After I Married the Disabled War God As My Concubine - Chapter 230

Fang Cheng has been quite stubborn since childhood.

When he was a child, his family let him learn Olympiad Mathematics, but he went to learn taekwondo; when he was in middle school, his family let him learn science, but he wanted to learn literature. Later, he volunteered for the college entrance examination; his family asked him to study finance and accounting, but he chose to apply for history.

No one could dissuade him.

Enforcing his stubbornness with his family earned him some discipline and beating at best. But once it was used with people outside, he’d suffer.

Fang Cheng frowned when he received the message from his mentor.

The roommate who came back from playing basketball happened to see it, and when he leaned over for a closer look, he saw the dialog box on his desktop.

The roommate guffawed after reading it.

“How about it? Didn’t I tell you? Your mentor will definitely shoot you down for selecting this subject.”

“He’s the one who’s unreasonable,” Fang Cheng retorted. “I found him as my mentor purely because he is young and promising. I also thought he was different from other teachers. I didn’t realize that he’s no different from other teachers. He’s just as rigid.”

“Come on, look around the college. Where else is there a better-tempered lecturer than Mr. Jiang?” His roommate went to his seat and opened a can of Coke. Immediately, the bubbles overflowed.

“It’s not that Mr. Jiang is rigid, it’s your choice of topic.” The roommate said while taking a sip of his Cola. “If Mr. Jiang submits your topic and lets you defend your thesis, do you think he himself won’t receive a scolding from the dean, huh?”

“What kind of thesis do I have?” When Fang Cheng heard this, his stubbornness struck again.

He turned around, put his arm on the back of the chair and asked his roommate, “Are you sure that the content written in an unofficial history is not true?”

His roommate had lived with him for four years, and his ears were getting calloused from hearing such words. He threw up his hands in surrender and said, “I’m not sure. Of course, I’m not sure. I’ve only been alive for 22 years, so how do I know what happened a thousand of years ago? The unofficial records also say that after Jingwang became Emperor, he married Huo Wujiu as his Empress. Who knows if it’s true or not?”

Fang Cheng inserted, “I told you so. And yet he won’t let…”

“Oh, come on! Don’t be stuck in the dormitory thinking about your thesis every day. You might as well play ball with me tomorrow.” Seeing that he was getting serious, the roommate promptly said, “You don’t know, I met a kid today. Tsk, the way he plays the ball is quite terrific. Hey, it’s said that he’s a younger student from the Finance Department who just returned from abroad. He’s a sports student. Good guy, playing forward. Today, we played three against one and we just couldn’t defend… ”

Whenever the roommate talked about matters of the court, he would chatter non-stop. Fang Cheng wasn’t at all interested in these. While partly listening, he turned around and muttered to himself.

“Mr. Jiang has a class tomorrow. I have to go see him face to face…”

——

Jiang Suizhou felt that he might not have slept well last night.

After he replied to the student’s message, the electricity in the room went out once. It should have been a short circuit. It flickered a few times, and then came back on again.

But in that interval, his brain was in chaos, as if time and space were suddenly distorted. When the electricity came back on, his mind was in a whirl, as if he had experienced something big suddenly.

But on careful thought, he couldn’t remember.

He rubbed his temples and just blamed everything on being exhausted. He turned off the lights and went to rest.

He tossed and turned as well that night. He kept dreaming all night, but when he woke up, he couldn’t remember what he had just dreamed about.

He felt a bit drained. After getting up early in the morning, he packed up and rushed off to school.

He had a professional class to attend this morning.

This professional course was about the history of Liang, for the sophomore students. Jiang Suizhou taught this course for two years, and has also been studying the history of Liang. He memorized it by heart, and thus could discuss it with ease.

But today was not quite right.

At the beginning of the semester, there were only two sessions opened for this course, and today’s lecture happened to be the part of where Liang handed the throne over to Jing.

That period of history could be regarded as unique in the entire Chinese history.

Northern Liang rose to power all because of the Southern Jing Emperor’s persistent extortion. To save their lives, the Huo family rose up in arms. Because the Huo family had been in the army for generations and had such a talented general as Huo Wujiu, the Jing Dynasty was driven south of Chang River within a few years. Northern Liang, thus, ruled with the river as a boundary to Southern Jing.

Just three years after Northern Liang and Southern Jing were separated from each other by the river, an accident happened. Huo Wujiu waved his troops southward, but he was ambushed and captured by Southern Jing. However, within a year, he incited Lou Yue, a famous general of Southern Jing to defect. With the help of the army of Northern Liang and Southern Jing, he overthrew the Jing Dynasty and realized the unification of the north and the south.

Emperor Jing You died; Jingwang was captured alive; and Huo Wujiu returned in triumph. But less than two years later, Emperor Zhao Yuan of the Liang Dynasty died of illness, and before he died, he even wrote a decree to pass the throne to Jingwang of the Southern Jing. Since then, Southern Jing was restored.

However, such a change did not make Huo Wujiu rise up in arms again. Instead, Huo Wujiu was officially appointed the great general and guarded the imperial court for him for the rest of his life. The reason being was that Jingwang was a loyal and gracious man. Not only did he not change Liang to Jing, but also followed the state name of Liang. He even established the son of Huo Shu, the eldest prince of Huo, as the Crown Prince, and passed the throne back to the Huo clan after his own death.

These several changes in the throne could be described as unforeseen events by historians. It even made later generations repeatedly study the details and reasons, wanting to try to restore that legend.

Jiang Suizhou was also very familiar with these, so his lectures were also quite fluent and natural.

Except for one thing.

He didn’t know what was going on, but when he uttered the three characters ‘Huo Wujiu,’ his heart inexplicably throbbed, and produced a feeling he couldn’t describe.

… It was as if he became familiar with that historical figure overnight.

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