Confucius also sighed slightly when he heard this, after the war, the Yuncheng doctor was not effective in governing the city, causing the people to run south to the wilderness and east to the central capital. Confucius had no reason to refuse the people who wanted to survive, and he couldn't think of a way to get corn for the time being, so he had to ask his disciples to borrow money from the neighbors, and he himself went into battle.

However, Zilu is not only angry about this.

Their lips were a little dry and cracked, it turned out that yesterday the three of them walked to the place called the Thief Spring at night, and they were tired and thirsty, but Confucius refused to stay in the Thief Spring, and he was thirsty and did not drink because he hated its name.

Zilu intersection is dry and boring, so this will play a trick and criticize Confucius: "Yes, there is a detour." ”

Confucius was not angry when he was said to be pedantic by his closest apprentice, and he believed in "threesomes, there must be my teacher; Choose those who are good and follow them, and change those who are not good." He just smiled with Yan Hui and "sunbathed".

"Aren't you, like Hui, not drinking the water of the Thief Spring?"

Zilu is dumbfounded, he has a straight and courageous temperament, which is manifested in words that he never adulterates and deceives so, but in fact, he respects and loves Confucius very much.

treats the rights and wrongs of the same thing, if he has different views, he will immediately put it forward, unlike Zai Yu and Yan Hui, he never hides it, and even contradicts Confucius. One will doubt whether Confucius's behavior is courteous, and the other will say that Confucius is too broad, and he even thinks that reading is not the only way to become a talent, "why bother reading and then learning", and when he encounters something wrong with Confucius, he is always the first to stand up and stop it. Such frankness and outspokenness is something that other disciples do not have.

Yan Hui turned his head and said, "Master." Zigong is farming for Dr. Zhao, and he is operating an industry in Taoyi, which is in the world. Where the grains meet, if you ask him for help. may be able to solve the urgent need and allow Zhongduyi to last until the autumn harvest. ”

Even if Zigong only shared one-tenth of the income from the goods and breeding, he is now very wealthy, and he does not forget his teachers and friends, and from time to time he will send some foreign specialties to the central capital.

In the face of the wealth of Zigong's goods, some of the disciples who were still poor were a little tasteful, and some people even thought that Zigong was rich and unkind, and connived at gambling and extravagance.

on this. Confucius remained silent, while Yan Hui said frankly to his brothers: "As a Confucian scholar, you should be as poor as rich and cheap as noble, and everyone has their own ambitions, so why bother to pay tribute?" ”

Afterwards, Confucius praised him and said: "A spoonful of food, a scoop of drink, poor and poor alleys, people are unbearable, and they will not change their pleasures!" ”

He was always smiling, and he was the mediator of Confucius and Zilu when they clashed occasionally.

Faced with this suggestion, Confucius closed his eyes slightly and said, "Although it is a free body. In fact, he is already a retainer of the Zhao family, and the minister is loyal to the mastermind, and now Zhen and Liqiu are in war. The situation may be even more difficult than that of the Central Capital, so we still have to find a way to do it, and don't let it be difficult. ”

Confucius is also hesitating, not far ahead is Yangguan, which is directly under the jurisdiction of Yanghu, since Yanghu is in power to Lubang, there is naturally no shortage of corn, if you go to him for help, can you get help?

"This will definitely be stigmatized, but I was able to become a ruler because of the yang goods. It's just that I don't know what Sanhuan, the countrymen, and the disciples will think of me afterwards......"

Confucius was in a dilemma. Looking up at the top of Mount Tai, I fell into deep thought.

He and Yang Hu have a long-standing feud, because they were both tall when they were young. So the appearance is somewhat similar, and Yang Hu, who was already a retainer of the Ji family at that time, was quite disgusted with Kong Qiu. Confucius went to the Ji's feast, but was stopped by Yang Hu in front of the door, and he said proudly: "Ji's feasters, don't dare to feast." When Confucius saw that he was insulted by Yanghu, he could only return indignantly.

However, after 30 years, when it was time for Yanghu Zhuanlu, he began to cultivate party members everywhere in the country regardless of 3721. Under the recommendation of Fei Zaigongshan, he wanted to use Kongqiu, who was very famous among the countrymen and nobles, to force him to become a leader.

Yang Hu's personality is a bit "regardless of previous suspicions".

But Confucius did not forget the insults he suffered back then, so for Yanghu, he was deeply disgusted on the one hand, and forced by his power on the other hand, he had no choice but to curse him "The courtiers hold the country's orders, and the three generations hope not to lose"!

Yangguanyi was getting closer and closer, but at this moment, Yan Hui stopped the carriage: "Master, someone is crying in front." ”

Confucius looked up, but outside a barren farmhouse, there was a newly erected tomb, and an old woman dressed in kudzu coarse cloth was crying and feeling sad.

He frowned and listened to it, and then sent Zilu over to ask: "Auntie, you cry like this, it really seems that you have encountered misfortune more than once." ”

The old woman raised her ravine-wide face and looked at Zilu, tears flowed among them, and she said sadly, "Yes! In the past, my uncle died in the mouth of the tiger, and my husband also died in the mouth of the tiger, and now my son is the same! How can a concubine not grieve and not grieve? ”

Mount Tai did not have the dense population and tourists of later generations, and there were many tigers during it, which harmed one party.

Zilu was furious when he heard this, and said angrily: "Which mountain is the tiger ** on?" I'll go and kill the tiger!" Remove a single evil from this place! ”

After that, he was about to go up the mountain with a halberd to fight the tiger, but he was stopped by Yan Hui.

"Zilu, stop! Have you forgotten what the Master taught you? When you hear something that is righteous, you must ask your godfather and brother before you do it, and listen to what the Master has to say. ”

Zilu and Ran Qiu asked Confucius one after another, what should they do when they hear something that is in line with righteousness?

