Shen Chen went down the mountain.

Song Zhong claimed to the outside world that Shen Chen Jingyi had surpassed him, and he had nothing to teach him.

So this is not to be driven out of the mountain gate, but to be better than the blue.

The three-year master-apprentice relationship can be regarded as a decent departure.

It's just that for Shen Chen, suddenly leaving the place where he had stayed for three years, it was inevitable that he would be a little depressed.

On the carriage back, five-year-old Zhou Budo raised his head and looked at twelve-year-old Shen Chen sitting there cross-legged, bowing his head and silently, and asked, "Brother Ah Chen." ”

"Huh?"

Shen Chen turned his head to look at Zhou Budo and said, "What's wrong?" ”

"You don't want to leave the academy, do you?"

No doubt about the week.

Shen Chen smiled and said, "How can you see it?" ”

"Because you're not happy."

Zhou Budo said.

Shen Chen thought for a while and said: "Being unhappy doesn't mean that I don't want to leave, although I am reluctant, but after all, I don't want to conspire with each other, it's better to leave early." ”

Zhou Budo asked, "Where is the way of the elder brother?" ”

Shen Chen replied seriously: "The unity of knowledge and action, stopping at the best, is my way. ”

"What is the unity of knowledge and action?"

"The unity of knowledge and action is the knowledge you have learned, and you have to test it yourself. It's like a book that says the sea is salty, and you can't think that what you've learned is right until you taste it and make sure it's salty. ”

"Isn't that a matter of course?"

"But people always think that the book must be correct, and they often don't test it themselves, and for various reasons, they will also be affected by other things, even if they know that it is wrong, they will be stubborn."

"So what's causing this?"

"Interests."

"Interests?"

"Yes, the sages let us be loyal to the king and love the people, but people always say this, but they always only consider their own interests and losses, and if it is beneficial to themselves, they will be loyal to the king and love the people, and if they are not good for themselves, they will say that they are loyal to the king and love the people, but in fact they bully the Son of Heaven and slaughter the people, do you think this is right?"

"Of course not."

Xiao Budo shook his head and said seriously: "The book says that a gentleman is sensitive to things and cautious in his words, if he only talks but does not act, or what he says is contrary to his actions, then of course it is not a gentleman's doing." ”

Shen Chen said with a smile: "You are so smart, but everyone knows the truth, but it does not mean that everyone will abide by it, once it comes to their own interests, they often selectively ignore this." Therefore, we have no way to manage others, so we can only ensure that we can be sensitive to things and cautious in what we say, which is the unity of knowledge and action. ”

"I see."

Zhou Budo nodded seriously: "I have always felt that what my brother said is very reasonable, I used to listen to those people explain the meaning of the scriptures, but they would only translate and read rigidly, and they didn't know the deep meaning at all." It was only after I was with my brother that I understood those great truths, so I would rather leave and follow my brother than stay in this academy. ”

Shen Chen touched his head and said with a smile, "I can't guarantee that the choice you made is right, but at least I won't let you go astray." Mr. Sizong said that I would take care of you, but I don't know if he would like you to follow me, so I should ask Mr. first. ”m.jújíá?y.?? m

Zhou Budo said: "Five times out of ten, the saint is determined to learn, even though I am only five years old, I am also interested in learning, no matter what I learn, it is my ambition." Although my uncle is an elder, he cannot take away my will, this is what my heart yearns for. ”

"Good fellow, I kind of know why you are called unsuspicious."

Shen Chen laughed and said: "Confucius is forty and not confused, you are only five or six years old, but you already have your own ambitions, and you are worthy of it, better than when I was a child." ”

"Hee-hee-hee."

Zhou Budo bent his eyebrows stupidly, and his eyes narrowed into crescents.

In the Western Han Dynasty, there were double names, but after the Eastern Han Dynasty, the double names became cheap names.

This is because it became a bad habit during Wang Mang's period, and it was eventually inherited by the Eastern Han Dynasty, and it was not broken until the two Jin and Northern Dynasties.

But Zhou Budo is a very rare double name, his uncle is a Jingzhou don't drive, and the family is not poor, it is impossible not to know that double names were easily discriminated against at that time.

So there is only one possibility, that is, Zhou Budo did not have a name at the beginning, or only a nickname.

When he was two or three years old, he gradually grew wise, because Zhou Budo was very smart, like Cao Chong, he showed extraordinary ability at a young age, so he was named Undoubted.

