Chapter 39. Wu Kui's life
Xu Zheng vigorously threw the heads of Wu Kui and Zhang Zuohu on the square outside the hall, and more than 10,000 soldiers looked at the heads on the ground at a loss, and some people with good eyesight immediately recognized the owners of these two heads.
One is Wu Kui with a hideous smile on his face, and the other is Zhang Zuohu with an unbelievable look on his face.
In fact, most of the soldiers outside the palace didn't know what was going on in the palace today, but it was the duty of the soldiers to obey the order, and the cityhead garrison and the forbidden army chose to unconditionally obey the instructions of Xu Zheng and Zhang Zuohu.
The 10,000 forbidden troops were very angry when they saw their commander Zhang Zuohu die in such an unknown way, but this forbidden army of Daliang was really a very strange existence. At least half of the 10,000 people are children of official families, who fight day and night in the army, and they are simply a rabble. Most of the people were so overwhelmed by such an accident that when the 5,000 men of the garrison at the head of the city came to force them to disarm, few people rebelled.
As soon as Zhang Zuohu died, Xu Zheng was the highest-ranking military attache in the entire Daliang City.
The 5,000 cityhead garrison that only obeyed Xu Zheng's orders quickly eliminated a small number of rebellious diehards, and Xu Zheng ordered the troops to slowly withdraw from the palace in an orderly manner, and ordered the soldiers of the forbidden army to be temporarily detained.
Most of the soldiers of the forbidden army were actually unaware of Wu Kui's rebellion, and Xu Zheng did not plan to kill them all, after all, this was also one of the few military forces in Daliang City.
After dealing with this series of things, Xu Zheng dismounted and returned to the palace.
Behind him, the head of Wu Kui, who was declared the head of the traitors, was a little lonely and was thrown out of the hall.
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As a young man, Wu Kui was a very unambitious man, he was born in a remote mountain village, and if nothing else, he would spend his entire life here.
Later, a middle-aged Confucian student came to the village, and his slightly vicissitudes of life could not hide the handsomeness of his youth.
According to him, he is a native of Lu, and he has traveled to seven countries so far.
Wu Kui, who was still a child, opened his eyes wide, followed the children in the village around the middle-aged Confucian student, and listened to the middle-aged Confucian with curiosity about the outside world.
The arrival of the middle-aged Confucian student brought a little change to this peaceful small mountain village, perhaps because he liked the quiet and ordinary life here, and the middle-aged Confucian student lived here.
In the beginning, the children of the whole village would run to the middle-aged Confucian residence, pestering him to tell him stories outside, and the Confucian was happy to chat with them, but as time went by, the children were attracted by new things, and in the end, only Wu Kui insisted on going to the Confucian residence every day.
The middle-aged Confucian seemed to care about the gradually cold court, and only read and wrote in the house every day, and it was also by the side of the Confucian that Wu Kui learned to read.
The middle-aged Confucian seemed to like teaching people very much, and taught Wu Kui very patiently, and Wu Kui's parents were also happy to have a free teacher.
Once Xiao Wu Kui asked Confucius: "Did you come out to see the outside world?" ”
The middle-aged Confucian just smiled and said, "Yes, but not all." ”
Xiao Wu Kui then asked, "Then what are you still for?" ”
The middle-aged Confucian said, "I want to find another apprentice." ”
Xiao Wu Kui crossed his waist and said proudly: "Am I not your apprentice?" You've taught me to read and write. ”
The middle-aged Confucian looked at Xiao Wu Kui with some amusement, and said softly: "I just taught you to read and read, at most I can be regarded as your enlightenment teacher, what I am looking for is someone who can inherit my mantle." ”
Xiao Wu Kui looked at the middle-aged Confucian in a daze and said, "What is the mantle?" ”
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The middle-aged Confucian stayed in this small mountain village for more than a year, and finally had to leave, and on the day he left, Wu Kui cried and pulled the sleeve of the middle-aged Confucian student.
