Chapter 71 Section 2: The Hermit of the Drum Basin at Xiaoyao Peak

At dawn the next day, the three of them left the chariot and horse riders at the mountain pass and walked into the valley.Zhang Yi's legs and feet were slightly inconvenient, so Lord Mengchang and Lord Chunshen agreed that Yinghua Feiyun would accompany him to take care of her.After coming here overnight, Zhang Yi's mood improved a lot, talking and laughing as usual, and the road was greatly relaxed. Turning along the stream in the valley and passing through three mountain bends, a lone peak stands abruptly in front of you! This solitary peak is really strange. In winter, the mountain is full of verdant birds and flowers, and a waterfall hangs on the mountainside like flying pearls and jade, just like a towering green tree in the pale yellow mountains.Zhang Yi exclaimed: "This mountain has a strange phenomenon! Zhuangzi must be on this mountain." Meng Changjun laughed and said: "Yes, Zhuangzi is in this mountain." Chunshen Jun laughed and said: "Oh, do you know now? The Chu people with a radius of hundreds of miles call this mountain Xiaoyao Peak." Zhang Yi laughed and said, "Xiaoyao Peak? Good! Zhuangzi is writing an article called "Xiaoyaoyou", which is really fascinating to read." Mr. Mengchang said loudly He began to chant: "There is a fish in the north, and its name is Kun. Kun is so big, I don't know how many thousands of miles away it is. It turns into a bird, and its name is Peng. The back of the Peng, I don't know how many thousands of miles away it is. It flies in anger, Its wings are like clouds hanging from the sky..." Zhang Yi said with a smile: "This kind of scene cannot be seen unless you travel far and wide, and you can't see it unless you are on the top of Kunlun and above the sky. Zhuangzi is not a human being, but a fairy. Also." Chun Shenjun couldn't help laughing: "Oh, brother Zhang explained it wonderfully! I'll go and see this fairy brother later. Come, come with me."

Climb up the isolated peak from a narrow path, and you will see a thatched hut on the sunny slope of the mountain, with a wisp of cooking smoke floating in the high blue sky.Going up to a ridge in front of them, several people saw the hut, but they all stopped in surprise—— A large black earthen pot and half a roasted wild goat hung brightly red on a large fire ignited by a pile of dead branches.A young man in loose clothes sat in front of the fire pit, silently adding firewood to the fire and stoking the fire.Beside the fire pit is green grass, and a naked woman is actually lying in the middle of a mountain of flowers piled up with flowering branches!Looking carefully, the mountain of flowers is piled on top of a layer of white firewood.There was another person sitting in front of Huashan, the color of the coarse cloth robe was gone, but the long hair in the shawl was gray and messy.There was a large wine jar beside him, and the faint aroma of wine wafted over with the wind.Even from the back, it can be seen that he is singing while knocking on a tattered earthen pot. The melodious and hoarse singing voice can't tell whether it's happiness or sadness, but it makes several people go crazy:

"Madam is dead, and he still drums and sings?" Ying Hua asked in a low voice. But Zhang Yi let out a long sigh: "Death is life, so great is Zhuangzi!" Mr. Mengchang said in a low voice: "One step too late, Mrs. Zhuangzi has gone, and I will accompany the sacrifice here." The clothed man let out a high-pitched groan, stood up, picked up the wine jar and sprinkled it around the flower mountain, then poured all the leftover wine on the flower mountain, raised his arms and shouted to the naked woman in the flower bushes: "Ma'am——, you have finally escaped the suffering of the world, and all the sorrows have dissipated like the wind! Go happily, you have merged with everything in the world—!" After saying that, she bowed deeply.The young man by the fire picked up a blazing firewood, walked over and handed it to him.

The commoner raised his torch and calmly stretched it towards the piece of firewood under Huashan Mountain.A cluster of flames sprang up, and gradually, the firewood ignited, and the mountain of flowers ignited, and the raging flames engulfed the mountain of flowers and the naked woman who was sleeping peacefully.The civilians stood silently in front of the fireworks that drifted with the wind, neither crying nor laughing until the raging flames turned into light blue smoke. "Hey! He actually burned his wife..." Fei Yun was terrified. Zhang Yi said in a low voice, "This is called cremation, and that's how Master Mo Zi ascended to heaven."

"Oh, Lord Mengchang," Jun Shen exclaimed in a low voice, "He's leaving? Look!" I saw the commoner coming out of the thatched hut, carrying a green cloth bundle on his back, and a green bamboo stick in his hand.The young man by the fire smiled and knelt in front of the civilian: "Teacher, do you really want to go alone?" Time?" The young man said with a smile, "Teacher, aren't you afraid that Lin Qie will come after you again?" The clothed man laughed and said, "If you can do it, you can't do it, if you can't do it, you can do it. What you want is what it is not, not what it is. , but how do I know?" The young man respectfully bowed three times, but his voice choked up: "Teacher, take care."

