PS: I really can't figure out the third chapter, let's talk about it after the exam next week.

Confucius was now promoted to the position of Grand Prince, and one of his duties was to "give naked salutes to the guests on behalf of the monarch when entertaining important guests." When the princes go out to meet with the king or the king, they shall serve as the prime minister of the alliance." Therefore, this time, on behalf of Lu Hou, he came to reward Zhao Ying, and it was in line with the etiquette that he presided over the banquet.

Zhao Wuxian's side of the most skilled etiquette Gong Xichi naturally did not dare to say half a word to the master, all the rank and etiquette were arranged by Confucius, and the whole morning I saw him pointing to the east and drawing the west, and there was a faint anti-guest meaning.

"Master." After Zhao Wuxian and Confucius finished placing the ding, he brought Gong Xichi and others to greet Confucius. After he came to the Lu State, he was promoted fast enough, but Confucius, who was lower than him back then, has now been promoted to the "Great Sect Uncle", and he is a head higher than him in his position, and it seems that he has really been reused by Lu Hou.

"Zitai." When Confucius heard this, he slowly turned around and returned the salute, this gentle old man was still so polite, but the signature smile behind the thick tendrils faded a lot, and the eyes that looked at Zhao Wuxian were also a little meaningful.

The harmony between the two when they first met has disappeared with the loss of time and the change of position.

Just when they were all thinking about what to say, the bell rang suddenly: The Jin State Central Army has arrived!

Confucius turned his head, his face slightly stunned, and looked at Zhao Wuxian casually and suspiciously.

Wuxian smiled embarrassedly, and he also felt a deep headache, Zhao Ying was really a needle-to-needle with Confucius, starting from the time he appeared. The confrontation between the two has already begun.

Zhao Ying came by car.

On the cart, the priest Zheng Long is the emperor, and he holds the eight bridles. Born tall and mighty.

But Zhao Ying's right hand was a little unbearable, and a thin and tall aristocratic young man stood beside him tremblingly holding a bow and arrows. The four swarthy horses were all more energetic than him, their hooves held high, and their bodies were covered with horse armor made of tiger skins, just like the equipment of the Jin chariot soldiers during the Battle of Chengpu, colorful and dangerous.

As for the owner of the car, look at it from the perspective of Confucius. The father and son have similar temperaments, but they are different. Zhao Ying was wearing a carved lacquer armor that was not gorgeous but showed the temperament of the Qing clan, and he was as tough as Zhao Wuxian, who was thirty years younger than him. In that grim expression, there was even a bit of heroism. A sturdy black beard hides his jaw, accentuating a stern face, a pair of imposing eyes, and a tightly closed mouth.

The image of Zhao Ying is so awe-inspiring that when he is a horse, it seems as if he has been trained. When he suddenly pulled out a pile of steaming feces in the open space of the feast that Confucius had painstakingly arranged. Everyone was taken aback. Some of the Zhao tigers who were armed with spears stopped eating and laughing, and Confucius's smile began to retract.

Zhao Ying held his head high, like a cold god, as if he had not heard of it. He drove across the banquet hall and did not get out until the front of the seat, Zheng Long drove away the carriage, and the aristocratic young man obediently followed Zhao Ying, glancing at Zhao Wuxian in fear.

In Confucius and others want to come. This may be the son of a small sect of the Zhao family, or the son of the legendary Doctor Wen.

Ji Sunsi and Shusun Zhou looked at each other. They were a little overwhelmed by the way Zhao Ying appeared, and finally had to carefully avoid the pile of dung to salute Zhao Ying, and praise him as the savior of the Lu State against his will.

"Yi Yi is in Dongyi, the secret hatred is the enemy, and the widow is the only one who ......wants to go to the kingdom" Ji Sunsi faced Jin Qing, and his habitual flattery began to blurt out, only to find that Kong Qiu was shaking his head at him slightly, signaling that he didn't have to be so low.

But Zhao Ying's pomp and momentum today, as well as his smiling expression hidden behind his beautiful beard, all made Ji Sunsi and Shusun Zhou hateful and afraid.

This person once forced the Marquis of Qi into a desperate situation, so he was famous in Zhuxia, and now he is as powerful as the sky, what are they compared to?

