After the hustle and bustle of the day, Si'an City is especially quiet at night.
In the north of the city, a guard on the wall was dozing off in the night.
Carnival in the city today!
He was supposed to be sleeping at home, waiting for his night shift, so he couldn't help himself and ran out to spend the day.
As a result, when I was on duty at night, my eyelids felt like they were being weighted by lead weights, and I couldn't even open them!
Fortunately, there has been no fighting in Shi'an City for many years, and even the head of the guards did not bother to come up to inspect. Otherwise, he would have to be sent to Chang'an and punished with twenty army sticks. It is estimated that he would not be able to escape.
Having said this, many people may not understand: How can such a heavy and solemn day as the memorial ceremony for Mrs. Xian be turned into a carnival?
But if you think about this question carefully, it will actually become clear. After all, most of the festivals that have evolved from ancient times to the present are like this.
Such as Dragon Boat Festival, such as cold food!
This was originally a festival that commemorated a person first and then formed a festival. And this man, because of this festival, will always be remembered by the world.
The late autumn evening breeze has gradually become chilly.
Shivering violently due to a gust of north wind, the guard on top of the city rubbed his groggy eyes and was thinking about whether to slip down the city wall and find a place to catch up on his sleep.
Unexpectedly, on the mountain road outside, the sound of galloping horse hooves suddenly sounded!
"Who are you, running a horse so late, not afraid of falling to death?" Hearing the sound of horse hooves carried by the night wind, the guard who regained some consciousness muttered, and was about to look out, but the galloping horse was already there. Arrived at the city gate.
Immediately afterwards, before the horse could stop, a deep and powerful roar sounded like thunder from below the city, and echoed through most of the city in the blink of an eye!
"I am General You Xiaowei! Liu Hongji is also! Feng An's son! Come out and fight with me!"
"...General Youwuwei...come out and fight me!!!"
On the top of the city, the highest-ranking military official I have ever seen in my life could only break his head from the gate guard of the seventh-grade "Yunqi Colonel" and never guess: What kind of existence is General You Xiaowei!
But he heard Liu Hongji's words "Feng An'er" clearly!
"Who! Who is yelling!"
The drowsiness in his mind disappeared without a trace at this moment, and the city gate guard shuddered, shouting at the people below the city in shock and anger.
but.
What responded to him this time was not Liu Hongji's roar, but the sound of a heavy horse stepping on the city gate!
Under the pale moonlight.
The horse under Liu Hongji stood up! The horse's hoofs raised high kicked in the air a few times, and then under the horrified eyes of the guards at the top of the city, they stepped heavily on the solid city gate!
"boom……"
The hard horse's hooves collided with the city gate, making a heavy thunder-like sound, and those who listened could not help but tremble in their hearts!
"Oops! Someone is attacking the city!"
"Come quickly! Someone is attacking the city!"
Finally, after a moment of confusion, the drum that had been dusty for who knows how many years on top of the city began to sound! Accompanied by the rapid beating of drums, there were also the shrill screams of the city gate guards! It hovered in the night sky for a long time and never fell.
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"Mr. Feng! Is this why you got so much saltpeter?"
At this moment, in a remote house in Shi'an City, Xiao Han grabbed a small bag of powder wrapped in oil paper and asked Feng An opposite him, dumbfounded.
He really didn't expect that the problems that had troubled him and Ren Qing these past two days would be so simple and unexpected!
"Yeah! What's wrong? What else can that thing do? Hey, you won't eat this thing too, right?" Feng An frowned at Xiao Han, and suddenly said seriously: "Boy, don't say I don't teach you, This thing is not a fun thing! Don’t touch it again!”
"You didn't let me touch it, but you secretly did it yourself, and you did so much..." After hearing Feng An's words, Xiao Han's mouth twitched, and when he looked at Feng An's early eyes, he looked a little weird.
In other words, ever since I knew that every move I and others made had already fallen into their eyes.
Not only did Xiao Han not feel as horrified as Ren Qing and the others, but he seemed to have let go of his worries. He felt relaxed, and he even felt like chatting and laughing with Feng An.
During this period, except that he did not say that he was ordered by Xiao Lizi to investigate whether you were rebelling or not, he told Feng Ang generously about other things that should and should not be said. As long as Feng Ang asked, Xiao Han told him generously.
In this way, Xiao Han's frankness also made Feng Ang's impression of him greatly increase! So when Xiao Han asked about saltpeter, he led the people here without even thinking about it and saw with his own eyes the scene where Five Stone Powder was made.
Five Stone Powder, this thing is really famous. Anyone who has read history books will probably be familiar with this thing.
According to legend, the prescription of Wushi Powder was first prescribed by the Han people, and was first taken by He Yan from the Wei Dynasty.
As for the records of the "five stones" in Wu Shi Powder, Ge Hong described them as "cinnabar, realgar, alum, Zeng Qing, and Ci Shi".
Chao Yuanfang, a famous doctor in the Sui Dynasty, believed that it was "stalactite, sulfur, white quartz, amethyst, and red stone".
However, in some other places, there are also five stone powders made from pure stone powders such as saltpeter, talc, and vitriol, which are more powerful and addictive!
Although the formulas of "Five Stones" vary from place to place, their medicinal properties are all hot and strong. After taking it, people will feel hot all over the body and produce a short-term effect that confuses people.
The ancients were not scientific enough and had too little knowledge about these things similar to drugs. They mistakenly thought that this was a psychic state, but in fact, it was a sign of chronic poisoning!
Legend has it that He Yan was a lustful man. After taking Wu Shi Powder, he suddenly felt bright and cheerful and his physical strength increased. Under his leadership, Wu Shi San was widely spread, so much so that in the later Wei and Jin Dynasties, when scholar-bureaucrats gathered together, Wu Shi San was often used to entertain them!
This also formed the reason that when people in later generations think of the style of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, they think of the demeanor of celebrities who exposed their chests and belly and indulged in the mountains and forests.
But if you think about it deeper, you will realize that this is obviously a group of drug addicts who have taken drugs and become so hot that they become disheveled and behave weirdly!
Moreover, Xiao Han also knew that because the ingredients of Wushi Powder were mostly gold and stone, they could not be digested by humans at all and could only accumulate in the body, accumulating more and more until the body collapsed and died!
This was also affirmed by Sun Simiao, so starting from the first year of Zhenguan, the old Taoist had dissuaded Xiao Lizi from abolishing the prescription of Wu Shi Powder and strictly prohibited the use of this medicine. This is also the fundamental reason why few people in Chang'an take Wu Shi Powder. .
However, Xiao Han did not expect that Wu Shi San, which disappeared in Chang'an, would appear again in Lingnan, and it would also appear in Feng An's place!