Shuijingzhuang is located in a valley surrounded by three mountains, and there is a road into Shuijingzhuang every hour, and Pang Tong is standing on the wooden bridge at the foot of the mountain outside Shuijingshanzhuang at this time. If you want to get closer, you can pass through this wooden bridge, if you ride a horse, you can take a detour through the shallow water, under the wooden bridge is a pool of clear water, it is June, and the clear water is full of lotus flowers. The wooden bridge is built quite randomly, people walk on the wooden bridge, the wooden bridge will keep shaking, if you don't have a good balance, it is easy to fall into the pool. If two people walk on the wooden bridge at the same time, the wooden bridge will shake even more, and the probability of the person standing on the wooden bridge falling into the water will also increase.

Pang Tong, who was standing at one end of the wooden bridge, looked at the person and a horse coming from afar, the man was wearing a gray shirt, holding a bamboo pole as a cane in his hand and walking slowly, and the other hand was holding a horse, and immediately a boy was playing the bamboo flute. When the boy slowly approached, Pang Tong saw clearly that the person leading the horse was a gray-shirted young man, and the boy on the horse was a boy about ten years old. The gray-shirted young man was eight feet long, about fifteen or sixteen years old, slightly thin overall, with a long face and a straight nose, thick eyebrows and a slightly yellow complexion, and his eyes flashed with the light of wisdom.

"Your Excellency is Zhuge Liang?"

Pang Tong stood at one end of the wooden bridge and said in a loud voice.

When the gray-shirted young man heard Pang Tong's words, he stopped and saluted Pang Tong, and said loudly: "It is Zhuge Liang below, and it is Pang Tong who dares to ask Brother Tai." ”

Zhuge Liang had never seen Pang Tong but could call Pang Tong's name, and Pang Tong was not surprised, because Zhuge Liang was recommended by Pang Degong, and Pang Degong only needed to describe Pang Tong in one word, and Zhuge Liang would be able to recognize it.

"Brother Zhuge is Pang Tong below, and I am here to welcome Brother Zhuge on the orders of the teacher." Pang Tong slowly walked up the wooden bridge and said loudly.

"Thank you, Brother Pang." Zhuge Liang thanked Pang Tong.

Pang Tong touched his nose at the corner of his mouth, a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, and then his tone changed abruptly: "Brother Zhuge , if you want to enter Shuijing Villa, you must pass my pass, otherwise, where do you come from and where do you go back!" ”

When Zhuge Liang heard Pang Tong's words, he led the horse to the bottom of the tree, tied the old horse to the tree, and picked the boy off the horse. The boy whispered, "Second brother, that ugly man looks fierce. ”

Zhuge Liang smiled slightly, touched Zhuge Jun's head and said with a smile: "Third brother, you stay here first, and wait for the second brother to meet him." ”

Then, Zhuge Liang walked to the wooden bridge with a bamboo pole and walked towards Pang Tong who walked from the wooden bridge.

"What does Brother Zhuge think of Lotus?"

Pang Tong stood two feet away from Zhuge Liang, tilting his head slightly and sticking out his finger to point at the lotus flower in the pond.

Zhuge Liang stood firmly on the wooden bridge with a bamboo pole as a crutch in one hand, and said with a slight smile: "Junzi Lotus, Lotus Junzi, its roots go deep into the silt, its leaves float on the water, and its flowers bloom day and night." This flower is like a gentle gentleman, through nature, knowing yin and yang, clean and exhibiting in the world, and the fragrance calls the wind. ”

"Brother Kong Ming is really witty." Pang Tong bent down and put his hand into the clear water and said with a smile: "The lotus comes out of the mud without staining, but his roots go deep into the mud, if there is no dirty mud to transport nutrients to it, how can it show his beautiful side to the world." The world sees the pure height of the lotus, but ignores that the root of the pure lotus is in the mud. Junzi Lian, is it a surface gentleman? Or a true gentleman? ”

Zhuge Liang listened carefully to Pang Tong's speech, and when Pang Tong's words were finished and asked him a rhetorical question, Zhuge Liang suddenly picked up the bamboo pole and pointed to the water lilies in the water, a gust of wind blew, and the water surface rippled, and the fragrance of water lilies came to his face. Zhuge Liang said secretly: The lotus has no thorns, but the witty words can ridicule people, and Pang Tong is really good at arguing.

