Chapter 8: Advice to Cao Mengde
When Xun Yu and Zhong Xuan came over, they saw that the road at the city gate was empty, and there was a one-armed man standing among them, and an old man kneeling facing south at the man's feet.
The kneeling Da Ru Kongrong took a bite of the pear, and there was a basket of pears in front of his knee, four or five of which had already been eaten by him.
An ordinary person of this age must be full after eating these, but he is still eating.
Zhong Xuan snatched the pear from his hand and said in surprise: "Wenju, what are you doing, what about the scourge Cao Wu?" ”
Kong Rong lowered his head, took another pear, and continued to eat.
Xun Yu glared at Zhang Xia, the one-armed man next to him, Zhang Xia smiled and said: "The pears were given by my general, and he said that this surnamed Kong didn't eat pears when he was a child, and now he can eat more." ”
Hearing this, Zhong Xuan threw the pear on the ground with a "bang", and said angrily: "Deceive people too much, deceive people too much!" ”
Kong Rong waved his hand: "Don't blame him, it's the old man who is incompetent." ”
"What do you mean by that?"
"When the general of Beifu left, I asked him some questions if he could follow the example of me and other scholars and restrain his behavior. But he said I don't understand Confucianism. ”
"Hairy boy, what do you know about Confucianism?"
Zhong Xuan stepped forward to support Kong Rong, but Kong Rong couldn't afford to live or die.
When he spoke, Xun Yu and Zhong Xuan realized that Kong Rong had already eaten his teeth and were bleeding, but he ate pears with blood like this.
At this time, even Xun Yu was curious: "Wen Jugong, what did General Beifu say to make you hit so hard?" ”
He said...... What is Confucianism is nothing more than four words. ”
"What four words?"
Zhong Xuan tugged at his sleeve and asked curiously.
Kong Rong said slowly: "Knowledge and action are one." ”
"Unity ...... knowledge and action"
Xun Yu and Zhong Xuan, two people who read poetry and books, savored these four words, which everyone in later generations hung on their lips, appeared more than a thousand years in advance, and they were like a stick in the head, and the two of them were intoxicated.
"He said that Confucian scholars have three immortals, but they should have four pursuits."
"Which four pursuits are they?"
Zhong Xuan asked impatiently.
But Kong Rong actually smiled bitterly: "He didn't say it...... He said that the old man would die this winter, and there was no need to know. ”
Xun Yu and Zhong Yu were disappointed, especially Xun Yu, his eyes flickered, he didn't know what he was thinking, he opened his mouth several times, but finally didn't speak.
Kong Rong noticed his expression and sighed: "Wen Ruo, a Cao Cao, can already be called a supernatural master, this Cao Wu, why is it not so simple?" ”
Xun Yu shook his head: "I have long warned you not to compete with the general of Beifu, but unfortunately you have to go to Beifu to provoke him." You can't fight! ”
After thinking about it, he added: "I can't compete for anything!" ”
"With this Ercao, it's really a big man who is dead!"
Kong Rong repeated the poem read by Diao Chan word by word: "Ten thousand households are sad and have purple smoke, when will the hundred officials rise to the sky again, and it is also written by Cao Wu?" Well written, well written! There were originally seven-character rhyme poems in the world. Are these two Cao all born demons? ”
He was desperate to cry out, Zhong Xuan pulled him and said, "Be cautious, be cautious!" ”
Hearing the words of the Great Man of Heavenly Death, Xun Yu lowered his head and was silent, with a hint of gloom on his face.
He took a step back, but he didn't expect to run into Zhang Xia next to him.
Zhang Xia scoffed: "My general is an all-rounder, what do you poor scholars know." ”
After a while, he suddenly remembered something, took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Xun Yu: "My lord, this is what my general asked me to wait here for you." ”
Xun Yu took the letter and said with a wry smile: "It seems that General Beifu has long known that I will come." ”
He opened the letterhead, saw the crooked words, shook his head, and understood that this letter was definitely written by Cao Wu himself.
After reading the first sentence, the gloom on his face dissipated and he smiled again.
The first line reads: "Good morning, Gou or brother." ”
yes, it's been a long time since I've heard Gou or such a bizarre name.
Xun Yu thought of those years, those days when he started a business and won the world, it was this young man who expected things like a god again and again, and made Ming Gong turn evil into good fortune.
But only the closest people around Cao Cao knew about Cao Wu's existence, in this small circle, Cao Wu and the unsmiling Xun You hooked their shoulders and backs, and the short Le Jin was farther than who urinated, instigating Dian Wei and Xu Zhu to wear strange clothes and kill with their bare hands, hiding the medicine bowl prepared by Guo Jia before going to the hook bar, pulling out Cheng Yu's pitiful hair, drawing a picture of a bird on Xiahoudun's blindfold, drinking Cao Ren's treasured wine, and robbing Cao Hong's money......
