On the road to the county school, Liu Bei and Gongsun Zhan walked together, talking and laughing. Most of them are Gongsun Chan asking and Liu Bei answering, facing the great Confucian Lu Zhi who has only heard about it, Gongsun Chan always has a lot of questions.

Liu Bei can understand Gongsun Zhan's thoughts, "Heaven and Earth are the teacher", in this era, the relationship between teachers and students is not only a simple relationship between the practitioner and the inheritance, but also a community of interests related to life, for example, in the disaster of the party in the second year of Jianning, there are not a few people who are involved in prison because of the relationship between master and apprentice and disciples.

However, having said so, Liu Bei still couldn't help but want to laugh when he saw Gongsun Zhan, the white horse general who was afraid of all the people in Youzhou in history.

When I arrived at the gate of the county school, I knocked on the door, and before the door opened for a while, Fu Bo's laughing voice had already come first: "Haha, it's Xuande again." ”

The door opened, Fu Bo leaned out, and Liu Bei saluted jokingly, "It's the kid who came to bother." ”

Gongsun Chan watched from the side, and hurriedly followed suit: "Boy Gongsun Chan, I've seen the elders." ”

At this time, Fu Bo noticed the white-clothed young man standing next to Liu Bei, his heart was tense at first, but when he saw Gongsun Zhan's handsome face, he relaxed again, and just cast a puzzled look at Liu Bei.

Liu Bei didn't talk nonsense, and stepped forward to tell Fu Bo about Gongsun Zhan's origin one by one, and after he finished speaking, Fu Bo said with a sudden face: "I see, then Xuande, you might as well take this little brother to the guest room to wait for the meeting, and I will go to the study to inform the family owner." ”

Liu Bei had nothing to do, and with his head down, he turned around and motioned for Gongsun Chan to follow, but Gongsun Chan did not move, and glanced at the white horse beside him with a difficult face.

"You go first." Fu Bo stepped forward with a smile and said to Gongsun Zhan, "I'll go and lead the horse to the stable." ”

"Then thank you, elder." Hearing Fu Bo's words, Gongsun Zhan looked relieved, saluted first, then turned around and touched the white horse's head a few times, whispered a few words to the horse's ear, and finally handed the horse reins to Fu Bo.

The white horse was led by Fu Bo, snorted twice, and obediently followed Fu Bo, Liu Bei tied the door bolt, saw this scene, and couldn't help but be amazed: "Brother Bo Jue, your horse is quite spiritual, I don't know if it has a name?" ”

Gongsun Zhan's face showed a hint of triumph, for him, sometimes, praising his horse was far more happy than praising him: "Xuande praises it, but there is a name, it is called Yuhu Treading Snow." ”

"What a mother's name." Liu Bei thought in his heart, but although he thought so, he couldn't say so: "A good name, Ma Ruyu, is a jade horse; There is no snow and no trace, which is also called stepping on snow. ”

Gongsun Chan smiled and humbled a few words, but after that, perhaps because of the change in the environment he was in, Gongsun Chan gradually put away his initial talking, Liu Bei saw this, no longer forced people to speak, and also came down silently, and waited for Lu Zhi's arrival with Gongsun Chan in the wing room.

About a quarter of an hour later, Lu Zhi pushed open the door of the wing room and walked over, Liu Bei and Gongsun Chan saluted Lu Zhi together, and then Gongsun Chan took out a silk book and respectfully handed it to Lu Zhi.

Lu Zhi took the silk book and read it for a while, then put away the silk book and sighed: "You disciple, I accepted it." ”

Gongsun Chan also hurriedly bowed: "Boy Zan has seen the teacher." ”

After dealing with Gongsun Zhan's matter, Lu Zhicai looked at Liu Bei, who was at a loss, and asked, "Xuande, what are you talking about?" ”

When Liu Bei heard this, he put away the emotion in his heart about Gongsun Zhan's "sure enough, there is a back door", his expression was straight, he picked up the package beside him and said: "Back to the teacher, the disciple is here to ask the teacher to correct something." ”

Lu Zhi glanced at Liu Bei with a complicated expression, and said, "Okay, you can go to the study with me." ”

Walking to the door, Lu Zhi stopped again and said to Gongsun Zhan, "Do you have a place to live now?" ”

Gongsun Chan shook his head.

"Then you can live in the county school, and I'll ask Fu Bo to clean up an empty room for you later." After saying this, Lu Zhicai turned around and walked out of the guest room, and Liu Bei was also busy giving Gongsun Chan an apologetic look, picking up the package and following.

When he came to the study, when Lu Zhi sat down next to the bookcase, Liu Bei unwrapped the package and put the bamboo books in front of the bookcase one by one, so that Lu Zhi could see it.

Then Liu Bei waited quietly, and after a long time, Lu Zhi raised his head and said flatly: "Xuande, put the book here with me first, and you can go back." ”

Liu Bei was stunned, this kind of result was something he had never thought of from beginning to end, but since the teacher had spoken like this, Liu Bei had no choice but to bow and retire after a "whoosh".

After Liu Bei left, Lu Zhi's expression changed, holding Liu Bei's "Xuande Arithmetic", frowning, as if he was making a difficult decision in the next step.

