Chapter 17: What We Live For
Jia Xu held a pot of rice wine in his left hand and a pot of chicken soup in his right hand, and when he walked slowly into Ma Hong's house, Ma Hong and Pang Tong were sitting at the door basking in the sun.
Ma Hong saw Jia Xu coming over with a smile, and didn't know what to call Jia Xu for a while, but Pang Tong stood up first and saluted Jia Xu: "Sir, who are you?" ”
"Ma Hong didn't tell you, do you have to call me uncle?"
After Jia Xu finished speaking, he looked at the wound on Ma Hong's head with a smile, and then looked at Pang Tong, who had a blue nose and swollen face.
The corners of Ma Hong's face and mouth surged slightly, and then he said, "Uncle Shi, come into the house and talk." ”
Jia Xu hummed and followed Ma Hong into the house, leaving Pang Tong standing outside the door with a stunned face. Pang Tong touched his nose, thought for a moment and entered the house.
"Two nephews, you don't look very good! Uncle Shi brought a pot of chicken soup to replenish your body, this chicken soup is still hot, you had better drink it while it is hot. ”
Jia Xu put the wine and chicken soup on the dining table as he spoke, still looking at the two with a smile on his face.
"Our picture made Uncle Shi smile."
After Ma Hong finished speaking, he called the little girl he saved yesterday and asked her to get three bowls.
The little girl walked in with a bowl in her hand, and put it on the dining table to serve chicken soup. Ma Hong saw that the little girl's hands were full of scars, so he reached out and grabbed the pot full of chicken soup and said, "You go down and rest first!" ”
The little girl nodded and retreated, Jia Xu had been looking at the little girl's hand all this time, and the little girl's hand holding the bowl had been trembling slightly. Jia Xu smiled slightly, took the pot of chicken soup from Ma Hong's hand and said, "My nephew is injured, let's let my uncle come!" ”
Ma Hong was not humble either, and nodded and thanked Jia Xu. Jia Xu smiled and filled 20,000 chicken soup for the two, took a clean bowl and poured half a bowl of rice wine for himself, and drank rice wine with a smile and watched the two drink soup. After Ma Hong and Pang Tong finished drinking the chicken soup, Jia Xu said, "Did you save that little girl just now yesterday?" ”
Ma Hong nodded and said, "I saw that little girl was pitiful and homeless, so I accepted her as a maidservant." ”
Jia Xu shook his head and said, "Senior nephew, you are luring a wolf into the room!" ”
Ma Hong smiled: "Uncle Shi is serious, it's just a little girl, how can you call her a wolf?" ”
Jia Xu squinted his eyes and smiled: "People who have witnessed the tragic death of their loved ones, whether old or young, will hide a wolf in their hearts. ”
At this time, Pang Tong interjected: "Ma Hong, you have to explain to me now, why you call Mr. Jia uncle!" ”
Jia Xu smiled and explained to Pang Tong, and after listening to it, Pang Tong solemnly saluted Jia Xu and sat back down. After Jia Xu drank the rice wine in the bowl, he gently tapped the wine bowl with a chopstick and said, "If your teacher sees the appearance of the two of you, he will definitely blame me, I think you two will go back when your injuries are almost healed!" ”
Pang Tong's face turned red, and he said with some embarrassment: "Uncle Shi, this has nothing to do with you. ”
Jia Xu sighed, knocked the wine bowl with chopsticks and said: "Young people just can't hold their breath, Uncle Shi will teach you two on behalf of your teacher today, the two of you pointed out who the murderer was in front of you in the homeless pile yesterday, did you think about the consequences at that time?" Too anxious, too immature, you should be cautious in the future. ”
Pang Tong nodded and said: "Yesterday was the sin of my nephew, and my nephew would like to thank my uncle for his teachings." ”
Ma Hong looked at Jia Xu with a smile on the side, and did not speak. After Jia Xu listened to Pang Tong's words, he looked at Ma Hong and said again: Why don't you kid thank Uncle Shi for his teachings? Ma Hong looked at Jia Xu with a smile in his eyes, and told Jia Xu with his eyes, you are right, but he just doesn't say the word thank you.