At that time, they did not have the world, and they fought every day, but their lives were free.
Now they have nine of the thirteen states in the world, but everything is different.
Fortunately, in this world, the young man who will call Xun Yu Gou Or is still the same.
"Little nothing......"
Ever since Cao Wu was drunk and inadvertently talked about Xun Yu's future, he rarely shouted Cao Wu like this.
He continued to read the letter.
"My brother knows my brother's temper, and no one can persuade him. Since this battle must be fought, I still have to explain a few words to my brother, and ask my brother to send it to my brother on the front line. ”
"My brother has to find a way to make my brother remember."
"Jiang Gan Huang Gai is not credible, Cai Mao Zhang Yun is not moving."
"Beware of fires on the water, and you can also take advantage of the east wind in winter."
"There are a few broken thoughts, one is that the serial boat can not be used, the second is that if something cannot be done, flee north in time, the third is to deal with the old Sun family, use Zhang Liao's house more, and the fourth is to encounter difficulties, don't laugh, at least we have to understand and laugh."
The first four sentences of proverbs and the so-called broken thoughts, with Xun Yu's ingenuity, he can guess the intention to some extent, only the last two sentences, what to use Zhang Liao more, what not to laugh, so that a smart person like him can't figure it out.
"Wen Ruo, what did that guy write for you?"
Zhong Yu wanted to come over to see, Xun Yu had already received the letter, remembered a few words of adverb that Cao Wu had heard before, and said perfunctorily: "Brother Yuan Chang, it was the general of Beifu who said that you will have a son when you are old in the future, and this young son will be famous all over the world!" ”
"Young son?"
Zhong Miao was also confused, and he didn't understand it after thinking about it for a long time, so he could only go back to Xu Capital with the hundred officials.
……
On the other side, Cao Wu and Ah Da galloped on the official road, and after a day of dust, they found a post station to settle down in the evening.
Ah Da went to ask for two bowls of noodles, served one bowl first, and threw it to Cao Wu before he went to get his own bowl.
Cao Wu knew that she was still angry that she didn't pursue fame, and she didn't explain, he had already crossed over, so he naturally wanted to be happy with revenge, reputation or something, my brother's reputation was bad enough, with him on top, what were you afraid of.
He lowered his head and ate a few bites of noodles, smashed his mouth and said, "Have you brought any spices at home?" ”
Ah Da frowned, and took out a small bag from the slender calf, which is a unique material bag in Beifu, only Beifu has this secret recipe in the world, according to Cao Wu, it is a kind of condiment of what kind of side and what surface, Ah Ba studied it for a long time before imitating it.
She got up and leaned over again, revealing her beautiful figure, and poured all the material bags to Cao Wu, but she was not willing to use it.
"Cao Wu, save a little, I didn't bring much, this way is still a long way."
Cao Wu said helplessly: "Female military division, can't we take a carriage, why do you have to ride a horse, my old waist will be torn apart." ”
"Ride a horse fast, it won't be long before Luyang, if you take a carriage, when will you be able to get here?"
Hearing the name Lu Yang, Cao Wu couldn't help but think of that man, so he asked, "Was the base camp of Emperor Honey Water in this Luyang before?" ”
"Who is the Honeywater Emperor?"
"Yuan Shubei, the emperor who still wants to drink honey before he dies."
Ah Da's forehead jumped wildly: "They are all heroes of Xuanhe, can't they afford these messy names?" What kind of big-eared thief, what kind of Sun 100,000, I don't know where these names came from. The kind of people you call keyboard warriors are boring. After eating noodles, I quickly rested, and continued south when it was dawn. ”
"That ......"
"It's a suite, you live in the room, I'm outside."
Ah Da directly interrupted Cao Wu's words, and then sighed: "You can't think of something else, Ah Jiu and Ah Qi are not enough for you to do harm?" ”
"I'm just curious if you ......"
"The one hundred and twenty-third asked, no comment!"
"It doesn't matter, my Cao family has blood, if it's really not...... Wouldn't that be better! ”
Ambassador Ah put the bowl down and led the horse to the stable.
If Kong Rong is here, he will definitely be surprised by the changes in Ah Da, the last time he saw Diao Chan, Diao Chan danced in the middle of the banquet, and the romance of the ages was all within reach.
Now she is still the sable cicada who is both beautiful and artistic, and she can do such rough work as leading horses and feeding horses.
That's not all, the tone of her and Cao Wu's speech is completely different from others, the usual "concubine body" is gone, and when it comes to the shy things of the girl's family, she doesn't feel rigid at all, and she lives like a young woman who has been bombarded by yellow jokes for ten years.
