CHAPTER XLV
Autumn goes to winter, and Yunmeng Wonderland is dressed in silver and white again. A few steep rocks stood proudly, defying the cold and frost, still bare and strong, smiling at the withered grass and dry branches hidden under the deep snow.
Wisps of green smoke rose from the houses in the territory of the nations, and bursts of laughter could be heard from time to time.
In the northernmost swallow house, the firewood is vigorous and warm like spring. Amid laughter and laughter, Guiguzi and his disciples gathered around the table and enjoyed the delicious food.
It is a festival for northerners to welcome spring, and for 15 days, people enjoy blessings, recreation, rest, and thanksgiving. A few days ago, Zhu'er led everyone into the city to buy festival supplies, Yuyang County Shou also sent two carts of beef and mutton products, Sun Bin took out the altar wine made of mountain fruits from the ground, Su Qin, Zhang Yi broke the ice for several days to get fish, Bai Qi took his junior brother into the mountains to hunt, hares, black pigs, roe deer, elk, everything harvested a lot. After the distribution of each house, the house and courtyard were cleaned, clothes and bedding were washed, and the smell of cooked meat was exuded in the clean and quiet house.
On the first day of the festival, all the disciples gathered in the Guigu Cave with gifts, first worshipping the ancestor Laozi, then worshipping the ancestor Yizi, and finally kneeling down to worship Mr. and Zhu'er.
The atmosphere of the festival permeated the Yunmeng Wonderland, and Guiguzi and Zhu'er walked around the disciples' houses every day, reuniting with the disciples to drink and watch the games and competitions carefully prepared by the disciples.
Today, Le Yi, Bai Qi, and Xu Fu invited Mr. Hezhu, and called Sun Bin, Su Qin, Zhang Yi, and Lu Pin to taste the wine and dishes together.
Delicious wine and delicacies, teachers and students talked about their parents' shortcomings and told about the beauty in their memories.
Zhu'er returned from outside with firewood and a look of surprise!
Seeing the change in the master's wife, everyone turned their eyes to her, as if asking what was going on.
"Le Yi! How many goats out there are yours? "Pearls are in a hurry.
Le Yi shook his head blankly. "There are no disciples, but none of the junior disciples have been!"
"That's weird! Just now, when I was fetching dry firewood, I saw a lot of goats outside, and I thought it was Le Yi's doing! Pearls breathed a sigh of relief. I also saw wolves squatting on the side of the flock, and I was worried! ”
Bai got up and went to get his bow and arrows. "God-given food! Wait for me to capture two. ”
Several people were eager to try.
Guiguzi waved his hand. "Wild sheep often live in the sparsely populated land of the Hu people in the north, but when the snow covers the mountains, they often come south to find food. It is not surprising that wild sheep have visited Yunmeng several times, but today they have recruited wolves, which should be a bit interesting. He smiled. We are not short of meat, we might as well watch the wolves and sheep chase each other, and it can be regarded as today's harvest! ”
The disciples nodded, then put on cotton clothes, and followed Guiguzi and Zhu'er out of the house softly, hiding behind the haystack, looking at the grass in the distance.
Sure enough, there were three or five groups of goats, each gnawing on hay on the snowless meadow not far away.
And they followed the direction of the pearl's finger, and there was indeed a gray wolf in the woods, with his ears erected and his eyes menacing, and he sat there looking at the scattered flocks.
The disciples whispered about the vision, but their eyes did not clear.
"Although the wild sheep is thin, it is also tall, and it will be able to see Senior Brother Bai's archery skills in a while!"
"It is said that the wolf is the most ferocious, Senior Brother Sun dares to fight it!"
"It's better to catch it and hand it over to the junior brother for training, he can't even train the wild boar without hurting people!"
"Let's beat it to death, I'll eat wolf meat on holidays!"
"This sheep is stupid, but he doesn't know that the wolf is eyeing him, go and fight the wolf, lest the sheep fall into the wolf's mouth!"
