Liu Xiu bowed down, got into the tent where Adella was, and saw Adella with a haggard face. Adella's expression was numb, and she sat there motionless like a wooden man, until Liu Xiu coughed, she was startled, came back to her senses and glanced at him, her face showed horror and anger, and suddenly screamed and pounced.

Lu Shi stepped forward, flicked his long sleeves, took Adele aside, restrained her with one hand, and quickly pressed twice on her head with the other hand, Adela screamed in pain, tears welled up, but some manic spirit was obviously calmer, but her eyes were still sharp, like a knife stabbing Liu Xiu.

Liu Xiu touched his nose: "Madam, why do you think of me like this, I haven't been to the baggage camp once." ”

"You didn't come, but if you hadn't given me to that Lu Bu, how would I have become like this?" Adele said, tears flowing uncontrollably.

"Aren't you Xianbei people also dealing with the Han women who have been taken captive in this way?" Liu Xiu frowned, and his voice was more majestic and murderous, which frightened Adella, and her arrogance immediately weakened a lot. "I've heard that your husband and Lian have a penchant for mistreating captives, don't you know? I didn't chop you to feed the dog, which is already polite. ”

Adella turned her head away and wept secretly.

"I'm here this time to ask you a question." Liu Xiu slowly sorted out the big picture: "Do you still want to go back?" ”

"Of course I want to go back, when I get to the grassland, I will definitely let my husband and Abba send an army to kill you."

"And!" Liu Xiu couldn't help laughing, and he didn't even have the interest to refute, Adella was in the big city, and most of the people who came to the baggage camp every day to seek pleasure were soldiers who had made meritorious contributions and received awards, could she not know the battle situation a few days ago? He waved his hand and said straightforwardly: "Let's not talk about those useless ones, if you want to wait for someone to redeem you, I'm afraid it's unlikely." So far, neither your husband nor your father have sent a messenger. ”

Adella's eyes showed a look of pain, she had vaguely guessed this possibility these days, but it was even more cruel when it came out of Liu Xiu's mouth.

"Do you hate Helian?" Liu Xiu asked suddenly.

"What's the matter with you?"

"Of course there is." Liu Xiu said very calmly: "If you hate him, you just stay here and live well, at most a year and a half, you will be able to hear the news of his death." ”

Adella stopped crying and looked at Liu Xiu with some horror.

"If you don't hate him, I'll let you go back now, and you can send him a message and say, I want to make a deal with him."

"What deal?" Adella blurted out.

"You don't understand this transaction, but Helian will understand." Liu Xiu took out a piece of paper from his arms, and wrote a few sentences on it, which didn't seem to have much content, but Liu Xiu was very cautious and hesitated for a long time before putting it in front of Adella. Adella can listen to a few words of Chinese, but she doesn't know Chinese characters, she looked at Liu Xiu inexplicably, Liu Xiu stroked the paper with his hand, and said very solemnly: "You give this to Helian, he will understand." ”

Adele knew that He Lian knew a lot of Chinese characters, he could read the classics of the Han people proficiently, and he was a rare learned person among the Xianbei people. However, Tanshi Huai obviously didn't like Helian, and even after Huai Zong died, he didn't show his care for Helian, which made her Abba very disappointed in Ganluoluo.

"Huai Zong fought with me twice, once when I was captured alive, and once when I shot him in battle." Liu Xiu stood up and took two steps back and forth in the big tent, as if he was talking to Adella, and as if he was talking to himself: "Helian was attacked by me twice, but I couldn't catch him, I don't know if it's right or wrong to let him go back this time." However, heroes cherish heroes, and Helian is a rare smart person on the grassland, I hope he can recognize the current situation, and cooperation will benefit both sides, and fight will hurt both. ”

Adella didn't understand very well, she only knew that Liu Xiu was in a dilemma now, and seemed to be making a very difficult decision. Someone next to her translated her, saying that Liu Xiu respected Helian as a hero, thought that Helian was more powerful than Huaizong, and hoped to be friends with Helian. At that time, there was no standard of believing in Yada, anyway, the general meaning was almost the same, Adella was very surprised, but with Liu Xiu's expression, she believed it a little.

