Big Han Weiyang

For a year, Liu Zhi and I spent four hours in the study every day, and went to the school grounds every other day.For us, the time is so tight that we don't even have time to change clothes.

So every time we went to the school grounds, we would wear Changru in deep clothes in advance.When the time comes, just take off the deep clothes and put on the armor.

As we read more and more, the way we play gradually ceases to be wrestling and becomes more refined.Emperor Jing and Empress Dowager Dou were very satisfied with this.

The military officers treat us young nobles like a herd, and seeing us play games that don't hurt our muscles and bones, we are more happy and relaxed.Apart from correcting the posture of riding and shooting, they just chatted and drank tea, purely treating us as a camp holiday.

Autumn is crisp and the wild geese fly south.They always know which direction is the right way, but I am getting more and more confused.

Liu Zhi and I finished our walk and handed over our beloved horses to the palace servants to take them down for washing.

"How do you compare today?" I cleared my messy thoughts.

"Of course it's archery, two out of three rounds. We each choose three people to play, but the selected people can only play once. The rules are made in turn. It's been a long time since I competed. I have worked hard these few months, and you will definitely lose." Liu She laughed provocatively.

"So confident? Be careful you will lose badly." I turned around and said, "Brother Liu Rong, are you going to participate?"

Liu Rong stood under the tree leaning against the trunk, slightly frowning, lowering his head, wondering what he was thinking.He has grown a lot taller, his figure is between a teenager and a young man, and his appearance is not as similar to Li Ji as he was when he was a child.Silent and quiet, with melancholy as if hesitating in the rain on a late spring night.

"Ah?" Liu Rongfa was stunned for a while, then raised his head in a daze, and then forcefully raised the corner of his mouth: "It's Ayue. You guys play, I'm a little tired, just watch from the sidelines."

Alas, I knew it would be like this.

"What is the winning lottery? It's not fun if the lottery is too light." Liu Zhi felt the strength of the bowstring with his fingers.After struggling on the school grounds for two years, his childish and delicate face added a bit of heroism.

"Okay, bet on the sword, do you want to play?" I pointed to the bronze sword on his waist.

Liu Zhi touched the hilt of his sword and hesitated for a moment.

"How can you gamble with your highness's sword, how about using my sword as a lottery?" Han Yan untied her sword.

Seeing Han Yan, I had a new idea: "It's fine if you don't bet on Saber. Bet on him, are you willing?" I pointed to Han Yan.

"Huh?" Han Yan's hand holding the sword froze, his eyes widened slightly, and he took half a step back.A gust of autumn wind brought yellow leaves to the ground one after another, and flocks of birds flew up from the woods.

"I won, so I will lend Han Yan to me for a few days." I stared at his expression, trying to find a trace of retreat and reluctance.Too bad I couldn't find any.

Liu Zhi touched his chin and said, "It's not impossible, but what if I win?"

I called Han Shuo over, put my arms around his shoulders and said, "Then I will give Han Shuo your command for a few days." Han Shuo wanted to say something, but held back.

"Okay, but out of the three rounds, I want to lead two rounds." Liu Zhi said.

I stretched out my right hand in front of Liu Zhi, and he clapped his palm and held it with me.The two passed by.

I pulled Han and talked about the old Matsushita who was gathered with the students: "What are you afraid of, I will not lose you, who is so easy to handle after you leave."

Han said with a wry smile and nodded.

Eleven or twelve-year-old Guo Sheren said: "That's right, there are His Highness and Lao Guo and I. As long as we fight, we will definitely win two rounds out of three."

In the first game, Liu Zhi used local materials to compare the number of wild geese he hit, and sent Zhang Qian to the game.

I thought he would use Han Yan, after all, Han Yan's shooting skills are among the best among us.

"Han said, you go."

"Your Highness..." Han said he was a little embarrassed, "My archery skills are only average, and Zhang Qian is much better than me."

"You go, it doesn't matter."

