Chapter 67: The Tao Te Ching

Chen Zheng followed the sound of birdsong, and saw a colorful bird on the top of a bookshelf, jumping around on its own, bringing cheerful vitality to the dreary storeroom.

The dark circles outside the warehouse put down the bamboo slips in his hand and walked in curiously, not knowing the scene in front of him.

Chen Zheng approached the little bird lightly, but the little bird seemed to be quite bold, and landed there and never flew again.

It's weird! Chen Zheng couldn't help but sigh, this cold day in Hangu Pass, there are such dexterous birds flying here, it is really a surprise everywhere in life!

The soldier of the Qin State picked up a roll of bamboo slips and was about to throw it at the bird, Chen Zheng sensed his abnormal behavior, hurriedly waved his hand to stop it, and waved his hand to let him leave the warehouse.

Chen Zheng stood by the bookshelf, looking at the bird blankly, as if he had met a friend he hadn't seen for many years in the Warring States, and his depressed mood for many days was also comforted.

Suddenly, Chen Zheng inadvertently found that there were two words faintly engraved on the bookshelf in front of him, and he reached out to wipe them, and sure enough, two Chinese characters in large seal style came into view, and carefully identified, the first word seemed to be a "Yin" word, but the second word was not recognizable.

Govern~?

When I looked up again, I saw five rolls of bamboo slips wrapped in linen cloth where the bird had landed, which seemed to be a little different from the other scattered bamboo slips.

Chen Zheng tiptoed out a roll from it, and the little bird landed lightly on the back of Chen Zheng's hand, flapped its wings and flew twice in the warehouse, and then flew out of the warehouse like an arrow.

Alas! At this moment, Chen Zhengduo wanted to fly freely like this bird, watching this familiar friend fly away, Chen Zhengzhen had a feeling of being abandoned in the Warring States alone.

Chen Zheng, who was in a depressed mood, lost interest in the bamboo slip in his hand, and was just about to put the bamboo slip back, when the Qin soldier walked in again: I said, Mr. Lu, why didn't you let me catch the bird just now? I watched it fly away from the top of my head. If you want me to say, let's go back quickly, otherwise it doesn't matter if General Meng is in a hurry, I will freeze that little Tiantian, I can't afford to be guilty!

"Britney is also self-inflicted when she is frozen, who made her always wear so little!" Chen Zheng said casually.

The soldier was stunned, Xiao Tian had just been born, of course he was wearing less, how could he have asked for it?

Chen Zheng also had no choice but to look at this second generation of baby pandas: Baby one more time, have you heard of it?

What? Forced? Playing Moutai? How strange is it that the gentleman speaks? What is Moutai?

Oops, I'll go! Moutai still needs to be forced to play?! If anyone meets Moutai, then don't they turn the cup upside down with a cup, and turn themselves around first? !

Hi! The gentleman said wine! There is no shortage of wine in our Hanguguan, and later, let General Meng find Mr. a jar of wine brewed during the reign of the first king, to ensure that no one forces you, and you can drink whatever you want!

Which former king are you talking about?

Say it, sir, don't be dizzy before drinking, that is the wine made when the filial piety, more than a hundred years, the special wine for the border soldiers, hidden in the cellar, I don't tell ordinary people.

Listen to what you mean by this is a special offering!

Special? Mr. is just funny when he speaks. At that time, the east side of the Hangu Pass came over, and the west side beat over, but the soldiers who guarded the pass were bitter, and the filial piety and Shang Jun specially brewed the wine, and pulled it all the way from Xianyang, it is said that there were dozens of jars at that time, and it was old and precious!

It's a shame that you can still know Shang Jun, there are two times!

Mr. said with a smile, if there were no Shang Jun, would we, the poor-born Qianshou, be able to get the title by fighting?! If you want me to say, if we are fighting with the people in the east, we are fighting our own war, turning over! With the title, the mother-in-law and babies in the family will be proud and not bullied, and there is land planting, we can look forward to fighting every day! Isn't all this thanks to Shang Jun?! If it weren't for him, we would have been born poor for a lifetime, how could we let our mother-in-law and babies live a good life?!