The clothed man laughed and left, singing along with the wind: "The wind rises from the north, wandering in the sky, the heavens are so lucky, six poles and five constants..." "Oh, Mr. Mengchang, I went after him and came back!" Chunshen Jun strode forward and chased after the clothed man. But the young man in front of the hut stood in front of him, wiped his tears and said with a smile: "Chun Shenjun, it's useless, the teacher's heart has already left." Chun Shenjun stopped in a daze, sighed and shouted at the mountain : "Brother Zhuang Zhou—! We are waiting for you—!"

The valley breeze is blowing, and a burst of laughter swayed in the empty mountain, and finally drifted away. Zhang Yi has been standing silently, and there is a blank in the bottom of her heart.Jun Mengchang smiled and said, "Brother Zhang, go and see Linqie, Zhuangzi has left him as the only student." When he came to the hut, the young man smiled bitterly and said, "Mr. Mengchang, I still haven't kept the teacher." Mr. Meng Chang sighed: "Lin Qi, sir is gone, you can go to Jixia Academy." Lin Qi shook his head: "No, I want to sort out the teacher's manuscript." Chun Shen Jun said with a smile: "Oh, Lin Besides, you are really confused. Mr. Mengchang invited you to Jixia Academy, in order to let you have no worries about food and clothing, and better organize your manuscripts." Lin Qie smiled and said: "Leaving this Mengshan Xiaoyao Peak, there will be no read the teacher's article."

"But why?" Meng Changjun was surprised. Lin Qi said with a smile: "The teacher doesn't value articles at all. When I go there, I write one on a whim. Some are carved on tree trunks, some are written on rocks, some are still written on pottery pots, and some are not yet written. Do you know where it is written? I have to search in the mountains every day, and some of them have not been copied, and the handwriting cannot be read clearly..." "Hey! There are words here!" Fei Yun, who was wandering around, suddenly exclaimed in surprise. Several people went over to take a look, only to see clear handwriting engraved on a half-withered bamboo pole!Lin Qie smiled and said: "This is when the teacher's mother was seriously ill. The teacher couldn't go far, so I walked around here every day and wrote it down." Meng Changjun couldn't help walking along the bamboo pole and said: "The most important thing in the world is books. Books But words, words are valuable. The most valuable thing in words is the meaning. The meaning can not be conveyed in words. But the world is expensive in words and books. Although the world is expensive in books, I am not worth it. You also... Those who know don't speak, and those who speak don't know. Sad husband, the world doesn't know it..." While reading, Mr. Mengchang stopped.

"Oh, what's the point? Without books, how can there be learning?" But Zhang Yi smiled: "Zhuangzi's original intention, I think, is in these few words: books are not as valuable as thoughts, and the meaning cannot be expressed in words. In the end, it is to make people think and think deeply, and don't speak rashly." Lin Qi said with a smile, "Mr. is indeed a wise man, and the teacher also said so." Jun Mengchang laughed: "Lin Qi, how about we live here with this wise man today?" "Of course it's done!" Lin Qie smiled happily: "Everyone wait a moment, I'm going to get the seats." Then he entered the hut, took out a stack of straw mats, handed one to each person, and went to pick up another A large rough pottery pot and a stack of large rough pottery bowls poured a bowl of bright red herbal tea for each person.Several people sat around the fire pit, and Lord Mengchang said: "Lin Qie, we just heard that your teacher's mother was ill, so I came to visit you specially, why did you go so suddenly?" Lin Qie sighed and his eye circles turned red: "Ms. After working hard for many years, I had a chronic illness, but I didn’t tell the teacher. The teacher was careless and inadvertent, and only thought it was just a minor illness due to cold and heat. He went to the mountains every day to pick herbs...I didn’t think about the three o’clock the day before yesterday, so I went suddenly.”

