Chapter 45 Chapter 45 Drumming

Now, the one who secretly fears and regrets, and looks confused from time to time is Kong Rong who recommended Mi Heng.I did recommend an untimely person, and as the recommender, I have an unshirkable responsibility.That day, Kong Rong quietly retreated while everyone was not paying attention, and those who stayed behind cursed angrily, and the whole palace was filled with anger. Generals like Zhang Liao were even more furious. He asked Cao Cao sharply, "Why do you want to take care of such a poor scholar like a beggar? Prime Minister, why don't you let me kill that guy?" Cao Cao replied: "That's not what I meant. To be honest, I also felt unbearable for Mi Heng's words and deeds, and I was trembling with anger, so I asked myself why I didn't kill him? Think about it carefully, roughly like this There are several reasons: one is that his abnormal behavior seems to have been judged in the world, and the other is that his eloquent tongue has also won a false reputation in the world. It can be said that he is famous among the people as an anti-social weirdo. If I, as the prime minister, punish him seriously for this, the people will laugh at me for being narrow-minded and disappoint those who originally had expectations of me... Ni Heng is actually a stupid thing. The best way for him is to let him do the least of his boasted talents, and we can laugh at him on the spot in the hall, isn't it fun?"

On the first day of August in the fourth year of Jian'an, a feast for court celebrations was held in the provincial hall of the Forbidden Palace.Naturally, Cao Cao went to Jin Dynasty to visit the emperor, and invited all the ministers in the palace, all the officials of the court, and the generals of the prime minister's mansion to the banquet together.At the banquet, a ceremony of congratulations and cups was held.Just as the banquet was in full swing, the musicians, drummers and others of the band lined up in the hall to perform music and dance.Mi Heng was also mixed in, specializing in drumming.He performed "Yuyang Sanluo" with superb skills, its wonderful melody and rhythm changes, it sounds like a famous master's performance, and everyone is fascinated by it.

However, as soon as the dance music ended, the generals, who had just woken up from a dream, accused Mi Heng of being rude with one voice. "You are too dirty. Today is Chaodo Miga. Needless to say, the officials of the music workshop, even the dancers and drummers are wearing clean clothes. Why are you still wearing such dirty clothes? Lice?" They originally thought that he would blush for taunting You Heng like this.Unexpectedly, Ni Heng calmly began to untie his belt.He asked rhetorically, "Am I really that dirty?" He muttered dissatisfiedly as he took off his clothes one by one, until he was completely naked except for a red loincloth.

Seeing such a scene on such a solemn occasion, the people in the hall couldn't help being stunned.Everyone let out a sound of "ah, ah, ah" in disappointment. You Heng doesn't care.Naked, he took the drum again and struck it three times. Cao Cao saw that the generals who had never been willing to be human were also frightened by Mi Heng's behavior, and their faces showed horror. He couldn't bear it anymore, and roared: "Who is that naked person in the palace of Chaohe? What a disrespectful thing!" Mi Heng put the drum on the ground and stood upright with his navel facing Cao Cao's seat.Mi Heng said loudly in disbelief: "It's rude to bully the sky. It's rude to expose the body of my parents. Who is rude? Compare it yourself and think about it carefully. I just present to everyone a person who looks the same, if the prime minister feels wronged, he can take off his clothes and show everyone your body that looks the same as me."

"Shut up!" Cao Cao finally flew into a rage.The angry shouts of the two who refused to give in to each other resounded through the entire hall like thunder. Cao Cao finally spoke angrily: "You pedantic scholar, you always talk about how innocent you are and how filthy others are. Where can there be such filthy people?" Mi Heng retorted without giving in: "Dirty people don't know the smell of their bodies. For the prime minister, it seems that they don't know their own filth." "What? Are you calling me filthy?" "Yes. On the surface, you seem to be very wise, but your eyes can't tell the difference between virtuous and foolish. This is the evidence that your eyes are cloudy."

"Don't talk about me!" "In addition, you don't even understand the truth that reading poetry and books can purify the soul. As the old saying goes, words are the voice of the heart. This is evidence of your lack of noble cultivation." "Ok?" "If you don't listen to people's advice, it means that your ears are dull. You don't know the past and the present, but you just stick to your own opinions and go your own way. This shows that your sentiments are muddy. Nothing about your daily sitting and lying is noble and pure, and you are doing it wantonly. Behavior, this is your body turbidity."

"..." "Among all your filth, the most frightening thing is that because no one can restrain you, you will be arrogant and arrogant, and you will eventually develop a rebellious heart. If you continue to develop like this, you will plant thorns everywhere for yourself. Really So stupid, so ridiculous." "..." "I, Niheng, are famous people in the world, but you not only disrespected me, but also let me beat the drums and insulted me. This is purely the act of a villain, just like Yang Huo who wanted to harm Confucius because he hated him, and Zang Cang who vomited to Mencius. In your heart, you want to implement inhuman domineering. But when you really want to implement it, you pretend to be cautious. In order not to be noticed, you don’t hesitate to wear a mask to scare people. It can be said that it was done by ordinary people. In fact, it is just a rare ordinary person in the world who appears in the palace at the moment. This is the current Cao Cao! Great! Great ordinary people!"

