The weather is gradually turning cold, many places in Zhao have begun to snow, the winter of Zhao is still as cold as usual, the people dare not come out again, Lian Po does not dare to let the people continue to dig outside, because they do not have enough winter clothes, if Zhao Guo to provide winter clothes for these summoned people, Zhao Guo can not take out so much, so the conscription can only be suspended in winter, and the people are in a hurry to return home.

An ox cart was slowly heading towards the horse suit.

Driving the ox cart was a young man, with a bear's waist and a handsome face, because he wore thick clothes, which made his body more burly, which was intimidating, and along the way, he could always attract the attention of others, and behind him, there was a young mother holding a curious child, the mother was petite, not at all like she had given birth, and the child was also four or five years old, sitting in her mother's arms, with a runny nose, fiddling with her wooden sword, and her mouth was full of words.

"Father... Why didn't Ge Gong come and drive? ”

"It's too cold outside, and your Ge Gong's leg is a little painful, so I didn't let him drive."

"Then why take an ox cart?"

"You're stupid enough, if I run wild in a carriage, won't you be even more stupid from the cold?"

Zhao Zheng was stunned for a moment, suddenly raised his head and looked at Yi, he said aggrievedly: "Mother, he said I was stupid!" Yi took out a cloth and wiped his snot, and then coaxed: "Don't listen to his nonsense, he is stupid, Zheng'er is the smartest...", Zhao Zheng nodded, and continued to play with the wooden sword in his hand, waving the wooden sword, and he also dubbed the wooden sword, "Hm~", "Hm~~"

"Don't say that Zheng'er is stupid, who can learn so many words at his age? He can even recite the Book of Horse Clothes... Zheng'er, put a piece on your father's back..."

"What is the back, he has grown up in the school since he was a child, and you should be able to hum something even if you throw a pig into the school room for four years... Oops! Zhao Kuo was saying, and was suddenly pinched on the back by Yi, and Zhao Kuo shouted: "I knew you were in a gang!" Wait! When I have a daughter, I will treat you and me as pigs! ”

The family of three happily rushed towards Ma Fu, Zhao Kuo was probably bored, and suddenly asked Zhao Zheng again, "Zheng'er?" Han Fei said: You like to listen to historical stories? Then let me ask you, what happened between Qi Huan Gong and Guan Zhong? ”

"I heard that Guan Zhong once wanted to shoot Gongzi Xiaobai... Afterward.. Gongzi Xiaobai succeeded to the throne and became the Duke of Qi Huan..."? The little guy shook his head seriously? intermittently told the story that Han Fei told him.

"Oh, you know quite a lot, then let me ask you, Guan Zi once said: The state has four dimensions? Without one dimension, the country is tilted; Without two dimensions, the country is in danger; Without three-dimensionality, the country is subverted; Without the four dimensions, the state will perish.... What do these four dimensions say? ”

"Wow~~I don't know~~", Zhao Zhengwa cried.

When the ox cart arrived at Mafu Township, he was staring at the prison gate at the door for a moment, and then he was startled, hurriedly opened the door, walked forward with a smile, and greeted Zhao Kuo, Zhao Kuo nodded, he looked at the direction of the school, and then entered the township. As soon as they entered the courtyard, everyone hurried to meet Zhao Kuo, Zhao's mother was also very happy, she hadn't seen her son for a long time, and Zhao Zheng came over and told her mother that her father was bullying herself all the way.

Sure enough, Zhao's mother frowned and pretended to beat Zhao Kuo, but Zhao Kuo shook his head: he had a clearer understanding of his status in the family.

Zhao Kuo then went to visit Ge again, Ge sat on the bed, sullen, he drove a car for Zhao's father and son for a lifetime, but now, he can only sit at home, unable to get out of his mansion, which makes him very disappointed, after seeing Zhao Kuo, he didn't even taunt him, just shook his head and sighed, Zhao Kuo sat aside and chatted with him about the canal.

"Zheng Guo rushed to Xin Pingjun's mansion, and Zhan also followed, and I didn't have anything to do to help, so I came back."

"I call on the nobles of the counties on the banks of the river to help, and they are not stingy..."