"That's right! Right! ”
Guiguzi listened to the discussion of the disciples, smiled and waved his hand to stop them. "Wolves and sheep have lived side by side since ancient times, and they know each other better than us. For the teacher, I think of today's God-given opportunity, so that you can wait to see the wolf and sheep fighting wits and courage, should it be a festival victory, or wait and see the changes! ”
The crowd stopped talking and watched curiously at the change of the wolf and the sheep.
Sun Bin returned to the house, took some cotton clothes, and added them to Guiguzi and Zhu'er.
A group of five wild sheep finished their meadow, looked up for a moment, and then walked over to another patch of grass. The black and white head sheep cries low with its horns raised, so that the four ewes behind it follow closely behind. As they stepped onto the grass, a group of four wild sheep that were already there screamed. Then, a white wild sheep with horns like a crescent moon ran towards the black and white head sheep, followed by the other three, and the two sides froze there, hating each other.
"Although they are of the same kind, they are not of the same kind!" Guiguzi seemed to be talking to himself, and seemed to be talking to his disciples.
The two heads looked at each other for a moment, and then retreated from each other. Suddenly, both sides strengthened and rushed forward, and with the sound of the rams, the two sheep slammed into each other firmly. Leaned less, and several times in a row, both sides shook a little, but they still had their heads on each other, and the hooves were strengthened.
The gray wolf bowed his head and slowly leaned towards them.
"It's not one, it's two wolves!" Bai Qi shouted in a low voice, and everyone saw it.
The two heads of the sheep did not see each other give in, so they reluctantly took a step back, looked at each other crookedly for a while, and then turned around and continued to eat. As their ewes followed closely behind them, they looked around and nibbled quickly.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and then saw the two wolves sitting in the grass, their blood-colored eyes peeping at the two groups of sheep that were separated.
Here, the heads of the two groups of sheep also collided against each other because of a stream in the hot springs, and they kept backing and hitting each other again, each accompanied by a rough breath and a low cry that made the followers behind them scream.
The two wolves quietly circled around and stared at them.
Finally, a head sheep with a bleeding face and a weak body was defeated, and staggered to the edge, and his two ewes screamed a few times at the victorious head sheep, and ran away with the loser.
The two wolves hunched up and followed the loser, and two flashing tips on the grass quickly approached them and stopped.
And the crowd lifted their hearts again.
Le Yi put the arrow on the bow, but when he saw the stopping gaze of Mr., he put it down again!
The two wolves stopped there, watched the defeated goat, and when they saw that it was suffocated and bleeding profusely, they rushed up side by side.
The vigilant ewe, seeing the wolf approaching, screamed at the head sheep, and then raised her hooves and ran farther into the mountains.
The first sheep also sprang up suddenly, and ran forward after the ewe, regardless of the pain.
The two wolves completely ignored his sheep, only staring at the wounded sheep, one left and one right, and followed closely.
The shrill cries of the sheep caused the other flocks to raise their heads, prick up their ears, and quickly gather in one place.
The injured head sheep obviously had no strength, and after more than ten feet, he slowed down, but he still watched the wolf behind him gallop away. It emits an unusual scream from its mouth, which seems to alert the ewe in front of it.
Seeing that the two wolves were approaching the sheep, he suddenly ran sideways to the right, leaving the wolf on the left behind, while the wolf on the right had pounced on its tail, and the wolf rolled to the ground. One by one, the head sheep jumped free, broke free from the wolf's claws, and ran towards the groups of his kind that had gathered into a group. Several of its ewes also ran around and ran among the flocks.
The two wolves chased after the wounded head sheep, and when they saw that they were about to catch up, they watched it run into the flock, and they were met by the sharp horns of several pairs of sheep, and they stopped and confronted the sharp horns.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and smiled easily.
The sheep did not retreat, but led by the sheep's low horns, screamed and pressed towards the two wolves. The two wolves detoured to the other side, and the head sheep turned to the other side, confronting them.
After a long time, the two wolves writhed and lazily walked towards the distant mountain forest.
The crowd jumped up for joy and celebrated the victory of the sheep.
