Chapter 22 Deathbed Will (2)

Shu Yan verbally agreed, but did not take the matter to heart. He suddenly remembered the scene of Gonggong Xie before his death, so he asked Dr. Shu, "Grandpa, isn't it good for us to cultivate and read heirlooms like this?" Why did Gonggong Xie have to join the company before he died? What's more, I know that now the road to the advancement of the imperial court is all controlled by the wealthy families, and our Shu clan is poor, they have always looked down on them, and the so-called difference between the scholars and the scholars is greater than the sky, and this situation is becoming more and more common. And I think, like my Ah Weng, living a pastoral life of farming and reading, it's also very good, there is a confidant like Uncle Han, when he is tired of farming, he sings about wine, poems and wine are proud of the prince, free, unrestrained, how chic it is. ”

Dr. Shu nodded, and then shook his head again: "It is undeniable that your father-in-law Xie is right, the attitude of a hermit like you Ah Weng is influenced by me. You Ah Weng is proud of his talents, never bowing to the power of the wealthy family, and is willing to hide in this countryside and idyllic. But Yan'er, since ancient times: 'The small is hidden in the wilderness, the middle is hidden in the city, and the big is hidden in the court.' After all, it is not a great hidden thing to hide in the wilderness all his life, at least he can hide in the court first, and then hide in the wilderness, so that he is worthy of God and the people. ”

In the past, Shu Yan was nurtured by his father, and in this life, he only wanted to cultivate and study the heirloom, and he didn't think about any fame and fortune, and his father never asked him to glorify his ancestors or anything like that. At this moment, Shu Yan didn't speak, he recalled the situation on the day of Gonggong Xie's death. At that moment, he was weeping in front of Gonggong Xie's bed, while Zhixin was waiting for him on the bank of the Ru River to celebrate the festival together.

Although he couldn't go to Zhixin's appointment, Shu Yan had some regrets, but he didn't regret it. He is not a man who only cares about the love of children - it seems too early to say that children are long, and boys' minds are not as delicate as girls. Although he is older now, his feelings for Zhixin have gradually changed, but in his heart, this appointment does not have many thoughts between men and women, even if he goes to the appointment that day, he probably has a "gentleman frank" attitude, and sees it as a childlike before, an innocent trip with Zhixin's sisters. How did he know Zhixin's thoughts, let alone Zhixin's "ulterior motives" that deliberately took away her younger brother in order to date him alone.

Even if Zhixin is intentional, the girl's reserved shyness is innate, and it is impossible for her to say anything about love for herself. It is not difficult to imagine that in such a situation, even if the two made an appointment that day - a young girl who has just fallen in love with a young man who has not yet been "civilized", the female is ignorant, and the male is wooden, as if playing the piano to a cow, how much romance will be created? Zhixin had already thought of this in her heart, and she didn't expect how romantic that date would be, but as long as she could walk alone with Shu Yan and stay for a while, she would be happy.

Zhixin's good intentions were empty, but she didn't complain about Shu Yan. In comparison, being able to let Brother Yan stay by Gonggong Xie's side when he was dying is much more important than making an appointment with his superiors, after all, their days are still long.

Although the days are long, there are not many opportunities to meet. Zhixin helps her mother make money to support the family every day, and supervises her younger brother to study in her spare time. In addition to studying, Shu Yan went to Xishan to chop some firewood, or pick up vegetables and vegetables that he couldn't eat at home to sell in the market.

The weather in March is hot and cold, and although it is the spring season, it is inevitable that there will be a cold time. The children of the Shu Han family had already taken off their thick clothes, got up early and worked late to pass the summer early. But Shi De was like a bird that had not yet wintered, hiding in his warm nest.

Every day, Ah Miao and Ah Yan helped Shi De freshen up, feed him, put a crane coat on him, and then personally sent him to an exclusive study room for him to read. Of course, there was a fire in the study room long ago, and it was warm. Agarwood was still burning by the hearth, and the aroma filled the house. For this reason, Shi De also named his study "Agarwood Book House".

