Chapter 4 Manjuo pottery bowl bows its head and retreats
The time is in the ninth month, and the sequence belongs to the third autumn.
Thousands of miles away, outside Pingyuan City in Pingyuan County, Qingzhou, someone was standing in a pavilion to see off the local county magistrate Liu Bei and Liu Xuande.
"Everyone, please go back!" Liu Bei, who is twenty-eight years old this year, is in the best years of his life. He has been the magistrate of a large county for three or four years. Therefore, although he is born with a small beard under his chin, he has a certain dignity.
"We are busy with the autumn harvest, why bother to work so hard to prepare it?"
The people who were seeing him off, ranging from local officials to local elders, as well as some powerful knights and knights, looked at each other in shock and felt sad, but they just refused to listen and were not willing to say anything. Instead, they continued to follow him.
People were so interested that Liu Bei had no choice but to let these people see him off for a long time. Finally, around noon, he came to the second pavilion twenty miles away from the city. He looked like he was about to leave Pingyuan County.
The border entered the Qinghe Kingdom in Jizhou next door. Liu Bei finally persuaded a group of people to stop, and then he and Jian Yong continued eastward along the Qinghe River with a few followers.
It is said that Liu Xuande was a young man who was in poverty, and then he suddenly went on a study tour in Luoyang with a group of young men. He couldn't control it for a while, and he got a lot of money problems. He raced and fought dogs, played cards and chess, but he didn't like to study.
He was not looked down upon by others; however, he returned home in a weak position and had accomplished nothing, and his mother died. After being severely hit, he made obvious progress. He began to become intangible with emotion and anger, and gradually began to understand the etiquette of the virtuous corporal.
, treat others with all his heart; then, he joined the army as a knight-errant, and served as a county magistrate for several years. After all, from physical to mental, from city to ability, everything has been fully trained and grown.
It is precisely for this reason that although Liu Bei was very emotional and emotional when he resigned this time, his expression remained unchanged. After saying goodbye to everyone, he did not even get in the car. Instead, he took Jian Yong, who had inconvenient legs and feet, with him and worked tirelessly.
Just ride away.
After walking for several more miles, he came to a pavilion that already belonged to the Qinghe Kingdom. Liu Xuande dismounted and settled down for a while. However, as soon as he got off the horse, regardless of his status, he actually pulled Jian Yong off the horse himself.
Helped him down.
"Thank you for your hard work." Liu Bei also felt a little guilty for a moment. "According to the etiquette, I should have taken a car, but the military affairs are urgent. I have to go to Yuzhou to recruit troops first, and then go to Luozhong, so I can only ride a horse."
"What Xuande said was as if I had been a county magistrate for three or four years and then forgot how to ride a horse." Jian Yong laughed for a moment. "Besides, how can we consider whether it is hard work or not when we return to the military? That day in
Youzhou is a ranger and a knight in the army, and he doesn't need anyone to help him."
It was rare for Liu Bei to laugh when he heard this... After all, Jian Xianhe was a stranger and a close friend. He had served as Pingyuan Order before, and he was one of the few confidants who stayed with him. Moreover, this person was naturally humorous, talkative and informal.
, if you show no emotion or anger in front of this person, it would be a bit of a show-off.
Of course, the more important reason is that Liu Bei was really happy when he heard the other party said that he would return to the army... After all, in the final analysis, Liu Xuande still has a Youzhou Ranger spirit in his heart.
The two dismounted their horses and joked a few times. Naturally, there were confidants beside them who came forward to negotiate with the local pavilion chief. This place was adjacent to the plain. The pavilion chief had naturally heard of Liu Bei's reputation, and naturally he would not make things difficult. On the contrary,
The welcome was appropriate. However, even so, the pavilion chief couldn't help but be a little confused when he heard that the other party was going to stay overnight... You must know that it was still early at this time, and Liu Bei and his party were all on horseback. If they were really in a hurry, they could have walked a little further.
If you are traveling directly to the city ahead to settle down, why do you have to stay in a pavilion?
