The next few days were uneventful, with classes and work as usual. After Duanmu Ci brought Qiu Shinomiya into the Faculty of Letters, he secretly observed it for a few days, and found out with a feeling of almost surprise that she was not in any condition, and no one else was in a condition (injured) because of Qiu Shinonomiya, so he was a little relieved and called Wei Yue, who was far away in Tokyo, to report that he was safe.

Wei Yue didn't say anything on the phone, just reminded that Qiu Xiaogong may not be as stable as she showed, so that a certain teacher should not take it lightly.

Duanmu Ci recalled the scene when he first saw Qiuxiao Palace, and remembered the sentence "I can cut off his head with a sword", so he thought it was true......

A few days after returning to school, it was "Five. According to the instructions of the General Office of the State Council, the whole country will have a three-day holiday during this time, and Haishan University is naturally no exception.

"V. One "three-day holiday, Duanmu Ci neither wants to go out nor do things, just wants to mourn quietly.

After returning to China for so many years, Duanmuci has never gone to Qufu to worship his teacher, Confucius. Of course, this is not because he doesn't want to go, let alone because he forgot, but because Qufu is no longer the Qufu of the past.

In the sixteenth year of Lu Aigong, Confucius was buried in the north of Lu City after the death of Lu State, but not a hundred acres, sealed but not three, ancestral hall, Yu but three rooms, although there is no later grandeur, but after all, it is the purest mind of the disciples.

Duanmu Ci still remembers the situation of that year to this day, after an autumn when everything was slaughtered, the saint died, the autumn leaves fell, the summer insects died, and heaven and earth buried him. Throughout his life, the master regarded "courtesy" as his life. Or higher than life, and pay special attention to funeral rites. It is considered to be the foundation of the patriarchal system. Therefore, when the disciples arranged the etiquette of the funeral, they specially concentrated the etiquette of the kings of Xia, Shang, and Wednesday. Although the process was very simple, the form was very grand, presided over by Gong Xichi, who was proficient in etiquette, and the scene was serious, and even attracted the attention of many people from all over the world.

He still remembered that Zi Xia said to the Yan people who came to watch, "The burial of the saint and the burial of the person, how can the son look at it?" (A saint holds a funeral for someone else, the same as an ordinary person buries a saint.) Why did you come here to watch?"

After the funeral, the disciples built an oval tomb for the master, and each piece of soil represented the disciples' deepest sorrows. At that time, the tomb of the master was 100 acres of mounds, 10 steps from north to wide, 30 steps from east to west, and one zhang and two feet high. The scale is very small, and it cannot be compared with the princes and nobles of the countries at that time. But it doesn't matter, because the greatness of the Master does not need to be decorated by tall mausoleums, magnificent cemeteries and magnificent burial goods, and the greatness of the Master lies in his wisdom and feelings.

Heaven does not give birth to a master. Eternal like a long night.

Later, history changed, the environment was greatly changed, and the war was in turmoil. When the army of Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, besieged Ludi, it was in disarray. At that time, Duanmu Ci was in Chang'an and could not stop it in time. So much so that when Duanmu Ci went back later, he could no longer find the exact location of the master's tomb. Fortunately, "a hundred schools of thought were deposed." Confucianism", the tomb of the master was valued by the imperial court.

Emperor Liu Zhi of the Han Dynasty lived for three years, Lu Xiang Han Xun repaired the tomb of Confucius, built a gate in front of the tomb, and built a house in the southeast, and a number of households were used to sprinkle and sweep the tomb of Confucius, and the tomb of the master was rebuilt. After hearing the news, Duanmu Ci drove thousands of miles from Luoyang, bursting into tears. He was sure that this must be the tomb of the Master, because there was a tree in front of the tomb, a tree that he had planted himself.

After the death of the Master, the disciples planted trees from their respective hometowns around the tomb of the Master, and Duanmuci planted a regular tree there, with a sparse trunk and an upright and upright trunk to symbolize the character of the Master.

This Kai tree was later protected by various dynasties and generations, and erected a monument for transmission, prospered for thousands of years, until the Ming Dynasty did not die, and the remaining trunk was struck by lightning and fire in the eighth year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty, leaving only a scorched black stump. After hearing the news at that time, Duanmu Ci came from overseas, supported the tree and cried, and knelt in front of the tomb for three days.