Chen Zheng once again felt the strong genes of the Qin State, the old Qin people looked forward to fighting a war to change their fate and bring a better life to their wives and children, what about the six countries in the east? Afraid of war every day, living a life of fear, the relationship between the wolf and the sheep has been determined, so what else is there to say, the result is obvious! Huh? Something is wrong! You haven't finished drinking your dozens of jars of wine for more than a hundred years, and the guards are really good enough to drink.

Sir, isn't it reluctant to drink! The successive customs orders were tight, and they carried the key to the wine cellar with them, and they wanted to take a sip without anything earth-shattering. Looking at the friendship between Mr. and our General Meng, then don't let go of a jar of drink! Besides, General Meng is happy with his son today, so let's have a good drink if we don't open two or three altars.

"Then I don't know. Besides, I don't have time to drink here. Chen Zheng said, about to put back the bamboo slip.

Hey? What's in your hand? Why are you still wrapped in cloth? What's written on it?

Chen Zhengchao looked at the bamboo slip in his hand, and sure enough, there was a line of words written on one side, and he read it out loud while identifying it: heaven ~ earth ~ Xuan ~ wonderful ~ no ~ name ~ true ~ scripture ~.

Nameless scriptures? Could it be the Nine Yin True Scripture? Then I have been cultivating in Hangu Pass for ten years and eight years, won't I become the leader of the martial arts alliance of the Warring States?! Then you don't have to wait for Yingzheng to grow up, I will do the unification of the world alone.

Chen Zheng flicked down a thick layer of dust outside, and couldn't wait to pull out the bamboo slips inside, when he unfolded it, he saw that the bamboo pieces with the width of his fingers were connected with a thin cowhide rope, and the top was densely packed with small characters of the Warring States Period.

Chen Zheng casually recognized the words inside: there are things mixed together, born from nature. Lonely and liao, independent and unchanging, circumferential and not dying, can be the mother of heaven and earth.

What? Chen Zheng was suddenly shocked in his heart, and when he looked at it again: When the sergeant heard the word, he acted diligently. When the sergeant heard this, if he survived, he would die. When the corporal heard this, he laughed. It's not enough not to laugh.

Hearing Chen Zheng's thoughts, the soldiers of the Qin State walked over: What can't you reach, do you smell it? Of course you can smell the musty smell all over the room, isn't it, sir? Hahahaha!

Chen Zheng looked at the sentence "When the corporal heard it, he laughed", squinted at the dark circles under his eyes, this Nima is talking about you!

The soldier stared at the two black circles and stayed for a moment, who dares to say me?! Who dares to say anything about me?! Who wrote this book?!

At this time, Chen Zheng connected the content of the bamboo slip with the word "Yin" engraved on the shelf, and then carefully distinguished the second word, and suddenly opened his mouth, these two words are not "Yin Xi"!

Although Chen Zheng is also fragmented and half-understood about the content of the "Tao Te Ching", the bamboo in front of him is clearly the "Tao Te Ching" written by Lao Tzu.

Tao Te Ching? Yin Xi? Chen Zheng suddenly brightened.

Chen Zheng took down the other four bamboo slips and opened them one by one, and sure enough, the 5,000-word "Tao Te Ching" was stored in a secluded corner of this Hangu Pass. If it weren't for a divine bird sent by God, maybe it would be used by Xiao Tiantian for heating one day, wouldn't it be a tyrannical thing?!

I think back then, Lao Tzu was the director of the library of the Zhou royal family, which is equivalent to the sweeping monk of the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion! Anyway, I read the book of the world hidden by the Zhou royal family thoroughly. With the decline of the Zhou royal family, coupled with the continuous fighting in the royal family, Lao Tzu saw through the red dust, resigned from his official position without worry, and rode a green ox to the west.

