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Chapter 6 Ge Sheng

After dinner, Liu Jing returned to the dormitory, sat cross-legged, untied his bundled hair and let it loose behind his back.

From now on, it's personal time, he doesn't have to "restrain" himself, he can do whatever is comfortable for him.

Turning to Jia Kui's "Zuo Zhuan Jie Gu", Liu Jing read it word by word.

The text of "Zuo Zhuan" is concise and concise, expressive with twists and turns, and has a very high artistic achievement, but because of this, modern people, especially modern people with average knowledge of ancient prose, will find it difficult to read. Liu Jing read "Zuo Zhuan" in his previous life. ", I have had this feeling before, I stumbled and finished reading it with patience, and my memory is not deep.

Today, more than 800 years ago, while reading the text of "Zuo Zhuan" and reading Jia Kui's annotations, there is no trace of impetuousness in my heart, and the whole person is immersed in the magnificent history of the Spring and Autumn Period.

"Brother—" Liu He leaned out from behind the screen with his head on his head, and whispered.

Liu Jing was so engrossed in his reading that he didn't notice Liu He's arrival at all, only then did he realize that the sky had darkened at some point.

"Ah Ruo, why are you here? Are you alone? Come on, sit here." Liu Jing waved at him, and lit the bronze flying swallow oil lamp on the desk, and the fire instantly lit up most of the room.

For the first time since Liu Jing returned home, the two brothers had the opportunity to be alone together.

Liu He came to Liu Jing's side and sat on the same couch with him, his little face was flushed, and he was very happy in his heart.

Seeing his bulging chest and abdomen, Liu Jing deliberately covered it with his hands. Isn't this 300 taels of silver here? He smiled and asked, "Ah Ruo, what are you hiding in your bosom? Quickly show me it. "

Liu He smiled mysteriously, reached into his bosom and took out two hard-boiled eggs, and said like offering a treasure: "Brother, I'll give you some chicken. These are just boiled and they're still hot."

Liu Jing looked at him with expectant eyes, and there were mixed feelings for a while. Liu He didn't know that his behavior would only make his mother more despicable and unbearable in Liu Jing's heart.

It's not enough to say how angry, he felt more sad, shook his head and said: "Brother is full, brother is growing up, you can keep it for yourself."

"I won't eat." Liu He immediately jumped up and said anxiously. "Brother, you are just sick and need to replenish your body, you should take it."

Liu Jing refused again, and now Liu He was completely dumbfounded and stunned. In his imagination, it should be brother who accepted the chicken and praised him for being sensible. Why is the reality different from what he thought?In order to leave the chicken for brother, he was not willing to eat it himself, and ran out secretly under the pretext of going to the toilet, but brother refused to take it.

what is this?Liu He was so anxious that he was about to cry.

"Ah Ruo, don't worry." Liu Jing was really afraid of making him cry, so he had to back down. "Here are two chickens, one for each of you and my brother, how about it?"

"En." Liu He nodded emphatically. He is 11 years old this year and has already started reading "The Analects of Confucius". He also feels ashamed to almost cry in front of his elder brother.

Then he compared the two chickens in Bi's hands, handed the slightly larger one to brother, and said seriously: "Brother, you eat the big one, and I will eat the small one."

"Okay." Liu Jing nodded and took it.

Under Liu He's smirk, the two brothers peeled off the eggshells and ate two or three bites.

Fearing that his mother would notice, Liu He reluctantly left after sitting for a while, and the room became quiet again.

Liu Jing cleaned up the book case, thinking of Liu He's innocence and stepmother's meanness, he felt a lot of emotion.

It is really a headache to have such a stepmother on the stand.

"Scholar's Funeral Ritual" said: "The stepmother is actually the stepmother, so she is called the stepmother, and she treats her like a son-in-law, so she is like a mother."

The big man prides himself on ruling the world with filial piety, and it has even reached the point where it is too much. The stepmother enjoys the same rights as the biological mother. No matter how evil he does, as a son of man, he can only endure it silently.

Feng Bao, a famous Confucian in this dynasty, was twelve years old, and his stepmother hated him, and while he was sleeping at night, "wanted to poison him", Feng Bao found out and ran away secretly. Yishen", people at that time called him filial piety.

