parentshiftbook Extra Chapter 2: The Gift Left By Queen Ma - An Old-Fashioned Phonograph [Please Subscribe, Please S
Extra Chapter 2: The Gift Left By Queen Ma - An Old-Fashioned Phonograph [Please Subscribe, Please S
In the seventh year of Shengping (1396), it was the morning of September 23rd.
Zhu Yuanzhang, who was sleeping on the small bed next to Taishang Queen Ma Xiuying's bed, also woke up leisurely.
During the days when Ma Xiuying was seriously ill, Zhu Yuanzhang had been taking care of her personally without any clothes on.
For this reason, Zhu Yuanzhang even placed a small bed for himself next to Ma Xiuying's bed, so that he could respond immediately when his sister called him.
And his hard work seems to have been rewarded accordingly. Ma Xiuying was able to eat and drink these two days, and even got out of bed and walked around the palace gate yesterday to bask in the sun.
All this made Zhu Yuanzhang extremely excited, and he firmly believed that his sister would be able to fully recover if she took more time to nurse herself back to health.
After Zhu Yuanzhang woke up, he immediately turned his head and looked at Ma Xiuying.
However, at this glance, Zhu Yuanzhang immediately noticed something strange, because Ma Xiuying felt as if she had no life today.
Zhu Yuanzhang immediately turned over and got out of bed, then took three steps in parallel and quickly walked to Ma Xiuying's bedside. He gently held Ma Xiuying's wrist and called softly:
"Sister, sister, sister..."
"Sister, wake up..."
However, no matter how Zhu Yuanzhang called, Queen Ma, who was lying on the bed, did not respond. At the same time, the touch on Queen Ma's exposed wrist was so cold.
At this moment, even if he had tied his head to his belt and joined the Red Scarf Army in the past, he would have rebelled against the Yuan Dynasty.
Or maybe he was competing and fighting with Chen Youliang and Zhang Shicheng on the battlefield. Zhu Yuanzhang, who had never been afraid even after nine deaths, really felt a feeling of panic and fear.
Zhu Yuanzhang carefully put his finger in front of Ma Xiuying's nose and held it there for a while, but he did not feel any faint breath coming from his nose.
This result immediately made Zhu Yuanzhang feel as if he was struck by five thunders. In an instant, he roared towards the bed next to him:
"Imperial doctor!"
"Imperial doctor!"
"Send me the imperial doctor immediately!"
During these days when Taishang Queen Ma Xiuying was seriously ill, there were many imperial doctors on call at any time twelve hours a day in the palace next to Renshou Palace.
In addition, when Zhu Yuanzhang just woke up, there were already servants who went to report to Emperor Zhu Biao and invited the imperial doctor in advance.
So not long after Zhu Yuanzhang finished speaking, an imperial doctor arrived immediately.
The imperial doctors who had just entered Renshou Palace, before they had time to salute, saw Queen Taishang's dark and yellow complexion, their hearts skipped a beat, and they suddenly broke out in cold sweat.
The four paths of medicine: looking, smelling, asking, and feeling.
Many times, they can see many problems in patients with just the word "wang".
And the look on Queen Taishang's face now clearly shows that she has died!
Thinking of this, all the imperial doctors did not even have time to salute Zhu Yuanzhang, and immediately went to Queen Taishang's bedside to diagnose her pulse.
After a while, after five imperial doctors checked the pulse and confirmed that the diagnosis results were consistent with each other.
All the imperial doctors present immediately knelt down towards Zhu Yuanzhang and cried together:
"Your Majesty, my wife has passed away!"
Zhu Yuanzhang immediately became furious and lost his mind and roared:
"impossible!"
"You must have made a wrong diagnosis!"
"How could our girl die in the grave?"
"Quack! Quack! You are all quacks!"
"If you quack doctors can't save our girl, I'll put you all to death!"
"Come here, take all these quack doctors out and execute them, and then call other imperial doctors into the palace for treatment immediately!"
Just when Zhu Yuanzhang was about to execute all the imperial doctors present, Emperor Zhu Biao and King Zhou Zhu also arrived in a hurry.
Ever since they knew that their mother had entered the stage of rebirth, the Emperor Zhu Biao and the King of Zhou Zhu Ru had been living in the palace next to Renshou Palace for the past two days, in order to learn about their mother as soon as possible. news situation.
So when I came in, I heard that my mother had been buried, and Zhu Yuanzhang ordered that all the imperial doctors present be executed.
Zhu Biao immediately suppressed his grief and took the lead in speaking:
"Pull all the imperial doctors down."
At the same time, Zhu Biao also shook his head towards the servants and motioned for them to just pull down the imperial doctors.
The surrounding servants had already received Zhu Biao's advance orders in the past two days.
