Unknowingly, it has entered February of the fifth year of Taixing.
There are three or two peach blossoms outside the window.
In the window...
A fat black bird.
Pang Tong looked at the peach blossoms and smacked his lips, "The peach blossoms look pretty, but I don't know if they taste good..."
Fei Qian took his eyes away from the book, "So this is the reason why you came to ask me for barbecue?"
Pang Tongtong clapped his hands, "That's right! Peach blossom wine goes well with barbecued meat, it smells so good!"
"Hi..." Fei Qian smiled helplessly, "Let's put aside the meat-eating thing for now. Let's talk about it. What's going on?"
"..." Pang Tong pondered for a moment, "It's nothing..."
"Say it." Fei Qian put down the scroll.
Pang Tong rolled his eyelids upward, then sighed and said, "I have another concubine at home, and I am about to send it to Chang'an... Humph, hehe..."
"Oh?" Fei Qian chuckled, "Isn't this a good thing?"
Pang Tong laughed, then shook his head, sighed, and said nothing.
"Well..." Fei Qian asked, "What's wrong?"
"..." Pang Tong was silent for a long time, and then said, "Xiaoyu is dead..."
"Uh? Who? Um...oh..." Fei Qian was stunned for a moment at first, then thought about it, "What's going on?"
"He said he accidentally fell into the water and died." Pang Tong laughed again, then shook his head.
"Fell into the water?" Fei Qian repeated, and then looked at Pang Tong's face and guessed something, "Could it be that..."
Pang Tong glanced at Fei Qian and said, "Well, I guess it's about the same..."
"How is that possible?" Fei Qian frowned and said, "Don't you already have an eldest son?"
Pang Tong had already given birth to a son in Wancheng, Jingxiang. Then he had a concubine in Chang'an who was also pregnant. Then Pang Tong had no time to take care of him, so he sent her to Jingxiang, and she gave birth to a boy.
, but the concubine fell into the water and died.
"This evil woman!" Pang Tong snorted twice, "Do you think she is stupid?"
Fei Qian was silent for a moment and shook his head, "No, it's just because she knows you're not stupid..."
In the Han Dynasty, well, this was also the case in subsequent dynasties. The status of a concubine was very low. Even if she entered the palace and did not reach the level of a noble concubine, she would die as soon as she was told to die. A mass grave would be thrown away.
No one cares about it. Moreover, the Qing Dynasty was even more harsh. If a banner girl was killed, the clan government would ask, if a Han girl was killed, haha, it is not as good as a cat or dog raised by a noble!
Postpartum depression, of course, is possible, but to a large extent it is just due to hormonal disorders, and it is still somewhat different from serious depression. And in the current Han Dynasty, a family like Pang Tong must have many servants
Taking care of the young master's growth is not like the situation in later generations where only the mother is responsible for taking care of the child, so the possibility of suffering from depression is very small.
So there is often only one truth...
Okay, I shouldn't be so fussy at this time.
"Don't think about it... at least your second son will be well taken care of..." Fei Qian looked at the sky and felt that it was almost time to breastfeed, so he stood up, walked to Pang Tong, and patted Pang Tong.
said over his shoulder, "Let's go, I'll treat you to a barbecue..."
"Humph..." Pang Tong sighed and stood up, "That's right... Just wait two years. After two years, when the two boys are older, they will take over and let the evil woman do it by herself."
Stay in Jingxiang... Okay, let's not talk about this... I heard that Sima Zhongda has been in the limelight in the past two days... tsk tsk..."
Fei Qian walked out of the main hall and walked to the backyard, saying, "What? You want to join in the fun too?"
"Haha, I really don't want to join in the excitement..." Pang Tong smiled and said, "Speaking of excitement, it is really lively... If the lord hadn't asked Mr. Zheng and Shui Jing to go to Qinglong Temple to take charge, Sima Zhongda alone would have
Haha, even if the truth makes sense, it may not be able to suppress it..."
Fei Qian nodded slightly.
Well, there's no good way to do it. It's just like people in later generations looking for people with gray beards and hairless mouths when they see traditional Chinese medicine. They feel uneasy when they look at them...