Adella promised to pass these words on to Helian, and Liu Xiuwei expressed his apology and sincerity, promised to give Adella a cart full of gifts, and sent a few knights who had been captured with her to escort her out of the big city fortress and rush to Jiuyuan.

After talking to Adella, Liu Xiu instructed Cao Hong to immediately bring Adella out of the camp and let her rest for two days, stop tossing her, and prepare some gifts for her to take away. Cao Hong was a little reluctant, and reluctantly agreed.

"Don't worry, when the thing is done, it will be your turn to go out, and your main task at that time will be to suck the blood of the Xianbei people." Liu Xiu patted Cao Hong's shoulder comfortingly, Cao Hong was happy, nodded again and again, and went to get busy with high emotions.

"Do you want to separate the Xianbei people?" Lu asked as he accompanied Liu Xiu to walk back.

"Yes, the Xianbei people are too powerful, just like the Huns who took the plunge, and we don't have the national strength of Emperor Xiaowu, so we can only start from the inside."

"On the contrary, although the Lord does not believe in the Tao, his every move is deeply rooted in the Tao."

Liu Xiu was stunned for a moment, remembering what he had said to the Lu family half a month ago, he smiled: "Madam, when will I have time, I will ask Madame again about the morality of the Heavenly Master's Dao?" ”

That's what Lu was waiting for. "I don't dare to ask for advice, I am willing to communicate with adults."

Liu Xiu thought for a while, "That's it, I have to go to the camp to check the military affairs during the day, and after dinner, I will let Fengxue cook a pot of Shu tea you sent, and we will make tea and talk about it, how about it?" ”

Lu readily agreed.

According to Liu Xiu's requirements, the morning is the time for physical training, and all officers must participate, and in the afternoon it is skill training, horsemanship, archery, knife skills, and halberd skills, all of which do not fall, and then the formation drill is a team unit, a formation drill with a song as a unit is held in three days, and a battalion-wide drill is held in nine days, and those who are qualified will have a holiday the next day, and those who are not qualified will continue to practice the next day. A cycle of 10 days.

In the evening, it is the rest time, except that you can not leave the barracks without permission, you can arrange your own activities, but after the military exercise system with the surname of the cycle, no Sima will refuse to admit defeat, and usually the officers above the team leader will be concentrated to strengthen.

But Liu Xiu generally didn't participate in those activities, and after dinner, he spent most of his time reading in his room, or chatting with a few Simas. Today, I made an appointment with Mrs. Lu to discuss, he rejected Lu Bu, who was going to come to chat and fart, and let Fengxue make a pot of tea, then leaned on the side of the desk and waited, and picked up the Persian scripture written by Fengxue to read.

Although it was not a great way to shift the mind, he still watched it with relish, not because he was interested in this Persian religion, but because he found this scripture to be like a story, although it was a little dry, but when the novel was read it still had a bit of a curious taste. Fengxue saw that Liu Xiu was willing to see it, and she was very happy in her heart, but she saw Liu Xiu half leaning on the desk, supporting her with one hand and turning the book with the other, laughing forward and backward at every turn, without the piety of reading the Bible at all, she was a little frustrated, and she hurriedly put her hands together and prayed a few words to Allah in the void.

"What kind of good books do adults read, such coke?" Lu's voice sounded at the door, Feng Xue hurriedly stepped forward, handed over a soft cotton mat, Lu thanked him, and sat opposite Liu Xiu with his skirt.

"Madame is here." Liu Xiu suppressed his smile and handed the book over: "It's nothing, the Taoist scripture of the resting country written by Feng Xue, I read it as a story, but I can't understand anything." ”

"Sabbath?" Lu Shi was a little surprised: "Isn't the country of rest a belief in Futu, how can there be a Taoist scripture?" ”

"The Floating Massacre was passed on later, right?" Liu Xiu wasn't very sure.

Lu Shi took it and looked at it twice, and was suddenly a little surprised, she didn't care about talking to Liu Xiu, and quickly turned a few pages of the book. She reads very quickly, not ten lines at a glance, but at least twice as fast as an ordinary person.

