Master Kong Zhongni

Chapter 42 Visiting the Meng Mansion
Standing in front of the steps of the Meng Mansion, Zaiyu looked up at the magnificent courtyard.

Gray bricks and gray tiles, high walls and deep houses, willows and trees are shady.

Even the people coming and going in front of the Meng Mansion were different from what Zaiyu usually saw in front of the Xueshe.

Cars come and go here, and the carriages that are rarely seen in front of the school seem to be commonplace here.

The owners of the carriages are either rich or noble, even the drivers who drive for them wear swords and jade hats on their waists, and the servants accompanying them are all big-bodied, well-dressed and well-dressed.

With the shaking of the carriage, gold and jade collided and made a pleasant sound of tinkling, as if countless wind chimes were hung here.

It wasn't until this moment that Zaiyu really understood what it means to talk and laugh with great Confucianism, but not to have nothing to do with each other.

Jae Yu thought about it for a long time, but he didn't know how to express his inner feelings, so he could only sigh.

"They're all rich guys!"

The two house slaves guarding the door of the Meng Mansion looked at each other, and they both saw doubts in each other's eyes.

The slightly poor Confucian scholar in front of him had been wandering around in front of the gate of the Meng Mansion until just now.

At first they thought he was here to visit, but who knew that this Confucian scholar would not enter the door, but stood on the street and looked at the passing carriages with great interest.

The two house slaves communicated with each other, exchanged opinions with each other, and finally decided to go up and ask.

One of them stepped forward and politely bowed to Zaiyu: "Excuse me, are you here to visit?"

When Zaiyu heard someone calling him, he immediately responded with a smile: "That's right, I want to visit Mencius."

"Meet Mencius?"

The house slave glanced up and down at Jae Yu's attire, and wanted to say something, but after thinking about it, he finally swallowed the question.

He asked, "Excuse me, have you paid a visit before?"

Paying homage, to put it bluntly, is a business card.

It is an unspoken unspoken rule for the subordinates who want to meet a big man like Mengsun Heji to send a business card in advance to make an appointment.

As the patriarch of the Meng family, Mengsun Heji was a top figure in the scholar-bureaucrat class in the state of Lu. There were countless people who wanted to see him and ask him to do things every day.

But Meng Sun Heji is a person after all, since he is a person, his energy must be limited.

Therefore, by sending business cards, he can preliminarily screen out a group of people he wants to meet, and also eliminate some of the people he finds troublesome.

Because the state of Lu is a state of etiquette after all, and Meng Sun Heji, as the leader of the scholar-officials, it is not good to directly refuse others.

By tactfully expressing the rejection by rejecting the business card, you can also save some face for the other party and prevent the conflict from being intensified.

Even someone as tough as Yang Hu felt pressured by the condemnation of the Lu people.

Of course, Meng Sun Heji was not strong enough to directly refuse the visits of the people of the country. It was fine to refuse one or two, but after a long time, it was inevitable that he would be hated by the people of the country.

The reason why Sanhuan was able to evade the monarch in Lu State was because of the support of the people of the country.

If the people of the country don't support them, how can Sanhuan dare to commit rebellion?

Although Ji Sun Xingfu, the second generation of the Ji family, was an honorable minister, he insisted on a simple life style.

His concubines don't wear silk, but coarse cloth.

His horses are also not fed oats, but ordinary hay fodder.

When Meng's Zifu heard about this, he went to persuade Ji Sun Xingfu to speak.

"As the Zhengqing of the Lu Kingdom, you have served two generations of monarchs, and your status is extremely noble, but you only enjoy this kind of living conditions. If you go on for a long time, I am afraid that others will think you are stingy and despise you! "

Ji Sun Xingfu replied: "I also want to live a more luxurious life! But I see that many Chinese people can only afford coarse grains and wear ragged clothes. The life of Chinese people has become so difficult Now, how dare I enjoy wealth to myself?"

After Jisun Xingfu said these words, he turned around and told Zifu's father, Meng Sunmie, the fifth-generation patriarch of the Meng family, what Zifu had said to him.

Meng Sunmi was furious when he learned of this incident, thinking that his son was too ignorant.

So he ordered the Zifu to be closed for seven days.

After serving the term "released after serving his sentence", Zi became much better behaved. From then on, his concubine also only wore coarse clothes, and only barnyard grass was used to feed the horses.

When Ji Sun Xingfu found out about this, he admired Zifu's behavior and said: "If you know your mistakes and you can correct them, you can be called a sage."

So he recommended Zifu to be a doctor of Lu State.

This incident was once a good talk in Lu State, but in Zaiyu's view, it was just a means used by Sanhuan to buy people's hearts.

Although Ji Sun Xingfu lives a simple life, if his moral character is really so noble, why has Ji's land not only not decreased, but more and more after 100 years?

As for Zifu, it's even more ridiculous.

After a period of hard life, he was recommended and became a doctor of Lu State.

And I think Zaiyu, who worked so hard for Bara, can only get a title of corporal.

My life is much harder than Zifu's. Not only do I have no concubine, I don't even have a wife, and I can't afford a horse.

I am almost so poor that I wear coarse cloth and eat barnyard grass. Why does no one come to praise me for my noble character?
Zaiyu was thinking wildly in his mind, and the house slave saw that he hadn't responded for a long time, so he asked again.

"Excuse me, have you sent a visit before?"

Zaiyu shook his head and said, "I haven't sent it, but I have something urgent to see Mencius, I hope you can pass it on to me."

The two house slaves looked at each other after hearing this, and then couldn't help laughing.

"Every day people say that there is an urgent matter to find Mencius. We can't all help pass it on? If you haven't sent a visit in advance, please come back. Mencius has a lot of things to do every day. If you don't make an appointment in advance, he won't be able to spare time to see him. Your."

After hearing this, Zaiyu asked politely: "You just need to pass a word to me, and you can tell Mencius that I am a student of Confucius, and I will come to see him."

"A student of Confucius?" The house slave said with disbelief on his face, "You kid, do you think we are stupid? Why would a student of Confucius come to see Mencius? Who doesn't know Confucius' attitude towards Mencius, that is..."

Before he finished speaking, the house slave immediately shut up, and he cursed inwardly, blaming himself for almost telling the truth.

But he didn't say anything, it doesn't mean that Jae Yu won't ask.

Jae Yu chuckled in his heart, and said to himself that you, kid, let me catch my tongue.

"What happened to Master's attitude towards Mencius? Are you questioning that Mencius's character is not good enough to associate with Master?"

The servant's face turned pale with fright, and he hastily denied it: "You don't spit out people, I never said that."

The other slave became a little annoyed. He picked up his stick and scolded: "Will you get out, boy? Don't blame us for being rude if you don't? Talking about civility with you is our quality, but it doesn't mean we won't use force with you." !"

Jae Yu was not afraid to fight them. He practiced archery every day, and the biceps he developed were no joke!
And he was worrying about whether he could get into the Meng Mansion, so making some noise in front of the door would at least make Mengsun Heji notice him.

The so-called doing extraordinary things at an extraordinary time must rescue Chang Gongye and others before the master returns, otherwise his plan will be in vain.

Zaiyu rolled up his sleeves and was about to fight one against two.

Unexpectedly, before he could make a move, he heard a shout from behind: "With me, Ran Meng, here, who dares to harm me!"

　reader?The reader is too big a ship for me, a woman too beautiful, a trip too long, a perfume too harsh, a novel I won't write.

　　——Excerpt from "Zaiyu's Diary"

　　
　
(End of this chapter)