But it was said that Liu Bei followed the shepherd boy, talked all the way, climbed the hill, went down the hill, walked more than two miles, saw a dense forest, and a manor flashed in the dense forest.

When he came to the manor, Liu Bei saw the shepherd boy turn over and jump off the back of the ox, and also dismounted and followed.

Liu Bei followed the shepherd boy to the middle gate, suddenly heard the beautiful sound of the piano, and wanted to listen carefully, suddenly the sound of the piano stopped, and a person greeted with a smile: "The rhyme of the piano is quiet, and the high-pitched tone suddenly rises in the sound, and there must be heroes eavesdropping." ”

"This is Master Shuijing, Mr. Sima Hui." The shepherd boy introduced, "This is Liu Bei and Liu Xuande. "Let's take the cow and go away.

Liu Bei looked at this person, the pine-shaped crane bones, the instrument was extraordinary, and hurriedly approached to salute.

Sima Hui saw that Liu Bei's clothes were still wet: "Okay!" Good! Gong Jin was spared the catastrophe. Blessings and misfortunes depend on each other, and great disasters do not die, and there should be blessings in the future. Good! Good! ”

After that, Liu Bei was invited to sit down in the grass hall and asked, "Where did Ming Gong come from?" ”

Liu Bei said: "Occasionally, passing by here, meeting the guidance of a shepherd boy, I have to worship and respect, which is very fortunate. ”

Sima Hui smiled and said: "Xuande Gong doesn't have to hide it, looking at his expression, he must have fled here." ”

Liu Bei was surprised, so he told him about the past.

After hearing this, Sima Hui asked: "I have heard the name of the Ming Duke for a long time, why is it so downtrodden that there is still no corner of the place?" ”

Liu Bei said: "There are many fates to this. ”

Sima Hui said, "No. Probably because Ming Gong was at a loss for him. ”

Liu Bei said: "Although I am not talented, but there are Sun Qian, Mi Zhu, Jian Yong, Wu Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun and others, all of whom are dedicated and loyal to assist. ”

Sima Hui said: "Guan, Zhang, and Zhao Yun are all brave generals who are enemies of ten thousand people, but it is a pity that there are no people who are good at using them; White-faced scholars like Sun Qian, Mi Zhu, and Jian Yong are not talents who can help the world, and the generals may not be willing to listen to the call. ”

Liu Bei said: "I once bowed down to seek talent, but I didn't meet it, and I didn't seem to feel that there was anyone." ”

Sima Hui said: "The sage has clouds, 'there will be faithfulness in the city of ten rooms', what does it mean that there is no one." ”

Liu Bei suddenly realized: "Mr. pine and bamboo are planted outside the window, the stone bed in Hengqin is indoors, and the shelves are full of books. ”

Sima Hui smiled and said: "I talked to Pang Degong, who was ten years older than me, and I called him 'Pang Gong', and he called me 'Water Mirror', which was a joke from a close friend. ”

"Who is Pang Gong? He must be an unusual person. Liu Bei asked.

Sima Hui said: "Like me, I am also an idle person in the mountains. ”

Then he introduced Pang Degong and his contacts to Liu Bei.

Pang Degong, a native of Xiangyang, Jingzhou, lived on Yuliang Island in the south of Da Xian Mountain, and never entered the city government.

On weekdays, they work in the fields, and husband and wife respect each other like guests.

When resting, he sits upright, playing the piano and reading as his own pleasure, and his expression is serious.

Pang Degong and the secluded Xiangyang area of the celebrity is very friendly, intimate, in the past, there are a lot of past, and Sima Hui, Pang Tong and other people across the water across the house, often gathered, rowing or wading to visit, no worries, comfortable and leisurely.

One day, Sima Hui went to Pang Degong's house, and it happened that Degong crossed the water to worship the graves of his ancestors, and he went straight into the house and called Pang Degong's wife and children to hurry up and make rice to entertain him, and said: "Xu Shu once said that there are guests who want to come to talk to me and Pang Degong. ”

Pang Degong's wife and children all listed food, welcomed Sima Hui in the hall, and ran to provide food and drink.

Soon, Pang Degong went home and met Sima Hui.

Friends are as close as family, no

The distinction between host and guest.