Confucius said to Zilu that he must first ask his godfather and brother before he can do it; And said to Ran Qiu, if you hear it, you will do it immediately.

Gongxichi, a disciple of the later school, was puzzled why the master gave different answers to the two senior brothers when faced with a question. Confucius replied, "Ask for it and retreat." "Ran has this person, a little cringe, it's rare to take the initiative to do something, I'll push it." "Zilu likes to be better than others, like a wild horse, so he has to put a halter on him.

In the face of the irritable Zilu, Confucius also said solemnly: "By, the poem says, 'Don't dare to storm the tiger, don't dare to Feng He, people know one, don't know the other'." Risking one's life is not something a gentleman should do, not to mention that there is a hidden reason in this matter, you step back first. Let the teacher ask for himself. ”

Zilu also knew that he was impulsive, so he retreated and got out of the car with Confucius. Respectfully bowed at the grave, and then kindly asked the old woman, "Auntie." Since there are relatives killed in a row, why don't you leave here? ”

The old woman wiped her tears and said with a miserable smile: "The concubines and others were originally from Yangguan, and the reason why they moved to live under the mountain is because there is no tyrannical decree from Yangguan here!" ”

Confucius was silent, and after half a ring, he bowed to the tomb again, and left his rations for the old woman. When he got into the car, he sighed and said to Zilu: "Zilu must remember that the harsh government is fiercer than the tiger!" ”

Zilu was awe-inspiringly taught.

Then Confucius said to Yan Hui: "Turn around." ”

Yan Hui knew from this that the master would not go to Yangguan to ask for help in a low voice, Yanghu was rich and unkind in Yangguan, forcing the people to flee, and would rather face the tiger than go back to be harsh. Asking Yanghu for a share of grain is to add a point of harshness to the Yangguan Lu people, which is not a gentleman's doing.

"It's better to go back and find another way, I just hope that the son has it. I can gain something. ”

As when they came, the three of them drove alone on the mountain road.

Confucius turned his head to look at the smaller and smaller tomb, and lamented in his heart: "The first tax is to be a mound." It is called innovation, but although the treasury is full, the people are being oppressed more and more, and the public land even reaches half of the tax. Looking at the country of Lu, there are so many doctors who practice harsh governance, and now Zhen and Liqiu have entered Lu, I only hope that Dr. Zhao can do some good governance as Ci said......"

At the fork in the road, Yan Hui shook his bridle and asked, "Master." Are we going back to the capital? ”

Kong Qiu's eyes narrowed slightly: "No, go to Qufu." ”

"Dr. Liu Xia Ji of the Lucheng Pedestrian Department. The Gongshan clan of Feiyi can try to ask them for help. ”

……

And far away in the middle capital. Zhao Wuxian also left the captured Onozawa bandits here, and after spending the night, he once again set up camp and headed east to Qufu.

Ran Qiu had a very happy conversation with Zhao Wuxian yesterday, and he was quite appreciative of Zhao Wuxian, and now he was about to separate, so he also got up early in the morning to see him off.

In the early morning, as they walked out of the barely defended inner city, the group was confronted by a group of happy people who looked up at a middle-aged man on the city wall.

The man was in his forties, handsome, with a rich beard and no bun. He sat casually on a wall several feet high, holding a ser in his arms and playing softly, and a child of three or four years old beside him was crawling on the man's lap with big innocent eyes.

The voice was clear and the singing was graceful, and the people of Zhongdu and even Zhao Wuxian's soldiers were stunned.

This is also the most beautiful music that Zhao Wuxian has heard since he left the Jin Kingdom, and he has a fight with the musician of the lower palace, but the elegant and lively voice of the musician is not found in the elegant voice of the musician.

Yesterday, I saw some old-fashioned Zhong Gong and Min Ziqian, Ran Qiu and Gong Xichi are also gentlemen who know etiquette, but now such a presumptuous old man suddenly appeared in front of him, which is quite inconsistent with the atmosphere of keeping manners and bowing in the middle capital, Zhao Wuxian felt interesting, and couldn't help asking: "Who is this?" ”

Ran Qiu said helplessly: "It's Qiu's senior brother Zihui, and the child is his youngest son......"

Zihui, also known as Zeng Dian, was the oldest disciple of Confucius.

"Zihui is good at music, and his temperament has always been uninhibited, when Ji Wuzi, the doctor of Lu Guo, died, he went to mourn and 'leaned on his door and sang'. At that time, someone asked him, Lu Guoshangqing died, you don't grieve it, but sit and sing on the lintel, is this really good? Does the doctor know how Zihui answered? ”

"I want to hear about it."

Zihui said that everything has been transformed, and people have it. It is a rejoicing thing that people die and return to nature, just as the branches and leaves wither and fall to the ground and renourish the trees. Ji Wuzi is about to rest peacefully between heaven and earth, but I have to weep sadly, why bother? Zihui was finally blown away by the Ji family, and since then he has been known as 'Lu Zhishi'. ”

Zhao Wuxian was dumbfounded, is this still Confucianism? This casual and uninhibited is already the Taoist style of "Zhuangzi's wife dies, and the drum is singing"!

ps：

Zi said: The empty words I want to carry are better than the deep and clear things I do.

The Confucius written in July is just my subjective impression, if it does not match the reader's imagination of Confucius, please spray lightly. However, the words and deeds of Confucius and his disciples are basically written in the original texts of the Analects, the Book of Rites, and the Family of Confucius, combined with the interpretation of epic poems. (To be continued)

ps: Thank you to the book friend Young Master Jinling, Xunlang, Lewd Xiaohuang, Jiutian Yanyu, we fly together for the reward!

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