Han Shuo and Zhang Qian stood between the clearing.When a group of wild geese flew by, ten arrows cut through the clear blue sky one after another.

Zhang Qian shot four of them without accident.Han said that the posture of bow and arrow is as standard as it has been practiced thousands of times, but the accuracy of the head is only average.He shot down two geese, and the other two arrows missed, and one only penetrated the left wing of the geese, and dropped a few feathers.

"You sent Han to say that you must lose. If it were Guo Sheren, the outcome would be five or five. If you played in person, the outcome would be between twenty and eight. It's a pity, a pity." Liu Zhi said with a smile.

The feather fluttered down, and I grabbed it in the palm of my hand, "I'd rather win or lose than count five or five."

Liu Zhi raised his eyebrows with a smile.

"In the second game, let's choose the scene of the white horse crossing the gap. Ride across the teaching field, and you can shoot arrows for a distance of three feet between the two ginkgo trees. The one who hits the most targets wins. Old Guo, come here, you go." I said. road.

Liu Zhi approached me and said, "Ah Yue, you are trying to make me look good. You know that I am best at rapid fire, and Guo Sheren is even better at it. Are you trying to make me lose in what I am best at?"

I crossed my arms and said, "You don't have to."

Liu She flicked his sleeves angrily: "You know that the last thing I want to do is to quit despite difficulties."

He lost as expected.

Game three.Liu Zhi rode up to me, threw away his bow and arrow, dismounted and said angrily, "The third round is still more accurate than archery."

I smiled and said, "Liu Zhi, don't forget that I am the best at hitting the bull's-eye. But if you use Han Yan's words, you might win."

"I do put him in the field, but not with him for shooting arrows."

In the pine forest, Han Yan stood twenty feet away holding a small green fruit.

"In this game, shoot the fruit on Han Yan's head. As long as you hit it, you win. If the arrow shoots anywhere other than the green fruit, I win."

"It's not wrong to use the rules like this, but what if I shoot Han Yan. He is your companion, don't you feel sorry for him being injured? Besides, if he moves, I will lose."

"If he moves, even if you win. Besides, with my order, even if your arrow is shot at his eyes, he will not move."

Before saying that she wanted to bet on Han Yan, Han Yan was still biting her lip, looking sullen.Liu Zhi said a few words to him, and he was no longer unhappy, and stood firmly.

"A Yue, do you have the heart to make a move on such a beautiful child?" Liu Zhi raised the corners of his mouth and whispered in my ear.

I slowly draw my bow.

On the opposite side, Han Yan had a calm expression. She didn't know whether she believed that I would not shoot him, or whether she was determined to carry out Liu Zhi's order.This boy, who might be killed by my arrow in an instant, is actually calmer than the person holding the murder weapon like me.

Staring at the past along the arrowhead, under the thin shadow of the tree, he is like a crimson camellia in the valley, shrouded in light mist, so delicate and beautiful.Do I want to let him in my hands fade away his color and fade away his appearance?

After a long time, I relaxed my shoulders and lowered my bow halfway.

"What is this, a beauty trick? You know I can't bear to make a move?" I turned my head and glared at Liu Zhi.

"I just want to give it a try, who knows?" Liu She laughed.

The two looked at each other for a while, and finally, I sighed and put down my bow: "Then..." I suddenly turned around, opened my bow and shot an arrow, and the iron cluster was like a flash of lightning, passing over Han Yan's head, and the breeze picked up his hair.

I have been aiming for a long time just now, and I have already memorized the movement with my body.This arrow is smooth and natural.

"Then I'll give it a try too." I put away the seriousness and helplessness just now, and finished speaking with a smile.

"You..." Liu Shi was stunned for a moment.

Han Yan fell to the ground, and the arrow passed through the green fruit and hit a locust tree, its tail feathers trembled.

Han Shuo hurried to help Han Yan up, Han Yan shook off Han Shuo, patted the dead branches and leaves on his body, and said nothing with a sullen face.

Although a beauty is beautiful, she is not my beauty, so why should I pity her.