Of course, the director of the pavilion would not ask this question.
In the evening, everyone ate, fed the horses, and soaked their feet in hot water. However, Jian Yong couldn't help but went barefoot, holding hot soup, and questioned his friend in the hall:
"Xuande, are you avoiding the city on purpose?"
Liu Bei was writing a letter under the lamplight. When he heard this, he smiled slightly and kept writing: "It is not to avoid the city, but to avoid Yide."
"What does this mean?" Jian Yong, who was sitting on the side of the table, originally asked casually, but at this time he became really confused. "Why are you avoiding him? Let me tell you, I should have asked him. Do you want to go to Luoyang with you...could it be that you feel that this time you are just a military commander and cannot accommodate him?"
Liu Bei continued to write, but immediately shook his head: "That's not the case. Yide is selfless and loyal, so why would he care about his position? If I really want to call him, he will definitely give up his official position and follow me. But Xianhe, you will do the same. I have been an official in the plains for a long time, and I should know that customs are different from customs. Now that things have happened, I cannot compare everything in this world with the knight-errant style of the past..."
"This is true." Jian Yong sighed for a moment. "Having never been to the plains before, how could you have imagined that this is the custom in the plains? Rich and powerful merchants must behave extravagantly, and those who can wear silk will never wear linen; and scholars But they are all reserved and arrogant. When we meet, they only ask you whether you read scriptures? What scriptures are you governing? I remember when we first arrived in Pingyuan, all the county officials went home with their seals, waiting for you to invite... At first we thought They couldn't see you, Xuande, so they almost drew their swords and chopped them off one by one, but later they realized that this was actually a local custom."
Liu Bei under the lamp couldn't help laughing again: "Xianhe, don't say that. I couldn't help laughing when you said it, and then I wrote the wrong word."
"Can you not say it?" Jian Yong disagreed. "In the past few years, we have focused all our thoughts on this place, and we just missed getting married and starting a business here."
Liu Bei continued to smile after hearing this: "Yes, the plain is a prosperous place. In terms of starting a family and establishing a career, although the customs are different from those in my hometown, it is not necessarily a bad place... or even a good place."
"I understand." Jian Yong couldn't help but sneered and replied. "You are ambitious and don't want to get married early so as not to be trapped in the gentle country. Even if you get married, you still want to imitate your two brothers with the surname Gongsun and seek a good marriage. , to help the future.”
Upon hearing this, Liu Bei simply stopped writing and sighed for a moment: "Speaking of which, isn't the city in front of us the hometown of brother Wenqi's Yue family?"
"Of course." Jian Yong replied simply. "Zhao Zhenggong is from here."
Liu Bei looked at the other party seriously: "Xianhe, what we just said, that I crossed the Qinghe River to avoid Yide... actually has something to do with my brother Wenqi."
Jian Yong immediately became impatient: "You are not so serious, are you? You just treat him as a brother and you are not his personal minister, why are you so entangled? Besides, this relationship between monarch and minister is only a custom after all, not a law. And even though it is above There is no upper limit, but there is no limit... Those who are willing to abide by the righteousness of the monarch and his subjects will naturally be praised. However, if we are all Han ministers and do not treat each other according to the righteousness of the monarch and his subjects, is it rebellious and unethical? It is nothing more than the future. Try to avoid it as much as possible. Gongsun Xun is just a guard general, and he returned to Youzhou first, so how can he ask someone to maintain his integrity?"
"Of course I understand this." Seeing that the other party's words were a little too much, Liu Bei quickly stopped him. "It's just that Captain Qinghe is the trial partner Shen Zhengnan. This person has always cared about these things. Let's not talk about it today when I leave. If it is beneficial
De also left with me, so next time we meet, Shen Zhengnan may draw his sword and call us ungrateful people...Yide has a selfless heart, how can he bear this?"
"That's true." Jian Yong shook his head for a while. "I won't say any more to you, just write a letter quickly! Is it to your brother Wen Qi to express your feelings?"
