The masses have a natural good impression of Zhang Jiao, a person who is brave and upright, as long as you don't do anything wrong, they will definitely support you.

Liu Jing temporarily reorganized the four or five hundred gangshan bandit army into a militia of half-workers and half-people, and went home to farm in his spare time, and immediately changed into military uniforms when he used it.

Helped Brother Zhang Jiao clear his name, everything is ready to happen, and now Liu Jing still has one thing in his heart, that is, to make friends with someone, if this person submits to Liu Jing, it will be a very important assistant for him, but whether he can invite this person, it depends on Liu Jing's skills.

This very important person is Chen Gong, since Huang Daolin wanted to harm Liu Jing, Chen Gong was angry at home, did not go to the county government, nor went to Huang Daolin's house, chanted poems and wrote poems, played the piano and painted, and lived a leisurely life of Confucianism.

On the ninth day of November, this is a good day, after Liu Jing bathed and fasted for three days, he dressed neatly, took his bodyguard Chu Yan alone, and walked through the streets and alleys to a simple and elegant courtyard.

Liu Jing informed the doorman of his intention, and the doorman trotted briskly to pass the word.

When I was young, I saw the doorman come back happily and said to Liu Jing: "My master is playing the qin, please Liu Gong go in and keep quiet, don't disturb the quiet elegance of my master!" ”

Liu Jing pointed to the little doorman's nose and smiled: "You, a ghost spirit, don't worry, I will go in softly, I will not disturb Chen Gongtai, I still want to hear his refreshing, long-lasting piano sound!" ”

Liu Jing took Chu Yan to step into the gate one after the other, walking on a jade paved road, on both sides of the road proud bamboo forest, winding paths through the secluded, after crossing a bluestone bridge surrounded by streams, I saw Chen Gong sitting in the pavilion from afar, paying full attention to the Chen Palace with both hands stroking the qin.

Liu Jing turned around and whispered to Chu Yan: "No matter what happens later, you must keep quiet, Chen Gongtai is a great Confucian, a talent who can't be sought, I am lucky, I lose my life, don't do anything to make a mistake!" ”

When Chu Yan heard Liu Jing's order, she immediately smiled and obeyed: "Please rest assured that Liu Gong will only be a wood and a dumb person later, and he will be happy without saying a word!" ”

The melodious sound of the piano lingers in the ears, as if a gentle cool breeze is swimming in this courtyard, which makes people listen to it very comfortably.

Chen Gong is playing a song of Boya's "Flowing Water", and the sound of the piano is like that trickle, smooth and clear.

Liu Jing took Chu Yan and walked gently to the small pavilion, where he stood quietly and listened to the music with his eyes closed.

In an instant, Chen Gong had already finished playing the piano music, only to see him stroking the strings with both hands, looking at the green bamboo forest opposite, and chanting softly: "

The orange grapefruit is in the deep mountains.

Wen Jun is good and I am willing, stealing and carving alone.

Committed to the jade plate, I hope to see food over the years.

Fangfei is not compatible, and the green and yellow suddenly change color.

If people want me to know, because the king is the wing. ”

Listening to Chen Gong's complete poem, it is not difficult for Liu Jing, who is a high-achieving student and partial to liberal arts, to hear the deep meaning.

This poem uses oranges as a metaphor to write about a scholar's talent and desire to be recommended, and also expresses Chen Gong's own experiences and wishes.

A generation of celebrities, living in small prefectures and counties, making friends with sesame big officials, their own ambitions can not be expressed, can it not make people sad.

The rulers of the late Eastern Han Dynasty respected the priests only on the surface, and in fact did not allow talented people to really get the opportunity to display themselves.

Many important positions in the department are monopolized by the gate lords of the scholar clan, and you are only a guest of the scholar clan.

Liu Jing thought about it in his heart, and thought that this was the era when poetry was popular, and poetry had not yet risen, no matter which famous poet's poems I recited, Chen Gong never knew about it.

And to make friends with literati and want to make friends with them, only by meeting friends can they be moved by their sincerity.

So Liu Jing thought about it in his mind, and after a while, a seven-word quatrain appeared in his mind:

The white-haired Xiao Xiao is lying in the middle of the Ze, and he is lonely and loyal by heaven and earth.

Su Wu had been eating for a long time, and he was angry and chewing his teeth.

Drizzle spring on the forest garden, decadent night moon Luoyang Palace.

The strong heart is not old, and he can still be a ghost when he dies.

Chen Gong listened to Liu Jing's chanting quietly, and when Liu Jing finished chanting the last sentence, he turned his head sharply and looked at Liu Jing in surprise, with an extremely incredible look on his face.

At the end, Chen Gong recalled the seven-word quatrain, and then said slowly: "I didn't expect Liu Gong to be a person who is both poetic!" ”

Liu Jing was very happy to see that the poetry had an effect, in this era of troubled times, if you want to achieve great things, it is impossible without Wang Zuozhicai.

And now this Chen Gong in front of him is a rare celebrity, now he is fledgling, major events have not started, and he has no reputation or anything, so he wants to invite Zhuge Kongming, Xun Yu, Guo Jia and other Wang Zuozhicai, that is Yelang arrogant, in vain.

Only in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, at the beginning of the war, when the wind rose at the end of Qingping, he seized the opportunity, achieved a force early, and then opened the door to welcome guests, and recruited wise men, so as to gather talents from all over the world.

At this moment, Chen Gong is the best candidate for him to start, and it is also a very rare opportunity, Liu Jing warned himself that he has to grasp it!

So Liu Jing bowed with both hands and saluted: "Where is it, Liu is only a shallow learner, and he is just an axe in front of Chen Gongtai!" Now Liu Jing just wants to make more friends with Confucian scholars like Chen Gongtai, and he is fortunate to work together and ask for advice diligently, and he is already satisfied! ”

When Chen Gong heard Liu Jing's words, he was also moved by Liu Jing's sincerity, but his emotional intention jumped on his face for only a moment, but he disappeared without a trace, and turned around and said coldly: "You are indeed a great person, you can protect yourself in the action of bringing down the Zhang family father and son, retreat with your whole body, and take Huang Daolin's army, and win the position of the master for yourself, there are indeed some means!" ”

The reason why Chen Gong said this was to test Liu Jing's heart, because Liu Jing used the strategy of kidnapping Huang Daolin's family and threatening Huang Daolin, so that Huang Daolin would comply.

And the means of harming his family was an act that the scholars despised at that time, so Chen Gong was still a little dissatisfied with Liu Jing from this point of view.

Liu Jing heard what Chen Gong said, and immediately understood that Chen Gong was testing himself, so he paused, walked to the small pavilion, side by side with Chen Gong, looked into the distance and said: "I think that at the beginning, Liu Jing and Lord Huang listened to Chen Gongtai's plan and discussed big things together, but I didn't expect Lord Huang to secretly cause harm, Liu Jing was terrified, and he had to resort to this strategy to kidnap his family!" ”

Chen Gong heard Liu Jing's words add honorifics to himself, expressing his helplessness, and also glanced at Liu Jinggao in his heart, secretly saying that this person is not bad-hearted, and he is much stronger than the scheming Huang Daolin.