A game is a game, and Liu Zhi and I can reconcile on the same day if we fight with a bruised nose and a swollen face. Naturally, we don't care about winning or losing a game.In the afternoon, a few people talked and laughed and came to the study.

There are three rows of twelve desks neatly arranged inside, but the main master is only me, Liu Zhi, Liu Rong, and the rest are companions.

Holding the bamboo slips in his hands, Liu Rong listened intently, gesticulating along the indentations of the characters one by one.Only at this time did he relax and stop worrying.

"Heaven and earth are not benevolent, and treat all things as straw dogs. Sages are not benevolent, and treat the common people as straw dogs." Dou Ying chanted, "His Royal Highness Jiaodong, please explain this sentence."

Today we are going to talk about Tao Te Ching.Empress Dowager Dou admired Huang Lao and disliked Confucianism.Under her suggestion, we spent a little longer studying Tao Te Ching than Confucianism.

Liu Zhi reluctantly opened the bamboo slips, and said in a somewhat dragging tone: "The heaven and the earth are not kind, they treat all things like grass dogs. The sages are not kind, and they treat the people like grass dogs."

Liu She thinks that Taoism is soft, and he doesn't have much interest in it.

"You're right. Straw dogs are dogs made of grass during sacrifices. Han Yan, where do you think this 'inhumanity' is reflected?"

Han Yan said: "Grass is a humble thing, and everyone tramples it under their feet. When heaven, earth and sages need them, they tie them into straw dogs for people to worship. But after the sacrifice, the straw dogs are thrown on the ground. It is like grass and is trampled on by others. When you use it, you put it on the high ground, and when you don’t use it, you throw it away like a shoe. It is not benevolent.”

Hearing a 'pop', everyone looked at Liu Rong, and the bamboo slip in his hand fell on the case.

"His Royal Highness," Dou Ying said displeased, "Tell me, why does Confucius advocate benevolence and Lao Tzu advocates 'no benevolence'? Is not benevolence better than benevolence?"

Liu Rong's head was sweating like a nightmare.

"His Royal Highness!" Dou Ying said angrily.

"Prince, prince." The companion behind Liu Rong secretly pushed him.

Only then did Liu Rong wake up: "Ren, not benevolent...Teacher, what is benevolence and what is not benevolent, I don't know."

Dou Ying shook her head and said to me, "His Royal Highness, what do you think?"

"Teacher, I think benevolence and inhumanity are both benevolence. Confucius' benevolence is benevolence to the people of the world. Lao Tzu's inhumanity is inhumanity without benevolence. Sometimes, being inhumane to a small number of people is the same as being benevolent to the majority of people." kindness."

Dou Ying smiled and said, "Very well, His Highness the King of Guangchuan has some insights."

Liu Rong's face was even paler, with a dazed look on his face.

Dou Ying put down the bamboo slips and motioned for Liu Rong to go out with him.

"His Royal Highness, you are restless today, and it is not suitable for you to study."

Suddenly, as if he had made up his mind, Liu Rong stopped in front of Dou Ying and bowed to the ground.

"Teacher. Taifu, go and stop my uncle. I learned at noon that my uncle has been bewitched by someone. Tomorrow, I will write a letter asking my father to make my mother the queen. If you don't stop him, I'm afraid my mother and I will die." No guarantee."

"Why is your uncle so confused." Dou Ying helped Liu Rong up, and said solemnly, "You go back to the uterus and wait, I will see him." Dou Ying put on her robe and hurried away.

Liu Rong leaned against the porch pillar with his eyes closed, slowly slid down and sat down, and murmured in a trembling voice: "Being inhumane... Then, what about the small group of people? Should they be treated like this?"

I watched him from behind the window, bewildered.I always feel that if I leave it alone, he will sit like this for the rest of his life.

I finally stepped out of the palace door, squatted down in front of him, held his hands, and warmed them with my body temperature: "Brother Liu Rong, you are my father's son, you will be fine."