Wait a minute... Fei Qian suddenly thought of something, and then paused slightly.
Pang Tong's skin suddenly tightened a little, then he blinked twice, looked at Fei Qian, and twitched the corner of his mouth.
"Well, it's okay, it's okay..." Fei Qian turned his head, saw Pang Tong's tight expression, smiled, and said, "It's okay, I just suddenly thought of something..."
Although there were hundreds of medical clinics, Pang Tong still habitually sent his concubines to Jingxiang after giving birth...
Obviously what Sima Yi said was reasonable and factual, and his criticism of the Five Virtues was thorough enough, but there are still people who feel that it is not as good as Zheng Xuan and Mr. Shui Jing to express their opinions...
I was obviously the one who came here first...well, I got involved.
Anyway, that’s pretty much what it means.
Fei Qian walked to the backyard and sat down in the pavilion. While ordering his entourage to prepare the barbecue, he motioned for Pang Tong to sit down as well.
The followers in Fei Qian's backyard were also very happy. After all, Fei Qian was not the kind of wasteful person. After killing the sheep, he would cook mutton soup, haggis, etc., so naturally everyone scored a point.
Fei Qian also noticed this, and then some new questions seemed to pop up in his mind...
"My lord..." Pang Tong sat aside and asked cautiously, "If you have anything to say, just tell me..."
"It's okay, it's okay..." Fei Qian responded subconsciously, and then realized, "Well, actually there is something... but it doesn't matter much..."
Pang Tong was sitting in danger and said, "My lord, please speak."
"There's really nothing to do... Well, even if there is something, it's not something I can do right now," Fei Qian waved his hand and said, "Don't be like this... relax..."
Pang Tong looked at Fei Qian and felt that Fei Qian didn't seem to be fooling him, so he relaxed a little and became more casual.
"I just heard what you said about Sima Zhongda..." Fei Qian said slowly, "Then I thought of the Spring and Autumn Schools... During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there must have been the theory of Fuxi and Nuwa, but most of them
Or... well, how should I put it, it's relatively simple... or it hasn't been sanctified yet... After the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period... there was more Pangu..."
Pang Tong nodded incomprehensively, although he still didn't quite understand what Fei Qian was expressing or thinking about.
"Let's put it this way, Kong Zhongni..." Fei Qian glanced at Pang Yi and said, "Confucius is a human being...a man who can cry, laugh, be sad and suffer, wear good clothes, eat good food, and be a high official.
Alone...right?』
"Of course." Pang Tong nodded.
"But..." Fei Qian clasped his palms together, "Then, although he was still said to be a human being at the beginning, now he is said to be a sage, and from now on... he is a god.
Or something like a deity, and then come to the human world to pass on some ideas and teach some disciples... This process, well, maybe it can be called "deification"..."
Pang Tong nodded slightly, "It's just like talking about Fuxi and Nuwa in the Spring and Autumn Period... With the head of a human and the body of a snake, she can call the wind and rain, move mountains and move seas..."
"Yes, so there are some problems now..." Fei Qian said, "The theory of the Five Virtues was just a speculation or a rhetoric at the beginning, but later it became "deified", and since it is
If it is "god", of course it cannot make mistakes and cannot be changed... If it is "deified", it may not always be a good thing... It's like I have come up with some gunpowder, and then some people say that it is
I know magic... Haha, I'm afraid after a while, there will be legends that I invited some immortal from the sky, and then mastered the Tiangang, Earth, Nine Yin, Nine Yang, Tai Chi, Shen Xiao, and Five Thunder Methods. With a wave of my hand, thunder and light will shoot out.
A thunderbolt..."
"Ah ha? What method? It sounds very good..." Pang Tong laughed so hard, "That's a good name, it sounds mighty and domineering! Just call the gunpowder bullet this or something like Nine Yins and Nine Yangs or something great."
...』
Fei Qian also burst out laughing.
The path China has taken from the very beginning is different from that of the West, so using Western methods to measure or standardize China's path itself feels a bit pretentious.
"Someone came to me a few days ago, accusing me with snot and tears that I ruined the foundation of our ancestors. They said that Yin Yang and the Five Elements are Chinese treasures and were passed down by immortals. The Hetu and Luoshu are even more exquisite and contain the heaven, earth and universe.