However, at that time, Yin Xi, the Guan Ling of Hangu Pass, was not an idle person, and he actually watched the sky at night, and found that there was purple gas floating in the east, knowing that there was a saint who wanted to pass through Hangu, and sure enough, he waited for Lao Tzu, who was immortal and bonely, and his beard and hair were white. Yin Xi learned that Lao Tzu was going to travel west alone, and he was stunned to ask this sage to write the "Tao Te Ching" with 5,000 words, which became the only work that Lao Tzu left in the world. In this way, Yin Xi is also a person who has made significant contributions to history.

A few years ago, when Confucius visited Lao Tzu and parted, Lao Tzu expressed some advice to this person who had failed to comprehend the avenue of heaven and earth, and was still entangled in utilitarianism and benevolence: "After you go, you should be arrogant and express your words, and you should not be interested in your appearance. Otherwise, before the person arrives and the sound has been heard, the body has not arrived and the wind has moved, public, like a tiger walking on the street, who dares to use you? ”

Lao Tzu can say these parting words to Confucius, at least it shows that the channels of the two of them are still closer than ordinary people, and it also shows that Lao Tzu thinks that Confucius is worth igniting.

People who are not in the same realm are not connected. You live in your world, and he lives in his. Even if you send a signal from the bottom of your heart and out of kindness, people in the other world will not receive it. Perhaps, you drove a flying saucer from an alien world to Earth, and advised the cosmic primitives on Earth not to shoot each other with stones, javelins, RPGs, and missiles, but people thought you were nosy and aimed the black barrel at you?! Therefore, Lao Tzu said that the sage does nothing and does not teach. With those who can't wake up all their lives, what nonsense?! If the person you speak to is wrong, even if you say the most reasonable words, the result will be blamed and humiliated. Shut up when it's time to shut up, float by when it's time to float by, even if not a saint, then a wise person, a wise person, a man with brains, a man who is free from the lower animals, a man who is beneficial to the world.

Knowing that birds can fly, fish can swim, and beasts can walk, as for the dragon, I don't know why. The real saint can be ever-changing, as Prime Minister Cao Cheng said, the dragon can be big and small, can rise and hide, the big is the clouds and spit fog, the small is hidden and hidden, the rise is soaring between the universe, and the hidden is lurking in the waves. Lao Tzu is the unpredictable true dragon that has swam between heaven and earth for thousands of years, right?!

"Mr. Lu, let me ask you, who wrote this book? What are you doing in a daze? The soldiers of the Qin State patted Chen Zheng on the shoulder.

Chen Zheng suddenly came back to his senses: "Oh, this book was written by Lao Tzu. ”

The GI glared: What? What did you write? Don't blow it, don't say that you didn't write it, even if you wrote it, you can't call yourself Lao Tzu, right?! Why do you have the same tone as those two skinny monkey doormen?!

You misunderstood, this book was not written by me, it was written by Lao Tzu.

Ah! Do you still dare to call yourself Lao Tzu?! If you do this again, I'm going to turn my face!

Chen Zheng also just thought about it, oops, blame me for this, this is not written by Lao Tzu, it was written by Li Er, this is always okay, right? !

"You still call yourself Lao Tzu?!" The soldier pointed at Chen Zheng with his hand, but he was already trembling slightly with anger, and his hands were twisted into fists.

You misunderstood, this book was written by Li Er, and his honorific title is Lao Tzu, which has nothing to do with me.

Who is this? How to honor Lao Tzu, isn't it enough to be stained?

All right! There are also people who call grandchildren, have you heard of it?

Grandson? Still honorific? It's weird. Then the gentleman said, is there anyone in this world who respectfully calls himself a son and a son of a ruined family?

"There are no such honorific titles, only endearments." It's terrible to be uneducated!

Chen Zheng took down the five volumes of "Tao Te Ching" on the bookshelf and hugged it in his arms, feeling more excited than carrying He's Bi.

When the soldier saw it, Mr. was going to burn these bamboo slips?

Burn your head! Walking.

Closing the door of the warehouse, the two of them each walked towards Meng Wu's residence with heavy bamboo slips.

When Meng Wu saw the two of them, he hurriedly ran over to catch the bamboo slips in Chen Zheng's arms: Brother Lu, look at you, for the sake of my family's Xiao Tiantian, you still take so many bamboo slips yourself, are you tired? !

