The old man snorted coldly and said, "That's not simple, if anyone dares to talk about Mr. behind his back, he will cut it directly." Hmph, you scholars, shake your head all day long, full of what the son says, how the saint is, but behind the scenes, there is hypocrisy and false righteousness. What the old man can't look down on the most are those sanctimonious hypocrites. Sour! When the old man was training in the ancient Confucian state, he often used human flesh to accompany wine, but he never ate Confucianism, do you know why? Because those rotten Confucian meat is too sour!"

The Confucian man smiled lightly, still looking pampered and unsurprised. Unexpectedly, a young voice beside him suddenly spoke: "Old horseman, you don't brag here, have you really eaten the flesh of a living person?" His name is Gan Mianzhi, and he is a twelve-year-old ruthless man.

The old man was furious, slapped the case, and scolded: "Huangkou Xiaoer, you dare to humiliate the old man like this, I will make you unable to survive or die." ”

The old man, like a ghost, left a trace of afterimage on the side of the table, shook himself to the opposite side of the long table, raised his palm and slashed at the twelve-year-old child, and the Confucian priest did not stop him when he saw this.

The palm of the hand brought the sound of the wind, and the force slashed down, and when the palm knife touched at least the Tianling cover, the heart suddenly knew that this blow was cut empty, and the palm seemed to be split on the shadow, and there was no force.

The Confucian stood up, held Gan Mianzhi's small hand with his left hand, turned around and walked outside the hall, and said as he walked: "The Tao is different, it is not enough to plan, Your Excellency the city lord should explain the matter behind him as soon as possible." Your life, Xiao will come to take it in a few days. ”

The old man watched the two of them walk away fixedly, and said sadly: "This time, the old man has taken a look." ”

Outside the City Lord's Mansion, the master and apprentice walked farther and farther, and after turning the alley, the Confucian asked with a smile, "Are your feet weak now?"

Gan Mianzhi gritted his teeth and said, "It's okay." ”

Confucian said: "Right now, it's just the two of us, so there's no need to be strong." ”

"Back to the teacher, the student's feet are weak. ”

"That's for the teacher to carry you. ”

The moon shadow was oblique, reflecting the empty alley, and Gan Mianzhi lay on the teacher's back, patted his ass and said: "The teacher's mirror flowers and water moon are so powerful." ”

The Confucian scholar said with a smile: "It's just a trick to bluff people, and it is not allowed to take this as the purpose of improvement, and in the future, we must still take virtue as the foundation, and erect a ruler for the world, remember." ”

"Yes, teacher, the student wrote it down. ”

"Well!" the Confucian seemed to have something to say, so he walked very slowly, "The teacher never thought that the city lord would really drugged the wine, otherwise how could he stop with him today? ”

"Oh! The student thought that he was drunk, so his feet were weak, and he never thought that he was destroyed by the force of medicine. ”

Confucius said: "Today's examination for the teacher to test your question, among these people, only the reluctant answer is the most satisfactory for the teacher. You have already written down what you said, and you will not forget it, and you must not forget it, you know?"

"It's the teacher. ”

The Confucian scholar smiled and said: "Today you say the way of a gentleman, strong and promising, for the teacher to test you, this word strong, what should be done?"

"Pure masculine and self-improving. ”

Confucius said: "The teacher asks you again, if we can't defeat this city lord, then do we still want to eliminate harm for the people?"

Gan Mianzhi thought for a while and said, "Then try to leave first, and then kill back when you have the ability." ”

"If the entire Jade Prefecture is oppressed by such unscrupulous lords, what should we do? Try to leave and go to another state? If the whole world of Kyushu is like this, where are we going to flee?"

Gan Mianzhi blinked his eyes and stopped talking in a daze.

The Confucian scholar smiled: "We scholars can always find a basis in the book. If you can't beat it, you can't say it, but if you can't beat it, you can say that 'a gentleman doesn't build a dangerous wall', which is unacceptable. The definition of being a teacher is to be strong and promising, and to do it knowing that it cannot be done. ”

"That'...... Then change to the teacher to answer, if you can't beat it, then do you want to eliminate harm for the people?"

The Confucian scholar said: "Fight! Not only must we fight, but we must also fight vigorously and earth-shatteringly." ”

"Isn't the teacher afraid of death?"

The Confucian scholar smiled and said: "What are you afraid of? The teacher died first, and it will be your turn to die in the future, and you will not be afraid if you have seen it." ”

When the two returned to the Penglai Inn, Gan Mianzhi had already fallen asleep.

When he woke up the next day, he said goodbye to Zhao Baiyu.

Although the two have only known each other for more than a month, their feelings for each other are already very deep, and they are about to separate, and they both feel very difficult to give up.

When Gan Mian woke up, it was almost noon, and his feet were still a little sore. Looking at the sky, it was too late to greet the teacher today, and after going downstairs, I didn't find all the senior brothers, so I was a little at a loss.

The shopkeeper saw him, ran over and said, "Your teacher left a message for me to explain to you, cough cough....... The teacher has taken all the senior brothers to the outside of the city, Mian Zhi is not in good health, should not move around, must stay in the inn to recuperate, not to go out. ”

Gan Mianzhi thanked the man, and returned to the upstairs guest room, he had slept for a long time last night, and now he was lying on the bed tossing and turning but he was not sleepy.

When I think of last night's events, I feel quite resentful. In a short time he went downstairs again, and gave his fellow a letter to deliver to the lord's house, and to pay some reward.

The man agreed, took the letter and went, and a quarter of an hour later the letter was delivered to Menzi.