Zhao Ying helped one person up with one hand, and said with a smile: "The country of the Jinlu brothers should be like this." ”

Such an attitude of being a brother made the two of them breathe a sigh of relief, but the next sentence made their jaws drop again.

"By the way, I haven't introduced Erqing yet, this is Yangsheng, the son of Qi State, who was invited to Xilu as a guest by my son Wuxian."

Confucius's face became more and more ugly, and Ji Sunsi and Shusun Zhou's feud were even more silent.

What the! Qi Gongzi Yangsheng!?

……

Strong, too strong.

After taking his seat, Zhao Wuxian looked at his nose and nose, as the person with the highest title and power here, as the final winner of the whole fierce battle, Zhao Ying had arrogant capital. Especially after facing Confucius, his rigid character became more and more stubborn, as if he wanted to give Confucius a dismount.

So when he insisted on slipping out of Gongzi Yangsheng as the right side of the car, even Zhao Wuxian couldn't stop him, so he could only think sympathetically: "Yangsheng, if you want to blame, blame your father who is the monarch is useless." ”

The two secretaries of Lu have not recovered from just now, and they can only say some scenes from beginning to end, and they dare not dare to be cowardly. Just when they were completely subdued by Zhao Ying, and the meeting was about to end in vain, Confucius, who was sitting in the back seat, got up to toast Zhao Ying.

Zhao Ying's eyes have been staring at Confucius, he was slandered by this person because of the casting of the punishment tripod. So the two who were never masked began to be hostile to each other, Zhao Ying regarded Kong Qiu as a "clever and hypocrite", and he was very unaccustomed to Confucianism, and Kong Qiu has always regarded Zhao Ying as the master of severe punishment and cruel law.

But Zao had made them change their perception of the other party, albeit only limitedly.

Recruiting Zigong without mercy made Zhao Ying see the ability of this Confucian disciple, and thus became curious about Confucius in Zigong's mouth.

"If Kong Zhongni is really a great sage, and he can still recruit him to be used by me, even if he has slandered me, will I still be haunted?"

But Zhao Ying's character determined that he was destined not to condescend to Confucius, but was full of desire to condescend to him!

Unlike the reunion between Zhao Wuxian and Confucius, Zhao Ying and him only met for the first time.

Compared with Ji Sunsi, Uncle Sun Zhouqiu, and Qi Gongzi Yangsheng, who became a foil, Zhao Ying felt that they would meet today. This is the only person who can meet his father and son!

From his point of view, Confucius was nine feet tall. Wearing a solemn black and red court dress, a turquoise silk belt around the waist, wearing a piece of yellow tassel, and no obvious luster, wearing a Xuanduan, the dark bun is fixed with a white hosta. His forehead is high and broad, and the tendrils on his face are thick and dark. Only mixed with a few traces of white, the appearance is elegant and kind.

Confucius didn't know what the man in the seat was thinking, and he pursed his lips. According to the etiquette that has been practiced countless times, he took the wine jue from the grate, washed the jue by hand, and filled the copper bottle with the syrup with the help of Gong Xichi. Then it faces north. Dedicated to Zhao Ying.

Here, behind the wide robe and big sleeves, the blue-gold wine bottle was raised, and the voice was respectful: "Zhongjun Zuo." ”

Over there, Zhao Ying raised the bottle with one hand and stared at the person opposite to watch carefully: "Zhongni." ”

The two stared at each other, although it was only a few breaths, but Kong Qiu saw Zhao Ying's domineering. Pride, ambition.

Ay. This is probably a Shang king-style character, not a golden mean who can make him realize his wish to revive Zhou Li, at most he can become the cause of Jin Wen and Chu Zhuang.

What Zhao Ying saw was Kong Qiu's eyes hidden in the wide sleeves, behind the humility and obedience, he was neither humble nor arrogant. Zhao Ying subconsciously felt that this should be a person with a tough personality who has gone through all kinds of difficulties without changing his ambition.

The mighty cannot be bent, the poor and the lowly cannot be moved, and the rich and noble cannot be lewd!

I am afraid that such a person will not be able to accept it for his own use, so what can I do?

