After staying in Feiyi for a few days and instructing his grandson's martial arts, Fang Jishi was in a hurry to return to Qufu City. In Qufu City, there is another person anxiously waiting for his news.

Fang Zhong didn't keep it, and promised to let his father go. It's an extraordinary time, and sooner or later Daddy will be found living in his house. If this matter is spread to Ji Huanzi in Qufu City, I don't know what people will think? It is inevitable that you can't do it yourself, and it's even more detrimental to your father and Confucius.

"Confucius wants to talk to you about Taoism!" Before leaving, Fang Jishi asked Fang Zhong.

"What is there to talk about? I don't talk about it either! How and where do we meet? Fang Zhong refused.

"That?" Fang Jishi asked again, "Do you have anything to say to Confucius?" ”

"Me?" Fang Zhong couldn't believe it, Daddy would say such a thing?

"What do I say to Confucius? He is my husband, the initiation teacher! He's still a Sikou! I? Hehehe......"

Saying that Confucius was the Sikou of the Lu State, thinking about Confucius's current situation, Fang Zhong laughed self-deprecatingly.

"He's now? Where is the priest or what? Ji Huanzi also learned from Qi Jinggong back then, treated him as a ceremonial official, and asked him to rehearse the etiquette in the square at the entrance of the Taimiao, saying that he was to welcome the Qi State Mission. The affairs of the Sikou are not left to him to ask. made him angry: The master of ceremonies over there in the Taimiao will not let him enter the Taimiao. ”

"What did he do in the Taimiao?"

"He's not? Want to go inside? ”

"What is he? Can he enter the temple casually? ”

"You?" Fang Jishi was angry. But! Just think about it. said: "Anyway, he's also a Sikou?" ”

"The regulations over there, he doesn't understand? Can anyone come in and out? is not the master of ceremonies responsible for management, ordinary people are not allowed to enter casually, and the master is no exception! Furthermore! It's all up to this, why doesn't he Confucius understand? People ignore you, what are you doing there? ”

Fang Jishi interrupted, "What do you mean by that?" You mean? Confucius he? Should he resign on his own initiative? ”

"This?" Fang Zhong thought for a moment, shook his head and said, "It's too!" On this cusp, he can't take the initiative to resign, so as not to attract Ji Huanzi's attention. When the time comes, nothing will become something. Can this? Lai is ignored inside, and there is no face? ”

Think about Confucius's treatment, if he is loyal? He didn't know what to do?

"That?" After a pause, Fang Jishi asked again, "If Confucius asks me?" How do I say it to him? I said, what is your attitude? How to deal with this and what to do in the future? ”

Fang Zhong thought for a moment and said, "I think! Confucius has to think about it, does he want to be a thinker? Or be a politician? ”

"You? What does this mean? ”

"I think! If he wanted to be a politician, he? He's just? ……”

"What about him?" Fang Jishi asked.

"I don't know!" Fang Zhong shook his head and said, "Anyway! He may not be able to mix in the Lu country. ”

"What about him?"

"If he is a thinker, he should not interfere too much in national affairs, and do not manage too broadly! If he wanted to be a thinker? He should talk more and do less! Or! Just talk, don't do anything! ……”

"What do you mean by talking more and doing less?"

"It's just that he doesn't interfere in the government!"

"How can an official not interfere in the affairs of the court?" Fang Jishi asked puzzled.

"Words as a thinker? You just talk more and do less! Don't ask how kings and ministers enforce the law! That's not your business, that's a politician's business. If you are a thinker, you will come up with ideas, and it is a matter for politicians to listen to them or not.

When you are in politics, you become a politician. To become a politician, you have to have certain means! What is Means? In this era, you have the forces at hand, you have the means. You have to not only deal with domestic politics well, but you also have to pay attention to the international situation!

For example, this time! He Confucius did not pay attention to the international situation, and only cared about the three capitals. Who are they? Isn't it? Are you a thinker or a politician? I don't think he's anything! Thinker? He is immature in thought; Statesman? He has no statesman's ambitions! He's just brainless! It's all brainless......"

Speaking of Confucius's fall into Sandu, and what Confucius has done since he became his boss, Fang Zhong was emotional.

This is not what a thinker does at all, but! What a political careerist does. But! You say Confucius was a political careerist, right? He's not! If he were a political careerist, he should know about the border of Qi and Lu, and everything was under his control. But he? I don't know at all. And! The border of Qi Guotun came to the border, and he had no countermeasures at all.

So! Confucius was not a political careerist, but! A thinker, a thinker who wants to use political means to promote his own doctrine ideas. He's a crappy guy when it comes to using political maneuvers.

Fang Jishi came back from Feiyi and went directly to Confucius's house, and relayed Fang Zhong's words to Confucius.

When Confucius heard this, he naturally went there and collapsed, and there was no more rut at all.

After a long time, he asked, "Did Fang Zhong say it?" How do you become a thinker? I? Am I now? ”

Fang Jishi looked at Confucius and shook his head.

"Fang Zhong didn't say, I don't know! Maybe? As a thinker, you should follow Lao Tzu's example and go to the world to preach, right? ”

"Emulate Lao Tzu? Preaching in the world? But? Confucius said dejectedly, "Me? Am I now? Didn't Fang Zhong say? I can't resign now? I? Maybe they'll trouble me if I resign, and everything will become something? ”

"Let it be!" Fang Jishi said like a child.

"Go with the flow?"

Fang Jishi shook his head again and said, "Maybe? It's about going with the flow! To say it's passive, it's as if it's passive. But? Now, don't you wait passively? How can you take the initiative? ”

Confucius thought for a moment and said, "This is not called 'going with the flow', but! Helpless! Helpless! ”

"Lao Tzu said! The final result that does not depend on the will of man is fate! Just accept your fate! ”

A person who has a dream and goes to chase it, but it does not come true, this is fate. Fate is not subject to human will, some people can't achieve their dreams after a lifetime of hard work, while some people can achieve it with a little effort. Of course! If you don't work hard, you'll never achieve your dreams.

So! Destiny requires us to work hard to change, but it does not necessarily change. If we don't make an effort to change, the end result can only be: resign ourselves to fate and passively wait for death.

Confucius slumped there, not speaking.

"Woo woo woo ......"

Qi Guan, who had been hiding on the side and eavesdropping, couldn't help but cry when he heard the news that Fang Jishi had brought back.

Until now, the lives of their family are still in the hands of Ji Huanzi and others. As long as people give an order and give you a crime, they can punish your whole family. If someone frames you, it is possible to punish your clan!

Seeing this, Fang Jishi stood up and left his seat and went to the side of the Qi Guan. Whispered, "Don't cry! ”

And then! He secretly pointed to Confucius over there with his hand.

That means: don't bother! Confucius will scold you. Even if he doesn't scold you, he will think in his heart: You have no brains, when is it, you still bother me. What howl? My mind is messed up enough.

(End of chapter)