Guiguzi and Zhu'er also smiled and glanced at each other, and then looked at the disciples. "Do you think wolves will be willing?" He asked in a low voice.
Everyone quieted down and looked at Guiguzi.
"For the teacher, I dare to conclude that this good show is not over yet!" Guiguzi also learned from them, and he was complacent. "Do you think the sheep are really united? Remember, they have a few sheep! ”
Sure enough, it didn't take long for the sheep to fight for the grass under their hooves. The wounded goat led his ewe to the side playfully, and the victorious goat ran to another clearing with his scars after a few rounds. The fight was still going on, and neither group was willing to leave the pasture, and at last two more groups of goats, badly wounded and alone, went to the edge, and their followers followed the victor to stay in the hot spring meadows, enjoying their delicious food.
Everyone looked at it in a daze, and unconsciously regretted what they felt.
"The wolf is back!" Le Yi shouted in a low voice.
The crowd looked at the place where the wolf had run away, but it was empty, except for a group of four sheep grazing.
"Where?"
"On the other side, in the grass!" Le Yi pointed to one side.
Everyone looked, and sure enough, the two wolves were squatting in two places, peeking at the wounded sheep who was alone after the defeat. Tilted less, and launched an attack.
The wounded sheep heard a strange sound and watched vigilantly. When he spotted the wolf, he kicked his hooves hard, jumped out of place, and ran to the nearest flock with a scream of alarm.
The two wolves followed him without hesitation, allowing him to turn left and right, and follow closely.
The flocks did not gather in one place again, but formed their own circles, with the head sheep standing in front of them, watching everything.
The wounded sheep shook off the wolf's claws and ran to the group that had taken his ewes, hoping to get safe cover. But it was greeted by a blow from the head of the sheep, and the wounded sheep no longer had the strength to bow and ran to the other group. But he had no strength in his hooves, and he saw two hungry wolves pounce on him to the ground.
The meadow fell silent, and the sheep stopped calling and looked out to see the two wolves disappear into the woodland with the wounded sheep in their mouths.
Guiguzi walked back to the house with Zhu'er in his arms, and the disciples also had a sense of namelessness, and silently returned to the table.
Guiguzi looked at the listless disciples excitedly and shook his head.
The disciples looked at each other with some doubts.
"Compassion and compassion are shared by everyone!" Guiguzi suppressed his smile and said slowly. "All things in nature can restrain each other, and the principle of the avenue." He looked at Pearl, who had hinted at him with her fingers. "Today, as a teacher, I don't talk about schoolwork, and I don't disturb the festival of Zhuzi. If this wolf and sheep fight is compared to the nations, how to explain the wonder of its existence! He knew that his disciples loved to talk about the changes in the nations.
"The nations? Sheep wolf? Sun Bin was also excited. Mr. reminded that it made the disciple feel up, what this sheep did was really like the Central Plains! ”
"This dead sheep is like a weak country, and this group of sheep is like a country of alliance leaders, relying on the strong to reap the land of the weak country!" Su Qin also said happily.
"Senior brother Chayi, I think that since the sheep's head is the king, you see that they fight and kill each other in order to gain the land of others, and they also gather together to resist them for foreign strong enemies." Zhang Yi also found another point of view in front of Mr. and the brothers.
"Senior brother and sister explain this, the first can make sense, but later the kings launched the same kind and gave away different kinds, how to explain it?" Su Qin argued.
"What country does this wolf look like?" Le Yi looked at everyone. "The wolf peeps at the sheep clan, and is always ready to eat one, and will never withdraw his troops until he has his hand. In doing so, it will eat all the sheep! ”
"Sheep and wolves have existed since ancient times, and according to you, the sheep have long been extinct!" Bai Qiai and Le Yi argued, and the two took pleasure in it.
"The sheep are protected, but if you don't see those shepherds, you can drive away the wolves with weapons!" Le Yi smiled and carried it with him. "You and I have been herding sheep for a few years, you should understand this!"
"Senior brother should have the right to speak!" Zhang Yi smiled. "Herding sheep for a few years, when you know the nature of sheep, let's talk about it!"
