Jian Yong chewed half-cooked hare meat and looked at Liu Bei by the waterhole worriedly. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info Liu Bei sat cross-legged on the edge of the pool, with his head down, I don't know if he was looking at the reflection in the pool or the small fish, anyway, he had been motionless for most of the day. The rabbit meat placed next to him was already cold, and a fat mouse smelled the fragrance, and looked at it sneakily for a long time, slowly stepped to Liu Bei's side, bit the meat, and turned around to leave.

Liu Bei didn't move, and Jian Yong didn't move, but his heart kept sinking and sinking.

They had been walking in the mountains for months, and there was still no way out. There is not even a road here, let alone a crowd, they don't know how to get out, if it weren't for Liu Bei and a few personal guards with strong martial arts skills, and they can shoot a little wild to satisfy their hunger, I'm afraid they would have starved to death.

But now, Jian Yong feels that Liu Bei is not far from death. His body was still strong, but his heart was dying.

In the past two months, Liu Bei's words have become less and less, and even a few guards secretly ran away, he was indifferent, but the time of meditation every day became longer and longer, often sitting alone in the corner in a daze, sitting in the middle of the night. These days are even more outrageous, he doesn't even go hunting, he is all done by a few loyal guards, and he himself begins to be in a daze in broad daylight.

He had been sitting by this waterhole for two hours, like a mud tire, like a puppet, motionless. Jian Yong even suspected that he was dead.

Because he couldn't see any anger from Liu Bei.

Grief is greater than heart death, Jian Yong understands this sentence. Liu Bei is an ambitious person, but unfortunately his efforts have so far not seen any results that are even a little encouraging. He studied hard. I passed the exam, but no matter how good the exam results were, I still couldn't get the opportunity to get out. He practiced martial arts hard, and his talent may not be as good as Liu Xiu and Zhang Fei, but he worked harder than them, and his martial arts skills could be regarded as outstanding, but it was a pity that he killed and killed. but killed his own future.

On the contrary, Liu Xiu, who has listened to him since he was a child, has risen to the top and become the eldest princess. became a general of the cavalry, and in a few years, he had Heliang, and now he has won Yizhou. Half of the Han Dynasty has fallen into his hands, and half of the fate of the Han Dynasty is also in his hands.

If the Yuan family is like this, Liu Bei may be able to accept it, but it is Liu Xiu, Liu Xiu, who has been called by Liu Bei since he was a child, Jian Yong can imagine Liu Bei's mood in the face of Liu Xiu.

Having such a powerful brother is by no means a pleasant thing.

Jian Yong raised his head and looked at the blue sky, his thoughts suddenly drifted a little, is it my life. To be a wild man in this mountain, never to return home? Knowing this, why did you leave your hometown in the first place, isn't the sky in Zhuoxian County broader and more reassuring than here?

"Kenwa!" Liu Bei suddenly shouted.

Jian Yong was stunned for a moment. Immediately ecstatic, he hurriedly got up and walked over, and asked carefully: "Xuande, ...... you?"

"I'm fine." Liu Bei's face showed a look of pain, "You pulled me, my legs were numb." ”

Jian Yong hurriedly helped him to the side and sat down. He smiled bitterly and said, "You sit for two hours, it's strange if you're not numb." Come, I'll rub it for you. ”

Liu Bei didn't speak, stretched out two legs like wood, and Jian Yong gently kneaded them, he looked around, and saw that there was no one empty, so he couldn't help but be a little strange: "They haven't come back from hunting yet?" ”

"Not yet." Jian Yong replied without raising his head, it had been most of the day since the last two guards left, and Jian Yong felt that they might never come back.

Liu Bei sensed Jian Yong's frustration, and he laughed: "Let them go, they are gone, and they will regret it later." ”

Jian Yong's hand froze, and he said in his heart that they would regret it if they didn't leave, but when the words came to his mouth, he swallowed back and echoed: "That's right, these disloyal and unfilial people, let's just leave." ”

"Xianhe, I was thinking about a question just now." Liu Bei glanced at Jian Yong, clenched his empty fist, and gently tapped his leg: "I'm wondering, where is our way out." ”

Jian Yong's hand slowed down, and he raised his head to look at Liu Bei: "You came up with it?" ”

"Well, I figured it out." Liu Bei moved his gaze to the waterhole, looked at the gurgling stream, and a relieved smile on the corner of his mouth: "I suddenly understood the meaning of the four words Lao Tzu's 'good as water'. ”

"Good as water?" Jian Yong was a little confused for a while, and after a while, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he slapped his thigh hard: "Go along the water?" Yes, this water is probably flowing into the river, and as long as we follow the water, we can get out of the mountains. I didn't think of that. ”

"You're right, but there's more to it than that." Liu Bei smiled and shook his head: "Xianhe, think about it again." "And?" Once he had vitality, Jian Yong's spirit suddenly lifted up, and his brain seemed to be re-energized. He thought about it, but he still couldn't think of too much, so he had to look at Liu Bei for help: "Xuande, you don't have to sell Guanzi, I haven't been taught in front of Mr. Lu like you, and I don't know much about Lao Tzu." ”

"This is not something that my husband taught." Liu Bei's eyes crossed the mountain peaks in the distance, his smile slowly became a little lonely, and his eyes became a little hollow. Those who are proficient in Lao Tzu are the people of the Heavenly Master Tao and the Taiping Dao, and Liu Xiu has also studied Lao Tzu, but unfortunately he was busy with military affairs later, and he slowly put it down. Liu Bei studied for a while, but he didn't really use his skills, he just read the scriptures, but he rarely had time to sit down and meditate. These natural paths are cut off, and he feels that he is likely to die of old age in this seemingly endless mountain, all the ambitions and hegemony are far away from him, but death is getting closer and closer. He was so discouraged that he unexpectedly began to meditate and meditate.

