Although the rain and fog were hazy, Fei Qian's eyes lit up, and he recognized a slightly familiar tall figure.
Fei Qian trotted forward two steps, not paying attention to the yellow mud staining the hem of his robe. When he left the camp gate, he bowed his head and said, "Qian is late to greet me. I hope you can forgive me!"
Ma Yan also led everyone to salute Feiqian.
Yesterday I thought Ma Yan was tall and tall, but today he was wearing a military uniform, which made him look even more powerful.
With a straight face, Ma Yan held up his hands and said, "I was rude to you yesterday. Please forgive me." After saying that, he took the pheasant from the woman in uniform and offered it to him with both hands.
This is not unwilling to accept, nor is it stingy, or to save trouble or something, it seems that the gift sent by Fei Qian is sent back.
This is the "gift of returning the pheasant".
It evolved from the "ritual of returning jade" during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the princes and kings were enfeoffed by the Zhou Dynasty in the early days. To a certain extent, they were all brothers, so the mutual affection between the princes was not due to
After being divided into their respective fiefdoms and declining, the Zhou rites stipulated the four etiquettes of "sending jade", "resigning jade", "receiving jade" and "returning jade" between princes and kings.
In fact, it is an exquisite jade, which is then carried by the envoy to the country where the envoy is sent, indicating that the princes and kings of the envoy country are as noble as fine jade. This is "sending jade"; then the princes of the envoy country must first
To show humility, the envoy "resigns the jade"; then the envoy offers it again, and the princes and kings fast and "receive the jade"; when the envoy has said what needs to be said, what needs to be done is done, and when he is about to leave, the princes and kings again
He will return this piece of jade as a gift to the king who is the messenger, which is "returning the jade".
The same piece of jade is brought back and forth, conveying good wishes without spending more money or increasing the burden on both parties. The "reciprocity" in Zhou Li is a simple and profound etiquette of reciprocity.
The rank of princes and kings is jade, so the gifts given to each other by scholar-bureaucrats are pheasants.
Fei Qian smiled slightly, took the pheasant with both hands, and handed it into the hands of Jia Qu who rushed over later. He pointed his hand towards the camp gate and invited Ma Yan and others to enter the camp.
But Ma Yan did not move. Instead, he turned halfway, gestured to the people behind him, and said: "Fei Shijun, the last members of my Ma family are here... It is not difficult to enter the camp gate, but in the
Before that, we have some questions, and I would like to ask Fei Shijun to help me..."
"May I ask Lord Fei, why are you here? And why are you fighting?"
The Ma family is said to be a clan, but in fact it is very thin, basically similar to a larger family. There are not many people in their prime, including Ma Yan, there are about six or seven people, and the rest are either old or
The children and some of their family members were hiding in the three large cars at the back.
All the Ma family members, including Ma Yan, watched quietly, waiting for Fei Qian's answer.
"Ah... the rain stopped!" Fei Qian said suddenly.
Only then did everyone realize that the rain had stopped at some point, and the air was filled with a unique fresh smell, like the smell of hope.
"Uncle Ye, summon the whole army!" Fei Qian ordered.
"Wei!" Although Huang Cheng didn't know what Fei Qian wanted to do, he still agreed immediately and immediately issued the order.
A drummer rushed under the drum at the camp gate, tore off the oilcloth that blocked the rain, grabbed the drum stick, and beat the drum.
The rumbling and dull sound of war drums resounded over the camp, and the soldiers hurriedly got out of the tents and began to line up in the open space outside the camp.
The last sound of the three-way drum fell, and the military formation was arranged. The veterans gathered around the periphery, taking care of the maintenance order, and the newly recruited soldiers stood in the center, facing the temporary high platform.
Huang Cheng led several military commanders and stood together with the group of Ma Yan and others from Shangjun.
Fei Qian stood on a wooden platform, looking from the left to the right, from the front to the back. Among the crowd, there were familiar faces and unfamiliar faces.
"Perhaps some people have heard that we are planning to return to Shangjun. Others have heard that Shangjun is already inhabited by barbarians and the land has been abandoned. Even if we go back, what else can we do?
"Some people also say how ferocious the barbarians in Shangjun are. They like to drink raw blood and eat raw meat. They have green faces and fangs, just like evil ghosts. People like us will die if we go there.
"Some people say that I am just a son of an aristocratic family who knows nothing. I want to exchange your flesh and blood for some fame, and use your lives to exchange for my promotion to an official position..."
Several people in the military formation subconsciously avoided Fei Qian's increasingly bright eyes.
"Maybe you don't know me completely. I am Fei Qian Fei Ziyuan, from Heluo. The person who led you to practice before, Huang Cheng and Huang Shuye, is from Jingxiang. The veterans standing around you include Bingzhou and Si
There are also those from Shangjun, and most of you are from Hedong."
"Look at the man next to you. He may not be from the same place, or you may not have known him before, but on the battlefield, he can block the swords and guns for you and clear the obstacles for you to move forward.
He is your brother, your relative, and your life! When doing these things, do you still need to consider, oh, this is not from my hometown, am I going to go over there to help the hometown people? "
Fei Qian's words were interesting, and slight laughter came from the military formation.
"Why is that? That's because we all know that no matter who we are, no matter where we lived before, standing here today, we have a common name, we are -"
"Han Chinese!"
"Whether you are in Sili, Hedong, or even Shangjun or Jingxiang, they all have the same name, Han! They all drink the same water, eat the same food, speak the same language, and use
With the same words..."
"Our ancestors live under the same sky, our fathers also live here on the same land, we also live here, and even our children and grandchildren also live on this land that belongs to us! We are all Han! We are
Friends are brothers and relatives!"
"And there, in Shangjun, there is also a piece of land that belongs to us Han people, but it was robbed by the Hu people a few years ago..."
“There used to be wheat seedlings planted by us Han people, there used to be houses repaired by us Han people, there used to be roads opened by us Han people…
“We laughed and cried there, we shed sweat on that piece of land, we shed blood there, we left the bones of our loved ones on that piece of land, and we also left behind on that piece of land
Our deepest pain…
"Today, we stand here, gathered together, not because we are warlike, but because we cannot forget our former homeland, and we cannot forget the land that we Han people once had!"
"We Han people don't bully others, so don't bully us either!"
"Even if we bully someone, these barbarians... still don't want to bully us!"
"Now, we are coming back!"
Fei Qian said word by word, "...the debts from back then should be paid now!"
The Ma clan members standing with Huang Cheng, no matter men, women, old or young, were all crying...
If the Han Dynasty was strong and perished, wouldn't it be possible for the Han Dynasty to perish if it was weak?
