Sima Yi's Three Kingdoms Collection Collection

Chapter 15 From a famous teacher, learn the art of the emperor (1)
A generation of Confucianism

Linglong Valley is located in the mountains and forests at the southern end of Luhun County, Yuzhou. It was once the place where Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu's troops were stationed.

Stepping over the cable bridge at the mouth of the valley, turning along the plank road, you will be greeted by rolling mountains covered by green clouds on both sides. A river rushes through the valley, and fishes are wrapped in the rushing water like arrows. The rampage is so dizzying.

Along the winding plank road, the more you walk inside, the more you feel the quietness of the valley.With great excitement, Sima Yi looked at the corner of the eaves and huts at the bottom of the valley in the distance, which was hidden among the thick green shades. past.

"Ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai In Guli, there is not much difference between a moment earlier and a moment later."

This book boy is Niu De's youngest son and Niu Heng's younger brother Niu Jin, who is two years younger than Sima Yi.Although he looks delicate and weak, in fact he is a master of martial arts - the luggage rack weighing more than [-] kilograms is lifted on his shoulders, and it is as easy as a goose feather.Even after walking tens of miles all day long, I never saw him panting, sweating, resting, busy with Sima Yi, talking and laughing, as if he had endless energy.

"You don't understand, you don't understand." Sima Yi didn't look back, but still ran towards Ziyuan Academy at a fast pace, and said in his mouth, "Confucius said: 'It is better to see good than to be late. , Seeing bad things is like exploring soup." Master Xuan Tongzi is a great Confucianist who has gathered all kinds of goodness and virtues in the world. How can I not be eager to worship him?"

Niu Jin listened behind him, couldn't help but shook his head with a smile, and didn't say much anymore, just buried his head in carrying his luggage and books, and followed him unhurriedly.

After about two cups of tea, Sima Yi rushed to the gate of Ziyuan Academy.But he saw that under the steps in front of the courtyard, two young men dressed as Confucian scholars had already knelt down.Seeing Sima Yi approaching, the Wenxiu young man kneeling on the left seemed to guess that he was also a scholar who came to Ziyuan Academy to study as a teacher, so he raised his head and smiled at him, pointed to his left side with his left hand, indicating He too knelt down and waited.

Seeing this, Sima Yi understood, nodded without hesitation, knelt down to the left hand side of the Wenxiu young man with a plop, and asked in a low voice, "Is Teacher Xuan Tongzi inside?"

"Teacher Xuan Tongzi seems to be teaching his disciples inside." The Wenxiu young man turned his head to him and replied softly, "When he finishes teaching this class, he will probably come out to see us. I am a Confucian student from Yingchuan County. Hu Zhao, may I ask your brother Gao's name?"

"The Hu family of Yingchuan? So you are a member of the Hu family of Yingchuan. I have heard for a long time that the Hu family of Yingchuan is a scholarly family and a family of poetry and etiquette. It is a pleasure to meet you." Sima Yi was slightly surprised when he heard it, and immediately smiled. , hastily bowed and said, "I am Sima Yi, a Confucian scholar in Hanoi County. By the way, who is that brother?"

Hu Zhao knew that he was asking about the young man in black shirt kneeling on his right, so he replied in a low voice: "Mr. Sima, I have admired you for a long time. This brother is Zhou Xuan from Yizhou, and you Like me, naturally I also came to Master Xuantongzi to learn from my teacher and seek the Tao."

Hearing their whispering, the young man named Zhou Xuan straightened his upper body from the ground just now, turned his head, and glanced at Sima Yi's face.When he saw it, his complexion changed abruptly, he was very surprised, and he fixed his eyes on Sima Yi's face for a long time without moving his eyes.