At Mr. Zhu's request, Ah Miao and Ah Yan no longer accompanied Shi De to study. For this reason, Shi Hui specially assigned a small scholar of his own to Shi De. Shi De has a rule for naming these male slaves and female maids who follow him, male slaves take the word "shi" next to it, and maidservants all take the word "female" next to it. This little scholar's name is Aji, and he has a clever mind and quick hands and feet.

Ah Miao and Ah Yan put the hand stove and foot stove in place, and after everything was arranged, they told Ah Ji a few words to serve the young master before going back.

Mr. Zhu came in, gave the first gift to the teacher and the student, and then returned to his seat and sat down, stepping on the foot stove, because the weather was not cold, so he put the hand stove aside, holding a jade ruyi in his hand to play. Mr. Zhu had long been unaccustomed to Shide's hypocritical behavior, so he said, "What time is it now?" ”

Shi Dedao: "Sir, it's the spring weather now, and it's the end of March. ”

"How so?"

"Sir, why are you confused, haven't you seen the willows and greens outside, and the spring breeze is seated?"

"Since you know that the willows and willows are green and the spring breeze is sitting outside, why do you still have a hand stove and foot stove? You are a young man, and your blood is in full bloom, is it better for me to be an old man and be cold? ”

"Uh......" Actually, according to the current weather, there is no need for any heating equipment at all, Shi De motioned to Aji to remove all the hand stoves and foot stoves.

Today, Mr. Zhu talked about the "Book of Rites", talked about the chapter of "Qu Li", and read: "The death of the Son of Heaven is said to collapse, the death of the princes is called the death, the death of the doctor is called the pawn, the scholar is said to be unruly, and the concubine is said to be dead." In the bed said the corpse, in the coffin said the coffin ......" just talked for a while, and saw that Shi De was no longer fiddling with Yu Ruyi at this moment, but lowered his head to admire the feather ornament of the crane fur he was wearing, and still did not listen carefully to his lecture. The crane fur is a very popular coat in the upper class society at that time, the main body fur, plus the bird feather decoration, both warm and light, and the decoration is exquisite, people wear it on the body, fluttering, like a fairy.

Mr. Zhu put down the book, sat upright, and patted the bookcase with a ruler, "Emperor Wei Wu died in Luoyang back then, if you were a ceremonial official at that time, what words would you use to describe it?" ”

Shi De was taken aback by the ruler and came back to his senses, "Since Emperor Wei Wu is the Son of Heaven, of course he must use the word 'collapse'." ”

Mr. Zhu sneered: "Although Cao Cao was called Emperor Wu of Wei by later generations, it was only after his son Cao Pi became emperor, and after the Wei Dynasty, the word 'collapse' could be used." At that time, it was still the world of the Han Dynasty, Cao Cao was just the King of Wei, a prince, and not the Son of Heaven, how could he use the word 'collapse'? Aren't you guilty of great disrespect by using words like this, and you want to lose your head? ”

"Oh." Shi De scratched his head, "Then the word '薨' should be used." ”

"Since you know how to use the word '薨', then you can write the word '薨' to me."

Shi De picked up the pen and wrote it several times, but he couldn't write it correctly.

Mr. Zhu looked at his handwriting and took the opportunity to criticize: "Confucius said: 'A gentleman has no food to eat, no place to live, and he is studious. 'You have to work hard to get something done.' The so-called 'food and clothing, lust, lust', furnishings like yours, do you still have the heart to learn? ”

Then he instructed Aji: "Don't hurry up and remove all the jade Ruyi, crane fur and agarwood!" ”

When Aji heard the command, he peeked at Shi De, but he didn't dare to move, and he was in a dilemma. Shi De had already scolded the teacher a hundred times in his heart for being "dead and rotten", but he didn't dare to show it on the surface, so he took the initiative to untie the crane and handed it to Aji together with Yu Ruyi. Seeing this, Aji also put out the agarwood with interest.

