[Comprehensive] Those years when I memorized the Analects of Confucius

"Mr. Lu, please accompany me for a walk." Kong Yan said in a low voice.

The midsummer sun was extremely warm, but when it fell on this quiet courtyard, it seemed as if someone had wiped away the heat out of thin air, leaving only pure tenderness and warmth.On both sides of the steps are large expanses of lush old trees, silently bringing visitors into the sea of ​​greenery.

"It's okay." Lu Dongbin raised his head, staring at the flowers and leaves within reach between the branches, with a touch of nostalgia in his deep eyes: "It's just right, I haven't seen my old friend for a long time."

When they said this, the two were standing on a step-up stairway.

It is said to be steps, but in fact it is more like a ladder dug out in the mud at random. It is neither luxurious nor neat. It looks like a muddy path in the countryside.Such a terrible road, but the two people in front and behind walked on the ground as if walking on the ground. Lu Dongbin even turned his head leisurely to look at the size and shape of the petals in the shade.

It can't be called how beautiful the environment and scenery are, but every time he visits, it always reminds him of the legendary "Peach Blossom Spring" for no reason.

——If you ignore those large and small dark tombstones that are erected in every corner.

But this assumption is obviously not valid.Then he thought again.If there were no such tombstones, then this piece of land would be nothing more than an ordinary garden.

In fact, anyone, even an ordinary person standing here, can clearly recognize most of the names on the tombstone——

Li Shizhen, Li Bing, Zhang Zhongjing, Sun Simiao...

He only glanced at it, then turned his gaze back, and his gaze stayed on the young man walking in front of him.

To be fair, the young man in front of him has an extremely good-looking face, but in Lu Dongbin's view, what is more eye-catching than his appearance and demeanor is hidden in that thin and flexible body, which is so hard and majestic that it is impressive. Trembling power, and that kind of unknown possibility that only belongs to human beings!

"Are you really not considering being my apprentice?" Lu Dongbin asked seriously.

Frankly speaking, no matter for some purpose or out of his own choice, he really wanted this apprentice--it's a pity that the other party didn't seem to have any idea about worshiping him as a teacher. interest.

Kong Yan's footsteps did not stop.

He slowly stepped on one step after another. Occasionally, branches on both sides poked out their heads, brushing his dark and soft long hair, and the brilliant sunlight fell from the dense greenery, leaving behind his feet. cast bright shadows. "Just yesterday, another elder's name disappeared from the Kong family's genealogy."

Lu Dongbin was slightly taken aback.

Of course, he was not surprised by this matter. In fact, as long as he thought about it, there was no confidentiality for him about many hidden news. What surprised him was that the other party would mention another thing that could be used at this time. Come to "family ugly" to describe things.

For the Kong family, the greatest shame is not that they were born without spiritual power.Even the Kong family without any spiritual power or talent is worthy of respect.But there is one kind of person who is an exception——

Because it directly violates the principles of the Confucian family, those who are unkind, unrighteous, disloyal, and unfilial will be "abandoned" by Confucius forever, and his name will automatically disappear from the genealogy of the Confucian family. During the nine days, he gradually lost the power he gained from the "Tao" until he completely lost his spiritual power and became a cripple!

When he said this, he was as calm as he was talking about today's weather, and Lu Dongbin could tell that this was not a pretense of being calm.The young man in front of him was really calm, and he really didn't care about it.

"Perhaps for the vast majority of people, sacrifice without asking for rewards and understanding is really a difficult thing to understand." Kong Yan said softly: "But for thousands of years, the people living on this land That's how human beings come here."

Natural disasters, man-made disasters, diseases.

Floods will not disappear out of thin air due to the death of human beings, and unknown diseases cannot disappear from the human body without a reason. Wherever there are people, there will be wars, and the so-called peace has always been paved with human corpses and flesh and blood. of.

"Zibu talks about strangeness, strength, chaos, and god." Kong Yan stopped and replied softly.

That was just an ordinary sentence in "The Analects of Confucius", but what is amazing is that at the moment when his words just fell, a majestic momentum rose from the entire cemetery, as if countless people buried here The soul suddenly wakes up at this moment, you can clearly feel the righteousness that has crossed the long river of history, and you can even feel the pride that comes from human beings, and the contempt for "ghosts and gods"——

Those who have tasted all kinds of herbs, tested medicines with their own bodies, risked poisoning and death to write a book, chiseled away from the pile, cured floods, and died from overwork.It is human beings who sacrifice their lives to seek the Dharma, and it is human beings who sacrifice their lives to achieve benevolence.

It was at this moment that Lu Dongbin suddenly realized the reason why he had been rejected by the other party all the time - no one could be his teacher, not human beings, not even demons, immortals, ghosts, and gods!

Although tens of thousands of people are going to die, I would rather die than regret it.He does not need guidance from ghosts and gods, nor does he care about the deviation and negation of others.

