Chapter 3 The Death of a Famous General
Qin Xianyang only got the news of the defeat ten days later. The general of Qin, Meng Wei, led an army of 100,000 and Qin Chang'an Jun to attack Zhao, but was rejected by Pang Xuan, a veteran general of Zhao, with 100,000 soldiers and horses, Meng Wei was shot and killed on the battlefield, and the Qin soldiers suffered heavy losses and were killed by most of the resentful Zhao people. This veteran general who had gone through four dynasties died on the battlefield of attacking Zhao, and the news was transmitted back to the government and the opposition.
The Qin State has never had the habit of blaming defeated generals, not to mention that when Meng Fu was a general, he successively captured more than ten cities in Han, more than thirty in Zhao, and more than fifty cities in Wei. At the beginning, Qin Mugong was still lenient in the face of Meng Mingshi, who had been defeated twice, prompting him to defeat the Jin State for the third time. Since then, the Qin state has been much more tolerant of defeated generals.
Although the king was very tolerant, the minister was always cautious. Meng Wu and his son Meng Tian and Meng Yi in the Mengfu still endured their grief and wore filial piety clothes to guard their grandfather's spirit.
"Father, they are really cunning villains, but after a defeat, grandfather's mourning hall didn't come to worship." Meng Tian knelt beside the coffin with red eyes and angrily accused.
Meng Wu, who was already middle-aged, glared at his young and frivolous son: "Be cautious, it's just human nature." When we revive our business, these people will come to us again. ”
An attendant ran over from outside the door and knelt down to report to Meng Wu: "Family master, Lu Xiangguo's visit is waiting outside the door. ”
Meng Wuqiang endured the pain in his legs and stood up, motioned for the two children to also stand up to greet the distinguished guests with him, patted Meng Tian on the shoulder and said, "Remember that as long as the monarch still needs us to go out to fight, our family will not be silent. Isn't the first clear-eyed man coming? ”
He straightened his clothes and said to his attendants, "Distinguished guests are coming, go and open the middle door." ”
The changes in Xianyang City are far away from the single father Lu Pheasant does not know, and now she is teaching Lu Changjiao to read poetry, although it is impossible to say that it is Kong Qiu who does not read poetry, but it does seem to be the truth for a long time for the nobles.
It's just that in fact, the reason why the nobles are nobles is only because they are born nobles, they can be like Qi Zhuang Gong fornicating and humiliating the courtier's wife, they can be like Qi Xianggong disregarding human morality, and more nobles can exterminate the community.
Chang Ji followed Lu Pheasant and read the Shuo Mouse sentence by sentence, and Lu Pheasant also held a branch in his hand and drew a poem written by Qin Seal on the ground.
"The deceased woman is suitable for the suburbs. Le Jiao Le Jiao, who is the eternal number? Chang Ji, who followed Lu Pheasant after reading the last sentence, blinked her eyes and asked her smart sister, "What do you mean by this?" ”
Lu Pheasant thought for a while and said: "It means that there is a big rat in our granary for many years, and the food that our family has worked hard to get has been harmed by it a lot, and we swear to leave here and never be harmed by rats again. ”
"Then why don't we kill that mouse? Isn't it easy for a rat to be killed? Lu Changjiao still didn't understand, and asked a new question strangely.
"It's a big, big rat, and we can't beat it as a family. Compared with fighting mice, it is not as convenient and quick as moving. Lu Pheasant smiled and explained to Lu Changjiao, she didn't explain what the mouse represented, maybe Lu Changjiao would understand when she was older.
Another character who had been impressed by rats had already passed through the majestic Hangu Pass and was heading towards Qin Xianyang. I once thought that the reason why the rat in the toilet was not as good as the rat in the hamster was that the environment was different, and after learning the Legalist thought from Xunzi, he was ready to seize the opportunity to enter Qin to sell his talent, probably his life goal was to be a rat.
Although Confucianism hated the collapse of ritual music, the fact that the chaos of the social order of the collapse of ritual and music also led to the birth of various new ideas. Confucius's disciple asked the grain to learn about it, and it was also a very funny thing that Mencius's disciple Chen Xiang and his brother did not believe in Confucianism and joined the peasant family, making the peasant a thorn in the eye of Confucianism.
Speaking of anything that Confucianism did not like, the Qin State was convinced that no matter the military, law, ink, agriculture, and vertical and horizontal could be well developed in the Qin State's farming and warfare system.
Lu Pheasant, whose spirit was all on Lu Changjiao, did not notice that Lu's father was standing at the door of the small courtyard with his two sons, listening to her explanation of Shuo Rat.
The sudden applause interrupted Lu Pheasant and Lu Changjiao's study, and Lu Gong took the lead in entering the courtyard and praised loudly: "Wu'er is talented and talented, so I will come to the study with your eldest brother and second brother tomorrow to study." Lu Pheasant and Lu Changjiao looked at each other, Lu Changjiao wanted to learn so much, and some wanted to retreat.
Lu Pheasant felt that this opportunity should not be missed, so he agreed first. After sending Lu Gong away, she explained to her sister the meaning of studying together. Although the somewhat dull Lu Changjiao did not quickly understand those complicated words, she deeply remembered Lu Pheasant's most important sentence - mastering knowledge can control one's own destiny.
Not far from the single father, there is a place called Peijun Fengyi, where a Liu family lives. The head of the family, Liu Xuan, has four sons and one daughter, the eldest son Liu Bo, the second son Liu Zhong, the third son Liu Bang, and the fourth son Liu Jiao.