"Wind and Snow Girl, is this story of the God of Light traveling eastward?"

Feng Xue was very unhappy that Liu Xiu showed what she wrote by herself to the Lu family, and now that the Lu family was questioning her real surname, she was even more dissatisfied. If it weren't for Liu Xiu's face, she would have been eager to take it back.

"Of course it's true." She said angrily: "I heard that story countless times when I was a child, and I will never be wrong." ”

Only then did Lu Shi notice Feng Xue's unhappiness, smiled apologetically, took paper and pen from the case, quickly drew a pattern, and pushed it in front of Feng Xue: "Have you seen this?" Red. ”

Feng Xue glanced at the pattern, and was also stunned, stretched out a finger to pick her lips, and her long eyelashes flashed: "I seem to have seen it somewhere, but I don't know if it's a talisman of the God of Light." ”

Liu Xiu, who was left out in the cold, took a look at it, and saw that it was a figure that looked like a tree and a fire, with many forks, and a big circle on the top, I don't know what it was.

"My master said that there is a mysterious race from West Kunlun, into the Central Plains, once powerful, they have superb Taoism, can call the wind and rain, serve ghosts and gods, ruled in the Central Plains for thousands of years, and then I don't know what reason it died, some of their descendants wandered around, everyone has incredible Taoism, but they all said that their Taoism is just a skin, and the king who mastered the highest Taoism went to Bashu, hidden in the mountains, hidden in the world." Lu Shi pointed to the pattern, "This is their emblem." ”

"Really?" Fengxue's eyes widened in surprise.

"At least that's what I heard from my master." Lu Shi nodded, "My lord must not know, the Heavenly Master is a native of Peiguo, a descendant of Zhang Liang, who stayed in the marquis, and later entered the mountain to cultivate, first in Longhu Mountain, and then went to Heming Mountain, just tracking all the way." It's a pity that he chased him to Heming Mountain, and he couldn't find any further clues. ”

Fengxue sighed in disappointment.

Liu Xiu, who has been reduced to an audience, looks at Fengxue, and then looks at the Lu family, and the heart says that these two women are really gossip, a legend that is not reliable at all, and it seems to be true. Thousands of years? Are there thousands of dynasties in Chinese history?

"Uh-huh, madam, from the three emperors and five emperors to the present, which dynasty has thousands of years?"

Lu Shi glanced at him: "Dare to ask, my lord, do you know your grandfather's deeds and voice?" ”

Liu Xiu blinked, he remembered the question that Master Zhang Taiyan had asked the historians of the Doubtful Ancient School. He smiled, shook his head, but refused to give in and said: "I haven't seen it, but if there is no ancestor, there is no father, and if there is no father, there is no self, this is common sense, you can reason to know, as for your thousands of years of dynasty, how did you know it?" How do you know he's not somebody talking nonsense. ”

"There are gods in every word, how can it be nonsense, adults don't have any evidence, so they think that others are talking nonsense, it is inevitable that there is some Meng Lang." Lu Shi said-for-tat: "Furthermore, what is a father and what is a mother? Adults say that if there is no ancestor, there is no father, and if there is no father, there is no self, so can adults know that there are strange things in the world, no father and no mother, and they are born by themselves? And there are spirits and ghosts, born from heaven and earth? Adults practice the art of the five elements, the five elements are mutually reinforcing and mutually reinforcing, the father of He, the son of Hehe? ”

Liu Xiu only knew that Zhang Jiao's eloquence was first-class, and he never knew that Lu's rhetoric was so sharp, and he couldn't resist it for a while, and he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed. Fortunately, he was also experienced and experienced, so he didn't show any panicked looks, just listened to Lu Shi quietly, and then grabbed one of her topics and immediately seized the initiative of the topic.

"Madame just said that Yi Dao is vast and all-encompassing." Liu Xiu took out the short knife from his waist and gently put it on the case: "Dare to ask Madame, it is also a piece of iron, why do some people make a knife that sharpens iron like clay, which is worth a thousand gold, but some people can only cut melons and vegetables, and the price is not more than 100 yuan?" ”

"Of course, it's poor skills."

