Chapter 69 Chapter Five: The Song of Plucking Weeds on Shouyang Mountain

"The girl from Sanshan Pass is someone you know, right?" On a rainy mountain afternoon, Wu Huan and Dai Li went through Jieshouyang Mountain in Jiepai Pass, and were sheltering from the sudden heavy rain under a giant tree. Suddenly, the dumbfounded mountain dog asked such a question for no reason. question. With a smile on his face, Wu Huan nodded as he looked at this old friend he had known since childhood. In the world, there are many people you have to face with a false face, but the ones who can really make you speak frankly are the real friends. "I asked you once, what it's really like to be human, didn't I?"

Wu Huan nodded: "Yes." "What about the lover? What does it feel like to fall in love with someone?" Unexpectedly, Dai Li would ask this question, Wu Huan slightly surprised. "I've heard of such things, and it's not surprising." Dai Li showed a naive smile again, "When I was a mountain dog, I never thought of such a thing, because I think mountain dogs don't have love and love. The problem of not loving, only people have such troubles.” Wuhuan laughed loudly: "Where did you learn so many strange things? How do you know if the mountain dog has a love problem?"

"Don't laugh, I'm serious," Dai Li said solemnly, "Because I haven't been a real 'human', that's why I'm asking you these things." "Then tell me, when you were a mountain dog, why did you know that mountain dogs would not have the problem of 'love' or 'dislike'?" "That's very simple. Do you think that when I was on Chaoge Mountain, I just hang out with you all day? Of course I also made out with the female mountain dog on the mountain." Wu Huan was a little dazed. Thinking about the topic of conversation between the two of them at this moment, it must be an unprecedented experience throughout the ages, right?

But then again, Dai Li, who used to be a beast in the mountains and forests, has now become a monster that is quite close to humans. But by chance, I was able to listen to the mental journey of this race with my own ears. I have this opportunity There shouldn't be many people there, right? Therefore, Wuhuan put away her joking mood and listened carefully to what Dai Li said. "I think, when I was a mountain dog, if I wanted to be with a female mountain dog, I would find one on the mountain. After venting, I would never miss her again. It's as simple as that." Dai Li said with a smile: "But Now that I have turned into an adult, I think a lot, but I also know that finding a partner is not as simple as being a human being."

Wu Huan nodded, agreeing with him. "Just take the girl from Sanshan Pass as an example. I think she seems to hate you very much, but she seems to care about you very much. I saw everything that happened that day. She never left her eyes from the beginning to the end. On your body, but when talking to you, it seems to be gnashing teeth, wishing to bite you to death before being reconciled." "How could it be?" Wu Huan said pretending to be silly, "Maybe she really hates me!" Dai Li thought about it, and nodded naively. "In this way, it's very possible, right?" As he spoke, he asked earnestly, "How can we tell whether she likes you or hates you between people?"

Wu Huan thought about it, and always felt that such an eternally difficult problem, if he had to explain it to someone like Dai Li, it would probably be an "eternally difficult" unsolvable mystery, right? But he and Dai Li are such close friends, it would be unreasonable not to answer his words. After pondering for a long time, Wu Huan said slowly: "When you hate someone, you don't want to see him very much, or you really want to see him, but when you really see him, you hope that you can use him All the cruelest methods to torture him,” Wu Huan said leisurely: “Sometimes, you will think of him all the time, see what you can associate with, even when you breathe, eat, and sleep, you will think of him.”

Dai Li listened to his description in a daze, half understanding, and after a while, he nodded blankly. "Then..." he asked unrelentingly, "what about loving someone?" Wu Huan smiled, thinking that this was an easy question to answer, but after thinking about it in his mind, he was a little stunned and speechless for a while. Dai Li shook his hand anxiously, and asked, "Hurry up! Aren't you going to tell me what it's like to love someone?" Wu Huan was stunned for a while, but the same blank expression as Dai Li appeared on his face. "The feeling of loving someone is the same as what I just told you, the feeling of hating someone..." He said clearly word by word: "It's exactly the same."

Dai Li opened his mouth wide in surprise, he wanted to ask something, but as if he had been surprised, his throat made a whining sound. It seems that although it has transformed into a human form, some habits of being a dog are difficult to change for a while.Wu Huan followed his wary eyes and found that in the heavy rain, there were indeed two figures approaching them. When the two people got closer, they realized that they were two old men in coir raincoats. The faces of the two old people were vaguely similar, and they were about the same age. They looked very frail, and one of them was still coughing continuously.

Wu Huan carefully examined their appearance and made sure that they were not incarnations of ghosts who threatened others, so she said softly, "You two old men, please." One of the old people hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "Your brother, you don't need to be too polite. We just came here to shelter from the rain. We live together in the same place. It's a predestined relationship. If there is any inconvenience, please forgive me." Wu Huan listened to his words in a gentle and polite way, and his diction was very elegant. He got a good impression in his heart, and said with a smile: "You are welcome, old man. My name is Sang Yang Wu Huan. This is my friend, surnamed Dai. , a single name with the word "Li."

The coughing old man calmed down a little at this time, nodded to the two, but his voice was a little hoarse: "We are brothers, from Chaoge City, my name is Boyi, and that is my younger brother Shuqi." Wu Huan nodded with a smile. He had heard the names of these two old men occasionally in Chaoge City when he was a boy, and knew that they were famous sages in the Shang and Zhou dynasties. "Wu Huan often hears about the reputation of the two adults, but aren't the two officials in the court? How did they come to such a poor place?" Boyi let out a long sigh, sighed a little louder, and then coughed uncontrollably, and Shuqi shook his head sadly.A sad look appeared on his face.

