Chapter 17: Fate Ends Early
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It was Xun who ran to the ground early in the morning to find Guan Hai, and saw Guan Hai squatting there in a daze. Anyway, there was no one else around, so he walked over and squatted down next to Guan Hai without any image. Guan Hai didn't look back, just glanced at his eyes slightly, and asked vaguely: "Are you back?" Shi Xun nodded, and suddenly couldn't help but say to him: "Cao De wants to continue to borrow me and go to Chengyang to act as the county commander for a while." Do you want to come with me too? It's been half a year, and it is estimated that Cao Cao will no longer be afraid of you, so I will beg him to let you go to Chengyang to be a county lieutenant, how about it? β
Guan Hai shook his head: "Don't go, I still have crops to serve in my field." β
"Are youβAre you really willing?" Yes Xun really didn't understand him, "The world is chaotic, and it is a good opportunity for men to make contributions." I am optimistic about Cao Cao, who will be able to unify the North sooner or later...... Sooner or later, you will build a big foundation, you are now in the Cao camp, and you will have generals to be generals in the future, are you all thrown away from the happy days of crossing horses and whipping in the past? β
Guan Hai's lips trembled slightly, and he said with a wry smile: "Where is there any refreshment, leading a million people, all of them are dragging their families, the old people sigh, the children cry, and they are all staring at you to kill a way for them to live." At that time, I often couldn't sleep all night, thinking about where I was going tomorrow and where my rations would be tomorrow. If this burden is pressed down again, I don't need Cao Cao to fight, and I will collapse first. I finally thanked you for your gift and let me take off my burden, who wants to live like that again? β
"It's different, it's not the same day," Shi Xun continued to persuade him, "Now no one is staring at you, instead you will stare at me, I will stare at Cao Cao......"
Guan Hai pouted: "You said it lightly. I'm just squatting here, and I'm just staring at the crops, staring at you, if I really go with you to be an official, how many people will stare at me? What are you going to do, and how many soldiers are going to keep an eye on me? β
"When I was a child, I was carefree, but I always wanted to grow up," is what Xun missed, and it was definitely not his childhood when he struggled in poverty in this life, "I always felt that being an adult would give me freedom, but when I grew up, I knew that this freedom was a responsibility...... That is, the burden on your shoulders is in exchange for what you said, and since you have a burden on your shoulders, then the so-called freedom is all in vain. Now, I just want to retract and be a kid again. People are like this, always looking at others as better than themselves, always thinking that the past or future is better than this moment. Can you really be willing to be an old farmer from now on? But I didn't believe it. β
"Believe it or not," Guan Hai spit out the straw stick in his mouth with a "poof" and slowly stood up, "I don't know if I will regret it in the future, but this time...... Now, I have to wait for the seeds I have sown to grow up until the sickle is harvested and turned into grain. Anyway, at least for this year, you can do your own thing, and don't bother me again. β
But Shixun is a quasi-son-in-law who is not very obedient, and after that, he still sees Tian'er running to the field to bother Guan Hai. The main thing is that he can be idle for a few months anyway, so he can help manage the land and make up for the common sense of agriculture. Of course, he can't do the tiring work, and he doesn't want to do the dirty work, at most he helps hoe the weeds twice and picks up half a bucket of water. Fortunately, Guan Si often comes over to help, often Xun swings the hoe twice and has a sore back, but Xiao Luoli follows her father to hoe for several hours, before and after Xun Bian's burden, there is only one-third of the water in the bucket, and when she walks with the snail, Xiao Luoli picks two full buckets, and she can walk like flying, plus laughing at her husband-to-be.
Guan Hai sometimes roared: "How can any scholar do this?" Shi Xun smiled and asked him, "Do you know who the scholars respect the most?" "Confucius." "What else?" "I don't know." Shi Xun said: "We revere the ancient sages the most, such as Yu Shun, who personally went to the ground to teach the people to farm, and Xia Yu, who personally carried a shovel to dig ditches and drain water...... Who said that Mr. Shiren could not do farm work? β
Guan Hai glanced at him: "You are such a strange person. Guan Si smiled: "If he is not strange, how can I be willing to follow him?" β
Soon after Shixun returned to his village, a scholar who had fled from Qingzhou sent a letter from Tai Shici by the way. This is still a reply to the letter Xun wrote to Cao Cao after helping Cao Cao collect the yellow scarf last year, looking at the content, the letter will not be delivered to Tai Shi's house until the beginning of spring this year, and the date of Tai Shici's reply is "March Day", that is, the first day of the first month of March, so he should not have seen the messenger sent by Cao De to recruit.
Shi Xun couldn't help but smile bitterly, the communication of these years and months is really backward and slow to the point of outrageous! When will he be able to get carrier pigeons from Yuan Shu?
Taishi Ci said in the letter that Yuan Jun had entered Donglai and Beihai, Kong Rong was still struggling to support, and Donglai Taishou Cai Wei couldn't bear it anymore, and planned to abandon his official position and flee, and return to his hometown in Jingzhou to reunite with his children. According to Tai Shici's understanding, Cai Wei has two daughters, one is married to a scholar surnamed Huang in Cannan, the other is married to Liu Biao, the assassin of Jingzhou, and a son is a general under Liu Biao......
I rely on Mrs. Cai and Cai Mao! Suddenly, when he saw a few famous people in the history books, Shi Xun couldn't help but pat the table again and again, regretting it. I said that I didn't know that Cai Taishou had that noble family, I wanted to know that when I was in Donglai, I would have patted him on the back and tried to leave a good impression on him. He didn't want to go through GuΓ² Cai to talk to Liu Biao, but anyone who knew a little about the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty knew that there were two places in these years, and there were countless advisers, one was Chen Liu, Yingchuan, and the other was Jingxiang. If he can get through GuΓ² Cai Wei and his son Cai Mao, and get in touch with the Jingxiang people, he will definitely have a useful place in the future.
