Chapter 6 Section five

In Xuzhou, horse teams galloped through the streets at night. The horse team galloped past the Zheng Mansion with a big lantern with the word "Zheng" hanging outside the gate. Outside the gate there are servants standing guard, and inside the gate there are servants peeking out through the cracks in the door.The spying servants turned around and hurried to the courtyard. They met Ma Wu, the housekeeper, and reported to him immediately. In the deep Zheng's mansion, courtyards, door openings, corridors, houses, shaded by trees, light and shadows, housekeeper Ma Wu hurried through with a few servants and went straight to the study.

Zheng Kangcheng is talking with Bai Shao and Chi Shao in the study.Ma Wu hastily came in and reported: "My lord, the whole of Xuzhou is still being searched, house-to-house, and the estates of many wealthy families outside the city have been searched. Cao Cao ordered ten days to catch the assassins, and today is the third day. After Zheng Kangcheng heard this, he paused, and slowly waved his hand: "They won't come to Zheng's mansion, and they didn't expect to come here. This matter has nothing to do with my mansion. Steward Ma, just tell everyone in the mansion to be at ease." Ma Wu nodded and stepped back. Yes, the atmosphere left behind is still a little tense.Zheng Kangcheng listened intently to the sound of horseshoes faintly coming from the street, looked at the two sisters and said, "It stands to reason that it was a rare opportunity to shoot Cao Cao the day before yesterday. I made a divination in advance, and the divination was favorable. I don't know what went wrong." Chi Shao said : "I want my sister to accompany me, because she can help me calm down, and my calmness will be perfect. But I don't know why my sister interfered with me the day before yesterday."

Bai Shao lowered her eyes and said nothing. Zheng Kangcheng looked at Bai Shao, and said: "Xun You came last time, the meaning of what he said was that he wanted Bai Shao to study with Cao Mansion." Chi Shao's eyes lit up: "This is an opportunity." Zheng Kangcheng asked: " What?" Chi Shao said: "I can pretend to be my sister and go to Cao's Mansion." Zheng Kangcheng said: "This is no joke, do you think it's that easy to get it?" Chi Shao said: "I am clean and unarmed. Let them search you. Do you have any doubts? I just want to—" She pulled out a silver hairpin from her head with one hand, and with the other hand picked up a piece of preserved fruit from the fruit plate and threw it high, then raised her hand, and the silver hairpin pierced the fruit like an arrow On the pillar of the house—"Let's get rid of him." Zheng Kangcheng snorted: "How did you enter Cao's mansion, you said you were Bai Shao or Bai Shao?" Chi Shao said: "My sister and I are twin sisters. , looks exactly the same, I changed my sister's clothes again, who can tell?" Zheng Kangcheng sneered, stood up and slowly walked to Chi Shao's side, grabbed Chi Shao's wrist, and Chi Shao instinctively turned his wrist to break free.Zheng Kangcheng sarcastically said: "Such a master of martial arts came to accompany me to read? How about your poems, books, and paintings?" Chi Shao said: "I can pretend to be gentle at first." He said that he imitated Bai Shao's gentleness, exaggeratedly slow After walking a few steps, he returned to his true colors impatiently and said: "There is another way, let my sister go to study with me, so that the Cao thief is not on guard, my sister can go home to visit relatives, and I will go back to Cao's mansion, I can handle it on the same day. "