Jia Xu looked at Ma Hong's smiling eyes and said with a smile: "As a strategist, the first thing is to put yourself in a safe place, and then make suggestions. Like yesterday, you should wait for Pang Xian Commander to come with the army before you say it, and next time you don't have to be quick to talk about it and put yourself in danger. ”
Pang Tong nodded, Ma Hong still looked at Jia Xu with a smile, and told Jia Xu with his eyes that you were right. Jia Xu looked at Ma Hong's eyes and said in his heart: This kid is interesting.
Jia Xu preached a few words to the two of them, and then asked Pang Tong about the grain release policy a few days ago, and praised Pang Tong in his words, Pang Tong was already a proud person, and now he was praised by the person who called himself his uncle, and he thought to himself: It seems that I will be appreciated by the teacher when I go back this time.
Jia Xu saw Pang Tong's face showing joy, his eyes narrowed into a line, and he secretly said in his heart: It seems that this kid will definitely tell his senior brother all this when he goes back, which is interesting.
Ma Hong looked at Jia Xu's eyes with a smile in his eyes, but Jia Xu's eyes narrowed into a slit, and he couldn't see anything from them. Ma Hong looked at Pang Tong's happy face again, as if he had forgotten the death of his brother, and understood Jia Xu's intentions, Jia Xu wanted Pang Tong to tell the teacher all about his plan. Ma Hong narrowed his big eyes into a slit and looked at Jia Xu with a smile, and Jia Xu looked at Ma Hong squinting at himself, and the expression was like saying I know what you are doing. Jia Xu naturally squinted his eyes at Ma Hong, who was also squinting, but exclaimed in his heart: Ma Hong is just a thirteen-year-old boy, who is at the age of figuring out the ideological realm of others with his own ideological realm, but he seems to have jumped out of this age, which is very interesting!
After Pang Tong and Jia Xu praised him, he also praised Jia Xu's strategy of attacking the city from the east to the west and the strategy of ambushing Liu Pan, and when he asked what Jia Xu would do after uniting with Liu Biao, Jia Xu kept silent, saying that it was confidential and could not be revealed to outsiders. When Jia Xu said the word confidential, he looked at Ma Hong's eyes again, and found that Ma Hong was looking at him with a smile, Jia Xu said secretly: This kid, now the smile in his eyes has become a seem, why has it always been a look that you are seen through by me, although it is very interesting, but I am not very comfortable.
Ma Hong is looking at Jia Xu now, as if he is observing the people who are drifting in the long river of history, and he knows Jia Xu's fixed point in the long river of history, so he has no good impression of Jia Xu.
When Jia Xu left, Ma Hong and Pang Tong went out to see each other, Jia Xu and the two said to Ma Hong before saying goodbye: "Young man, it's good to have edges and corners, but time will slowly smooth out your edges and corners, so that you can roll farther on the ground." ”
After Jia Xu left, Ma Hong said to Pang Tong on Jia Xu's back: "Aren't you the best at commenting on people?" What do you think of him? ”
Pang Tong touched his nose and said meaningfully: "Some people live for righteousness, some people live for ambition, some people live for themselves, what Uncle Shi lives for, does he know?" ”
Ma Hong said, "Oh! Don't you think he didn't live for himself? ”
Pang Tong said: "There are many ways to live for yourself, if Uncle Shi really just lives for himself, then I think Uncle Shi chooses the lowest one." ”
Ma Hong shook his head and said to Pang Tong: "Maybe you and I are not old enough to be able to comment on people accurately, so let's comment on him in ten years!" ”
Pang Tong touched his nose and smiled at Ma Hong: "I just said what I thought, it doesn't matter if it's accurate or not, what are you living for?" Do you need to tell me about it? ”
Ma Hong smiled and said, "I want to hear you again in ten years." ”