Taiping Inn

Although Li Xuan doesn't hate the palace officials, he doesn't like her either. The reason is that this woman doesn't see her true nature. Whether she is happy, angry, sad, or happy, it makes people wonder how real or fake it is. The thorny flowers, and the thorns are still hidden, unlike some flowers that directly highlight the thorns and make people stop looking. The palace officials will only be stinged when they are touched. Therefore, Li Xuandu kept his distance from her.

Seeing the palace official falling into deep thought, Li Xuan didn't want to say much, so he fell backwards and leaned on the back of the chair, and covered his face with a book. It was similar to the palace official who liked to cover his face with a folding fan. .

But Li Xuan ignored the palace officials, and the more interested the palace officials were, just like an uneducated naughty child who insisted on going against you and fighting against you. That's how it was at this time. When she came to her senses from her thoughts, she looked at Li Xuandu's appearance, her eyes turned, and she thought about it and said, "Zi Mansion, I'll ask you a question, okay?"

Li Xuan was silent for a moment, slowly moved the book covering his face down, revealing his eyes: "What's the problem."

The palace official smiled and said, "Everyone in the world knows that Zifu is close to Confucianism. So I would like to ask Zifu a question about Confucianism, and I hope Zifu will give me advice."

Li Xuan thought for a while, took away the book on his face, and said, "Ask."

The palace official smiled sly: "People in the world say that Zifu is a righteous person. If one day, Mr. Zhang Haishi, the second senior brother of Zifu, is closest to Zifu, starts killing people in the world, killing innocent people indiscriminately, leaving countless blood debts, And Zifu was the number one person in the world at that time and was invincible in the world. What would you do about it?”

Li Xuan was stunned, silent for a long time, and suddenly laughed and said, "Miss Gong is testing me. At that time, the Sage once deduced such a problem: In ancient times, there was a saint of benevolence, and his father was a foolish man of great evil. , ask, how should the sage king deal with his father's murder? The answer of the sage saint was: There is no way to deal with it, because Confucianism emphasizes the mutual concealment. Before good and evil, we should first talk about ethics. There is no such thing as destroying relatives for justice. This is why countless Confucian scholars The words we often say, "There are all parents in the world, and there are all kings and fathers in the world, and there is no mistake if they are wrong. This is to put ethics before good and evil, and the ministers can only advise the kings." The root of the roots is that if the ministers and subordinates commit crimes, even if they are for the sake of the world, they will be inconsistent and a great rebellion."

A light lit up in the palace official's eyes, but he was a little impressed and said, "This question was mentioned to me by Mr. Zhang Luanshan, but I didn't expect that the Zi Mansion could see through it at a glance. But the Zi Mansion has not answered me yet, you can do it." How to do it.”

Li Xuan pondered for a moment and said slowly, "For me, the elder brother is like a father. If I kill the second brother, this is not the Confucian truth, this is the way of love between the Mohist school. If I ask for regret Forgive sins and do good deeds to make up for it, the method will save the dead souls, seek ghosts and gods, and pay attention to the merits and blessings of the next life. This is falling into the Buddhist rut, and it is also not the Confucian principle. To practice Confucian principles, you can only let them go. Because there are all parents in the world."

Li Xuandu shook his head and said to himself, "The sage says to be benevolence, and the sage says to seek righteousness. Benevolence talks about ethics, and righteousness is divided into relatives and distantness. Ethics are: monarch and ministers, father and son, teachers and students, husband and wife, and friends. Residents sacrifice their family as the lord, which is righteousness, and children Killing for parents is righteousness, avenging students for teachers is righteousness, a wife protecting her husband is righteousness, and a friend protecting her guilty friends is righteousness. Where is righteousness, even if thousands of people are gone. Therefore, in this matter, Confucianism The truth doesn't work. Although the later Confucian masters had a distinction between great righteousness and small righteousness, they were still imperfect and difficult to justify themselves. So it's not just that I can't work, even if the great priest of the Three Confucian University Palaces came, or It was Asahi’s Resurrection who came in person, but it still didn’t work.”

The palace official smiled and said, "What should I do with the Zi Mansion?"

Li Xuandu smiled and said, "Miss Gong wants to disturb my mood? I am afraid it will disappoint you. Although I admire Confucianism's theory, the root cause is still on our Taoist side, so we naturally have to deal with it according to our Taoist methods. , took the second senior brother away from the world, and since then he abandoned the world like a worn-out shoe, and he was happy and forgot his worries."