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With the passage of time, Gongsun Chan gradually integrated into the county school, and because of his cheerful and bold personality, he also got along with everyone very well.

Although Zhuoxian County is still bland, the world is not calm at this time, and Luoyang, which is in the center of the whirlpool, is even more turbulent. This Liu Bei can see from the worried appearance of the teacher Lu Zhi when he came to lecture recently.

With the pro-government of Liu Hong, the old political balance was broken, and the bureaucracy, dominated by traditional scholars, and the eunuch clique headed by Cao Jie and Wang Fu, the two major permanent servants, began a fierce struggle in order to occupy an advantageous position in the new political structure.

And in the second month after the Son of Heaven came into power, that is, in June of the first year of Xiping, with the sudden death of the Empress Dowager Dou Miao, the two forces not only did not quell the struggle, but began an increasingly cruel struggle around the etiquette specifications of the Empress Dowager's funeral.

However, in the eyes of Liu Hong, the son of heaven, the eunuchs who had no queen and spent five cold years with him in the palace were obviously much more reliable than these ministers who professed to be loyal but disobeyed them in everything. Therefore, under the intentional or unintentional deviation of the Son of Heaven, the eunuch clique soon beat the bureaucracy backwards.

However, one morning in July, an anonymous announcement attacking the government appeared outside the walls of one of the palaces of the Luoyang Imperial Palace, Suzaku Que, and the person who posted the anonymous announcement was quickly found - it was two students from Taixue.

However, what some people didn't expect was that instead of calming things down, the young Son of Heaven angrily ordered Duan Cheng, the captain of the school, to arrest the Tai students involved in this matter, and the most important thing was that Duan Cheng actually accepted the unprincipled order of the Son of Heaven - sure enough, this kind of wanton and vulgar martial artist had no righteousness in his heart, and he was not enough to trust.

At this point, with the imprisonment of more than 1,000 Taixue students, this political struggle can be regarded as temporarily subsided, however, above the locality, there is an undercurrent.

In the middle of August, it was another day of rest, but on this day, Liu Bei had no rest, but had to go to the banquet with his teacher Lu Zhi with Gongsun Zhan.

The venue of the banquet was in the Taishou Mansion, and the host of the banquet was the newly arrived Zhuojun Taishou Liu Wei, well, who was also a good friend of the teacher Lu Zhi.

The scale of this banquet is very small, it is just a family banquet, in a hall, Liu Wei sits in the chief, and Lu Zhi sits under him, followed by Liu Bei and Gongsun Zhan.

The scene was mostly Lu Zhi and Liu Wei greetings, and occasionally the names of Liu Bei and Gongsun Zan were mentioned, and then the two got up to answer the questions from Taishou.

Liu Bei was not surprised by this, he understood that this banquet was just a reason for the teacher to meet with Taishou Liu Wei, in the face of the current situation in the central government, how could the teacher who had great ambitions and care about the society still be indifferent?

In fact, since last year, Liu Bei has been very strange, why the teacher is still in Zhuoxian County as this small county school sacrificial wine, according to the trajectory of history, shouldn't he have been recruited as a doctor during the Jianning period?

When Liu Wei left, he told Liu Bei and Gongsun Zhan again, to the effect that they should be allowed to walk around the courtyard casually, and the two of them responded to each other.

"Xuande, what do you think we're going to do?" When the others left, Gongsun Zhan turned his head to look at Liu Bei.

Liu Bei glanced at Gongsun Zan and said flatly: "I heard that there are a lot of books in the study room of the Taishou Mansion, why don't we go and borrow them." ”

"Xuande." Gongsun Zhan raised his voice first, and then sighed: "How old are you, why are you so old?" Don't hold a book every day, it's boring. ”

Liu Bei glanced at Gongsun Zhan, no wonder Emperor Zhaolie of the Han Dynasty and Gongsun Chan of the White Horse had such a good relationship when they were young, and Gongsun Chan was also a good dog and a horse.

"What do you think?"

"As long as you don't go to the study, you can go anywhere, or you don't go to the kitchen to ask for something to eat, I didn't have enough to eat just now."

"Then Brother Bogui will go, and you can go to the study to find me after eating." After speaking, Liu Bei got up and said goodbye to Gongsun Zhan, then went out to find a servant and asked for directions, and went to the study.

Gongsun Zan looked at Liu Bei's back, shook his head, and after a while, he also got up and walked out of the hall, asked for directions, and went in the other direction.

In the study, Liu Bei is holding a roll of bamboo slips, but his mind is not on the book, to be honest, he does not have an optimistic attitude towards the teacher's trip, it is okay if it doesn't work, if there is a little wind and rain, make some movement, it is definitely a blessing or a curse! Because the next few months were completely eventful.

Liu Bei silently recalled his memories of the second half of the first year of Xiping:

"In October, Liu Kui, the king of Bohai, was sentenced to death for the crime of rebellion, and more than 100 of his wives and children died in prison."

"In November, Huiji Xu Sheng rebelled, proclaimed himself 'King of Yue', and broke through the county ......"

Recalling this, it stopped abruptly, Liu Bei shivered, and the bamboo slip in his hand fell on the bookcase, making a "pop" sound.

"Huiji! Xu Sheng! How could I have forgotten about this?! ”