Sun Daqiao waved his hand: "Hey, this craft is just for making a living at best. To be truly proficient in shadow puppetry, the shadow puppet maker's ancestor, the alchemist Li Shaoweng, is the only one who can make a living."
"Shao Weng Li?"
Everyone became curious about the name and urged Sun Daqiao to talk about the allusion.
Sun Daqiao coughed a few times and adjusted his attitude: "This matter is still related to Mrs. Li, the favorite concubine of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty."
"Or him?"
Yue Erpao had heard many stories about Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Mrs. Li along the way. First, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty built a memorial platform for Mrs. Li, and then he made some corpse-fixing beads that would not rot after death. Now shadow puppets appeared again. , he just felt that the old emperor was too willing to spend a lot of money for this beloved concubine.
Sun Daqiao nodded to everyone: "It is indeed him. I can only say that Mrs. Li is too smart. Even if she is terminally ill, she can defeat Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and make him miss her for the rest of his life..."
Among the many concubines of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Mrs. Li was not of high origin. Even Wei Zifu was just a slave of Princess Pingyang and could be considered a good person. The Li family was even related to crime.
Her brother Li Yannian had been castrated for a crime in his early years and was sent to the palace as a dog slave. Because he was good at music and singing and dancing, he was appreciated by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and became the imperial music official.
Once, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty held a banquet to celebrate his sister Princess Pingyang. Li Yannian sang while playing music for Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty: "There is a beautiful woman in the north, with peerless grace and grace. She can overthrow the city with one look back, and the country can be overthrown with one look back. Don't you know the disaster of falling in love with a city and a country?" , just because beautiful women are hard to find!"
It is well known that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sought beauty and beauty, and Princess Pingyang presented him with women many times. At this moment, after hearing Li Yannian's lyrics, she was so interested that she said with emotion: "Is there really such a beautiful person in the world?"
Of course Princess Pingyang understood her brother's "thoughts" and immediately recommended Li Yannian's sister Li to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. She bluntly said that Li's appearance was as handsome as that of Yu Ji.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty became interested and asked Li to come to see Tianyan. When he saw her, he saw that the girl was as beautiful as Concubine Yu and as beautiful as a fairy, so he brought Li into the harem and made her his wife. After that, Li favored her for many years. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty gave birth to a prince, and just when the concubines in the harem thought that they would no longer have any extravagant hopes of being favored, Li suddenly became ill and there was no cure, and he soon became weak.
After receiving this news, all the concubines took a long breath. If Li Shi could not serve the emperor, then their chance would come. They were also happy that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty saw Li Shi's weak face. It would be difficult for her to lose her favor forever. Return to favor.
Li was from a lower-class family and was favored by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty because of her beauty. She knew too well that losing her beauty meant losing favor. She also knew that many concubines were waiting to laugh when they saw that she had no cure. She knew better that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty did It is possible that he will withdraw his favor because of her declining appearance.
If she were an ordinary person, she would definitely pretend to be pitiful while she was sick, and do everything possible to attract Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, so that he could take advantage of her illness to promote his brothers to the rank of nobility. However, as a low-level person, the Li family struggled in the Han Palace. After being immersed in it for a long time, I knew that these ordinary methods were not very effective, so I came up with an unconventional way, which made all the concubines' ideas come to nothing.
On that day, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty heard that Mrs. Li was not going to die soon, so he went to her palace to see her one last time. Knowing that he was coming, Mrs. Li immediately closed the palace door tightly, blocking Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty from outside, and said that she had been sick for a long time. His appearance is shabby, and he is really not suitable to meet the emperor.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty knew that Li's time was running out, and he said that as long as she was willing to meet her, he would give his brothers and relatives official positions and titles, and give them endless glory and wealth.
Even so, Mrs. Li still turned him away. She also said that it was Emperor Wu's own business and had nothing to do with her whether to give her father and brother a promotion. However, her haggard appearance was indeed not suitable for a saint. Holy shit, she would rather swallow the hairpin and commit suicide immediately.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty saw that she was out of luck, so he had to give up the idea of seeing her again. He just looked at her from a distance through the bead curtain and left angrily.
After Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty left, the servants around him were very curious. In their opinion, Mrs. Li could take advantage of her illness to make some requests to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Presumably, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty would happily agree, but in Mrs. Li's eyes, she was completely It's not like this.
In her opinion, if she is favored because of her good looks, she will inevitably fall out of favor because of her declining appearance. This is the fate of those who use sex to treat others - when their appearance fades, their love will be relaxed, and if their love is loose, their kindness will be rejected.
Even if Li died of illness, she refused to see her. Although she left Emperor Wu with regrets, she preserved the glory and wealth of the Li family to a certain extent. After her death, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty took pity on her early death and posthumously named her Empress Xiaowu. , and also asked the painter to draw her most beautiful appearance when she was young, hang it in Ganquan Palace to miss her day and night, and enjoy the worship in the ancestral temple after her death.
As for her brothers, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty also thought of her kindness. He first made Li Guangli the general of the Second Division and then the Marquis of Haixi. Even Li Yannian, who had become a eunuch, was given the official position of Lieutenant of Xielu.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty did all this simply because he missed Mrs. Li. The moment she died, her stunning appearance was fixed in Emperor Wu's mind and became an eternal memory.