In the past few days, no matter who Emperor Taishang ordered to be killed, he only had to take the person into custody and then report to him.
If Emperor Taishang asks, just say that the person has been killed with a stick.
Therefore, a group of internal servants also took away all the imperial doctors present and asked them to go to another palace to wait.
The king of Zhou, Zhu Ji, quickly walked to his mother's bedside to check her pulse and diagnose her.
Zhu Yuanzhang, as if grasping the last life-saving straw, pinned all his hopes on Zhou Wang Zhu Xi and said excitedly:
"Lao Wu, look at what's going on with your mother!"
"Those imperial doctors just now were all quacks. Zheng only believes in you now!"
"Look, is your mother too tired from walking in the yard yesterday, so she is sleeping so soundly now that she doesn't hear us calling her?!!"
King Zhu Zhu of Zhou pursed his lips tightly and felt his pulse silently for a long time, and then suddenly hot tears fell from his eyes.
Seeing Zhou Wang Zhu's appearance, the last glimmer of hope in Zhu Yuanzhang's heart no longer existed.
"Father, mother, she has already gone."
King Zhu Zhu of Zhou carefully put his mother's wrist back into the quilt, and then cried bitterly towards Zhu Yuanzhang, who was lying on the ground.
After hearing the final diagnosis made by his fifth brother, Zhu Biao could no longer bear the sadness in his heart, fell to his knees and cried bitterly:
"be..."
Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly lost his mind, paced back and forth in the palace, waved his hands and shouted angrily:
"impossible!"
"The doctor lied to us!"
"You're lying to us too!"
"How could your mother die?"
"She promised us yesterday that when she gets better, she will go to North America, South America, and Oceania with us!"
"How could she die like this?!!"
Looking at Ma Xiuying who seemed to be sleeping deeply on the bed, Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly paused, walked up to Ma Xiuying, and ordered with the look of an imperial master:
"Queen Taishang listens!"
"I order you to open your eyes and talk to us immediately!"
After a while, Zhu Yuanzhang, who didn't hear Ma Xiuying's response, roared again:
"I order you to open your eyes and talk to me immediately!"
But no matter how noble the emperor is, no matter how eloquent his words are, "it cannot violate the true laws of birth, old age, illness and death."
Seeing Ma Xiuying who could no longer respond to him, Zhu Yuanzhang completely collapsed at this moment. Like a fragile child, he knelt down beside Ma Xiuying's bed, like a wounded old dragon, raising his head and roaring:
"kg...ng...ng..."
On this day, Queen Ma Xiuying of Taishang died at the age of sixty-four.
On this day, Zhu Yuanzhang's extremely sad cries spread throughout the Renshou Palace, as well as inside and outside the imperial city.
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On September 26, the entire Yingtian Mansion and even the entire Ming Dynasty were busy with the funeral of Taishang Queen Ma Xiuying.
In the Wenhua Hall, Zhu Biao looked at his fifth brother Zhu Zhu and his son Zhu Xiongying who were walking hand in hand, and asked quickly:
"Dad still refuses to eat?!!"
King Zhu Zhu of Zhou shook his head with a bitter look on his face and replied:
"Dad has not eaten or drank for two days and has been staying by mother's side."
"If this continues, I'm really afraid that daddy will go with mommy too!"
Zhu Xiongying on the side also said:
"Grandpa Huang can't listen to what I say. Even if I act coquettishly, Grandpa Huang will ignore me."
Just when the three of them were all frowning, Zhu Biao suddenly remembered and said:
"When Mom was still alive, she said that she left a gift for Dad and us from Mr. Xiong's place."
"Maybe the gift left behind can persuade Dad!"
Zhu Xiongying immediately looked excited and said:
"I will go find the teacher and enter the palace immediately!"
Just when Zhu Xiongying was about to leave the palace to find Yan Changqing, the chamberlain outside the palace also came to report that Yan Changqing asked for an audience.
Zhu Biao said immediately:
"Please invite Mr. Yan in quickly!"
Then, Yan Changqing walked in with a lot of stacked boxes.
As soon as he saw Yan Changqing, Zhou Wang Zhu Ji immediately asked eagerly:
"Mr. Yan, my mother said before she died that she left a gift for dad and us. I wonder what the gift is?!!"
"Can you give it to us now so we can use it to persuade dad? He has not eaten or drank for two days!!!"
Yan Changqing nodded and said solemnly:
"That's exactly what I'm here for!"
"The gift left by the queen is right here!"
After that, Yan Changqing opened one of the big boxes behind him. Inside the big box was something like a small speaker.