"It's only because the current King Zhou trusts villains and rejects loyalty, and the two of us really disdain to be with the gangsters in the court, so we live in seclusion on Shouyang Mountain!" Wu Huan had heard of such a situation countless times in the rumors of the current Shang Dynasty government, and knew that there were more loyal officials who ended up dying just because they spoke directly to King Zhou. But apart from sighing with the two old people, I really don't know what to say. "There is no way in the world! There is no way in the world!" The old man Boyi sighed for a while, and as he spoke, tears streamed down his wrinkled old face, "It's only suffering for the common people. As scholars, we don't know what to do. Is good……" Wu Huan thought for a while, and said casually: "But I don't know, are the two adults familiar with the Zhou family in Xiqi? If you want to show your ambition, maybe you can try to switch to Xiqi." As soon as Wu Huan said these words, she immediately regretted it, because the two old men were originally looking old and mentally ill, but when Wu Huan mentioned the word "Xiqi", their faces changed immediately, and at the same time they looked more like Accidentally uncovered the boiling water, and the sword was on the verge of breaking out. The old man Boyi stared sideways at Wuhuan, and said coldly, "But I don't know that your Excellency is from Xiqizhong, what relationship do you have with that Jichang?" Dai Li watched the two old men speak well, but for some reason he suddenly became angry, and wanted to speak, but was stopped by Wu Huan. "The two of us have nothing to do with Xi Qi," Wu Huan said with a smile, "Only a few friends live in the Zhou clan's kingdom." "That's the case, there is a big problem!" Another old man, Uncle Qi, said angrily, "The Zhou clan bullied the emperor and didn't abide by the etiquette. Everyone should respect and stay away!" At this time, Dai Li couldn't bear it anymore, and said loudly, "Didn't you say that King Zhou treated you badly? Why do you still think he is a king?" "Mountain dog" Dai Li's personality is quite straightforward, and he doesn't speak too carefully. He also forgot for a moment that he was going to join Shang Zhou's camp, so he blurted out a sentence to Boyi and Shuqi. Wu Huan frowned, knowing that these two stubborn old gentlemen would definitely lose their temper.Sure enough, the old man Boyi trembled a little with anger, and shouted: "It's a treason! It's a treason!" "Ignorant children, don't you know that the ancients said: 'A son does not speak of his father's faults, and a minister does not reveal the evil of the emperor'. I have only heard of using virtue to influence the king, but I have never heard of the following! Now, although my king There are some immoral things, but if you are a king for a day, you will be a king for life. If you want to persuade my king, you can pour out the power of the whole city and do your best to be a minister. This is the way to be a loyal minister! Openly rebelling like Xiqi What happened is simply unbearable!" With a dissatisfied look on Dai Li's face, he said loudly, "In this way, let me ask you, if King Zhou asked you to kill a good person today, would you kill him too?" "The king's order must not be disobedient. I will obey the king's order first, and then persuade me with admonishment!" "If you want to kill your son, will you kill it too?" "The king wants the subject to die, but the subject dare not die!" "If you were to kill all the good people in the city, would you kill them too?" "I will remonstrate with death!" As Dai Li was talking, a burst of anger also came, so he said loudly: "Then I think you are really sick! People want to kill you and are so happy to die, are you really so spineless?" The two old men stopped talking, and holding hands, they tremblingly left the shade of the tree and walked back into the rain. While walking, the old man Shuqi said more firmly: "The two of us live on this Shouyang Mountain, and we hope that one day we can stop the Xiqi army and show righteousness to them!" His eyes seemed to flicker with firm fire, "You guys These yellow-mouthed children, how can they understand these big right and wrong?" Dai Li still refused to admit defeat, and shouted at them from a distance: "Then what if the Zhou clan wins the world? Don't you guys stop eating? This is the rice grown by the Zhou clan!" In the heavy rain in Pangtuo, the two old men were drenched, but their voices were as firm as a rock. "If there is such a day, my two brothers would rather eat weeds from the mountains than eat a grain of millet from the Zhou Dynasty!" Wu Huan quietly listened to Dai Li's argument with them, watched the two old men's backs in the rain, was stunned for a while, and finally couldn't help shaking her head. "What a strange old man." In the end, Dai Li said sincerely: "How can anyone let others slaughter him?" Wu Huan also nodded. "'The king wants the minister to die, but the minister dare not die', what a strange idea." On Shouyang Mountain, two strangers who grew up in the forest looked at the heavy rain in Pangtuo, thinking about unsolvable problems in the rain, but they didn't know that in the thousands of years after them, this seemingly absurd phenomenon The idea turned out to be a general rule, a correct idea.As long as someone dares to refute, it may even bring great disaster and disaster to oneself. After the two old men Boyi and Shuyi won the world in the Zhou Dynasty, they did not eat a mouthful of Zhou millet all their lives, but only lived by picking weeds from the mountains, and finally starved to death on Shouyang Mountain. This is of course an afterthought. After meeting Boyi and Shuqi on Shouyang Mountain, Wuhuan and Dai Li finally arrived at their destination: Mengjin after climbing several hills.