The tiger baby and the middle-aged man drank wine and ate meat, and every time the wine in the bamboo tube was emptied, the palace concubine poured another cup and presented it, and he and the middle-aged man each used two bamboo cups. The two drank a few glasses, and the more the tiger baby drank, the more delicious she felt, and she really experienced the feeling of smoking, sitting by the fire, her forehead and the tip of her nose were slightly sweaty, and her face became red.

Is this the legendary strength of wine or the strength of wine? It makes Tiger Baby feel a little excited, and it feels good. The simple boy who came from the wilderness also learned to drink for the first time today, and drank it with the rare meat of the horses.

The middle-aged man smiled and asked, "Child, how is this wine?"

Feeling excited, the conversation became casual, and the tiger baby shook the cup and replied, "Yes, very good, it's the first time I've been drinking...... It's just that the wine seems to be a little lighter, and it should be more mellow or stronger. ”

The middle-aged man also shook the cup and said, "Seeing that you are young, your taste is not low." Nowadays, this is the best and most mellow wine made by mortals, and it is used by the monarch in the rituals, and even the lords of the city can't drink a few glasses in normal times. If you want to drink better wine, you can either wait for people to be more skilled in making wine in the future, or you can use your magical powers to refine the purity yourself. ”

Although Huwa hadn't drunk alcohol before, she had heard of these. The monks use the magical means of refining tools or medicine to refine and purify the wine in the world, and they can get stronger wine, and even the essence of pure wine. This thing can be used to start a fire, and after burning, it does not even leave a trace of ashes, which is beyond the sight and imagination of mortals in the world.

Only he accompanied the middle-aged man to drink, and Huwa also felt a little embarrassed, but it was not suitable to call the palace concubine who was serving wine to drink together, so he said to the boy Hougang: "Won't you accompany Mr. to have a few drinks?"

Hou Gang hurriedly shook his head and said, "I don't drink it." ”

The middle-aged man smiled: "If he doesn't drink, don't persuade him to drink." Wine is a good thing, but it's not a good thing, and if you develop the habit of indulging in greedy drinks, it's really bad. Then he said to the palace. "Hougang doesn't drink, but he eats meat with us, and you don't even have meat to eat, do you know why?"

The palace lady replied pitifully, "Because I am serving wine." ”

The middle-aged man seemed to be a little drunk, shook a piece of meat with a branch and shook his head again and again: "No, no, this has nothing to do with your serving wine, and it is not the same thing as the mistake you made today, but the thing we eat is the meat of the horse you raised." It is said that others can eat it, but you are better off not eating it. It's for the unbearable. In fact, in another case, I won't even let you watch it, and this situation is also punishing your mistakes. ”

Gong Yan had no choice but to hang her head again and said, "Thank you Mr. for your punishment." ”

Middle-aged man: "It's a pity that such a rare and exotic beast was slaughtered, and it would be even more pity if even the meat was wasted." It is looking for its own death, but without your connivance, it would not have ended up like this. Your father commands you to be respectful at all times when you go with me. Although you are like this on the surface, but you don't really do it, otherwise you wouldn't be where you are today. ”

Gong Yan hurriedly explained: "I am indeed sincere and respectful to Mr."

The middle-aged man shook his head and said, "Is that so?" I took Hougang into the mountains and fields, and I didn't want others to accompany me. If you are truly respectful and respectful. You should have given me a ride in the carriage, and it wasn't that Hougang couldn't drive! But you were thinking that you could finally breathe a sigh of relief while I wasn't there, and you were already thinking about going hunting. That's why I left the horses. Otherwise, even if I don't use your carriage and horses, you can ask anyway, this is the courtesy!"

Gong Yan lowered her head again and said, "It's true that Gong Yan didn't think it through." Mr. Lesson is. ”

This girl is really well-behaved at the moment, no matter what the middle-aged people say about her, she doesn't talk back, it makes people feel that they can't continue to talk about her. The tiger baby watched from the sidelines, feeling weird, this middle-aged man seemed to be deliberately looking for the stubble of the palace concubine, it depends on whether she is willing to obey? At the same time, it is also to help the palace concubine get rid of her guilt in front of everyone, so that she will not have to be severely punished after returning to China.

Huwa was right, but at this moment, the fire has gradually become dim, and she needs to continue to add firewood to it. Huwa put down the cup and said, "Sir, I'll go find some branches again." ”

The middle-aged man waved his hand and said, "You're drinking, you can sit well...... Gong Yan, go and chop your car, and use the wood as firewood. ”

The sumptuous carriage of the palace concubine had been knocked over in the afternoon battle, and had not yet been pulled away while lying on her stomach in the field. The middle-aged man's request seemed a bit excessive, and Gong Yan was surprised: "Sir, didn't you say that you should cherish things and respect the work of others, and you should not destroy and waste them at will. Why should a good carriage be chopped for firewood?"

The middle-aged man said with a straight face: "If it were a normal situation, of course I shouldn't let you do this." But I came here in this car, and I don't want to drive away in this car again. This chariot has trampled on the green seedlings twice today, and even the horses that pulled the cart have ended up like this, who else should leave this chariot to see? Roast the flesh of this beast with the wood of this chariot, and warn others in the country not to follow your example today.

