It is said that Zhu Yuanzhang and Ma Huanghou are going to have dinner together on this day. They are about to have a pleasant candlelight dinner, but they have a bad heart. When Zhu Yuanzhang raised his chopsticks, he suddenly saw a hair in the bowl. This is not bad. The king of a country ate a hair at dinner. How to manage this health? The furious Zhu Yuanzhang called the chef to cook this meal. The cook doesn't know what happened. He knelt on the ground in front of the emperor, afraid to look up. Zhu Yuanzhang asked: "Do you know the crime?"
The chef replied, "I know the sin, but I don't know where it comes from?" Zhu Yuanzhang patted the table and said, "How do you explain the hair in this bowl?" Hearing this, the chef put down his heart and quickly took off his hat, revealing a shiny bald head. He replied, "I don't know how I got here. I shaved my hair and kept my bald head when I entered the palace, just to avoid this kind of thing! " Zhu Yuanzhang saw that he was bald and knew it was not his fault, so he let the chef go!
Since it's not the chef's fault, call the head of Guanglu Temple, which is in charge of royal catering, and find out. The person in charge of court logistics came to Zhu Yuanzhang and saw his hair. Fortunately, he was quick-thinking. As soon as he saw Zhu Yuanzhang's beard, he wrote an article and blurted out, "Your Majesty, where is this hair?"? It's obviously your dragon beard! " With a grain of salt, Zhu Yuanzhang stroked his beard, and sure enough, he lost one or two beards. Ma Huanghou took the opportunity to intercede. When Zhu Yuanzhang saw this, he laughed and let the master of Guanglu Temple step down. A storm subsided under the master's witty response!
This rumor appeared in Zhu Zhishan, one of the four great talents in the south of the Yangtze River, in "A Record of the Past": Taizu once had a meal and called Guangluguan, saying, "If you don't make it, there must be a dragon." Because I brushed my beard and got a stalk or two, I ignored it and stopped asking!
Only in the Ming Dynasty did such a secret dare to be written. Zhu Zhishan wrote many interesting things in "Foreword", from the emperor to the people, from the palace secrets to the strange things in the countryside, from legends to local customs. This story is not about Zhu Yuanzhang's desire to kill, but mainly about Guanglu's cleverness and wit as an official. The statement of "Dragon Beard" cleared his responsibility and gave the emperor enough face. By the way, he also gently kowtowed to the emperor, telling Zhu Yuanzhang not to be angry. This is really great!