Chapter 13 - Learning the Art of War and Running Away from Home

[The majestic debate style of the father who overthrew the four elders]

The stepmother said in fear, "You child don't understand, this wild bird is a bad omen, let alone an owl that makes a strange noise." And, you think, how did this owl get into my quilt? You see, there are curtains hanging in this room, and this quilt is very heavy, how the hell does it get in? ”

The more she talked, the more frightened she became, and the more I listened, the more I wanted to laugh, so I pretended to be calm and said, "Why don't you invite witches to inquire about it?" ”

The stepmother asked, "Where are the witches?" ”

Of course, the servant next to me had already said hello, and hurriedly said: "Zhang Xiangu in the east of the city is a sorcerer, but Ling!" ”

The stepmother immediately sent someone to find the witch, and as soon as the fairy girl entered the door, she shouted: "This family has a strange atmosphere. ”

Then he walked up to his stepmother, stared at her for a while, and said, "Madame's complexion is not good, and there should be a catastrophe." ”

The stepmother said in horror, "Yes, yes! ”

Then she was told about the owl flying out of the quilt, and Zhang Xiangu said, "The old woman should ask your family god." ”

So, light the incense candles, let the stepmother kneel and worship the ancestors of the Wang family, and after the worship ceremony is over, Zhang Xiangu does the sΓ©ance ceremony again.

Not long after, a god possessed the body and said: "I am Wang Shouren's biological mother Zheng, because you are rude to my son, so I have sued Tiancao, and I will take your life." The strange bird of the right talent is what I have transformed. ”

When the stepmother heard this, she was so frightened that she couldn't possess her body, and hurriedly knelt down like pounding garlic and kowtowed countless times, and said: "Don't dare to do it again!" ”

After a long time, Zhang Xiangu woke up, she said to her stepmother: "Just now I saw the deceased Mrs. Xian, she was very angry, and she will ask the strange bird to peck at your soul, fortunately, Mrs. Xian promised to change just now, and Mrs. Xian flapped her wings and left." ”

After this incident, my stepmother's attitude towards me has changed greatly, and I dare not be rude anymore, and I have the opportunity to learn from Wang Xiang to honor my stepmother, so the matter is man-made, this is what Confucius said, "Don't be a pawn, only change to adapt".

When my father found out about this, he naturally knew that it was my conspiracy, but the result was good, and he had nothing to say.

This is the Taoist kung fu that grandpa often talks about "cultivating truth through falsehood".

In the blink of an eye, twenty-one years later, I am fourteen years old. Because I missed my mother, I began to retrain the art of arching horses, and began to systematically study some classic military books, the most important of which I heard from Xu Zhang, the two military books of "Wen Tao" and "Wu Strategy".

The so-called "Wen Tao" refers to "Jiang Taigong Liutao"; "Wu Luo" refers to the "Huangshi Gong Three Strategies".

"Liutao" is also "Taigong Art of War", the "Liutao" mentioned in the whole book is "Wentao", on the strategy of governing the country and employing people; "Wu Tao" is to talk about the strategy of using troops; "Long Tao" is a theory of military organization; "Hu Tao" is about the war environment and the method of weapons and formations; "Leopard Tao" is about tactics; "Dog Tao" is about the command and training of the army.

What impressed me most was that it talked about "the safety of the society is in the general", requiring the generals not only to be familiar with strategy and tactics, to know how to advance and retreat, to attack and defend, and to win by surprise, but also to know the way to control the rise and fall of chaos, and to share the weal and sorrow with the soldiers and soldiers, and to share the safety and danger with the soldiers, and put forward eight methods for examining the generals, that is, the so-called "eight signs" (zhǐ)". It seems that it is not easy to become a general!

Among them, it is said that "there is no way to fight", "I am invisible in the form of a person", "infinite changes and unpredictable opportunities", "great wisdom is not wise, great planning is not planned, great courage is not brave, and great profit is unfavorable". It's a bit of a taste of Buddhist scriptures and Taoist scriptures, isn't it too mysterious? Whether it is practical or not, I have to go to Shanhaiguan to ask Xu Zhang for advice when I have the opportunity.

After thinking about it for a while, I began to prepare, and made up my mind that when I was fifteen years old, I would definitely go to Shanhaiguan to meet Xu Zhang.

Let's talk about Huangshi Gong's "Three Strategies", one of the stories is that Zhang Liang learned the art of war from Huangshi Gong, and the military book passed by Huangshi Gong made Zhang Liang become the emperor's master, that is, this book, Chao Gongwu of the Southern Song Dynasty called this book "On the use of military machines, strict decision, the army can die and live, and the country can survive and perish." "You can see how powerful it is.

"Three strategies" are upper, middle and lower three strategies. At the beginning, I talked about "the law of the master and the master, the heart of the hero, the reward of meritorious, and the will of the public", which makes sense, and the way of "soft can control the strong, and the weak can control the strong" is what I am most interested in.

The most wonderful thing is this sentence "can be soft and strong, and its country is bright; can be weak and strong, and its country is strong; Pure and soft, pure and weak, its country will be cut; Pure strength and pure strength, its country will perish. "Well said.

However, sometimes I feel that this book is not a simple military book, such as these sentences "The husband is the way of the country, and treats the virtuous and the people." Faith and virtue are like the heart, so that the people are like limbs, then the strategy is exhaustive", "the husband uses the soldiers, in the worship of the rites and the importance of Lu", "the rejuvenation of the teacher, the first to be long; The conquered country must first feed the people. "Why are you using soldiers to pull all this? Let's go and ask Xu Zhang.

Time flies, I'm past fifteen, and I'm ready.

So, one night I took my horse and set out with my bow and arrows on my back.

Soon out of Juyong Pass, I was walking, suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves in the distance, I led the horse to hide in the bushes, only to see twenty or thirty Hun children, all with bows, they were talking about what to do, but I saw a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy in white, bending his bow and arrows to shoot a bird in the air, and saluted a young man in red, the young man in red was a little majestic, his eyes were bright, and everyone was very respectful to him.

At this time, my mind floated to my mother's three-word formula of "weak, strong, and big", needless to say, the young man in white has the best kung fu and is the strongest. The young man in red must be the leader of them, the big one, but what about the weak one?

I made a slight observation, and saw a young man in a flower dress, he was a little blessed, where he was eating, and when he saw his body shape, he was a foodie, and he was weak.

I'm calculating the direction and looking for the right time in my heart, okay! It's time to make a move.

I rode at the group of children, aimed first at the young man in the dress, and struck him under the horse with a single whip.

Then he shouted, and pointed his bow and arrow at the young man in white.

At this time, the young man in white also bent his bow at me, and I fired three arrows at the same time, one of which collided with the arrow of the young man in white and flew away, and the other two arrows hit his throat and his horse, and the young man in white fell down at the same time as the horse, and both died.

Before everyone could react, I rode to the young man in red, and aimed my bow and arrow at him, and the air condensed.

The young man in red suddenly said in Chinese: "You have the ability to shoot me!" ”

I laughed a little and said, "I can't see that you're still a good man, you can take your people with you!" ”

The young man in red whistled, and these people walked away, only to hear the young man in red say, "My name is Er'er, what about you?" β€œ

I said loudly, "My name is Wang Shouren. ”

I looked at their distant figures, and was about to leave, when I suddenly heard a cheer, three people came out of the bushes, I broke out in a cold sweat, Mom, these three people are going to attack me, I immediately died on the spot, these three people are the masters.