Everyone sighed, but Zhang Yi said with a smile: "Madam passed away, Zhuangzi sang with drums, and Huashan cremated. This kind of business situation is beyond human comprehension. We will follow Zhuangzi's temperament, and see Madam's death Be happy Zuo Dasheng." "Brother Zhang's words are true!" Meng Changjun laughed and said, "Lin Qi, what do you think?" "That should be the case. It turns out that Lin Qie's talent is poor, and it is difficult to catch up with the teacher Gaoyuan, just like the sparrow and Kunpeng in the canopy." With a single word, everyone actually laughed.Lord Mengchang and Lord Chunshen took off the wine bags they carried with them, and Fei Yun also took off the wine bags Zhang Yi prepared for Zhuangzi, and poured the remaining tea in the pottery bowls one by one, using tea bowls as wine bowls, and they drank stand up.At this time, Lin Qie served a large piece of bone-in mutton on a large wooden plate, and a strong smell of meat permeated the air.Chun Shenjun was surprised and said: "Oh, Lin Qie is good at hunting, can he hunt?" Lin Qie smiled and said: "Chun Shen Jun didn't know that when the teacher's wife was seriously ill, the sheep lay down in front of the hut for three days and three nights. Just don’t leave. The teacher said, it’s a gift from God, it’s the best sheep. I went to catch it, but the sheep didn’t move. The teacher roasted half of the sheep for the teacher, but the teacher just smelled it and left. ..." As he spoke, Lin Qi's eye circles turned red again.