The way he clapped his hands, cursed and laughed was rare in the world.To make such a madness, is it a great madman, or a fool who doesn't know the value of life?Or is it the great sage sent down here by God to save mankind?All in all, he's an oddball that's hard to guess. Cao Cao's face was pale.No, everyone in the hall was overwhelmed by the momentum of Mi Heng alone. What will be the result?Although the matter had nothing to do with him, all civil and military officials swallowed, gritted their teeth, and maintained a mournful silence. Kong Rong secretly groaned in his heart, "Cao Cao will definitely kill Mi Heng today, right?" He closed his eyes and squeezed sweat in his palms.

Soon, he heard the generals in the house knocking on their swords and scolding You Heng with wide eyes: "You poor scholar with a long tongue. I let you talk, but you fart recklessly. Chop your limbs and ten fingers into meat sauce, See if your mouth is still hard?" This remark caused commotion in the hall again.Someone seemed to stand up.Kong Rong opened his eyes involuntarily, only feeling cold sweat from the pores all over his body. Cao Cao also stood up, stretched out his hands in front of the general who was about to take action with the sword in his hand, and stopped him loudly: "Don't do this, who ordered you to kill Miheng? He called me an idiot, although it was a slander, But it's not worth getting angry like me. And the pedantic scholar is like a mouse. He doesn't understand the sun, the earth, and the general trend. He just lives in the market, hiding in the attic or under the floor alone and fabricating some small nonsense out of thin air. Even if he is in the palace If he sells his goods ignorantly, he can only be regarded as a small animal hiding under the sun and acting strangely. It will not do us any good to kill this kind of person. Next, I will order him to be responsible work."

After Cao Cao stopped the reckless actions of the generals, he called Mi Heng from the stage to him, and while giving him clothes, he asked, "Do you have any relationship with Liu Biao from Jingzhou?" "Well, I have been with Liu Biao for many years." Mi Heng replied coldly. "Then, you act as my envoy and go to Jingzhou immediately." Cao Cao ordered. Now, as long as it is an order from Cao Cao, no matter in the palace or the prime minister's mansion, it must be carried out unconditionally.However, Mi Heng shook his head and refused, "No, I hate this job."