Gan Mianzhi went back to the room and changed into a brand-new Confucian shirt, took out a jade plaque from his baggage and hung it around his waist, held a bamboo pole, and carried a thing wrapped in rice paper in the other hand, and went out of the Penglai Inn.

The so-called humble gentleman, gentle as jade, Confucianism believes that the jade has the character and virtue of a gentleman, and the bamboo has knots, which is hollow and airy, not flattering to the world, not afraid of the cold winter, so the bamboo battle is used as a metaphor for the gentleman's unparalleled temperament.

Gan Mianzhi was dressed so solemnly, it was already considered a full costume, and he strode forward, like an emperor who had ascended to the throne and was crowned. It's just that while walking, the right foot is a little lame, perhaps because the medicinal power has not been exhausted.

The old city lord received the letter from his subordinates, opened it, and then smiled: "Hmph, these scholars are really sanctimonious, hypocritical, and righteous. ”

I saw that the letter read: "We talked in a hurry last night, and there are still many unknowns. At noon today, Xiao set up a banquet in Mingyue Tower, and I hope you will come to talk in detail. ”

Gan Mianzhi walked through several long streets with a cane, and he cultivated Haoran Qi, which was great and strong. Although he is young and his physique is small, he is still majestic and imposing when he walks.

Turning the street, I stopped in front of a restaurant, and immediately a guy came running and asked, "Is the guest here for dinner?"

Gan Mianzhi raised his head and glanced at the plaque, 'Mingyue Tower'.

The dressed boy stepped in, went straight to the second floor, sat down in a position facing the window, and ordered, "Go and get the best wine from you, and give me this dish to be steamed." ”

As he spoke, he handed a rice paper bag to the guy.

The guy took it with both hands and said with a smile, "Do you want anything else?"

The young man looked at the pedestrians on the road in front of the building through the wooden window, and replied, "I will call you again if necessary, and the wine should come up quickly." ”

The man answered, and hurriedly fetched the wine.

Not long after, there was a sound on the stairs, and the old city lord with a long beard and gray stepped up to the second floor.

He saw the boy who had spoken disrespectfully to him last night at the window, but he had never seen Mr. Xiao.

The old man took his seat, poured himself a bowl of wine, and asked, "Where is your husband?"

The young man smiled and said, "The teacher still has some things to do, and he will be here soon, and he ordered me to wait here for Your Excellency." ”

The old man drank the wine in the bowl and said with a smile: "Why do you only have wine but no food?

The young man raised his glass to invite the old man to drink, and said with a smile: "Poor is poor, but there is no acid, the dishes are already cooking, and they will be delivered soon." ”

The two drank a cup of wine, and the old man asked, "What, your husband has figured it out?"

The boy was about to say something, but the shopkeeper came over with a plate, and said from afar, "Here comes the food." ”

The old man saw that the dish was novel, and it seemed that he had never eaten it, so he took a bite and ate it. I didn't want the meat to be very delicious, and it melted in my mouth, but he was so surprised, and said in his heart when did this Mingyue Building have such a powerful cook.

The two chatted for a while, and the old man ate the whole dish by himself, and he didn't see the new dish come up for a long time, and then guessed that the young man only needed a dish, and said mockingly: "The letter said that there was a banquet in Mingyue Building, and I thought it was a big show, it turned out to be just a pot of wine and a dish of dishes, and the old man said that you scholars are poor and sour, but is there a mistake?"

The young man drank a bowl of wine and asked with a smile, "Is this dish sour?"

The old man didn't know what he meant, and replied, "It's not sour, it's very palatable." ”

The boy slapped the table and laughed, and for a long time he almost laughed out of his eyes.

The old man shouted, "What are you laughing at?"

The boy lifted his right leg and slammed it on the table, lifted his trousers, removed the blood-stained strip of cloth, and cut off a large piece of flesh from his calf, which was the size of a bowl.

The young man smiled and said, "Old horseman, what did you say last night? The meat of the scholar is sour? Master, my meat, doesn't it taste very fragrant?"

The old man suddenly felt a churn in his abdomen, and he was so disgusted that he couldn't vomit it along with last night's meal, so he looked at the child sitting opposite him with a very bright smile and scolded: "You madman." ”

His name was Gan Mianzhi, a ruthless man of twelve years old.

The young man smiled and smiled, suddenly stopped laughing, lowered his face, and said sharply: "Old horseman, in the future, you should not brag in front of people, especially in front of readers who are bent on seeking truth, you have to have a long memory." ”

The old man shouted angrily: "Little brute, the old man will call you to death." ”

As he spoke, he slapped his palm on the young man's Tianling Gai, seeing that it was already a mortal situation, who expected that the jade pendant on the young man's waist suddenly turned red and hot, and after a dazzling light flashed, a golden light and shadow appeared out of thin air between the young man and the city lord, and he vaguely looked like a scholar.

The light and shadow looked at the young man and said with a smile: "Mianzhi's temperament is too straightforward and strong, so that he can be a headache for the teacher." But there is no need to change, I like to be a teacher. You go downstairs, give birth in the morning, recuperate well, and leave it to the teacher here. ”

The young man was stunned and saluted, and said respectfully: "The student is leaving." ”

Gan Mianzhi slowly went downstairs, and the teacher's voice sounded behind him, "There will be an accident here, you guys quickly retreat." ”

Gan Mianzhi's right leg was seriously injured, and his walking was a little slow, and after he walked out of the store, the entire Mingyue Building suddenly fell into rubble, the beams of the house were broken, and it was in ruins in a blink of an eye.