Pang Tong watched Zhuge Liang swing the bamboo pole violently, and thought that Zhuge Liang was going to pull out the bamboo pole to hit him in the face, but Pang Tong was shocked, and said secretly in his heart: "This kid is shocked, what is he going to do." ”

Zhuge Liang slowly blew on the bamboo pole with a smile in his eyes, and then said, "Brother Pang, you are wrong. ”

This guy can't have a sick brain! Pang Tong frowned, but still said, "Then please tell Brother Zhuge how I was wrong." ”

Zhuge Liang took a bamboo pole to slap the clothes on his body, and there was a burst of dust on the clothes, it turned out that the clothes Zhuge Liang was wearing were not gray but white, and it was only because the clothes were dirty that the clothes were gray.

Pang Tong frowned and looked at the dust floating from his clothes, and said secretly in his heart: This product is really sick!

Zhuge Liang slapped the dust off his body one after another and said with a smile: "If you say that the lotus is going to involve the silt, then you must also say that this pond, the nutrients of the lotus are fed by the silt in the pond." If the whole pond is regarded as a complete life, then the silt is like the heart of the person, the pond full of clear water is like the blood of the person, and the lotus leaf is like the skin of the person, and the lotus flower is like the face of the person. Born from the heart, the heart is beautiful, the face is beautiful, this lotus flower is not beautiful, so how can this mud not be beautiful? ”

After Zhuge Liang finished speaking, he looked at Pang Tong's face intentionally or unintentionally, and secretly ridiculed Pang Tong's face, that is, to say that the lotus flower is beautiful, and you say that the mud is also beautiful, yes, you want to talk to me about beauty and ugliness, so your face is so ugly, can your heart be beautiful?

Pang Tong's eyes stared at Zhuge Liang's eyes, and he replied with a frown: "Did Your Excellency say that the mud is beautiful?" So why does the world think it's ugly? ”

Zhuge Liang smiled secretly in his heart: This ugly man is still a little interesting.

"In a certain way, the silt is indeed beautiful, and mortals do not recognize the beauty of the silt, just because they have eyes. It's like feces that smell bad and the world discards them, but the world forgets that the dung comes from them, and is the dung that comes out of their bodies really useless? No, manure can provide nutrients to crops and help produce better food, which ends up in people's mouths. Zhuge Liang responded.

Pang Tong laughed, clapped his hands while laughing, and said, "Your Excellency is eloquent, Pang Tong admires." ”

Zhuge Liang smiled slightly: "Your Excellency praised it." ”

Pang Tong smiled: "Your Excellency doesn't have to be too humble, according to the bottom of it, there is no difference between beauty and ugliness in your heart, only useful and useless, right?" ”

Zhuge Liang smiled slightly and did not deny it.

Pang Tongyi smiled and approached Zhuge Liang's side and whispered: "Brother Zhuge , no one will pity the feces that are abandoned in the crops and sucked up nutrients, and few people will care about the sludge that sinks to the bottom of the water, they are still abandoned by the world after all. I think we all deserve to be beautiful that will not be left behind. ”

Zhuge Liang nodded slightly, and then asked, "Then Brother Pang thinks I have passed this level?" ”

"I debated with Brother Zhuge just now, my ears hurt a little, once my ears hurt, I need the sound of silk and bamboo to comfort me, Brother Zhuge should be an elegant person!"

Pang Tong looked at Zhuge Liang's bamboo pole as he spoke, in fact, this bamboo pole is also a flute, but Zhuge Liang's flute is extraordinarily long and can be used as a crutch.

After listening to Pang Tong's words, Zhuge Liang said secretly in his heart: Pang Tong cares that I say that he is ugly, and now he has to apologize to him! But forget it, I'll put on a show for him.

Zhuge Liang said with a smile on his face: "Then why don't I just play a song for Brother Zhuge ?" ”

Pang Tong nodded and said, "That's naturally great." ”

Zhuge Liang smiled slightly, and called to Zhuge Jun: "Third brother, bring my qin." ”