Everyone was silent for a while, Yinghua Feiyun turned her head away.It was Meng Changjun who said with a smile: "Brother Zhang, I don't know. Zhuangzi's adventures and strange things are so many that ordinary people can't imagine." Zhang Yi looked at Lin and smiled and said: "I just don't understand. Different from ordinary people, why do you have disciples accompanying you?" Jun Mengchang smiled with great interest: "I don't know about this either, Lin Qi, how about you tell me?" "Oh, Lin Qi, I only heard Brother Zhuang say that you were forced on him by heaven. What happened?" "That's right, the teacher didn't want to take me in originally..." Lin Qie looked at the distant mountains and told a strange story intermittently: At the age of eight, Lin Qie's craftsman father was killed because the axle of the chariot he built broke off, and his mother, sister and him became slaves of officials of a Handan family.Mother and elder sister wash and cook for the masters, while Xiao Lin temporarily does chores for the groom.But in less than a year, the official owner of this family died in battle. The monarch did not reward him, and there was no pension in the army. With the loss of the owner, Lin Qie's family was lost to the market and became beggars.That day, Xiao Linqie was running around begging in the streets of Handan, not wanting to run into the government official Chashi, so he ran away in a hurry and knocked down an oncoming scholar. "My lord, please forgive me, I really didn't see it." Xiao Linqie grabbed the ground, got up and ran. "Little brother, don't run away." The scholar got up from the ground and said with a smile: "If you bump into it, hit it, why are you afraid of me?" "It's not my lord, the city officials are after me." Xiao Lin's frightened eyes rolled around. The scholar smiled and said, "Don't be afraid, come with me." He took Xiao Linqie's hand and walked quickly into a wine shop. The scholar invited Xiao Lin to have a full meal, and finally said with a smile: "Little brother, if you have a lot of money, how do you want to use it?" "First get rid of the slave status of mother and sister, and then make a living by yourself." Xiao Linqie replied without hesitation. "Okay, you come with me." The scholar put on a big bamboo hat, pulled Xiao Lin and came to the most lively north gate of Handan: "Little brother, go and look at the portrait on the city wall. It’s gone.” Xiao Lin ran over to look at it for a while, and then ran back: “That portrait, is it an adult?” The scholar said with a smile: “Little brother is really smart, come here, listen to me.” The scholar took Xiao Lin Qia pulls to a secluded place and says: "Go to the government right now, just say that you know where the person on the picture is, and then take them to the wine shop just now, and I will go with them. Then you can get a hundred gold, and then go Just do your thing." Xiao Linqie silently rolled his eyes and lowered his head: "I don't want that kind of money." He turned around and left. But the scholar chased after him: "Hey little brother, you and I have a discussion, how about we both have food?" "You don't have anything to eat?" Xiao Linqiu's eyes widened in surprise. "There is a short meal, but no long meal, understand?" Seeing Xiao Linqie nodded, the scholar said again: "Look, I'm going with them to eat fish, meat and drink in the big palace. You have money , you can also eat fish, eat meat and drink alcohol. The hatchback is so convenient.” "Then it's good for you to find them yourself, what do you want me to do?" "Little brother, you don't understand." The scholar said in a low voice, "I'll go by myself, I'll lose face. I have to ask them to invite me, so I can eat in style, understand?" Xiao Lin smiled, and went to the palace gate to report to the officials, led a team of chariots and horses to pick up the scholar, and got a reward of one hundred for himself.The family got rid of the official status and opened a small restaurant in Handan.Later, when Lin Qie grew up, he heard a clerk who often visited his wine shop say: The commoner man named Zhuang Zhou who he prosecuted was very knowledgeable and often talked about swordsmanship in the world; Zhao Hou also loved swordsmanship and swordsmen. , Naturally, I also want to see Zhuang Zhou who talks about swords.The scribe said vividly: "I couldn't find this Zhuang Zhou for several years, so Marquis Zhao came up with this method of arresting him. Hey, I don't think it will be effective immediately, and it will be on you, a little beggar! Lin Qi, you Good luck." From then on, Lin Qie had the name Zhuang Zhou in his heart, and the figure that year was shaking in his heart all day long, even in his dreams it was that figure.He asked scholars when he saw them, but no one knew where Zhuang Zhou was?When Lin Qie was 18 years old, a few traveling scholars were discussing an article that had been copied all over the world in his wine shop, talking about Zhuangzi.Lin Qie immediately stepped forward to salute, "May I ask you, is Zhuangzi Mr. Zhuang Zhou?" You Xueshi was very surprised: "Yes! You also know Zhuangzi's name?" Lin Qie asked again: "Sir, do you know that Zhuangzi lives now?" Where?" The scholars all shook their heads, and one of them suddenly laughed and said, "I heard someone say that it seems to be in the state of Chu. Why, my little brother wants to learn from Zhuangzi as a teacher?" And it was serious and loud: "Exactly." A few scholars laughed loudly. As soon as Lin Qie talked to his mother and sister, he sold the restaurant, bought a mulberry field in the countryside of Handan and built two thatched huts.Zhao Guo, Wei Guo, South Korea, and Chu Guo searched all the way, and they ran out of money in half a year.But Lin didn't look back, and begged while doing hard work for others. After three years of hard work, he finally found Zhuangzi in a lacquer garden in Mengyi, Song Dynasty.At that time, Zhuangzi was working as a small official in the lacquer garden. Seeing Lin Qie had worked so hard to find him, he was amazed and left him as a lacquer garden craftsman, but he refused to accept him as a disciple.Lin Qie was not in a hurry, apart from working silently all day long, he paid attention to the words Zhuangzi swayed everywhere, collecting and cherishing them one by one.Three years later, Zhuangzi stopped working as a lacquer garden official and moved to the mountains.At that time, Lin Qie was already a well-known painter in the lacquer garden, Zhuangzi told Lin Qie to work hard, save a sum of money to go back to honor his mother, and then he drove away with his wife and some bundles in an ox cart. When he arrived at Mount Meng, Zhuangzi was surprised to find the help of God when he was building the thatched hut: he built a wall that was half a person high during the day, but it suddenly became a person high overnight!When there was no more firewood to burn, there was a pile of neatly chopped firewood under the wall!Mrs. Zhuangzi was very clever, and she persuaded with a smile: "Husband, you should accept Lin Qie. I think he is just like you, and he is a child of infatuation." Zhuangzi smiled and said: "Lin Qie is in the lacquer garden How do you collect it?" The lady laughed and said, "No, he's in the mountains, try calling out a few times?" Zhuangzi then shouted loudly: "Lin Qi——, where are you—? Come out ——!" The voice was still echoing in the valley, and Lin Qie was already standing in front of Zhuangzi. "Lin Qi? Where are you?" "I'm in the mountains." "What are you doing in the mountains?" "Listen to the conversation between the teacher and the world." Lin Qi said, and then he took out a piece of soft and white tree bark from his bosom, on which was the charcoal characters "Xiaoyaoyou"!Zhuangzi laughed loudly: "Okay, okay, heaven and earth want to keep Zhuang Zhou, but they sent Lin Qie!" In this way, Lin Qie became Zhuangzi's only student. Everyone sighed, and Zhang Yi sighed: "It's still Zhuangzi who said it well. The world wants to leave Zhuangzi, so there is Lin Qie! What else can I say except God's will?" Mr. Mengchang thought for a while and laughed: "Lin Qie When Brother Zhuang is here, I can’t ask him to come out of the mountain, and I don’t want to help him. Now that he is away, you will bear the burden of spreading Zhuangzi. In my opinion, you will be an outside student of Jixia Academy, I tell you The Academy will set up a courtyard here for you, and give you two stones of Lumi every month, and you can just collect and compile Zhuangzi’s articles at ease." Chunshenjun clapped his hands repeatedly: "Oh, what a great idea! Why didn’t I think of it? If you don’t want to go to Jixia Academy, I’ll let the State of Chu take care of you?” Lin Qie smiled and said, “It’s Jixia Academy, but you have to listen to me.” Lord Mengchang said with emotion: “You don’t want to I said it." Lin Qie said: "Three years is the limit. After three years, I will leave a copy to Jixia Academy, and I will go looking for a teacher." Meng Changjun sighed and nodded silently.Everyone had mixed feelings when they heard it, but they were in a trance and couldn't tell what it was like.