Chen Zhengyi turned around to avoid Meng Wu's hands, and pointed at the dark circles under his eyes with his chin: The bamboo slips to be burned are there.

Meng Wu was stunned, what is the situation?

There is no situation, I see that there are indeed a lot of books in the storeroom, so I picked a few volumes by the way, and took the time to read them.

Ha ha! As long as the eldest brother likes it, even if he takes it, on this cold day, those bamboo slips will probably be burned as firewood.

Chen Zheng was also anxious when he heard this, Brother Meng, if you recognize me as a big brother, then you should immediately send someone to do two things.

Don't say two things, even twenty or two hundred things should be deserved, and the eldest brother only commands.

Then send someone outside the city to cut wood, and you must not go back to that storehouse to take the bamboo slips. Again, the lock in the warehouse was broken, hurry up and replace it with a new one, and be sure to take good care of the books inside.

What should I do, it's so simple.

Meng Wu beckoned a few soldiers to act separately, and did what my brother Lu just said.

Chen Zheng asked Meng Wu to find a piece of cloth, wrapped the five rolls of bamboo slips, and carried them on his back. I thought, if this is the real handwriting of Lao Tzu in Hangu Pass, then I will be a great merit of the Wang Wang team! Even if you can't take them home, let these bamboo slips be passed on to the world, because this is not only China, but also the world.

"Why did the eldest brother carry these bamboo slips on his back, is he in a hurry to leave?" Meng Wu grabbed Chen Zheng.

My brother is right, I still have important things to do, and I can't stay here for long. To tell you the truth, I have to go back to Handan first, and I will come to Qin again in a short time, and besides, I still have two good brothers stranded in Shangdang, and I have to find a way to rescue them. Brother, I'm already in turmoil and anxious now, thanks to my brother's rescue, I'll repay you in the future!

Why did the benefactor say such an outrageous thing?! The eldest brother was kidnapped by Prime Minister Fan Cheng this time, and he met me by chance in Hanguguan, which must be a certain number in the dark. If the eldest brother has any difficulties, just open his mouth, I will go to the soup and fight the fire, and I will not give up!

As he spoke, snowflakes fell in the sky, and a sense of sadness surged into Chen Zheng's heart, which really made people want to cry! But looking at Meng Wu in front of him, and thinking of Han Fei and Li Mu, a warm current surged in Chen Zheng's heart.

Chen Zheng raised his eyes to look at the gloomy sky, only to see that the snow was falling one by one, falling from the fate of the Warring States, who was my love born of, and whose hand touched my heart? The snow is falling one by one, and the sky is quiet and colorful, and I am still wandering in solitude!

While the crowd was reveling in the sudden and seemingly unexpectedly heavy snowfall, a soldier ran to Meng Wu and whispered for a while. I saw Meng Wu nod slightly, and whispered a few words as if to explain something, and the soldier immediately disappeared into the fluttering snowflakes.

Chen Zheng looked at Meng Wu suspiciously, and thought, couldn't it be that those two Fan Sui's disciples came back?

Meng Wu looked at Chen Zheng and smiled, haha, did Brother Lu think that those two doormen with mouths full of feces had returned to Hangu Pass?

"Isn't it?"

"Of course not. Even if those two doormen turn around and come back, I just don't know about it, as long as the eldest brother hides, they will die without proof, and let them look for it on the way to and fro! Hahahaha! ”

Chen Zheng's heart relaxed: I only care about whether what happened just now is related to me, and I don't care about other things. Brother Meng still gave me a fast horse and let me go back to Handan!

Suddenly, a hearty laugh came from behind Chen Zheng, and then a familiar voice said: Brother Lu doesn't cherish this rare snow scene in Hanguguan, but he is bent on returning to Handan, isn't that a big bad scenery, and it is also in vain for me to go to Qin alone? !

Chen Zheng was suddenly startled, and when he looked back, tears couldn't help but burst out of his eyes, and he involuntarily stepped over and held the man's hands: Brother, are you coming with this snow? !