"Sir, why is the teaching place in the academy here called Minglun Hall?"
"Xia is called Xiao, Yin is called Xu, and Zhou is called Itchy. The three generations of learning share it. They all understand human relations. Human relations are clear at the top, and the people are close to each other at the bottom. The word "Ming Lun" in Minglun Hall comes from here. Zi Ming Lun means enlightenment."
This sentence comes from "Mencius Tengwengong I", which means the name of the local school run in the township. It was called school in the Xia Dynasty, Xu in the Shang Dynasty, and itchi in the Zhou Dynasty. The purpose of running schools was the same in the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties. It is used to teach people about ethics and morals. As long as the princes and officials at the top understand it, the ordinary people below will unite closely.
Li Jie and Mr. Wuhen hit it off, so they agreed to travel together for a while. Today they happened to arrive at Daming Mansion. The most famous place in Daming Mansion is the 'Zhou Zi Yin Yang Stone Carvings'. There is a local proverb, if you come to Daming Mansion, you can't see the 'Zhou Zi Yin Yang Stone Carvings'. It's like coming for nothing.
The inscription is an inscription left by Zhou Shen, a great scholar of the generation, when he was giving lectures at Daming Mansion five hundred years ago. It was inscribed with Yuan Qi. Zhou Shen is known as the man closest to the great master in five hundred years. He has reached the pinnacle of martial arts and has already touched it. The threshold of the Grand Master.
Even though they are more than five hundred years apart, you can still feel the true meaning left in them through the stone carvings. Everything has yin and yang. Yin and yang have two sides. They hide each other and replace each other. You cannot fixate on one and the same. One yin and one yang are the same. No one has surpassed Zhou Shen in the understanding of Yin and Yang.
If Zhou Zi had not come into contact with the secret of the great master, the true meaning on the stone carvings would not have survived across time. Unfortunately, the true meaning on the stone carvings is still passing slowly. Although the missing parts are not obvious, the scholars of the Daming Mansion have been correct in their hearts. Everyone knows that perhaps in another hundred or two hundred years, the true meaning on the stone carvings will most likely disappear.
"There is yang in yin, yin in yang, and the energy is in harmony. Zhouzi's realm is indeed unpredictable. Five hundred years later, even if the true meaning on this stone tablet gradually fades away, it can still benefit future generations like us."
Master Wuhen looked carefully at the true meaning on the stele and seemed to have gained something. He stood in front of the inscription and closed his eyes and meditated for a long time. After realizing it, he couldn't help but feel emotional.
Li Jie came back to his senses and said with emotion: "Heaven and earth are harmonious and all things come into existence. Yin and Yang are connected and change. Zhouzi's attainments in Yin and Yang are daunting. We don't know how many years and months we will be able to understand this way."
At this time, there was a sneer from the side, and a slightly harsh sound reached the ears of the three of them.
"It's a joke, the kid with a yellow mouth is so brazen that he dares to talk about the Tao of Yin and Yang here. The Tao of Yin and Yang is the most fundamental principle between heaven and earth. If you could understand it, wouldn't you be a great master? Young people should not aim too high. You must know that there is nothing you can do without taking small steps. No matter how far you travel, you must be a down-to-earth person.”
When Li Jie heard the sound, he saw a young man dressed as a scholar in Confucian robes standing behind them. His breathing was long and he looked like he had studied martial arts. The magnanimity of Li Jie and Mr. Wuhen had long been beyond ordinary people, and they did not mock the people in front of them at all. He didn't take it to heart, but Pu Xing was not that easy to talk to. In his eyes, His Highness and Master Wuhen were both extremely powerful people and could not tolerate others' slander. He stepped forward and retorted.
"You stinky poor bastard, you really stink!"
Pu Xing compared his words to farting. How could the young man in Confucian robes bear this? His face turned red and he said angrily.
"you you you"
Pu Xing said: "What are you, you look like a scholar. Don't you know that interrupting other people's conversations is extremely impolite? Have you read all the sages' books in vain?"
After finishing speaking, without waiting for the Confucian scholar to refute, Pu Xing spoke like a machine gun without giving the other party a chance to interrupt, and continued sentence after sentence.
The Confucian scholar was half choked to death by Pu Xing's words. His face was like a cooked prawn, his white face turned red. Finally, he couldn't hide it and glared at the three of them fiercely and walked away, secretly remembering their appearance. , ready to go back and find the place again.
"Okay, everyone has gone away, why don't you stop? Pu Xing, you have changed. You were not like this in the palace."
Pu Xing smiled sheepishly and scratched his head in embarrassment: "Young Master, what this person said was so unpleasant. He actually dared to ridicule you. I just scolded him and it was already an advantage for him."
Mr. Wuhen covered his mouth and snickered beside him. Pu Xing's performance was really too funny. It was difficult for him to understand Pu Xing's thoughts due to his weak temperament, but this did not prevent him from finding it interesting.
