But although I have been here for nearly three months, I have never entered Songyang Academy, if it weren't for Brother Nangong's invitation tonight, I'm afraid I would still be selling mud beasts on the street corner outside!" Gongsun Yu sighed helplessly after speaking. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

When Nangong Yi heard this, a hint of joy suddenly appeared on his face and said: "Brother Yu met me today, it can be regarded as meeting the right person, although I haven't read all the books in the Songyang Academy, I have also read ten of them*, and I will be covered by the matter of finding the record of the "Divine Beast Record". ”

Gongsun Yu said: "If that's the case, then it's even better! When Brother Nangong finishes reading the entire Songyang Academy's collection, let's go to other gangs to check it." ”

The two talked until late at night, and then went to sleep.

The next day, Nangong Yi got up early in the morning and bought breakfast, but before Gongsun Yu woke up, he left a note for Gongsun Yu and went to listen to the professor's lecture.

On this day, the professor was talking about the "Analects", and Nangong Yi had already memorized the Analects backwards, so every time the professor said a word, Nangong Yi could tell the number of pages of its title. Not only that, Nangong Yi also has his own opinions on the Analects.

For example, the image said: "The country of a thousand times of the Tao, respect and believe, use sparingly and love people, so that the people can take time." If this sentence is directly interpreted according to his willingness, then he means that Confucius said: "To govern a country with a thousand military vehicles, it is necessary to handle the affairs of the state rigorously and conscientiously while abiding by the word, be honest and undeceived, save financial expenditures and take care of officials and ministers, and make the people not miss the agricultural time."

However, Nangong Yi believes that it is not only a country of a thousand times, but also a country of a hundred times and ten times, if you want the people to keep to themselves, live and work in peace and contentment, take care of the young, and end up with the old, and the neighbors and love the world, they must also set the law to abide by morality, the king has nothing to cut down, the people have nothing to steal, abide by their reasoning, and stand on their own.

Just like the "Tao Te Ching" said: Heaven and earth are unkind, and all things are used as dogs. The king can only soothe and regulate the development of the people, but he cannot sway or even restrain him. The people are like water, the king is like a boat, the country is the sea, if the king blindly intercepts the flow of water and mediates, it can only stir up the water, and finally like the collapse of the previous dynasties, the water poplar boat will be overturned.

In another example, Zigong asked: "Who has a word that can be practiced for life?" The son said: "Do not do to others what you do not want to be done to yourself." Literally, Zigong asked his teacher Confucius, "Is there anything that can be practiced for life?" and Confucius replied, "Then it should be 'forgiveness'! ”

Nangong Yi felt that if it was just a blind forgiveness, although it could be that he was kind to others, and did not inflict on others what he hated. However, it is impossible to actually do it. If this is to be done, there must be water that is pure and indisputable.

Chapter 20: Skillful Hands

"Tao Te Ching" cloud: Good is like water, water benefits all things without fighting, and everyone is evil, so it is more than the Tao. Let me ask, who can live a lifetime without fighting for something?* Always there, the heart of competition, the heart of contention. People have seven emotions and six desires, there are disputes and gains and losses, there are joy and loss, loss and resentment and regret, resentment and hatred and anger, so they must vent their feelings to the outside, and the object is often a person or a thing.

Therefore, what can really be used for life and forever should be the way of righteousness and resentment, and it is necessary to repay grievances directly, rather than repaying grievances with virtue or grievances.

After the lecture, Nangong Yi hurriedly returned to the dormitory, and found that there was no longer an early breakfast, and Gongsun Yu had already left the room. Nangong Yi didn't know that without his leadership, how could Gongsun Yu get out of Songyang Academy?

Before thinking about it, Nangong Yi also walked out of Songyang Academy and walked towards the end of West Street the afternoon before. Sure enough, on the west side of the street outside Songyang Academy, many people were watching the excitement.

Nangong Yi walked over, and saw Gongsun Yu coming here again to pinch his mud beast, and when he saw Nangong Yi coming over, he waved his hand and smiled: "I was really embarrassed to disturb Brother Nangong last night, so I got up in the morning and ate early, and I came here from Songyang Academy." I didn't expect that as soon as I got here, there would be so many people watching, waiting to buy my mud beast?"

Nangong Yi was slightly happy: "I didn't expect Brother Yu's craftsmanship to be so popular, otherwise we would also open a clay sculpture hall to pinch these clay beasts, and then sell them to people who like him, what does Brother Yu think?"