Ge listened carefully, and then said to Zhao Kuo helplessly: "Ma Fujun, you have to go out a lot of times, but I am already old and can no longer drive for you, please find another driver.... You drive in person, that is a move that will make you lose the dignity of your nobles, even the small officials in the countryside will find reliable henchmen who can drive to drive for you, as a feudal king, you can't drive yourself..."

"It's okay, during this time, I won't go out, or wait for you to recover, Di said that he wanted to drive for me, but he almost threw me away, if I didn't hold on to the edge of the car, I'm afraid I would have to run back from Handan..."

"Hahaha~~", Ge laughed, stroked his long beard, shook his head and said: "Di drove, I'm afraid that he will say more than the road he drives..."

When Zhao Kuo returned to the courtyard, he saw Han Fei arguing with an old man, his face was red, he saw Zhao Kuo, he breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly saluted Zhao Kuo, and then said to the old man next to him: "My teacher is back, if there is anything, please ask him directly, don't ask me again!" Zhao Kuo looked at the old man, the old man was very old, skinny, but in good spirits.

In such a winter, I can still get out of the inner room, and I still look good.

Han Fei rubbed his forehead, this person is even more able to say than Di, since he came to Mafu, Han Fei is really... It's hard to put into words.

Zhao Kuo naturally knew the identity of the old man in front of him, Zou Yan, Zhao Kuo had heard of him in his previous life, the sage of the Yin and Yang family, but Zou Yan had stayed in the horse suit for so long in order to wait for him, he had never thought that Zhao Kuo met the old man, and then took him into the inner room. The two sat down, Zou Yan smiled and looked at the young man in front of him, this young man was powerful and kind, and he deliberately pulled himself into the house...

Zou Yan nodded, but suddenly straightened his face and said angrily: "I have heard that the ridiculous ideas of the foolish people in the countryside can make an acre of cultivated land not harvested, the absurd words of county officials can make the people of a county town suffer for this, and the absurd ideas of the king will make a strong country perish, so may I ask, how harmful will the absurd words spoken by a sage be?" ”

Zhao Kuo looked at him calmly and said: "A sage's ridiculous remarks will cause endless civil strife, for example, someone said: The dynasty is replaced according to the law of the five elements, so some people will use this as an excuse to talk about the virtue of the dynasty has been eliminated, entangled in the realization of their own ambitions, and finally let the people suffer unjustified disasters... What do you think? ”

Zou Yan was stunned, pondered for a moment, and then said, "I heard that everything will run according to certain rules... I'm not saying it, I'm proving it, even if I don't say it, things will go this way, that's the law, it's something that I can't change, or you, and the way things go doesn't change because I say something, he has a certain law, a law that never changes.."

"You're right, what you say about the law, like if you throw a rock into the sky, it will definitely fall to the ground. People are bound to be born, old, sick and die, and everyone is no exception. Nothing lasts forever. These are the laws you are talking about, but what does this have to do with the five elements? If you want to prove the laws of the world, you should think about why people are born, old, sick and die, why stones fall to the ground, why it gets dark, why it dawns..."

"Heh... This... This..", Zou Yan was stunned for a moment, and then asked: "Then why is this happening?" ”

"Because there is gravity in everything, and even more so on the earth we live in, so the stones will fall to the ground, because there are cells in the human body, and the cells will continue to grow and eventually die, so people will be born, old, sick and die, because the sphere we exist is constantly rotating, so when one side of the sphere is facing away from the sun, it will be dark here, but the other side will be bright..."

"The reason why the dynasty will change is because of unfair distribution, and the root cause of unfair distribution is the possession of the ownership of the means of production...", Zhao Kuo told it seriously, Zou Yan just widened his eyes and listened carefully to his views on the rules of the world and the change of dynasties, "Of course, this is only one aspect, but also from the system, from the privileged class, from the economic aspect..."

