But every time her mother took Huang Qiong out, no one among the patrolling guards and eunuchs could notice that someone was flying above her head. This is enough to show that no one can stop Huang Qiong's mother from leaving the palace. Even if you can't go out openly, if you want to go out, no one will be around, and no one will notice.
But Huang Qiong didn't know why this mother would rather stay in this cold palace than leave? However, after several years of getting along with her, he already knew his mother's character. There are things that you should know, and your mother will tell you sooner or later. What you shouldn't let yourself know is useless even if you talk about it.
It's just that although he can go out once every three days now, Huang Qiong doesn't look forward to such a good thing. The reason is very simple, I still practice Qigong when I go out. The only change is that it is not just about practicing fists and kicks, but also practicing weapons and Qinggong. My mother is a former empress, so this practice cannot be done in the city or palace, as there are many opportunities for exposure.
Once it is discovered that the former queen, who was supposed to be powerless, is actually a master of martial arts, what else can she do? All emperors in the past dynasties, as long as they hold real power, have not cared about their own safety. If someone discovered that his mother had such skills and was still a deposed queen, the emperor would probably have a restless sleep.
You can't practice in the palace, and it's the same in the city. If someone discovers that the former empress and her son, who were supposed to stay in the cold palace, actually appear in Luoyang City, the consequences will be no different from being discovered in the palace. No one is a fool. Even though the palace was heavily guarded, the mother and son were able to leave the palace. Anyone with a brain can figure out the reason.
Therefore, the places his mother chose for him were all in the wilderness or even mass graves. The place is remote, and there is often not even a single home within a dozen or so miles around. In summer, mosquitoes are everywhere, and in winter, the cold wind makes people shiver, not to mention the suffering.
Especially in winter, every time after doing the exercises, his mother would force him to wear thin clothes and sleep on a stone according to the breathing method she taught him, which made Huang Qiong extremely painful. Think about it, during the thirty-nine days when dripping water turned into ice, I had just finished practicing and was sweating profusely. I couldn't put on thick clothes, so I had to sleep on the cold rocks in my training clothes.
The stone beneath him was cold and hard, making it difficult to sleep. After the heat generated by the practice dissipated, Huang Qiong's thin clothes could not withstand the cold wind, causing Huang Qiong to tremble all over. Not to mention sleeping, it's hard to speak clearly. This kind of life, even if it is rare for Huang Qiong to leave the palace once, but how many people are willing to live this kind of life?
The first time he went out to practice on a winter night, Huang Qiong even thought he would catch a bad cold. It's a pity that Huang Qiong's body has been hardened by her mother in recent years. Even though he was freezing for most of the night, he didn't even catch a cold the next day, which made him unable to find an excuse not to go out.
It's hard in winter, but it's better to buy it in summer. There were mosquitoes all over the place, and although it was not as cold as winter, my mother asked me to lie down in a cave outside Luoyang City, in an extremely cool underground river, to rest and breathe. When the underground river first emerged from the ground, the water was no warmer than the big stone in winter.
Huang Qiong's enthusiasm for going out of the palace dropped rapidly after he left the palace to practice martial arts for the first time. When winter came, Huang Qiong didn't even want to go out. It's just that the decision-making power on this matter does not lie with him at all. And his mother didn't discuss it with him at all, and just took him out of the palace when the day came.
At first, he really couldn't hold on. He asked his mother more than once if there were any medicines like thousand-year ginseng or ten-year-old Ganoderma lucidum in the world. After taking them, he could increase his power without having to practice so hard. . Even if he eats snake gall raw, he has no objection at all.
And his mother always had the same answer to his questions. She didn’t know whether Millennium Ginseng or Ten Thousand Years Ganoderma could increase one’s power, because she had never eaten them. Apart from practicing hard, she didn't know any shortcuts to martial arts training. But if Huang Qiong was not afraid of being poisoned, she could find a way to find some for him.
Generally speaking, Huang Qiong could only rub her nose at her mother's answer and did not dare to continue asking. Either meditate silently and adjust the breath, or pick up the weapon and continue practicing. Huang Qiong was very worried if she talked too much and angered her mother. Although she couldn't do things like scolding a shrew or twisting her own ears.
But what if my mother made such a request to me and thought that I was not tired but was busy. If you add one or two homework assignments as appropriate, you will be out of luck. He was already very tired now. If he continued to work harder, he really knew whether he would survive to see the sun the next day.
What made Huang Qiong persevere in the end was that he knew that his mother was training him so diligently and teaching him the ability to save his life. Although martial arts cannot compete with thousands of troops. But at critical moments, it can still be used to escape. So although Huang Qiong was quite fearful, she was still somewhat motivated, but it wasn't entirely because of her mother's force.