Zheng Kangcheng glanced at Chi Shao, then looked at Bai Shao again, and was silent for a while.In the stillness of the night, there was another sound of horseshoes. He shook his head and said, "This is too dangerous." Chi Shao said: "Isn't my grandfather a genius?" Zheng Kangcheng looked at the two sisters again, and said: "Okay, let's make a hexagram based on the two of you. The upper hexagram is Chi Shao, and the red is fire and Li Ye; the lower hexagram is Bai Shao, and the white is Dui and Ze Ye; Xiaze, Gua hexagram. Gua hexagram is obedient and suspicious, and doubts abound in this hexagram. Yu, Confucius explained in "Xici" that it is also a bow and arrow. The arrow of Cao's arrow was unsuccessful the day before yesterday," Zheng Kangcheng pulled out and nailed the preserved fruit The silver hairpin on the pillar, "This is also an arrow. Maybe it happened here, and I don't know. According to the time, the Gua Gua moves up here, and the Gua Gua moves up here. The suspicion is even more serious. This is sixty-four The most suspicious change in the hexagram. 'Seeing pigs and negative paint' means seeing pigs covered in mud and blocking the road, 'carrying ghosts and a cart' is full of ghosts, 'the arc of opening first, and the arc of talking later' is the first Bending the bow and setting the arrow, and then putting down the arrow, the behavior is erratic; "Bandits getting married" is a false alarm when they first think that they are encountering a robber, and then they see that it is a wedding caravan. Finally, "When it rains, it will be auspicious", it is finally "the group Doubtful death'. Maybe the final result is okay. However, since ancient times, it is easy to break the hexagram, and it is difficult to break the hexagram.

Bai Shao played the qin lightly and remained silent, then said: "Grandfather, why don't you take this matter into consideration?" Zheng Kangcheng said: "How do you say that?" "It is said that 'a gentleman uses the right position to stabilize his life'. Why does my grandfather count Cao Cao's presence in the number of days? If the sky wants to destroy him, we don't have to be suspicious. If the sky doesn't destroy him, why bother?" Zheng Kangchang sighed: "Cao Cao is such a traitor Domineering, but it’s a matter of time." Bai Shao stared at him inexplicably, Zheng Kangcheng just sat down and stood up, walked a few steps, and said: "We must punish Cao. A gentleman should act like you What I just said is "righteousness and fate", and you have to sacrifice your life to become a benevolent "deadly aspiration." Bai Shao asked: "What is a fatal aspiration?" Zheng Kangcheng said: "A fatal aspiration means that you would rather lose your life than follow your own aspirations. Also, it is also said that knowing that there are some things that cannot be done but still doing them. The success of things depends on the sky, and the planning of things depends on people. The number of days is not enough to protect me, but sincere planning can still make up for it. After Kang Cheng spoke generously, he raised his voice to the sky and let out a long roar.

There was another sudden sound of horseshoes outside. Bai Shao lowered her eyebrows and casually played the piano, the sound of the piano was intermittent.It was very quiet in the room. Chi Shao looked at Zheng Kangcheng and then at Bai Shao.Zheng Kangcheng sat down. There were faint and hasty footsteps outside the door. The housekeeper, Ma Wu, pushed the door in after reporting, and hurriedly reported: "My lord, Mr. Xun You, Prime Minister Cao's military adviser, has sent someone to send an urgent message five hundred miles away." The long package sealed with red lacquer was presented to Zheng Kangcheng.Zheng Kangcheng became alert, Bai Shao and Chi Shao were also very surprised.Zheng Kangcheng raised his hand to signal, Ma Wu understood, and opened the sealed package, which contained a letter and a scroll of banners, all of which were given to Zheng Kangcheng.Zheng Kangcheng unpacked and opened the letter, read it twice, and signaled Ma Wu to back down.Zheng Kangcheng was silent for a while, then snorted, and said to Bai Shao: "This time it is Cao Cao's own intention, I want you to go to Cao's mansion to accompany me to study."

Bai Shao suddenly plucked the piano with a clatter. Chi Shao was also very surprised. Zheng Kangcheng said: "Cao Cao is such a character, of course he wouldn't speak so bluntly. But Xun You's letter has all the meanings. He praised my Zheng family for being the best in the world. He said that my granddaughter is so talented in poetry, calligraphy and painting. He said that Prime Minister Cao was very happy after hearing his description. He said that Cao Cao was very happy when he stayed in the camp of the Chinese army on the way to the teacher. Shall I go? It’s hard for Cao Cao to be so condescending—alright, let’s hang up this ‘Mo Bao’ first.”