"Senior brother herding sheep is a flock, not a few flocks as seen today!" Sun Bin said to Zhang Yi, he knew that Zhang Yi meant to make fun of Le Yi. "It's rare to see several flocks of sheep gathering together to meet the enemy! Therefore, the wonderful law is manifested, and it is necessary for us to wait for the benefit, or to return to the sheep like all the waiters! ”
"Senior Brother Sun, let's talk about it!" Zhang Yi smiled deliberately, pretending to be modest.
Sun Bin talked about the art of war, and felt that the cunning of the two wolves was that they did not fight hard with the strong, but relied on the fear and ruthlessness of the sheep to confront the sheep and keep them undefeated. Then he pretended to be helpless and left, let the sheep relax his vigilance, and then secretly come back, and wait and see what happened. When they saw that there were wounded after the sheep fought, the two wolves cooperated and attacked. A single wolf can deal with a single injured sheep, but two wolves do not abandon each other and cooperate for it, which is something to learn. Therefore, the two wolves attacked one injured the sheep, and they won the roll, and the other sheep no longer gathered to fight, and gave the two wolves a chance to succeed. In the war, the weak are taken first, and the weak are swallowed one by one, but there are references. Sun Bin himself nodded frequently.
Guiguzi and Zhu'er looked at each other and smiled, and raised their glasses to invite everyone to drink.
After drinking, Su Qin hurriedly put down his wine glass and looked at Sun Bin. "When the senior brother said this, it aroused the association of the junior brother." He looked at Guiguzi and turned to everyone again. "Sir said that the strong unite to form a horizontal, and the weak unite to unite vertically. The scene of the right talent is indeed a combination of horizontal and vertical, try to see the first attempt of the two wolves to attack and hurt the sheep, why not? The weak sheep joined together and retreated. And the latter attack can indeed be successful, why not? The merger was broken. This is like the waiting country, strong Wei Daiwei, there should be no suspense, but Wei is not destroyed, why not? Join forces with other weak countries. From this point of view, the combination of vertical and horizontal can be rivaled. On the contrary, after the two ruthless go, the sheep are crippled, and finally the wolf has a chance to take advantage of, it can be inferred that all the candidates are for life, all of them are formed together, only if the inside of the group is like a sheep fight, will they weaken each other, and finally will abandon the injured and send them into the wolf's mouth. I thought it would be fine, but in fact, the West Wolf was full today, and he would be hungry today. If the combination is solved, the two wolves can attack a group at will, even if it is difficult to succeed, they will not risk their lives. What's more, the sheep will not stop fighting, and there will eventually be a chance to eat the sheep again! After Su Qin finished speaking, he was quite proud.
Guiguzi nodded frequently, and then raised his glass to invite the sons to drink together, and he drank freely, his face was happy.
"I also have some associations when I say that." Zhang Yi said. "All the candidates are like a flock of sheep gathering against a strong wolf, and all the candidates want to be wolves, not sheep. This can make those who want to weaken their country a wolf, and those who attack can make them weak. Then make the country that wants to be weak a wolf, and then make all the all-in-one attack, and then all of them will be weak, and if there is a strong one at this time, they will eat it one by one, and they will be unified. Just like the latter flock, not both, hostile to each other, give the wolf a chance! Zhang Yi looked at Su Qin, feeling that he and his colleague were two sides, but there was also something new, he peeked at Guiguzi.
Guiguzi was still happy to raise his glass and invite the sons to drink.
"Rejoice, sir! Don't drink too much! Pearls said. Today can talk about this, Mr. Tomorrow and Zhu'er will listen again! He smiled at Guiguzi. Sir has been drinking a lot today, so let's go back early! ”
"Good! Just follow the pearl. After Guiguzi finished speaking, he turned to everyone again. It's good for you to talk about this matter, but after hearing it, the teacher still feels that the meaning is not deep enough, and tomorrow the teacher and the sons will explain this wolf and sheep thoroughly, and it is not too late to eat it! ”
The people sent the gentleman away, but before they could enter the house, they began to argue again.