The Rise of the Cold Gate in the Eastern Jin Dynasty

Chapter 12

The night was deeper.

The original moonlight did not appear, but now it seems to have changed its appearance. A crescent moon is unusually eye-catching among the stars all over the sky. It is impossible to hide it. In a few days, it will be the fifteenth day.

The gradually cold night and the late cold wind blow over Jinniu Mountain, stir the bushes for a while, and then fall into Fengqi Lake, wrinkling the surface of the lake. It is like a true portrayal of this world. It has been calm!

The Buddha said: All sentient beings have Buddha nature, and everyone can become a Buddha.Nothing more than three words: precepts, samadhi, and wisdom.Taking the precepts as a teacher, and purifying the three karmas of body, speech and mind, you will be able to get clear and pure and show great wisdom by calming your mind.

It is easy for people in the world to say just this, but if you think about it carefully, how many people can reach this state throughout the ages, it can be seen that it is not the people in the world who do not understand the Buddha, but the Buddha does not understand the world.

Because people in the world are after all begging for life in the secular world, they want to eat when they are hungry, and they want to eat delicacies from mountains and seas when they have a bite to eat. Gradually, they have the pursuit of status and the division of levels.

People who escape from the world gain purity but lose their prosperity; people in the secular world gain prosperity but lose their purity. They want both purity and prosperity.

In other words, Xiao Qinzhi's idea of ​​living a lifetime is doomed to fail. As the saying goes: enjoyment and responsibility coexist, and the prosperity of a family needs to be passed on from generation to generation.

The Xiao family in Lanling originally started their family with martial arts, but after the southward journey, the family transferred the literature, but the harvest was not obvious, and no high-ranking officials came out, so they fell into the gentry and became a poor family. The patriarch Xiao Qing discovered Xiao Qinzhi's talent for writing, so how could he Let him fall and spend his whole life in vain?

And following the slightly cold night wind, he sneaked into the west room quietly, and landed outside the window of a lighted mansion. Under the dim light was a young man, kneeling honestly on a green futon, listening humbly. With the teachings of an old man.

The patriarch removed the Confucian robes in the daytime, and wore a black gauze lacquer crown behind his hair, wide shirt, large sleeves, round collar, bow clothes, and a belt. This is the standard scholar-bureaucrat's outfit.The dizzy yellow light wrote the word solemn on his thin face, standing with his hands behind his back, with a pair of piercing eyes, staring closely at Xiao Qinzhi who was kneeling on the ground.

"The origin of the Xiao family can be traced back to Ji's surname, after Emperor Ku. Weizi, the concubine son of Emperor Yi of the Shang Dynasty, was granted the title of Song Gong in Zhou Dynasty. Yu Xiao was regarded as a vassal, and his descendants regarded him as his surname. After Chu destroyed Xiao, his descendants undoubtedly became the minister of Chu, Lord Chunshen, and lived in abundance."

"In the Han Dynasty, there was a prime minister, Fengwen Zhonghou He, who had two sons: Yi and Ze. Ze Shengbiao, styled Bowen, admonished the doctor and waited for him, and moved to Lanling Cheng County because of his affairs."

"In the sixth year of Jin Yongjia, Huaiyin ordered Xiao Zheng to lead his family to cross south, and settled in Wujin, Jinling, Jiangzuo. Since the end of Hanwen, it has been handed down for 23 generations."

"This is the origin of my Lanling Xiao clan."

The past of the Xiao Clan in Lanling, the patriarch Chen Qing told all about it, looked at Xiao Qinzhi kneeling on the ground, and asked loudly, "Qinzhi, the 23rd son of the Xiao Clan in Lanling, is he here?"

He also said: "Can the origin of my family be remembered in my heart?"

Xiao Qinzhi sonorously said: "Yes! I have engraved it in my heart."

"Okay!" The patriarch narrowed his eyes, stroked his beard, and said solemnly: "Today, I don't treat my nephew with courtesy. I am the head of the clan, and you are a member of the Xiao clan. Let me ask you, are you willing to take responsibility for the responsibility of Xing the clan? "

Xiao Qinzhi "hissed" panting, lowered his head, and dared not speak for a while, letting a bastard take the heavy responsibility for the prosperity of the clan, Xiao Qinzhi was actually panicked and uneasy.

Furthermore, as soon as the patriarch entered the door, he didn't talk about anything else, and suddenly took off this big hat. How could it be negotiable?
Stared at by sharp eyes, Xiao Qinzhi felt uncomfortable all over.

"Would you like to take the responsibility?" Patriarch Xiao Qing raised his voice and asked sharply, his brows frowned, and he tightly squeezed the wooden stick hidden in his sleeve.

Under such circumstances, Xiao Qinzhi probably couldn't say the word "unwilling", not to mention the Xiao family, all prosperity and all loss, just made a big mistake and burned the ancestral hall, which is a big mistake. handle.

Not to mention, as soon as the patriarch came in, there was obviously a stick hidden in the sleeve, and there was a bag on the tip of his shoulder. Xiao Qinzhi believed that if he said the word "do not want", depending on the patriarch's temper, he might not miss it. Beat up.

Situation is stronger than people, so you don't have to speak hard.