Gongsun Yu knew that Nangong Yi was joking, so he said: "If Brother Nangong has such leisure, I am willing to do it." It's just that the market here is bustling, but it's not easy to find a store with a superior location. Even if I find it, with the breeze on my sleeves, I can only sigh with joy!"

With that, the two of them burst out laughing.

Some of the people around were the onlookers who came to watch the afternoon before, and they knew that the clay figure had run away when he saw the handsome boy, and he didn't know why. Why is the relationship between the two so friendly today, like old friends who have been separated for many years, and they are quite happy when they encounter a foreign land again.

Gongsun Yu sold dozens of mud beasts in a while, and when he saw Nangong Yi standing aside and carefully observing his skillful work, he asked, "Is there something wrong with Brother Nangong coming here today?"

Nangong Yi said: "Yes, but I'll tell you the rest of the mud when you finish kneading, and by the way, take a look at your skills in kneading mud beasts, maybe one day I will set up a stall on the street to sell it." ”

The early morning sun dappled from the treetops, splashing on the ground and onlookers due to the shiny broken jade.

There are many big trees at the end of West Street, and the fallen leaves are sparsely scattered on the ground, either yellow or green, red or blue, which makes people feel refreshed when they see it.

The early morning birds are also chirping happily in the branches, as if to greet each other and ask about the recent predation.

Standing at the end of the street, you can hear the sound of the river flowing in the distance, and from a distance, the water is rippling and starry.

Nangong Yi looked at Gongsun Yu's hands and quickly kneaded and rotated the mud back and forth, and then held the mud with his left hand, and the five fingers of his right hand flew and pinched back and forth on the mud, sometimes his wrist shook lightly, like a hummingbird pecking, sometimes his palm pressed sharply, such as pushing forward, sometimes he played with five fingers, such as playing the piano and drums, and sometimes he embellished with one finger, like a dragonfly dropping out of water.

When the right hand is almost pinched, it is changed to the left hand, and the left hand is pinched for a while and both hands come out. The people around him had already opened their mouths wide in surprise by his subtle finger skills, and their eyes were wide open to look at his hands, for fear of missing a wonderful place.

In a few moments, a pile of mud was all pinched into mud beasts by Gongsun Yu, and then colored.

Gongsun Yu saw that Nangong Yi was also fascinated, so he said: "Actually, the kung fu of pinching the mud beast has not yet been difficult to color, and the mud beast has always been beautiful, and it is really necessary to make it beautiful and exquisite, mainly in the coloring link." If the color is good, it is jewelry, if it is not good, it is garbage!"

After about an hour, Gongsun Yu finally finished pinching all the mud beasts and lusted for it. As soon as the color dried, the people around them rushed to buy it, and after a while, hundreds of mud beasts were swept up by the wind and clouds.

Some people came late, didn't grab the mud beast, and said with an unhappy face: "Oh, little brother, you see I told you twice, why don't you remember to leave one for me?"

As he spoke, he sighed and was about to leave.

"Uncle go slowly!" Gongsun Yu shouted with a smile.

"Why, do you still have it?" the old man in the white shirt suddenly asked.

Gongsun Yu smiled and took out a pinched lifelike unicorn from under the green shirt behind him, raised his hand and handed it to the old man in white shirt and said, "How can you break your promise to your uncle! ”

When the old man saw this, he immediately said happily: "Let's just say, I've been here twice, saying that I was buying a mud beast for my granddaughter, and she saw that other children had mud beasts, but she didn't." So, I was arguing every day, but I came twice, and I ran away, and today I am so grateful to you, little brother, and I can go back and make a difference. ”

The old man in the white shirt said happily as he took out a grain of broken silver from his sleeve and handed it to Gongsun Yu.

Gongsun Yu hurriedly said: "Uncle, even if this mud beast is given to your little granddaughter by me, it doesn't charge money." You see you're here for the third time, and it's really an honor for me to have such a heart for my business!"

As a result, the old man in the white shirt sank his face and said: "How can this work, you have worked hard all morning, not to make some money to make a living, it is rare that you still remember what I paid, I will take this unicorn back to my granddaughter, but you must accept the money, because I will come next time." ！”

Gongsun Yu couldn't refuse, so he had to put the broken silver into his arms and planned to give the old man a few copper coins to change, but he saw that the old man had no return.

Gongsun Yu just wanted to catch up, but the old man waved his hand back and said, "You can go down the money, and next time I come, remember to leave me a good mud beast!"