The candle flickered, and Liu Bei gave a wry smile, first picked up the pen again, and then put it down again.
"What does this mean?" Jian Yong was really impatient.
"I have something in my heart." Liu Bei turned towards Jian Yong, pointed his finger at his heart, and looked solemn. "If I don't tell Xianhe, I won't be able to say it..."
"Just tell me." Jian Yong didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He could only drink the warm soup in one gulp, then put down the pottery bowl holding the soup in his hand, reluctantly closed his legs, and faced each other.
"I rarely have great ambitions..." Liu Bei said slowly.
"I know!" Jian Yong immediately interrupted the other party. "You pointed at the mulberry tree in front of your house when you were a child and plotted evil intentions. In the past few years, you lived in a prosperous place like the plain but did not marry a wife and have children. This was a hidden conspiracy.
Now when Cao Mengde recommends you to join Luo as an Army Sima, you abandon General Wei's kindness and leave without saying a word... It seems that you have been evil for a long time."
"What is the evil plot?" Liu Bei sighed quietly. "Xianhe, I am not joking with you... Those words I said when I was a child were nothing more than the decline of my family. My father died early, and my mother often encouraged me with the words of the Han clan. This
I was panic-stricken but I am not ashamed of my words. However, it is true that I have accumulated ambition since then. Even when I grow up a little and realize that the words "Han clan clan" are useless, it has not changed."
Jian Yong rarely became serious.
In fact, as a native and close friend, how could he not know Liu Bei's difficulties?
Who recognizes a surname that is hundreds of years old?
From the perspective of clans and families that can really share political resources these days, Liu Bei has nothing to say... They are all dead fathers with low official positions, but the Gongsun family in Liaoxi is after all a border county family with a family worth of two thousand shi.
, who is the Liu family under the big mulberry tree on the outskirts of Zhuoxian County? Do you really think that big mulberry tree is magical?
Not to mention, their fathers died, and their mothers were widowed and engaged in business. However, Liu Bei's family was so poor that they had to weave mats and sell shoes to make ends meet, but Gongsun had long ago made sure that her son would not be troubled by money in his life.
To be honest, when I was in school, Gongsun Xun worked just a little bit harder than Liu Bei.
"However, I also know that my brother Gongsun Wenqi is someone I can never catch up with," Liu Bei continued. "I have never thought about the consequences of competing with him. To be honest with Xianhe, at home in Zhuoxian that day
When we met, I heard that he had returned after destroying his country, and when I saw him with the purple ribbon and gold seal, I vaguely thought that I would be content with his tail in this life... And he did not treat me badly, if not
How did he come to be the magistrate of Qianshi County when he was only thirty years old? He even served in Pingyuan County for several years and offended so many people in the process, but he still gave me little favor. Could it be because I am the younger brother of General Wei?
"
"Then why are you leaving?" Jian Yong couldn't help but asked directly to his heart.
"Because my brother suddenly stopped moving, and I couldn't wait any longer!" Liu Bei sat upright with a calm expression. "Xianhe, you and I have been in the plains for several years, watching those eunuchs and high-ranking disciples practicing power and fortune.
Unscrupulous; seeing those scholars who only know how to read the classics and sitting around talking in vain; seeing those powerful people covered in luxury and extravagance... At the same time, the common people work hard all day long but rarely have a good meal; those who carry swords to serve the country are not shunned.
Life and death are still discriminated against; those who are loyal to their duties die without a burial place! Can you bear it?!"
"I can never bear it!" Jian Yong replied proudly.
"I can't bear it either." Liu Bei clenched his fists and said. "But what have I done in the plains for several years? Just relying on the reputation of a brother of a general, Hao You has never massacred several corrupt officials.
I haven't killed a few...how can I continue to endure it? Xianhe, today the villagers sent me off and said that I am virtuous in the plains, but in my heart I just want to run away quickly, because I have been dragging my feet for several years and I have no face to show you!
As for what will happen if I go to Luozhong, to be honest with Xianhe, I actually don’t know, but I will never stay in the plains to watch the world continue to be filthy. No matter whether the situation is good or bad, I will go to Luozhong to experience it personally.
