Chapter 12 Meeting Mencius Chen Zhen
Wei Si and Wei Ji held hands and walked in Daliang City, enjoying the lively scene on the street, along the way, Wei Si naturally didn't know how to talk to his future wife Wei Ji.
When he saw a storyteller on the side of the road who was surrounded by countless crowds and was listening to the reading, Wei Si finally pointed to Wei Ji at the storyteller:
"Ma'am, why don't we go over there and hear what the storyteller has to say?"
Wei Ji nodded knowingly at Wei Si.
The two of them quickly squeezed next to the storyteller, and after a closer look, the storyteller was an old man in his fifties, with bright eyes and a full beard, holding a roll of bamboo slips in his hand, sitting on the ground, explaining to the people around him.
Wei Si listened carefully to its contents, but they were just some Confucian life principles.
Wei Ji also looked at the old man carefully, and suddenly said to Wei Si:
"Husband, I seem to have seen this old man before!"
Wei Si asked Wei Ji very curiously:
"Impossible, madam, an old man in the market, how could you have seen him, haven't you always been in the palace like me?"
Wei Ji touched her head at this time and began to talk back.
Wei Si also asked curiously about a person dressed as a scholar next to him:
"Brother, do you know who that old man is?"
The student smiled:
"This big brother, looking at your dress, you should also be a scholar, right? Don't you even know Mr. Meng Ke? ”
At this time, Wei Ji next to him was also very excited and said to Wei Si:
"Husband, right...... Right...... That's right, it's Meng Ke, that's right! ”
Wei Si asked Wei Ji with some curiosity at this time:
"Where have you seen Mr. Meng Ke?"
Wei Ji replied:
"Husband, have you forgotten? When the first king was alive, he was thirsty for talent, but he invited Mr. Meng Ke to enter the palace to ask for a lot of days, and it happened to be the time when you married me from Weiguo, think about it, it has been three years since we got married! ”
Wei Si naturally didn't know about these things before, but he didn't expect that he, the queen, had been married to him for three years, so he said:
"I see, I really forgot about it for a while, it seems that my brain is useless when I've been busy lately."
Wei Ji gave Wei Si a look:
"Xiaojun, I just saw that you were busy and didn't look good, so I wanted to go out for a walk with you, husband, and relax!"
At this time, Meng Kezheng talked about the meaning of the second chapter of Confucius's Analects, "Attacking heresy and harming oneself":
"Confucius said that strange and extreme things are not terrible, as long as they are transparent and understood, they can be easily resolved!"
Wei Si glanced at Wei Ji:
"I want to ask Mr. Meng Ke!"
Then he came over and shouted a few times to Meng Ke, who was sitting on the ground:
"Mr. Meng Ke... Mr. Meng Ke...... Mr. Meng Ke! ”
Meng Ke heard someone call him again, so he glanced at the person in front of him:
"I don't know what is the matter with this friend, your old man?"
Wei Si said:
"Mr. Meng Ke, the student has a few questions for you, I wonder if you have time to answer them?"
Meng Ke nodded:
"Okay, friend, will you?"
Wei Si asked:
"I remember that Confucius described Lu Guoji's words at that time, dancing in the court, it is tolerable, which is unbearable! Now the violent Qin took advantage of the decline of our Wei State to occupy a large amount of territory west of the Wei River and east of the Hedong River, and at the time of our Wei State's rebellion, Qi joined forces with the Song Dynasty to attack our Wei State's Guanze important land, Mr. Meng Ke, how do you think our Wei State should deal with it? ”
Meng Ke glanced at Wei Si carefully:
"Friend, where does the old man seem to have seen you like this?"
Wei Si immediately replied:
"There are so many similar people in this world, Mr. Meng Ke, you have traveled all over the world, of course you have seen many people!"
Meng Ke nodded, and then replied to Wei Si:
"Since Qi and Song are now taking advantage of the emptiness of Wei to sneak attack the Wei State, it is a faux pas, of course, they have to be reasonable to their kings, and they will naturally retreat!"
Wei Si smiled bitterly, thinking to himself, if the truth is polite and useful, does this still need to be warn?
Then he asked:
"However, if you are polite to the king, you will not obey it, and it will still be the same?"
Meng Ke replied:
"But if it is still the same, then there will be a cause and an effect, and such an unspiritual king will have its own fruit!"
Wei Si said to Meng Ke again:
"Mr. Meng Ke, what do you think of the Five Kingdoms' crusade against the tyrannical Qin?"
Mencius sighed:
"Alas......, although Qin was brutal for a while, the old man felt that he still had to understand it, and he would naturally come to his senses, so why bother to waste money to crusade?"
After speaking, he asked Wei Si again:
"This friend, listening to your question to the old man, could it be that you are a lobbyist?"
Wei Si replied:
"Yes, I am a lobbyist who came to Daliang City from the Eastern Zhou Dynasty to serve the Wei State!"
Wei Si thought in his heart at this time, this Meng Ke is really a person who can only speak reason, but has no practicality, but he doesn't know that now in this war-torn and multi-country Warring States conquest era, if your fists are not hard, talking too much truth is simply nonsense.