Xiao Qinzhi was helpless, and after a long while, he finally pulled out a "wish" from his mouth.

The head of the patriarch Xiao Qing stretched his brows, pulled out the wooden stick in his sleeve, put it on the case, and said slowly: "Do you know why you are alone?"

It should be the burning of the ancestral hall. To be honest, Xiao Qinzhi really didn't think of the reason. He shook his head and heard the patriarch say:
"You are fourteen this year, and you will be sixteen soon. Unlike previous years, our clan no longer has the protection of a gentry status, and there is no advantage to speak of as a fixed product. The Zhongzheng fixed product can be divided into three. The second is 'talent', which means talent and learning, and you need to focus on Confucian classics in the remaining two years; the third is 'shape', which is character, which is particularly critical. The burning of the ancestral temple is disrespectful to the ancestors, and you must not let others know that you did it .”

"You are a good planner, let Mr. Cui take the initiative to ask for resignation, but you don't know, if you are smart and don't do it right, if you let others know that it is your trick and spread it, your reputation will be ruined. I left Mr. Cui , don’t cause trouble in the future.”

The patriarch took a look, and repeatedly urged:
"Remember, these two matters must not have anything to do with you. If someone asks, they will say that Xiao Shu and Xiao Lian did it by mistake."

Only now did Xiao Qinzhi understand the patriarch's intentions.

Xiao Lian is the name of the fat old man. In order to preserve Xiao Qin's reputation, the patriarch let the fat old man and Xiao Shu take the blame, and even cheated his own son. Xiao Qin was both moved and ashamed, and pursed his lips and said:

"I am the mastermind of this incident. I am uneasy about damaging the reputation of Xiao Shu and Xiao Lian for no reason. Is there any other way?"

Suddenly, Xiao Qinzhi thought of a person, and an excellent method came into being. It was just a matter of changing a vest, so he said, "Can I change my name?"

Unexpectedly, the patriarch glared at him, and then reprimanded him: "Presumptuousness, a person's name is included in the genealogy, just like a body, hair and skin. How can it be easily replaced by parents? Don't mention this matter. If you have the heart, wait for Qinglong to drive, fly When Huang Fuzao was here, don't let this kindness live up to you."

Xiao Qinzhi couldn't help curling his lips, disapproving, thinking: "It's really unrealistic to think about the future without crossing the first step of the Long March."

The meaning of "reading" is quite different from "daily reading". For "daily reading", you only need to correct your attitude, and you can go to school on time, or you can still be confused.

The goal of "studying" is to determine the quality, which is the "high school entrance examination" in later generations, and the state level is equivalent to the "college entrance examination". It has spanned more than 1000 years, but it still cannot escape the bitter fate of the "college entrance examination". Qin Zhi almost wanted to die.

These boring classics and classics, the brain-wrenching thoughts of the ancestors, you have to work hard to understand it, Xiao Qinzhi would not be willing, but under the eaves, he has to bow his head and can't be fooled, how can he be so upset.

Xiao Qinzhi tonight is like a fish caught in a net, being tightly controlled by the patriarch. Thinking about it carefully, Xiao Qinzhi is only less than twenty years old, has not yet graduated from college, has no Going through social friction, fighting wits with the patriarch of an ancient feudal family is tantamount to hitting a stone with a pebble.

How Xiao Qinzhi was suffering in his heart, the patriarch didn't know, but when Mr. Cui resigned today, he said that Xiao Qinzhi was proficient in chess, and he thought about it, so he said:
"Let's have a hand-to-hand chat, so that you can see and see. Don't think that you have won Mr. Cui, so you underestimate him."

That being said, Xiao Qinzhi was in high spirits. After being pressed and rubbed on the ground all night, he couldn't hold back any longer. Smile.

On a two-inch square piece of Zuo Bo paper, there are nineteen horizontal and vertical lines, and three hundred and sixty squares are evenly covered. The crosses are white and the circles are black. This is how it used to be when there was no chessboard.

The patriarch watched Xiao Qinzhi busy himself for a while, and was amazed when he made such a game of chess.

The elders come first, and the white moves first. This is the basic Go etiquette.

In the row seat system, both sides of the four star corners each occupy two, and the chess head must be returned when calculating the outcome.

The two each held a pen, and started the first game. After Bai Zi dropped a few hands, Xiao Qinzhi suddenly realized that the patriarch is also a pig and a tiger.

The level of the patriarch is much higher than that of the old man Cui. He is following the path of serious ancient chess, paying attention to breaking up, focusing on fighting in the air, and ignoring the corners, while modern Go pays attention to continuous pieces, two sides with two sides.

Therefore, the patriarch's first move must be nine three shots, first occupying the corners and expanding, neither radical nor conservative, while Xiao Qinzhi directly hits the corners, and no contiguous and big appearances are allowed.

After probing for more than a dozen steps, Xiao Qinzhi felt relieved. Although the patriarch played a serious game, he obviously didn't understand the essence of ancient chess. It is about three Cui old men plus one piece, but it doesn't matter, everything is under control.

As a result, the confident patriarch was dumbfounded, he lost three sets in a row, his jaw dropped from shock, and Xiao Qinzhi pressed him on the ground and rubbed him wildly.

(End of this chapter)