And your journey today deserves to be punished with punishment. Although you have confessed your sins and repented and apologized for compensation, you can not cut off your feet, but you cannot go unpunished! You usually use a car to get around, so use this car to replace your feet today, and you can walk by yourself in the future. If you don't have the strength to split the carriage alone, you can call the guards to help, but you have to do it yourself. ”

Gong Yan had no choice but to obey her fate, got up and called the guards to smash the carriage into a pile of wood, and she herself used a waist knife to make a few strokes, which was considered to be her own hands. Then the guards put the wood beside the fire, and added a few more to the fire, and then withdrew, while the palace maiden stayed and continued to serve the wine.

The middle-aged man seemed to be more and more excited the more he drank, and the more he talked to the tiger baby, the more he talked about the various etiquette methods in the country that the tiger baby was proficient in, and as he spoke, he suddenly turned his head and asked: "Gong Yan, do you know where the 'ceremony' comes from?"

The palace lady replied respectfully: "It was formulated by the ancestors of the past dynasties and the sages of the country, and the power of the king was given by God, and he led all the people to observe the law of etiquette to respect the heavens. ”

The middle-aged man asked again: "What is the basis for the establishment of the ritual law by the ancestors of the past dynasties?"

This question is not easy to answer, and Gong Yan said very obediently: "I just want to listen to the teachings of Mr." ”

The middle-aged man replied while drinking: "You only know that there are etiquette laws in the country, but you don't know what the basis for the etiquette laws is, and you don't know why there are etiquette laws?

Today's rituals are also different from the ancient rituals, and there are additions, deletions, and repairs over the ages, which are used to govern the world, and also teach people to get along with themselves. Thou knowest the law. But if they think that if they can escape the crime, they can not abide by it, they have forgotten the original meaning of the etiquette law. The law of etiquette is not only for you, nor is it only for you to break, if it is not done, then the country is like a void, and the king is like a void. ”

Seeing the middle-aged man talking, after drinking wine, he opened his mouth a little talkatively, and Huwa interjected with a red face: "Sir, you have been talking for a long time, and you haven't said the basis for etiquette." ”

The middle-aged man looked at the tiger baby again and said: "The basis of etiquette is the principle of everything." According to the wishes of the people, it is determined by the effect of governing the world. The world changes, and the rituals and laws of the past dynasties are also different, but they are all based on the principle of everything. There are the principles of the world first, and then there are the etiquette laws of the country. If the etiquette law is not in accordance with the reason, it should be changed, otherwise both the king and the people are in danger; if the etiquette law harms the people, it should be abolished, otherwise the people will become the king and abolished. ”

Huwa shook her head and said, "Sir, I sound a little dizzy. ”

It's not just the tiger baby who is dizzy. The people next to him were dizzy. At this time, there was no systematic writing on Ba Yuan, and if we only used language to describe it, many subtle differences would be clarified clearly. For people, it is an extremely profound and complex process of thinking, which requires excellent understanding and perseverance.

The "rites" and "principles" that the middle-aged people just spoke of are homophones in the languages spoken in the countries of Pakistan. The vast majority of the world thinks of them as a meaning. In some cases, there may be subtle differences in the use of language, but it can be difficult to explain. The middle-aged man heard the tiger baby say this. As he continued to speak, his voice was filled with divine thoughts, and it had a complex meaning that transcended words.

The "reason" he refers to is the cause, essence, law, process and effect of all things, which is a complex abstract concept. If it is applied to the affairs of the world, it is the judgment of the truth and the cause of all things. The presiding officer in charge of the punishment of the lawsuits in the kingdom is called Lizheng, because he is in charge of such a reasonable person, and he is also the one who enforces the etiquette and law of the country.

In the eyes of the world at that time, the "rites" he spoke of were not only the concepts of politeness and etiquette, but also the attitude of people, but a set of rules and systems followed in social life, including various rules and ceremonies, the most important of which was the godly ritual, which was the basis of the country's ritual law and also represented the dignity of the ritual law.

The middle-aged man said excitedly, put down the branch with the barbecue, stretched out his left hand and volleyed a stone from nowhere, and with a wave of his right hand, the stone was cut neatly from the middle like a knife, and explained to the tiger baby and the palace concubine: "Etiquette comes from reason, and etiquette is the text of reason." ”

There is a metaphor in the mind of God, and the texture and texture can be seen by cutting the stone, which symbolizes the cause and essence of all things, which is "reason". Then people can see the various lines and cracks on the surface of the stone, so that they can guess and judge the texture of its interior, which is the "etiquette" formulated by the world.

At that time, of course, the so-called text did not refer to articles or words, but to the textures or textures that people saw. Wen and Wen also have the same sound and the same meaning, but this middle-aged man gave different subtle explanations.

This very complex process of speculation and subtle differences in expression are difficult to explain with words alone, and I am afraid that they can only be taught by divine thoughts. The tiger baby frowned thoughtfully, while the others looked confused. The sergeants who heard their conversation in the woods in the distance didn't understand what the middle-aged man was talking about.

Huwa tilted her neck and dried a bamboo tube full of wine, stretched out her hand to wipe her mouth and said, "Sir, although I can barely understand it, how can you explain it to others?"

The middle-aged man glanced at Pan Gu with a drunken face and said: "The genus of birds and beasts can still open up their spiritual wisdom, and all the people in the world must also open up their wisdom and go out of the wilderness to establish a city and a country, which is far from the end." Since we have this question, we have to think of a way to make it possible for the world to understand it in the future. (To be continued......)

PS: Who is this middle-aged man? Many chapters ago, there was a very casual little reminder in the previous article, this person is famous, and I am full of respect when I write it. You can guess and guess the name of this person and his identity in the book. The first person who completely guesses will be given a physical book signed by "Shocking Door", which is subject to the time of posting or replying.