Chi Shao took the banner, opened it, and hung it on a wall of the study with a pole.Zheng Kangcheng stood up and said, "Look at what he wrote?" As he walked to the banner, he saw a song "Duan Ge Xing" standing still, looked at it line by line, and said: "What is life like when you are singing to wine?"For example, the dew in the morning has a lot of bitterness in the past day. Generosity should be generous, and worries and thoughts are unforgettable.Why worry?Only Du Kang. Green Zijin, Youyouwoxin.But for the sake of the king, I have pondered so far. Yo Yo Lu Ming, the apple of the wild food.I have guests, harp blowing Sheng.

It's like the moon, when can I stop?Worry comes from it and cannot be cut off. The more you pass through the fields, the more useless you will be.Qi Kuo talked about the banquet, thinking about the old kindness. The moon and stars are scarce, and the black magpies fly south.Go around the tree three times, what branch can you rely on? The mountains never get too high, and the sea never gets too deep.The Duke of Zhou vomits and feeds, and the world returns to its heart. After reading, Zheng Kangcheng still looked up and down, not speaking. Bai Shao had been listening attentively just now, and at this moment, he was stroking the strings one after another.Chi Shao looked at the two, not knowing why, she asked Zheng Kangcheng: "Grandfather, how is this poem written?" Zheng Kangcheng didn't answer.Chi Shao turned to ask Bai Shao again: "Sister, how is this poem written?"Chi Shao was in a hurry: "Why can't you answer?" Zheng Kangcheng sighed: "The moon and stars are thin, and the black magpie flies south. Three turns around the tree, where is the branch to rely on? The mountains are never too high, and the sea is not too deep. Returning to the heart... Within a hundred years, it is a rare good poem." He walked a few steps and stopped in front of the piano case: "His poems, his characters are really rare."

Bai Shao glanced at the banner again, and asked after a moment of silence: "Will the person who wrote such poems also be a traitor?" Zheng Kangcheng said: "This is a great traitor." He played the piano lightly without a hitch.Zheng Kangcheng sat down and said: "There are many people in the world who do not conform to the truth. How can this poem and book cover up its power over the world and killing people like hemp." Bai Shao seemed to understand something.Zheng Kangcheng also said: "National hatred must be reported, and family hatred must also be reported. Your father was shot off his horse by Cao Jun and hacked to death with random knives. When he was buried, there was no complete body to collect. It was terrible."

Chi Shao picked up a pear and put it far away, then picked up the knife on the fruit plate and said: "You must avenge the murder of your father, and you will never stop unless you kill Cao Cao!" The pears fell to the ground. Zheng Kangcheng looked at Bai Shao and said nothing.Bai Shaozhong began to play the piano intermittently. The sound of the piano hesitated at first. Then the high mountains and flowing water, Ding Dong ups and downs. Suddenly the iron cavalry protruded, and the swords and guns rang loudly. Finally, at the end of the song, the sound is like cracking silk. The room was extremely quiet.The sound of horseshoes was faintly heard in the distance. Bai Shao got up slowly and said, "Take me to Cao's Mansion." Zheng Kangcheng looked at Bai Shao and said nothing. Chi Shao walked slowly to Bai Shao's side and gently supported her: "My sister really wants to go? This is really a tiger's den... You come back early to visit relatives, and I will kill Cao instead." Bai Shao said nothing.Chi Shao said again after a long while: "The emperor wanted you to go before but you didn't agree, why are you going to Cao's mansion this time?" Bai Shao was silent for a moment and replied: "You don't need to go to the imperial palace; you should go to Cao's mansion." Zheng Kangcheng stared at Bai Shao for a while, then got up and paced again.There was silence. After a long time, Zheng Kangcheng stopped in front of Bai Shao: "Bai Shao has such a great ambition, and it must be fulfilled." Ting Ting said again, "You don't have to wait until you come back to visit relatives and change Chi Shao, because killing Cao like that will take a lot of trouble and it will be easy to be exposed. You go to Cao If you are next to the thief, you can choose the opportunity to kill him. To kill the Han and avenge the father, this is all in one fell swoop." Bai Shao concentrated for a moment and nodded.