"What's wrong with that skill?" Liu Xiu asked: "It's the same knife, what kind of gap will make them judge?" ”

Lu Shi is speechless, she is skilled in cultivation and has superb talismans, but striking iron is not her forte.

"Madame must also know that most of the Han army's riding skills are actually inferior to the Hu people, but when the Han army faces the same number of Hu people, most of them can have the upper hand, why? Not because there were Taoists in the Han army, but because the iron armor of the Han army was stronger than the leather armor, because the ring knives of the Han army were sharper than their bronze knives. This time, we were able to win more with less, and we won consecutive battles, not because of Wang Zhidao, but because our assembly was much stronger than theirs. I'm sure Madame won't object to this, right? ”

Lu Shi nodded reluctantly.

"In addition, I think there are a few points that Madame cannot object." Liu Xiu folded his fingers and continued: "Madame said, there are many cultivators, and there are very few Taoist skills, even if it is to the realm of Madame, it is necessary to eat and drink water, it is impossible to eat and drink dew, but grain produced one stone per mu in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and now the average production capacity per mu has reached three stones, which is not the contribution of Taoist priests."

Mrs. has said countless immortals, but most of them have not been tested, I know Lao Tzu, Zhuangzi, Lao Tzu west into the quicksand, the whereabouts are unknown, I don't say. Zhuangzi is respected by you as a real person, but don't forget, when Zhuangzi is hungry, he also has to borrow rice from others.

If Zhuangzi can't do it without eating the fireworks of the world, you can learn from the Tao of becoming immortals, is it a bit ambitious and unrealistic?

……”

Liu Xiu said a few Taoist dead holes in one breath, in fact, they are also the dead holes of most religions: always want to go to heaven in one step, but in the end they have to run for the food and clothing of the body, and in the end, there are fewer and fewer people who really cultivate the Tao, and it has become the mainstream to cheat and eat and drink as a profession.

"Then the adults think that the pursuit of the Great Dao is vain?"

Liu Xiu shook his head, he didn't believe that he was so persuasive, a few words could make a person like Lu Shi who had been cultivating for many years give up his faith and become an atheist, in fact, this world is probably a theist except for him now. If you want to say alien, he is the real alien.

"The avenue is beautiful, but you can't pursue it like you." Liu Xiu thought for a while, strode to the door, pointed to the moon in the sky and said, "For example, the avenue is the moon in the sky, we want to go to the moon, what should we do?" ”

Lu Shi said without thinking: "Cultivation, as long as you practice to the point where you practice your gods, you will be able to get it all over the world at that time, not to mention the moon." ”

Liu Xiu was speechless. "Do you think you can get to that point?"

Lu Shi shook his head, a little frustrated: "The master said that my qualifications are limited, and I am afraid that I will not be able to do it in this life." ”

"Even if you can practice, can you guarantee that your son Zhang Lu or Zhang Wei will definitely do it?"

"It can't." Lu Shi said affirmatively: "The Tao can be transmitted, but you can only cultivate it yourself, otherwise why would it be so difficult to cultivate the Dao." ”

"That's right." Liu Xiu clapped his hands and turned the topic back to the knife: "But a master of knife fighting, he can teach his disciples the art of knife fighting, as long as his disciples do the same way, he can make sharp knives like his master." Let's assume that instead of relying on Taoism to get to the moon, we will invent a spaceship, and when the time comes, as long as the pattern is passed down, no matter who it is, as long as it is made according to this pattern, he will be able to go to the moon, wouldn't it be better? ”

"Spaceship?" Lu's and the wind and snow are clouded.