He has never cared about these things. In his eyes, the young man in Confucian robes is just an unfamiliar stranger. Why bother to pay attention to what such a person says? It is a waste of energy. If you have that time, it is better to think about other things.
Li Jie smiled helplessly. Pu Xing had completely different personalities inside and outside the imperial city. As the saying goes, he let himself go.
"Don't pay attention to this kind of person from now on."
Upon hearing this, Pu Xing replied weakly: "Oh."
The young man in Confucian robes returned home angrily, getting angrier and angrier as he thought about it. He waved his hand to summon a servant, briefly described the appearance of Li Jie and the others, and then ordered the servants to carefully check the whereabouts of the three of them, making calculations in his mind. He was wondering how to deal with these foreigners and bullied him.
He wouldn't think about it because he was scolded because he was at fault in the first place. Anyway, he couldn't be offended.
An hour later, the servant sent to inquire about the news came back. Li Jie and the others did not hide their whereabouts at all. As local snakes, it is not easy to find out their whereabouts.
After listening to the report, the young man in Confucian robes felt a little hesitant. At this time, most of his anger had disappeared, and he was no longer angry as before. However, he couldn't swallow the breath in his chest without teaching the other party a lesson, so he pondered for a while and said.
"In this case, please tell me that no inns in the city will serve them. I will let them sleep on the streets to make it easier for them."
The boy said with a flattering smile: "Young master, there are many of you. These foreigners are really lucky to meet you."
The young man in Confucian robes waved his hand. He had long been tired of hearing these flattery words, and said impatiently: "Go and do it quickly."
The boy laughed when he heard this: "That's great. Don't worry, young master. I, Ah Fu, guarantee that they won't find any inn that will take them in today."
"Sir, I'm sorry, our store is full."
"Sir, the seats are full!"
"Sir, there are no spare rooms in our hotel."
After visiting five or six inns, he got the same answer. Li Jie couldn't help but feel suspicious. This situation was not during the government examination, and he hadn't heard of any large-scale events in Daming Mansion recently. It seemed that someone was targeting him. It was probably done by the young man in Confucian robes from before.
"Brother Wuhen, it seems we have offended someone."
Mr. Wuhen smiled and said, "It doesn't matter. Xuan Chengzi, the master of Qingyan Temple outside the city, is my master's friend. Let's stay there tonight."
Li Jie nodded. He couldn't teach the young man in Confucian robes a lesson for such a small matter. The other party just leaving them without a place to live was considered a relatively mild method. Don't blame him if he makes any further moves. He's not polite anymore, and now it won't be a grudge.
"Master, those three people ended up living in Qingyan Temple. I sent someone to inquire. It seems that the young man in blue has some friendship with the master of Qingyan Temple. Master, Master Xuanchengzi is not a simple person. If the other party can get to know him, his background must be extraordinary, how about we just forget it?"
The young man in Confucian robes secretly thought that he was lucky. Fortunately, he didn't go too far. There was still room for maneuver in the matter, but he was unwilling to ask him to bow his head. If the other party didn't come to him, forget it, and he would just take it as nothing. It has never happened. If you really want to trouble him, he, Zhao Su, is not a soft persimmon who can be manipulated.
"Well, let's do this for now. You send a few good guys to continue to observe and see what their next moves are. Tell others to be prepared so that they can easily deal with it if they come."
In the Wilderness Inn, a middle-aged man in green clothes was reporting the investigation situation to the man in purple robes. The hierarchy in the demon sect is very strict. Different levels wear different colors of clothes. Among them, purple is the second-class noble clothing, and only four people wear it. Kings and saints can wear purple, while the highest-ranking leader can wear ink.
The five levels of ink, purple, red, blue, and green respectively correspond to the leader, the four kings, the eight tribe leaders, the sixteen hall leaders, and the seventy-two branch leaders.
The man in green is none other than Yuan Nong, the head of the ground and air branch. The shopkeeper of the black shop is one of the members of the demon sect's peripheral organization. Normally, the ground and air branch is responsible for contacting him. Yesterday, he received a message from his subordinates. , the waiter and the cook were all killed.
The man in purple robe is the new Dharma King Quan Tian of the Demon Sect. After Duan Tianming, Dharma King Quan Tianming of the previous generation, died at the hands of the commander of the Jinyi Guards, the vacancy was only filled recently. All believers who aspire to the position of Dharma King need to go through nine tests. Leng Wufeng finally completed the test after going through all kinds of hardships, and recently succeeded to the position of Dharma King Quan Tian.
The four kings each command two tribes. Among them, the two tribes of heaven and earth have always been under the jurisdiction of King Quan Tian. The heaven tribe was originally the strongest among the eight tribes. However, due to the loss of Taisu Yin Gong, its status gradually declined, while the earth tribe has never been complacent. , has always been ranked in the middle of the eight films.
