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Chapter 18 Liu Pan

The proverb goes: "A white head is like a new one, but it is as old as before." It means that although some people have known each other for a long time, they still feel like they have met for the first time, while some people have just met, but it seems like they have known each other for a long time.

Now Du Xi's mood is the latter.

Liu Jing's thoughts, knowledge, conversation, etc. did not look like a teenager at all. When Du Xi talked with him, it was as if he was communicating with his peers.

After this conversation, I forgot the time. Fortunately, someone I knew passed by and reminded me. Then Du Xi remembered that the banquet time was approaching. In order not to miss the appointment, he had to say goodbye to Liu Jing and agreed to visit another day. Jing is a person worth dating.

Du Xi came from Yingchuan County, a place full of talents. His family has two thousand stones, and he has a very high vision. He has been in Changsha for more than a year, and he can see him differently. There are only a few people, Huan Jie and Liu Pan.

Sitting in the car, Du Xi thought carefully about Liu Jing's "Persuading the Farmers". Until now, he still finds it incredible. He can only lament that people like Liu Jing and Wang Can are really talents given by heaven, and they cannot be cultivated by ordinary people at all. of.

The calf cart slowly drove into Liu's dock and came to the door of Liu Pan's house. Du Xi ordered the coachman to go to the door and stab him.

Under the leadership of Liu Jiajiannu, Du Xi walked through many courtyards and walked into a bright and spacious hall. At this time, there were already more than ten people sitting in the hall, and there were endless laughter and laughter.

Liu Pan is 34 years old this year. He is of medium stature, has a refined face, and has an exquisite and beautiful beard. Today, when he returned from a rest, he took off his high crown and official uniform, and put on a Lun scarf and a robe, with large sleeves hanging down, adding to his beauty. A bit of elegance.

Seeing Du Xi coming, Liu Pan stood up to greet him and said, "Mr. Du came to Bilu. I failed to go out to greet you in time. I'm rude. Forgive me."

Other people in the hall also got up one after another, and greeted Du Xi.

Du Xi returned the salute one by one, and asked: "I was delayed on the road for a while, I wonder if I'm late?"

Liu Pan smiled and said, "Mr. Du came at the right time."

Du Xi nodded, and was led to Liu Pan by the attendants in the hall. He was born in a famous family in Yingchuan, and he was also a famous scholar in Yingchuan. No one doubted Liu Pan's position as the next leader.

The person who reminded Du Xi on the road said: "When I came down, I saw Du Jun chatting with a young man on the side of the road."

Liu Pan and others couldn't help asking curiously: "Oh? I don't know what's so special about that young man?"

Du Xi didn't answer directly, but said: "I came across a poem called "Encouraging Farmers" by chance today, and I like it very much. I want to share it with you, and I will try to recite it for you."

Then he chanted in Luoyang Zhengyin: "Long ago, the people were born in the early days. Proudly self-sufficient, simple and true. Wisdom is cute, and the capital is for the cause. Whoever supports it depends on the philosopher."

As the saying goes, "people flock together, and things are divided into groups." Liu Pan, as a famous scholar in Changsha, is well-educated at today's banquet. A new discovery, ingenuity, comes from "Han Feizi Yangquan": "The way of a sage is to get rid of wisdom and ingenuity. If you don't get rid of ingenuity, it's hard to be normal."

A poem "Persuading the Farmers" is almost verbatim. Everyone present interpreted every paragraph and every sentence, and felt more and more profound admiration for the author of this poem.

Liu Pan thought about it for a long time, and asked Du Xi, "Du Jun, who is the master who wrote this poem?"

Du Xi laughed loudly when he heard this, and said, "Mr. Liu Yu, why bother to ask me?"

Liu Pan was confused, "Could it be someone I know?"

"The author of this poem is the young man I met on the road before, Liu Jingjun's younger brother, Liu Jing and Liu Zhongda."

Liu Pan couldn't help but let out an "ah", with a look of shock on his face, and asked anxiously, "Is this true?"

Du Xi laughed and said, "How can this be false?"

"Impossible." Even if Du Xi said it himself, everyone still couldn't believe it. How could a young man write such a majestic and astonishingly talented poem.

Everyone whispered and talked a lot.

Liu Pan pondered and said, "Speaking of which, this son is the younger brother of Liu Yuan and Liu Boming."

Everyone in the hall was surprised: "Ah, so he is Liu Boming's younger brother."

Liu Yuan not only gained the trust of Cao Huanjie, but also is the younger brother of Liu Pan, who has outstanding talents. It can be said that his future is limitless. In fact, before his death, Zhang Xian, the prefect of Changsha, deliberately asked him to be his chief secretary. .