Sima De the little Pang Degong when he was ten years old, regarded Pang Degong as his brother, called Pang Degong "Pang Gong", Pang Degong called Sima Hui "Water Mirror", and also named him according to the characteristics of close friends, such as "Wolong", "Phoenix Chick", etc.

Liu Biao, the assassin of Jingzhou, invited Pang Degong into the mansion several times, but Pang Degong did not bend to take office.

So, Liu Biao personally went to hire Pang Degong and said: "Mr. is so high, although he protects himself, why not protect the world?" ”

Pang Degong replied with a smile: "The bird builds a nest in the high forest, and has a place to roost at night; The turtle turtle makes a nest under the abyss, and has a place to return at night, and people's choices and behaviors are also nests and nests. All things are just for each to get a place to live, and to try to protect themselves, so the world is not what I want to preserve. ”

Pang Degong took farming as his business, and his wife and children all worked hard.

Liu Biao pointed to his family and asked Pang Degong: "Mr. lives in the fields and refuses to come out to be an official, what can he leave to his children and grandchildren?" ”

Pang Degong replied: "The people of the world who pursue fame and fortune will only leave their children and grandchildren in danger; And what I leave to my children and grandchildren is to live and work in peace. I'm just a little different from them. ”

Liu Biao asked Pang Degong the reason for the danger, and Pang Degong replied: "Yao and Shun granted the land of the world to his courtiers, practiced 'Zen concession' without favoritism, let his son live among the people, and without pride, Danzhu and Shang were able to save their lives and die; Although Yu and Tang had won the world, they handed over the country to their relatives and practiced 'hereditary', so that the Ji were defeated and retreated, and migrated to Nanchao; the heads of the Zhou were hung on the banner of Zhou, and their clans were captured and executed. Aren't Yu and Tang stupider than Yao and Shun? That's why it's in danger. When the Duke of Zhou was regent, he killed his brother. If Zhou Gong and his brothers had been allowed to eat shoddy soup and live under the basil, how could there be such harm! ”

Liu Biao had to sigh and leave.

Liu Bei listened to Sima Hui's introduction to Pang Degong, and felt a lot: "I don't want to have so many elegant people in the mountains and wilderness, and they can be called handsome." ”

Sima Hui said: "How can ordinary scholars and people with shallow knowledge recognize the general trend of the world? Only those who can recognize the general trend of the world can be called handsome. That is to say, those who know the times are called geniuses, and those who have the talents of heaven and earth are called geniuses. ”

Liu Bei asked, "Where is the wizard?" ”

Shui Jing said: "The geniuses of the world, many hidden here, the public should seek it." ”

Liu Bei hurriedly asked, "Where is the wizard?" Who is the fruit? ”

Shui Jing said: "Wolong, phoenix, two of them have one, but the world can be safe." ”

Liu Bei asked, "Who is Wolong?" Who is the phoenix? ”

Shui Jing smiled and said, "Okay! Good! ”

Liu Bei asked again, and Shui Jing said: "It's getting late, Ming Gong is frightened and tired, you can stay here for one night, and talk about it tomorrow." As he spoke, he instructed the boy to lead the horse into the backyard to feed him and prepare to eat and drink for him.

After a while, the child served the meal.

Liu Bei looked at it, but it was some coarse tea and light rice, which was really different from the delicacies of the mountains and delicacies at the Xiangyang banquet, so he looked at Sima Hui and said with a smile: "No wonder Mr. Shuijing is so elegant and refined, and the food and drink in his bed are different." ”

Sima Hui smiled and said, "Good, good! If the people of the world can eat this coarse tea and light rice every day, wouldn't the world be peaceful, why should the court worry? ”

It can be said that "hunger does not choose food", Liu Bei from noon to night, not a drop of water, hungry and thirsty, so he gobbled up and ate.

Sima Hui looked at Liu Bei eating: "Good, good!" Coarse tea and light rice should enable people to sympathize with the suffering of the people and become wiser. ”

After Liu Bei finished eating, he rested in the side room of the grass hall, because of the genius words said by Si Shuijing, he couldn't sleep, and he went deeper, and suddenly heard someone knocking on the door and entering, so he got up and listened.