Only the flowing voice, the eyebrows and eyes exposed by the veil, the charm is the same.
Nothing was said all night.
The two woke up, and when they were having breakfast at the post station, Zhang Xia chased after them, he didn't say anything, he sat directly next to the two, held the bowl with one arm, and drank the porridge slowly.
Ah Da hesitated for a long time, but he didn't take out a new package of spices.
Cao Wu took a sip of the light and tasteless rice porridge and asked, "Lao Xun received my letter?" ”
Zhang Xia's head drinking porridge and the porridge bowl were ordered.
"Are the brothers ready?"
Nodded again.
"Then you take them with you...... Go to the mountains north of Jiangxia and wait for my news there. ”
It is impossible to march on a large scale on the mountain road, but it is still no problem to hide his small elite.
"Whoa!"
Zhang Xia put down the porridge and stood up, in fact, there was still some porridge in the bowl, but when he heard the order, he stopped drinking it.
"Drink it, drink it."
Cao Wu tugged at his empty sleeves to make him kneel again, and glared at Ah Da again.
Ah Da reluctantly took out another bag, sprinkled a few grains for Zhang Xia, and then poured the rest into Cao Wu's bowl, and he still didn't keep anything.
These few grains of seasoning made Zhang Xia feel that the porridge had become so fragrant, and after a few sips, he wiped his mouth with one arm and took the order.
Only Cao Wu and Ah Da remained.
Cao Wu sighed: "Is our family so poor?" ”
He swapped his bowl with Ah Da, and Ah Da smiled: "I only brought so much." ”
Cao Wu looked at her slender long legs, and suspected that her legs were too thin and couldn't be tied too much, such legs could only be played with by beasts back then, how could she bring things.
After drinking the soup full of seasonings, Ah Da felt that it was extremely delicious, and he still couldn't get enough of it after taking the last sip.
When she put down the bowl, Cao Wucai said, "The bowl you drank, I drank it just now." ”
On that day, Cao Wu's little red horse was listless, as if he hadn't been fed for breakfast.
……
It was still this early morning, Ah Jiu woke up in a daze, it was already the second day after the general left, and as soon as the general left, the entire Beifu was a lot deserted, but everyone had their own responsibilities, and they couldn't be idle.
Ah Da and Ah Er have been away for a long time, Ah San and Ah Liu have gone on a mission, Ah Si followed the big boat to the south, Ah Wu looked at the account book, Ah Ba was cooking, Ah Shi went out with a medicine basket on his back, Ah Qi was holding a long radish and swallowing, not knowing what he was practicing.
Here, every sister at home has a class to serve the general, but only she and Ah Qi are a little different from everyone else, and she can't say why.
But in her heart, the general is everything to her, the general is happy when she is happy, the general is troubled when she is troubled, the general's three views are her three views, and the general will also support the wall when she supports the wall.
She had forgotten about her other relatives, she only remembered that one year she was taken from her home and imprisoned in a palatial palace.
There, she and her young sisters were forced to learn various skills such as singing and dancing every day, and those days were very hard, but at least they could still eat enough, especially when the sister who was still called Diao Chan came to teach dance, she would definitely bring a lot of good things, and it was the festival of their little sisters.
Later, the palace was broken, and for the first time, a general with a three-character name came in and killed all the stewards, who were hidden in advance by the stewards and were not discovered. Since then, food has not been guaranteed.
The second time, two generals who seemed to be foreigners came in, the older sisters were taken captive, and the younger ones were hidden in the basement by the older sisters.
They spent a long time in the dark basement, and all the little sisters were hungry and cold.
Then, the general came.
At that time, the general was not very old, but it was this child who led them out of the ruins.
All the way to the end.
Finally in the East, Ah Da said that they were free, their families were basically dead, but they were no longer hostages and tools of anyone, and they could choose their own destiny.
Ninety-seven sisters, including Ah Da himself, chose the infamous little general.
They no longer keep their names, they are reordered according to their age.
The general said that they are women of the new era, and they must hold up half the sky, not boxing.
Isn't boxing a way to strengthen the body? Besides, they are all women, except for the third sister who has practiced extraordinary martial arts, no one can box.
She doesn't understand, she just likes to play.
In the past, Ah Liu also liked to play, but Ah Liu went to the south a few years ago to find someone, and it is said that this is an important task that ranks among the top three in all the tasks in Beifu.
It was still the same morning, Ah Liu woke up from a thatched hut in the south, and the gentleman next to him also woke up.
The gentleman stretched his waist and recited indifferently: "Who knows the big dream first, I know it in my life." The grass hall sleeps enough in spring, and the day outside the window is late. ”