"Why do you hate it?" "Because I understand your intentions, I only know that this is not my task." "I haven't said anything, can you deduce and perceive your mission?" "If I go to persuade Liu Biao to do my job under your door, you will be very happy." "You are right. You go to meet with Liu Biao and explain your interests to him. If he can swear to surrender, then after you come back, I will let you enter the school in the palace and be reused as a minister. What do you think? ?” "Haha! The mouse must be more funny with clothes on." "Your life is lent to you by me, don't talk about going or not, set off for me immediately." Cao Cao turned his head back again and told the generals: "Let him ride a good horse and wear gorgeous clothes to go out as an envoy. Prepare a sumptuous meal for him as a farewell farewell." So, the crowd surrounded Mi Heng, chattering and coaxing, and raised their wine glasses one after another to let him have a drink too. Then, many people sent Mi Heng to the east porch, and brought a good horse to help him ride on the saddle. Cao Cao then ordered the civil and military officials: "In order to send off the ambassador who set out with my mission, everyone go to the east gate and line up to see each other off." Earlier, Ni Heng scolded Cao Cao for not treating a famous scholar like him with courtesy, so Cao Cao immediately catered to his wishes, which shows that Cao Cao wanted to make good use of this envoy. However, although all the civil and military officials under Cao Cao understood his intentions, their actual actions seemed inconsistent with Cao Cao.They said: "Why do you have to line up in a neat queue to see off this poor and arrogant scholar?" As a result, no one stood up seriously. Especially Xun Yu and others were even more disgusted by this. He said unscrupulously to his subordinates: "Even if Mi Heng comes here, there is no need to stand to say goodbye, everyone can just sit. Everyone crossed their legs and showed crying faces." , to see off this guy who doesn't know what to do." Mi Heng walked slowly on a horse, and came here from the magnificent Donghua Gate in a short while. Both the horse and the envoy were listlessly walking alone, but the sound of farewell and the loud music inside the Donghua Gate were deafening.Mi Heng drove his horse out of Donghua Gate and saw that although the team led by Xun Yu was lined up, every soldier and general was sitting cross-legged with a smile on their faces. "Ah, how sad..." As soon as Mi Heng stopped the horse, he let out such a lament, and after a while he burst into tears. Both Chaoyang's team and Shady's team let out giggles.Xun Yu looked at Mi Heng in a good mood, and said mockingly, "Sir, you have a bright future, why are you crying so much?" Mi Heng immediately replied: "I just looked around and found thousands of people limp and unable to stand up, just like the Beach of the Dead. How can I not be sad when I walk in the Beach of the Dead and the Mountain of the Dead?" "You say we are all dead? Haha! Only you are dead. From our point of view, you are a headless madman." "No, no, I am a courtier of the Han Dynasty." Mi Heng's answer was simply wrong.What would he say?Xun Yu blinked his eyes in surprise. "What courtiers of the Han Dynasty? We are all courtiers of the Han Dynasty. Why do you say you are a courtier of the Han Dynasty?" "Yes. I am the only one here who is a courtier of the Han Dynasty. You are all courtiers of Cao Cao, right?" "Aren't they all the same?" "Lie! You are blind." "blind?" "Ah, it's too dark, too dark, today's world is too dark! ——Listen carefully, I, Mi Heng, are different from you moths, I am not a subject of rebels." "Who are the traitors you speak of?" "Of course it's Cao Cao, and you who pointed at me, Mi Heng, as a headless ghost. It's because you partnered with the rebels, so I don't know if your head will still be there tomorrow." The other generals who were listening to Mi Heng and Xun Yu's questions and answers finally couldn't hold back the anger in their chests. While fiddling with the halberds and swords in their hands, they shouted loudly: "Xun Yu! You Why don't you take him off the saddle? Throw him in front of us and see if we don't chop him up!" At this time, Xun Yu's heart was full of murderous intent, he thought that he didn't need to wait for others to do it, as long as he cut down the knife himself, he could solve the problem.But he changed his mind and thought again, now that even Cao Cao has been patient enough to send him to be an envoy, if he is killed indiscriminately here, it will spoil the big things.Thinking of this, Xun Yu had no choice but to suppress the anger in his heart, and persuaded the generals: "No, please stay calm. The prime minister has already ordered just now, this guy is like a mouse, if you kill the mouse , it will dirty our knives. Well, everyone should bear with it." After hearing what Xun Yu said, Mi Heng looked around the generals on the left and right with piercing eyes from the horse, and said, "Don't call me a mouse, mice are more human. But it's so pitiful, you can only It's a dung beetle, a maggot wriggling in a dung bucket." "What did you say?" Hearing the "ga" of the sword and halberd, the generals approached Mi Heng with weapons in hand.It was hard for Xun Yu to restrain the impulse of the generals. He yelled at Mi Heng angrily: "If you tell you to talk, you will talk nonsense. If you go to Jingzhou like this, you will mess things up? If you don't have the ability, you will Come back quickly, do you want to leave a great shame to the prime minister?" The soldiers gathered together and laughed, and Mi Heng rode a horse through them and fled directly outside the palace gate.Should I go straight to Jingzhou now, or just go home and run away and hide?At first he hesitated, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that he couldn't escape, because there were two or three soldiers closely following behind him.Not only that, his posture on the horse was also monitored by these people, and he couldn't go fast or slow, so he had to walk towards Jingzhou silently. Within a few days, Mi Heng arrived at the General's Mansion in Jingzhou. Liu Biao thought that Mi Heng was his old friend, so he met Mi Heng soon.But what he thought in his heart was "that annoying guy is here", so he naturally showed a somewhat impatient look on his face. Mi Heng's poisonous tongue has not restrained here.At the beginning, he came here as an envoy, so he greatly praised Liu Biao's virtue, but immediately satirized and ridiculed Liu Biao with his poisonous tongue, but nothing happened. Liu Biao hated him from the bottom of his heart, and thought he was talkative, so he pretended to be very polite and sent him to Jiangxia City.Jiangxia City was guarded by Liu Biao's servant Huang Zu.Huang Zu and Mi Heng also had a relationship before. Liu Biao added enthusiastically, "Huang Zu also wants to meet Mr. Jiangxia. The scenery in Jiangxia is good, and the wine is also good. You will be very happy if you go there for a few days." Later, someone questioned Liu Biao: "During your stay in Jingzhou, I served him by his side. To be honest, this man is not polite to you at all. To put it harshly, his language is immoral. He is used to talking nonsense with a poisonous tongue. He insulted you, why didn't you kill him and send him to Jiangxia?" Liu Biao replied with a smile: "Even Cao Cao was patient and didn't kill him. There must be a reason. Cao Cao's idea must be to use my hand to kill him, Liu Biao, so he sent him to Jingzhou as an envoy, right? If I kill You Heng , Cao Cao will definitely spread maliciously to the world that Liu Biao of Jingzhou killed a wise and wise man. Of course no one will fall for his tricks. Cao Cao is indeed a cunning guy. Haha!"