At present, the sixteen-year-old Liu Ji in the courtyard is chased and beaten by his father again, he has a slightly bulging forehead, and his facial features are very peculiar, and he is often pointed at. Liu Ji was kicked out of his home again, and he couldn't help but go to his fellow villagers and friends to drink, and left behind his father's request for him to work hard in the farm.
Although he did not verbally object, his actual behavior did not show that he was a capable and good boy. Liu Ji loves to be a disaster in the township, and he is only sixteen years old, and he also asks his fellow villagers to restrain his children and grandchildren, "Don't make your children and grandchildren friends Liu Ji", "This son is delicious and lazy, and he is not a good person", At this time, Liu Ji, who likes to daydream every day, does not know that his reputation has been rejected by potential fathers-in-law and mothers-in-law.
At this time, Liu Ji, who didn't want to do so much, went to Lu Juan's house to eat and drink with old friends. He and Lu Juan were born on the same day, the same month, the same year, the relationship between the two families is irreversible, and they also went to study in a private school together when they were young. Every time Liu Ji was beaten out of the door by his father, he always went to Lu Juan to eat wine in the end, and this time was naturally no exception.
Liu Ji's fingers were stained with oil because he grabbed the roast chicken, he put his fingers in his mouth and licked it, picked up the wine bowl again, and drank the mash inside. Although rice wine is not intoxicating, it can't stand Liu Ji's drinking method of drinking water. Slightly bitter drinking is always easy to get drunk.
Lu Juan looked at the drunken good brother and really didn't know how to persuade him, and before he could speak, Liu Ji got drunk and talked about his ambition: "I really want to be a character like Xinlingjun." ”
Lu Juan shook his head and didn't care whether Liu Ji heard it or not, and said to himself: "With an amazing talent, but you can't get along with the monarch and the minister, you can't appease the Li people, and you drink all day long and abandon yourself to death, where is it worth learning from you?" ”
Liu Ji, who was snoring, seemed to be asleep, and Lu Juan skillfully called a house slave to ask him to move Liu Ji to the guest room to rest, and by the way, he sent someone to inform Liu's father that Liu Ji was resting at his house.
On the second day, after Liu Ji woke up, he patted his head and apologized to Lu Juan, saying that he was in a bad mood yesterday and was too rude. Lu Juan and Liu Ji have been friends for many years, so they don't take this little thing to heart.
Liu Ji, who returned home, was inevitably scolded by Liu's father again, and the arrogant Liu Ji decided to leave home as soon as possible. He simply left a letter, took a family heirloom short sword, wrapped some clothes casually, loaded some copper coins, brought a few roasted taro, and set out on the road westward to Daliang.
Lu Pheasant's taste buds at home have been devastated, and she has been the queen mother, not to mention that she is not tired of eating, she is not tired of being fine, and she also wants to be delicious and delicious. At this time, I couldn't bear to think of the tofu and Western Regions fruits eaten by the people who watched the Han Palace before, and the Western Regions fruits may be difficult to eat in this life, but tofu is still possible.
Although the Lu family is said to be a dilapidated aristocratic family, it actually has a lot of background. Lu Pheasant entered the kitchen and found some green vegetables piled up on the ground, the largest of which was a few grasses, she jumped up and down, but she couldn't see what was on the desk, and was discouraged and let the slave girl Xia on the side pick herself up. found that there was meat sauce on the desk, and there was vinegar that smelled slightly sour, her eyes lit up, and it seemed that only a bowl of bean curd was missing.
She motioned for Xia to put herself down and asked her, "Where are the beans stored at home?" ”
Xia replied without hesitation: "In the house next to the stable." ”
Lu Pheasant patted his head, and then remembered that the current soybean people eat too much, they are prone to stomach acid and bloating, frequent fart, and indigestion, and rich people would rather eat millet rice and wheat than beans.
After finding the beans soaked in the water, it was time for lunch, and after telling Xia to wait for the beans to soak in two hours before calling her, she hurriedly walked towards the main hall. In the hall, Lu Gong was already seated and sat above, and his wife was Lu Pheasant's mother, who was originally surnamed Kong after the fall of the Song Dynasty. Lezi sat on the side of the main seat, holding a delicate dinner knife in his hand, but he didn't move, looking out of the door.
Lu Gong cut a piece of barbecue meat and stuffed it into his mouth, chewed it a few times and found that his wife was still in a daze, and only after swallowing it did he say to her, "Why doesn't Madam eat it?" ”
Hearing this, Le Zi put down the knife in his hand and responded with a gentle smile at Lu Gong: "The pheasant is still in the future, and I don't know where it has gone, so I am always worried in my heart." ”
"My son is young and old, so there is no need to worry." Lu Gong's frowning brows loosened and chuckled to comfort his wife.
As soon as the words fell, the two saw the figure of Lu Pheasant running over outside the door. She found that her parents were watching her, so she inevitably slowed down her pace shyly, walked slowly to her mother's desk and hugged her mother.
Le Zi patted Lu Pheasant's back and smiled and asked, "Why did Pheasant come back late?" It made my mother very worried. ”
"Grandma doesn't know, I have prepared a delicious meal to offer to you and my father before dinner. Now don't ask too much, I'll tell you how to do it after you eat? Lu Pheasant explained his whereabouts a little, and sold a pass to his family by the way.
Lu Gong was also aroused, and couldn't help but smile and said, "Then I'm looking forward to my offering, let's have lunch first." ”
The three brothers and sisters looked at each other, and continued to eat the food on their desks with curiosity, the original fragrant and tender barbecue no longer attracted their attention, and they didn't know what kind of fresh food it would be at that time.
Lu Pheasant looked at the small bowl of meat soup left for her on her mother's desk, and thought to herself that this was the case, the meat soup was meat soup again.