In just a toasting time, it was like a close confrontation, and the others were ignorant, but it made Zhao Wuxian, who knew the inside story, sweat profusely. These two people won't fight on the spot!

Fortunately, everything ended peacefully, but Confucius, returning to the table with graceful steps, began to speak unceremoniously!

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Zhao Wuxian once heard that the thief scolded Confucius as a Confucian who "eats without ploughing, clothes without weaving, shakes his lips and puffs his tongue, and is good at giving birth to right and wrong", and does funerals everywhere. At least in terms of "shaking lips and drumming tongues", he is right, the disciples of Confucius have a subject of "speech", and debate is naturally a compulsory subject, and if he can teach debating talents like Zigong and Zaiyu, the teacher's own level is naturally not bad.

Confucius was not frightened by Zhao Ying's domineering appearance posture at all, and he was not overwhelmed by the shrinking head of Ji Sunsi and Shusun Zhouqiu, from the beginning, his will was his backbone. He was neither humble nor arrogant when he saluted Zhao Ying, and his speech was gentle and elegant, and his ability to speak also impressed Zhao Wuxian.

First of all, Confucius took a roundabout way, and did not mention the sensitive Xu Sentence with a straight face, or even the situation in Xilu as a whole, but first thanked Zhao Ying and Zhao Wuxian for the "capture" of Yang Hu.

"The traitors who betray the monarch can subdue the law, thanks to the best efforts of Zhongjun Zuo and Xiao Sikou."

Zhao Ying replied: "Jin is Lu to eliminate Yang Hu, just like Qi killed Qing's father for Lu back then, Lu can continue to fulfill the oath." ”

But Confucius suddenly asked, "Is Yang Hu really dead?" ”

Zhao Ying and Zhao Wuxian subconsciously glanced at each other, and Zhao Wuxian, who was handling this matter single-handedly, got up and said with a smile: "Master, although Yang Hu did not die in battle, he died of typhoid fever. Even if we want to keep his life and hand it over to Lucheng, we can't stop the big and young orders from coming to take him. ”

I thought I could flicker through the haha, but who knew that Confucius was pressing: "Maybe I can see the bones of this thief?" ”

It is said that Yang Hu and Confucius have similar figures and appearances, both are nine-foot tall Shandong men, and their bones are thick, in this era of general lack of nutrition, such characters are very rare, so where can Zhao Wuxian find a skeleton?

Wu Xian said: "In order to prevent the epidemic, the corpse was burned, and the flesh and bones were destroyed, and I am afraid that the master will not be able to see it." ”

Confucius asked rhetorically, "What about the tomb?" When King Chuping destroyed the Wu family, Wu Zixu led Wu Shi into Ying, he had dug up the grave and whipped the corpse, and the Lu people hated the Yang Tiger into the bones, and they would dig it out and abandon the city, but what? ”

Wuxian shook his head helplessly: "Wu Guoren's move is a return to the beast, why should the master follow suit?" ”

Confucius's words in the thick beard are meaningful: "No, although the Wu people have made barbarian acts, but this matter is not among them, the revenge of the son, the thief of the minister, the sincerity of the heavens, although it is overkill, but also!" This is the so-called avenue not to be punished, and the head is punished. ”

"That's right, but the bones of the Yang Tiger Thief have been scattered in the mass grave and turned into fertilizer for Xilu Chunmiao, and they are nowhere to be found."

At this point, the words had reached a dead end, and Zhao Wuxian was also surprised to find that he had replied on behalf of Zhao Ying, and he had argued with Confucius with words, which was really tiring. I remember that when the two met several times before, they recited poetry in the bamboo forest, listened to the piano and drums, and their relationship was half between elders and descendants, and half of the relationship between old friends.

When separated by interests, they are already ...... Rival?

In the middle of the folding, Confucius faintly brought back the unfavorable situation of shrinking his head because of Zhao Ying's momentum, and the corner of his mouth showed a familiar smile of Zhao Wuxian.

It is exactly the same smile as the portrait of the saint of later generations.

"Don't say what happened, don't tell what happened, and don't blame the past. Since the bones of the dead sun tiger can no longer be found, can you give us an explanation and explanation for the fact that the still alive doctor Xu Ju was expelled by the gentleman and seized the territory? (To be continued......)