After Yan Changqing briefly explained the function of the small speaker in the box [Zhu Biao" Zhu Xi" Zhu Xiongying, the owner immediately dragged Yan Changqing to the mourning hall of Queen Xiuying of Taishang with an excited expression.
At this moment, Zhu Yuanzhang was standing next to Ma Xiuying's coffin, looking through the transparent glass coffin lid at Ma Xiuying lying inside with great sadness.
Just as Zhu Yuanzhang was looking at it, he suddenly heard Ma Xiuying's voice calling her:
"Chongba, Chongba, Chongba..."
Zhu Yuanzhang immediately stood up as if he was crazy, turned around, looked around, then stared at Ma Xiuying in the coffin and said excitedly:
"Sister! Sister! Sister!"
"Did you come to see us?!!"
"We knew you wouldn't be able to let us go!"
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However, Ma Xiuying in the coffin still did not reply. Outside the mourning hall, Yan Changqing slowly walked in pushing a hand-cranked phonograph.
As Yan Changqing's side shook, the words from Empress Ma's hand-cranked voice box recorded during her lifetime were also slowly played at this moment:
"Chongba, when you hear these words, I should be dead."
"Don't feel sorry for me. Birth, aging, illness and death are human nature. You must not implicate other people because of my death!"
"Otherwise, even if I die, it will be with a purpose of not resting in peace!"
"If you want me to die in peace, then just go ahead and vent your anger on other people. Look, when we get together again, I will never forgive you!"
"And even if I really die, that doesn't mean I will leave you."
"This is the phonograph invented by Ban Heng. Ban Heng's invention is really miraculous. It can actually record everything I say through this gramophone and then play it back again!"
"So even if I die, I can still talk to you a little bit.
"Today is July 15th, the sixth year of Shengping. The weather is very good, and the sun is warm on my body."
"If I die, you should eat and drink. Don't let the children worry!"
"Okay, you
I’ll be back soon, so I’ll stop talking about it today.
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the gramophone that had finished playing and asked with tears streaming down his face:
"IXE..."
Yan Changqing also replied solemnly:
"A year ago, I felt that my body was getting more and more unwell.'"
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"I am worried that one day I will walk in front of His Majesty, and His Majesty will go on a killing spree and implicate others, or he will become restless and harm himself."
"So the empress found me and asked me if there was any way to record her words more vividly.
"I want to give you some advice before your majesty goes on a killing spree, implicates others, or harms himself."
“So this gramophone was invented, which could record everything a person said, and then play it back just by cranking it by hand.
"The empress left a total of eighteen voice boxes for your majesty, recording the eighteen words she left for your majesty.
"As well as leaving a voice box for His Majesty Zhu Biao, His Royal Highness King Zhou, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and others."
"Now, I've brought them all here."
When Empress Ma came to Yan Changqing to make this request, Yan Changqing was also very surprised.
However, after thinking about it carefully, Yan Changqing agreed.
Because Queen Ma's request is not difficult to realize, as long as the gramophone is made.
The principle of the gramophone is also very simple:
"Sound and thunder are produced by the vibration of objects (frequency and amplitude), and propagate in the form of vibration waves in the propagation medium, so as long as the specific vibration of the sound is recorded, then
You can record what you said.
Afterwards, as long as the vibration is reproduced in reverse, the original speaking sound can be reproduced.
Therefore, based on the principle of the phonograph, Yan Changqing quickly invented the earliest old-fashioned hand-cranked phonograph.
This old-fashioned gramophone does not require a power supply and only relies on mechanical transmission instead of electric drive.
So as long as you turn the crank, you can make the record rotate and produce sound through the capsule amplifier.
After hearing Yan Changqing's words, whether it was Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Biao, Zhu Ji, or Zhu Xiongying, they all burst into tears.
They never imagined that even if their old wives/mothers/grandmothers passed away, they would still be in their hearts, and they would even leave some words of advice for each of them.
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"Put it back!"
"Put it back!"
"Play it to us again!"
"Let us play all the phonograph boxes that our girl left behind!
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Yan Changqing tremblingly, with a look of prayer in his eyes.
Yan Changqing also nodded and continued to shake the second gramophone left by Queen Ma.
The words left by Queen Ma were once again driven by them.
On this day, Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, and Zhu Xiongying listened to the phonograph over and over again for a whole day and night.
While listening, they cried and laughed at the same time. In the end, Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, and Zhu Xiongying cried heartily until they were tired of crying and fell asleep directly on Queen Ma's bed.
of the mourning hall.
The realistic sketch and color image of Empress Ma hanging above the mourning hall seemed to be looking down at her husband, sons and grandchildren with a slight smile at this moment.
In the end, Yan Changqing also bowed deeply to the portrait of Queen Ma, and then withdrew from the mourning hall, dragging his arms that were too cramped to move. .