Xi Zhicai fiddled with a folding fan, walked into the Tai Chi Taoist Hall with a relaxed step, glanced around, pointed to the familiar seat, and said to the bartender who greeted him: "The old rule, one liter of wine, four dishes of freshness, a Guangling pufferfish." Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

He was an old customer, and the bartender was very familiar with him, so he didn't ask much, and sang: "One liter of wine, four plates of fresh food, one Guangling pufferfish-" and led Xi Zhicai into the elegant seat near the window. Xi Zhicai pushed open the window, hung the folding fan in his hand on the window hook, and sat down quietly. The bartender went out and closed the door.

After a short time, the wine and dishes came up, and a fat chef held a pot of pufferfish, walked up to Xi Zhicai, took out a pair of clean chopsticks, took a piece of pufferfish meat and put it in his mouth, and then bowed down and saluted: "Please use it slowly." ”

"There is labor." Xi Zhicai reached out to the fat chef and sprinkled a handful of five baht coins in his fat hand. Pufferfish is poisonous, and most people dare not eat it, but the taste is very delicious, and people who have eaten it can't help it, so there is a saying that they risk death to eat pufferfish. The chef who makes the pufferfish will try a piece first to reassure customers about their craftsmanship. This is considered a test of poison, and the guests will reward him with a small tip in order to thank him.

The fat cook took the money, bowed again, and withdrew.

Xi Zhicai drank wine and ate food leisurely, and after a short time, someone gently pushed open the door, flashed in, knelt opposite Xi Zhicai, and lowered his head without saying a word.

"General Che Cai is seriously ill and has asked to go to Chengdu to recuperate." Xi Zhicai didn't look at the man, and said in a low voice: "The king of Chu wrote to the Son of Heaven and asked to be crowned the king of Shu, govern Chengdu, and return to the country." ”

The man raised his eyebrows, raised his head, and blurted out, "Really? ”

Xi Zhicai's face turned pale, and he looked at the man without speaking. The man hurriedly lowered his head and put his hands on the ground: "Don't choose your words." Please forgive your sins. ”

"Remember, there is no next time." Xi Zhicai snorted in displeasure, never looked at him again, and continued to drink and eat fish. The man trembled. He saluted again and withdrew. However, a small burden he brought with him was left untouched. Xi Zhi finished eating, then took out the burden from under the case, opened it and saw that the elegant room was suddenly full of golden light, and the whole ten cakes of horseshoe gold. The corners of Xi Zhicai's mouth twitched and picked up the burden. Swaggered out the door.

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"Really?" Guo Tu's eyes lit up with ecstasy, and he looked at the dusty spy in disbelief.

"Absolutely." The spy was overjoyed, he had received such important news, and the reward was inevitable. "After I heard the news, I didn't dare to believe it, and I waited for two more days before the news came out from the palace, and I rushed back."

"Really?" Guo Tu's face slowly turned cold: "You waited for two days? ”

The spy looked at Guo Tu's face wrong. hurriedly explained: "Captain, this news is too important, I don't dare to believe it." ”

"You seem to have forgotten your duty. Not to judge, but to pass. Guo Tu stood up: "Two days, you actually kept such an important thing in your hands for two days?" He suddenly roared: "Who gave you the guts?" ”

The agent was shocked.

"You can leave with confidence, I will issue a bereavement pension according to the specifications of the dead." Guo Tu waved his hand. The spy was like ashes, begging for mercy, but Guo Tu didn't listen at all, and two guards walked in, dragged the spy down, and cut off his head with a knife, and blood sprayed all over the ground.

Guo Tu frowned. With his hands behind his back, he walked back and forth in the hall. This news is very important, big enough to affect the entire battle situation, and he can't afford to make a mistake. But the hapless agent has been verified from the palace, indicating that the news will definitely not be fake, but. Could it be the fake news released by Liu Xiu? He still needs to wait.

Waiting for the news from Chang'an, because Liu Xiu is still in Chang'an.

Three days later, Guo Tu received news from Chang'an that Liu Xiu, the general of the Che Cavalry, had rushed to Yizhou, on the grounds that Jingzhou was in a military emergency, and the Che Cavalry General was going to prepare for the offensive. The Che Cavalry General's Mansion was heavily guarded, and he couldn't get in at all, but the spies noticed that the Che Cavalry General Liu Xiu had not shown up, and changed his usual habit of riding on horseback, he was sitting in a big car, the kind of cart that could barely drive on the plank road, and there were a large number of medical craftsmen and medicinal herbs with him.

The most important news is that the Che Cavalry General's Mansion is secretly looking for a clever healer.

Guo Tu was ecstatic, the Cheqi General's Mansion was still looking for a doctor, that could only mean one problem, Liu Xiu's illness was not cured, otherwise he wouldn't have to find a famous doctor. He no longer hesitated, and immediately sent someone to send the news to Yuan Shao, and after a little hesitation, he changed his mind and decided to rush to Yi County in person, and send this important secret to the army, and he must hand it over to Yuan Shao himself.

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On the plank road of Baoxie Valley, Liu Xiu changed to a smaller car, and the curtains were hung on all sides of the car, blocking all eyes from the outside. Liu Xiumo held the ring on his fingers, leaning against the ordinary pottery pillow behind his back, his eyes were mixed with shock, ecstasy and confusion.

Although he has not seen it all, what he has seen is enough to subvert his existing worldview.

What is the most classic sentence of Lao Tzu's 5,000 words? Full of losses, humble benefits.

What is the biggest human problem? Opinionated. I always think that I am the spirit of all things, the master of heaven and earth, and I have discovered all the truths and understood all the secrets of the universe. This is true of today's Confucian scholars, and so are the scientists of later generations.