"Huh? Ah, it's just such a device, you can say it's a flying car. Liu Xiu hurriedly said perfunctorily, "Maybe such a car can't be made in one generation, and two generations can't be made, but there will be some progress in one generation's efforts, and if you don't achieve ten generations, a hundred generations, and a thousand generations, you will always get closer and closer to the goal of flying to the moon, right?" ”

Lu Shi seemed to understand a little, and asked tentatively: "What do you mean by doing some cultivation that can be passed on to future generations, and turning a person's cultivation into a continuous cultivation that can last for dozens or hundreds of generations?" ”

"It's still Madame smart." Liu Xiu immediately praised: "Do you think, you cultivators, before you attain the Dao, you always need to eat and drink, right?" It is obviously impossible for everyone to go to the Tao, so why don't you take a longer view and devote some of your energy to the mundane things of this world? For example, research and study how to make this knife sharper, so that it can better ensure safety, for example, study how the same land can produce more food, so as to avoid famine, feed more people, and make you more at ease to cultivate. ”

Liu Xiu tried his best to put the science he understood into the skin of Taoism, and led Lu's enthusiasm for Taoism to technology, although Lu didn't show too much interest, but she didn't immediately object, she just said that she had to think about it, after all, what Liu Xiu said was too different from the Tao she understood.

"Actually, it's the same thing." Liu Xiu struck while the iron was hot, and went further: "Tao gives birth to one, life to two, two to three, and three to all things." You want to cultivate from three to the Tao at once, and I think you should first cultivate from three to two, then from two to one, and then from one to the Tao, so that although it is slower, it is more secure. Not to mention anything else, the three talents of heaven and earth, you are cultivating humanity at most, and you can't understand the way of heaven or earth, can you understand the real way? Lao Tzu said, man is the law of the earth, the earth is the law of the sky, the heaven is the law, the Tao is the nature, what is nature, nature is all things around us. This knife is nature, this wood is nature, and this drop of water is nature, and when you study these, you are studying the true Tao. ”

Lu Shi couldn't help laughing, covered his lips and smiled: "The adult is not knowledgeable, but when it comes to debate, he has a lotus tongue." ”

"Comprehend the spirit, comprehend the spirit." Liu Xiu didn't dare to debate Taoism with the Lu clan, he knew that he was not the opponent of the Lu clan. Although the Taoist scriptures are not as complicated as the Taoist treasures of later generations, he only knows Lao Tzu's five thousand words, which is definitely not enough for others to step on.

Lu Shi put away his smile, thought about it and nodded: "Actually, what the adults said, I can roughly understand it, these are all techniques." The technique is easy to seek but the way is difficult to cultivate, so the cultivator is heavy on the way and light on the technique, and the adult starts from his own experience and proposes to accumulate the technique and cultivate the way, which is not a way. Maybe...... Is this exactly what Lao Tzu said about the movement of the opposite way? ”

Liu Xiu didn't answer her again, as long as she started to find a reason herself, she could always find a suitable reason, which was more natural than saying it to a layman like him. What he needs is for Lu Shi to find those people in the Dao Sect who are proficient in various techniques to do some down-to-earth research, do you want to do those philosophical studies? Of course, the expansion of thinking and debate is the vanguard of technological expansion, and without the theory of relativity, there would be no great development of physics in the 21st century.

The question is, isn't the theory of relativity a fool's dream without solid experimental techniques to verify it?

A person like Albert Einstein can only prepare the right soil and wait for him to appear, and all he can do is cultivate this suitable soil.

Liu Xiu said to the Lu family, with a sharp blade in hand, a warrior can easily subdue two or three enemies armed with bronze knives, and the terrain of Bingzhou determines that it is impossible to station a large number of troops, I must use the way of elite soldiers, so I urgently need people with expertise in this area, if Madame can help me with this, I can help Madame preach in Bingzhou. Of course, preaching should also be divided into three, six, nine and so on, like ordinary people, you just let them honestly plough the land, especially the Huns, you have to let them be willing to be Han people. Those who are literate and hyphenated can pass on some specific methods for studying the way of heaven and earth, and then on the next level, they can pass on some tuna kung fu or something, and in the end, you will definitely be able to select a few talented disciples, which is better than preaching like now.

Although she very much disagrees with Liu Xiu's understanding of Taoism, Lu Shi was still moved by the prospect described by Liu Xiu, and attracting scholars to Taoism has always been her dream, but it is difficult to do. Only Zhang Jiao's kind of official who can't become an official goes to preach, and now there are officials who do, and being an official is more enthusiastic than preaching.

"As the lord said, the concubine is ...... I have to discuss it with all the priests in the Daomen. ”

(To be continued)