Some time ago, the Tianbu welcomed back the last three levels of the Taisu Yin Gong, which they had been searching for for hundreds of years. They finally completed the Taisu Yin Gong. Because the staff were too excited at the beginning, things were a little rough. Leng Wufeng came out this time to In the end, the hidden dangers were eliminated one by one. Unexpectedly, when we arrived here, we found that the shopkeeper was actually dead.
"His Holiness, before he died, the cook left a three-character word, which should be the number of people. Based on the bowls and chopsticks consumed in the shop, it was determined that there were three people, all of whom were men. The spices used by one of them were very special, the same as those used by Mr. Wuhen in the world. The spices are the same.
The waiter, the cook, and the shopkeeper all died in the hands of the same person. That person was very good at hand skills. The waiter died directly from fingering. The cook and shopkeeper were defeated by that person first and then killed. The shopkeeper He should have been tortured before he died.”
"snort!"
Hearing that the shopkeeper had been interrogated by others before his death, Leng Wufeng snorted heavily. The temperature in the inn dropped sharply, and Yuan Nong couldn't help but shudder. The Dharma King's Nine Nether Realm is really terrifying, and it can already initially affect the surrounding environment.
"go on."
Yuan Nong heard this and continued: "The thief must have just left for two days, and he probably hasn't gone far yet. This place is remote and far away from official roads. The nearest city is Daming Mansion. It is very likely that the thief has passed there or is currently in Daming Mansion." stay."
Leng Wufeng nodded lightly. Yuan Nong's investigation was quite detailed. Although the shopkeeper was a member of the demon sect's peripheral organization and did not know much about the secrets within the sect, he was involved in the matter of Taisu Yin Gong. Originally, he came here this time. It was to confirm something, but the shopkeeper was already dead at this time. Who knows if the interrogator asked anything.
Moreover, this is the first thing Leng Wufeng has to do after he succeeds Dharma King Quan Tian. He must do it beautifully no matter what, otherwise he will definitely be ridiculed by the other three Dharma Kings when he returns to the main altar. How can he do this? Forbearance, so Leng Wufeng will never be lenient to the person who disrupted his plan.
"Use all the power of the helm and you must find these three people for me!"
Yuan Nong secretly complained in his heart that the Earth and Space Branch had not recovered its strength after the last blow from the imperial court. There were only a few hundred followers, and it was like a drop in the ocean when placed in the Daming Mansion with a population of hundreds of thousands. He wanted to find someone among hundreds of thousands of people. Those three people are no different than finding a needle in a haystack.
He knew in his heart that this was the first time that the Dharma King came out of the mountain. Leng Wufeng was a famous figure in the religion before he became the Dharma King. This was also the first time that he saw the Dharma King's true appearance. It was rumored that this Dharma King was moody and cruel. If he didn't I am afraid that he will not be able to escape punishment even if he enjoys himself to the fullest. Although the ground and air sub-rudder is not directly under the authority of His Holiness Quan Tian, no one else will offend His Holiness because of what he really wants to do to him.
"Yes, I will do it now!"
Li Jie and the other three didn't know that they were being taken care of by the Demon Cult. They had the impression that the Demon Cult people were always ruthless, and the shopkeeper was not an important figure in the Demon Cult. Even if they were killed, as long as they didn't hit the muzzle of the gun, the Demon Cult would We won't make great efforts to hunt them down.
"Wuhen, is your master okay?"
Mr. Wuhen said he was the junior of Mr. Xuancheng. When faced with the elder's question, he respectfully replied: "Master is still the same. Everything is fine. Thank you, Taoist Master, for your concern."
Xuan Chengzi smiled slightly: "The last time I saw you, you were still a child. In the blink of an eye, you have become a handsome young man. You have also gained a great reputation in the world, claiming to be invincible among your peers. Yes, yes, you have not lost your master. Face, unlike my incompetent disciple, he still stays in the temple and refuses to go out."
After speaking, he glanced at the apprentice next to him. He said this completely for his apprentice. Who would have thought that this lazy guy had no reaction at all.
"Taoist Master Miao praised me, it's just a false name. It makes the disciple's Taoist heart clear. The master praised me a lot in front of me."
Xuan Chengzi laughed. Although he said that his apprentice was incompetent, he was actually very satisfied with Qingxuan. The only bad thing was that he liked to stay in the temple and rarely went out on weekdays. His martial arts skills were much better than when he was younger. He was still smart, but lacked actual combat, which worried him very much.
If there is a fight in the future, I am afraid that his martial arts skills will not be able to display 50% of his 100%. He can still protect him now, but it will not be possible in a hundred years. When he knew that Li Jie and the others were currently traveling, he became interested. In a few days, he planned to let his apprentice take Li Jie and the three of them on a tour of Daming Mansion.
He intended to let his apprentices Qingxuan and Li Jie travel together. He would be relieved if there were more people, but he would not be at ease if he really let his apprentice go out alone.