Zou Yan was silent for a long time, he shook his head and said, "Then why do you want to explain the visions of the Yellow Emperor and Yu?" ”

"Have you ever seen an earthworm flying into the sky? Ever seen a bird burning with flames? Zhao Kuo said with a smile: "When you let me see this, I will explain it to you." ”

Zou Yan didn't continue to speak, he still had a lot of confusion in his heart, and there were still a lot of things he wanted to ask, but he didn't know how to ask, his face kept changing, and he repeatedly said what Zhao Kuo had just said, Zhao Kuo knew that Zou Yan must be seriously thinking about what he said, among so many schools, it is really rare for a scholar like this one to have begun to study the laws of the world.

Zou Yan is a person who loves to think, he not only thinks about the operation of the world, he also thinks about the earth under his feet, and thinks about the overseas land, but, because of the restrictions of the times, Zou Yan has not been able to embark on the right path, he probably heard the visions that appeared when the dynasty changed from the rumors, and summarized the structure of the world, so as to draw up a world constructed by the five elements.

There is wood, water, fire, earth, metal, everything in the world, as if it can be classified in these five attributes, Zhao Kuo suddenly thought of something, he said: "Maybe you are right, the world is indeed composed of many elements that cannot be seen.... Hydrogen.. Helium..", Zhao Kuo recalled seriously, but too much time had passed, but he couldn't remember the periodic table he had learned...

Zou Yan raised his head, his eyes flashed, he was still thinking about something, "Elemental? So what would it be if it wasn't the five elements I was talking about? ”

"This...", Zhao Kuo shook his head and said, "I can't tell you clearly..."

Zou Yan muttered to himself, leaving the inner room, when such a person fell into thought, obviously no one could interrupt them, his disciples were a little scared, Zou Yan looked like he had some disease, the next day, when they saw the teacher holding a stone to the sky, they were all stunned, panicked and rushed to Handan, for Zou Yan invited a doctor who specializes in treating the elderly.

However, this doctor was not able to treat Zou Yan, in the eyes of the disciples, Zou Yan's behavior became more and more strange, he even made the disciples break the stones, constantly beat, and even knocked the stones into ashes, only then lay on the ground and looked at the powder seriously, and even stained it on his fingers and tasted it... Sometimes he had to pull out the burnt ashes, and he didn't know what he was exploring.

It wasn't until Zou Yan slashed his arm apart and observed his blood that the disciples couldn't hold back any longer, and hurriedly visited Zhao Kuo, crying and begging Zhao Kuo to help cure their teacher. Zhao Kuo heard that Zou Yan had self-harm, and he also hurriedly came to the courtyard where Zou Yan temporarily settled.

Seeing him like this, Zhao Kuo didn't bother.

"What the hell is water made of... Why does it flow and why does it disappear? Where does the rain come from? Why does it drop? Zou Yan kept asking himself, looking at the white-haired old man in front of him, Zhao Kuo couldn't help but sit beside him, and said with a smile: "It's really hard to understand... Recently, a group of ink artists approached me, so let's see if they have any machines that people can see more clearly, and use them to explore these questions..."

"Just look at it with your eyes, I'm afraid you can't see anything, and the law of the change of dynasty I am talking about, these are what you can come up with, the nature of nature, and the law of his operation, are not as simple as you see...", Zou Yan looked at Zhao Kuo, he smiled, Zou Yan did not go crazy, on the contrary, he was very sensible, he just wanted to know the answers to those doubts in his heart.

He explored all his life, and finally came up with the Five Elements Doctrine, however, after staying in Mafu for a period of time, he also had doubts about the doctrine of the essential law that he adhered to, many things, which cannot be explained by the law he said, if it is forcibly explained, it is just a useless sophistry for the doctrine as he said. Zou Yan slowly stood up and said to Zhao Kuo seriously: "I will definitely figure it out." ”

Zhao Kuo suddenly felt a little guilty in his heart, was his denial of his doctrine a little too cruel?

An old man who has been exploring all his life and thinks he has got the answer, but when he is old, he knows that he has got the wrong answer... He didn't seem to have much time left to explore, and perhaps, it was a bit cruel.

The old man's shrewd eyes looked at Zhao Kuo in front of him, and he seemed to understand what Zhao Kuo was thinking.

He said gently:

"Thank you."

"I'd rather die on the path of truth than live in fallacy."