Chapter 33 11. The worst enemy is often the best teacher

After coming out of the post house, Sima Yi still walked towards the street with his head bowed like an ordinary soap servant. From the end of this street, he turned into an alley next to him. The mansion is gone. As soon as he stepped on the bluestone floor in the alley, Sima Yi felt a chill coming from behind like a knife's edge! He must be on his feet, took a deep breath, and then turned around slowly - sure enough, Du He and his four servants were coming from the entrance of the alley with a murderous look! "Du...Du Hejun, you...you..." There was a hint of timidity in Sima Yi's eyes.

Du He was like a cat that has finally driven a mouse into a dead corner, with a triumphant smile on his face: "My uncle is the one who is better at chess! - He predicted that you will come to the inspector secretly these few nights Let the adults sue us for the black case! Sima Yi! Now being caught by Du Mou—what else do you have to say?" Sima Yi seemed a little panicked: "I'm afraid Du Jun has misunderstood a little...it was the inspector who specially summoned me to discuss the next step of garrisoning the fields and reassuring the people..." "Oh? You, Sima Yi, have a lot of face! The patrol envoy wants to summon you to discuss business matters?" Du He said coldly, "Just now my uncle also came to ask to see Mr. Yang—he replied like this:' Mu Ye closes the house and does not accept visitors.'... How about this, Mr. Lao Sima, you go to my uncle's mansion and explain clearly what the patrol envoy talked about tonight!"

Following his words, the four servants of the Du family drew out their sharp knives from their waists, and with fierce eyes, they stepped forward step by step! "Wait a minute!" Sima Yi yelled loudly, his face straightened, and he said sternly, "Du He! You dare to commit crimes recklessly. If you have this 'black hand' against me tonight, aren't you afraid that the inspectors will track you down tomorrow morning and you won't be able to spare you?" "Master Inspector? Hehe, now I, Du, respectfully call him 'Master'," Du He's smile became even colder, "If he wants to meddle in his own business tomorrow, we guarantee that he will not be any 'Master'." I will only become like you, a dead body in a corner that no one will know!"

As he spoke, he waved his hands to the four servants again, and the four servants had already jumped six feet in front of Sima Yi, screamed strangely, and swung their sharp knives to strike straight at him! At this moment, a gray shadow flashed across the sky like lightning - just heard the muffled sound of "bang bang bang", and the four servants were beaten upside down like rolling melons Three or four feet away, one by one fell to the ground and cried for their father and mother, like a mangy dog ​​whose spine was broken and could not get up again! "Who?" Du He was so horrified that even his voice trembled: he saw Niu Jin, a small yamen servant who usually does not show much, descending from the sky, standing there with his fists crossed shoulders, and his whole body was as vigorous as a tiger or a leopard. The strength made his legs go limp under the pressure, and he was about to kneel down tremblingly!

At this moment, Sima Yi also seemed to be a different person, standing there awe-inspiringly, with a serious expression on his face: "Such a fool actually wants to assassinate the patrol envoy to cover up his heinous crime? Niu Jin! Take him and his minions, and follow me to Liang Junwei's mansion..." With a loud bang, the wooden door of Du's study was kicked by Niu Jin and flew away. With a bang, it fell in front of the desk in the study, causing dust to rise up! Behind the desk, Du Chuan was sitting on the seat, letting the door panel fall in front of his eyes, standing still, lowering his head and slowly drinking the fine wine in the silver jug ​​on the desk, quietly looking at the bright silver wine on the spout. The thread poured out and poured into the boxwood amphora in front of me.

Sima Yi stepped into the room slowly, stepped on the flying wooden door, stood still, and then bowed down and saluted: "Dujun Cheng——Sima Yi is very polite." Du Chuan just watched the level of wine in the boxwood double-eared cup rise higher and higher, a smile slowly broke out on his stiff face, he grinned slightly and said, "Mr. Sima is worthy of having read the classics of sages and You are a great Confucian! Those great sages have taught you so well—even when you are about to take out a knife and chop off the head of me, Du Bending down and bowing! Only when you play scheming to this extent can you be truly superior!"

Listening to Du Chuan's sarcasm, Sima Yi didn't show any strange expression on his face.As if Du Chuan was narrating other people's affairs, he was indifferent.However, this inexplicable indifference made Du Chuan feel the pain of being deeply stabbed - he decided to try his best to frustrate this humble and submissive man with a pretentious personality in his bones before he died. Sima Yi's arrogance.So, he slowly raised his eyes from the cup, glared at Sima Yi fiercely, and said bitterly: "However, Sima Yi, don't be too complacent. I, Du, didn't lose to you, but lost to you." In the hands of our disappointing General Yuan..."

Then, he looked up to the sky and let out a long sigh, looked at the roof of the tall study, and murmured: "General Yuan missed us! He missed us! He has already received the urgent letter from us and the military affairs of the whole county of Hanoi. On the map of the Xingsheng Fortress, we only need to send out a team of fine cavalry to attack you suddenly, and catch you by surprise, and we will be able to solve the problem we are waiting for today! Alas! Unexpectedly, General Yuan acted with hesitation, hesitation, and hesitation. Not daring to make such a decision, it’s really 'not knowing how to take advantage of the opportunity, not knowing how to take advantage of the power'!——It’s really annoying!"