Sima Yi was a little uncomfortable being stared at by him, and he couldn't say much, so he smiled back at him.At that moment, Zhou Xuan seemed to come back to his senses. With both hands supported, he stood up, quickly ran to Sima Yi, looked him up and down carefully, clapped his palms, and laughed. Said: "This Mr. Sima was born with a good face: his head is tall and horny, his brows are cloudy and his eyes are full of stars, and his bearing is majestic. In the future, he must be a great talent who can help the world!"

Seeing him suddenly jumping in front of him and saying these crazy words, Sima Yi couldn't help but secretly shuddered in fright, but there was no wave on his face, and he just stepped back quickly.That Niu Jin had already put down the luggage rack, took a step over, and suddenly half-covered and half-shielded him in front of him, staring at Zhou Xuan with piercing eyes.

Zhou Xuan was blocked by Niu Jin's sudden stepping over, and he couldn't help but took two steps back.He glanced at Niu Jin's face, and then snorted, and said in surprise: "You are also born with a heroic character, and you will undoubtedly be a fierce general who will lead thousands of troops in the future!"

"Second Young Master, it seems that this scholar is a bit crazy," Niu Jin stared at him warily, and hurriedly reminded Sima Yi, "You have to be more careful—it's not good to be bitten by him." .”

"You... what nonsense are you talking about, kid?" Zhou Xuan couldn't help being so angry that he said angrily, "The verdict for the two of you is based on Zhou's actual research based on photo books and albums. Oh...don't slander Zhou's family background! Hey, have you read the book "A Hundred Appearances"? Have you read the book "Xing Ming Hui"? If it weren't for the two of you to have extraordinary appearances , Zhou is too lazy to look at the two of you."

Hu Zhao also hastily raised his body and explained to Sima Yi: "Brother Zhou is from a family of divination in Yizhou. According to what he said just now, his ancestor Zhou Jian once studied under the master of divination, Jing Fang, and served as the head of the Taishi Ling. Officer, Brother Sima and this little brother don't have to be suspicious."

Only then did Sima Yi understand, and hastily drank Niu Jin back, got up and thanked Zhou Xuan: "My servant and I don't know how good brother Zhou's numerology is, so I was rude just now, please forgive me. It's just what brother Zhou said to me just now. , but it is really absurd praise, I dare not take it!"

"Hehehe, in Zhou's opinion, your personality is very peculiar and outstanding." Zhou Xuan refused to give up, grabbed his left hand again, and said to himself, "Your personality is very unique after seeing it." It's like a qin appraiser seeing a precious Yaoqin with excellent texture, if you don't allow me to appreciate it thoroughly, I will never let it go... Come, come, come, stretch out your left palm Let Zhou take another look."

When Sima Yi heard this, he was so flustered that he didn't even dare to say no, and he didn't stretch out his palm, he just refused.

While the two of them were chatting, they suddenly heard the door of Ziyuan Academy creaking and slowly opening behind them—for a moment, Hu Zhao, who was persuading him, withdrew his expression and knelt down on his knees.Needless to say, Mr. Xuan Tongzi should have opened the door and came out.

Seeing Hu Zhao's behavior, Zhou Xuan hurriedly let go of Sima Yi, ran back to his original position and knelt down.

Sima Yi also adjusted his clothes, and when he was about to kneel down, he suddenly looked up and saw a boy in Tsing Yi standing on the stone steps at the door, looking at them solemnly, and said coldly: "Thank you, you are still a Confucian scholar." ——Come to study with a teacher today, but there is no etiquette outside the gate of the academy, pushing and pulling, making a lot of noise, what's the proper way?"

Sima Yi and the others couldn't help but blushed, their faces were ashamed, they all hurriedly knelt down on the ground, and they all respectfully replied: "Xiaosheng, I know I was wrong."

The boy in Tsing Yi saw that they were very polite, so he changed his expression, pursed his lips into a smile, and declared loudly: "Master, please move the three young masters to the hall to see you."

The Mingdao Hall of Ziyuan Academy is bright and clean, bright and spacious enough to accommodate three to four hundred people.There are 400 cypress columns standing on the hall, which are scattered on the 24 heavenly positions of Xuandu drawn in the Heluo atlas, and prop up the roof high, making it look majestic and majestic.