Lord Bo is the confidant of the prefect. Since its establishment, his status has been continuously improved, and now he can keep pace with the high officials in the county such as Gongcao, Wuguan, and Duyou.

Liu Pan continued: "This son traveled to Xiangyang two years ago to study, and worshiped under the disciple of Song Zhongzi who was engaged in the Five Classics."

"Song Zhongzi is a great Confucian in the country, and he is proficient in the words of various schools of thought. This poem may have been written by Song Zhongzi." Some people speculated like this, and many people responded.

Liu Pan sighed and said, "Well, I'm also busy with business, and I'm rarely at home, so I don't know much about him, and I only heard about him from my servant when I came back from Xiumu yesterday.

Not long ago, a guest of his family suffered from swollen feet, and his stepmother wanted to drive the guest's family out of the house. He couldn't bear to see the guest's family living outside, without food and clothing, and actually farmed for them.And two days ago, the neighbor was framed and arrested by the thief Cao Jigong. The son pledged to the city and borrowed [-] yuan to rescue him. "

"Dedicated farming to support customers", "Saving neighbors with quality letters"——

The seated people looked at each other, speechless for a moment.

Such behavior, they asked themselves that they could not do it, how could such a noble person steal other people's poems, and they couldn't help feeling extremely ashamed of their previous suspicions.

Du Xi already knew about the matter of "working hard to keep customers" when he chatted with Liu Jing, but Liu Jing didn't mention a word about "saving neighbors with quality letters". Du Xi had a higher evaluation of him in his heart, and said to Liu Pan: "Congratulations to Jun Liu, your family has produced such a genius as Liu Zhongda, and your family will surely prosper because of him in the future."

"Then borrow Du Junji's words." Liu Pan stroked his beard and laughed, feeling very happy.

With the arrival of Du Xi, the banquet officially began. During the banquet, everyone was chatting and laughing, and the banquet continued until sunset.

Liu Pan went out to see off the guests with a bit of drunkenness, and when the wind blew, his mind immediately cleared up a lot, and he turned his head to the prison slave beside him and said, "I don't know if Liu Zhongda has returned home at this time, you go to his house and invite him come over."

"No." The prison slave took the order and left.

Liu Jing had been prepared for a long time, so he was not surprised.

As the prison slave came to Liu Pan's house, Liu Jing saw Liu Pan propping his forehead with his hands, leaning on the case, and said, "Brother Jing pays respects to brother Cong."

Liu Pan was slightly drunk and said with a smile: "Zhongda, you are here, sit down."

Although the two are of the same generation, there is a difference of more than ten years. They rarely had the opportunity to meet before. The only impression he had of Liu Jing was that he was Liu Yuan's younger brother.

As far as Liu Pan knows, Liu Jing is not a precocious prodigy like his old master Huang Wan or Du Xi's great-grandfather Du An. Before his hair was tied, he was just a relatively ordinary playful teenager, and there was nothing extraordinary. place.

Unexpectedly, after studying abroad for two years and being taught by a famous teacher, his knowledge has improved so much. At least it is extremely difficult for him to compose a poem like "Encouraging Farmers".

Therefore, Situ Wangyun studied hard when he was young, and Guo Linzong, a great scholar in the same county, made great progress every time he met him, so he was very surprised, and praised Wang Yun's academic progress, which must be the same for Liu Jing Bar.

Liu Pan in Longqiu was able to produce such a talent, and Liu Pan was really happy in his heart, but when he thought of the achievements, his face sank, and he complained to Liu Jing:

"Zhongda, the clan has been wronged and imprisoned, why don't you go to the county government to find me? Could it be that the clan is in trouble, will I turn a blind eye? The clown who made the grades for nothing, I'm mad at me!

"Book" says: "Rather than kill the innocent, it is better to be lost." ”Confucius said:” If the penalty is not met, the people will be at a loss. As a result, as a thief, Cao Cao, but arbitrarily acted in anger, or the case was not punished, he threatened the innocent, and caused the people to suffer greatly. It is not enough for the people to be angry if such cruel officials are not killed! "

Speaking of the end, Liu Pan gritted his teeth, wishing to kill him immediately and then hurry up.

Liu Jing knew that Liu Pan and Ji Ji had always been at odds and had deep grievances, so he didn't explain much, but followed his words: "Little Ji Ji, a greedy and ignorant person like him, has never had a good death. , Brother, why do you need to have the same knowledge as a dead person."

(End of this chapter)