, to govern smoothly.

Nick couldn't help but think of that book again. When the magic flower bloomed and burrowed into the human body with vines, there was a one-armed god who stored ten white elephants, ten black incense sticks, and ten black elephants in his wrist. The bulls and ten white bulls wield the "strange mud" with great power, and a three-eyed tiger is transformed from the hurricane that destroys everything. The tiger's eyes scan the field and ignite a raging fire.

This kind of plot also exists in Indian mythology, which is so exaggerated that it is unbelievable, and the one-armed god described in this way is more like the one-armed and one-legged mandrill described by later generations.

"Well?" asked Bonaparte.

Georgiana looked up at him.

"Do you believe it?"

It was a moment before he answered "You think I shouldn't trust Margaret?"

Georgiana rubbed her eyes, she needed time to think before she could give him an answer.

(End of this chapter)