In this way, there is nothing left at hand to distract him, and although he is still careless at times, he is much better than before.

In this March, a major event occurred in the Jin Dynasty that changed the direction of China's historical development, that is, Emperor Sima Yan of the Jin Dynasty destroyed Sun Hao of Eastern Wu and unified the whole country, making the Jin Dynasty one of the few great unified dynasties in Chinese history after the Han Dynasty. It is only because the unification of the Western Jin Dynasty was relatively short, only thirty-six years, and soon after it fell into a split, so that historians rarely refer to the "Jin Dynasty" alone, but most of them refer to this period as "Wei and Jin", which seems to be a little aggrieved for the Jin Dynasty, a unified dynasty, because it was not Cao Wei who unified the three kingdoms, but the Great Jin of the Sima clan.

To say that during the period from the end of the Han Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms to the Western Jin Dynasty, the most debaucherous emperor was not Liu Xie, the late Han Emperor, not the late Wei Emperor Cao Huan, nor the late Shu Han Emperor Liu Chan, but the late Wu Emperor Sun Hao. He killed innocents indiscriminately, and many members of the royal family and ministers died at his hands. He also tortured indiscriminately, and when he did not like it, he skinned people alive and gouged out people's eyes alive. Sun Hao's harem has thousands of beauties, he indulges in alcohol and lewdness every day, and it is not enough, even the wives and daughters of ministers and folk women who are beautiful have to be happy for him. The whole country of Wu was full of grievances, and the common people were looking forward to the Great Jin Dynasty to come over, overthrow Sun Hao, and save the people of Eastern Wu from fire and water.

There is much help for the righteous, but little help for the unjust. It was only a matter of time before such an unpopular court was overthrown. Emperor Sima Yan of the Jin Dynasty spent eight years quelling the rebellion of Liu Meng, the right virtuous king of the Xiongnu, and the Xianbei bald tree, and temporarily eliminated the hidden dangers in the northwest. The northwest is stable, and then he can deal with Soochow wholeheartedly. He sent the Zhendong general Langya Wang Sima Ling, Jianwei general Wang Rong and other five-way armies to attack Tuzhong, Niuzhu, Wuchang, Xiakou, Jiangling several important towns respectively, and the waterway was led by the famous general Wang Jun, along the Yangtze River to the east, Taiwei Jia Chong as the governor. The six-way army advanced by land and water, like destroying the withering and decaying, and in just a few months, Sun Hao was leveled.

Long Xiang's general Wang Jun was the first to kill Sun Hao's palace. Seeing that the general trend had gone, Sun Hao tied his hands behind his back, carried the coffin in a car, and knelt in front of Wang Jun. This is called face binding and cowardice, and it is a common ceremony for defeated kings in ancient times to ask for surrender. Wang Jun personally helped Sun Hao up, untied the rope for Sun Hao, and ordered someone to burn the coffin. Sun Hao presented jade seals and picture books. After leveling Sun Wu, the Jin Dynasty gained a total of four prefectures, 43 counties, and 313 counties in Eastern Wu, with a population of 2.3 million, and 2.8 million rice grains, and more than 5,000 boats. The reason why Eastern Wu has been divided in the Central Plains for a long time is because it relies on the natural danger of the Yangtze River, and there are countless warships, which are not easy to attack, so Sima Ling, Wang Jun and others ordered more than 5,000 boats and ships to be burned in front of the class, so as to prevent future troubles, and then took the jade seal of Wu and the picture book, escorted Sun Hao, and returned to Luoyang in a mighty way. After destroying Sun Hao, the people of Wu were all happy. In fact, as early as a few years ago, the Great Jin Dynasty already had the conditions to destroy Wu, but because a few ministers such as Jia Chong opposed the attack on Wu, the Great Jin Dynasty unified the whole country several years late.