The palace official finally showed a smile of a successful plan: "The Supreme Taoist ancestor once said that "the heaven and earth are unkind and treat all things as straw dogs". There are also many cold words in the "Tao Te Ching", which shows that our Taoist people have benevolence and unkind, The distinction between sentient beings and ruthlessness. At that time, Taoism was divided into two and the north and south, and the indecent and ruthlessness of Taoism was inherited and carried forward by our ten sects of the North, and the founder of our North, once had the 'a little benefit to the world,' It is said that the world is not to take over. Isn’t it a secret that you abandon the world like a worn-out shoe? Although the Zifu escaped from the Confucian ruling, he entered my northern ruling from the southern ruling."

This was really beyond Li Xuandu's expectations. He was stunned for a long time before he spoke: "It is not surprising that the North and South Daomen Sects have their own connections, and it is not surprising that there are differences between them."

The palace official laughed: "With that being said, you lost."

Li Xuan had no choice but to admit, "In this matter, it is indeed better to deal with the Beidao Sect."

The palace official said proudly: "In fact, what people in the world do are the principles of our northern Taoist sect. Forget benevolence and righteousness, distinguish between relatives and alienation, and be good and evil. Therefore, this world is ultimately the world of Taoist sect, but it has nothing to do with Confucianism. .”

Li Xuan couldn't help asking, "Is this what Zhang Luanshan taught you?"

The palace official smiled and said, "Guess?"

"I don't guess." Li Xuandu shook his head.

The palace official leaned closer to his face and said, "Are you jealous?"

Li Xuandu raised the book with both hands, separated them, and then said: "First, what happened between you and Zhang Luanshan has nothing to do with me; second, Miss Gong, please respect yourself."

Just at this moment, a little maid pushed the door in and saw this scene. Her face instantly turned red with shame and she stood there, at a loss.

The palace official who was about to tease Li Xuandu was in a bad mood. He stood up and said coldly: "Do you know the rules? You just barged in without knocking?"

Nominally, the palace official was still the leader of the maids. Naturally, the little maid did not dare to disobey the "personal maid" beside the young lady. She lowered her head, and tears were already in her eyes.

Fortunately, Li Xuandu came to her rescue and asked, "What's the matter?"

"Reply, reply to the housekeeper." The maid stuttered, "The master asked you to go over."

Li Xuandu put down the book in his hand, "I know, you can go down."

The maid was as if she had been pardoned, and was about to leave when she heard the palace official say, "What did you see just now?"

The maid spoke even more awkwardly, "I, I, I didn't see anything."

The palace official said with a stern face, "You are lucky not to see anything! Remember to knock on the door next time."

The maid responded and hurried out of the room.

Li Xuandu glanced at the palace official, got up and left the cabin, and went to the second floor from the stairs. The view here was wide and the river view could be seen everywhere.

At this time, on the second floor, in addition to the couple Yan Feiqing and Su Yun'an, and several maids in charge of serving, there was only the diligent guard leader Song Fuchen.

After Li Xuandu, who was dressed in blue cloth, climbed up the stairs, he coughed lightly and said, "What do you want, young master?"

Yan Feiqing turned around and saw him wearing a moon-white robe, gold-threaded edging, square-toed cloud shoes with black patterns on a white background, a jade belt, a white jade crown, and a folding fan with ivory as the fan bone in his hand. The fan surface was a landscape painting by a famous contemporary artist. He stood in the wind, gently shaking the folding fan, his clothes fluttering, like a banished immortal who fell into the mortal world.

Beside Yan Feiqing, Yan Feiqing was wearing a water-white dress and holding an embroidered round fan in his hand. His demeanor was also very different from usual. Although he was still dignified and elegant, he was also a bit weak and timid in his dignity, like a weak willow in the wind. Where was the demeanor that was not inferior to men in the past. No one would associate the two people in front of them with the Little Heavenly Master and the Fairy Su.

Yan Feiqing smiled and said, "We will reach the 800-li Yunmeng Lake a little further. Is there any place to stay?"

Since it was a show, we had to do it in full. Li Xuandu hurriedly said, "Sir, there is a mountain in the Yunmeng Lake, named Dongting Mountain. The "Xiang Fei Temple Record" said: "Dongting is one of the immortal caves. Because it is the courtyard of Dongting, it is called Dongting." Later generations called it Dongting because of its vast ocean and floods. The poem of Chunyang Lu Zu said: "I went to Yueyang three times but no one knew me. I chanted and flew over Dongting Lake." It also came from this."

Yan Feiqing looked at Su Yun'an and asked, "Then shall we go to Dongting Mountain?"

Su Yun'an said softly, "Okay, I'll follow your arrangements."

Yan Feiqing ordered, "Go to Dongting Mountain."

Song Fuchen immediately bowed and accepted the order.