Zhuge Liang doesn't know when he will follow his uncle to Jingxiang? Pang Tong is also in Jingxiang. If all kinds of fragmentary historical records are correct, then Tai Shici said that Cai Wei's eldest son-in-law, surnamed Huang, should be Zhuge Liang's father-in-law Huang Chengyan!
He sighed for a while, and finally returned his gaze to Tai Shici's letter. Tai Shici said that when Cai Yan fled, he also wanted to go south with him, but he politely declined. But a few days ago, Liu Zhengli, who was avoiding the chaos in Huaipu, came with a letter, saying that the imperial court had issued an edict to worship him as the assassin of Yangzhou, and he hoped that he could go to help.
Tai Shici explained that this Liu Miao is a relative of the Han family, and his ancestral residence is Muping County, Donglai County, and his ancestors have been with this family and have been Liu Xiang's ancestors' subordinates, which can be regarded as a bit of friendship between monarchs and ministers. So I'm a little tempted, and I'm going to go to Liu Xuan.
It's Xun Xin who said don't mind! My little butterfly wings are fanning so hard, do you still want to vote for Liu Xuan? If you really go, I can pinch my fingers and calculate the future for you: first, follow Liu Miao to Qu'a, not be reused, and fight Sun Ce alone in the Shenting Pavilion as a young general, and then Liu Miao was driven away, and you will return to the Sun family. Why bother? Why bother?
Fortunately, Tai Shici still has a later word, saying that he is going south anyway, since I have received a letter from Hongfu, I will simply take a detour and go to Juancheng to meet you first - I haven't seen you for a long time, and I miss it very much.
It's Xun Yi patted the table, good, good come. As long as you are willing to come to me first, even if I say that these three inches are rotten...... This is a contradiction, in short, Lao Tzu must persuade you to stay!
In July of this year, Xi Xian Xi Zhicai finally passed away. Cao Cao was grief-stricken and personally carried the flag, and of course Shixun also had to go to mourn. He regretted it a little at this time, the best one in Tao Qian's "Elegy" poem was sold to Kong Rong in Yingling in the past. It doesn't matter if it's sold to Kong Rong, the problem is that what is hanging is actually the tomb of Prince Wang Sheng, a gentleman - what kind of virtue has this waste accumulated in his previous life, and he can actually get Tao Yuanming...... Ah no, get this poet to sing to him?
There was no way, this time to mourn Xi Zhicai, so I had to retreat to the next best thing and repair Tao Qian's other "Elegy". I only heard him chant before the spirit: "There is life and there is death, and it is not fate to die sooner." Yesterday and evening were the same people, and today they are in the ghost record. Where is the soul dissipated? Withered Void Wood ......"
In fact, Tao Qian's three "Elegy" were written to himself shortly before his death, so the following is "Jiao'er asks for my father to cry, and my good friend caresses me and cries." Of course this can't be used, Xi Zhicai doesn't have a son, and it's not "me". So I had to empty four sentences, and then continued: "Long live the thousand autumns, who knows honor and disgrace." But when hatred is alive, it is not enough to get together. -- The last sentence was originally "not enough to drink", but he changed "drinking" to "getting together".
When Cao Cao heard this, he repeated the four sentences of "We were the same people yesterday, and today we are in the ghost record" and "But when I hate the world, we can't get together" several times, and then shouted: "Sorry Zhicai, kill me!" One stumbled and almost fainted from crying.
Cao Cao is really sad, and half of Xun's sadness is faked. After all, his friendship with Xi Xian is not very deep, and compared to Xi Xian's death, he is looking forward to another big event this time - since Xi Zhicai is dead, that is to say, Guo Fengxiao is about to leave the mountain. Ahh
Soon after sending Xi Xian, Shi Xun packed his bags and planned to go south to Chengyang to become his county master. He has had a very easy time in the past few months, because he is still nominally in a state of "secondment", so he doesn't have to go to Cao Cao every day to answer Mao, there is really something important, Cao Cao will definitely explain, there is no job, Cao Cao will not bother him, he can study and farm with peace of mind, or go to the nearby courtyard to scold the smelter Xie Zheng.
According to his thoughts, I have all the materials for you, and you just have to test the right ratio, how can it be so troublesome to invent a gunpowder? How long has it been since there has been no progress? But scolding and scolding, he couldn't force Xie Zheng too quickly. You said that if you want to improve papermaking, you can't catch the workers, at least you know where they are, according to the normal historical trajectory, Cao Cao will advance into Henan within ten years, control the two capitals, and always be able to capture a few paper-making workers when the time comes. But the invention of gunpowder is different, Guan Hai can find him a thank you, it's really a pie in the sky, other smelters are either secretly hidden by big families to give themselves alchemy, or live in seclusion in the deep mountains and old forests, if you really force Xie Zheng to run away or even force Xie Zheng to death, where can I find a replacement to use?
So he could only endure this breath for the time being, and treated Xie Zheng with two slaps and then a sweet date. That's it, finally at the end of the holiday, I have to go to work, although I am full of reluctance, but I have to go south. Guan Si wanted to follow this time, but he refused to agree anymore, and refused: "You are in my Zhuangzi, it doesn't matter if you go in and out, you went to Chengyang County with me, and you haven't officially married after all, you are in and out of the county office, it will definitely cause criticism!" β
Of course, he refused to take Guan Si to the post for this reason alone......