, draw your sword and face each other! I am nearly thirty years old. I don’t seek to achieve moral or meritorious service, but seek to establish my body!”
"Well said!" As soon as he finished speaking, there was a sigh, but it came from outside the door.
Liu Bei and Jian Yong each raised their swords and stood up. However, when the door of the pavilion was pushed open, a man dressed in the official uniform of the pavilion stood in front of the door holding a pot of wine, as if he was here to deliver something.
When the two of them saw this, they couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief. Liu Bei was even more embarrassed: "Some of my heartfelt words made me laugh."
"Why should Mr. Xuande be too modest?" The man sighed again and brought in the wine. "A man is born in this world, regardless of personal reputation, and faces difficulties. This magnanimity is really heartbreaking!"
At this point, the man came forward with the wine pot in his arms, and using the pottery bowl that Jian Yong had put down before, he respectfully filled a bowl of wine for Liu Bei. Then he actually put down the wine pot and took a few steps back inside the house.
They bowed respectfully and said: "My servant... I have met Mr. Xuande!"
Liu Bei hurriedly went to help him up, but unexpectedly, this man stood up on his own initiative, took a few steps back, and then said frankly to Mr. Xuande, "To be honest with Mr. Xuande, I am not an official in the pavilion here, but an assassin... Pingyuan..."
Liu Ping, the powerful Liu family in the county, and Gongsun Du, the Gongsun family, begged Liu Jun for his life with a hundred gold!"
Jian Yong immediately pressed his sword again.
But Liu Bei gave a bitter smile: "It's okay for others, how can these two people kill me? Then Liu Ping is also a member of the Han clan like me, and Gongsun Du is a branch of the Gongsun family. Both of them are offline under the Amway account.
, has always been perfunctory to me..."
"That's because the two of them had to deal with it for the sake of General Wei." Jian Yong next to him couldn't help but sneered. "I think Xuande has been in the plains for several years, and your administration has always focused on the people, which has long made them dissatisfied... This time you
They 'betrayed' General Wei and followed Cao Mengde's recommendation, so they naturally felt that they could take action to eliminate the 'harm'."
"I don't know the reason." The assassin retreated to the door, but laughed again. "But it doesn't matter. Just based on Mr. Xuande's heartfelt words today, I will never do this again...
… During the day, the old men and women from Pingyuan have been seeing each other for dozens of miles, but they have never been close to each other. I can only borrow a bowl of wine as a gift at this time. I hope that Mr. Xuande will be able to fulfill his ambition to establish himself in Luoyang! Farewell!"
After saying this, the man turned around and walked away without stopping.
Liu Bei saw that the other party had extraordinary bearing and agility. He originally wanted to ask this person's name and try to persuade him to stay, but it was too late.
After leaning for a moment, Liu Xuande let out a long sigh, turned around, sat back down, and then raised the bowl of wine with a normal expression.
Jian Yong almost instinctively wanted to persuade him, but Liu Bei shook his head slightly and said: "Bei originally thought that he was immoral and incompetent and was not qualified to have people cut bottles and give wine to him, but he didn't expect that such a righteous man would strengthen my ambition. I have to drink this wine.
"
After saying this, he drank it all in one gulp, picked up the letters on several cases, and threw them to the ground, but he was not prepared to explain any more.
Jian Yong didn't stop him during the whole process, he just smiled bitterly for a moment.
————I am the dividing line without explanation————
"At the end of the Zhongping Dynasty, Cao Cao was the captain of the Xiyuan Dian Army. He was promoted to be an army commander, and when he was preparing, he was the Pingyuan Order. When he heard about it, he abandoned his post and followed him. In order to prepare for abandoning the Gongsun family, Cao Cao sent an assassin to assassinate him.
"The guest sneaked into the pavilion and heard that Bei was lamenting about the world's affairs. He couldn't bear to stab him and left with words." - "Xin Yan Shu". The third member of the family.