In fact, they have always been frogs at the bottom of the well, but the difference is that science has been constantly self-correcting, constantly self-denying forward, although they are still in the well, but the well is bigger and bigger, while Confucianism is confined to the teacher's law, the family law, dare not take a step beyond the thunder pool, their well mouth is getting smaller and smaller, until it becomes a cloud of darkness.

Liu Xiu felt that he had faintly touched the true face of Sanxuan, but his strength was not enough to open that door, and when he broke through Long Yin, maybe all the truth would be revealed in front of him.

But now, he believes that he has stood at a height beyond the reach of everyone, except for Lao Tzu and those legendary gods. If those gods ever existed.

"General, it's time to the post house in front, so let's come down and rest for a while." Wang Zhi opened the curtain and asked softly. He saw Liu Xiu's crossed legs at a glance, paused for a moment, and then looked away. He didn't know if Liu Xiu was meditating just now, if he was, then he was simply too godly, and he could meditate on such a bumpy plank road.

"Where's Mrs. Lu?" Liu Xiu shook his head: "Please ask her to come to the post house to find me." ”

Wang Zhi's face was embarrassed. But he still nodded and agreed, this was the first time in so many days that Liu Xiu took the initiative to ask Mrs. Lu to come to see him, maybe Mrs. Lu would not necessarily refuse.

When the post house arrived, Pang De first led a part of the guards to surround the post house. Someone has already come to check before, they just need to go into the alert position. After the warning was completed, Liu Xiu's car also arrived, and drove directly into the post house, the pavilion chief stood outside the door from a distance, watching Liu Xiu's car drive into the door, and then the car cover and carriage were separated on all sides. Liu Xiu, who was lying quietly in it, was revealed. The four tiger warriors stepped forward, carefully lifted the couch as big as the carriage, and carried Liu Xiu into the prepared bedroom very smoothly, and the door was immediately closed, closing all the eyes of the pavilion chief, including the pavilion chief.

The pavilion chief walked out of the cordon quietly, Liu Xiu brought his own chef and ingredients, and there was no need for the people in the post house to do it, and for safety reasons. They were all controlled, and they couldn't act casually until Liu Xiu left.

The pavilion chief seemed to be at a loss. After two circles in the clearing, and three times in turn, he patted his head and hurried over.

On the hillside in the distance, in the dense grass, a man in disguise slowly rose, he took one last look at the inn, quietly retreated, and soon disappeared into the mountains.

In the room on the second floor of the inn, Guo Jia put down the monoculars. Look at the pavilion chief, and then look at the hillside that has returned to calm in the distance, chuckle, carefully put away the binoculars, and then walked briskly towards Liu Xiu's room. While walking, he secretly admired the cleverness of the drama Zhicai. Xi Zhicai returned to Luoyang from Yecheng. didn't come back simply, he came back as a spy arranged by Yuan Shao in Luoyang. Yuan Shao's spy system was established by Guo Tu, but the real operator was Xi Zhicai. The list of spies arranged by Yuan Shao is in the hands of Liu Xiu, and the name of the pavilion chief is impressively listed.

Guo Jia walked to Liu Xiu's room, stood at the door for a while, did not speak, Liu Xiu nodded. Guo Jia walked straight away. Liu Xiu had already sat up straight, looked at the piece of paper that Mrs. Lu accidentally dropped just now, and smiled: "Zhang Wei drew it?" ”

"Yes, he likes to scribble, I don't know how much paper he wasted." Speaking of her son, Mrs. Lu smiled uncontrollably.

"I like to draw well. Children who like to draw, smart. Liu Xiu reached out and took the piece of paper and looked at it, there was a person drawn on it, but it was a little strange, his eyes were bulging out, his head was round, and he couldn't see the crown of his hair, nor his hair. The penmanship was so naïve that Liu Xiu didn't expect it to be a person at once.

"This is Dr. Zhou from the School of Astronomy." Mrs. Lu took the painting, folded it carefully, and said with a smile: "For the convenience of stargazing, Dr. Zhou specially asked the people in the workshop to make a head cover, and put a small speculum on the left eye, the left eye peeps into the sky, and the right eye writes. ”

Liu Xiu asked in surprise: "Can the Sky Mirror already be so small?" ”

"Of course, it is not as good as the nail mirror, but you have to queue up with the nail mirror, how can you make a small convenience yourself, if you have any doubts, you can use the nail mirror to observe." Mrs. Lu explained: "However, despite this, there are still frequent disputes over the use of the A-shaped mirror, and after the B-shaped mirror is made, it may be a little better. ”

Liu Xiu nodded: "That's fine." However, I have an urgent matter for you to take care of now. “

"Command, General."

"You immediately rushed back to Chengdu, summoned the Heavenly Master Dao Zhizhi Great Sacrifice Wine and the families of the Faith Dao in each county, and said that you had found a prescription, and you needed a lot of money to refine a very rare pill for me, and asked them to donate. Those who have made meritorious deeds will be rewarded in the future. ”

"Alchemy?" Mrs. Lu was stunned for a moment, and then she understood: "Is the general in urgent need of a large amount of money?" ”

"Of course, this is also one of the purposes, but the most important thing is to let people know that my life is hanging by a thread now, and I can't act until your Dan is refined."

Mrs. Lu suddenly realized and nodded again and again. She got up to leave, and a thought suddenly flashed in Liu Xiu's mind, and she hurriedly shouted: "You show me Zhang Wei's painting." ”

Although Mrs. Lu was puzzled, she still handed over the painting. Liu Xiu took it in his hand, looked at it for a long time, and suddenly laughed, "National Teacher, I suddenly found a treasure, you may be interested." ”