Gongsun Yu was helpless, so he had to reply from afar: "Uncle rest assured, it's absolutely no problem." ”

Nangong Yi looked at the empty stall, and couldn't help but quip: "This little brother, I've been here eight times, I told you to leave one for me, why did you buy them all again?"

Sun Yu also said seriously: "Brother, I'm really embarrassed, the price of mud has risen recently, and there is an upper limit on the mud beasts made every day, and everything that comes to buy is booked in advance." Not to mention that you have been here eight times, some people have come more than a dozen times and have not been able to buy it. ”

After the two finished speaking, they laughed again. At this time, Nangong Yi asked, "How many taels of silver can your mud beast sell for?"

Gongsun Yu said with a big mouth: "If you pay back a few taels, you can only buy half a tael, and that's already good." When I still buy it, one will sell for 300 wen at most. But today you see, one can buy a tael of silver. ”

Nangong Yi nodded and said, "Aren't you cunmangdu domesticated beasts?" Where did you learn the craft of pinching mud beasts?"

Gongsun Yu took care of his luggage and replied: "We are indeed only engaged in raising foreign beasts, and we don't have the skills to pinch mud beasts. It's just that when I was a child, I liked mud and pinched mud beasts according to the map of exotic beasts drawn at home, and over time I practiced this line of hand kung fu. Later, after reading "Ten Thousand Beasts", when I learned more about more than evil beasts, fierce beasts, strange beasts, and divine beasts, the mud beasts for pinching gradually increased. ”

"It's no wonder that your current craft is so good, it seems that your talent in this area is indeed extremely high. Nangong Yi replied.

Chapter 21: Martial Arts

After Gongsun Yu finished packing his luggage, he suddenly remembered that Nangong Yi had something to say about him, so he asked, "I don't know why Brother Nangong came to me early in the morning?"

Nangong Yi said: "I heard Brother Yu say that you people in Mangdu don't know martial arts, is this true?"

Gongsun Yu said: "Well, this is indeed true, since we built Cunmangdu, no one has ever practiced martial arts, because finding and domesticating beasts is originally extremely laborious, and there is no time to practice martial arts." ”

Nangong Yi was puzzled: "Then since you don't know martial arts, how can you catch and domesticate those strange beasts?"

Sun Yu said: "In fact, we have a set of methods for finding and domesticating exotic beasts, which have been passed down from generation to generation. I heard my grandfather say that this method has been around for a long time. As early as when Yan Huang Chiyou was fighting against the deer, he had summoned thousands of strange beasts to help him fight against Yan Huang Emperor, but unfortunately Yan and Huang Emperor gave the mandate of heaven, so even if Chi You found so many strange beasts, he could not escape the bad luck of being in a different place. ”

Nangong Yi saw Gongsun Yu mentioning Yanhuang Chi You Zhan again, and the question in his heart suddenly rose, and said: "I can see in the annals that Chi You is the chief of the Dongyi Jiuli tribe in ancient times, and there are various explanations for his identity.

After the Yellow Emperor defeated the Yan Emperor, an extremely powerful war was launched between Zhuolu and the Yan and Huang Emperors, known as the Battle of Zhuolu in history. After Chiyou died in battle, Dongyi, Jiuli and other tribes merged into the Yanhuang tribe. Why do you say that Chiyou is the patriarch of the barbarians?"

Gongsun Yu said: "Brother Nangong is right, many historical books record that Chiyou is the leader of the Dongyi and Jiuli tribes, but at the same time, there are also some barbarian tribes who have also taken refuge under the Chiyou tribe.

In Chinese history, ancient books since the Spring and Autumn Period have quite rich records of the legend of Chiyou, but there are often contradictions. According to these records, Chiyou was the leader of the Jiuli tribe in ancient times. "Yi Zhou Shu" and "Salt and Iron Treatise" speculate that Chiyou belongs to the Taihao and Shaohao clans.

Didn't Chiyou have eighty-one brothers, and each of his brothers had a tribe, that is, eighty-one tribes.

But history books often state that there are only seventy-two tribes. In fact, the other nine tribes are our barbarian tribes, but because their number is much smaller than that of the Dongyi tribe and the Jiuli tribe, they have been ignored by people.

Chi You was revered as the god of martial arts at that time, and he fought with Emperor Yan and defeated Emperor Yan, so Emperor Yan and Emperor Huang joined forces to fight Chi You. Chi You led eighty-one brothers to raise troops to fight the Yellow Emperor for the world, and launched a fierce battle in Zhuolu.