Somehow, when he began to meditate, all the words and sentences he had read came to mind, and the clearest one was not Shangshu, but Lao Tzu. Those seemingly simple and straightforward, but rich meaningful words fascinated him, made him intoxicated, made him seem to have something to gain, but he was erratic and could not grasp it. He was intoxicated, crazy, and thought about the truth behind those words all the time.

It wasn't until just now that he was awakened by the sound of a small fish under the water splashing that he suddenly became enlightened.

Liu Bei shook his head, and his eyes returned to clarity. "Do you know why all my previous efforts failed to succeed?"

Jian Yong blinked and comforted: "Actually, it's not useless, it's just that there is still some luck." ”

"No, I'm thinking in the wrong direction." Liu Bei leaned his body against the boulder, and his eyes fell on Jian Yong's face: "Lao Tzu said, 'The husband is the only one who does not fight, so there is no especially', but I can't fight without fighting, and retreat to the second, that can only be 'with its indisputability, so the world can not fight with it'." You look at the Che Cai general, he is from Zhuo County like us, when he first arrived in Luoyang, he had no foundation, and he was still burdened with the survival pressure of his husband's family, in order to support his wife and junior brother and a few of us, he opened a noodle restaurant, did business, and made money, so that Ziyan and I could wait for the Queen Mother in Yongle Palace safely. Later, the Yuan family fought for Kanto, he fought for the annexation of the state, and the state was barren, and the hukou was not enough for a county in Kanto, so he was not willing to go, but he went, so he easily got the state. Liangzhou Qiang chaos is frequent, the people are not happy, the imperial court wants to abandon Liangzhou several times, and no one in the Kwantung wants to go, he goes, and Liangzhou is also his. What he wanted at first was a place that no one in the world wanted, but now? With the elite soldiers of Heliang, he took Yizhou, can anyone in the world compete with him? ”

Jian Yong suddenly realized: "This ...... Is it the truth of indisputable? ”

"You're so right." Liu Bei sighed, "He succeeded, but looking at me, I failed." But why the failure? The reason is very simple, what I fight for is what people in the world want to fight for. I want to become a scholar by reading, but there are so many people in the world who want to become a scholar by reading, and there are 30,000 or 40,000 students in Luoyang Taixue alone. I want to win the world by conquest, but what capital do I have besides martial arts? If I take refuge in the Yuan family, I can only be used as a knife by the Yuan family, and once they think I am in danger, they will get rid of me at any time. Why did Yuan Shu arrange Bao Hong to be with me? Isn't it because they haven't been worried about me? I want to get Yizhou, but there are too many people who want to get Yizhou, Liu Xiu thinks, Liu Biao thinks, Liu Yan thinks, Yuan Shu also thinks, which of these people is not better than me? I fight with them, how can I win? Even if you are lucky enough to take Chengdu, sooner or later you will be kicked out. ”

Jian Yong nodded approvingly, Liu Bei was not wrong at all, it was a very risky way to seize Yizhou at the beginning, pinning all his hopes on tricks, maybe he could succeed for a while, but in the future, whether it was Liu Xiu or Liu Biao, or Yuan Shu, he would not let him get Yizhou, and Liu Bei would have to spit out Yizhou sooner or later.

"And what are you going to do now?"

"I'm also going to find a place where no one wants to fight with me right now." Liu Bei held on to the stone, slowly stood up, shook his feet, and moved his legs that were still like pinpricks: "I plan to go to Liaodong." ”

Jian Yong thought for a long time and nodded slowly. Although Liaodong has always been within the territory of the Han Dynasty, it is too far away from the imperial court, and now Qingzhou and Jizhou are fighting again. It is Gongsun Chan who is in charge of the army in Youzhou, Gongsun Chan is Liu Bei's senior brother, and he is now focusing on Yuan Shao in Jizhou, if Liu Bei is willing to go to Liaodong, Gongsun Chan will definitely not object, on the contrary, he will support him. Although Liaodong is not as rich as the Central Plains, it is also strong, even if it cannot compete with the Central Plains in the future, there is still a chance to dominate one side. With Liu Bei's ability, given a few years, it is entirely possible for him to firmly grasp Liaodong in his hands.

Taking Liaodong is indeed a choice that no one will compete with him. Compared to the previous plan to go to Jingzhou, this choice was more far-sighted. Because Jingzhou not only has Liu Biao now, it is difficult for Liu Bei to gain a foothold, but also Liu Xiu and Yuan Shu have already focused on this place in the future, and Jingzhou is also a place where many people have to fight.

"Liaodong is indeed a good place." Jian Yong laughed: "Xuande, you have really enlightened, and you will soar into the sky from now on." ”

"Hahaha......" Liu Bei laughed heartily, he waved his hand: "The most important thing for us now is to get out of the mountains and go back to Luoyang." ”

"Yes!" Jian Yong also laughed out loud. Their laughter echoed through the mountains, startling a flock of leisurely wild birds, and the two fat hares pricked up their big furry ears, looked around vigilantly, and swooped into the burrow, never to show their heads again.

Luoyang, the New Year's bell rang, and the New Year of the second year of Zhongping has arrived.