At that time, this was a very common thing, ancient children generally did not take a name when they were born, at most they took a small name or a milk name, what kind of dog egg black pig and other cheap names are easy to feed from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

By the end of the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period, this custom has also been preserved.

For example, Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty Liu Xun was named Sick Ji, Cao Cao's name was Ah Pu, Zang Ba's name was Nu Kou, Li Tong's name was Yiwan, Liu Chan's name was Ah Dou, Lu Meng's name was Ah Meng, and Shen Chen's name was Ah Chen.

In addition, Wen Yang's real name is actually called Wen Shu, and "Yang Yang" is his nickname, but later generations thought that his name was Wen Yang and didn't know his original name, which was as outrageous as everyone called Cao Cao's name Cao Pu, Liu Chan's name was Liu Dou, and Zang Ba's name was Zang Kou.

Therefore, Zhou Budo was able to take two words without doubt at the custom of being a single famous and expensive and a double name at that time, which is enough to prove one thing - that is, he has been a prodigy since he was a child, like Confucius is not confused when he is forty.

No wonder I went to Xu to play with a genius like Cao Chong later, both of them are highly intelligent, and after two thousand years, it will be the level of the junior class of the University of Science and Technology of China.

The carriage drove slowly, and after about half an hour, the car stopped at the door of Deng Hong's house.

Shen Chen has nowhere to go now, so naturally he can only go back to his uncle's house.

Knowing that he was back, Cai came out with Shen Chen's five-month-old uncle in his arms and asked, "Ah Chen, why did you come back?" ”

"Grandmother, I'm coming down the mountain."

Shen Chen leaned over and looked at his uncle teasing: "Ah Ugly is beautiful again, pink and tender, it seems that he should change his name." ”

Cai Shi chuckled: "Yes, when he was born, he looked like an old man, so he named him Ah Chou, but after a few months, he is getting better and better-looking, by the way, Ah Chen, have you eaten?" ”

"I'm a little hungry."

"Then I'll tell the back kitchen to prepare something for you to eat."

"Okay, thank you, grandmother."

Shen Chen turned his head to look at Zhou Budo and said, "No doubt, come with me to the backyard to eat something first, and I'll take you to your uncle's house later to talk about it." ”

"Hmm."

Zhou Budo nodded.

The two went to Shen Chen's room in the backyard.

Although he either lived in the academy when he was in Xiangyang, or went around visiting friends with Wang Cang and the others to live outside, Deng Hong's family always left him a room.

The location is next to the master bedroom in the backyard, an independent courtyard, and the outside is a study, which is filled with dense bamboo slips.

There are many ordinary Confucian scriptures that are not gazed, and there are also scriptures that other great Confucians gaze at, but they are very rare, and there are not many such things even on the market and in the big families, and they are rarely available.

Zhou Budo glanced around, saw seven or eight bookshelves in the study, and a dazzling array of books, and said in surprise: "Brother Ah Chen, you have a lot of books here, but I don't have so many books at home." ”

Shen Chen said with a smile: "Some of these were given by friends, some were copied in the academy, and some were bought, but they are not precious books, only the few sets over there are relatively rare, there is a set of Zi Guogong's "Notes on Ancient Texts and Books", Ji Changgong's "Notes on Lao Tzu", and Zilianggong's "Analects and Chapters", all of which I copied from the academy. ”

During the Han Dynasty and the Han Dynasty, many great Confucian scholars emerged, but the works of the top Confucians were very rare and precious.

Of course, Shen Chen couldn't get the authentic handwriting, so he could only copy and copy it himself, which was also the thing he did the most in his spare time.

Zhou Budo followed the direction he pointed and saw dozens of sets of bamboo slips on the innermost bookshelf on the left side of the entrance, so he asked, "Can I take a look?" ”

"Absolutely."

Shen Chen said: "You can look at it casually, I just want to think about something, it's in the courtyard, if you don't understand something, you can come and ask me." ”

"Okay."

Zhou Budo nodded and walked happily towards the bookshelf.

He was very intelligent since he was a child, he knew how to read and write at the age of 2, read a lot of books when he was 4 years old, and now although he is only five or six years old, he is already well-read and has his own understanding, which lays the foundation for him to be able to write four essays in his teens in the future.