This is his "Tao" and his final answer.

I don't know why, for a moment, Lu Dongbin only felt that he seemed to see another figure in the young man in front of him——

He couldn't help asking: "Do you really know what kind of 'Tao' you have chosen?" When he said this, his eyes were firmly locked on the dark tombstone in front of him, and he didn't care. Looking at the young man next to him again, his voice was as low as a sigh——

"Is this your own 'Tao', or... Kong Ci's?"

……

In fact, in Kong Yun's memory, no one has mentioned the word "big brother" in front of him for a long time.

Time is still moving forward step by step, but the time belonging to Kong Ci has long been frozen in the past forever. Few people will mention that name again, let alone mention it in front of Kong Yun. It is not disgusting or taboo. but...

He was a little lost in thought, but Kong Yong over there was still continuing:

"...They are right. Your elder brother is indeed a genius. Even in the category of the entire human race, I have never seen a person as perfect as your elder brother. Although no one said it clearly, back then, even Feng The seminary also treats him as the future leader of the human race."

No one understands better than the Kong family themselves how much influence the name "Kong Ci" has on the two living brothers of the Kong family——

In order to carry the ideals of his deceased brother, regardless of his true inner will, he shouldered the burden of the human race alone, and embarked on a thorny road without looking back.Since then, the other has planted the seeds of doubt in his heart. Since then, half of his heart has rotted away, and the world of his heart has lingered on the verge of complete collapse for a long time.

"Don't you think it's unfair?" He said, "It's obviously the same catastrophe. The selfish guys survived because of their selfishness. They only need to face the ridicule and disdain of others, and they can even change their appearance and change their appearance." The place continues to live freely, while our loved ones are lying underground forever."

He looked down at the silent young man in front of him, but a confident smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Don't you think so?"

Kong Yun raised his eyes, silently staring at the mad man in front of him.

He could clearly see the hatred of the person in front of him - the hatred he had engraved deeply in his bones, the hatred he had endured for so many years, towards the Kong family itself.

"Yes." He heard his own voice calmly resounding in the room: "That's what I thought."

It was still the little Dao Heart Tree.

It seems that time is passing by, and the seasons are changing rapidly.The last second was still a snowy winter, but the next moment it was warm spring and flowers were blooming. Vigorous vitality spread from the roots to the branches. The lifeless half was still silent. At this time, a touch of green sprouts was quietly pulled out.

"It would be fine if the person who died was not Big Brother, but someone else." Kong Yun said softly: "What does the life and death of others, even if it is the life and death of most people, have anything to do with me? It's just alive."

His voice was very soft, but his expression was surprisingly consistent with Kong Yong's—calm to indifferent, exhausted to the extreme and silent.This discovery made Kong Yong's expression more pleasant:

"Look, isn't this great?" His tone was gentle and low, as if he was persuasive, but also seemed to be comforting: "Hate what you want to hate, blame what you want to hate, what is there to forgive? ? Selfish guys should go to hell."

For the Kong family, in this world, there is no more shameful thing than the core members of the clan being expelled from the family because they were abandoned by Kong Sheng.

As he thought about it, the smile on his lips became deeper and deeper.

"Do you still remember those selfish ghosts who ran away?" Kong Yong said with a cold and cruel smile: "I have found their current address."

He didn't say it clearly, but the meaning in his words couldn't be more obvious.Kong Yong didn't care when he saw that the young man didn't say a word. If the other party was really convinced by him immediately, he would wonder if he had really disintegrated the other party's defense line.

"It's okay, I will give you enough time, slowly, slowly, slowly to consider—"

After saying this, it seemed that in order to fully demonstrate his "consideration" and "sincerity", he walked out of the room very readily, leaving the space for his own thinking to the young man who looked miserable.

The door was closed with a bang, and it seemed that it was not locked, but Kong Yun was indifferent to it. He could see that it was not ordinary doors and windows that kept the room closed, but Kong Yun Deliberately set formation.No one can leave from the inside, and no one can come in from the outside unless the formation is unlocked or the person who set up the formation gives permission.

he's gone.

Kong Yun sat there silently, sitting alone for a long time.

It wasn't until he could no longer feel anyone's breath that he stood up, took two steps forward slowly, and picked up the "Huainanzi" that was casually abandoned on the ground.Compared with the neatly bound hardcover edition when it first arrived in his hands, the book is now covered with dirty dust, which looks a bit horrible.

He lowered his head, and subconsciously wanted to stretch out his hand, smoothing out the creases at the corner of the book bit by bit, but a certain scruple in his heart and the instant rationality made him stop what he was doing. At the same time, a A page came off the inside of the book and fell to the floor in front of him.

That's why saints practice Taoism internally, but don't embellish benevolence and righteousness externally. They don't know the appropriateness of eyes and ears, but swim in the harmony of spirit...

