Chapter 539: Dao Heart and Human Nature

Liu Xiu and the eldest princess walked side by side, along the long bluestone corridor, and walked onto the newly built platform at the highest peak of Huming Mountain. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoThis is for the Confucians of the Astronomical Academy who only care about celestial affairs and do not care about personnel for stargazing. The platform is full of trees, not only is it not hot in summer, but the mountain breeze blows, but it is extremely cool.

"Ah Ye, be careful." Liu Xiu saw his son Liu Ye lying on the railing, pouting his butt and looking down, and couldn't help but remind. Beyond the railing is a cliff, which is less than 10,000 feet, but it is enough to fall into a meatloaf.

"Awn, it's so tall." Liu Ye stepped on the railing with his legs and spread his arms, shouting with both nervousness and excitement.

"Come down!" The eldest princess was startled, hurriedly rushed up, hugged Liu Ye down, raised her hand and slapped him on the buttocks. Liu Ye giggled, broke away from the eldest princess's embrace, hugged Liu Xiu's legs, and looked up with his little face: "Ah Weng, I want to fly." ”

Liu Xiu laughed, picked up Liu Ye, and circled twice in the air, Liu Ye was so happy that he drooled, but he made the eldest princess tremble. If Liu Xiu misses, this kid may really fly out.

"Husband, be careful, it's too dangerous here."

"Well, it's okay." Liu Xiu held Liu Ye in his arms, wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth with a handkerchief, and said with a smile: "Ah Ye is not afraid of me now." ”

"Where was he afraid of you at that time, he just recognized life." The eldest princess smiled sweetly, but when she thought of Liu Xiu's motionless appearance on the couch when she first saw Liu Xiu, she couldn't help but feel sad. "You were ...... It really freaked me out. ”

Liu Xiu stretched out his right arm, took the eldest princess in his arms, patted her shoulder lightly, and sighed softly.

"Who's up there with the disturbing dreams of whoa, whoa, whoa?" The door opened. An old man who didn't repair his edges walked out with a scolding while holding his eyes. After taking two steps, I found that it was Liu Xiu, and I was immediately startled, and my sleepiness disappeared. Fell to the ground with rare agility: "Doctor Zhou Shu of the Academy of Astronomy, meet the general of the chariot and the eldest princess." ”

"Hahaha......" Liu Xiu handed the child to the eldest princess, stepped forward to help Zhou Shu, and quipped: "Master Zhou." If Sage Kong sees it, he will inevitably scold you for not getting dung on the wall. ”

Zhou Shu grinned: "If Sage Kong really crawls out of Qufu, I will ask him a few questions, whether the dung is dung or not, I don't care." Who doesn't know that the Huming Mountain Observatory is now the most popular place in the world, but it is occupied by a few of us. Isn't it envy of others? ”

Liu Xiu couldn't help but smile and nodded again and again. The Huming Mountain Stargazing Platform now has the largest peephole in the sky, Zhou Shu and Ren An and several other great Confucians do not leave here every day, sleep during the day, and several people gather together to watch the stars at night. All the astronomical books that the institute was able to collect, and this life was really nourishing. The roof of this room can be opened and closed, and there is a unique peephole in the world, and below is the living place where Zhou Shu and others live. However, these old pedants are now a little enchanted, and they are dirty and messy inside, and Zhou Shu is embarrassed to invite Liu Xiu and his wife to visit below. had to be on the platform, yawning while chatting with Liu Xiu. But let's talk about the stargazing map unearthed in the tomb recently excavated in Guanghan. Zhou Shu suddenly became sleepy, his eyes lit up, and he waved his arms and talked about it.

"General, after more than half a month of research, we feel that this star map is very accurate." Zhou Shu said with a spit flying, and Liu Xiu had to take a step back. lest you be bathed. "Originally, we all thought that there was something wrong with this star map, because it was quite different from what we observed. But it was later verified. We found that as long as the position was slightly adjusted, this star map coincided with a star map handed down from the Eastern Zhou Dynasty by eight, but only a star map handed down from the previous dynasty coincided by six points. What does this mean? ”

Zhou Shu looked at Liu Xiu with bright eyes, Liu Xiu blinked, he didn't know anything about astronomy and astrology, so he could only listen to Zhou Shu.

"General, this shows a problem, that is, this star map must have been Zhou ago." Zhou Shu clapped his hands excitedly, startling Liu Ye and the eldest princess who were listening, and Zhou Shu remembered that the eldest princess was still beside her, so she couldn't get too carried away. He lowered his voice, but his excitement did not diminish in the slightest. "General, according to my estimate, this star map is at least in the Shang Dynasty, and it is likely to be in the Xia Dynasty. In addition to this, I discovered a secret. ”

"Oh, what secret?" Liu Xiu looked at Zhou Shu's mysterious appearance and couldn't help but want to laugh.

"General, naivety is really changing." Zhou Shu pointed to the cloudless blue sky: "General, from the astrological point of view, the sky has been changing, but this span is not in years and decades, but hundreds of thousands of years. What the sky does not change, and the Tao does not change, it is all a fool's dream. ”

Zhou Shu flicked his sleeves vigorously to show his disdain, but unexpectedly, his strength was used a little more, and his dirty sleeves were thrown on Liu Xiu's face. Zhou Shu was startled, and hurriedly pleaded guilty, Liu Xiu waved his hand, stroked his cheek and said, "It's okay, it's okay, listen to your words, it's better to read for ten years." To know such a big secret, it would be worth it for me to take two more hits. ”

"The general is right." Zhou Shu raised his thumb, "Who said that generals don't learn skills?" I think the general knows the way of scholarship. As soon as the words came out, he felt that something was wrong, so he quickly covered his mouth and looked at Liu Xiu embarrassedly.