As he spoke, he took out a stack of land deeds and a few letters of appointment stamped with the general's seal from his pocket, and tore them into pieces: "The painstaking efforts of my Du family in Hanoi for several years are all due to him today." Because of his indecision, he was ruined at once, Du is really not convinced! Not convinced!" "Du Juncheng, please forgive me for not agreeing with you." Sima Yi raised his eyebrows, and finally spoke in a deep voice, interrupting Du Chuan's nagging, "The predicament you are in today has already been planned by me. Among them——Yuan Shao is originally an unreliable ice peak, once the scorching sun rises, it will melt into nothingness, but you, Du Juncheng, have too many unrealistic fantasies and expectations on him, so naturally you will be defeated today!"

When he spoke up to this point, he saw that Du Chuan was still squinting with dissatisfaction on his face, so he said in a deep voice: "Cheng Du Jun, in fact, you are cunning, cunning, and ruthless enough to act as an official, but unfortunately you are not smart enough—— If you are an official, if you are not very smart, you will be in danger of neglecting details, but this can be bridged; however, if you are not very wise, you will be in danger of annihilation of the whole situation, and even a wise man will not be able to save it! Du Juncheng lost his wisdom , Of course it was a wrong step, and the whole game was lost!"

"Smart?" Du Chuan gave him a cold look, and laughed dryly, "Du has asked Sima Jun for advice here. Tell me, how can I be so smart in this game of chess?" "The so-called magnificence does not have any mysterious meaning. Everyone sees its smallness, but I only see its bigness; everyone sees its nearness, but I only see its distance; everyone sees its end, but I alone see it It's the essence; everyone sees one, but I only see the second—this is brilliance!" Sima Yi remained calm and continued to talk, "The general situation in the world is already very unfavorable to Yuan Shao. Do you know—— Recently, under the persuasion of his counselor Jia Xu, Zhang Xiu, the rebel from Xiliang, has led all 40,000 elite soldiers to surrender to Cao Sikong? The royal uncle, Xuzhou Mu Liu Bei, also brought Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and other powerful generals to join him Xu Du? The injection of these two major boosts has greatly increased the strength of Cao Sikong's command! Faced with such a situation, Yuan Shaoyan dared to go to war in order to win a mere Hanoi county? He can't send troops to rescue you. An obvious thing that can be understood after thinking about it—I didn’t expect Du Juncheng to ignore it all the time, maybe he was dazzled by the Yuan brothers’ delicious wine, food and gold and silver treasures? You are too greedy , ignorant of small interests, not even such an understanding of the overall situation, how can it be called brilliant? Are you convinced or not?" "You keep attacking Du as 'too greedy and ignorant of small gains', and you are at a loss," Du Chuan said angrily, "Don't tell me that Du himself doesn't understand that all of this is because you are pressing every step of the way. It just made Du mess up... Sima Yi! Du really doesn't understand, you come from a Confucian family, you don't need to use our piles of bones as your stepping stones, isn't Chen Qun from Yingchuan County also able to climb in both ways? Have you gone up? Why are you fighting against us?" "The reason here is beyond the comprehension of a petty traitor like you." Sima Yi stared at him coldly, with pride in his eyes, "I'm telling you right now, and it's like saying it in vain. .” "Hmph! Could it be that you did this for the sake of Liu Yin and his untouchables?" Du Chuan gritted his teeth, showing a fierce look, "How much benefit can they give you? Can they push you to a high position in the court? They can let you Soaring to the top?" "Benefiting the times, eradicating violence and bringing peace to the people are my Sima Yi's aspirations to enter the officialdom." Sima Yi said sternly, without changing his face, "Your purpose is to embezzle and bribe the common people. This is the biggest difference between me and you. " "Alas! Other people's ambitions of 'recovering the times, helping the world, eradicating tyranny and bringing peace to the people' are all talked about for others to hear. I never thought that you, Sima Yi, would do it as a serious matter... Sigh! I, Du Chuan It's really unlucky, how did you come across such a scheming, paranoid and stubborn nerd like you? God is going to kill me, and I deserve to be killed!" Du Chuan was so angry that he beat his chest and stamped his feet, howling, "You today! You framed me, and you killed me easily with a knife handed to you by others. If I, Du, did not get involved with the relatives of the Yuan family in Jizhou to do things, but with the relatives of Cao Sikong whom you are loyal to What do you dare to do to me at this time? How dare you do to them? Sima Yi——I don't believe that when you are Du's age today, you will still truly believe in what you told Du here today Words. Remember to Du Mou: Du Mou will keep staring at you in the underworld to see if you have insisted on these great principles all your life!" When Sima Yi heard this, he suddenly didn't want to continue the conversation with him.He smiled coldly, turned around, left Du Chuan to scold father and mother behind his back, and walked slowly towards the study. As soon as he turned around, Niu Jin rushed past him with two yamen servants, and went to arrest Na Du Chuan. Sima Yi didn't turn his head to look at his grotesque struggle and bite, but secretly said in the deepest part of his heart: Du Juncheng!Actually, you don’t know—I, Sima Yi, thank you so much!It is you, let me see how despicable the opponent in the officialdom is; it is you, let me see how cunning the opponent in the officialdom is; it is you, let me understand how cruel fighting in the officialdom is; You, let me learn how to intrigue, bend and retreat in the officialdom... At the beginning of my official career, I met a "teacher" like you who taught me so many things that I couldn't learn from the sage classics. Lucky!In fact, I will always be very grateful to you...