Although his stepmother, Mrs. Zhang, was not as bad as Feng Bao's stepmother, she couldn't expect anything from her.Getting a slap on the left cheek and sticking out the right cheek obediently is not the life he wants, so he needs to be independent as soon as possible.

Now, there are three roads before him——

One is to return to Xiangyang, which is the most beneficial path for him, but he was the first to veto it.Leaving aside the current situation in the family, will his stepmother, Mrs. Zhang, pay for his travel and living expenses?

Taking ten thousand steps back, even if the money is enough, can he really walk away?Three years later, Changsha will be reduced to a battlefield. How can he just sit back and watch his family suffer from the chaos of war?

The second is to keep filial piety for the elder brother. In the Han Dynasty, parents usually observe filial piety for three years and elder brother for one year. If he chooses to go to the grave of his elder brother Liu Yuan to guard the tomb, he can avoid his stepmother and increase his reputation. It can be called killing two birds with one stone.

But what Liu Jing was worried about was that the battle in Changsha was imminent, and the time left for him was limited. Choosing to be a filial piety for his brother would be a waste of a year of precious time, which he had to consider.

The third is to be an official in the county. He is 17 years old this year and has not yet been crowned. Never a problem.

Liu Jing, as a human being, doesn't think he will be worse than others. What he lacks is reputation, at least he needs to hear about the county.

The first is not desirable, and the second and third have their own advantages and disadvantages. Liu Jing is a person who likes to take the initiative, so he prefers the third way, that is, seeking to become an official. The second way is too conservative and does not suit his personality.

Once a decision was made, Liu Jing's heart settled down, reopened "Zuo Zhuan Jie Gu", and continued to read the previous paragraphs in a low voice.

When he devotes himself to one thing, time always flies fast. When Liu Jing felt sore and uncomfortable in his eyes and stopped reading, he suddenly realized that it was late at night.

Reading at night hurts eyesight the most. He doesn't want to become severely myopic in his life, so he closes the book decisively, undresses and goes to bed.

Maybe it was because of sleeping during the day, Liu Jing tossed and turned in bed, unable to fall asleep for a long time, but became more and more energetic.

Really unable to fall asleep, he got up again, put on his coat, and went to the window, the cool night wind blowing on his face made his mind clear.

Looking up, the bright moon is in the sky, and the stars are shining brightly. It seems that tomorrow will be another rare good weather.

"Squeak-"

An abrupt door opening broke the silence of the night.

The voice came from the opposite side. Although the scaffolding in the middle of the yard blocked Liu Jing's view, it was not difficult to guess who came. He was still awake at this time, and there would be no one else, except his sister-in-law Lai Ci.

Sure enough, a white figure appeared under the scaffold, lingered for a long time, and mournfully said in a clear voice:

"Ge Shengmeng Chu, stalks grow in the wild. Yumei dies here, who will be alone?"

"Ge Sheng grows thorns, and vines grow in the field. Yumei dies here, who will live alone?"

"The corner pillow is bright, and the brocade quilt is rotten. If Yumei dies here, who will be with Dudan?"

"Days of summer, nights of winter. After a hundred years, return to their residence."

"Winter night, summer day. After a hundred years, return to his room."

"Ge Sheng" is a mourning poem in the "Book of Songs", which can be called the ancestor of mourning. It tells the wife's endless longing for her deceased husband.

At this moment, Lai Ci's heart is no less sorrowful than the wife in the poem. Whenever she thinks of her husband being alone, resting alone, alone, unaccompanied, lonely and helpless, she can't wait to follow her husband back to her house and room.

But she can't, she still has unfulfilled responsibilities in this world, the young son of the two needs her to raise him up, educate him, this is all her future life sustenance.

Liu Jing didn't appear out of nowhere, and his sister-in-law definitely didn't want her vulnerable side to be exposed. He just stood quietly in front of the window, looking at his sister-in-law Lai Ci and groaning over and over again until she couldn't cry.

"If you have a wife like this, what can your husband ask for?" Liu Jing suddenly envied his dead brother at this moment.

At the same time, a picture faintly appeared in his mind, it was a peerless and independent figure standing on the outskirts of Xinye, beside the water...

(End of this chapter)