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 dark.
Carnival in the city today!
He was supposed to be sleeping at home while waiting for his night shift, so he couldn't help himself and ran out to spend the day.
As a result, when I went 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 guard did not bother to come up to inspect. Otherwise, if he had been in Chang'an, he would not have been able to escape the punishment of twenty army sticks.
Having said this, many people may not understand: How can such a heavy and solemn day as paying homage to Mrs. Xian lead to carnival again?
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 was formed to commemorate a person first. And this person, 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.
Arrive at the foot of the city.
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 Youxiaowei! Liu Hongji is also! Feng An'er! Come out and fight with me!"
"...General Youwuwei...come out and fight me!!!"
On top of the city, the highest-ranking military official I have ever seen in my life was just a seventh-grade "Yunqi Colonel" city gate guard who broke his head and could not imagine what kind of existence General You Xiaowei was!
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 trembled, shouting at the city gate 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 hooves raised high in the air kicked 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!
"It's bad! 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 drum sound, there was also the shrill scream of the city gate guard! 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 Ang frowned and looked 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 in the future!”
"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 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 others, but he seemed to have let go of his worries, and his whole body became relaxed, and he even seemed to be 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 other things that should be said and should not be said, Xiao Han generously told him whenever Feng Ang asked.
In this way, Xiao Han's frankness also made Feng An feel good about him! So much so that when Xiao Han asked about saltpeter, he led the people here without even thinking about it and saw it with his own eyes.
The scene of making five stone powder.
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 San 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 Shiye".
Chao Yuanfang, a famous doctor in the Sui Dynasty, believed that it was "stalactite, sulfur, white quartz, purple quartz, 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 them, 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!
It is said that He Yan was a lustful man. After taking Wu Shi San, he suddenly felt bright and energetic and his physical strength increased. Under his leadership, Wu Shi San became widely spread, so that in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, when the scholar-bureaucrats gathered together, Wu Shi San was often used.
Add to the fun!
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 took drugs and became so hot that they became disheveled and behaved 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, asking him to abolish 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.
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However, Xiao Han did not expect that Wushisan, which disappeared in Chang'an, would appear again in Lingnan, and it would appear again in Feng An's place!