And Lu is a country that has always followed the etiquette of Confucius? What about now? From the Spring and Autumn Period, a large country has now been invaded by the surrounding powers and become a small country with a radius of less than 200 miles, and it has to pay tribute to various countries every year.
At this time, a group of people next to him began to look at Wei Si and sneered:
"There are still people who come to our beam as lobbyists?"
"yes, isn't this guy stupid? Don't we King Wei like these lobbyists? ”
"You don't have to laugh at it, it's impossible for a person like it to see King Wei's face, do you think everyone is Zhang Lu?"
Wei Si said to a student who had just mentioned Zhang Lu:
"Friend, why do you say that to me? Don't you look down on me as a lobbyist? ”
The student pointed at Wei Si and laughed:
"Don't you know Doctor Chen, who is now in charge of the affairs of the Great Liang in our Wei State? That's our master before the king, and he is the most jealous of all in a high position! ”
After the student finished speaking, he seemed to know that he had lost his words, and then said to the people around him:
"I didn't say anything just now, I didn't say anything, don't let my words reach the ears of Doctor Chen, otherwise my family won't be able to stay in Daliang City."
This Doctor Chen, the current Wei Si naturally often sees it, and I have listened to him lecture a few times, usually he looks very strict, I didn't expect it to be this kind of jealous person, and it has actually been reused by Wei Si himself, no wonder Wei Guo is so lacking in talent now.
Wei Si replied to the student with a smile:
"Okay, sir, it's rare for us in Wei to have someone like you who dares to speak out, I guarantee that Dr. Chen won't be able to retaliate against you even if he hears it!"
The student suddenly pointed at Wei Si and the students next to him and said with a smile:
"You are an average person, and you are not born in a noble family at first glance, and your tone is not small!"
Then he said to the students on the side:
"You see, these lobbyists who come to our Daliang now are really what Dr. Chen said, they will only talk exaggeratedly, and they are really useless and useless to our Wei State!"
At this time, all the students next to him began to laugh at Wei Si.
Seeing this, Meng Ke couldn't stand it anymore, and hurriedly signaled these students to stop:
"Don't laugh at that friend, since it came to this Great Liang City from the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, it is really not easy to go this way!"
At this time, these students stopped laughing, and Meng Ke continued to explain the way of Confucius's "Analects" to these students.
Queen Wei Ji also came over at this time, and saw that Wei Si seemed to be a little stunned, so he pulled Wei Si's sleeve:
"Husband, did you just hear these words a little angry?"
Wei Si came back to his senses and replied to the queen and guard Ji:
"Madam, I'm not angry, I was just thinking about the problem just now, let's go!"
On the way, Wei Ji stared at Wei Si with both eyes:
"Husband, I see how you have changed like a different person recently, if you had been angry like this before, I'm afraid you would have been angry!"
Wei Si smiled lightly:
"Madam, after all, it's been nearly a year since the first king left, and I still haven't learned to grow!"
Wei Ji nodded:
"Husband, you are right, the lord of a country must have the bearing of tolerating people, I remember that the first king also taught you like this!"
How did Wei Si know that, so he echoed the queen and guard Ji:
"I see, ma'am!"
At this time, I met a group of patrol soldiers on the road, chasing a pair of small masters and servants on the street, and after the two masters and servants ran over, they hurriedly hid in a corner next to Wei Si and Wei Ji, and then one of the masters whispered to Wei Si:
"Friend, do me a favor, we have been wronged!"
After Wei Si and Wei Ji beside him exchanged glances, the two of them stood in place as if they didn't see it, you looked at me, I looked at you, and played the role of a real couple.
Soon the group of patrolling soldiers chased after them, and the first general looked around in front of them, walked back, pointed at Wei Si and said:
"Did you just see someone coming this way?"
Wei Si pointed west:
"We just saw those two guys go over there!"
The general looked at Wei Ji next to him again:
"Really?"
Wei Ji also nodded:
"Yes, they're heading west!"
The general took the soldiers who patrolled the city and hurried to the west.
After the group of pursuers walked away, the pair of master and servant who were hiding took a long breath from the corner of the wall, walked out, and then thanked Wei Si and prepared to leave.
Wei Si stopped the two people:
"Sir, go slowly, go slowly!"
The two men immediately stopped.
When the master came over, he asked Wei Si:
"Is there anything wrong with you, sir?"
Wei Si replied with a smile:
"No, I'm just curious, sir, why are you being chased by these patrol soldiers?"
Then the master spoke:
"Although the two of us were born in the Qi country, but we were exiled from the Chu country to the Wei country, I didn't expect that as soon as we arrived in Daliang City, we were treated as Qi people, and they wanted to arrest us, we had no choice but to escape like this!"
Then he asked:
"We don't know what the two benefactors call yet?"
Wei Si thought for a moment and replied:
"My name is Liang Si, this is my wife Wei, and I am a lobbyist who just came from the Eastern Zhou Dynasty!"
After speaking, he asked the master again:
"I don't know what to call you and your friend, Childe?"
And the master reported:
"Don't hide it from your brother, my name is Chen Zhen, and he is actually a lobbyist!"
Then he turned and pointed to the servant who had already walked a few steps behind:
"It's a servant I hired when I was in the Qi Kingdom, called Siji!"