After that, the concubines in the harem began to age, lose color, have wrinkled skin, and were even described as ugly. Even Wei Zifu, whom Emperor Wu was most satisfied with, was described by him as an ugly old woman. They refused to meet each other, and looked at the increasingly miserable palace. Concubine, the first thing he thought of must be the immortal-looking Madam Li.
What's even more terrifying is that Mrs. Li is already dead, and her image will be continuously beautified by the memory of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty until she becomes a goddess that is unthinkable. In this way, the more Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty remembers her, the more he will pity the Li family. , which can be regarded as preserving the prosperity and wealth of their family.
Just imagine, if Mrs. Li had shown her ugly and sick appearance to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, he would have been frightened when he saw Mrs. Li looking tired and tired without makeup. After that, when he thought of Mrs. Li, it would be the last time he saw her when she was sick and weak. , in this case, he will definitely dislike the Li family. Empress Chen, whom he dislikes, is still under house arrest in Changmen Palace. This is a treatment that only Taizu Guantao and Empress Dowager Dou tried to protect her.
If this is the case, the Li family will definitely no longer have the favor of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty!
Li knew this clearly, and avoided this risk by not seeing him until death. She could do this, which can be said to have seen through the heart's desolation, and also seen through Liu Che's philandering.
Looking at it now, Mrs. Li's risky move was the right one. After her death, Emperor Liu Che continued to build Soul Thought Platforms to attract the souls of Li family. He even searched for alchemists to create a corpse-fixing pill for her. Keep her beauty after death.
When Li Shaoweng appeared, it happened to be the time when Emperor Wu became a loner!
At this time, the concubines in the harem were old and weak and died. The old queen Wei Zifu committed suicide to prove his innocence because of the unwarranted witchcraft disaster. Rivers of blood flowed and hundreds of thousands died.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty killed so many people around him that he was so red-eyed that he even wanted to put his own grandson to death!
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty probably did not expect that he just wanted to find out the evil caused by witchcraft, but it actually led to the death of nearly 100,000 people in the dynasty, harem, and civilians. In the end, he was so scared that he himself was scared. When he fell asleep at night, he could always see countless people. The innocent soul of the puppet, covered in blood like rain, came looking for his life.
In his old age, in order to appease the anger of the wronged souls, he had to look for alchemists to appease the dead souls for him. As for meeting Mrs. Li's soul, it was an accessory to appease the wronged souls.
Li Shaoweng knew that the innocent ghosts in Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's dreams were all fake. The essence was that killing was too emotionally damaging. As long as the source of his fear was solved, this fear could be dispelled. To put it more simply, he needed to let a dead person whom Emperor Wu was familiar with Act as a middleman to appease these dead souls.
This person must be Mrs. Li!
Li died when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty loved her most. He was left to grow old and dim. Facing Mrs. Li, he was still the heroic young emperor. The other concubines who lived in the palace were despised by him, and it was inevitable that they would feel resentful. Only Mrs. Li Mrs. Li died early, before she had time to understand Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's ruthlessness, so the two of them had no bad feelings.
To this end, Li Shaoweng first made Mrs. Li's figure out of animal skin, and then set up a white cloth in front of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. When the candlelight passed through the shadow puppet, Mrs. Li's image was immediately reflected on the white cloth. From this, he was able to use These ingenious methods brought Mrs. Li's soul back to life.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was very happy about this and rewarded Li Shaoweng heavily. At the same time, he also asked Mrs. Li to bring him a decree to pardon those who died unjustly by him and hold rituals to requiem their souls.
It can be said that shadow puppets are created as containers for souls. They are a kind of ancient witchcraft. The purpose is to attract the souls of the dead. As for any opera tricks after that, they are just folk art. The two cannot be combined. Take it lightly.
After doing this, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty finally solved his inner demons and finally no longer had nightmares. Although he later knew that this was just Li Shaoweng's shadow puppetry, it was indeed a certainty that the knot in his heart was untied. Not only did he not punish Li Shaoweng, The young man, instead, conferred the title of Young Master Li on the throne.
The most ironic thing about the whole thing is the inconsistency of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty!
For the first time in his life, he investigated witchcraft and deposed Queen Chen, causing Chen Ajiao to die in depression. The second inspection of witchcraft and Gu techniques burned Wei Zifu's anger. The old queen committed suicide to prove her identity, and the prince was forced to rebel.
He kept saying that he didn't want witchcraft to cause trouble in the world, but in fact he was just using witchcraft as a command arrow to eradicate dissidents and consolidate imperial power. He probably believed this statement.
Ironically, in his later years, he used the art of witchcraft to heal his mind and calm his mind.
After that, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty thought of the innocent souls who had been killed by his obsessive love for power, as well as the elderly empress and the middle-aged prince with grandchildren. Very tolerable.
When Sun Daqiao said this, he had clearly introduced the past events of the shadow puppets. Yue Guanchao said: "If you want to put it this way, shadow puppets are an important tool for psychics!"