With a slight movement in his heart, he reached out and held the page in his hand.

The things that can be used for communication have already been taken away, and in the paper crane sound transmission, the paper used to fold the paper crane also has special requirements, but if it is only a short-term communication... If it is him before today , may not be able to do it yet, but if it is now——

"Nothing is versus existence, reality is versus emptiness, and writing is versus reading."

The full handwriting disappeared from the page inch by inch at a speed visible to the naked eye, and finally the entire page turned into a piece of paper with a faint white light.

This method is not good, even if it can achieve the effect of sound transmission, it must also have a certain degree of randomness - in other words, even Kong Yun himself is not sure, when he inputs spiritual power and activates it , I don't know if he can really contact the person he wants to contact.

There are two requirements for the sound transmission of paper cranes: one is that it needs to be folded with special paper, and the spiritual power of the creator should be input during the folding process as a mark of identification.The second is that when one party uses the paper crane and inputs spiritual power, the other person who owns the paper crane sees the lighted paper crane at the same time and responds.Moreover, the paper crane in the opponent's hand must have exactly the same spiritual power as the paper crane of the active voice transmitter when it was made.

In other words, even if Kong Yun used this instant folded paper crane, the only person he could contact in the end would be the person who owned the paper crane that Kong Yun folded himself.

The process itself is uncertain.

However, for Kong Yun at this time, there is no better choice.The top priority should be to inform the family as much as possible about the situation here.

The small paper crane was folded in the process of his thinking, Kong Yun took a deep breath, and slowly input his spiritual power into it——

"Well - Draco, honey, you don't have to spend every minute of your time like this - reading. You need a little break, would you like some coconut sugar? Or you can choose a Where else would you like to spend a different summer vacation."

How does it feel to have an overly mature and sensible child?Mrs. Malfoy was both troubled and sweet about this. She was happy with her son's sudden carefulness and understanding, but also worried about whether the child's overwork would hurt his body.

No matter when and where, the care of family members is always a pleasant mood, but when the same sentence was chanted by my dear mother for the whole summer vacation, even Draco felt a little headache: "Mom, I It's really all right." His eyes touched the whole big box of coconut candy, and his expression became even more helpless: "I don't like candy either..."

Narcissa pointed out in a gentle tone: "But my dear, just last semester, you asked me to send a lot of coconut candy to Hogwarts—"

"..." Draco said, "That's just because I have a friend who likes..."

Before he could say anything, his mother nodded understandingly, and Mrs. Malfoy said with a smile: "Yes, yes, our little dragon has grown up, and he doesn't like candy for a long time. I just want to share it with him." It's just a friend of mine—"

Draco: "..."

He opened his mouth, but finally gave up on explaining, and let his mother, who believed that he liked sweets, prepare tea and snacks for him with a smile.

Just very tired.

The origami crane that was obtained at King's Cross Station suddenly lit up at this time.

How does it feel to fall from heaven to hell?

Although Kong Yun did not have too much hope for the paper crane with an unknown probability, it was hard for him not to be disappointed when this fact was presented before his eyes.

Well, it seems that he can only think of other ways.

Kong Yun's performance was not obvious.

But Draco dared to bet that for a moment, he did indeed and vividly found the suspected "disappointment" emotion from the small and cute paper crane in front of him——

……disappointment?

He frowned, feeling sincere displeasure at this discovery, without any hesitation, he said straightforwardly: "What are you disappointed about?"

Then he was not surprised to find that the paper crane, which was still drooping its head and a little frustrated, stood up straight all of a sudden. It hesitated for a while, and then told him: "I was kidnapped."

Draco: "...what?"

Before Draco could really understand the meaning behind this word, the little paper crane standing on the table in front of him suddenly looked up at him, and asked in a calm and polite tone: "Can you please?" Can you connect me with my family? Owls, or whatever-"

Kong Yun thought that he had acted very politely and sincerely, although the reason for his honesty was entirely because he knew he couldn’t hide it from the other party. Of course, this is not the point. Not a big deal, right?

But the other party doesn't seem to think so.

"……Where are you?"

Not understanding why Draco would ask such a question, Kong Yun blinked and subconsciously said, "What...where is it?"

"I mean, do you know where you are now—" Even if he just looked at the paper crane in the palm of his hand, Kong Yun could completely imagine the cloudy expression on the other side's face, and the obvious faint dissatisfaction in his tone. Impatiently, the junior Slytherin clicked his tongue: "Forget it."

Then the communication was cut off.

Is this...rejected?

Seeing the lifelike paper crane suddenly return to its original shape, Kong Yun looked down at the little paper crane in his palm, and he had no choice but to sigh.

Fortunately, judging from the current situation, Kong Yong would definitely not kill him - killing him, how could it be more interesting to destroy him with his own hands?In this way, at least his life will not be in any danger.

As for the matter of contacting the family, it seems that there is only another way to think of it.