Although at the age of ten, Huang Qiong, who was living every day like a year, felt that life was more difficult, at least he knew a lot of things. Perhaps because she thought he was old enough, in addition to the historical books such as "Historical Records" that she originally studied, her mother also gave him the chronicles of the emperors from this dynasty to the present.
After receiving these records, Huang Qiong, who had been in this era for five full years, knew what kind of era he was coming from. He didn't dare to ask if his mother didn't tell her before. Because he knew that as long as his mother didn't want to tell him, he couldn't pry open his mother's mouth, which even a mute of few words would be ashamed of.
Although at the beginning, he was indeed a little curious about what era he had come to. From the style and furnishings of the house, he initially thought he had arrived in the late Tang Dynasty. But after seeing "Tang Shu", a history book of the Tang Dynasty, I knew that I was not in the late Tang Dynasty.
In this era, the history books of each dynasty were compiled by the succeeding dynasties. Of course, some Spring and Autumn writing techniques are usually adopted when compiling. Delete some content that is not good for you, criticize the general trend of the previous dynasty, and make the previous dynasty worse than garbage. In order to prove that the previous dynasty was extremely stupid, the rise of this dynasty was due to destiny, and it was also a request for the people.
Although each dynasty itself also compiled some history books of the dynasty, recording some major events that occurred in the dynasty, or the outline of the emperor's governance, as well as the gains and losses of various policies. But there is no name for the book. It is usually named after the emperor's temple name. For example, "The Benji of Taizong" and "The Benji of Taizong" are similar to chronicles.
As a graduate of past life archeology, Huang Qiong is familiar with the laws of history. Just from this "History of the Tang Dynasty", which was printed on wooden blocks and was obviously hardcover, I knew that I was not in the late Tang Dynasty. No matter how ridiculous the emperors of the late Tang Dynasty were, even if they had no rights, they would not end their own dynasty by themselves.
The interior decoration and style of the house are from the late Tang Dynasty, but if you judge from this point alone that you have traveled through time to the late Tang Dynasty, it would be the case of the gourd monk breaking the gourd. But it had been five years since he came to this era, and nothing had changed. He vaguely felt that it was not turbulent. The average country was only ten years, and even the Five Dynasties period was only three years.
It's just that he is still confused as to what dynasty he is currently in. His mother never told him who his biological father, the current emperor, was. Even on weekdays, my mother never even mentioned the word emperor.
The only thing that knew something was that he judged the surrounding environment of the city where he was and the general geographical location. The results told him that the era he was in now should not be the Northern Song Dynasty. The reason is simple. He knows that the city he is currently in is Luoyang, and the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty is Kaifeng in the east.
Although Luoyang was the companion capital during the Northern Song Dynasty, some of the palaces built in Luoyang during the former Tang Dynasty had been reduced to ashes, and the rest were already dilapidated. Even after five generations of reconstruction, due to the relatively weak national power of these generations and the fact that wars often occur and the average country only lasts for 20 to 30 years at most, it is impossible to repair it too much.
In the Northern Song Dynasty, Luoyang City, which the emperor had rarely visited in person, was even less likely to build a palace of such a large scale. What's more, as the Northern Song Dynasty had its capital in Kaifeng, it was impossible for a deposed queen to be placed alone in Luoyang, Xijing. Even if his wife is out of court, the emperor will not allow anyone to approach him to avoid any risk of changing the color of his hat.
As for why he knew this was Luoyang City, the reason was even simpler. After leaving the palace to practice martial arts for half a year, his mother, for some unknown reason, changed the place where he took him out of the palace to practice martial arts to the Jingling Mausoleum of Emperor Xuanwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty, which finally convinced him that his current location was Luoyang.
Although the current height and scale of this imperial mausoleum are far beyond what it has been through hundreds of years of wind, rain and human destruction. It was a little different from what Huang Qiong saw in his previous life, but the merit monument of the imperial mausoleum was quite serious. There are still some ruins of the palace in the mausoleum area. It's not like Huang Qiong's previous life, which was determined by expert research.
However, this former emperor's mausoleum has been left unattended for a long time and has become overgrown with ancient trees and weeds. There are almost no people around the tall Fengtu, let alone at night. Even during the day, except for a few hunters or people who are engaged in the same occupation as Huang Qiong's previous life, very few people come here.
This place is very close to Luoyang City, which is convenient for travel and can hide your whereabouts. Being chosen by Huang Qiong's mother allowed Huang Qiong to confirm that his current location was Luoyang. But even though Huang Qiong had determined his specific location, Huang Qiong was still confused as to what era he was currently in.