I only heard someone say: "Disturb the night, Mr. Wangshui Mirror forgive me." ”

Sima Hui said: "Where did Yuan Zhi come from? ”

The person who came said: "I have heard that Liu Jingsheng is good and evil for a long time, and I want to tell him." When they meet, they have no name, they can't use the good and the good, and the evil can't go, so they say goodbye in the suicide note. I went to Pang Gong first, and heard his nephew Feng Xiao say that Pang Degong took his wife and children to Lumen Mountain to collect medicine because he was afraid of being disturbed, and he never returned, and then he came here. ”

Sima Hui said: "Yuan Zhi has the talent of Wang Zuozhi, he should choose someone to do things, so why not go to see Jingsheng lightly?" Besides, heroes and heroes are only in front of them and don't know them. ”

The person who came said: "What the water mirror said must be good." ”

Liu Bei was overjoyed when he heard this, and secretly thought that this person must be Wolong and Phoenix Chick, that is, if he wants to see it, he is afraid of making a mistake.

Waiting until dawn, Liu Bei asked to see the water mirror and asked, "Who visited Mr. last night?" ”

Sima Hui said: "I am a good friend. ”

Liu Bei begged to meet him.

Sima Hui said: "This person is bent on doing things for the Lord, and he has gone elsewhere. ”

Liu Bei, please ask his name. Sima Hui smiled and said, "Okay! Good! ”

Liu Bei asked again: "Who are Wolong and Phoenix Chicks?" ”

Sima Hui only smiled and said: "Okay! Good! ”

Liu Bei saw that Sima Hui repeatedly shirked, and asked Sima Hui to go out of the mountain to help and help the Han room.

Sima Hui said with a smile: "The mountains and fields are used to being idle, and they are unbearable for the world. I have ten times better than me to help the public, if you meet, don't miss it. ”

While talking, I suddenly heard the neighing of horses from outsiders in the village, and the boy came to report: "There is a general who has led hundreds of people to the front of the village." ”

Liu Bei was shocked when he heard this, and suspected that Cai Mao chased after him and begged Sima Hui for protection.

Sima Hui was calm, let Liu Bei hide for the time being, and asked the child to go to the village gate to greet him.

The boy said yes and went.

After a while, the little boy came back and reported: "The general of Zhuangmen claims to be surnamed Zhao Mingyun and the word Zilong. said that he came to find the lord Liu Xuande. I will immediately invite you into the back hall to speak. It is said that 'if the lord is not there, it is inconvenient to disturb, and he will urgently look elsewhere'. Seeing that he was polite, I told him to wait a moment and hurried back to report it. ”

Sima Hui summoned Liu Bei and said that Zhao Yun was looking for him.

Liu Bei was anxious to look at it, and it was Zhao Yun.

Zhao Yun saw Liu Bei, hurriedly dismounted, and recounted the search since yesterday.

Yesterday, Zhao Yun went to the banquet with Liu Bei, Liu Bei sat at the main table in the hall, Liu Biao's two sons sat on both sides, the state and county officials sat in turn, and Zhao Yun stood beside Liu Bei with a sword.

Zhao Yun was invited to sit outside the hall, but Zhao Yun couldn't resign, and only when Liu Bei ordered him to sit at the table, he reluctantly obeyed the order.

Zhao Yun was drinking, suddenly saw a crowd of people, hurriedly entered to inspect, Liu Bei was missing during the banquet, he couldn't help but be shocked, hurriedly returned to the building, and listened to his subordinates say "Cai Mao led the army to the west."

Zhao Yunhuo hurriedly picked up his gun and got on his horse, led the three hundred soldiers he brought out of the west gate to chase after him, met Cai Mao head-on, and asked urgently: "Where is my lord?" ”

Cai Mao said: "The envoy fled the table, and he didn't know where to go." ”

Zhao Yun was cautious and steady, refusing to make a mistake, that is, riding a horse forward, looking at Daxi from afar, seeing that there was no other way, he returned to the horse and asked Cai Mao: "Since you invited my lord to the banquet, why did you lead the army and horses to chase after you?" ”

Cai Mao said: "The officials of the state, county and county are all gathered here, as a general, how can they not lead the army to protect." ”

Zhao Yun said: "You are chasing after my lord, where is my lord now?" ”

Cai Mao said: "I heard that the envoy went out of the West Gate alone, but he found this place but did not see it, I don't know where to go? ”