"Can't you stay a little longer?" Wu Kui, who was still a child, looked at the middle-aged Confucian with tearful eyes, "You haven't finished telling me the story about the outside world!" ”
The middle-aged Confucian smiled and touched Xiao Wu Kui's head: "There is no banquet in the world that will not be dispersed, you have to get used to parting." ”
Xiao Wu Kui didn't understand the words of the middle-aged Confucian who was full of life truths, so he still stubbornly pulled the sleeve of the middle-aged Confucian and said, "I can be your apprentice, you take me with me!" ”
Wu Kui's parents stood aside, looking at Confucian with a little embarrassment, but they also had nothing to do with little Wu Kui.
The middle-aged Confucian hesitated for a moment, and seemed to be a little unable to make a decision, but finally he still asked the sentence: "Do you like the outside world?" ”
Wu Kui nodded like pounding garlic: "How wonderful the outside world is!" ”
The middle-aged Confucian shook his head with a smile: "The outside world is not necessarily as good as here." ”
Wu Kui said with a face full of disbelief: "There is only farmland here, what is good!" ”
The middle-aged Confucian thought for a while, bent down, picked up a branch, wrote a king character on the sand, and said: "Do you remember the character I taught you to recognize, you erase a stroke on this character, if it satisfies me, I will consider taking you away." ”
Wu Kui's parents were stunned when they heard this, only little Wu Kui happily squatted down and erased the top horizontal with his fingers, changing a king character to a soil character.
The word king is very simple, but it symbolizes the highest status. Removing a stroke, there are several different possibilities, removing the top horizontal is a soil character, removing the middle horizontal is an I-word, removing the bottom horizontal is a dry word, and removing the middle vertical is a three-word.
The middle-aged Confucian looked at the soil character on the ground, was stunned for a moment, and then said to himself: "The land is exactly a soil character, and the king character is removed from the top ......."
Then the middle-aged Confucian showed a pleased smile, looked at Xiao Wu Kui with his eyes, and said softly: "Are you willing to go with me?" ”
Wu Kui in the sunset smiled and nodded vigorously.
Later, Wu Kui followed the middle-aged Confucian student, and for a long time, little Wu Kui didn't understand why his parents agreed to the unreasonable request of the middle-aged Confucian to take him away, and he couldn't understand why the man who later became his master would violate the filial piety creed of "parents are not far away" and chose to take him away.
It wasn't until he grew up that he knew that the middle-aged Confucian only said one word to his parents at that time: "The word wang has removed the top word, it is a soil character, and the soil is trampled under the feet of people, this child is the life of a supreme minister under one person, and he should not stay here for the rest of his life." ”
This middle-aged Confucian who later became Master Wu Kui is Yan Ziyuan, the Yan Ziyuan who is known as the great Confucianism of contemporary times and the head of Confucianism.
With such a famous teacher, coupled with Wu Kui's intelligence, he quickly stood out among Yan Ziyuan's disciples, and Yan Ziyuan was also very satisfied with this apprentice and taught him what he had learned in his life.
Later, Wu Kui, who had studied with Yan Ziyuan for thirteen years, chose to leave the country of Lu and leave the teacher who had taught him carefully for more than ten years. ”
Wu Kui, who returned to his hometown, successfully came out of office, and made steady progress, despite the Three Jin Dynasty Rebellion, but finally sat in the position of Xiangguo in Wei State, and grasped the power of the court, it can really be said that one person is above ten thousand people, and it also happens to respond to the words of the extremely human minister foreshadowed by Yan Ziyuan, but the second half of Yan Ziyuan's sentence was ignored by Wu Kui, so that it was slowly forgotten.
And today, Wu Kui died violently and tragically, and his head was in a different place, which also happened to respond to Yan Ziyuan's advice in the second half of the sentence.
If a person has a soul after death, then Wu Kui may remember the second half of the sentence that the teacher gave him, and then regret it.
Or perhaps, he will still be unwilling, obviously he has won the battle, but he has fallen short in the end.
Wu Kui's life, after all, is a cross of the king, the first half of his life is under one person, and the second half of his life is buried in the loess.