Shen Chen also admires him very much, you must know that the literacy age of most children in later generations is 3-5 years old from kindergarten, and orthodox learning begins at the age of 6 when they go to elementary school, but this does not mean that geniuses have to follow the rules.

It is not impossible to go to the University of Science and Technology at the age of 11, so a top genius like Zhou Budo, who only has one out of tens of millions of people, is indeed rare to see, and it must be cultivated well.

After seeing him read, Shen Chen himself walked out of the study and came to the courtyard.

There is a tree in the center of the courtyard, although it is not as big as the thousand-year-old tree of the academy, but it is also lush and leafy.

It's spring, the sun is warm, the breeze is blowing through the treetops, and the leaves are swaying slightly, making a swaying sound.

Shen Chen asked the slave outside to find a mat, and then sat cross-legged under the tree, and began to think in his mind.

After three years in the academy, he was once an enemy of Cao Cao, but he didn't expect to be driven off the mountain.

This situation is not surprising, not to mention him, even Liu Biao has countless people persuaded him to surrender to Cao Cao, and every time he is an enemy of Cao Cao, countless people rise up to oppose it.

There are also situations like Zhang Xian, the Taishou of Changsha, who was unwilling to be loyal to Liu Biao because he was more willing to be loyal to the imperial court, and launched a rebellion on the eve of the Battle of Guandu, which caused Liu Biao to have no time to take care of the north, and finally allowed Cao Cao to win the Battle of Guandu.

If there is no trump card of Emperor Liu Xie of the Han Dynasty, it is impossible for Zhang Xian to launch a rebellion, once Liu Biao sends troops, Cao Cao's battle of Guandu will undoubtedly be defeated, which shows how much benefit Liu Xie's signboard brings to the Cao family.

It's just that the reason why Liu Biao was able to suppress the surrender faction was that he was Jingzhou Mu, as long as he didn't want to surrender, no matter how powerful the surrender faction was, there was nothing he could do about him, but he would kill a lot of people.

Moreover, although Cai Mao and others were also surrenderers, they could not persuade him to surrender because they were too deeply involved with Liu Biao, so they could only persuade Liu Cong to join Cao Cao after his death.

Shen Chen did not have the same forces as Liu Biao, and if he openly shouted the banner of resistance to Cao in Jingzhou, a place where the surrender faction gathered, he would probably be hammered into the ground.

Therefore, he must find a path for himself, otherwise there may be no place for him in the land of Jingzhou.

That's the reality.

So which path should he take?

Shen Chen closed his eyes and quickly thought in his heart.

"Brother Shen!"

"Hmm!"

Shen Changqing walked on the road, and when he met someone he knew well, he would say hello to each other or nod his head.

But it doesn't matter who it is.

There was no superfluous expression on everyone's face, as if they were very indifferent to everything.

on this.

Shen Changqing is used to it.

Because this is the Demon Suppression Division, it is an institution that maintains the stability of Great Qin, and its main responsibility is to kill demons and monsters, and of course there are some other side jobs.

Arguably.

In the Demon Suppression Division, everyone has a lot of blood on their hands.

When a person is accustomed to seeing life and death, then he will become indifferent to many things.

When he first came to this world, Shen Changqing was a little uncomfortable, but over time he got used to it.

The Demon Suppression Division is huge.

The people who can stay in the Demon Suppression Division are all powerful masters, or people who have the potential to become masters.

Shen Changqing belongs to the latter.

Among them, the Demon Suppression Division is divided into two professions, one is the town guard and the other is the demon exterminator.

Anyone who enters the Demon Suppression Division starts with the lowest level of demon slayer.

Then step by step, he is expected to become a town guard.

Shen Changqing's predecessor was a trainee demon slayer in the Demon Suppression Division, and he was also the lowest level of the demon slayer envoys.

Have memories of the predecessor.

He is also very familiar with the environment of the Demon Suppression Division.

It didn't take long for Shen Changqing to stop in front of an attic.

Unlike other places full of slaughter, the attic here seems to stand out from the crowd, and in the bloody Demon Suppression Division, it presents a different tranquility.

At this time, the attic door is open, and there are occasional people entering and exiting.

Shen Changqing only hesitated for a moment, and then stepped in.

Access to the attic.

The environment has changed in vain.

A burst of ink fragrance mixed with the faint smell of blood came to his face, making his brow furrow instinctively, but quickly stretched.

The smell of blood on everyone's body in the Demon Suppression Division is almost impossible to clean.