The most reasonable thing..." Fei Qian shook his head and sighed, "Now I really feel that these people are out of their minds... Wouldn't it be good to treat a thing or a person normally? You have to "deify" it, and then...
This can't be moved, that can't be changed, did the gods say it, did the gods do it... It's really..."
"Yin Yang and the Five Elements, I think it makes sense, and I have never said that it should be abolished. I even welcome everyone to study it in depth and find new things from it, instead of just holding on to the legacy left by our ancestors. Weeping bitterly, scolding others for not being respectful enough..." Fei Qian took a breath and said slowly, "Just like Kong Zhongni, when you see him as a person, it will arouse the desire to imitate him... …If you write books and establish works, study literature, and educate all people, you might as well one day be respected as Confucius in the world... If you deify him, you will see, God, who else can do it?”
"Well..." Pang Tong nodded, "That's true. People can still compare with each other, but they have to compare with gods... Haha..."
"The ancient sages proposed the theory of Yin-Yang and Five Elements because they needed Yin-Yang and Five Elements to specifically explain and solve some problems that they encountered in their time, but they were unable to explain it very clearly, so we need to continue Go and study..." Fei Qian said, "So we have to solve more problems based on them... Just like yesterday, Zijian came to me and asked me why they looked exactly the same size and weight. The materials and processes used in smelting the same iron ore are the same, but some can be smelted successfully, while others cannot be smelted..."
"Then I told him that all things born in nature have five elements, and the five elements are mixed. Although they are all "gold", the "gold" is different. Some gold may contain less of others, so it is easier to smelt. Some golds are more complex and difficult to refine, but how to identify them specifically depends on discerning them, testing more, and verifying more... Don't be bound by experience... Just like under gold, there are Gold, silver, copper, and iron are all gold, and under iron, there are iron ore, iron stone, pig iron, wrought iron, smelting, etc... Even if it is iron stone, there is also Sichuan-Sichuan iron stone, Luliang iron stone, or anywhere else in the world. Iron and stone... need to be more detailed..."
"First there are yin and yang and the five elements, and then there is Heluo Bagua... Those who set yin and yang did not say that there should be no gossip, and those who set yin and yang did not say that yin and yang should be eliminated... China has been like this since ancient times, tolerant and innovative..." Fei Qian He looked at Pang Tong and said, "We, you and me, should naturally inherit the past and the next... Some things must be kept, and some must be changed... Just like your little jade... According to the rules of the older generation, there is really nothing you can do... But if you don’t want to have a second Xiaoyu, or a third... then let’s set our rules now... How to check specifically, how to punish, just set the rules. If you set it high, change it to a lower level, and it feels like it’s too low. , turn it up a bit...step by step experiments, little by little improvements, rather than the ancestral methods that cannot be changed, or simply not changing because you don't see or hear..."
Pang Tong was silent for a moment, then clapped his hands and stood up, "That's right! That's it! Let's go now..."
"No hurry... no rush..." Fei Qian greeted, "Look, the meat is here... It's not too late to go after eating..."
Pang Tong moved his nose and inhaled the aroma, "Okay, now that I'm full, let's set the rules!"
"What are you going to do? Let the person who sets the rules do it..." Fei Qian said, "Whoever does what you do is also a rule in itself..."
Pang Tong laughed loudly and called to his servants, "Bring some beautiful fat and eat it with me!"
Just when the two of them were about to start eating, a servant suddenly came hurriedly along the corridor. When he got to the pavilion, he fell to the ground and said, "My lord... Mistress Cai, she said that the labor pains are unbearable, I'm afraid..."
It’s time to give birth…』
"What?! She's about to give birth?" Fei Qian stood up hastily and was about to walk out.
Pang Tong quickly reached out and grabbed Fei Qian's sleeve, "Lord, please be patient..."
Fei Qian was stunned for a moment, then took a deep breath, stood still, and said in a deep voice: "Has the doctor from Chuanbai Medical Center been found? If not, send someone there! Let the manager assign some women with safe hands and feet to go to the hospital and follow the orders! Go.