Sima Yi and the others followed the boy in Tsing Yi into the hall, and walked slowly to the back hall. Along the way, they saw lines of cypress pillars engraved with lines of classic mottos: "The Great Learning" The way of the university lies in Ming Mingde, in Xinmin, and ends in perfection"; in "Book of Rites", "great virtue is not an official, the great way is not a tool, great faith is not consistent, and great time is not uniform"; there is "Book of Changes" "In order to gather them together, to distinguish them by asking them, to live them with generosity, and to practice them with benevolence"; in "Mencius", "Heaven gave birth to the people, so that they can be aware before they are aware, and be aware before they are aware. Also"; in "Xunzi", "Wood is straightened by the rope, and metal is sharpened to benefit. A gentleman is knowledgeable and self-examining, and he is wise and can do nothing wrong"; there is "Guanzi" in "Animals use Dao, the people will be harmonious; nourishing it with virtue, the people will be harmonious"...

While browsing the profound and meaningful inscriptions and mottos on the pillars of the hall, they slowly approached the back hall, and saw a large ebony table in the middle, which was full of classics from various schools of thought.Behind the ebony table is a square bamboo couch.But on the square couch, there was no one there.

Seeing the puzzled expressions of Sima Yi and the others, the boy in Tsing Yi quickly explained: "My lords, please wait a moment. Master probably went to the backyard to change clothes and rest. He will be here in a while."

Sima Yi and the others naturally didn't say much at this time, so they all respectfully knelt down on the lower couch on the left side of the ebony table and waited.

While waiting, Sima Yi couldn't help turning his eyes to the frosty snow gauze sandalwood screen on which the mottled bamboo couch was leaning against.Looking intently, I can see that there are two inscriptions written in thick ink on it. The one on the right is what Zeng Zi said in "The Analects of Confucius", "A scholar must be resolute. The task is heavy and the road is long. Ren regards it as his own responsibility. Isn't it too important? After death , Isn’t it far away?” The one on the left is “There is no benefit greater than world governance, and no harm is greater than world chaos.” The reason why the Three Emperors and Five Emperors successfully established their names and made them known to later generations is that they can bring benefits to the world and eliminate harms. Things don’t have to be the same, but the tasks are the same.”

"This gentleman's calligraphy is really exquisite!" Hu Zhao, who was sitting beside him, also raised his head to look at the screen, and couldn't help admiring.Sima Yi was only looking at the words and sentences just now. Hearing what Hu Zhao said, he looked up at the handwriting and could only marvel at the handwriting: the inscriptions on the screen were written neatly and vigorously. The point is like a meteor flying, horizontal like a flying rainbow in the sky, hooked like a green peak reflecting the moon, vertical like an arm holding the sky, left like a dragon entering the sea, and pressed like a horse galloping across the plains.He smiled slightly, nodded to Hu Zhao and said in agreement: "Brother Hu said it is true, it is really a wonderful calligraphy, rare in the ages! However, although the writing is good, it is not as good as the two inscriptions on the screen. !"

He looked at the two inscriptions on the screen quietly, as if to Hu Zhao, and as if to himself, he sighed deeply: "Mr. Xuan Tongzi wrote these two inscriptions on the screen. Judging from his ambition, he can be regarded as our immortal teacher who preaches, teaches, and dispels doubts! We are lucky to be able to use such a sage as our teacher!"

"Well, Mr. Sima is right, and Zhou feels the same way." Zhou Xuan, who was sitting at the head of the seat, heard his words, looked at the inscription on the screen, and nodded repeatedly, " In Zhou's opinion, Mr. Xuan Tongzi's handwriting is upright and majestic, full of the majestic atmosphere of a great master of a generation, and he is indeed a good teacher that can be met but not sought after!"

(End of this chapter)