There is even a "Kai Pavilion" there, the Qing Dynasty Kangxi 51 years erected, there is a Kai diagram tablet in the pavilion, the tree shape is carved on the stone tablet. There is also a stone tablet behind the tree, engraved in the early Qing Dynasty famous poet Shi Yanzhang praised the poem "Zigong hand planting Kai": "I don't know what year it was planted, and the remnant tablet remains to this day."

Looking at the shadow of a single tree, you can still see the hearts of the ancients. The experience is exhausted, and the vast world is cloudy. After the building room, a thousand years of dipping. ”

The Tao is sad.

So far, this tree and this pavilion are still left in front of the tomb of the master in Qufu, but Qufu is no longer the Qufu of the year.

In the "ten years of catastrophe" described in the history textbook, the master was unreasonably overthrown as a so-called "heresy", and all of a sudden, this land that had been diligently irrigated by Confucianism for thousands of years set off a huge "criticism", the tomb of the master was dug up, and the thousand-year-old holy land suffered an unprecedented catastrophe.

The master suffered such a great humiliation behind him, Duanmu Ci naturally refused to go to Qufu again. Even Kong Decheng, the last descendant of Confucius, the last descendant of Confucius, and the enshrined official of the Holy Master of Dacheng enshrined by the government of the Republic of China, refused to return to Qufu to worship his ancestors for the rest of his life, but only sacrificed in the treasure island every year, and Duanmu Ci was naturally the same.

Before leaving for Japan, Duanmu Ci instructed Bu Tongxun to clean up a big house on the second floor, neatly prepared, only to say that he wanted to set up a shrine at home to worship the ancestors, and then handed over the god seat carved by himself to Bu Tongxun so that he could live well, the font on the god seat is the text of the Lu State in the Spring and Autumn Period, which has been lost for a long time, and he is not afraid of being recognized.

The god of Confucius.

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After class that day, Duanmu Ci took a bath and sat in the tea room to calm down, and then went to the room on the second floor. He had greeted Bu Tongxun and Qiu Shino Palace before, and he had to meditate in the house these days, no one should disturb, no one should go upstairs, and no one should raise his voice.

Bu Hitomi asked worriedly, "Don't adults eat?" ”

Duanmu Ci said without looking back, "Grief is enough to fill your stomach." ”

After Duanmu Ci entered, he closed the door, locked it, and then stood in front of the god seat and knelt three times and knocked nine times, and then knelt on the bamboo mat.

He kept his eyes closed and thought a lot.

He remembered that when he was still eighteen years old, he carried the letter of recommendation written by his uncle Lu Boyu for himself, and went from Weiguo to pass through Lu to apprentice, and since then he has begun the friendship between teachers and students that has been entangled with his master for thousands of years. And in the first year of his apprenticeship, he actually felt that the teacher was not as good as his own; Then, after the second year of study, he realized how profound the Master's knowledge was. Knowing the third year, he was completely convinced.

In the decades that followed, he also followed his master, and even devoted all his family wealth to help him travel around the world. When the master was besieged in the land of Chen and Cai, he traveled thousands of miles to the state of Chu, saying that the king of Chu Zhao sent troops to rescue him, and rescued the master and Yan Hui, Zilu and other disciples.

After such a catastrophe of life and death, the relationship between master and apprentice naturally does not need to be repeated, until when the master was seriously ill, he rushed to the country of Lu to visit, the master was on crutches, tremblingly holding on to the door frame, crying, "Give, why did you come so late!" The master and apprentice hugged their heads and cried.

Later, when the master died, he was far away in the south and could not see the master for the last time. This is not only the master's last regret, but also his lifelong guilt.

"Master! I miss you so much! Duanmu fell to the ground and cried. (To be continued......)

PS: PS: I don't dare to write too much in this chapter, how long has I been writing sensational. A long time ago, a treasure island book friend told me that the protagonist did not go to worship Confucius after returning to China for so long, which is unreasonable, and I deeply believe it......