Bar!"
The servant left in a hurry, Fei Qian looked at it, then smiled to himself, and said with emotion, "It's easy to talk to others, but it's your own fault... Haha... Who is it, what are you doing... You can't be in a hurry, you can't be messy."
, whatever you have to do, do it! Come on, serve the food! When you’re full, do your work! 』
……(^^)……
Not everyone can remain calm during major events, and some people tend to become extremely anxious when things happen.
For example, Kirby and Cao Chun.
Although they seemed to be fine on the surface, they were very anxious in their hearts, as if they were about to have diarrhea but couldn't find a trap. Their scouts had discovered something strange in Zhao Yun's troops a few days ago, but then they waited.
Wait, I just don’t see the shadow of Zhao Yun’s troops...
If they want to defeat the powerful cavalry of the Hussars General, a head-on confrontation will obviously cause great damage. Not only Cao Chun knows this, but Kirby also knows, so the two of them made a plan to lure Zhao Yun from the beginning.
The strategy of entering an ambush. A head-on confrontation is like a flower. The nostrils are thick and the armpits are hairy. An ambush is great. As a little loli, as long as you are not afraid of seven years or more...
Although the two people are at odds with each other, they seem to be able to cooperate when it comes to dealing with Zhao Yun.
For Cao Chun, the biggest goal of joining forces with the Xianbei people is Zhao Yun, and for Kirby, Zhao Yun is the roadblock for him to regain the throne of Xianbei King, so the two people once again "cooperate sincerely" and prepare to fight together
.
They set the battlefield in the upper valley.
There is flat land here, as well as the remnants of the Taihang Mountains. Naturally, there are also woods and canyons where troops can be hidden.
Kirby could stand on the top of a hill with the leader of his tribe, and then direct his troops to arrange them.
Kirby would be on the grassland, pretending to face Zhao Yun openly, but in fact he would find an opportunity to lure Zhao Yun to Shanggu, and then join Cao Chun in a flanking attack to defeat Zhao Yun...
Therefore, the key point is whether Zhao Yun will fall into this dug pit.
After all, Zhao Yun is a famous general under the Cavalry. He travels across the desert and defecated in the Xianbei Royal Court twice. Every time he thinks of this, Kirby is very moved...well, excited...
This is also the reason why Kirby can clearly know that luring Zhao Yun will naturally cause greater losses than ambushing him, but he is still willing to play this role. After all, Kirby can prove in front of his tribe that he is not a coward who cowers behind, but is still a coward.
The hero who bravely roamed the grasslands and deserts.
Even if it is a lure, Kirby will try his best to minimize losses. He has carefully thought about it and arranged his troops so that he will not immediately lose the upper hand when fighting and still have enough space to do so.
some actions.
Under the cover of the woods in the distance, Cao Chun stood under a tree with several guards. Although his face was still calm, some complex emotions were revealed in many of his eyes.
Ever since he was severely humiliated by Zhao Yun last time in Yuyang, Cao Chun had been holding his breath...
The key point is that idiot Xia Houyuan. I don’t know if he is really an idiot, or in order to reduce his own responsibility, he actually said that Cao Chun was also responsible for the last battle of Yuyang and there was a problem! Could it be that Xia Houyuan didn’t know that in front of outsiders, in fact,
Whether it's Cao's problem or Xiahou's problem, is the result the same?!
What's the use of just trying to shirk your own problems?!
In the Battle of Heluo, Cao Jun did not find any advantage, nor in the Battle of Jingxiang. So now that Cao Jun heard about the Hussars and Horses, they felt a little frightened.
Although Cao Chun was unwilling to talk about his pride or show it on his face, deep down, he still had the pride of truly achieving meritorious service by fighting again and again on the battlefield.
Cao Chun believed that a real general is like a sword. It can only become incomparably sharp after continuous sharpening on the battlefield, and Zhao Yun is a whetstone large enough to sharpen himself.
But now my hand is sore holding the knife, and the whetstone is still on the road.
What to eat by courier...
Uh, it's a cross-over.
Just when both of them were unable to hide their inner anxiety, and some were tending to expose it, a scout finally came running with Yanchen from a distance...