Liu Xiu smiled speechlessly, secretly sighed that he was guilty of his own crimes, he couldn't live, Zhou Shu was such an elegant and polite person back then, since he came to this stargazing platform, he was suddenly crazy, and it is estimated that even his son Zhou Qunlai did not dare to recognize him. Not only Zhou Qun, but also several other old gentlemen are no exception.

After arguing with Zhou Shu for a while, Liu Xiu left the stargazing platform, and listening to Zhou Shu again, it was difficult for him to guarantee that he would not faint. The starry sky is beautiful, but he doesn't have the patience to distinguish the stars one by one.

After getting off the stargazing platform, Zhang Lu and Zhang Wei ran to meet them, they were like two monkeys running on the narrow mountain road, and they were shocked to watch. It wasn't until they saw Liu Xiu and his party that they settled down for a while, stood aside and let Liu Xiu pass first, and then you chased me and ran away, and the excited cries echoed in the valley.

Mrs. Lu rushed over from behind, her steps were very brisk, but her face was very anxious, and she shouted as she walked: "Slow down, you two slow down, be careful not to fall." As soon as she looked up and saw Liu Xiu and his wife, she hurriedly stopped her steps and saluted respectfully: "Meet the general, meet the eldest princess." ”

"Mrs. Guoshi is exempt." The eldest princess smiled lightly: "This is the Jinglu of the Heavenly Master's Dao, we are here to disturb the wife of the national teacher, why should the wife of the national teacher be so polite." ”

Mrs. Lu smiled: "The eldest princess said such a thing, how can the concubine afford it." The Heavenly Master Dao has today, all thanks to the general and the eldest princess, how dare you be disrespectful. ”

The eldest princess bowed and said, "Mrs. Guoshi's words are serious. The general was also saved by Mrs. Meng, and the grace of dripping water should be reciprocated by the spring, which is also as it should be. Mrs. Guoshi, don't always worry about it. ”

"How dare you." Mrs. Lu was modest, glanced at Liu Xiu, and said happily: "The breath of General Guan is not only restored as before, but also improved. ”

Liu Xiu smiled to himself: "Restoration is true, but diligence is fake." Although I am in Huming Mountain, I don't have the heart to cultivate, so I can't talk about this kind of hard work. However, Mrs. Guoshi has really made great progress, I don't know how far away from Long Yin? ”

Mrs. Lu shook her head and stretched out her hand to point to the sun in the sky: "I can see it, but I'm afraid I can't touch it." I can have today's state, and it is also a coincidence, how can such a good thing fall on my head again and again. ”

Liu Xiu looked at the sun, and almost blurted out a meat word, but swallowed it back when the words came to his mouth. Although he has lived in Huming Mountain for a while, Mrs. Lu has always refused to see him, and Wang Zhi came to treat the disease. If this is true, and Mrs. Lu misunderstands again, it will be even more troublesome. What's more, with the eldest princess on her side, those jokes should not be exported.

Mrs. Lu stood sideways to the side of the road, half of her feet were already in the air, the mountain wind stirred her clothes, fluttering, but she didn't move, there was no nervousness on her face, and she calmly asked Liu Xiu to go first. Liu Xiu was frightened and didn't dare to slack off, for fear that Mrs. Lu would fall off the cliff in the next moment, so he hurriedly hugged Liu Ye and walked forward.

It wasn't until she couldn't see Mrs. Lu's figure that the eldest princess quietly glanced at Liu Xiu: "Husband, you really don't want to improve your Dao skills any further?" ”

Liu Xiu raised his eyebrows: "What are you doing again?" Really go into the mountains to be a Taoist priest? ”

"But ......"

"Nothing." Liu Xiu interrupted the eldest princess with some weakness. Although the eldest princess hoped that he would make further progress in Taoism, she did not want him to practice with Madame Lu again. Every time she saw Mrs. Lu, she was always in a little awkward. But she can't stop Liu Xiu because of this, hinder Liu Xiu's progress, this is a big crime. She didn't want to give Liu Xiu the impression of being jealous.

"In terms of martial arts, I have no opponents. But so what? Do you want me to be an assassin? Not to mention that I can't kill people casually among the hosts, and even if I could, it would be meaningless. The overlord was invincible, but in the end, he fell to Wujiang to kill himself, and the martial arts as high as Tanshi Huai finally died in Sunset. The courage of the horseman is unacceptable after all. Liu Xiu took Liu Ye's little hand and walked slowly. The eldest princess took Liu Ye's other hand and listened quietly. "Killing people can only solve a temporary predicament, this is a last resort, and it cannot be used lightly. And let's cultivate the Dao, to tell you the truth, although my Dao is low, I probably know more about the Dao than any of them. The stronger the Dao heart, the thinner the human nature, it's not that I can't improve, I'm afraid. ”

"Afraid?" The eldest princess was confused, "What are you afraid of?" ”

"I'm afraid that I have a Dao heart, but I have no humanity."

"How so?" The eldest princess laughed and said, "Is there a contradiction between Dao heart and human nature? ”

Liu Xiu glanced at her and said with a smile: "Have you forgotten, Lao Tzu said in five thousand words that heaven and earth are not benevolent, and all things are used as dogs." The saints are unkind, and they use the people as dogs. ”

The eldest princess seemed to understand whether she understood or not, and was just about to ask again, when Meng Da walked over quickly: "General, the envoy of Zhang Shuai of the Yellow Turban Army asks to see you." ”

When Liu Xiu heard this, he hurriedly followed Meng Da forward, and asked as he walked, "Who is the messenger?" ”

"A female Taoist priest named Lan Lan." Meng Da said: "She seems to have something important to report to the general." ”