A joke about the date of delivery.

"Pear" means "walking" and "jujube" means "early". One pear and two dates means leaving early. Ma Huanghou saw through Zhu Yuanzhang's murder of Liu Bowen, so he kindly reminded Liu Bowen: If you want to live, you should resign and go back to your hometown. So after Liu Bowen understood its meaning, he stayed away from the imperial court and retired to his hometown.

Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty step by step and climbed to the position of emperor with the help of a group of advisers and generals. However, after all, Zhu Yuanzhang was born in the market, not a broad-minded person, but was extremely suspicious. So not long after he ascended the throne, he almost killed the founding heroes of that year one by one.

And Liu Bowen has long been a thorn in Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes. His outstanding statesmanship and political strategy made Zhu Yuanzhang afraid. In addition, Liu Bowen doesn't know the world, outspoken, and didn't offend Zhu Yuanzhang less. On one occasion, Zhu Yuanzhang summoned Liu Bowen, deliberately testing him and asking who was more suitable to be prime minister. Liu Bowen said he was incompetent and couldn't afford to be prime minister. Zhu Yuanzhang thought in his heart that he was not satisfied with being prime minister, but coveted his own throne and killed him even more deeply.

Ma Huanghou couldn't bear to let him die because of Liu Bowen's contribution, so he reminded him to leave as soon as possible in this way to avoid being killed. But it is said that Liu Bowen left the imperial court to resign and returned to his hometown, which did not dispel Zhu Yuanzhang's suspicion. He was also watched by the emperor from time to time.

There is also a saying that Liu Bowen still died at the hands of Zhu Yuanzhang. Once Liu Bowen was seriously ill, Zhu Yuanzhang deliberately sent his sworn enemy Hu to kill him with a cup of poisoned wine. However, there have been different opinions about the feud between Liu Bowen and Zhu Yuanzhang. It is hard to say what the truth is, but what is certain is that Zhu Yuanzhang is not kind to these founding fathers.